Such immediate revulsions of feeling contrast with the instances of "instinctive sympathy" previously cited, and are as direct and uncontrollable.
Given another environment, his moral revulsions and approvals might be diametrically reversed.
Such are the effects of a commercial revulsion; and that such revulsions are almost periodical is a consequence of the very tendency of profits which we are considering.
First among them is the waste of capital in periods of overtrading and rash speculation, and in the commercial revulsions by which such times are always followed.
Severe commercial revulsions abroad have always heretofore operated to depress and often to affect disastrously almost every branch of American industry.
More recentrevulsions are still more to the point.
Two financial revulsions have occurred in the United States, when, with few exceptions, the banks of the whole country suspended specie payments.
These revulsions have been witnessed, and their results seen by the leading public men of the century.
Recent history assures us that abuses have been practised in reference to the bank circulation of the country, which have led to violent revulsions and severe loss.
The ideal usually comes before us only in revulsions which we cannot help feeling against some scandalous situation or some intolerable muddle.
As life lifted itself to further heights of holiness, and hitherto unseen depths of evil yawned, there came a new power of pity and novel revulsions of aversion.
Perhaps, with Peter, revulsions from the strain of austerity took the form of sudden laughter.
The periodical revulsions which have existed in our past history must continue to return at intervals so long as our present unbounded system of bank credits shall prevail.
In all former revulsions the blame might have been fairly attributed to a variety of cooperating causes, but not so upon the present occasion.
In the summer of 1857 there occurred one of those periodical revulsions which seem to come after a term of apparent prosperity.
I was reported to have said: "The Republican defeats do not bother me at all, I have seen many such revulsions before and we get around all right again.
It has saved her from the revulsions which have afflicted England and our America for so many years.
The truth is, when real revulsions of body and soul come, they come in a gush, all at once.
But such are the revulsions of success, for hours and hours that night I lay sleepless.
In the second capacity, she is exposed to all the violent revulsions of feeling that follow, among rude men, the gratification of the animal passions.
Strange stories were told among the monks ofrevulsions of passion even in the most advanced.
One of these revulsions came now, after she had set the minister to work upon her books.
Now the depths were stirred, and at times she was in a storm of impatient pain; but there came revulsions of hope and quiet lulls, when the sun almost shone again under the clearance made by faith and hope.
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