Her precepts were not the maxims of cold-hearted prudence, but the result of her own experience in strong and romantic feeling.
In these, in the simplest language, and with wonderful understanding of children, and what would come home to their hearts, she continued to illustrate the maxims of her father.
The motive on which he rested these maxims of exalted charity was always the same.
Some of these maxims come from the books of the Old Testament.
But he placed upon them an emphasis full of unction, which made the old maxims appear new.
These terrible maxims would, for the greater number, remain in profound oblivion, an oblivion encouraged by the clergy itself; the Gospel man would prove a dangerous man.
Now it cannot be denied that thesemaxims borrowed by Jesus from his predecessors, produce quite a different effect in the Gospel to that in the ancient Law, in the Pirké Aboth, or in the Talmud.
A good education, conformably to the maxims of his religion and the manners of his people, was necessary to enable him to fill that delicate place with reputation either to the Mahometan government or to ours.
Never were these time-honored maxims more applicable than in the present case, when such prodigious results are involved.
He worked the Maxims so hard upon the rocks that five of them became disabled--five of the Maxims, not the rocks.
If I had the command of the campaign I would go with rifles only, no cumbersome Maxims and cannon to spoil good rocks with.
The Maxims were fired until they grew too hot, and, water failing for the cool jacket, five of them jammed and went out of action.
Jameson should have furnished himself with a battery of Pudd'nhead Wilson maxims instead.
And it was not long ere this secret revolution in the sentiments of men produced, first violent convulsions in the state, then an evident alteration in the maxims of government.
Sismondi's maxims he declares subversive to capitalist society: 'Why does he call for an inquiry into the laws which might oblige the entrepreneur to guarantee a living for the worker he employs?
A few hints, therefore, in addition to the general maxims of good behavior already laid down, will suffice.
E] The maxims which follow are mostly compiled from other works now before us.
Observe that we have been laying down some of the maxims deduced from the principles of art and taste, in their application to dress, and not promulgating the edicts of Fashion.
Whilst Buddha was busily engaged in imparting instruction to Ratha's father, the young man had entered into a deep and solemn meditation over some of the highest maxims he had heard from his great teacher.
Many of the Maxims in the book have a Biblical ring and beauty of expression.
It takes a long time before maxims elaborated by scholars are so far popularised as to be understood by the unlearned, which in every age and country have always constituted the great mass of the people.
He had to become sensible of the truth of the great fundamental maxims of all real wisdom, viz.
And yet it were happy for these lands if our young nobility and gentry, instead of modern maxims would imbibe the notions of the great men of antiquity.
Imagine what would follow if the maxims of Exeter Hall were introduced into Westminster Hall.
Xerxes scourging the winds, Canute commanding the waves to recede from his footstool, were but types of the folly of those who apply the maxims of the Quarter Sessions to the great convulsions of society.
To leave matters like these to be determined by the ordinary maximsof our civil jurisprudence would have been the height of absurdity and injustice.
To those how have hitherto preached indecorous maxims of conduct they will say: 'What is all this ferocious nonsense about strenuousness?
Not in vain had he pondered in youth the political maxims of the great Florentine.
True Christian prudence makes us submit our intellect to the maxims of the Gospel without fear of being deceived.
To save our souls we must live according to the maxims of the Gospel, and not according to those of the world.
The tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides would all have shown the stronger passions in all their diversities; and the comedies of Menander would have furnished all the maxims of domestick life.
Many of themaxims as to happiness would not stand examination if people felt themselves free to discuss them.
There exist a number of received maxims on study, the result of many men's experience and wisdom.
May there not be a greater extension given to maxims and forms of procedure already in existence?
The populace of every country, but none so much as the English, easily grasp the notion of right, meaning thereby something positive and definite; while the maxims of expediency or theoretical reasoning pass slightly over their minds.
Yet, notwithstanding Selden's authority, I am not satisfied that he has not extenuated the effect of Bracton's predilection for the maxims of Roman jurisprudence.
Neither do I believe he would have changed his opinion upon any score, but to take up another, more agreeable to the maxims of his party; that "the least addition of property to the Church, is one step toward Popery.
It is a bundle of incoherent maxims and assertions, that frequently destroy one another.
See, what danger lies in applying maxims at random.
Here is another of his maxims closely put without considering what exceptions may be made.
Hardly is it to be expected that any plan, in the variety of provisions essential to our union, should exactly correspond with the maxims and political views of every particular State.
Of course, they got no further than half way, for our Maxims and rifles swept them back.
And thus maxims have their use to put a stop to their perverseness, whose ingenuity should have yielded sooner.
Because Maxims or Axioms are not the Truths we first knew.
Little use of these Maxims in Proofs where we have clear and distinct Ideas.
In the next place let us consider, what influence these received maxims have upon the other parts of our knowledge.
Maxims of use in the exposition of what has been discovered, and in silencing obstinate wranglers.
You were well enough here above in your full senses, such as God had given you, delivering maxims and giving advice at every turn, and not as you are now, talking the greatest nonsense that can be imagined.
So, making no allowance for the difference of the times, he sowed the maxims of a roue of the Encyclopaedic period broadcast in the boy's mind.
His disposition to treat the new laws cavalierly while obeying the maxims of a Code for aristocrats, his behavior and character, were all pondered, analyzed, and tested by a few adroit persons in du Croisier's interests.
The girl, brought up at the gates of the Tuileries, had caught some tincture of the maxims practised there, and adopted the dogma of passive obedience to authority.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maxims" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
