What a passion it seems to be with folks to classify their friends.

For if His spirituality is insisted on, it is rather to exclude from Him the grossness and limitation of matter, and to ascribe to Him a transcendental degree of whatever perfection our notion of spirit may involve, than to classify Him, or to predicate of Him that finite nature which we call a spirit.

Lord Campbell thinks that a perfect system of ethics could be made out of his writings, and that his method is equally well adapted to examine and classify the phenomena of the mind.

Obviously it is impossible to classify such a variety.

With Johnson, who succeeded Dryden and Pope in the chief place of English letters, the classic movement had largely spent its force; and the latter half of the eighteenth century gives us an imposing array of writers who differ so widely that it is almost impossible to classify them.

How to Clarify Ideas: Define, Classify.

We may conveniently classify the latter as external sensations, bodily sensations and irrelevant ideas.

Then he went back to the press to classify this new document in it.

The attempt to classify one's acquaintance is the common sport of the thinker, from the fastidious who says: "There are two kinds of personsthose who like olives and those who don't," to the fatuous, immemorial lover who says: "There are two kinds of womenDaisy, and the Other Kind!"

It is comparatively easy to define the Bromide; let us consider his traits and then classify the Sulphite by a mere process of exclusion.

In my mind I ran over the whole list of fathers I had become acquainted with in my reading, but I could not classify him.

On we hastened, retracing our footsteps of the morning across the avalanches of crumbled granite, through the bogs, along the brooks; undelayed by the beauty of sunny glade or shady dell, never stopping to botanize or to classify, we traversed zone after zone, and safely ran the gantlet of the possible bears on the last level.

It has been customary with Continental authors to classify quittor according to the extent and position of the diseased process.

In enumerating the causes of navicular disease, we shall follow the example of Colonel Smith and classify them under certain headingsnamely, (1) Hereditary Predisposition; (2) Compression; (3) Concussion; (4) A Weak Navicular Bone; (5) A Defective or Irregular Blood-supply to the Bone; and (6) Senile Decay.

It is the fashion nowadays among some critics to speak of his biographer Boswell as if he were a novelist or a playwright and to classify the Johnson we know with Hamlet and Don Quixote as the product of creative or imaginative art, working on a "lost original."

The uses of the infinitive are so many and various, that it is no easy matter to classify them accurately.

The Benthamites, by straining the meaning of words, tried to classify such motives as instinctive impulse, ancient tradition, habit, or personal and racial idiosyncrasy as being forms of pleasure and pain.

A child whom Matthew Arnold was examining in grammar once wrote of certain words which he found it hard to classify under their proper parts of speech that they were "thrown into the common sink, which is adverbs."

Are we to abuse philosophy that, instead of building up new systems which, like a house of cards, fall at a touch, it has confessed its impotence, and begun to search for and classify manifestations within reach of the human intellect?

He can classify dripping by instinct.

To classify is to put things that are most alike closest together, then next nearest them things that are next most alike, and to keep furthest apart those things that are least alike.

We have now arrived at a period in the history of furniture which is confused, and difficult to arrange and classify.

He must classify and arrange; but, after he has done all that he can, he must still expect that his daily business will continue to consist of a vast multitude of minute particulars, from one to another of which the mind must turn with a rapidity which few of the other employments of life ever demand.

For my part, I can do but one thing at a time; and I have no question that the true policy for all is to learn not to do every thing at once, but so to classify and arrange their work that they shall have but one thing at once to do.

The great question in the management of schools is not how you can take one scholar, and lead him forward most rapidly in a prescribed course, but how you can classify and arrange numbers, comprising every possible variety both as to knowledge and capacity, so as to carry them all forward effectually together.