The supremacy of might may be a doctrine merely instilled in the minds of the people by its rulers.

The son also performed the necessary rites at the shrine, and was cured not only of the hydrophobia "but of the worser phrensy with which his father had instilled him."

He shows us the fate of an overwrought, badly instilled wisdom; yet when that wisdom has been deserted by its cause, the promptings of a heart, pure at the core, hold up to contempt the mad teachings of the sophist.

The children, who were old enough to remember, never forgot their playground, nor the white schoolhouse where the rudiments of an education were instilled into their minds.

Legislative bodies supervened and instilled so much gloom into legislation that it was easy to achieve a baseness in this darkness.

Such was the insinuation, which Russian diplomacy, with its wonted subterraneous skill, instilled drop by drop into my brave people's manly heart; and alas!

[Imitation instilled and self-respect banished.]

The old cattleman had instilled in him the belief that if he did not cross the path of another, no one would cross his way.

A meeting of learned men is discussing the ever-recurring problem of happiness, and one of them speaks as follows: "The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity.

May God, then, inspire his Holiness Paul with the same thoughts as he instilled into Gregory of blessed memory, who rather chose to despoil Rome of the proud statues of the Pagan deities than to let their magnificence deprive the humbler images of the saints of the devotion of the people.

Some of these last still cling to me; the parents having instilled into the children, in virtue of their example and daily discourse, feelings that set at naught the innovations of a changeable state of society.

" Cleverer people than Burke had struggled vainly against the poison of inferiority which this tone instilled into their minds.

ere the silvery tones of her sweet voice had reached the ears of the petrified Alonzo, the "iron tongue" of the cathedral clock announced the hour of midnight, and the solemn intonation of its prodigious bell instilled new horrors into the confused minds of the affrighted lovers.

The religion and virtues of this ancestor were instilled into the minds of his children and children's children, to the third and fourth generationnot by transmission of blood, but by the force of a guarded and a Christian education.

The deadly rifles of the pioneers had instilled into their bosoms a wholesome fear.

In 1818, Thomas Fowell Buxton, whose Quaker mother had instilled into him a hatred of African Slavery, became a member of Parliament.

The good sense of that canny churchman was powerless in the face of superstitions instilled by centuries of fanaticism.

But that notion was surely instilled into the courtly churchman by some fair, demure Bâloise; for had it been well-founded, the sentry-boxes would have risen and fallen with the thermometer, and not with the rank of the occupant.

The doctrine of popular sovereignty is artfully instilled, and the people are stimulated to exert a power which they must implicitly delegate to those who have duped and misled them.

Respect to the Church and to the higher powers, instilled since their childhood, kept the population of the Cathedral silent.

The doubt instilled into my mind by this new contradiction was intolerable.

While I was at Oxford I happened into the society of a young gentleman, of a good family, but of a low fortune, being a younger brother, and who had indeed instilled into me the first desires of going abroad, and who, I knew, passionately longed to travel, but had not sufficient allowance to defray his expenses as a gentleman.

"Could I indeed forget those principles of integrity which, from my earliest infancy, you have so carefully instilled?" Mrs. Hamilton clasped her to her bosom, and imprinted kisses of the fondest affection on her colourless and burning forehead.

The great faults of his life, his philippizing policy and his confessed corruption, arose, doubtless, from the results of youthful poverty: a covetousness growing out of want, and a lack of principles of conduct which a broader education would have instilled.

Both nature and education had instilled into my mind an implicit obedience to the will and desires of my parents.