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Example sentences for "this essay"

  • In the broad sense in which rationality was defined at the outset of this essay, it is perfectly apparent that custom must be one of its factors.

  • We shall quote the article of Aquinas at some length, because it was universally accepted by all the theologians of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with whose opinions we are concerned in this essay.

  • There is thus a demand for information upon the subject dealt with in this essay.

  • We shall confine our attention in this essay to the economic teaching of the Middle Ages, and shall not deal with the actual practice of the period.

  • To conclude a character on which we have already dwelt longer than is consistent with the intended measure of this essay, this contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and a bad heart.

  • John Quincy appeared in 1712, the year after the publication of this essay.

  • The Powell mentioned in this essay was a deformed cripple whose Puppet-Show, called Punch's Theatre, owed its pre-eminence to his own power of satire.

  • We read in the text how they had produced on the stage of Drury Lane that madman on the previous Saturday night; this Essay appearing on the breakfast tables upon Monday morning.

  • What Addison thought of the 'little images of Ridicule' set up against him, the last paragraph of this Essay shows, but the collation of texts shows that he did flinch a little.

  • Footnote 1: The Play is by Steele himself, the writer of this Essay.

  • Having confined ourselves wholly, in the second part of this Essay, to the consideration of the commerce, we shall now proceed to the consideration of the slavery that is founded upon it.

  • The author of this Essay applied to him for some information on the treatment of slaves, so far as his own knowledge was concerned.

  • As we explained the History of Slavery in the first part of this Essay, as far as it was necessary for our purpose, we shall now take the question into consideration, which we proposed at first as the subject of our inquiry, viz.

  • It has appeared also, in the second part of this Essay, that as nature made, every man's body and mind his own, so no just person can be reduced to slavery against his own consent.

  • The author of this Essay, before he took into consideration the origin of government, was determined, in a matter of such importance, to be biassed by no opinion whatever, and much less to indulge himself in speculation.

  • We come back to the opening of this essay: what is the practical result of our ideas about the Divinity, and how do these ideas affect the daily working life?

  • This essay is simply and solely directed to prove that there are circumstances under which a human being has a moral right to hasten the inevitable approach of death.

  • Cancer in the mediaeval zodiacal medical figures, as in Plate XV of this essay.

  • To show that such a logic is not inconceivable will be the endeavour of the concluding sections of this essay.

  • This essay is an attempt to fill in a small part of the lacuna.

  • He made yet another use of the central idea of this essay.

  • Weather signs are passed over, Holy wells around which cluster superstitions of bye-gone days form no part of this essay.

  • And so in the majority of cases, a man who fancies himself dying, will get cold comfort from the very youthful view expressed in this essay.

  • Perhaps he had not penetrated very deeply into the subject after all; but the story indicates right thinking, and may serve as an apologue to readers of this essay.

  • This essay, too, was found in a very complete condition, when the various pages had been brought together and arranged.

  • The great problem we have investigated in this essay is one of those which have caused great agitation, and most difficult to approach with a mind unbiassed by any extra-scientific preconception.

  • The fault lies in our social system of struggle and rivalry, and while that system generates, as it always has, extreme wealth and extreme poverty, we must combat these two evils, and to control them is the purpose of this essay.

  • There are certain fallacies in the argument by which Religion is relegated into the "Unknowable," however, to which it will be the purpose of this essay to call the reader's attention.

  • The interest of this essay is almost wholly autobiographical, telling us, with more or less seriousness, how its author "learned to write.

  • See the quotation from a letter to him in our introductory note to this essay.

  • This essay is well worth reading, and the copies of the pictures which he includes are extremely diverting.

  • It had been published only a very short time before Stevenson wrote this essay, so he is commenting on one of the "newest" books.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    break every; come among; this afternoon; this business; this company; this connection; this country; this course; this custom; this department; this event; this generation; this lady; this letter; this mode; this nation; this particular; this planet; this regard; this spot; this substance; this term; this the; this truth; this view; this way