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"Propensities," -- says a writer very different from those above quoted, -- "that are easily surmounted lead us unresistingly on; we yield to temptations so trivial that we despise their danger.
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When I look back on the querulous and restless Nature of Man: When I trace the human Propensities through the Records of Ages and Nations: In all the
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke
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Propensities, passions, desires, inclinations, aspirations, capacities, powers, stand up side by side and press against each other, either to please or fret and chafe each other.
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Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.
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Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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Virtues, Passions, Propensities, Attributes, and Qualities, and gave them each a dignified capital letter to wear.
Questionable Shapes William Dean Howells 1878
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Propensities just as vicious, passions just as furious and debased, exhibitions of vice quite as disgusting, more so, perhaps, because more coarse and pronounced, are to be seen in farming districts and in country villages as in cities.
Amusement: A Force in Christian Training Marvin Richardson Vincent 1878
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_Order of Development in respect to different Propensities and Powers_.
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United States -- Propensities of the periodical press -- Illustrated by the
Democracy in America — Volume 1 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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Utility of discriminating the natural Propensities of the Members of the legal Profession.
American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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