Doctrines

Examples

• We do not have to draw out or educe positive activities from a child, as some educational doctrines would have it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Have you any difficulties about doctrines--about the Articles? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Howbeit in vain do they worship me, Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I've never changed; I'm a plain Churchman now, just as I used to be before doctrines came up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This principle being once admitted, all the other doctrines of that philosophy seem to follow by an easy consequence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What doctrines, Joe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And of course it is a discredit to his doctrines, said Mrs. Sprague, who was elderly, and old-fashioned in her opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was under Charles that the Protestant doctrines that now prevailed in Germany spread into the Netherlands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrines inculcated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It appears that the doctrines of life and death, in general, are yet but little understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• One may hear Manich?an doctrines from many Christian pulpits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A new political party was growing up in the state, the Social Democrats, professing the doctrines of Marx. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• An Englishman once told me that the utter freedom of speech in Hyde Park was the best safeguard England had against the doctrines that were propounded there. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Chinese speak of Buddhism and the doctrines of Lao Tse and Confucius as the Three Teachings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whether you like the Roosevelt doctrines or not, there can be no two opinions about such an abuse of morality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There are certain doctrines which he learnt at home and which exercised a parental authority over him. Plato. The Republic.
• The doctrines concerning those two subjects were considered as making two distinct sciences. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The new doctrines were everywhere received with a high degree of popular favour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You may think me troublesome, but I say that you have no business to be always repeating the doctrines of others instead of giving us your own. Plato. The Republic.
• In any accurate sense theory is to be judged only as an effective or ineffective instrument of a desire: the discussion of doctrines is technical and not moral. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Tull's leading idea was the thorough pulverisation of the soil, his doctrines being that plants derived their nourishment from minute particles of soil, hence the need of its pulverisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Sensationalism was an extremely handy weapon with which to combat doctrines and opinions resting wholly upon tradition and authority. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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