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Example sentences for "strictly speaking"

  • These Canons, well known to Antiquity, were at one time supposed to be, strictly speaking, Apostolical, and published before A.

  • Of this procedure they were not, strictly speaking, the originators; they took the idea of it from the Saracens.

  • Strictly speaking, Jan was not a guest--at any rate, not an invited one.

  • Strictly speaking, perhaps, it could not be called litter, and Mrs. Verner and her French maid would have been alike indignant at hearing it so classed.

  • It is only bodily phenomena that can be directly observed in animals, or even, strictly speaking, in other human beings.

  • We found in fact that it is exhibited by a photographic plate, and, strictly speaking, by any particular taken in conjunction with those which have the same "passive" place in the sense defined in Lecture VII.

  • Strictly speaking, a false judgment is not a judgment at all.

  • Now, the irregular appearances of the star are not, strictly speaking, members of the system which is the star, according to our definition of matter.

  • Strictly speaking, not the target but hitting the target is the end in view; one takes aim by means of the target, but also by the sight on the gun.

  • Strictly speaking, it does not indicate the objective relations of water any more than does a statement that water is transparent, fluid, without taste or odor, satisfying to thirst, etc.

  • Since the goal of perfection, the standard of development, is very far away, it is so beyond us that, strictly speaking, it is unattainable.

  • We see, thus, when we reflect upon the matter, that mental phenomena cannot, strictly speaking, be said to have a time and place.

  • Augustine's way out of the difficulty is the suggestion that, although we cannot, strictly speaking, measure time, we can measure memory and expectation.

  • Now, a small bluish patch of color is not, strictly speaking, a tree; but for us it represents the tree.

  • The mind is not, then, strictly speaking, in the body, although it is related to it.

  • It is not in time at all, and, of course, it cannot, strictly speaking, occupy a portion of time.

  • We do not believe, strictly speaking, in what is or in what was, except as the guarantee, as the substance, of what will be.

  • The history of philosophy is, strictly speaking, a history of religion.

  • The name however appears to be strictly speaking applicable to a system or body of doctrine and the usual term for the books in which this system is expounded is Saṃhitâ.

  • Footnote 101: Strictly speaking Madhyamaka is the name of the school Mâdhyamika of its adherents.

  • His paradise, though in popular esteem equivalent to the Persian or Christian heaven, is not really so: strictly speaking it is not an ultimate ideal but a blessed region in which Nirvana may be obtained without toil or care.

  • Then, strictly speaking, good Manners and Politeness must come under the same Denomination.

  • But many People are call'd, what, strictly speaking, they are not.

  • That good Christians, strictly speaking, can never presume or submit to be Soldiers.

  • Footnote 26: Strictly speaking, the Oppius Mons, or southern part of the Esquiline.

  • Strictly speaking, it means a day which the citizen has resigned, either wholly or in part, to the service of the gods.

  • You are aware I am not, strictly speaking, a Croesus, yet I have made my little economies, and they are tied up in one or two fairly safe things.

  • We may also reply that spiritual pleasures, strictly speaking, are in accordance with reason, wherefore they need no control, save accidentally, in so far as one spiritual pleasure is a hindrance to another greater and more binding.

  • Consequently, strictly speaking, the father is to be loved more.

  • Strictly speaking, however, the father should be loved more than the mother.

  • Just as omission is opposed to affirmative precepts, so is transgression opposed to negative precepts: wherefore both, strictly speaking, have the character of mortal sin.

  • A gulf is, strictly speaking, distinguished from a sea in being smaller, and from a bay in being larger and deeper than it is broad.

  • The captain, strictly speaking, is the officer commanding a line-of-battle ship, or a frigate carrying twenty or more cannon.

  • Strictly speaking, it only relates to a tiller which extends forward from the rudder-head; now many extend aft, in which case the order remains the same, but the tiller and rudder are both brought over to windward.

  • It is the most massive part of a gun; strictly speaking, it is all the solid metal behind the bottom of the bore.

  • Unless all appearances are deceptive, it was, strictly speaking, only the four Gospels that he considered and treated as completely on a level with the Old Testament.

  • But, both in East and West, this theory of his became established only by very imperceptible degrees, and indeed, strictly speaking, the process was never completed at all.

  • Its introduction into the creed of Christendom, which was, strictly speaking, the setting up of the first dogma in the Church, meant the future conversion of the rule of faith into a philosophic system.

  • Only so is communication possible, for the single experience lodges in an individual consciousness and is, strictly speaking, incommunicable.

  • They are, strictly speaking, never absent from normal speech, but their expression is not of a truly linguistic nature.

  • When Dickens described Mr. Chuckster, Dickens was, strictly speaking, making a fool of himself; for he was making a fool out of himself.

  • Nevertheless, I have not yet cast the first stone at the new house--not being, strictly speaking, guiltless myself in the matter of new houses.


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