Norris
Cited as Norris. — 15 quotations
Abstract
The more abstract . . . we are from the body.
Ascetic
I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts.
Bent
The full bent and stress of the soul.
Deduct
We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy.
Notionally
Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct.
Ordination
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.
Outshoot
Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark.
Positiveness
The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only.
Prefiguration
A variety of prophecies and prefigurations.
Refinement
The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they.
Resettlement
The resettlement of my discomposed soul.
Satiate
He may be satiated, but not satisfied.
Shatter
A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor.
Truckle
Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey.
Unbay
I ought . . . to unbay the current of my passion.