Science, no longer a dry assembling of facts and figures, is an increasing revelation of the imagination, the exactness, the thoroughness, and the great progressive plans of God.

The moment he achieves skill in what he has to doand this is a question of thoroughness, accuracy, and speedhe has achieved power, a possibility of dictation in the matter of hours and wages.

The school-room is the place in which the principles of work are implanted: thoroughness, grasp, speed, decision, and definite purpose.

They dazzle and bewilder us with beauties plucked at haphazard from all times and ages,as much forgeries as any that men are hanged for,and then, when the cheat begins to peep through, they fool us again with pretences of thoroughness, consistency of style, genuineness in the use of materials, etc., as if the danger were in the execution, and not in the main intention.

Oh, they would help Julia Bride if they couldthey would do their remarkable best; but they would at any rate have made his acquaintance over it, and she might indeed leave the rest to their thoroughness.

The history of this system of distinctly Frankish origina knowledge of which is absolutely essential to a proper understanding of history and the evolution of our present social systemis told by Stubbs with that discernment and thoroughness of analysis which have given him his rank as one of the few masterly writers in this field.)

Coleridge speaks in the Biographia Literaria of having had the "inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time a very severe master, the Reverend James Bowyer [Boyer]," and goes on to attribute to that master's discrimination and thoroughness much of his own classical knowledge and early interest in poetry and criticism.

" The ponderous Mr. Bobbs finished with a practised thoroughness his inspection of the cabin, and then the inquisition proceeded down the street, around the crescent, and so out of sight and eventually out of hearing.

" Gluck did not make a success on his London visit, and began to criticise both his own work and contemporary schools of opera, with a thoroughness that resulted in a determination to "reform it altogether."

But if his conception was thus wisely restricted, his execution of an idea was unrivalled in its thoroughness.

Every stone that is laid at Cragside or Bamburgh seems to be stamped as it were with the impression of his great personality, and the thoroughness of his work."

All his life long, the thoroughness with which he was able to concentrate his mind on the one subject which occupied it at the time, was a marked feature of Lord Armstrong's character.

Some of the German people still cling to the high ideals of their ancestors, but the majority had drunk deeply of the wine of conquest and were intoxicated with the idea that Germany’s mission in life was to conquer all the other nations of the world and rule them for their own good by German thoroughness and by German efficiency.

What this war has brought home to the consciousness of every intelligent man outside the German system, with such thoroughness as whole generations of discussion and peace experience could never have achieved, is a double lesson: that Germany had already gone far to master when she blundered into the war; firstly, the waste and dangers of individualism, and, secondly, the imperative necessity of scientific method in public affairs.

What was going on before this war in the relations of men and women is going on still, with more rapidity perhaps, and certainly with more thoroughness.

They will set themselves, with their characteristic thoroughness, to destroy that magic "prestige" which in Asia particularly is the clue to the miracle of European ascendancy.

She reared the little ladder against the side of the house mounted it cautiously, and began to wash windows: with housewifely thoroughness.

Aurore set herself to work to fill up, in secret, the many blanks left by her preceptresses,wishing, as she says, to conceal, as far as she could, their want of faith or of thoroughness.

The thoroughness with which some of the charges against negroes were considered is illustrated in two cases tried before the county court at Newbern, North Carolina, in 1826.

Truth has as much to gain from sincerity and thoroughness in one as in the other.

The true lesson from this is one of perseverance and thoroughness for the improver, and one of faith in the self-protectiveness of a healthy society for the conservative.

To attain them the more effectually he got himself made a member, and subsequently chairman, of the Lunacy Commission, and threw himself into the work with characteristic thoroughness.

The execution of such work as this, and all of it done in the most creditable and accurate manner, indicates the thoroughness of Marian Evans' scholarship.

The extreme anti-slavery group of the Republican party had, as indicated, never been fully satisfied with the thoroughness of the anti-slavery policy of the administration and Mr. Chase retained until the action of the convention in June the hope that he might through the influence of this group secure the Presidency.

It prepares youth for the various duties and occupations of life with great thoroughness, and has ever been noted especially for the attention paid to the development of the body as well as the mind of its pupils.