Secondly, There is righteousness put into them, before they act righteous things. A righteousness, I say, put into them; or I had rather that you should call it a principle of righteousness; for it is a principle of life to righteousness. Before man's conversion, there is in him a principle of death to sin; but when he is converted to Christ, there is put in him a principle of righteousness, that he may bring forth fruit unto God; Rom.英文原著 · 《The Pharisee And The Publican》
FOLLIOTT. My principles, sir, in these things are, to take as much as I can get, and pay no more than I can help. These are every man's principles, whether they be the right principles or no. There, sir, is political economy in a nutshell.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present. You must pursue facts for their own sake, but penetrated with a vivid sense of the problems of your own time. This is not a principle of perversion, but a principle of selection. You must have some principle of selection, and you could not have a better one than to pay special attention to the history of the social problems which are agitating the world now, for you may be sure that they are problems not of temporary but of lasting importance.英文原著 · 《Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England》
People who demanded a general declaration of that kind had not had the experience which some of them had had. The hon. member who spoke before him said that he was in favour of the underlying principle of the Bill. What was the underlying principle? The underlying principle was what one read into the Bill. One hon. member read into it that it was the separation of the two races. That might have been done when the two races first came in contact at the Fish River, but it could not be done now.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
Well, if it were a miracle, it had been the work of God, and God had to be thanked for it. He had explained to Phyllis once that he thought of God only as a Principle--as the Principle which worked in opposition to the principle of nature. That was certainly the God which had been evolved out of modern civilization. The pagan gods had been just the opposite. They had been founded on natural principles. The Hebrew tradition that God had made man in his own image was the reverse of the scheme of the pagan man who had made God after his own image; in the image of man created he God.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
The term system is often misunderstood. It does not denote a philosophy, the
principle of which is narrow and to be distinguished from others. On the contrary,
a genuine philosophy makes it a principle to include every particular principle.英文原著 · 《Shorter Logic》
If I could choose between principle and logic, I'd take principle every time!美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
It's my principles. We're talking about my principles.美剧 · 《Friends》
Okay, well, if you have an agreement in principle, you can have a disagreement in principle.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
Principle doesn't usually go away all at once.美剧 · 《Billions》