Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
No one expects the young to make original discoveries of just the same facts and principles as are embodied in the sciences of nature and man. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. 柏拉图.理想国.
Nor is it less infallible, because men cannot distinctly explain the principles, on which it is founded. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
If it be analogous, we may hope to explain its causes from analogy, and trace it up to more general principles. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
How then shall we adjust those principles together? 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I began to feel the force of Mr. John Hobson's remark that if practical workers for social and industrial reforms continue to ignore principles . 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
But women, as you may have observed, have no principles. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
These principles I allow to be neither the infallible nor the sole causes of an union among ideas. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
It was not so unlike her father's principles, and her early training, that it need startle her. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
The originality of his principles, his eloquence, and his great physical strength and beauty created a profound sensation. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is derived from principles as natural as any of these above-explained. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
If right principles ruled through the kingdom, there would be no necessity for me to change its state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Your judgment is well balanced, your heart is kind, your principles are sound. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
In 1844 he proceeded to apply the principles maintained in his earlier study to changes of temperature as related to changes in the density of gases. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
One side or the other had to yield principles they deemed dearer than life before it could be brought to an end. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Here then is the proper business of municipal laws, to fix what the principles of human nature have left undetermined. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
The inventions and improvements in optical instruments gave rise to great advances in the making of lenses, based on scientific principles, and not resting alone on hard work and experience. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I have got my principles, thank God. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
The Quakers, whose principles are opposed to fighting, even in their own defence, were most active upon this occasion. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
In the subordination of particulars to general principles he experienced a satisfaction akin to the sen se of beauty or the joy of artistic production. 李贝.西洋科学史.
I like you very well, Mr. Yorke, as you know, but I thoroughly dislike some of your principles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Pasteur now applied his energies to the study of virulent diseases, following the principles of his earlier investigations. 李贝.西洋科学史.
And now you prevaricate; you have no principles! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
In the generation of this mighty force improvements have been made, but those of greatest power still involve the principles discovered by Faraday and Henry seventy years ago. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The same principles are followed by horticulturists; but the variations are here often more abrupt. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.