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Sentences starting with principle

Principle was at stake. [11]

Sentences ending with principle

He will show you two letters of mine on this subject, one somewhat General, and the other relating to named persons; they are not different in principle. [7]
The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. [5]
Mantegazza, in his 'Viaggi e Studi,' strongly insists on this same principle. [1]
Henderson himself was under less illusion; the world was about what he had taken it for, only a little worse--more gullible, and with less principle. [4]
I beg you to remember that we are contending for a principle. [9]
So much as to principle. [7]
It was gratifying to learn that this was not from stinginess on the part of the people, but was due to their religious principle. [4]
I am trying to get your views on a general principle. [4]
I understand that this government of the United States, under which we live, is based upon this principle; and I am misunderstood if it is supposed that I have any war to make upon that principle. [7]
It allows for the possibility of different modes of conveyance of the destructive principle. [3]

Short sentences using principle

Full of principle. [5]

Sentences containing principle two or more times

Now, whether this was a repudiation of the Missouri line in principle depends upon whether the Missouri law contained any principle requiring the line to be extended over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
Upon what principle, upon what rightful principle, may a State, being no more than one fiftieth part of the nation in soil and population, break up the nation, and then coerce a proportionably large subdivision of itself in the most arbitrary way? [7]
If he avoids this courtesy now from principle, of course I find no fault with it at all--only if he thinks it is principle he may be mistaken; a close examination may show it is only a bowing to the tyranny of public opinion. [5]
The principle that the people should do what--under the Constitution--as they please, is a Whig principle. [7]
Is there not some reason to suspect that it was the principle of the Revolution, and not the principle of the Nebraska Bill, that led to emancipation in these old States? [7]
If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours; but this brings you to where you ought to have started--to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. [7]
If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours; but this brings you to where you ought to have started to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. [7]
If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit of ours, or for any other object, then our principle, and we with it, are sectional, and are justly opposed and denounced as such. [7]
This was the principle underlying that anecdote, and the wise men saw it; the principle of give and take --give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy. [5]
Others defended it; others yet denied that this rumored principle was really the principle. [8]

More example sentences with the word principle in them

I should recommend you, as a young man of principle, to burn the vollum. [6]
The principle is wrong, the day is past when such things can be done--in that way. [9]
It's a principle with me,--I won't have any outside agency dictating to me. [9]
It was not with him a matter of feeling, but of principle, not to ascend them. [4]
Now, if you wish to give them this indorsement, if you wish to establish this principle, do so. [7]
In considering the wing of a bat, he brings forward (p. 218) what appears to me (to use Auguste Comte's words) a mere metaphysical principle, namely, the preservation "in its integrity of the mammalian nature of the animal. [1]
The same principle will be applied to the now outstanding districts when they shall come in. [7]
But every one who admits the principle of evolution, must see that the mental powers of the higher animals, which are the same in kind with those of man, though so different in degree, are capable of advancement. [1]
It seemed worth while to try how far the principle of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. [1]
Scenes and occurrences which, to every appearance, are calculated to rend the heart with the profoundest emotions of trouble, do not fetter that exalted principle imbued in her very nature. [5]
In the cares which Mrs. March shared with her husband that night she was supported partly by principle, but mainly by the potent excitement which bewildered Conrad's family and took all reality from what had happened. [8]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
The centrifugal principle which grows out of the antipathy of like to like is only the repetition in character of the arrangement we see expressed materially in certain seed-capsules, which burst and throw the seed to all points of the compass. [6]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
What noble principle, what deathless interest, was there at stake? [6]
But if it were true that frost-bites were cured by cold and burns by heat, it would be subversive, so far as it went, of the great principle of Homoeopathy. [3]
Most of them were still too good-humoured with drink to be dangerous, but all hoped for trouble at the Orange funeral on principle, and the anticipated strike had elements of "thrill. [11]
Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the "rules," but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. [5]
I poured the water out of it, and shook it; but, not being constructed on the hydraulic principle, it refused to go. [4]
As the voice was used more and more, the vocal organs would have been strengthened and perfected through the principle of the inherited effects of use; and this would have reacted on the power of speech. [1]
The next one was still English, in New England, where they established that principle which remains with us to this day, and will continue to remain with us--no taxation without representation. [5]
But since the war began Grandjon-Larisse had gone one way, and he had gone the other, bitter enemies in principle but friendly enough at heart. [11]
He was to violate more than one principle of his life that night, though not without a struggle; and he sat for a long while looking at the blank paper before him. [9]
The committee, in view of these objections, has been solicitous to frame a bill which would not be obnoxious to them in principle or in practical effect. [7]
Well, Captain Hume Vidall was something of an artist, more, however, in principle than by temperament. [11]
I have said, very many times, in Judge Douglas's hearing, that no man believed more than I in the principle of self-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government, from beginning to end. [7]
Such is the vehemence of these attacks, that the unfortunate subjects of them are often driven backwards for great distances at immense speed, on the well-known principle of the aeolipile. [6]
The principle which underlies and orders everything connected with a Parsee funeral is Purity. [5]
But, before he took his seat, he would remark that the Senate during the present session had passed a bill making appropriations of land on that principle for the benefit of the State in which he resided the State of Illinois. [7]
Applying the principle to your case, my idea is that Halleck shall menace Columbus and "down river" generally, while you menace Bowling Green and East Tennessee. [7]
She had not to think of herself as weak, and neither was her lover's image dimmed to her by any surrender of his own principle or his own ideal. [4]
Applying the principle to these new facts, the Fifth and Seventh districts must be added to the four in which the quotas have already been reduced to 2200 for the first draft; and with these four others just be added to those to be re-enrolled. [7]
This is due to the people, both on principle and under the Constitution. [7]
Is he going to spend his life in maintaining a principle that nobody on earth opposes? [7]
It is said to rest on another rock, of which it formed a part before its unfortunate journey, and that lower rock as everybody knows, rests upon the immutable principle of self-government. [4]
They had lived to prove, once more, a sad truth which had been proven many times before in the world: that whereas principle is a great and noble protection against showy and degrading vanities and vices, poverty is worth six of it. [5]
Religion, he began to perceive, was an undertaking, are attempt to find unity and harmony of the soul by adopting, after mature thought, a definite principle in life. [9]
I should like to know, if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, and making exceptions to it, where will it stop? [7]
You don't seem to have any notion of decency or order, or any idea of the principle on which this government was based. [9]
The publics expects to be interested, and nothing would interest it more than to be told that the success of 'Every Other Week' sprang from the first application of the principle of Live and let Live to a literary enterprise. [8]
I understand it to be a principle of Democracy to whip foreign nations whenever, they interfere with us. [7]
It is difficult to answer a man who denies the cardinal principle of American democracy,--that a good mayor or a governor may be made out of a dog-catcher. [9]
He was referring to a plain principle in the nature of things. [7]
For the second time an abstract principle, and with the same effect, buries its blade in the heart of a living society. [4]
So I hope those with whom I am surrounded have principle enough to nerve themselves for the task, and leave nothing undone that can be fairly done to bring about the right result. [7]
I write all this to you, dear friend, only to convince you of the Gospel truth which has become for me a principle of life: not a single hair of our heads will fall without His will. [2]
Applied to government, this principle would be, that a general government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern them. [7]
Applied in government, this principle would be that a general government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern them. [7]
It is on this principle of economizing the powers of life that a very eminent American physician,--Dr. Weir Mitchell, a man of genius,--has founded his treatment of certain cases of nervous exhaustion. [6]
The Judge says this is a new principle started in regard to this question. [7]
But for the thing itself, I deny that any man has ever gone ahead of me in his devotion to the principle, whatever he may have done in efficiency in advocating it. [7]
Did they, then--could they-establish a principle contrary to their own intention? [7]
This is all there is of original principle about it. [7]
If it does, then in case we should, without change of principle, begin to get votes in your section, we should thereby cease to be sectional. [7]
The support of the Wilmot Proviso is the first fact mentioned to prove that the Missouri restriction was repudiated in principle, and the second is the refusal to extend the Missouri line over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
He insisted on the same principle as Judge Douglas; but his mode of applying it, in fact, was wrong. [7]
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. [7]
A few of the richest of them were the most hopeless politically--ever ready to sacrifice principle for an extra dividend of a quarter per cent. [11]
And, lastly, That the repeal establishes a principle which is intrinsically right. [7]
If harmony resulted,--if the principle worked, it was true. [9]
It accords with the principle of the division of physiological labour, prevailing throughout the animal kingdom, that as the hands became perfected for prehension, the feet should have become perfected for support and locomotion. [1]
Eliphalet had inherited the principle of mathematical chances. [9]
This was truly the principle of contraries contrariis, which ill-informed persons have attempted to make out to be the general doctrine of medicine, whereas there is no general dogma other than this: disease is to be treated by anything that is proved to cure it. [3]
The perpetuation of the principle of American government has to be thought of. [9]
My view of the principle is that every soldier obtained voluntarily leaves one less to be obtained by draft. [7]
On this principle the President, his friends, and the world generally act on most subjects. [7]
I maintain that the organization of Utah and New Mexico did not establish a general principle at all. [7]
That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine. [7]
He belonged to the new order, which seems to have come in with modern journalism--that is, Bohemian in principle, but of the manners and apparel of the favored of fortune. [4]
To reach heaven, the harmony of Being, we must understand the divine Principle of Being. [5]
Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own work? [5]
Nothing interferes with the development of what is now felt to be the true principle of government, the will of the people legitimately expressed. [6]
Osiris, as is the case with the fruitful principle of nature, was only apparently dead, rises from the nether regions and once more rules the blessed valley of the Nile, in concert with his wife, the bounteous earth. [10]
The difference between the Buchanan men on the one hand, and the Douglas men and the Republicans on the other, has not been on a question of principle, but on a question of fact. [7]
It strikes me--ahem that you might find, in some quarters at least, a freer response to a movement founded on principle. [9]
Does thee think that we did not know thee spoke without principle then, and only to draw notice? [11]
He agreed entirely that no principle was established by the treaty, but that the throwing of dice or drawing of lots was not a new invention on that occasion, but a not uncommon method in arbitrations. [6]
My mother's permission that Knecht Ruprecht should visit us was contrary to her principle never to allow us to be frightened by images of horror. [10]
But not on that alone; upon the principle that what is committed in trust shall be held inviolate, with an exact obedience to the spirit as to the letter of the law. [11]
The view I take, I believe, is the Common law principle, as to retiring officers and their successors, to which I remember but one exception, which is the case of Sheriff and ministerial officers of that class. [7]
He has no such house, and he sends you to look at something altogether different, upon the well-ascertained principle that if you can't get what you want you will take what you can get. [8]
The Celebrity is still writing books of a high moral tone and unapproachable principle, and his popularity is undiminished. [9]
We must adopt some principle of selection among the books outside of any particular branch which we may have selected for study. [6]
You say you'd shut down for a principle, whether the government gets the machines or not. [9]
The same principle seems to come into play with vision, as the eye prefers symmetry or figures with some regular recurrence. [1]
Parkman, the historian, says, "The principle of truth may itself be carried into an absurdity. [5]
Senator Douglas sometimes says the Missouri line itself was in principle only an extension of the line of the Ordinance of '87--that is to say, an extension of the Ohio River. [7]
And the men say they'd join the union for a principle, whether the government gets the machines or not. [9]
It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. [7]
It is only said that it was done in principle. [7]
He has a right to go before the community and try to convince them of this, but he has no right to attempt to impose upon any one the belief that these men themselves approved of his great principle. [7]
It was a revolution--small in size; but great politically; it was a strike for liberty, a struggle for a principle, a stand against injustice and oppression. [5]
For the great Republic--for the principle it lives by and keeps alive--for man's vast future--thanks to all. [7]
A principle that reaches a good way if I am not mistaken. [6]
It is a question of principle, which means more to Englishmen than life itself. [9]
It was a question of fact, and not of principle. [7]
It was my purpose and expectation that this canvass would be conducted upon principle, and with fairness on both sides, and it shall not be my fault if this purpose and expectation shall be given up. [7]
Doubtless there may prove to be wrongs which demand righting, but the pretence of any plan for changing the essential principle of our self-governing system is a figment which its contrivers laugh over among themselves. [6]
How will he prove that we have ever occupied a different position in regard to the Lecompton Constitution or any principle in it? [7]
As to the principle, all were agreed. [7]

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