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_ I will admit that this power is but vague, slight, tenuous, and dissipatory, still there it is: though of course its poor effect is to that of the _Benedictio major_ what a cat's-paw in the Solent is to a north-east snorter on Lindsey Deeps.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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In the essay -- which is an early one (1890) -- the explanation of the whole great matter is sought -- and as I believe found -- in the attitude of the organism towards energy external to it; an attitude which results in its evasion of the retardative and dissipatory effects which prevail in lifeless dynamic systems of all kinds.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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