102 examples of eclectic in sentences

She was very eclectic in her sympathies, and every one went to her, not only French, but all foreigners of any distinction who passed through Paris.

'Ah yes, I believe he is clever enough!took a good degree, a better one than I didbut horribly eclectic; full of mesmerism, and German metaphysics, and all that sort of thing.

But this is an eclectic way out of the difficulty, which settles nothing, for in the same code we have the rule that involuntary criminals are also punished, so that involuntary killing and wounding are punished with imprisonment the same as voluntary deeds of this kind.

This is the spirit which is still pervading criminal legislation, although there is a sort of eclectic compromise between the old and the new.

The classic school of criminology has substituted for the old absolutist conceptions of justice the eclectic theory that absolute justice has the right to punish, but a right modified by the interests of civilized life in present society.

Various other inexpensive editions, in Pocket Classics, Eclectic English Classics, etc. Ruskin.

Eclectic English Classics (American Book Co.).

L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas (American Book Company's Eclectic English Classics, 20 cents), and Paradise Lost, Books I. and II.

The student who has the time at this point should read all the De Coverley Papers (Eclectic English Classics, American Book Company).

Read The Rape of the Lock (printed with the Essay on Man in Eclectic English Classics, American Book Company, 20 cents).

Adj. optional; discretional &c (voluntary) 600. eclectic; choosing &c v.; preferential; chosen &c v.; choice &c (good) 648.

No attempt, however, has as yet been made at even an eclectic edition of his numerous finished works, a few of which are still unpublished, many of which are now rare.

Hence the true way to profit by History is eclectic.

Schleiermacher is an eclectic, but one who, amid the fusion of the most diverse ideas, knows how to make his own individuality felt.

If the skeptical and eclectic movements, which constantly make their appearance together, are elsewhere divided among different thinkers, they here come together in one mind in the form of a mediating criticism, which, although it argues logically, is yet in the end always guided by the invisible cords of a feeling of justice in matters scientific.

The result of his inquiries I subjoin from his own pen: "Our system of public elementary instruction is eclectic, and is, to a considerable extent, derived from four sources.

Her novels, like much of the poetry of the same period, are eclectic in spirit, combining with the naturalistic methods those of the historic, socialistic, culture and speculative schools.

Is it not strangethese people were peasants a generation ago; they are peasants now by their goodness, hospitality, religion, superstition, and yet they aspire to be eclectic philosophers?

The preference we show for the incomparably inferior art of the mongrel eclectic styles we have imported into India, is only a proof that there is something wanting in the superior civilization and culture which we believe ourselves to possess.

An admirable eclectic text, which exhibits to the full the delicacy of the rhythm, has been prepared by Mr. Bullen in his edition of Marlowe's works.

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"Eclectic Rev. DAYS OF BRUCE."The tale is well told, the interest warmly sustained throughout, and the delineation of female character is marked by a delicate sense of moral beauty.

DELAROCHE, PAUL, a French historical painter and one of the greatest, born in Paris; was the head of the modern Eclectic school, so called as holding a middle place between the Classical and Romantic schools of art; among his early works were "St. Vincent de Paul preaching before Louis XIII."

DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA, a Greek philosopher of the Ionic school, and an adherent of ANAXIMENES (q. v.), if of any one, being more of an eclectic than anything else; took more to physics than philosophy; contributed nothing to the philosophic movement of the time.

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