True it is there were some there who would willingly have rested, if the contrary reasonings of the captain and of other some who agreed with his design had not prevented them.
The laws that were passed were carried because the majority in Parliament were either not convinced by these reasonings or else determined that, come what might, the evils and abuses connected with factory labor should be abolished.
All these intellectual tendencies and reasonings of the later eighteenth century, therefore, combined to discredit the minute regulation of economic society, which had been the traditional policy of the immediately preceding centuries.
But though the reasonings which connect the end or purpose of every art with its means belong to the domain of Science, the definition of the end itself belongs exclusively to Art, and forms its peculiar province.
In the only sense, in which (as we have already seen) the general propositions which we place at the head of our reasonings when we throw them into syllogisms, ever really contribute to their validity.
Of this character are the demonstrations of mathematics, the knowledge that material things exist, and the clear reasonings that are formed regarding them.
To such an extent was this carried by Epicurus, that it is said he ventured to affirm, contrary to all the reasonings of the astronomers, that the sun is no larger than it appears.
Their reasonings lose their force by being carried too far and the popularity of their opinions has seduced them to neglect in some measure their justness and solidity.
Do not listen to me; do not hang a chance dearer than life upon the crude reasonings of an untaught woman.
The husbandmen's reasonings with one another bring into plain words thoughts which probably were not consciously held by any even of the rulers.
The fact that Jesus knew and answered their whispered or unspoken 'reasonings in their hearts' might have taught them that here was more than a rabbi, or even a prophet.
I have now gone through my reasonings on this momentous subject, and have stated the facts and deductions from them, which you will verify for yourselves.
The Virtuous and the Innocent may know in Speculation what they could never arrive at by Practice, and by this Means avoid the Snares of the Crafty, the Corruptions of the Vicious, and the Reasonings of the Prejudiced.
The strongest Arguments are enervated, and the brightest Evidence disappears, before those tremendous Reasonings and dazling Discoveries of venerable old Age: You are young giddy-headed Fellows, you have not yet had Experience of the World.
For as it is the chief Concern of Wise-Men, to retrench the Evils of Life by the Reasonings of Philosophy; it is the Employment of Fools, to multiply them by the Sentiments of Superstition.
The generous Reasonings of that gallant Youth would adorn your Paper; and I beg you would insert them, not doubting but that they will give good Entertainment to the most intelligent of your Readers.
All the general reasoningson which this theory rests evidently lead to sanguinary persecution.
In all probability, neither political nor legal reasonings would have sufficed to overcome the partiality which Charles felt for the House of Austria.
It is impossible to name any collection of human beings to which Mr. Gladstone's reasonings would apply more strongly than to an army.
Do not suppose, that in thus appealing to the ancients, I am throwing back the world two thousand years, and fettering Philosophy with the reasonings of paganism.
And, since the thoughts and reasonings of an author have, as I have said, a personal character, no wonder that his style is not only the image of his subject, but of his mind.
It is most useful to examine thus the arguments and reasonings of our adversaries, and in this manner to apply the science of sound logic to good purpose in these momentous discussions.
But the truth is, that the reasonings of Christian moralists too often exhibit but few traces of the genius of Christian morality.
But as this is a question of pure Revelation, reasonings from probability may not be deemed decisive.
To this inter-stellar and inter-atomic medium definite mechanical properties are ascribed, and we deal with it in ourreasonings and calculations as a body possessed of these properties.
For a time, however, the observations and reasonings of Roemer failed to produce conviction.
Nevertheless, pagan principle and feeling lived on in the reasonings and characters of the Church Fathers.
His reasonings were deeply felt, as one may see in his Meditationes, where thought and feeling mutually support and enhance each other.
But they thought that science had no existence anywhere except in the notions and reasonings of the mind; on which account they approved of the definitions of things, and employed them on everything which was brought under discussion.
Some Records of the Thoughts and Reasonings of Children.
M60) Two things are apt to confound men in their reasonings one with another.
I am glad you were so intent upon it, in hopes if there were any mistakes in your concessions, or fallacies in my reasonings from them, you will now discover them to me.
In like manner the Second Part of the Clavis consists of reasonings in proof of the impossibility of an external world independent of Spirit.
Nor can any one be more entirely satisfied of the truth of those odd consequences, so long as I have in view the reasonings that lead to them.
The universal sense-symbolism of Berkeley, and his pervading recognition of the distinction between physical or symbolical, and efficient or originative causation, are wanting in the narrow reasonings of Collier.
This studied reticence of a verbally paradoxical conception of Matter, in reasonings about vision which are fully intelligible only under that conception, is one cause of a want of philosophical lucidity in the Essay.
But the lucid thought, the colouring of fancy, the glow of human sympathy, and the earnestness that pervade the subtle reasonings pursued through these dialogues, are unique in English metaphysical literature.
His Demonstration consists of nine proofs, which may be compared with the reasonings and analyses of Berkeley.
Unless we take care to clear the First Principles of Knowledge from the embarras and delusion of Words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose; we may draw consequences from consequences, and be never the wiser.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reasonings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
