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Example sentences for "ought rather"

  • You may urge, that I ought rather to describe the qualities of the refined sculpture which is executed in large quantities for private persons belonging to the upper classes, and for sepulchral and memorial purposes.

  • I am sure that we ought rather to welcome with all our might any evidence of strength and energy and joy, even if they seem to spring from principles entirely opposite to our own.

  • As life goes on, we ought not to find relief from tedium only in a swift interchange and multiplication of sensations; we ought rather to attain a simple and sustained joyfulness which can find nurture in homely and familiar things.

  • But, according to Observation 12th on the Numbers, nouns in i ought rather to form the plural in ies.

  • In specifying any part of a series, we ought rather to place the cardinal number after the ordinal.

  • He also mentions Giomo, or Girolamo del Sodoma, who died young; and whom both Orlandi and Bottari have confounded with Pacchiarotto; when we ought rather to believe that he was a pupil of Razzi, and died while he was yet young.

  • Aristotle says that the two are the same; we ought rather to say that each is the concomitant and correlate of the other, though his phraseology is such as to obscure the correlation.

  • Instead of saying that Relatives are a variety of the Opposite, we ought rather to say that Opposites are varieties of the Relative.

  • We ought rather to seek to know what gods these are, and for what purpose they may appear to have been selected.

  • But, so far from this being a difficulty, it ought rather to assist you to receive our religion, that a miraculous person was born miraculously.

  • The true cause of his drawing so shocking a picture is no more than this; and it ought rather to claim our pity than excite our indignation; he finds himself out of power; and this condition is intolerable to him.

  • We ought rather to infer from our having laid the colonies under many restraints, that it is reasonable to compensate them by every indulgence that can by any means be reconciled to our interest.

  • But as this Assertion is in reality an Encomium on what I have published, I ought rather to glory in it, than endeavour to confute it.

  • When I shall go not only to those great Persons I have named, but to my Cato, my Son, than whom a better Man was never born, and whose Funeral Rites I my self performed, whereas he ought rather to have attended mine.

  • The public, or, I ought rather to say, the entire land, loudly proclaimed its satisfaction.

  • For the fact that the woman sinned on the serpent's persuasion, and the man at the woman's offer, did not make the transgression less, as if there were any one whom we ought rather to believe or yield to than God.

  • And the very disagreement of the historians among themselves furnishes a good reason why we ought rather to believe him who does not contradict the divine history which we hold.

  • He had said on a previous occasion, "We ought rather to facilitate than obstruct backbiting, to a moderate extent, in a married woman, as some slight compensation for lost flatteries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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