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... complete volitional determina- tion ; sometimes a single application is sufficient , sometimes many are insufficient . If the discipline is commenced too early it may fail from an inability on the part of the subject to preserve the ...
... complete volitional determina- tion ; sometimes a single application is sufficient , sometimes many are insufficient . If the discipline is commenced too early it may fail from an inability on the part of the subject to preserve the ...
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... complete development of volitional power . It is scarcely necessary to observe that such is not acquired instantaneously . The number of acquisitions of this character varies with different individuals and different times of life , but ...
... complete development of volitional power . It is scarcely necessary to observe that such is not acquired instantaneously . The number of acquisitions of this character varies with different individuals and different times of life , but ...
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... complete that action , is termed reso- lution . We resolve , make up our mind , ' to do something , but there are external hindrances which prevent our doing at once what we wish to do . Resolution , then , is a preliminary volition in ...
... complete that action , is termed reso- lution . We resolve , make up our mind , ' to do something , but there are external hindrances which prevent our doing at once what we wish to do . Resolution , then , is a preliminary volition in ...
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... complete suspension , or at least a considerable retardation of the highest operations of judgment and thought ; also a great enfeeblement , to say the least of it , of those sentiments , such as the feeling of consistency and the sense ...
... complete suspension , or at least a considerable retardation of the highest operations of judgment and thought ; also a great enfeeblement , to say the least of it , of those sentiments , such as the feeling of consistency and the sense ...
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... complete hypnotic state , to external impres- sions and influences , but seems and is awake , and preserves after- ward in most cases a distinct recollection of what occurred in the ' biological ' state , both of which latter ...
... complete hypnotic state , to external impres- sions and influences , but seems and is awake , and preserves after- ward in most cases a distinct recollection of what occurred in the ' biological ' state , both of which latter ...
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Page 313 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, " I have no pleasure in them...
Page 476 - Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 262 - First, our Senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them. And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 490 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 318 - Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green. Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 490 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 486 - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved, shall walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 384 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...