Which preposition to use with practical

in Occurrences 23%

" "After all," says Dr. Stanley Hall, "there is nothing so practical in education as the ideal, nor so ideal as the practical;"

than Occurrences 12%

He loved these poor helpless peasants with a love as large as and a thousand times less practical than Paul's.

of Occurrences 9%

"What is Uncle Anson's other name?" asked the latter, for Beth was the more practical of Uncle John's nieces and noted for her clear thinking.

for Occurrences 9%

A much larger and more expensive book than the others, and less practical for ordinary use, but fuller in treatment of material, with words of more than one meaning carefully divided into their various senses.

as Occurrences 8%

Those subjects which had the greatest attraction for the Grecian schools Cicero regarded as beyond the power of human cognition, and therefore looked upon the practical as the proper domain of human inquiry.

with Occurrences 3%

Especially and repeatedly does he urge them to "have also that mind which was in Christ Jesus," showing itself in humility, willingness to serve others, unselfish consideration of others, even the preference of others' interests before their own,a combination of the homely practical with the divinely ideal, such as the world had never learned from any earlier philosophy of life.

to Occurrences 3%

From this unfolding comes the ONLY power which can make new thought practical to the individual case.

about Occurrences 2%

"Winnie, do you know anything practical about Sunday-school?" "I went to one, and was for years in the class of an elderly maiden lady who urged us all to learn Scripture and hymns.

by Occurrences 1%

The subject-matter as set forth on the printed pages of this book should be mastered, of course, but at the same time the topics discussed should be illuminated and made more interesting and practical by a well-arranged series of experiments, a goodly show of specimens, and a certain amount of microscopical work.

on Occurrences 1%

Nobody is practical on Strawberry Acres, according to a certain brilliant but skeptical attorney from town.

at Occurrences 1%

Marcos was intensely practical at this momentmore practical than ever.

from Occurrences 1%

If we divorce the practical from the sublime, the practical will become the superficial, and will degenerate into a very lean and forceless thing.

Which preposition to use with  practical