We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it