course of thought
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My spirits were so disarranged, my nerves so clamorous in their confusion, that no course of thought, speech, or action presented itself.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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What course of thought, what set of circumstances, could turn the Puritan mind in the Celtic direction?
From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
The moment had come to France, which was reached at an earlier period in English speculation, when the negative course of thought in metaphysics drove men to consider the basis of ethics.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
My course of thought leaves me with little to add to this criticism by Spencer.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
But, though this be true, it may not be useless to attempt, at least, to point out the course of thought in these grand words.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren