conveniency

Philadelphians and New Yorkers maintained that for the "conveniency" of transacting public business it made the most sense to place the capital in an established city.

'Washington: The Making of the American Capital' 2008

Nine-inside leathern "conveniency," bumping ten miles an hour

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

Nine-inside leathern "conveniency," bumping ten miles an hour

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Charles James Lever 1839

That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand both for precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage.

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand both for precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage.

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

“As subsistence is, in the nature of things, prior to conveniency and luxry, so the industry which procures the former, must necessarily be prior to that which ministers of the latter.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

“The identity ¦ we ascribe to bodies, whether natural or artificial, is not perfect identity; it is rather something which, for the conveniency of speech, we call identity”

Reid on Memory and Personal Identity Copenhaver, Rebecca 2009

In this manner were two disconsolate damsels set at liberty from the womb of the leathern conveniency.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

If proportion be one of the constituents of beauty, it must derive that power either from some natural properties inherent in certain measures, which operate mechanically; from the operation of custom; or from the fitness which some measures have to answer some particular ends of conveniency.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

It is true, the mind, in this imperfect state, has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement of knowledge; to both which it is naturally very much inclined.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007