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Sentences starting with principles

Principles is all very well, but they don't git around that one big fact, that the thing that a balloon can do ain't no sort of proof of what a horse can do. [5]
Principles is another name for prejudices. [5]
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election-time. [5]

Sentences ending with principles

I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
Any one who will read his speech of the 22d of last March will see that he there makes an open confession, showing that he set about fixing the institution upon an altogether different set of principles. [7]
Why, to see what he writes about me and the missionaries you would think he did not have any principles. [5]
During her changeful, wandering life, she had had no fixed religious principles. [10]
Where did Mr. Todd learn anything about Jacksonian principles? [9]
He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles. [2]
Modern history, in theory, rejects both these principles. [2]
The life of the young ladies, of course, was regulated on the strictest principles. [9]
But gentlemen on the other side are unanimously agreed that General Taylor has no other principles. [7]
Then he opened the book of Genesis at the eighteenth chapter and read that remarkable argument of Abraham's with his Maker in which he boldly appeals to first principles. [6]

Short sentences using principles

He had principles. [9]
Principles! [10]

Sentences containing principles two or more times

Presently a thought struck him, and he spoke up briskly and said: "But look here, I really can't quite get the hang of your notions--your, principles, if they are principles. [5]
The South have not taken hold of our principles as we announce them; nor does Judge Douglas now grapple with those principles. [7]
It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. [5]
He knew that Lindau was inflexible about his principles, as he calls them, and that one of his first principles is to denounce the rich in season and out of season. [8]
Fish, in his instructions:-- "It might, indeed, well have occurred in the event of the selection by lot of the arbitrator or umpire in different cases, involving however precisely the same principles, that different awards, resting upon antagonistic principles, might have been made. [6]
Judge Douglas turns away from the platform of principles to the fact that he can find people somewhere who will not allow us to announce those principles. [7]

More example sentences with the word principles in them

I can't, I won't desert my principles (The knock is repeated. [9]
The jaws, together with their muscles, would then have been reduced through disuse, as would the teeth through the not well understood principles of correlation and economy of growth; for we everywhere see that parts, which are no longer of service, are reduced in size. [1]
Yet all the while Chang's moral principles were unsullied, his conscience clear; and so all just men were forced to confess that he was not morally, but only physically, drunk. [5]
The fundamental principles which have dominated this rare creature's life and character to the present day are two ceaseless desires: first, to surpass every one, even in the most difficult achievements; and, secondly, to love and to be loved in return. [10]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
Next to the wheel, the arch is the noblest of those elementary mechanical composites, corresponding to the proximate principles of chemistry. [6]
Some of them were speciously unfavorable in tone; they criticised and even ridiculed the principles on which the new departure in literary journalism was based. [8]
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]
For it was well known that one of Jethro's fixed principles in life was embodied in his own motto, "Don't write--send. [9]
This, gentlemen, as well as I can give it, is a plain statement of our principles in all their enormity. [7]
But how shall we ascertain what these principles are, so as to apply them to new circumstances and new creations, holding on to the essentials and disregarding contemporary tastes; prejudices, and appearances? [4]
There were two warring principles in that superb organization and proud soul. [6]
This will breed vacillation and uncertainty in its opinions about religion, and politics, and business, and sweethearts, and everything, and will undermine its principles, and rot them away, and make the poor thing characterless, and its success in life impossible. [5]
It would enable us to teach them that, inasmuch as we select one of their own number to carry out our principles, we are free from the charge that we mean more than we say. [7]
At his fireside, unknown to my grandfather and to Mr. Allen, I had learned the true principles of government. [9]
I shall therefore undertake a sober examination of its principles, its facts, and some points of its history. [3]
They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. [7]
For facts relating to this question we must look to two sources; the recorded experience of the medical profession in general, and the results of trials made according to Homoeopathic principles, and capable of testing the truth of the doctrine. [3]
It was hard to tell what were the principles controlling Tarboe--there was always an element of suspicion in his brown and brilliant eyes. [11]
I was right to seek out a land where such healthy principles and theories are in men's hearty and minds. [5]
You have only to see who are our friends and who are our enemies in this struggle, to decide for what principles we are combating. [6]
You--you ask me to sacrifice my principles and yield to men who are deliberately obstructing the war? [9]
He began slowly to pit against his former startling admissions the testimony of his few principles, and to buttress them on every side with apposite observations, naive, pungent. [11]
I now come to consider whether the appeal with its avowed principles, is intrinsically right. [7]
My purpose is to be in my action just and constitutional, and yet practical, in performing the important duty with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity and the free principles of our common country. [7]
I am willing to allow my history and action for the last twenty years to speak for themselves as to my political principles and my fidelity to political obligations. [7]
Nothing now occurs to add or subtract to or from the principles or general purposes stated and expressed in those documents. [7]
In the mean time he was studying history for its facts and principles, and fiction for its scenery and portraits. [6]
His principles are those of honest love for all which is good and admirable in human character wherever he finds it, while he unaffectedly hates oppression, and despises selfishness with all his heart. [6]
The lawsuits of those days were extremely simple, and the principles of natural justice were mainly relied on to dispose of them at the Bar and on the Bench, without resort to technical learning. [7]
Not far from this vast Chamber, where great financial operations are conducted on the highest principles of honor, and with the strictest regard to the Marquis of Dusenbury's rules, there is another less pretentious Chamber, known as "open," a sort of overflow meeting. [4]
From observations like these we can obtain certain principles from which we can argue deductively to facts of a like nature, but the process is limited, and we are suspicious of all reasoning in that direction applied to the processes of healthy and diseased life. [3]
This does constitute their platform, and it is because Judge Douglas claims it is his platform--that these are his principles and purposes--that he has a right to declare he speaks his sentiments "frankly and manfully. [7]
To what extent the Tractors were favored with the patronage of English and American ladies, it is of course not easy to say, except on general principles, as their names were not brought before the public. [6]
We have reached the region of those broad principles and large axioms which the wise Romans, the world's lawgivers, always recognized as above all special enactments. [6]
A consideration of the principles underlying this proposed social order may prove that it is essentially--if perhaps paradoxically--individualistic, a logical evolution of institutions which had their origin in the Magna Charta. [9]
Auramazda and Angramainjus, the principles of good and evil, were invisible existences filling all creation with their countless train of good and evil spirits. [10]
My mother kept the old books containing the accounts of these excursions, which occupied from two to three weeks, and they possessed a certain interest for me, principally because they proved how skilfully our teachers understood how to carry out Froebel's principles on these occasions. [10]
In our day the mines are worked upon scientific principles, under the guidance of the ablest mining-engineering talent procurable in America. [5]
And thus, from the force of circumstances, the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant, or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest of causes--that of establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty. [7]
The captain had the advantage, three to one, and I made no doubt his employer bitterly regretted not having a boatman whose principles were more strict. [9]
I am gratified that the two principles of compensation and colonization are both recognized and practically applied in the act. [7]
When I preach that sermon I spoke of the other day, I shall have to lay down some principles not fully recognized in some of your text-books. [6]
But I guess that on general principles Beaton is not more in love than she is. [8]
They are convinced that if the world doesn't go on in their way, according to their principles, everything will be destroyed. [9]
He never forgot that he was a gentleman, and he had a gentleman's notions of the fitness of things, and it was against his principles to use, a gentleman's club for the furtherance of his various enterprises. [9]
We have to suffer for our principles. [9]
By the time Still began to experiment, Kellgren had completed his development of the principles of his system and established himself in a good practice in London--1874 --and was in good shape to convey his discovery to Kansas, Mental Telegraphically. [5]
Yet in every stand he had taken, there had been thought, logic and reasoning, wrongly premised, but always based on principles. [11]
In it they spoke their principles as plainly and as definitely to the world. [7]
With respect to sounds, Helmholtz has explained to a certain extent on physiological principles, why harmonies and certain cadences are agreeable. [1]
These opposite principles separated friends, estranged families long united in love, and made themselves felt even in the Schmidt school during the short time that we continued to go there. [10]
And I can't see but what Conrad runs the thing on business principles in his department, and I guess you'll find it so if you look into it. [8]
And in what school may our minds be trained better or on sounder principles than in ours--I mean that of the Greek sages? [10]
I have already said I am satisfied with the old system under which such good men have triumphed and that I desire no departure from its principles. [7]
At last I said frankly, I wish you to answer them, because when I get them up here where the color of your principles are a little darker than in Egypt, I intend to trot you down to Jonesboro. [7]
There is no safety for you if you lose your principles. [4]
He has a right to try to persuade you that he understands their principles better than they did, and, therefore, he will apply them now, not as they did, but as they ought to have done. [7]
He considers the result a signal triumph of good principles and good men, and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones. [7]
Thus the duty rests to-day, more heavily than ever, upon each American citizen to make good to the world those principles upon which his government was built. [9]
For all his republican principles John Paul never got over his love of courts, and no man was ever a more thorough courtier. [9]
It is well remarked, on the twenty-third page of this article, that "the comparison of bills of mortality among an equal number of sick, treated by divers methods, is a most poor and lame way to get at conclusions touching principles of the healing art. [3]
He, too, had remained steadfast to Jacksonian principles, and he had never forgiven Jethro about a little matter of a state office which he (Sam) had failed to obtain. [9]
I have no relish for Puritans, either in religion or politics, who are for pushing principles to an extreme, and for overturning everything that stands in the way of their own zealous career . [4]
The teachings of religion, his devotion to his family, his kindness of heart, his high principles, all went for nothing when they stood in the way of his spiritual comfort. [5]
Nor did the rector volunteer any evidences of the soundness of his theological or political principles. [9]
Resolved, That we recommend to the Whigs of each Congressional district of the State to nominate and support at the approaching election a candidate of their own principles, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
Last night a proposition was made me on your account and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you. [2]
Despite William Wetherell's principles, whatever these may have been, he was so carried away that he found himself with his watch in his hand, counting off the minutes as the roll-call went on. [9]
Several of his principles were out of the ordinary. [5]
There are certain principles to be assumed,--such as these:--He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues. [6]
There are two principles of attraction which bring different natures together: that in which the two natures closely resemble each other, and that in which one is complementary of the other. [6]
But on general principles it is my opinion that a colt out of a coyote and a wild-cat is no square dog, but doubtful. [5]
And if these principles be bad," I added to my uncle, "then should we think with shame upon the Magna Charta. [9]
She knew his principles as well as though he had spoken them--which he never did. [9]
The declaration of principles and sentiments which accompanies your letter meets my approval; and it shall be my care not to violate or disregard it in any part. [7]
That is the principle of the compromises of '50, if, indeed, they had any principles beyond their specific terms--it was the system of equivalents. [7]
The party in politics, whose principles the editor advocates, has no doubt of its rightful claim upon him, not only upon the editorial columns, but upon the whole newspaper. [4]
Lord Faramond, himself picturesque, acute, with a keen knowledge of character and a taste for originality, saw material for a useful supporter--fearless, independent, with a gift for saying ironical things, and some primitive and fundamental principles well digested. [11]
As for his philosophy, his principles, moral, political, or social, we repeat that he seems to have none whatever. [6]
Many of Froebel's pedagogical principles undoubtedly appear at first sight a pallid theorem, partly a matter of course, partly impracticable. [10]
Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension that "the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw. [7]
Only a brief outline of it can be given here, with a general statement of the underlying principles. [4]
He assumes that our party is altogether sectional, that the party to which he adheres is national; and the argument is, that no party can be a rightful party--and be based upon rightful principles--unless it can announce its principles everywhere. [7]
The most of our companions were Tories, for, odd as it may appear, they retained their principles even in Castle Yard. [9]
Even in an ordinary secular paper a man must observe some care about it; he must be better than the principles which he puts in print. [5]
He had one or two fixed ideas in his mind, simple principles on social questions of which he had spoken to his leader, and he never wavered from the sight of them, though he had yet to state them. [11]
Helmholtz has explained on physiological principles why concords are agreeable, and discords disagreeable to the human ear; but we are little concerned with these, as music in harmony is a late invention. [1]
I am now on my way to my own country to run for the presidency because there are not yet enough candidates in the field, and those who have entered are too much hampered by their own principles, which are prejudices. [5]
Such a pitch of virtue does not occur often in real life, especially in such natures as Harry's, whose generosity and unselfishness were matters of temperament rather than habits or principles. [5]
The practical application of these principles can be studied in the Elmira Reformatory of New York, the only prison for felons where the proposed system is carried out with the needed disciplinary severity. [4]
The larger aim of scientific training is to furnish you with principles to which you will be able to refer isolated facts, and so bring these within the range of recorded experience. [3]
Nor the favour of Sandwich or March could turn him from his principles. [9]
The immutable principles of justice are to make way for party interests, and the bonds of social order are to be rent in twain, in order that a desperate faction may be sustained at the expense of the people. [7]
They're the principles of good people. [9]
When the principles of breeding and inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man. [1]
A lurid conception of a class conducted on those principles of shameless flattery at which Mrs. Horn had hinted--he believed now she had meant to insult him--presented itself. [8]
Although I am not a lawyer, I know something of the principles of law, and I understand that this and the Appropriations Committee are the most important. [9]
But in not nominating Mr. Clay we deserted our principles, you say. [7]
It was not new to him; indeed it fully answered to the principles he had laid down for the future. [10]

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