It is this fatalism that paralyzes all individual enterprise, and prevents the march of progress.
It also fails in septic cases, and mostly for the reason that it diminishes and paralyzes the heart's action.
It paralyzes my intellect if I doubt whether Shakespeare was a man; it paralyzes my whole spiritual nature if I doubt whether Jesus was.
Above all, I wish to abate the panic which paralyzes the minds of some afflicted people, and which causes them to regard a drunkard or even a tippler as a hopeless victim.
Beckford's case appears to have been one of those in which great wealth diminishes or wholly paralyzes the highest energy of the intellect, leaving the lower energies free to exert less noble kinds of activity.
Thus, a piece of machinery capable of executing any work at a less price than could be done by any given number of hands, is, as regards these hands, in the position of a foreign competitor, who paralyzes them by his rivalry.
It is the genius of Sophism which paralyzes this resistance.
They never think of paying their debt, and it paralyzes their energies.
I am speaking rather of the way in which the fact of a man being in debtparalyzes his energies.
If it were any one of various other forms of trial, he reflects, there would be for his pain various forms of consolation; but the peculiar guise it has assumed paralyzes him with its baffling power, its darkness of eclipse.
The quality of the snarl is such that it paralyzes his victim.
This roar has a terrible effect on the victim; it paralyzes him with terror, and like a lightning flash, along with the roar, the tiger falls upon his prey.
In order to preserve it for its little ones, it does not kill its victim, but, if one may so speak, etherizes it by pricking it, and distilling into the wound a venom which apparently paralyzes it.
But the cold irritates them; the cold damp air deadens and paralyzes their entrails; finally, the light wounds them.
A certain hopelessness of effecting any good often paralyzes good will.
Moreover, since on this plan every vote counts, the greatest source of political apathy will be removed-that sense of hopelessness which paralyzes the efforts of the members of a minority party.
It is largely lack of confidence in ourselves that paralyzes us.
But she is strict and literal to a degree that paralyzes and irritates me.
The remedy he proclaims is to give up the weak scruple which paralyzes a righteous arm.
But passing this, it shows to the Northerners themselves what it is that paralyzes their arms, what it is that places them so generally on the defensive and prevents their success.
Alcohol so paralyzes these nerves that they do not carry their message; the arteries let in the blood, and become swollen and enlarged.
Collects in it, and paralyzes Makes them unfit to carry it.
Excites, then stupefies andparalyzes the brain and the nerves.
Takes away their moisture, and Fills or congests its paralyzes them.
Without it, the dread which comes over him paralyzes to some extent at least his heart activity and interferes with lung action.
Such a state of mind, in which the patient is constantly complaining of one symptom or another, quite paralyzes the will.
Anything which weakens or paralyzes this is taking beams from the foundations of the merchant's own warehouse.
Opium weakens or utterly paralyzes the lower propensities, while it invigorates and elevates the superior faculties, both intellectual and affectional.
For example, belladonna, in whatever way it may be introduced into the system, paralyzes the ciliary nerves and so causes dilatation of the pupil.
Through appeal to superstition and fear this preposterous and sacrilegious claim to-day, as in all the past, paralyzes the will and discourages the personal efforts of millions of men and women.
Idleness paralyzes efforts, which are the sinews of production.
At length, however, the progressive nature of man causes Spoliation to develop in the society in which it exists, resistance which paralyzes its force, and knowledge which unveils its impostures.
There is something in her eye that paralyzes the will; you look at her and you say yes to anything she suggests.
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