nature being

“Well,' said Miss Marple judicially, 'one is always inclined, human nature being what it is, to think of the husband.”

Fictionaut: Twin Moons

“Personal graces belonging unto the humanity, or human nature of Christ, — that nature being anupostatos, or such as hath no personal subsistence of its own, — is”

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost

“Speak of a community which equally distributes the products of labour and I will grant that there has been an arbitrary alteration, the normal course of nature being that the stronger, openly, and even with the common assent, takes to the repletion of his desire from the weaker.”

The Kempton-Wace Letters

“I must say that the foreign colonies in Pera are much to blame, for they worship with all their minds and all their strength their different chiefs and chieftainesses, and human nature being weak, &c.”

Sketches From My Life

“If I, born a bloodthirsty and savage brute, inheriting these qualities from others, kill you, my fellow-men will very justly hang me, but I shall not be visited with the horrible remorse which would be my real punishment if, my nature being higher,”

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“And her mother's best native qualities reappear in her, sweetly modified by pastoral associations; her nature being really much the same, only it has been developed and seasoned in a different atmosphere; a nature too strong indeed to be displaced by any power of circumstances or supervenings of art, but at the same time too delicate and susceptive not to take a lively and lasting impress of them.”

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters