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... tendency to do cer- tain things , without previous forethought and deliberation . There are often many specific instincts in the same animal ; one perhaps has relation to the season of the year and the time of migration ; another has ...
... tendency to do cer- tain things , without previous forethought and deliberation . There are often many specific instincts in the same animal ; one perhaps has relation to the season of the year and the time of migration ; another has ...
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... tendency to render the mind mechanical . That is , while it increases its ability of acting in a given way , it dimin- ishes the power of invention , and prevents its striking out into a new path , different from that , which it has ...
... tendency to render the mind mechanical . That is , while it increases its ability of acting in a given way , it dimin- ishes the power of invention , and prevents its striking out into a new path , different from that , which it has ...
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... tendency to confound characters and dispositions ; neither demanding a contest with passion , nor the exercise of candour , nor desires to learn the will of God , and excluding , in a great measure , religious faith and other principles ...
... tendency to confound characters and dispositions ; neither demanding a contest with passion , nor the exercise of candour , nor desires to learn the will of God , and excluding , in a great measure , religious faith and other principles ...
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... tendency in such operations . The directions now referred to have of course a more intimate connection with Moral , than with Demonstrative reasoning ; but this is a circumstance , which enhances , rather than diminishes their worth ...
... tendency in such operations . The directions now referred to have of course a more intimate connection with Moral , than with Demonstrative reasoning ; but this is a circumstance , which enhances , rather than diminishes their worth ...
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... tendency to these re- sults . The members of that profession are constantly un- der the necessity of referring to the provisions of the na- tional constitution , to legislative enactments , and to court decisions . Hence their powers ...
... tendency to these re- sults . The members of that profession are constantly un- der the necessity of referring to the provisions of the na- tional constitution , to legislative enactments , and to court decisions . Hence their powers ...
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Page 375 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
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Page 289 - There is a principle of reflection in men, by which they distinguish between, approve and disapprove their own actions. We are plainly constituted such sort of creatures as to reflect upon our own nature. The mind can take a view of what passes within itself, its propensions, aversions, passions, affections, as respecting such objects, and in such degrees, and of the several actions consequent thereupon. In this survey it approves of one, disapproves of another, and towards a third is affected in...
Page 478 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 374 - Waked by thy touch, I see the sister band, On tiptoe watching, start at thy command, And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer, To Pleasure's path, or Glory's bright career.
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