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I can give you only a brief abstract of my own opinions on this delicate and difficult subject. [6]
If the aristocracy were malignant--though numbers of them were far from being so--there was also a malignant prejudice aroused against them, and M. Taine is not far wrong when he says of this prejudice, "Its hard, dry kernel consists of the abstract idea of equality. [4]
It is hard to understand how she has learned to deal with abstract ideas, and so far to supplement the blanks left by the senses of sight and hearing that one would hardly think of her as wanting in any human faculty. [6]
For the second time an abstract principle, and with the same effect, buries its blade in the heart of a living society. [4]
But I should think--speaking in the abstract entirely--that if either of those arts was ever going to be in earnest about him, it would want his exclusive devotion for a week at least. [8]
See abstract in the 'Zoological Record' for 1867, p. [1]
Ministers work out the machinery of responsibility in an abstract kind of way; they have a sort of algebra of human nature, in which friction and strength (or weakness) of material are left out. [6]
The President thinks the great body of us Fremonters, being ardently attached to liberty, in the abstract, were duped by a few wicked and designing men. [7]
Madam,--said I,--wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. [6]
I have no space to give even an abstract of his conclusions. [3]
There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental hive life in which he inevitably obeys laws laid down for him. [2]
The cause itself seems suddenly transformed from a cold abstract theory to a living, breathing, active, and powerful chieftain, going forth "conquering and to conquer. [7]
For Norway and Russia, see abstract of Prof. Faye's researches, in 'British and Foreign Medico-Chirurg. [1]
The world is ruled by ideas, by abstract thought. [4]
I like a Review well enough,--it tells you all there is in a book; but a good abstract of the Review in a Newspaper saves a fellow the trouble of reading it. [6]
But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his reflections. [2]
In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but--I do not know how to express it... not by a balance of political power...." It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract conversation. [2]
I believe his original Nebraska Bill was right in the abstract, but it was wrong in the time that it was brought forward. [7]
She thought often of Venters, but in a dreamy, abstract way. [13]
Pfuel was one of those hopelessly and immutably self-confident men, self-confident to the point of martyrdom as only Germans are, because only Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion--science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. [2]
If the realm of human knowledge were confined to abstract reasoning, then having subjected to criticism the explanation of "power" that juridical science gives us, humanity would conclude that power is merely a word and has no real existence. [2]
Hence there is no abstract improbability in the Lepidoptera, which probably stand nearly or quite as high in the scale as these insects, having sufficient mental capacity to admire bright colours. [1]
But there were natural flowers, and there was an abstract and unclassifiable something about the place which betrayed the presence in the house of somebody with a happy taste and an effective touch. [5]
Euthymia found so much pleasure in the intellectual companionship of Lurida, and felt her own prudence and reserve so necessary to that independent young lady, that she had been contented, so far, with friendship, and thought of love only in an abstract sort of way. [6]
Many of the metrical preludes to his lectures are a versified and condensed abstract of the leading doctrine of the discourse. [6]
Did she look like a person who was theorizing, or did she look like one who has fallen off precipices herself and brings to the aid of abstract science the confirmations of personal experience? [5]
Did she look like a person who was theorising, or did she look like one who has fallen off precipices herself and brings to the aid of abstract science the confirmation of personal experience? [5]
Mr. Clay says it is true as an abstract principle that all men are created equal, but that we cannot practically apply it in all eases. [7]
But the subject is too large and complex for even an abstract to be here given, and I will confine myself to a few remarks. [1]
Then followed an intelligent abstract of the bills he was to introduce --the results of a progressive and statesmanlike brain. [9]
Under Miss McDonald's influence she had somewhat abstract notions of what is right and wrong, and she saw no reason why these should not be applied in all cases. [4]
It is only in books that dialogues are abstract and impersonal. [4]
She attributed immense importance to all her husband's intellectual and abstract interests though she did not understand them, and she always dreaded being a hindrance to him in such matters. [2]
He was only half conscious of his surroundings; he was moving in a kind of detached world of his own, where the warders and the Sheriff and those who followed were almost abstract and unreal figures. [11]
I will here give only a brief abstract of the results, retaining the details for a supplementary discussion, so as not to interfere with the course of my argument. [1]
His imagery is frequently daring, leaping from the concrete to the abstract, from the special to the general and universal, and _vice versa_, with a bound that is like a flight. [6]
Didn't know you ever bothered yourself with abstract philosophy. [9]
I think the definition of popular sovereignty, in the abstract, would be about this: that each man shall do precisely as he pleases with himself, and with all those things which exclusively concern him. [7]
I think a definition of "genuine popular sovereignty," in the abstract, would be about this: That each man shall do precisely as he pleases with himself, and with all those things which exclusively concern him. [7]
You've got to cultivate the high things--that essay says--the abstract, that which does not seem practically useful, or society will become low and material. [4]
They are not content with the cloudy abstract idea, they make a beautiful statue of it, and then their beloved idea is substantial and they can look at it and worship it. [5]
In five hundred cases of midwifery, of which Dr. Storer has given an abstract in the first number of this Journal, there was only one instance of fatal puerperal peritonitis. [3]
He had never bothered his head in that way about abstract things when he was her age, and he could not understand it in her. [11]
It would not be fair to the reader to give an abstract of that. [6]
It accepted society as it was, with its habits and traditions; raising no abstract questions whether men are born free or equal, or how society ought to be organized. [4]
Mr. Speaker Doby and Mr. Ridout got but abstract salutations also, and were correspondingly dismayed. [9]
But both Morris and Jefferson saw the futility of the application of the abstract dogma of equality and the theories of the Social Contract to the reconstruction of government and the reorganization of society in France. [4]
It should be added, also, that Purchas printed an abstract of the Oxford tract in his "Pilgrimage," in 1613, from material furnished him by Smith. [4]
She takes an abstract view of things, judging the right and wrong of them, without reference to conventionalities or the practical obstacles to carrying out her ideas, as if she had been educated by reading and not by society. [4]
Of course the abstract question is not changed; but an intervening election shows almost certainly that the next Congress will pass the measure if this does not. [7]
Now, as an abstract principle, there is no doubt of the truth of that declaration; and it is desirable, in the original construction of society and in organized societies, to keep it in view as a great fundamental principle. [7]
Now, as an abstract principle, there is no doubt of the truth of that declaration, and it is desirable in the original construction of society, and in organized societies, to keep it in view as a great fundamental principle. [7]
This act of abstract justice, which I trust many of my readers, like myself, have often performed, is a curious anti-illustration, by the way, of the absolute wickedness of human dispositions. [6]
I suppose I'm a sort of a goose --in the abstract, as you say. [4]
He writes like a consecrated Priest of the Abstract and Ideal. [14]

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