Both Uses of
maxim
in
Bleak House
- "It was a maxim of Captain Swosser's," said Mrs. Badger, "speaking in his figurative naval manner, that when you make pitch hot, you cannot make it too hot; and that if you only have to swab a plank, you should swab it as if Davy Jones were after you.†
Chpt 16-18
- It appears to me that this maxim is applicable to the medical as well as to the nautical profession.†
Chpt 16-18 *
Definition:
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(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle