Do we say social or sociable

social 13036 occurrences

For the social side, see Traill, V. Lecky's History of the Eighteenth Century is specially full.

The social disorder of the Revolution might make Wordsworth pause, but he continued with unabated vigor to teach us "Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Ae social, honest man want we.

The poems that Byron wrote during his brilliant sojourn in London, amid the whirl of social gayeties, are The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, Parisina, Lara, and The Siege of Corinth.

What it did was to bring about a new set of political and social conditions, under which religious liberty could ultimately be secured, and, by virtue of its inherent inconsistencies, to lead to results at which its leaders would have shuddered.

It is not logical demonstrations but new social conceptions that bring about a general transformation of attitude towards ultimate problems.

His social philosophy and his religion of Humanity are based upon it.

Just designates a class of rules or principles of which the social utility has been found by experience to be paramount and which are recognized to be so important as to override all considerations of immediate expediency.

And social utility is the only test.

It is futile, therefore, to say to a Government that it acts unjustly in coercing opinion, unless it is shown that freedom of opinion is a principle of such overmastering social utility as to render other considerations negligible.

Then, it is obvious that in order to readjust social customs, institutions, and methods to new needs and circumstances, there must be unlimited freedom of canvassing and criticizing them, of expressing the most unpopular opinions, no matter how offensive to prevailing sentiment they may be.

Once the principle of liberty of thought is accepted as a supreme condition of social progress, it passes from the sphere of ordinary expediency into the sphere of higher expediency which we call justice.

Criticism of religious doctrines and of political and social institutions is free.

In fact science is now a social institution, as much as religion.

This 35 per cent, compose the "poor," according to the estimate of Mr. Booth, and it will be worth while to note the social elements which constitute this class.

Most of the social wreckage of city life is deposited in this stratum, which presents the problem of poverty in its most perplexed and darkest form.

Whether it is courage, or learning, or intellect, or wit, or success with women, or riches, or social position, or whatever else it may be that a man boasts of, you may conclude by his boasting about it that that is precisely the direction in which he is rather weak; for if a man really possesses any faculty to the full, it will not occur to him to make a great show of affecting it; he is quite content to know that he has it.

The Turkey-cock airs his social gifts, the Chick gets into society.

The right of a firm to dissolve its partnership with any one partner, breach of contract having been proved, and publicly to announce the same, is common to all men as social beings.

These and other salutary reforms may, it is believed, be accomplished without the violation of any of the great principles of the social compact, the observance of which is indispensable to its existence, or interfering in any way with the useful and profitable employment of real capital.

Taquisara was a man almost incapable of anything like social timidity, in whatever position he might be placed, and he was in reality delighted at thus being thrust upon Donna Veronica, from whom he felt sure that he should learn something about the projected marriage.

Though Bianca and Veronica had been children, together, and there was little difference of age between them, Bianca felt that, as the married woman, she was responsible for the observance of social custom.

Out on the terrace over the coffee and tobacco, the compound slowly resolved itself into its elements, social and sentimental.

I am incessantly haunted by the idea that the companion of to-day may to-morrow expire under the Guillotine, that the common acts of social intercourse may be explained into intimacy, intimacy into the participation of imputed treasons, and the fate of those with whom we are associated become our own.

But this is mere vulgar tyranny: a less powerful despotism might invade the security of social life, and banish its comforts.

sociable 304 occurrences

" There are women as well as men who have learnt the art of a sociable silence.

In spite of your high principles, you will agree with me, that unless that custom, called "politeness," is not pushed so far as irony or treason, it is a sociable virtue to follow, and of all the relations among men, the true meaning of gallantry has more need of being concealed than that of any other social affair.

Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious^, multiloquous^; largiloquent^; chattering &c v.; chatty &c (sociable) 892; declamatory &c 582; open-mouthed. fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded &c (diffuse) 573.

Adj. conversing &c v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable^; discursive, discoursive^; chatty &c (sociable) 892; colloquial.

But they are interesting for this, amongst other featuresthat they do not, like some loftier ranges, repel woods: the forests and they are on sociable terms.

Ordinary people are sociable and complaisant just from the very opposite feeling;to bear others' company is easier for them than to bear their own.

I have said that people are rendered sociable by their ability to endure solitude, that is to say, their own society.

It is easy to see why people are so bored; and also why they are sociable, why they like to go about in crowdswhy mankind is so gregarious.

It is really a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be sociable; because it means contact with natures, the great majority of which are bad morally, and dull or perverse, intellectually.

Even Voltaire, that sociable Frenchman, was obliged to admit that there are everywhere crowds of people not worth talking to: la terre est couverte de gens qui ne méritent pas qu'on leur parle.

It is only people of very barren and vulgar nature who will be just as sociable in their old age as they were in their youth.

First of all, it shows why it is that common, ordinary people are so sociable and find good company wherever they go.

[-12-] In other respects he was sociable and considerate in his dealings with them.

Toward us also he behaved in a very sociable way.

But in America eating, under any circumstances, is not so sociable a matter as in England.

" March made no answer, but presently asked, in an effort to be sociable: "What are you reading?" "The Three Cutters; ever read it?"

I gets from $3 to $8 last month from the Sociable Welfare.

Now I get $10 a month from the Sociable Welfare.

I think I am only now realizing what he, with his sociable disposition, gave up in all those years before Evan came, that I should not be alone, and that he might be all in all to me.

I was about to say, that there are times, When the most frank and sociable man May surfeit on most loved society, Preferring loneness rather MRS.

Commonly he clutched a big rattle, and sometimes he went along hailing the bus-drivers and policemen along the road outside the railings as "Dadda!" and "Babba!" in a sociable, democratic way.

L. Man may be considered in two Views, as a Reasonable, and as a Sociable Being; capable of becoming himself either happy or miserable, and of contributing to the Happiness or Misery of his Fellow Creatures.

Shortly afterward, Coronado and Thurstane took their leave; the Mexican affable, sociable, smiling, smoking; the American civil, but taciturn and grave.

Cheerful and sociable when in health, they droop quickly when ill, and seem sometimes to die from sheer lack of the will to live.

"Now we can be sociable," he said.

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