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Example sentences for "its proper"

  • Moreover, tender kids with bleating throats Do know their horned dams, and butting lambs The flocks of sheep, and thus they patter on, Unfailingly each to its proper teat, As nature intends.

  • To state the first in its proper form, is to refute it.

  • The sophistry which has been employed to show that this will tend to the destruction of the State governments, will, in its will, in its proper place, be fully detected.

  • A glass of wine, when a man wants it, or a dish of palatable meat, presently frees us from all disturbing particles, and settles nature in its proper state, there being as it were a calm and serenity spread over the troubled humors.

  • For as the liver, all the gall being gathered in its proper place, is itself very sweet; so the fig-tree having parted with its oil and sweet particles to the fruit, reserves no portion for itself.

  • Empedocles and Heraclides, that the senses act by a just accommodation of the pores in every case; everything that is perceived by the sense being congruously adapted to its proper organ.

  • As its proper province is the world of ideas, and as the will always places us in that of realities, demonstration and volition seem, upon that account, to be totally removed, from each other.

  • But to convince us how fallacious this reasoning is, we need only consider, that the will being here considered as a cause, has no more a discoverable connexion with its effects, than any material cause has with its proper effect.

  • When any affecting object is presented, it gives the alarm, and excites immediately a degree of its proper passion; especially in persons who are naturally inclined to that passion.

  • In an hour and thirty-five minutes after the commencement of the hoisting, the chain was raised to its proper curvature, and fastened to the land portion of it which had been previously placed over the top of the Anglesea pyramid.

  • Take me and cast me where thou wilt; for there I shall keep my divine part tranquil, that is, content, if it can feel and act comformably to its proper constitution.

  • Count Segur, in his book already referred to, has this to say further concerning Ninon: "Ninon shone under the reign of Louis XIV like a graceful plant in its proper soil.

  • Let us remain on earth, we shall find it there, and it is its proper home.

  • No sooner did Mulford cause the little craft to keep away than it almost flew, as if conscious it were bound to its proper home, skimming swiftly over the waves, like a bird returning eagerly to its nest.

  • He then set himself about an arrangement which shall be mentioned in its proper place.

  • To displace; to put out of its proper place.

  • Her leg also straightened itself, the muscles extended, the knee replaced itself in its proper position, all amidst such acute pain that Joachine ended by fainting.

  • Hence it behooved the soul of Christ to be perfected by a knowledge, which would be its proper perfection.

  • For since the body is proportioned to the soul as matter to its proper form, it is not truly human flesh if it is not perfected by human, i.

  • I answer that, The human flesh is assumable by the Word on account of the order which it has to the rational soul as to its proper form.

  • Its proper personality is not wanting to the nature assumed through the loss of anything pertaining to the perfection of the human nature but through the addition of something which is above human nature, viz.

  • Now this Good is primarily and essentially compared to the Divine will, as its proper object.

  • Thirdly, it makes it to rest, when it shall have come to its proper place: since to the same cause are due, both rest in a place, and the movement to that place.

  • Therefore it is evident that neither is delight, which results from the perfect good, the very essence of happiness, but something resulting therefrom as its proper accident.

  • These are the things which are ten times more at war with real virtue, these are the things which are ten times more at war with real duty, than any vice known by its name and distinguished by its proper character.

  • Insurrection was there just and legal, inasmuch as Colonel Hannay, in defiance of the laws and rights of the people, exercised a clandestine, illegal authority, against which there can be no rebellion in its proper sense.

  • As each gun is mounted unhook the purchase and garnet, take off the slings, run the carriage to its proper port, and place another for the next gun.

  • Each section of the rod works in its proper joint, through a square socket at each end, and is prevented from falling out by pins.

  • Shell-carriers, and landed in the grommet, which has been put in its proper place by No.

  • Its proper sound is that of e in met, pet, imperative.

  • The sentence is restored to its proper unity by constructing it thus: "Having come to anchor, I was put on shore, where I was saluted by all my friends, who received me with the greatest kindness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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