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  • We are to give a summary of our causes to the world, but mainly to the other Southern States, whose co-action we wish, and we must not make a fight on the Tariff question....

    Wealth and Income Steven Barnes 2008

  • I say, besides what we spake at the entrance of this discourse, I shall, as to any ways of corporeal co-action and restraint, oppose some few things.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • A stone does not fall downwards by co-action; it, therefore, falls by liberty.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

  • If they say, "God may also be said to be freely good, because He is not good by co-action or force:" I reply, not only is co-action repugnant to liberty, but nature is likewise; and each of them, nature and co-action, constitutes an entire, total and sufficient cause for the exclusion of liberty.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

  • Perhaps the most singular and astonishing fact that is made to appear is his omnipresence and co-action with those declared to be conspirators, and his professed and declared knowledge of all their plans and purposes.

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • The explanation by Dr. Piderit (` Mimik und Physiognomik, 's. 82) of the distension of the nostrils, namely, to allow free breathing whilst the mouth is closed and the teeth clenched, does not appear to be nearly so correct as that by Sir C. Bell, who attributes it to the sympathy (i.e. habitual co-action) of all the respiratory muscles.

    The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

  • In respect to Venetia, we may (perhaps must) have a struggle for it, which might have been unnecessary if England had frankly accepted co-action with France, instead of doing a little liberalism and a great deal of suspicion on her own account.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • All reference to natural necessity, or co-action, in relation to such a question, is wholly irrelevant.

    A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843

  • Calvin makes a distinction between “co-action and necessity.”

    A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843

  • This natural necessity, or co-action, it is admitted on all hands, destroys accountability for external conduct, wherever it obtains.

    A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843

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