The necessary is what each individual gets out of the total product of the country, after deducting what must be taken for taxes.
All these abstractions have been long taken for realities by the philosophers, not one of whom has seen that all distribution of the faculties of the soul is necessarily a work of caprice, and that their psychology is but an illusion.
Dick wished his father at once to proceed against the paper for libel because the paper said that his word could not be taken for much.
If money were coming to her he could claim it, and the verdict against him would only be evidence, to be taken for what it was worth.
In another way anger is taken for a movement of the sensitive appetite, which is with passion resulting from a bodily transmutation.
When, however, prophetic revelation is conveyed by images in the imagination, abstraction from the senses is necessary lest the things thus seen in imagination be taken for objects of external sensation.
Israel may be taken for such as are neither so after the flesh, nor the Spirit, but in their own fancy and imagination only.
It must not be taken for ALL, that in any sense are given by the Father to him, because the Father hath given some, yea, many to him, to be dashed in pieces by him.
By this arrangement the private property of the special partners (as they are called) cannot be taken for debts of the firm.
A portion of a man's farm is taken for a highway, and he is paid damages; to whom does said land belong?
But the worth of each individual must be shown, it will not be taken for granted.
Except that his face is clean shaven and his manners perfect, he might betaken for a tramp.
No one who makes the acquaintance of our forester will fail to admire him; but he is far too self-reliant and warlike ever to be taken for a darling.
Down in sheltered lake hollows, on beds of rich alluvium, it varies so far from the common form as frequently to be taken for a distinct species.
She meant perhaps, why should her sister's strength be taken for granted?
The Earl's absence was a usage, taken for granted.
But it must be most painful to a conscientious bat to be taken for a full brick by every passer-by, and to be unable to contradict it.
He had not given thought to the subject--for such matters had came to betaken for granted.
She was fair, and slim as a schoolgirl; not very tall, not exactly petite; at first sight she might have been taken for a particularly immature debutante, and her dress was youthful and rather mannish.
The uncle is not only one of the right sort, he has the luck to betaken for a fool; and he takes all that kind of business upon his shoulders.
In the provinces comparison and choice are out of the question; when a face has grown familiar it comes to possess a certain beauty that is taken for granted.
It was obvious to the most simple-minded that the case could not be taken for a day or two, because there was a block in every one of the three Courts devoted to the trial of Nisi Prius actions.
It breaks my heart to think how often we have seen them walking arm-in-arm together, and said they might be taken for a pair of lovers.
We should betaken for a pretty little under-graduate and his mother!
Whatever preaching he might deliver must be taken for a matter of course, as a man finding shelter from hail in an open cathedral!
Hypothetical means "Founded on or including a hypothesis or supposition; assumed or taken for granted, though not proved, for the purpose of deducing proofs of a point in question.
The five Steps leading to the Altar are of green Marble, incrustated with old yellow Marble so artfully that this Work would easily be taken for a Piece of Persian Tapestry.
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