Significados de direct object en inglés

Happiness was not the direct object of a Stoic's life.

But this or that precept is accidental or consequent to that proper and direct object.

I answered Mr. Calhoun's letter immediately, rigorously confining myself to the direct object of his inquiries.

Physical nature must not be made the direct object of obedience; it must be enjoyed, not worshipped.

The board of police commissioners have recently been charged with the direct object of accomplishing this end.

The direct object of logic is the study of the products rather than of the processes of thought.

The direct object, therefore, of the design is, to supply motives, and not rules; sanctions, and not precepts.

To his kindness he owed the possibility of organizing an excursion apart from the direct object of the voyage.

The direct object of their prohibition is the consent of the will, which is directed to deed or pleasure.

I have always had a direct object in life-mywork-andI believe that has kept me fit and well.

The true and direct object of an apprenticeship is to acquire a trade, not to acquire customers.]

The direct object of all those societies was the same-tosummon a national convention, which must, of course, supersede Parliament.

The work is a scientific one, rigidly restricted to its direct object; and by its science it must stand or fall.

Thus have our seemingly long digressions had a very direct object in view, and served powerfully to solve our original question.

Labour and expenditure, of which the direct object or effect is the creation of some material product useful or agreeable to mankind.

They, and they alone, would be supposed or seem to have a direct object for wishing Mr. White's life to be terminated.