Denominations: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
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Introduction
Description
Excerpt
Familiar Quotations
Denominations
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.–Hannah Arendt
If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.–Edward Fischer
They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines.–Daniel Webster
Denominations – "Designating"
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.–Harold Rosenberg
Use in Literature
Denominations
Luxury had for him no charms. Frank and honest in all his proceedings, he was denominated by the Arabs Sultan the Just.–John S.C. Abbott in Napoleon Bonaparte.
All that is certainly known about the leaders is that they were not of any one denomination.–Brooks Adams in The Emancipation of Massachusetts.
In his own denomination internal discord raged over such questions as diabolic pleasures and Apostolic music.–James Lane Allen in The Reign of Law.
This making and unmaking of ideas doth very properly denominate the mind active.–George Berkeley in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
It consists of several handsome apartments, bearing appropriate denominations, according to the principal subjects which each contains.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.
Is a denomination applied to paper, issued for the purpose of paying the dividend of the debt during the seventh and eighth years of the Republic.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.
They are comprised under the following denominations.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.
Table of Contents
- Preface v
- Familiar Quotations 1
- Denominations 1
- Denominations – "Designating" 1
- Use in Literature 2
- Denominations 2
- Denominations – "America" 9
- Denominations – "Being" 10
- Denominations – "Body" 10
- Denominations – "Called" 11
- Denominations – "Christian" 11
- Denominations – "Churches" 12
- Denominations – "Clergyman" 14
- Denominations – "Country" 14
- Denominations – "Designating" 15
- Denominations – "Form" 16
- Denominations – "Found" 17
- Denominations – "Great" 18
- Denominations – "Kind" 19
- Denominations – "Large" 19
- Denominations – "Little" 20
- Denominations – "Men" 21
- Denominations – "Matter" 22
- Denominations – "Members" 22
- Denominations – "Minister" 23
- Denominations – "Name" 23
- Denominations – "Numbers" 24
- Denominations – "People" 24
- Denominations – "Present" 25
- Denominations – "Protestant" 25
- Denominations – "Religious" 26
- Denominations – "True" 27
- Denominations – "Unitarian" 28
- Denominations – "Value" 28
- Denominations – "Various" 29
- Denominations – "Working" 29
- Nonfiction Usage 31
- Journalism Usage 31
- Legal Usage 40
- Governmental Usage 46
- Patent Usage 53
- Bibliographic Usage 55
- Encyclopedic Usage 113
- Lexicographic Usage 142
- Index 206