usefullest

There is one thing more which I shall desire to be considered concerning reason; and that is, whether syllogism, as is generally thought, be the proper instrument of it, and the usefullest way of exercising this faculty.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

‘She’s the usefullest and best of women, C.P. Barkis.

David Copperfield 2007

He is saying in effect: ‘Admit, if you please, that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of sciences: — this does not prove that dialectic is not the purest and most exact.’

Philebus 2006

SOCRATES: Dear Protarchus, I never asked which was the greatest or best or usefullest of arts or sciences, but which had clearness and accuracy, and the greatest amount of truth, however humble and little useful an art.

Philebus 2006

‘But, Socrates, I have heard Gorgias say that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of arts; and I should not like to quarrel either with him or you.’

Philebus 2006

There is one thing more which I shall desire to be considered concerning reason; and that is, whether syllogism, as is generally thought, be the proper instrument of it, and the usefullest way of exercising this faculty.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

Dear Protarchus, I never asked which was the greatest or best or usefullest of arts or sciences, but which had clearness and accuracy, and the greatest amount of truth, however humble and little useful an art.

PHILEBUS Plato 1972

Only, like a man in a shipwreck looking forward to a desert island as his best hope, he dwelt most upon what would be usefullest, supposing Charles (being preserved) to have to provide for the physical necessities of a new race of man.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

I say the finest models -- that is to say, the truest, simplest, usefullest.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

I expressed myself quite sure of that, and Mr. Barkis, turning his eyes more gently to his wife, said: “She’s the usefullest and best of women, C.P. Barkis.

XXI. Little Em’ly 1917