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Example sentences for "confine ourselves"

  • We confine ourselves here to the indication of the exaggeration of this fact in particular; we shall touch upon this subject again in our general remarks.

  • We confine ourselves to these reflections upon the processes described by the ancients, and given by them as those alone practised in Egypt.

  • With our ideas and customs, we do not know how to confine ourselves to considering society in this way.

  • Let us confine ourselves to the circle to which the mathematics are naturally confined.

  • Even if we confine ourselves to the purely mathematical order, we find multiplicity without extension, in arithmetical and algebraic quantities.

  • If we confine ourselves to this phenomenon, no objection can be made.

  • We must not, in order duly to appreciate the meaning of such expressions, confine ourselves to their philosophical, and contemn their vulgar meaning.

  • We confine ourselves to entities disclosed in sense-awareness.

  • We confine ourselves to typical manifestations of it.

  • Let us confine ourselves to taking it in what it has expressly given us of itself.

  • Let us confine ourselves to the case in hand.

  • We therefore leave the general subject of miracles to be treated by others; and we confine ourselves to the fact of the liquefaction.

  • We confine ourselves, for the present, to certain specific duties of those who are rich in the literal and technical sense.

  • We prefer to confine ourselves to a few facts which no one can dream of contesting, so patent are they and so well known to every one in Belgium.

  • Let us confine ourselves to examining the legend of the gouged-out eyes.

  • We confine ourselves to signalizing this question.

  • For the moment, we confine ourselves to remarking that the individual cult is presented to the observer as an element of, and something dependent upon, the collective cult.

  • The following pages were written when this work appeared and we publish them without change; we confine ourselves to adding certain explanations showing in what we differ from M.

  • The construction of a single time offers less difficulty so long as we confine ourselves to one person's private world, but the correlation of one private time with another is a matter of great difficulty.

  • In pure logic, no atomic fact is ever mentioned: we confine ourselves wholly to forms, without asking ourselves what objects can fill the forms.

  • For the present, however, let us confine ourselves to the hard data, with a view to discovering what sort of world can be constructed by their means alone.

  • What his neighbor does God permits, so let us confine ourselves to praying to God when we believe that a danger is impending over us.

  • We do not assert that the portrait we are here drawing is probably as far as fiction goes: we confine ourselves to saying that it bears a likeness to the reality.

  • We confine ourselves to saying that Fantine's love was a first love, a single love, a faithful love.

  • We shall not, however, be at liberty to confine ourselves to what Solomon, as an individual, did for the house of the Lord.

  • If we confine ourselves to the passage before us, the following [Pg 428] arguments are in favour of our view.

  • These theses are well known; let us confine ourselves to a few rapid illustrations.

  • Let us confine ourselves to the examination of the pretence which it puts forward to find a new support in the results of modern science.

  • Let us confine ourselves to considerations of a less abstruse order.

  • But of course it is wiser to confine ourselves as far as possible to those we know.

  • If we confine ourselves to the scale of latitude for the Medici map, which, as stated above (p.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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