ingraft

• “Wherefore according as acts of virtue act causally or dispositively toward their generation and preservation, obedience is said to ingraft and protect all virtues.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas

• “The countrey people, when they have any dead beast, they cary it into the mountaines, or where they suppose the sayd Vultures to haunt, they seeing the carion doe immediately greedily seize vpon it, and doe so ingraft their talents, that they cannot speedily rise agayne, by reason whereof the people come and kill them: sometimes they kill them with dogs, and sometimes with such weapons as they haue.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “One of their answers they did not give forth publicly, but only to us in private -- when they said that the writings of the New Testament had been tampered with by unknown persons who desired to ingraft the Jewish law into the”

  Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler

• “The law of sexuality in plants leads to the intermarriage of the vigorous with the decaying and the intermixture of blossoms; nor can human plants long vegetate together without intermarriages, which ingraft the vigorous constitutions with the virus of the old and decaying.”

  Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

• “Originally, indeed, with all of us, to have a conception of any thing is tantamount to believing that it exists, or has existed: belief is no separate act of mind, but is itself included in the perception or the thought; it is experience and reflection which have to ingraft their”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

• “Anecdotes" and of "Polymetis," affords a curious picture of the eagerness evinced by James and his wife, during the infancy of their son, to ingraft his infant image on the memory, and affections of the”

  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.

• “It would, then, have been wholly unnecessary to ingraft on the fifth article of the Constitution, prescribing the mode of its own future amendment, the proviso "that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect" the provision in the Constitution securing to the States the right to admit the importation of African slaves previous to that period.”

  State of the Union Address (1790-2001)

• “I take my stand here, that it is necessary to ingraft into that enduring instrument called the”

  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

• “Wherefore according as acts of virtue act causally or dispositively towards their generation and preservation, obedience is said to ingraft and protect all virtues.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “They left the suppression of slavery to the States where it existed, but there was no intention to ingraft the idea of property in man in the”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy

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