All 12 Uses of
sufficient
in
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
- INTRODUCTION Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.†
Chpt Intrsufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that THIS GOVERNMENT is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully.†
Chpt 3.
- It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficient brought to their doors to make THEM feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed.†
Chpt 3.sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- A temporary stoppage of trade, was an inconvenience, which would have sufficiently balanced the repeal of all the acts complained of, had such repeals been obtained; but if the whole continent must take up arms, if every man must be a soldier, it is scarcely worth our while to fight against a contemptible ministry only.†
Chpt 3.sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- The colonies have manifested such a spirit of good order and obedience to continental government, as is sufficient to make every reasonable person easy and happy on that head.†
Chpt 3.sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.†
Chpt 4. *
- Our land force is already sufficient, and as to naval affairs, we cannot be insensible, that Britain would never suffer an American man of war to be built, while the continent remained in her hands.†
Chpt 4.
- A few able and social sailors will soon instruct a sufficient number of active landmen in the common work of a ship.†
Chpt 4.
- If premiums were to be given to merchants, to build and employ in their service ships mounted with twenty, thirty, forty or fifty guns, (the premiums to be in proportion to the loss of bulk to the merchants) fifty or sixty of those ships, with a few guardships on constant duty, would keep up a sufficient navy, and that without burdening ourselves with the evil so loudly complained of in England, of suffering their fleet, in time of peace to lie rotting in the docks.†
Chpt 4.
- We are sufficiently numerous, and were we more so, we might be less united.†
Chpt 4.sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- And history sufficiently informs us, that the bravest achievements were always accomplished in the non-age of a nation.†
Chpt 4.
- To be on the footing of sixty-three, it is not sufficient, that the laws only be put on the same state, but, that our circumstances, likewise, be put on the same state; Our burnt and destroyed towns repaired or built up, our private losses made good, our public debts (contracted for defence) discharged; otherwise, we shall be millions worse than we were at that enviable period.†
Chpt Appesufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)