Our first position can only be argued for by dint of evidence highly unpopular in character, and, as a general rule, condemned by modern science.
The Australians have some elements of cannibalism, but do not, as a general rule, offer any human victims.
The evidence, as a general rule, is what is called first-hand in other inquiries.
Slaves were employed as a general rule: forced labour was obtainable; and the general conditions of the labour-market were utterly at variance with those of the present day.
The ancestor-worship and the funeral rites are Buddhist, as a general rule, if the family be Buddhist; but the Shinto gods are also worshipped in most Buddhist households, except those attached to the Shin sect.
The complexities of Japanese Buddhism are incalculable; and those who try to unravel them soon become, as a general rule, hopelessly lost in the maze of detail.
As a general rule, people of this type have considerable natural refinement, and refinement is always expensive.
He is too heavy on his feet for physical work, as a general rule, and is also too much disinclined to physical effort.
As a general rule, those in this class are well equipped intellectually by nature, and would have responded splendidly to educative efforts if they had been given an opportunity.
They are not ideal executives and do not, as a general rule, rise to very high executive positions.
As a general rule, even in the most unclouded West Indian weather, the loftiest peaks fade into the light at a distance of one hundred miles.
By nine o'clock, as a general rule, St. Pierre becomes silent: everyone here retires early and rises with the sun.
But, as a general rule, meals should be five hours apart, and eating between meals avoided.
As a general rule, it is safe for a healthful child to wear as little clothing as suffices to keep it from complaining of cold.
Thus it appears, as a general rule, that the quantity of food actually needed by the body depends on the amount of muscular exercise taken.
As a general rule, the longer the flue the stronger the draught.
In youth, the natural tendency of the constitution is still to excitement, and consequently, as a general rule, the stimulus of fermented liquors is injurious.
As a general rule, labour is exceedingly expensive,[FN#17] and at the Visitation time a man will demand fifteen or twenty piastres from a stranger for such a trifling job as mending an umbrella.
Either they have theorised from insufficient facts, or civilisation and artificial living exercise some peculiar influence, or Arabia is a solitary exception to a general rule.
As a general rule, however, the expression of the Badawi face is rather dignity than that cunning for which the Semitic race is celebrated, and there are lines about the mouth in variance with the stern or the fierce look of the brow.
FN#7] Sayyids in Al-Hijaz, as a general rule, do not denote their descent by the green turband.
The Indians, as a general rule, are very manageable when they are young, but it is a general complaint that when they reach the age of puberty they become restless and discontented.
As a general rule, the species were smaller and much less brilliant in colours than those of Mexico and South Brazil.
Whenever any remedy is valuable, the more by its being administered in time, it is surely wiser to give directions as to its use, although, as a general rule, it is much better to advise the sending for medical advice.
And since a molecule, as a general rule, contains two or more atoms, and may contain many of them, why not predicate dynamic force of the atoms, which lie one step nearer the elementary forces of nature?
They are almost as fantastic and variable as the forms of the kaleidoscope, although, as a general rule, they lack the symmetrical arrangements and proportions of that scientific toy.
A brunette selects a blonde and a blonde a brunette, as a general rule in matrimony.
As a general rule, all the seeds a bird eats are ground into this pulpy state before they pass into the intestinal canal, extending from the gizzard to the cloaca.
You will say, on the other hand, that there is no judging by appearances, as a general rule.
As a general rule, all those who live by the public starve, and are made a by-word and a standing jest into the bargain.
I would lay it down in the first place as a general rule on this subject, that all uneducated people are hypocrites.
Nevertheless, as a general rule, colour appears to have little influence on the pairing of pigeons.
This seems a general rule in the whole class in respect to the many remarkable structural differences between the sexes.
Nevertheless, as a general rule, the upper surface, which is probably more fully exposed, is coloured more brightly and diversely than the lower.
While I cannot shift the responsibility from myself, I hold that, as a general rule, the commander in the field is the better judge of the necessity in any particular case.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, Wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
But as a general rule, and in times less exceptionally hard, though Shakespeare tells us 'How apt the poor are to be proud,' they are not proud of being poor.
But, as a general rule, these volunteer censors plume themselves on discovering defects and not beauties.
As a general rule, however, even mathematics fail to interest the convalescent.
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