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Example sentences for "derived from"

  • But before taking my leave of Boston, I must notice the great pleasure I derived from hearing in all quarters the favourable impression which Lord Elgin's visit, on the occasion of opening the railway in 1851, had produced.

  • The information respecting the Press in England is derived from The Sixth Annual Report of the Association for promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, and The Newspaper Press Directory.

  • Derived from 'diligo,' to love, it reminds us that the secret of true industry in our work is love of that work.

  • Synonyms, and the study of synonyms, with the advantages to be derived from a careful noting of the distinction between them, constitute the subject with which in my present Lecture I shall deal.

  • The notion of morality and duty must, therefore, have preceded any regard to this satisfaction, and cannot be derived from it.

  • Mulúkhíya that favourite vegetable, the malva esculenta is derived from the Gr.

  • It was--apart from the indirect profit he derived from it--a clemency full worthy of him.

  • The Baron's proposal was one to be expected from a commander whose knowledge of Cartagena was only such as might be derived from maps.

  • Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.

  • The expression is derived from a former custom in the Congregational churches of New England.

  • A poetical work must vindicate itself: if the execution be defective, little aid can be derived from commentaries.

  • My nobility is derived from a line of ancestry extending through centuries.

  • Revenue is derived from an ad valorem tax on all imports; the purchase and sale of animals; from royalties on trading concessions, and in other ways, including fees for the administration of justice.

  • In another form of the story, derived from Moses of Chorene, it is said further that Jesus sent his portrait to Abgar, and that this existed in Edessa (Hist.

  • The name is derived from a pleasure-garden or gymnasium situated in the suburb of the Ceramicus on the river Cephissus about a mile to the north-west of Athens from the gate called Dipylum.

  • The word is derived from burmak, "to twist, to turn.

  • Besides, the proposition that different times cannot be coexistent could not be derived from a general conception.

  • Every general proposition, even if derived from experience by the process of induction, may serve as the major in a syllogism; but it is not for that reason a principle.

  • These principles cannot be derived from experience, for it would give neither strict universality, nor apodeictic certainty.

  • Thus a rhetorical tradition of classical pedagogy, derived ultimately from Aristotle, and a poetical tradition of later classical drama, derived from Horace, coincide in the English renaissance.

  • The last kind of proof is derived from logic; the first two, from psychology.

  • Both Aristotle and Horace emphasized the pleasure to be derived from poetry, although neither denied that poetry is beneficial.

  • The doctrine set forth by Statius in the following discourse is derived from St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol.

  • The conception is derived from Plato; but the form given to it is peculiar to Dante.

  • He also added a series of tales, derived from MSS.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being seen; control himself; derived from; different nature; general strike; higher mathematics; individual life; less true; little pain; lowered voice; manuscript entitled; mere human; moderate fire; perpetual peace; prevailed upon; religious training; strait gate; thousand worlds; whilst still; who seems; will still; with instructions