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    1. Indeed, in any party there is always one person who acts as a leader, although nobody can actually explain the reason why: in general, these persons are egocentric, frivolous and capricious


    2. In general, they were satisfied with us, but they made some remarks regarding the atmosphere of frivolity in the class and the teacher was obliged to reprimand certain persons


    3. Music: In general, it is a sign of consolation


    4. Treasure: In general, it is a very good omen; if you dream of a chest full of coins, jewels, ancient objects and that sort of thing, it means that you have a strong will and a good potential, which could be used to help yourself and others around you


    5. Wax: In general, it shows weakness of character


    6. meadow and in general have loads of fun” said Joe


    7. The same can be said about one’s health in general and the skin in particular


    8. They couldn't have a crazy person out in general admittance flailing around


    9. People will tell you, and it has been written, that bipolar or mentally ill people in general are bound to fail


    10. In general when giving jewelry to your girlfriend it is a good idea to limit gifts to less expensive items in a new relationship but you can purchase more

    11. In general an action method can


    12. He seemed fearful in general


    13. She's the youngest of the group, in her early twenties, and drives the rest of us crackers with her attitude to life in general


    14. motor cars in general


    15. engravings, again generally executed with more imagination than


    16. In general, the NCOs in charge of the new recruits did not


    17. I know people in general, it is my job if you will, and I have seen in you the most novel character I have yet encountered


    18. ’ He replied, rather dryly, ‘it seems that she and Peter approve of the situation in general, though, which is rather fortunate


    19. The picture was dark in general, but his eyes were especially intensive


    20. He noticed that the foundations didn’t match up with the houses, in general there were two or three houses on each foundation with narrow stone steps leading up between each foundation

    21. “What the hell was that about?” I asked the table in general


    22. I'm tired and beat from the day and the one before, but my life in general couldn't be better


    23. Oatmeal, indeed, supplies the common people in Scotland with the greatest and the best part of their food, which is, in general, much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England


    24. That a little more plenty than ordinary may render some workmen idle, cannot be well doubted; but that it should have this effect upon the greater part, or that men in general should work better when they are ill fed, than when they are well fed, when they are disheartened than when they are in good spirits, when they are frequently sick than when they are generally in good health, seems not very probable


    25. Nothing can be more absurd, however, than to imagine that men in general should work less when they work for themselves, than when they work for other people


    26. These are, in general, less uncertain in the inland


    27. himself ; and this is still surely a more honourable, a more useful, and, in general, even a more


    28. the pound; and the coarse pieces in general to be from seven farthings to 2½d


    29. ; and this, they said, was in general one halfpenny dearer than the same sort of pieces had usually been sold in the month of March


    30. For though such vineyards are in general more carefully cultivated than most others, the high price of the wine seems to be, not so much the effect, as the cause of this careful cultivation

    31. The common people in Scotland, who are fed with oatmeal, are in general neither so strong nor so handsome as the same rank of people in England, who are fed with wheaten bread


    32. Unless the world in general


    33. Even though the world in general were improving, yet if, in the course of its improvements, new mines should be discovered, much more fertile than any which had been known before, though the demand for silver would necessarily increase, yet the supply might increase in so much a greater proportion, that the real price of that metal might gradually fall; that is, any given quantity, a pound weight of it, for example, might gradually purchase or command a smaller and a smaller quantity of labour, or exchange for a smaller and a smaller quantity of corn, the principal part of the subsistence of the labourer


    34. The profits of the undertakers of gold mines, too, as they more rarely make a fortune, must, in general, be still more moderate than those of the undertakers of silver mines


    35. It seems even to have no very necessary connection with that of the world in general


    36. The greater part of the writers who have collected the money price of things in ancient times, seem to have considered the low money price of corn, and of goods in general, or, in other words, the high value of gold and silver, as a proof, not only of the scarcity of those metals, but of the poverty and barbarism of the country at the time when it took place


    37. As the low value of gold and silver, therefore, is no proof of the wealth and flourishing state of the country where it takes place ; so neither is their high value, or the low money price either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, any proof of its poverty and barbarism


    38. But though the low money price, either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, be no proof of the poverty or barbarism of the times, the low money price of some particular sorts of goods, such as cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc


    39. From the high or low money price, either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, we can infer only, that the mines, which at that time happened to supply the commercial world with gold and silver, were fertile or barren, not that the country was rich or poor


    40. Such are in general the effects of the increase of stock upon industry and its productive powers

    41. Their expense in general, therefore, cannot be much increased by them, though that of a few individuals among them may, and in reality sometimes is


    42. Whether the trade, either of Scotland in general, or of the city of Glasgow in particular, has really increased in so great a proportion, during so short a period, I do not pretend to know


    43. about the fire in general, and not only to


    44. In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so


    45. In mercantile and manufacturing towns, where the inferior ranks of people are chiefly maintained by the employment of capital, they are in general industrious, sober, and thriving; as in many English, and in most Dutch towns


    46. In those towns which are principally supported by the constant or occasional residence of a court, and in which the inferior ranks of people are chiefly maintained by the spending of revenue, they are in general idle, dissolute, and poor; as at Rome, Versailles, Compeigne, and Fontainbleau


    47. If you except Rouen and Bourdeaux, there is little trade or industry in any of the parliament towns of France; and the inferior ranks of people, being chiefly maintained by the expense of the members of the courts of justice, and of those who come to plead before them, are in general idle and poor


    48. The progress is frequently so gradual, that, at near periods, the improvement is not only not sensible, but, from the declension either of certain branches of industry, or of certain districts of the country, things which sometimes happen, though the country in general is in great prosperity, there frequently arises a suspicion, that the riches and industry of the whole are decaying


    49. That order of things which necessity imposes, in general, though not in every particular country, is in every particular country promoted by the natural inclinations of man


    50. You see, hippos in general are among the largest living mammals on the planet, coming in at sumo wrestler size along with a few others like the elephants, some rhinoceroses, and whales














































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