Use universal in a sentence
Sentences starting with universal
- Universal public opinion not only tolerated but recognized and adopted its use. [7]
- Universal suffrage is not a universal panacea; it may be the best device attainable, but it is certain of abuse without safeguards. [4]
- Universal suffrage is a logical corollary. [9]
Sentences ending with universal
- We were seized upon by these reckless creatures, and within the hour we, even we, were undistinguishable from the rest--the demoralization was complete and universal. [5]
- The passion for this humble ornament is universal. [5]
- What, then, was the function, the mission of the Church Universal? [9]
- His was not simply a pilot's memory; its grasp was universal. [5]
- The outside aspects of the place suggested the presence of a modest and comfortable prosperity--a general prosperity --perhaps one might strengthen the term and say universal. [5]
- Perhaps it is not merely common, but universal. [5]
- Nothing else ever invented has the public attention as the newspaper has, or is an influence so constant and universal. [4]
- It must have in it something of the enduring and the universal. [4]
- In its mildest form it doubtless is universal. [5]
- But upon that event I became convinced that either I had been resting in a delusion, or the institution was being placed on a new basis, a basis for making it perpetual, national, and universal. [7]
Short sentences using universal
- Was it one universal self-deception? [11]
Sentences containing universal two or more times
- That this inequality should continue in an era of universal education, universal suffrage, universal locomotion, universal emancipation from nearly all tradition, is a surprise, and a perfectly comprehensible cause of discontent. [4]
More example sentences with the word universal in them
- Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
- I suppose the Young Lady expressed a nearly universal feeling in her regret at the breaking up of the winter-fireside company. [4]
- If a man writes a letter or makes report of an occurrence for immediate publication, subject to universal criticism, there is some restraint on him. [4]
- By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest; even the drammaker and dram-seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never to have felt the change, and will stand ready to join all others in the universal song of gladness. [7]
- The charge is, with regard to this universal suffrage, that you take the fruits of increased representation produced by it, and then deny it to a portion of the voters whose action was expected to produce a different political result. [4]
- Hereafter, if democracy wins, self-determination, and not imperialistic exploitation, is to be the universal rule. [9]
- If all men will eat onions at all times, they will come into a universal sympathy. [4]
- So originated the wide-spread custom of wearing spectacles in Germany; and as a custom once established in these old lands is imperishable, this one remains universal in the empire to this day. [5]
- It pervades the whole animal fabric as areolar tissue, which is the universal packing and wrapping material. [3]
- The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
- A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. [7]
- You can fancy what universal joy the idea of a war with Egypt excited. [10]
- Lying is universal we all do it; we all must do it. [5]
- This higher education was offered to the mass that still lacked the rudiments of intellectual training, in the belief that education--the education of the moment, the education of superimposed information, can realize the theory of universal equality. [4]
- Sterling and the villages north, where there's universal gun-packing and fights every day--where there are more men like him, it seems to me they would attract him most. [13]
- She has the usual defect, the common defect, the universal defect, the defect that has never been missing from any ship that ever sailed--she has imperfect beds. [5]
- Reading is so universal, even with the uncultivated, that it is common to hear people mispronounce words that you did not suppose they had ever seen. [4]
- But in the universal uproar only a few had heard his words, and the hot-blooded tailor was so rash as to lay his hand on the praetor's girdle in order to drag him away from the door with the help of his comrades. [10]
- There is a universal testimony to his alert intelligence, vivacity, manliness, sincerity, and winningness. [4]
- Confidence dies, and universal suspicion reigns. [7]
- The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious. [6]
- With such a universal provision, all know the bills could not have passed. [7]
- The reign of universal peace would begin then, to end no more forever.... [5]
- Such is the universal need of human sympathy. [4]
- The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
- The mourning is universal and genuine, the consternation is stupefying. [5]
- Better eternal and universal abstinence than the brutalities of those days that made wives and mothers and daughters and sisters blush for those whom they should have honored, as they came reeling home from their debauches! [6]
- It was all undesignedly a part of herself, and she was one of a population in a universal nation whose devout citizen she was. [11]
- Diodoros, meanwhile, had turned to look at the main entrance, and, carried away by the universal desire to see, had perched himself on an unopened case of dried figs. [10]
- It was in touch with the universal movement of humanity and of human thought and speculation. [4]
- Nobody was able to stir or speak for a while, so paralyzing was the universal astonishment, so unbelievable the fact that the stake was actually standing there unoccupied and its prey gone. [5]
- He had everything to spoil him,--beauty, precocious intelligence, and a personal charm which might have made him a universal favorite. [6]
- I I intended to have signalized my first appearance by a certain large statement, which I flatter myself is the nearest approach to a universal formula, of life yet promulgated at this breakfast-table. [6]
- Stanton naturally failed to find it, and it remained for the writer of these notes, motoring up the Rhone one September day, exactly twenty-two years after the first discovery, to re-locate the vast reclining figure of the first consul of France, "dreaming of Universal Empire. [5]
- To get money to do things, no matter how,--or little matter how; to be in the swim, and that swim all too rapidly washing out the real people--that was the almost universal ambition. [11]
- The idea seems to be well-nigh universal that the millennium is to come by a great deal less work and a great deal more pay. [4]
- This was due to a variety of reasons or prejudices, not all of them creditable to a generous desire for the universal elevation of mankind, but one of them the historian will judge adequate to produce the result. [4]
- For the first time in his life he began to doubt the universal conquering quality of his own charms,--and when such a thing happens to a man like Ditmar he is in danger of hell-fire. [9]
- But instead of this, the strain of anxiety was universal and heart-rending. [4]
- And added to this were a thousand little features, anecdotes, and events which all pointed to the universal discontent. [10]
- The result of this universal demand for fiction is necessarily an enormous supply, and as everybody writes, without reference to gifts, the product is mainly trash, and trash of a deleterious sort; for bad art in literature is bad morals. [4]
- In my opinion, this universal applause over his book is going to land that man in a Retreat inside of two months. [5]
- The people believed they had found it; not in the destruction of universal suffrage, but in the enlargement of it. [5]
- The truth is, these copies were so common, so universal, in the shops and everywhere, that they presently became as intolerable to the wearied eye as the latest popular melody usually becomes to the harassed ear. [5]
- Just now if these clubs could suddenly become universal, and the penalty be enforced, we could have the means of paying off the national debt in a year. [4]
- The heart is the vessel of that effluence of the universal soul, which lives in us. [10]
- Its builders understood the value of a striking situation, a dominant position; it is a part of the universal policy of this church to secure the commanding places for its houses of worship. [4]
- That portion of the universal soul which of yore dwelt in Roxana, and now in you, Melissa, has also vanquished the pain which has embittered my life. [10]
- Music will be the universal language,--the Volapuk of spiritual being. [6]
- Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. [7]
- And this is the test of any piece of literature--its universal appeal to human nature. [4]
- Whether there is the relation of cause and effect between the two I do not pretend to say, but universal and superficial education in this country has been accompanied with the most extraordinary delusions and the evolution of the wildest theories. [4]
- I found that the nation had at first tried universal suffrage pure and simple, but had thrown that form aside because the result was not satisfactory. [5]
- So long as the moon shone, flickering rays danced and sparkled on the ice and snow, but afterwards only the tedious glimmer of the universal snow-pall lighted the traveller's way. [10]
- He didn't invent the law; it is merely his business to obey it and keep still; join the universal conspiracy and keep so still that he shall deceive his fellow-conspirators into imagining that he doesn't know that the law exists. [5]
- In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind. [7]
- This results from the fact that they are truer to the substance of things, to universal human nature, while the French seem to be in great part an imitation, having root neither in the soil of France nor Attica. [4]
- The necessity of the conception of power as an explanation of historical events is best demonstrated by the universal historians and historians of culture themselves, for they professedly reject that conception but inevitably have recourse to it at every step. [2]
- Criticism which condemns the common-school system as a nurse of superficiality, mediocrity, and conceit does not need serious attention, any more than does the criticism that the universal opportunity of individual welfare offered by a republic fails to make a perfect government. [4]
- The opportunity of the common school must be universal, and attendance in it compulsory. [4]
- Without detracting from the character-drawing, the characters, or the story in 'The Pomp of the Lavilettes', I was convinced that the book would not make the universal appeal. [11]
- I should say that the fashionable skepticism of today, here and in England, is in regard to universal suffrage and the capacity of the people to govern themselves. [4]
- I write for that magazine all the time, and so do many abler men, and if I can get these portraits into universal favor, it is all I ask; the reading-matter will take care of itself. [5]
- Better obtrusive peculiarities than universal sameness. [4]
- However, the universal testimony of those best qualified to judge, is conclusive that this custom has for many years been almost extinct. [1]
- Let him now take up Watson's Lectures, the good sense and spirit of which have made his book a universal favorite, and open to the chapter on Continued Fever. [3]
- People, to be sure, have different conceptions of happiness, but whatever they are, it is the custom, almost universal, to postpone the thing itself. [4]
- I do not suppose my experience can be the foundation of a universal rule. [6]
- This much the State for its own protection is bound to require, for suffrage is an expediency, not a right belonging to universal humanity regardless of intelligence or of character. [4]
- This is the stamp of all enduring work; this is what appeals to the universal understanding from generation to generation. [4]
- Individuals and all sorts of organizations levied upon themselves a regular weekly tax for the sanitary fund, graduated according to their means, and there was not another grand universal outburst till the famous "Sanitary Flour Sack" came our way. [5]
- Out of this simple proposition springs logically the extension of suffrage, and a universal education, in order that this important function of a government by the people may be exercised intelligently. [4]
- In her despair she sent out this beseeching cry: "I appeal to the Church universal whether I ought to abjure or not! [5]
- This country is settled by genuine Americans, who have the aboriginal primitive traits of the universal Yankee nation. [4]
- He is always seeing the universal in the particular. [6]
- Politics, literature, arts, sciences, universal brotherhood and sisterhood, nothing was omitted; neither the poetry of Tennyson, nor the philosophy of Margaret Fuller; neither the virtues of association, nor of unbolted wheat. [4]
- I was a rusty looking city editor, I am free to confess--coatless, slouch hat, blue woolen shirt, pantaloons stuffed into boot-tops, whiskered half down to the waist, and the universal navy revolver slung to my belt. [5]
- In proportion as Richard's interest in Lali had grown, the universal quality of his sympathy had declined. [11]
- The desire to revisit this earth is, I think, based upon a belief, well-nigh universal, that the world is to make some progress, and that it will be more interesting in the future than it is now. [4]
- A celebrity so prompt and so universal has hardly been paralleled in history, perhaps. [5]
- It should rest primarily upon an acknowledgment of the author's right of property in his own work, the same universal right that he has in any other personal property. [4]
- This letter, this preposterous thing from the universal philanderer, the effeminate erotic! [11]
- And there are other considerations, unless it should turn out that a universal tax on land should absolutely change human nature. [4]
- It is not only sacred to patriotism sand universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices--and they are working, it for all it is worth. [5]
- We are probably only in the beginning of our evolution, and something new may always be expected, that is, new and fresh applications of universal law. [4]
- He was the one person in the community who was the universal necessity, and yet for whom the community had no mercy in its troubles or out of them. [11]
- And that stout one in spectacles is the universal Freemason," she went on, indicating Pierre. [2]
- They are gods on earth, and won't submit to the universal lot of mortals, to endure pain and anguish. [10]
- This pleasing anticipation--that of traveling by lightning, and all being huddled together--is nothing to the promised universal illumination by a diffused light that shall make midnight as bright as noonday. [4]
- The immediate result of this was to put power into the hands of the middle classes and to give the lower classes high hopes, so that, in 1839, the Chartist movement began, one demand of which was universal suffrage. [4]
- The universal conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or a sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. [5]
- For the whole of that portion of my subject in which Holland and England were combined into one whole, to resist Spain in its attempt to obtain the universal empire, I have very abundant collections. [6]
- The mountain regions of North Carolina are free from mosquitoes, but the fly has settled there, and is the universal scourge. [4]
- In the opinion of many, our universal education is one of the chief causes of the discontent. [4]
- The universal sense of mankind on any subject is an argument, or at least an influence, not easily overcome. [7]
- The great delusion of mankind is in supposing that to be individual and exceptional which is universal and according to law. [6]
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. [5]
- The little accidents of humanity, known collectively to moralists as sin, looked very venial to his growing sense of universal brotherhood and benevolence. [6]
- In the time of Homer people sat at table, but the recumbent position became universal in later times. [10]
- A third class of historians--the so-called historians of culture--following the path laid down by the universal historians who sometimes accept writers and ladies as forces producing events--again take that force to be something quite different. [2]
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