A "narrow" or a "special" appeal is one made to those susceptibilities which are uncommon.
A "broad appeal" takes account of the quality of association, and is made to those susceptibilities which are widely distributed.
Human susceptibilities are like an alpine country.
Now, with these principles in mind, mark the means used to fix the attention and to excite the susceptibilities of the Israelites, and, while in that state of attention and excitement, to draw their affections to God.
Still, for it is probable that there are respects in which the negro's susceptibilities are less than those of the civilized white man, he steadily pressed the blade in.
It would not have been astonishing if it had jarred upon the susceptibilities of the two men who heard it, but, as it happened, they listened tranquilly.
The visible City, throned on Seven Hills, the source and emblem of imperial power, and that not ideal but actual, was a theme fitted to inspire the patriot orator or historian, but not to create the finer susceptibilities of the poet.
The drudgery of manual labour and the hardships under which he had begun his literary career were unfavourable to the finer susceptibilities of an enthusiastic nature.
Inspirations are the promptings or susceptibilitiesof the human heart.
In fact from this standpoint the animal is the greater philosopher because it is completely ignorant of the Kingdom of God, possesses no spiritual susceptibilities and is uninformed of the heavenly world.
Material development may be likened to the glass of a lamp whereas divine virtues and spiritualsusceptibilities are the light within the glass.
I give thanks to God that I find you imbued with such susceptibilitiesand lofty aspirations and I hope that you will be the means of spreading this light to all men.
It was plain that his daring had hurt the susceptibilities of none.
His conduct of affairs at this time betokens, not so much desire for war as lack of imagination where other persons' susceptibilities are concerned.
In spite of our effort not to wound the susceptibilities of the Czar, who was protector of the Order of St. John, that sensitive young ruler had taken umbrage at the article relating to that island.
He might fail, but then he would fall honourably, having subordinated personal susceptibilities to considerations of his country's interest; so he finally determined not to resign office.
Leonora did not like it; her susceptibilities were outraged.
Ethel saw by the change of colour in her father's neck that the susceptibilities of his patriotism had been assailed.
God may have the figure of a man, and yet have many qualities and susceptibilities which man has not got.
They have asserted that particles of matter have no susceptibilities of thought and feeling when unorganized, but as soon as they were brought together into a certain system, the result of such union is thought and feeling.
How, then, it may be asked, can these separate independent beings, be so united as to form but one being, possessing the same susceptibilities as each of the individuals of which it is composed?
To men of great intellectual powers, generally accompanied as they are with keen susceptibilities of enjoyment and strong sympathies, the renunciation of this world must be as a living burial.
Nobody had ever been able quite to gauge the shifting, emotional complexities of his married life; Lady Caroline vanished; but his peculiar susceptibilities remained.
Occupied with her own position, her own responsibilities, her duty, and her daughter, she had no attention to spare for the peppery susceptibilities of a foolish, disreputable old man.
They must also for the most part be dead, so that their susceptibilities may not be wounded by a too free allusion to their doings.
Further, the anecdotes told of them must not be to their disadvantage in any way which would wound the susceptibilities of the living.
In its botanical characters, in its adaptation, and in its susceptibilitiesit suggests Vitis vinifera crossed with Vitis labrusca, a possibility to be discussed in a later paragraph.
Here at least the Allies worked with a will and without susceptibilitiesto conciliate.
Thus did the British Army play the game, for some of the Allied susceptibilities might have been wounded if the people had been told (though indeed they knew it) that they were under the protection of the British flag.
Lilly felt there was a note of blame in his tone, as if his susceptibilities had been offended.
How he would eat his heart away in shame and abhorrence, he, with his pride and delicate susceptibilities and that unworldly purity which alone accounted for the fact that no surmise as to her real life had ever touched his soul.
Marquis de Chauvelin, must have suffered in his susceptibilities and in his pride when in contact with the revolutionaries with whom he had chosen to cast his lot.
No more account was taken of his higher qualities than of the higher susceptibilities of the lower animals.
Even so it is with these hidden faculties or susceptibilities of which I have been speaking.
But his sensitive nerves, his intense susceptibilities were held in abeyance by a will that, once roused, was strong even unto death.
And Cecil Grey, though liberal beyond most New England clergymen, was liable by the keenness of his susceptibilities and the extreme sensitiveness of his organization to be influenced by such delusions,--if delusions they be.
It is true, as Colonel Henderson has said, that he made a mistake in not playing up to Lincoln's susceptibilities with regard to the safety of the Federal capital.
The natural course would have been to destroy the line at once; but the susceptibilities of both Maryland and West Virginia had to be considered.
Among a large number of substances the susceptibilities of which have been determined by J.
The values assigned to the atomic susceptibilities of most of the known elements are appended.
The susceptibilities of some hundreds of inorganic compounds have also been determined by the same investigator (loc.
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