apperceptive
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
The mechanical organization of external nature is thus the source of apperceptive forms in the mind.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
The absolute necessity for fixing apperceptive centres of emotion and thought in the lives of children by experience is shown in the case of Neville Landless in Edwin Drood.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms; example of sculpture.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
Dickens makes a strong contrast between the condition of the mental and spiritual apperceptive centres in the city boy as compared with the country boy, in a conversation between Phil Squod and Mr. George.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
