We perceive a susceptibility to adulteration in their worship at the sight of one of their number, a young maid, suddenly snatched up to the gaping heights of Luxury and Fashion through sheer good looks.
So delicate has been the susceptibility of the Spanish mind in regard to the pollution of its soil by heretic corpses that even Charles I.
But in spite of this agonising susceptibility and vulnerability, there is never the least touch either of sentimentality or self-pity about Charlotte Bronte.
However much we may be tortured by them, there is always something at the back of our mind which despises our ownsusceptibility to them; and it is that deeper instinct which we ought to trust.
It is so fatally easy to think that one has been inconsiderately treated, and to mistake susceptibility for courage.
The difference in susceptibility of different individuals to all forms of metallic poisoning is well recognized.
The susceptibility of healthy adults is much greater than that of healthy children.
It is well to administer a number of drugs in rotation in habitual constipation, as the susceptibility to a particular drug is lost after continued use.
Exposure to cold and dampness, the body warm and perspiring, will set up a catarrhal process in the bile-ducts and intestine, especially in those having the special susceptibility which belongs to certain bodily types.
The symptoms occasioned by them are in great measure proportioned to their quantity and the susceptibility of the patient.
The difference is probably in a measure due to the greater susceptibility of the intestinal canal and the consequent production of more copious diarrhoea in children, with more complete expulsion of the worms.
The colored race is more prone to intestinal than to malarial diseases in the Middle States, but there is the reverse susceptibility in the Northern and Southern States.
The prognosis will depend upon the nature of the cause, its susceptibility of arrest, the quantity of blood lost, and the general health of the patient.
The duration of mercurial stomatitis varies with thesusceptibility of the patient, the intensity of the toxaemia, and the character of the treatment.
This is due to the greatersusceptibility of the mucous membrane in them to congestion and catarrh from external influences and from direct irritation.
In general, the effect produced by eating trichinous meat {960} is proportioned to the number and condition of the trichinae ingested and to the susceptibility of the patient.
Since anisotropism is nothing more than the expression of different kinds of susceptibility to the action of gravity, light, &c.
Upon questioning Murphy, after I had awakened him, regarding his susceptibility to hypnotic influence, he told me that Simms had often put him to sleep for fun, when they met at his sister's house.
In man there is only the susceptibility to reason, which is sustained and helped by the light of the active intellect.
There are, however, grades of susceptibility to the active intellect, i.
Her social manner was of a persistent jollity; but no doubt she had her grave moments or hours, a good and strong brain, and a susceptibility to tragic conceptions, as is shown by the noble figure of her Zenobia.
Our beloved Madame Flintwinch,' said Rigaud, 'developing all of a sudden a fine susceptibility and spirituality, is right to a marvel.
Finally, in arriving at an estimate of a subject's grade of intelligence and his susceptibility to training, it would be a mistake to ignore the data obtainable from other sources.
The worst fault of the test is its susceptibility to the influence of schooling.
The susceptibility of the body to a disease may be best considered under the three heads of Invasion, Resistance, Recovery.
Doubtless youth should bring with it an enlargement of the horizon of childhood, a susceptibility to larger concerns and issues, a more generous and a more general standpoint toward nature and social life.
Every opportunity that occurs within their practical activities for developing curiosity and susceptibility to intellectual problems should be seized.
It is melancholy to reflect that this nervous susceptibility to the libels of the English papers contributed certainly as much as, and perhaps more than, the consideration of great political interests to the renewal of hostilities.
To avoid irritating the susceptibilityof the Minister of Police I wrote to him the following few lines:--"The libel is the most miserable rhapsody imaginable.
His fear or his susceptibilitywas such, that in discoursing with strangers he merely said, that had he known of the Prince's letter, which was not delivered to him.
He was apprehensive of the consequences of her susceptibility of feeling; his heart was never proof against the shedding of tears.
This sufficed to irritate the susceptibility of English pride, and the British Cabinet affected to regard it as a threat.
Yet our French susceptibility would have made us look upon that glory as tarnished if Paris had been occupied without defence .
The Trojan war itself originates in the susceptibility of an injured husband: and all Greece takes up arms to avenge his wrong.
The coarseness that pervades his compositions has nothing in common with the susceptibility that shrinks from disgusting and loathsome images in which Swift reveled.
But the power thus to suffer willingly in the transmuting process of spiritual progress implies a dual susceptibility of physical and psychical consciousness which is the peculiar privilege of mankind.
Such an interpretation of the presence of evil and pain in the world is in agreement with that advanced by Science in support of the supposition that evolutionary growth entails the susceptibility of organisms to contrasting sensations.
On the other hand, there is the point of view derived from that type of mind which believes the susceptibility of organisms to contrasting sensations to be a necessary factor in spiritual as well as in physical evolution.
Inclination is every strong susceptibility of the will for motives of a certain kind.
In proportion as pleasures increase, the susceptibility for them decreases: what is customary is no longer felt as a pleasure.
Just in this way, however, is the susceptibility for suffering increased, for the loss of what we are accustomed to is painfully felt.
In fact, the gift of poetry really only flourishes in youth; and also the susceptibility for poetry is often passionate in youth: the youth delights in verses as such, and is often contented with small ware.
He was the victim of an intense susceptibility to the girls' charms, joined with an intolerable shyness and self-consciousness when in their presence.
She was not going to leave the first person who had seemed to fully realize the importance of the proceeding to suffer unduly from a susceptibilitywhich did him so much credit.
The only noticeable difference between the epidemic and the sporadic cases is in the more general susceptibility to the infective agent, which gives the influenzal form an appearance of being more virulently infective.
Dosage must be governed in the clog as in the human being by the susceptibility to the drug and by the temperament of the animal.
Predisposition is, of course, a personal quality--a factor of primary importance in our susceptibility to or power to resist disease or in our capacity to withstand adverse conditions.
Impure air and stuffy, ill-ventilated rooms are concerned in the susceptibility to both diseases, as is also malnutrition with its associated diminution of the innate powers of self-protection.
Investigations have shown that facial angle and capacity of cranium and cephalic index afford no certain criterion of thought power or susceptibility to culture.
I remember being impressed, in reading, many years ago, one of Miss Ferrier's novels, with the truth of a stroke that brought out very practically the readysusceptibility of injury manifested by the Celtic character.
There is no corresponding image produced: the susceptibility of reflecting the landscape is never imparted by the landscape itself, whether to the mind or to the glass.
