1 For every religion has its root in certain fundamental ordinances peculiar to itself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII. 2 to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.
3 Salus populi suprema lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err.
4 Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter V. 5 Miss Stowbody expressed the fundamental principle of the American drama: the only way to be artistic is to present Shakespeare.
6 However inadequate the rest of the house, he had seen to it that the fundamental cellar should be large and clean, the square pillars whitewashed, and the bins for coal and potatoes and trunks convenient.
7 This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal respect does the whale differ from other fish.
8 I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
9 When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest.
10 By a fundamental law of this realm, neither the king, nor either of his two eldest sons, are permitted to leave the island; nor the queen, till she is past child-bearing.
11 It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.
12 So you give it up with a wave of the hand because you have not found a fundamental cause.
13 It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 14 At the bottom of her soul, fundamentally, she had needed this phallic hunting out, she had secretly wanted it, and she had believed that she would never get it.
15 Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER