All 13 Uses of
principle
in
Hard Times
- This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children.†
Chpt 1.1
- A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.†
Chpt 1.2
- 'This is a new principle, a discovery, a great discovery,' said the gentleman.†
Chpt 1.2
- He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs.†
Chpt 1.2
- …(by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?' the absurd answer, 'To do unto others as I would that they should do unto me.'†
Chpt 1.9
- To the last?' asked Louisa contravening the great principle, and wondering very much.†
Chpt 1.9
- Mr. Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes.†
Chpt 1.9
- All his proceedings were the result of the nicest and coldest calculation; and it was not without cause that Mrs. Sparsit habitually observed of him, that he was a young man of the steadiest principle she had ever known.†
Chpt 2.1
- Having satisfied himself, on his father's death, that his mother had a right of settlement in Coketown, this excellent young economist had asserted that right for her with such a steadfast adherence to the principle of the case, that she had been shut up in the workhouse ever since.†
Chpt 2.1
- It was not so unlike her father's principles, and her early training, that it need startle her.†
Chpt 2.7
- I have always considered Bitzer a young man of the most upright principle; and to that I beg to bear my testimony.'†
Chpt 2.8
- It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(principle) a basic rule or beliefThe exact meaning of principle can depend upon its context. For example:
- "our guiding principles" -- basic moral beliefs that guide decisions and behavior
- "electromagnetic principles" -- rules describing how the world works
- "She lacks principles." -- lacks moral guidelines
- "We agree in principle." -- about important basic beliefs