propensities

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Order of Development in respect to different Propensities and Powers.

From Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind by Abbott, Jacob

Propensities, Natural, effect on voluntariness of acts, 54.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

All Constitutional Propensities good, and designed to be gratified.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

The great power of his Animal Propensities would give him strong temptations to waste; but the combination just mentioned would impose a powerful restraint.

From Phrenological Development of Robert Burns From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834 by Combe, George

Some, again, associate with the thought of love 146the idea of our Lower Propensities.

From The Young Maiden by Muzzey, A. B. (Artemas Bowers)