consecution

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The first is the spontaneous and as it were mechanical consecution of mental states in the soul whence the interfering effect of voluntary consciousness has been removed.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Many of its suggestions and patterns of lessons are excellent; but there is too large a lack of true consecution of topics, of accuracy of expression, and of really natural method of handling the subjects.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various

Even those who bicycle or drive see these sights but rarely and with no consecution, since roads also avoid climbing save where they are forced to it, as over certain passes.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

The natural consecution of the Homeric images needs no exposition: it constitutes in itself one of the beauties of the work.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander