Rational love is the complacency of the rational appetite in that which reason apprehendeth good: the same thing with primary volition.
Love is the complacency of the appetite in apprehended good.
Sensitive love is the complacency of the sensitive appetite in sensible good (or in that which the sense and imagination apprehendeth as good).
As the existence and event, and the moral goodness, must be distinguished; so must God's mere volition of event, and his complacency in good as good.
Nor is it a delight inconsistent with sorrow and fear, when they are duties; but it is the solid, rational complacency of the soul in God and holiness, arising from the apprehensions of that in him, which is justly delectable to us.
But to dwell with such, or choose them as our familiars, or causelessly or for complacency keep among them, will unavoidably lose abundance of your time.
The will accordingly willeth it by a simple complacency or volition.
And in its aptitude and tendency to God as its final cause, even to the demonstration of his glory, and the complacency of his will.
Looking for the benefit, and finding a complacency and quietness of mind in the ground discovered, and ceasing all other cares and fears, which would else disquiet us.
The jealousy of Constantius could look with complacency on his philosophical and literary ardour.
The complacency of Miss Butterworth was superb, and being the result of something that could not be communicated to those about her, occasioned in the household much speculation as to its cause.
The mood of complacency was gone: that of shame and discontent was upon her.
But along with a natural complacency he had the honesty that sometimes accompanies success in affairs.
Jenny's triumphant complacency was so great that she gave a tiny nervous laugh.
The classic author recalls the magical effect of music in all ages, nor has he forgotten the adventure of Eurydice; he speaks with complacency of the Styx and of Phlegethon, of Ixion and of Sisyphus, of Proserpine and the Elysian Fields.
Certainly, no woman ever had less internal perception or outward complacency in her beauty than she had.
In the course of time I began to get the best of this knotty lesson, and my self-complacency moved to the front once more.
But of course my complacency could hardly get start enough to lift my nose a trifle into the air, before Mr. Bixby would think of something to fetch it down again.
The most colossal form of human complacency is that of the individual who thinks all other creatures inferior who happen to be unlike himself.
In fact, the effect of the tiny episode became apparent in that look of preoccupied complacency to be seen for a time upon any girl who has found reason to suspect that she is a being without counterpart.
The Emperor is fond of Arnim and listened with complacency and told Bismarck when he returned from Varzin,--Bismarck has vowed revenge!
How great must be the complacency of those who desire to occupy French troops in distant countries, and to involve France in difficulties with other Powers.
Her own air of complacency announced the happiness of this answer.
Mr. and Mrs. Tyrold witnessed the involuntary movements which betrayed their mutual regard with the tenderest satisfaction; and the complacency of their attention, when Edgar advanced to them, soon removed his embarrassment.
Clarendon was not too proud to feel his sense of self- complacency flattered by such homage, and we like him none the less because he allows his satisfaction to appear.
To cultivate complacency and remorse apart from effort to improve is to indulge in sentimentality.
The measurement of conduct by the law has its value to quicken a sense of shortcoming, but alone it may also lead either to self-righteous complacency or to despair.
Underlying complacency with respect to social ills grows up because they afford an opportunity for developing and displaying this finest of virtues.
Men who are the constant subjects of abnegation on the part of their wives and female relatives rarely fail to develop a self-absorbed complacency and unconscious conceit.
Pharisaical complacency in the mere fact of having conformed to command or rule.
All this was done slowly, tranquilly, with a sort of complacency even, and often intermingled with kisses.
I skipped before my looking-glass; and, tossing back the long tresses which I had let fall on my shoulders, surveyed with no small complacency the charms which were acknowledged by the stoical Mr Maitland.
Strong astonishment was pictured in his face, then yielded again to the glow of youthful complacencyand admiration.
A smile of self-complacency crossed her wasted face as she told me that a very few interviews had served to dispel all Lady Maria's prejudices against her.
And he had stared at her, startled out of his complacency but utterly misapprehending the humour and purpose of her question.
He took for granted that she shared his complacency and prayed night and morning that his desires should be accomplished.
The Emperor, who wished to be informed of all these details, referred on this occasion to the sum that it formerly cost the Court of France to make such journeys, and he drew the comparison with a complacency justified by the facts.
Of all the paradoxes humanity exhibits, surely there are none more wonderful than the complacency with which scepticism often utters its doubts, and the tranquillity which it boasts as the perfection of its system!
Miss Jemima's mood this morning was complacency itself, and she acknowledged the obeisance of the little huckster with a not ungracious nod.
And yet he smiled to himself, as he contrasted his own uneasiness with the complacency with which his sister was fitting herself into her place in their new sphere.
This roused the Spanish governors from the indolent complacency with which they had watched robberies upon foreigners that brought profit rather than loss to their districts.
A ring being formed, Farragut, after a short contest, succeeded in thrashing his opponent and regaining the pig, and with it a certain amount of complacency in that one Briton at least had felt the pangs of defeat.
All the time we were undressing we eyed with complacency the two fine red sofas, on one of which we were to sleep.
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