As the reader (for I hate your ifs) has a thorough knowledge of human nature, I need not say more to satisfy him, that my Hero could not go on at this rate without some slight experience of these incidental mementos.
The epistles which Ignatius composed as he was carried in chains through the cities of Asia, breathe sentiments the most repugnant to the ordinary feelings of human nature.
The assurance of a lasting reputation upon earth, a motive so congenial to the vanity of human nature, often served to animate the courage of the martyrs.
To confide is one of the all but universal longings--perhaps needs--of human nature.
She turned slowly and, as she turned, effaced every trace of temper with a dexterity which might have given an onlooker a poorer opinion of her character than perhaps the facts as to human nature justify.
And as no author could afford to be silent on the subject that underlies all subjects, our literature, in so far as it attempted to deal with the most vital phases of human nature, was beneath contempt.
Its system is administered with an admirable knowledge of the higher needs of human nature.
Lady Loring, however, knew enough of human nature to leave results to two potent allies--experience and time.
I replied very briefly, merely saying that the details were interesting to every student of human nature.
I will not appeal to my knowledge of human nature--I will refer to the unanswerable evidence of Mr. Winterfield's poorer neighbors.
Thus when Aeropus was dead, he could not bear it with moderation, saying, he indeed had suffered what was common to human nature, but condemning and blaming himself, that by puttings off and delays he had not returned his kindness in time.
Among them was also Tullus himself, not for any wrong done him personally by Marcius, but through the weakness incident to human nature.
Already might be remarked in him the most odious vice which is incident to human nature, a delight in misery merely as misery.
He had passed through all varieties of fortune, and had seen both sides of human nature.
The "great world" may foster other faults; human nature is sure to develop some in every walk of life.
The temper which Christianity inspired was mild and gentle; and the doctrines it taught added such dignity and lustre to human nature, as rescued it from the dishonorable servitude into which it was sunk.
From Grecian philosophy, they had imbibed the justest and most liberal notions of the dignity of human nature, and the origin of civil society.
The annals of the emperors exhibit a strong and various picture of human nature, which we should vainly seek among the mixed and doubtful characters of modern history.
But alas," he said, "there is another side to human nature, and our friend Thoburn has not kept a summer hotel for nothing.
And it is human nature, by the same token, to like to be bullied, especially about health, and to respect and admire the fellow who does the bullying.
Remember, our friend Pierce is also a student of human nature.
But Gregory was stronger than his rebellious clergy,--stronger than the instincts of human nature, stronger than the united voice of reason and Scripture.
We only see mistakes and follies; and who cares to dwell on the infirmities of human nature?
He is not full of a great sorrow for the wrong done to human nature; for him the wrong is altogether done to himself.
He is a student of nature; he is scarcely ever a student of human nature.
And even where this difficulty is overcome, and he is in some sense a student of human nature, this is only a very faint beginning of the painful progress towards being human.
Here I cannot be understood strictly; for then I must describe a nonentity, whereas I would rob him of nothing but that free agency which is the cause of all the corruption and of all the misery of human nature.
Not only is intolerance in human nature, but there is a repugnance among the learned to receive new opinions when these interfere with their ascendancy.
It is not in human nature to believe such a thing, even if it may be dogmatically asserted.
What if he made mistakes, and showed in his career many of the infirmities of human nature!
Aristophanes is the next speaker:-- He professes to open a new vein of discourse, in which he begins by treating of the origin of human nature.
That good and evil are linked together in human nature, and have often existed side by side in the world and in man to an extent hardly credible.
He is contented with representing him as a saint, who has won 'the Olympian victory' over the temptations of human nature.
Such an union is not wholly untrue to human nature, which is capable of combining good and evil in a degree beyond what we can easily conceive.
And so now, true to human nature, being plunged beyond payment, I come and bark at your heels.
But never get desperate; human nature is human nature; and the Roman Empire, since the Romans founded it and made our European human nature what it is, bids fair to go on and to be true to itself.
She was, of course, reflecting upon a common trait in human nature,--that we much more easily see the duty at hand when we see it in relation to the social duty of which it is a part.
During those first years on Halsted Street nothing was more painfully clear than the fact that pliablehuman nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
