Lloyd George and Nitti are statesmen too shrewd and experienced not to understand that their greatest strength will always lie in this fundamental axiom.

While the law of marriage may vary at different periods, "the rule of truthfulness, on the other hand, seems to possess the a priori quality of a mathematical axiom....

Nor can I concur with the ingenious writer of the foregoing letter, in thinking it an axiom as evident as any in Euclid, that 'poetry is of easier execution than lexicography.'

Universal education has become a settled axiom of our life.

In the Rambler, No. 98, entitled The Necessity of Cultivating Politeness, Johnson says:'The universal axiom in which all complaisance is included, and from which flow all the formalities which custom has established in civilized nations, is, That no man shall give any preference to himself.'

His broad editorial axiom is that a popular magazine should be everything and anything but"literature."

She had no facile axiom, no powerful precedent, to guide her every step through life.

The whole process of life is due to life's violation of our logical axioms.

Our present spatial milieu has settled down to a seemingly three dimensional finality because our thought-form has become so habitual as to give rise to certain geometric axioms.

What power of guessing, even to hit upon theories which could be established by elaborate calculations,all from the primary thought, the grand axiom, which Kepler was the first to propose, that there must be some numerical or geometrical relations among the times, distances, and velocities of the revolving bodies of the solar system!

The Trinity is manifest in the smallest divisions of the Divine work, and is to be regarded as the most fertile means of scientific investigation; for if it is at once the cause, the principle and the end of all science, it is its infallible criterion and we must start from it as an immovable axiom.

Such impious axioms foolishly they show, For in some soils republics will not grow: Our temperate isle will no extremes sustain, Of popular sway or arbitrary reign; But slides between them both into the best, 250 Secure in freedom, in a monarch blest:

Well, this elementary truth, the most undeniable in the eyes of all men which can be produced, does not, despite the assurances which seem to uphold it, constitute an impregnable axiom; for there are cases when one and one do not make two!

"We may lay it down as an incontestable axiom that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before, and after the experiment: the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same, and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combinations of these elements.

This indisputable axiom has been ignored more in theories about balladsabout epic materialthan in theories about the epics themselves.

"I have known experienced criminal investigators declare, as an infallible axiom, that to find the person interested in the committal of the crime is to find the criminal.

We may lay it down as an invariable axiom in all high education, that it is never sensible to permit what is bad for the supposed sake of preventing what is worse.

" "I would have you," Phineas Duge said impressively, "lay that little axiom of yours to heart, Mr. Deane.

Other quibblers maintained that the Redeemer had had no body at all and that this expression of the holy books must be taken figuratively, while Tertullian put forth his famous, semi-materialistic axiom: "Only that which is not, has no body; everything which is, has a body fitting it."

If only there were metaphysical axioms!

Bacon declares three things indispensable for the attainment of this power-giving knowledge: the mind must understand the instruments of knowledge; it must turn to experience, deriving the materials of knowledge from perception; and it must not rise from particular principles to the higher axioms too rapidly, but steadily and gradually through middle axioms.

" This is undoubtedly a very original way of stating the philosophic axiom of the Augustan poet, "The lord of boundless revenues, Do not salute as happy.

I've got my feelings "It ain't all jam being a god," said the sunburnt man, and for some time conversed by means of such pithy but unprogressive axioms.

But the solution of the difficulty is still incomplete, for although these literary "Pleiades" could furnish as it were "the sweet influences of rain and sunshine," to foster his native talent; yet, breath being denied them, its improvement is more than his friend Cowper could have accounted for, without violating his poetical axiom, that Ev'n the oak Thrives by the rude concussion of the storm.

It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom.