You can hardly expect the world to believe such a vague generality when the documents which would prove its truth or falsity are carefully suppressed.

As it is, hardly anything is directly named; birds are always the "feathered tribe" and everything else has a similar polite generality for its title.

There are other epigrams, vast sweeping generalities, extant concerning the nature of sex, and women particularly.

We prefer this method to passing over the merits of these works with mere commendatory generalities.

No convenient generality will help us.

" Mr. Taynton did not reply to these critical generalities but went back to what he had been saying when the entry of coffee interrupted him.

Christ is specially adored in His last act of love on Calvary; and how impossible it is to set that forth consistently with the requirements of strictly plastic art, may be gathered by comparing the passion of S. Bernard's Hymn to our Lord upon the Cross with all that Winckelmann and Hegel have so truly said about the restrained expression, dignified generality, and harmonious beauty essential to sculpture.

"My dim generalities are pretty poor provender for honest children's minds, I admit," he said humbly, "but what else have we to give them that isn't directly contradicted by our lives?

There are other epigrams, vast sweeping generalities, extant concerning the nature of sex, and women particularly.

Only sometimes in half-humorous generalities, she permitted things to escape, thinking no one understood.

Instead, let us avoid these lofty generalities, and to you tell me when I may look for those three sons of mine.

We prefer this method to passing over the merits of these works with mere commendatory generalities.

But to the careless indiscriminating eye all individuality is merged in a misty generality.

The mischief of intellectual conceit in our day consists in its arresting mental growth at the start by stuffing the mind with the husks of pretentious generalities, which, while they impart no vital power and convey no real information, give seeming enlargement to thought, and represent a seeming opulence of knowledge.

For instance: Do not the generality of Whigs and Tories among us, profess to agree in the same fundamentals, their loyalty to the Queen, their abjuration of the Pretender, the settlement of the crown in the protestant line, and a revolution principle?

Certainly they had in common the habits of introspection, and indecision; but the egoism of Hamlet was at least tempered by a knowledge of the world; he was a student; he had travelled and seen men and things outside the bounds of Elsinore; and he was capable of throwing off some quotable generalities out of his stock of philosophy.

I am but one; but with all my oneness, with all that there is of me, I protest against such shallow generalities.

No one else fell asleep, but it was noticed that the guests, when the paper was done, praised it to one another in swift generalities and with averted face, as if they sought to evade specific or pointed inquiry as to its import.

They have no underlying generalities on which to stand.

There are other epigrams, vast sweeping generalities, extant concerning the nature of sex, and women particularly.

Hence the exaggerated importance attributed to definition and deduction; it not being considered that we only take out of a general notion what we had previously placed therein, and that the amplification of our knowledge is not to be sought for from above but from belownot from speculation about abstract generalities, but from the observation of concrete particulars.

Beginning with watery generalities about "mutual friendships and the interests arising out of them," he regretted that there should be any misconception of his motives on the part of the Bey.

They either assume the ordinary precepts of morals as of à priori authority, or they lay down as the common groundwork of those maxims, some generality much less obviously authoritative than the maxims themselves, and which has never succeeded in gaining popular acceptance.

Though famished for the lack of a morsel of the true mental food of facts and ideas, he still swaggeringly despises all relative information in his ambition to clutch at absolute truth, and accordingly goes directly to ultimates by the short cuts of cheap generalities.