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A power to direct the operative faculties to motion or rest in particular instances is that which we call the will.
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A power to direct the operative faculties to motion or rest in particular instances is that which we call the will.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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Another great and important result from improving the bodily health is the increased power of what we call the will.
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Another great and important result from improving the bodily health is the increased power of what we call the will.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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The key to the mystery of man's being Kant finds, not in the marvellous faculty of intelligence, but in that power of self-movement, that capacity for self-originated energy which we call the will.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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But the field of the struggle is what we call the will.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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“Sir Thomas will see you,” said the servant, putting some stress on the word will.
Castle Richmond 2004
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But, on the other hand, they must possess, to an astonishing degree, the faculty to concentrate thought on a single objectthe energic faculty that we call will.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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The last appetite or fear, that which triumphs, we call will.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Jews did not like the Lord: he cared so simply for his father's will, and not for anything they called his will.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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