"Moreover, it is unnecessary to exert one's imagination in order to discover 'peaceful negotiations' which are incompatible with permanent neutrality, for history offers us two exceedingly instructive examples.

Painfully instructive are these proposals from so wise and peaceable a divine as Baxter.

The main purpose of the FAMILY HISTORY OF ENGLAND has been to unite objects which in such undertakings are not always found to coincide; namely, to render the study of English History not merely instructive, but interesting and amusing.

It cannot, of course, be denied that present-day manoeuvres are extraordinarily instructive and useful, especially for the troops themselves', but they are not a direct training for the command of armies in modern warfare.

I think you would feel some interest in our Bible class: it becomes increasingly instructive and agreeable to all engaged in it.

Let us pray, my dear sister, 'that the same mind may be in us that was also in Christ Jesus.'" "I hear kind instructive words from you, my dear sister, and from my parents, teachers, and other friends, and I hope they will not be lost upon me.

Remember, also, that it is of less importance to you, in your earlier years, that the books you read should be clever, than that they should be right; I do not mean oppressively or repulsively instructive, but that the thoughts they express should be just, and the feelings they excite generous.

Christian divines are used to tell us that this mode was peculiarly instructive to the vulgar of Judæa; and they insist on the great wisdom displayed in his choice of the lucid parabolical style.

The conversation of our guest with his uncle was richly instructive and entertaining; for he had a lively appreciation of national and individual character, and could illustrate them by a world of amusing anecdote.

But unfortunately, even the immediate past is seldom instructive to man, through no fault of his own.

The verses referring to the Sabbath-day, and bearing no burden therein, were solemnly instructive.

The one promises to be philosophic, learnedly witty, or solidly instructive; the other is tolerably certain to be pert and shallow, and reminds me of a coxcombical lacquey in bullion and red plush.

"Furnish statedly instructive entertainments for the young.

Thus copiously instructive is the English language; and thus needless is all recourse to foreign writers.

This had caused Dave to become more volubly instructive.

You are very kind to have taken so much interest in my essays, and what you say of the Athanasian Creed is deeply instructive.

There is, in this letter, nothing new, nor any thing eminently instructive; one of his practical deductions, that "from government, evils cannot be eradicated, and their excess only can be prevented," has been always allowed; the question, upon which all dissension arises, is, when that excess begins, at what point men shall cease to bear, and attempt to remedy.