For otherwise, if they be but kept within their proper bounds, men are extremely deceived if they think there is any enmity or repugnancyat all between the two.
Francis Bacon (as we have seen) strongly affirmed that between Physical Causes and Final Causes "kept within their proper bounds, men are extremely deceived if they think there is any enmity or repugnancy at all.
But now to apply his answer to the argument, How doth all this solve the repugnancy of his doctrine to the covenant?
In the next place, the reverend brother makes short work of my five arguments to prove the repugnancy of his doctrine to the solemn league and covenant.
A natural repugnancy prevented me a long time from answering his advances.
I rejoice at an addition of income so agreeable to your turn of life, whatever repugnancy I find, at the same time, to see my Name placed on the Pensions of Ireland.
On the other part, in opposition and repugnancy hereto, the philosophers say that idleness is the mother of luxury.
If we be pleased in this sense to take having and not having of a wife, we shall indeed find no repugnancy nor contradiction in the terms at all.
You tell me indeed of a repugnancy between the Mosaic history and Immaterialism: but you know not where it lies.
But, to pass by all that, would not a man think you were assured there is no repugnancy between the received notions of Materialists and the inspired writings?
When a repugnancy is demonstrated between the ideas comprehended in its definition.
First, because they were not aware of the repugnancy there is, as well in supposing things like unto our ideas existing without, as in attributing to them power or activity.
And can you think it possible that should really exist in nature which implies a repugnancy in its conception?
But, it is no repugnancy to say that a perceiving thing should be the subject of ideas, or an active thing the cause of them.
But I cannot by any means bring myself to think there is no such peculiar repugnancy between the creation and your opinion; though indeed where to fix it, I do not distinctly know.
Are you not satisfied there is some peculiar repugnancy between the Mosaic account of the creation and your notions?
But where there are no ideas, there no repugnancy can be demonstrated between ideas?
If all possible sense which can be put on the first chapter of Genesis may be conceived as consistently with my principles as any other, then it has no peculiar repugnancy with them.
As to the interference of the revenue laws of the Union, and of its members, we have already seen that there can be no clashing or repugnancy of authority.
It is not, however a mere possibility of inconvenience in the exercise of powers, but an immediate constitutional repugnancy that can by implication alienate and extinguish a pre-existing right of sovereignty.
As to a supposition of repugnancy between the power of taxation in the States and in the Union, it cannot be supported in that sense which would be requisite to work an exclusion of the States.
Its repugnancy to an adequate supply of the national exigencies has been already pointed out, and has sufficiently appeared from the trial which has been made of it.
There is here no question ofrepugnancy or intercommunion of Forms: the question turns upon the evidence of vision, which informs us that Theaetetus is sitting down and not standing up or flying.
If any predicate be affirmed of a subject, contrary to what is included in the definition of that subject, then indeed repugnancy of Forms might be urged.
Secondly, The other is the art of finding out those intermediate ideas, which may show us the agreement or repugnancy of other ideas, which cannot be immediately compared.
As to the incompatibility or repugnancy to co-existence, we may know that any subject may have of each sort of primary qualities but one particular at once: v.
Of Repugnancy to co-exist, our knowledge is larger.
The law would be loath to hold a contract void for repugnancy in present terms, when if the same terms were only promised a failure of one of them would not warrant a refusal to perform on the other side.
I do not quite see why there is not as fatal a repugnancy between the different terms of this contract as was found in that for the sale of the barrels of salt described as containing mackerel.
It has been seen that the law does not go on any merely logical ground, and does not hold that every slight repugnancy will make a contract even voidable.
But, on the other hand, when the repugnancy is between terms which are both essential, it is fatal to the very existence of the contract.
Of course the principle of repugnancy last explained might be stretched to apply to any inconsistency between the different terms of a contract.
If this reasoning were adopted, there would be an equal repugnancy in the terms of the contract, whether the nature of the risk were written in the policy or fixed by previous description.
As has been said already, it is not every repugnancy that makes a contract void, and it is not every failure in the terms of the counter undertaking that makes it voidable.
For otherwise, keeping their precincts and borders, men are extremely deceived if they think there is an enmity or repugnancy at all between them.
No considerations of policy or equity or repugnancy to the common law would avail to challenge an Irish statute on the ground that it was ultra vires.
Arabic language, as spoken in the latter country; and the repugnancy of the Muhamedan religion to that of Christ.
That where this repugnancy exists, that authority which is supreme must control, not yield to that over which it is supreme.
For the assertion carries in it a repugnancy to the standing rules of reason; forasmuch as the decayed stock of dry nourishment seems more naturally to call for its proper supplies.
But they make this repugnancy yet more evident by their demonstration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repugnancy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
