"I'm coming as close as you'll let me, and I want to criticize it from the standpoint of a man in the audience.

" As the circus went on its way business kept up well, and it was seen that the season was going to be an excellent one from a financial standpoint.

This is a limited portion of the public conscience, which tries to study the problem from the standpoint of the technical jurist.

There are still those who would maintain the one-sided standpoint that the origin of crime may be traced to only one of these elements, for instance, to the social element alone.

The nobleman in question, Peregrine Osborne, second Duke of Leeds, was then fifty-sixwhich, after all, regarded from the standpoint of to-day, is not such a great age as is suggested by the story.

Situation N. situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose. environment, surroundings (location) 184; circumjacence &c 227 [Obs.].

"Assuredly, viewed from the standpoint of happiness, faith is a strong staff for the traveler to lean upon, and the march becomes easy and tranquil when one is fortunate enough to possess it.

No man is bad to every one, each man makes the happiness of some one; so that, when one does not view things from a single standpoint only, one recognizes in the end the utility of every human being.

If this is the true standpoint, the lower animals appear to enjoy a happier destiny than man.

We shall see later that by taking a very high standpoint it is possible to justify the sufferings of mankind.

But if that is to be accounted a valid reason against suicide, it involves the recognition of asceticism; that is to say, it is valid only from a much higher ethical standpoint than has ever been adopted by moral philosophers in Europe.

If we abandon that high standpoint, there is no tenable reason left, on the score of morality, for condemning suicide.

He has a perfect acquaintance with both sides of his experience, and accordingly, he treats everything that comes in his way from a right standpoint.

You will be told that the particular observations which go to make these general ideas will come to you later on in the course of experience; but until that time arrives, you apply your general ideas wrongly, you judge men and things from a wrong standpoint, you see them in a wrong light, and treat them in a wrong way.

These two passages indicate the right standpoint for the appreciation of women.

In cases like this, we need to be brought back to the right standpoint, so as to recover the near and simple view.

Napoleon's sayingthat women have no rankshould be adopted as the right standpoint in determining their position in society; and as regards their other qualities Chamfort makes the very true remark: They are made to trade with our own weaknesses and our follies, but not with our reason.

Essentially an artist in temperament, he viewed all things from the artist's standpoint.

It seemed almost incredible that he should continue, day after day, to make incorrect choices in a particular setting while choosing correctly in some other setting which from the standpoint of the experimenter was not more difficult.

From the technical standpoint these tests were relatively unsatisfactory because only inexactly describable.

Of all the methods of eliciting ideational or allied forms of behavior used in my study of the monkeys and ape, none yielded such illuminating results as the box stacking test, and although from the technical standpoint, it has many shortcomings, as a means to qualitative results it has proved invaluable.

A chimpanzee named Consul was observed several years ago by Hirschlaff (1905), and his tricks were interestingly described from the pedagogical standpoint.

The Treaties of Paris, of London, of San Stefano, and of Berlin have all recognised the affiliation; so, too, from an ecclesiastical standpoint, have the encyclicals of Leo XIII.

From a financial standpoint it is very evident that education pays, yet five and one-half years is the average length of time the children of the U.S. attend school.

They were quivering with excitement over what promised to be, from a newspaper standpoint, the juiciest morsel of sensational copy with which the city had been blessed for some time.