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Sentences ending with causes

We confound events with causes. [4]
Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? [7]
Its function is to breed hostility to good causes. [5]
The appearance of their Majesties in person must not only mean the founding of a city, the reception of a victorious naval commander, and the consecration of a restored temple, but also have still deeper causes. [10]
He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes. [2]
Dr. Golightly suggested that in his opinion death ensued from a complication of the two wounds and perhaps other causes. [5]
When we say that civilization crowds out the old superstitious legends, we recognize two chief causes. [6]
But he had never been known as a champion of lost causes. [9]
Arthur loved another maid, and bade us be of good cheer and hold fast to the hope that delay and luck together would some day give success to our several causes. [5]
To the great intriguers every little detail, every commonplace insignificance is used--and must be used by them alone--to further their dark causes. [11]

Short sentences using causes

Like causes produce like effects. [7]
What causes historical events? [2]
What were its causes? [2]

Sentences containing causes two or more times

For the study of Moral Teratology will teach you that you do not get such a malformed character as that without a long chain of causes to account for it; and if you only knew those causes, you would know perfectly well what to expect. [6]
No doubt these and other such causes have been highly efficient, and may account for the extraordinary rate of decrease between the years 1832 and 1836; but the most potent of all the causes seems to be lessened fertility. [1]
Causes, causes, and again causes,--more and more we fall back on these as the chief objects of our attention. [3]

More example sentences with the word causes in them

Uniformity of character would, however, naturally follow from the assumed uniformity of the exciting causes, and likewise from the free intercrossing of many individuals. [1]
We might differ with them about the causes of our disorders. [4]
I know not why, but there are vague whispers that he is acting against the Englishman for causes best known at Versailles, which have nothing to do with our affairs here. [11]
Of the causes which lead to the victory of civilised nations, some are plain and simple, others complex and obscure. [1]
In great causes, what is a screw of tyranny here, a bolt of oppression there, or a few thousand lives! [11]
Independently of the well-known causes which raise or depress the standard of vitality, there seems to be,--I think I may venture to say there is,--a rhythmic undulation in the flow of the vital force. [6]
We shall do well to ascertain the causes which have led us gradually to stray from the political principles laid down by our forefathers for all the world to see. [9]
Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy, arising from causes purely imaginary; she required consolation, and found it in Petrarch. [5]
New diseases and vices have in some cases proved highly destructive; and it appears that a new disease often causes much death, until those who are most susceptible to its destructive influence are gradually weeded out (33. [1]
These differences or variations seem to be induced by the same general causes, and to obey the same laws as with the lower animals. [1]
Not only does variability appear to be induced in man and the lower animals by the same general causes, but in both the same parts of the body are affected in a closely analogous manner. [1]
The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. [2]
It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us. [5]
Few took the trouble to inquire into the very apparent causes for the change. [10]
The letter now took this form: "Poultices do sometimes choke swine; tulips reduce posterity; causes leather to resist. [5]
Now, I appeal to this audience (very few of whom are my political friends), as national men, whether we have reason to expect that the agitation in regard to this subject will cease while the causes that tend to reproduce agitation are actively at work? [7]
It now appeared to say: "Potations do sometimes wake wines; turnips restrain passion; causes necessary to state. [5]
Man is liable to numerous, slight, and diversified variations, which are induced by the same general causes, are governed and transmitted in accordance with the same general laws, as in the lower animals. [1]
Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on the cerebral organisation, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. [1]
For the first time he saw in her the suffering which often causes a metamorphosis in certain traits in a sick person's character extend their transforming power to the entire nature. [10]
Mr. Clay says this was one of the great and just causes of complaint against Great Britain by the Colonies, and the best apology we can now make for having the institution amongst us. [7]
The causes of this strange change of opinion and mood would have been sufficiently intelligible to him, even had he not perceived one of the reproving glances which Frau Lerch cast at Barbara. [10]
The causes of this momentary possession could often be found in the person's life. [5]
Ask yourself after this how many lives will be sacrificed when your flight causes hatred and fury to reign supreme in the soul of the cheated monarch! [10]
If from all these causes you shall escape and go through triumphantly, without another "twinge of the soul," I shall be most happily but most egregiously deceived. [7]
Without each of these causes nothing could have happened. [2]
First he told them of the causes of war, of the thirteen council fires with the English, and in terms that the Indian mind might grasp, and how their old father, the French King, had joined the Big Knives in this righteous fight. [9]
The letters are the stars, whose orbits are as unchanging and everlasting as are the first causes of all that exists or happens. [10]
During successive periods, the same organism might in this manner acquire successive modifications, which would be transmitted in a nearly uniform state as long as the exciting causes remained the same and there was free intercrossing. [1]
Not only are the laws of inheritance extremely complex, but so are the causes which induce and govern variability. [1]
At length, however, the jealousies of the laity and the clergy, a squabble like that of "town and gown," but with graver underlying causes, broke up the harmony and practically ended the existence of the place except as a monument of the past. [6]
Atmospheric causes, especially the influence of morning. [6]
With respect to the exciting causes we can only say, as when speaking of so-called spontaneous variations, that they relate much more closely to the constitution of the varying organism, than to the nature of the conditions to which it has been subjected. [1]
True, he attributed the Emperor's deep despondency to totally different causes, but he openly deplored the sorrowful agitation which the memories of the beloved dead had awakened in his Majesty. [10]
It is only the different understanding of that instrument that causes difficulty. [7]
With respect to the causes of variability, we are in all cases very ignorant; but we can see that in man as in the lower animals, they stand in some relation to the conditions to which each species has been exposed, during several generations. [1]
Do you think that the nature of man will be changed, that the same causes that produced agitation at one time will not have the same effect at another? [7]
It is granted that the disease may be produced and variously modified by many causes besides contagion, and more especially by epidemic and endemic influences. [3]
We know, however, that many strange and strongly-marked peculiarities of structure occasionally appear in our domesticated productions, and if their unknown causes were to act more uniformly, they would probably become common to all the individuals of the species. [1]
I hope, too, that I may without offence suggest the causes which have often led them out of their own province into one to which their education has no special reference. [6]
It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it. [2]
We do admit that "it is certain that some cause or causes of deep division were in operation. [5]
He liked the study of law better than its practice; for his early training had not been of a kind to reconcile him to standing up strongly for clients and causes that he honestly believed to be in the wrong. [4]
And indeed, in spite of all the causes I had to hate Doltaire, it is but just to say he had by nature all the great gifts--misused and disordered as they were. [11]
There must be something special, which causes dogs to howl in the night, and especially during moonlight, in that remarkable and melancholy manner called baying. [1]
There were indeed some causes of deep division. [5]
From that moment she took pleasure in thinking of her last hour, and said to herself: "It is true he causes my death; but he does it out of love. [10]
We have now seen that man is variable in body and mind; and that the variations are induced, either directly or indirectly, by the same general causes, and obey the same general laws, as with the lower animals. [1]
It causes young salmon to leap out of the fresh water, in which they could continue to exist, and thus unintentionally to commit suicide. [1]
He wished the reunion of all the States perfected, and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future; and, to attain this end, it was necessary that the original disturbing cause should, if possible, be rooted out. [7]
Of course I refer to surgery, and to the discovery of the causes and improvement in the treatment of contagious and epidemic diseases. [4]
It appeared to read as follows, though I was not certain of some of the words: "Polygamy dissembles majesty; extracts redeem polarity; causes hitherto exist. [5]
They have a prescience of changes in the drift of public affairs, and a delicate sensitiveness that causes them to adjust their raiment to express these changes. [4]
No doctrine of prayer or special providence is to be his excuse for not looking straight at secondary causes, and acting, exactly so far as experience justifies him, as if he were himself the divine agent which antiquity fabled him to be. [3]
But these rules, owing to unknown causes, are far from being fixed. [1]
I expressed the opinion I did because I perceived--or thought I perceived--a new set of causes introduced. [7]
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question. [7]
For the errors of the wise the remedy is reparation, not regret; regret consumes the heart, but the effort to repair an error causes it to throb with a noble pride. [10]
With a shock of surprise he suddenly remembered that his inability to reach this class had been one of the causes of his despair! [9]
The full title of Mr. Motley's next and last work is "The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War. [6]
In the opinion of many, our universal education is one of the chief causes of the discontent. [4]
Victoria knew sufficient of life and had visited hospitals enough to understand that mental causes were generally responsible for such breakdowns--Hilary had had a shock. [9]
Yet this causes no trouble, for everybody stands up until all the seats are full, and the filling is accomplished in a very few minutes. [5]
She had no mission, nor was she afflicted by that modern form of altruism which is a yearning for notoriety by conspicuous devotion to causes and reforms quite outside her normal sphere of activity. [4]
This was to make fair allowance for winter storms and snows, and other unavoidable causes of detention. [5]
Some of the lower classes had rather die than wash, but the fumigation of strangers causes them no pangs. [5]
To all intriguers life has lost romance; there is no poem left in nature; no ideal, personal, public or national, detains them in its wholesome influence; no great purpose allures them; they have no causes for which to die--save themselves. [11]
The offer came just in season,--as, for various causes, he was willing to leave the place where he had begun his new experience. [6]
The causes of it, and its relation to our changing national character, are worthy the study of the historian. [4]
Why I say it is reasonable that you will feel very badly yet, is because of three special causes added to the general one which I shall mention. [7]
All by itself it causes the American name and power to be respected in the far regions of the globe. [5]
How much sorrow it causes in the world," said the countess. [2]
That that success is so much greater now than heretofore is doubtless owing to rational causes; and if we would have it continue, we shall do well to inquire what those causes are. [7]
But often the implanting of an idea in the mind is more potent than the frustration of a plan or the gratification of a desire, so hidden are the causes that make character. [4]
They reject the idea that society can be organized by intelligence, and war ended by eliminating its causes from the social order. [9]
I venture to hope it will appear that we have practiced prudence and liberality toward foreign powers, averting causes of irritation and with firmness maintaining our own rights and honor. [7]
She went from him to a gynecologist, who considered her headache as owing to causes for which his specialty had the remedies. [6]
We may hope hereafter to understand something about the causes of such occasional modifications, especially through the study of monstrosities: hence the labours of experimentalists, such as those of M. Camille Dareste, are full of promise for the future. [1]
These causes might have produced insanity, but there was no evidence that they have produced it in this case, or that the prisoner was not at the time of the commission of the crime in full possession of her ordinary faculties. [5]
That it may have local and epidemic causes, as well as that depending on personal transmission, is not disputed. [3]
Stop your silly giggling, for laughing before sunrise causes tears at evening. [10]
Yet it differs from the other four-legged animals in that its front legs are unusually short, consequently this causes the main part of its person to stick up uncomfortably high in the air, and this is not attractive. [5]
Yet it differs from the other four legged animals, in that its front legs are unusually short, consequently this causes the main part of its person to stick up uncomfortably high in the air, and this is not attractive. [5]
This difficulty arises from the impossibility of judging what passes through the mind of an animal; and again, the fact that writers differ to a great extent in the meaning which they attribute to the above terms, causes a further difficulty. [1]
The necessity of filling this space causes the writer, instead of stating his idea in the shortest compass in which it can be made perspicuous and telling, to beat it out thin, and make it cover as much ground as possible. [4]
I have a feeling that you have somehow been aware of my discouragement during the past year or so, and of the causes of it. [9]
He will then feel as if he had been baulked in following a present instinct or habit, and this with all animals causes dissatisfaction, or even misery. [1]
It is the fashion nowadays to refer almost everything to physical causes, and this hint is a gratuitous contribution to the science of metaphysical physics. [4]
The one prevalent failing of the medical art is to neglect the causes and quarrel with the effect. [3]
But I have failed until now to perceive the causes of that inefficiency. [9]
Mr. Cooper, in explaining the causes of some epidemics, remarks that the opening of the plague burial-grounds at Eyam resulted in an immediate outbreak of disease. [5]
She had been energetic, helping great charities, aiding in philanthropic enterprises, with more than a little shrewdness preventing him from being robbed right and left by adventurers of all descriptions; and yet--and yet it was all so general, so soulless, her activity in good causes. [11]
Chance puts the Duc d'Enghien in his hands and unexpectedly causes him to kill him--thereby convincing the mob more forcibly than in any other way that he had the right, since he had the might. [2]
The causes of disease, in the mean time, have been less earnestly studied in the eagerness of the search for remedies. [3]
It is further directed that whenever any order shall be made affecting the personal liberty of an alien reports of the same and of the causes thereof shall be made to the War Department for the consideration of the Department of State. [7]
To us, their descendants, who are not historians and are not carried away by the process of research and can therefore regard the event with unclouded common sense, an incalculable number of causes present themselves. [2]
This involves, of course, the exclusion of the evil, that is, of suppressing the causes that produce disease, as well as in cultivating the resistant power of the human system. [4]
Variations in atmosphere, condition of ammunition, and the wear of the gun are the contributory causes to the ever-varying "Error of the Day. [11]
In our own community the influence of Swedenborg and of the genius and character of Dr. Channing were among the more immediate early causes of the mental agitation. [6]
It causes much comment--I believe that that is not an over-statement. [5]

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