This prepossession extended particularly to brigs, of which the navy then had several.
Morbid distrust and unreasoned prepossession were responsible for the feebleness of the navy in 1812, and these feelings long survived.
I cannot tell how far these opinions were the result of prepossession in those from whom they derived.
Anything like the absolute prepossessionof Captain Jim by this stranger we had never imagined.
The ladies referred to allowed their eyes to rest with evident prepossession on the insinuating stranger.
If she suspected any prepossession elsewhere, it could not be in that quarter.
He who hesitates is lost, because the hesitation makes possible the suggestion of a failure, the prepossession by a sense of difficulty.
If any further instances be required of the astounding effects of bias and prepossession in matters spiritualistic, the vast literature of the subject may be referred to as a sad but instructive monument of its influence.
This mental prepossession may at times have quite different and curious results.
No better illustrations could be desired of the effects of mental prepossession and the resulting distortion of evidence and of logical insight than those afforded by the career of Spiritualism and that of Christian Science.
The subjective attitude and prepossession as a factor in deception; illustrated by the phenomena of Spiritualism; experimental proof of the influence of the belief-attitude; extreme instances of prepossession 125 V.
II Some of the illustrations of prepossession are somewhat trivial; others more important, but perhaps not so definite as might be desired.
IV The consideration of the effects of a prepossession in favor of a belief in spirit-agency leads naturally to a consideration of the origin of the belief.
But, mamma, do you think it possible not to feel a prepossession in favour of such a sweet-looking girl as Mary?
Now, as I am very desirous that you should take up this little volume with a prepossession in its favour, I must inform you, that the characters of the children here pourtrayed, are all real characters.
There is always danger in giving way to a sudden prepossession in favour of a stranger.
This tribute on his son-in-law's freedom became the obsessing prepossession of Laidlaw Wright's life.
Her whole prepossession was to see Adair again, cost what it might.
I may be foolish to do so--the prepossession may be false--the motives for such belief may be slight; but yet that belief is strong.
It is the prepossession of the hearer that gives authenticity to fiction; and such atrocities would neither be imputed to, nor believed of, men not already bad.
His mien and deportment produced a prepossession in his favour; and the air of affliction, so remarkable in his visage, did not fail to attract their sympathy and observation.
We rather incline to the opinion that we are the greatest man of the party, inasmuch as the notion of an exclusive and authentic report originated with us; this may be prejudice: it may arise from a prepossession on our part in our own favour.
All this talking no doubt might even then have led to a definite result, but for the prepossession with which each mind was guarded.
The one thing Mr. Snow could not know was that Linda frankly admitted her prepossession for her school chum, Donald Whiting, but in any event if Peter could not have Linda he would much prefer occupying his dream house alone.
It was some time before his prepossession allowed him to discover that she was weak and ill-informed, selfish and bad-tempered.
This prepossession I afterward found confirmed, not only by her own share in the conversation, but by its effect on myself; I always feel that our intercourse unfolds, not only her powers, but my own.
For as to the point itself, his natural prepossession in favour of the persuasion in which he was born, had been confirmed by a conscientious examination of the arguments on both sides.
Wharton was fully aware of the disgust that Maria Theresa had taken to Don Carlos; likewise of her romantic prepossession for the person and manners of Louis, and of the Empress's design to hasten the betrothment on this account.
Her heated prepossession changed the tacit acquiescence of her daughter, in the portrait having been that of Louis, into a positive confession that it was so.
If she suspected ANY prepossession elsewhere, it could not be in THAT quarter.
