... “I’m a man o’ principle,” said Ebenezer, simply; “and if I have to pay for it, I’ll have to pay for it...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...Put into prison as a private individual, left alone with your doubts, deprived of everything, you have exhibited the most sublime, enduring principle of life in withstanding all this...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... They settled down again; and again—on the principle this time that the soundest defence is in attack—it was the Marquis who made the game...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Oh, no, it wasn’t a matter of principle...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Taught him, too, the principle on which the "hog-yoke" was worked...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...Also he chose in that instant to force the mullah's hand, on the principle that hurried buffaloes will blunder...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...At this, as at several other Portuguese stations, they have been provident enough to erect travelers' houses on the same principle as khans or caravanserais of the East...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...They determined to oppose the bill in every stage in which it should be brought forward, and, what was extraordinary, even the principle of it...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...They were to abolish the trade, it was said, out of a principle of humanity...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...Every principle that could bind a man of honour and conscience, would impel him to give the most powerful support he could to the motion for the abolition...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...Hence the Slave Trade and the colonial slavery were a violation of the very principle, upon which all law for the protection of property was founded...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...We have lived, in consequence of it, to see the day, when it has been recorded as a principle in our legislation, that commerce itself shall have its moral boundaries...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
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