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Meanings of secondary object in English

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Usage of secondary object in English
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The knowledge may be useful; pleasure is with him a secondary object.
Afoot in England
2
But it will be found, that this is only a secondary object.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at H...
3
But agriculture was a secondary object in the colonization of Darien.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
4
The secondary object, the acquisition of gold, had not been completed.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
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What was to Aeschylus a secondary object; the purely artistic-wasto Sophocles the whole thing.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
6
That has become a secondary object altogether now.
One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo
7
To such a ruler they would, as they considered, be viewed not as a secondary object.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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But when a little time had passed, even this secondary object attracted the attention of the Tetons.
The Prairie
9
Is the Christian training of the nurses to be the primary, and hospital skill the secondary object?
Excellent Women
10
The arming of the Maronites became quite a secondary object in comparison with obtaining the friendship of Tancred.
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
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But it may have for its secondary object whatever a man shuns in order to avoid offending God.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
12
Possessed of that fearful authority, his first object is to rule, and it becomes a secondary object to rule well.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
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Domestic animals, collected in small herds, are considered by agricultural nations as a secondary object in the riches of the state.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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In the above instances it will be observed that destruction or disappointment of enemies was the primary, and amusement the secondary object.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 / With an Introduction upon An...
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The civil police for the security of property, health, and order, is only made a secondary object, and has been, therefore, neglected.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 04
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With him specie payments was the primary object, with me it was a secondary object, to follow the advancing credit of the government.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
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