| 单词 | prepossession |
| 例句 | Louis paused and thought, and had not his prepossessions been so complete as they were, the plain truth which the valet told him might not have been unproductive of fruit. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly. The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes 2012-04-13T02:00:20.243Z I may be foolish to do so--the prepossession may be false--the motives for such belief may be slight; but yet that belief is strong. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z So great became the pressure of public opinion against the opposition offered to the measure by official prepossessions and prejudices that in 1838 the House of Commons appointed a committee to examine the subject. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But Hobbes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, were most attentively heard in the passages where they favoured or combatted the dominant social and theological prepossessions. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Matters relating to sexual life ought to be studied without the introduction of moral prepossessions or of preconceived ideas. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z But we see things through the glasses of our own prepossessions. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z A word had been dropped here and there--with care; the truth had been told to some, the prepossessions of others had been consulted. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Then let us stand aside with all our prepossessions, and open our eyes to what we can see. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z You can estimate the prepossessions that enter into our judgment of him. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z But this prominence is also a natural result of the romanticists' prepossession with passion. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z We, on the contrary, had both of these doctrines, having derived them, as already stated herein, directly from celestial sources and wholly independently of human authority and tradition, of spiritualism, and of our own prepossessions. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z This prepossession dominated all professional naval minds in all countries, until the outbreak of the Great War. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z But persons like the Professor, while ready to accept any evidence at all where their own prepossessions are concerned, can never be induced to believe such plain and unvarnished statements of simple scientific knowledge. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z It is that these, clamoring for their own prepossession, deny us ours! The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z We must approach the whole subject of split or duplicated personalities with no prepossession against the possibility of any given arrangement or division of the total mass of consciousness which exists within us. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z For in divesting ourselves of all prepossessions and prejudices, we had made ourselves as "little children." The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Authorities.—The literature of the subject is very large, though a great deal of it is naturally based on insufficient evidence, and coloured by Western prepossessions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z It was with these feelings, then, and these prepossessions that I was prepared to make the acquaintance of the great Poet, should such an honour ever be granted me. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Above all, the critic should be impartial, and by no means allow himself to be biassed by either prejudice or prepossession, whether personal or political. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-24T03:07:54.103Z That which Time retains as precious and imperishable is rather some fine essence of the spirit, some essential personality built up and moulded by preferences, predilections, and prepossessions of a most highly spiritual order. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Though "there had been much disputing before," though the keenest feelings had been excited, and the point involved the strongest prepossessions of the Jewish converts, "all the multitude held their peace." St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture 2011-11-28T03:00:25.013Z Even in Italy, though his general course of action was warped by wrong prepossessions, he in many instances manifested exceptional practical sagacity in dealing with immediate difficulties and emergencies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z That opinion was then, as now, the avowed result of a theoretical prepossession; and this prepossession, as the above quotations sufficiently show, was expressly repudiated by Darwin. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z He had no dogmatic prepossessions, and no professional fears. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Brant�me, on the other hand, is quite free from any political or religious prepossessions, and, indeed, troubles himself very little about any such matters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z It is owing to a prepossession that people say that genius must die early; I think that from the thirtieth to the thirty-fourth year has been indicated as the most dangerous period for genius. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z She lived in times in which various ancient prejudices and prepossessions clashed, and were becoming more and more obliterated, yielding place to new democratic ideas. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The general public had only a vulgarized smattering, mostly crystallizing about catchwords into which men read their prepossessions and their prejudices. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Unwillingly I abandon all my prepossessions in favour of holy ground and other "circumstance" of christian burial. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z They show exceptional talent and industry, but their value is impaired by the spirit of system and by strong prepossessions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z These statutes are free from feudal prepossessions as to sporting rights, and are framed rather on the lines of the Wild Birds Protection Acts than on the English game laws, but in some possessions, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Such remarks shew the strong prepossession which existed in favour of the Buccaneers, and an eagerness undistinguishing and determined after the extraordinary. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z It does mean, however, a candid facing of realities and a basing of policy on realities rather than on prepossessions or prejudices. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z And now began my search for a house, which I conducted according to my English notions and prepossessions. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z This was a fact of supreme importance in the case of a people so distinctive in point of race and temperament, and so irredeemably wedded to their own national prepossessions and prejudices as the French. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Their religious prepossessions were unchangeable, their obstinacy invincible. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z I cannot conceal from you that my prepossessions in your favour have ripened into real friendship. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z This much, indeed, we may grant without any scientific prepossessions whatever. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z I have done this in the hope of removing prepossessions, and to persuade the reader that he may accompany me abroad without any apprehension that I shall enter into controversy. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z Such were the prepossessions brought by Franklin to the controversy between Great Britain and her colonies. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Apart from all political prepossessions there can, I think, be no serious dispute as to which was the most logical and tenable contention of the three; and that this was distinctly that of the Whigs. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z He ought to have an enthusiastic prepossession in favour of his candidate. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z Investigation, if they entered upon it, would confirm their convictions, but not resting on examination, their nobler prepossessions may be displaced by passion. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Were men ever unanimous in their impressions—in their prepossessions, in the chromatic quality with which they steep every surrounding fact before they allow their critical faculties to be focussed upon it? Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z On first seriously applying ourselves to these studies, many years ago, we found it wondrous difficult to divest ourselves of prepossessions very like your own. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z I would fain side in this instance with my revered friend and Revision colleague Dr. David Brown of Aberdeen, and all my prepossessions are strongly in favour of the textus receptus here. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z The original ideas of the earth were naturally tinged by the prepossessions of each race, every one thinking his own country to be situated in the centre. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z A prepossession of this kind was an unhappy one, and easily affiliated itself with the spirit of the house, which was markedly a quarrelsome spirit. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Such a prepossession of mind must be overcome. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z To remove the odium attached to Burleigh’s prepossessions against the poet, he assumes that without the Lord Treasurer’s consent Spenser could not have received his lands or his pensions. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z On nearer view, this person, whose name was Courtland, did not belie my favourable prepossessions. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Men," he says, "are carried by a natural instinct or prepossession to repose faith in their senses. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z It is far more probable that, approaching his subject with a strong prepossession, he was positively blind to anything that told against his own view. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z To me, with my prepossessions, it was little short of marvelous how many of the days were nearly or quite cloudless. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z This was a literary hallucination, and a remarkable evidence of a favourite position maintained merely by the force of prepossession. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z For its central ideas relate to the remotest ultimates, and its dominant prepossession, the Overman, is, in the final reckoning, the creature of a Utopian fancy. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z All we can do is to suppress our own prejudices, to rid ourselves of baseless assumptions and prepossessions, and to interpret such evidence as we have honestly and literally. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z My own prepossession is still in favor of Alberti. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The opinion of Bochart on these latter points is so much the more entitled to weight, as his prepossessions would have led him to maintain an opposite system could it have been plausibly supported. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The volume is deemed “a wonderful performance,” by those echoes of contemporary prepossessions, the compilers of dictionary-biography; even the poet Cowper placed Mrs. Montague “at the head of all that is called learned.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is organically related to the mystical prepossession of the author's manner of thinking. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Among the methods of conciliation and prepossession, humour and drollery are particularly mentioned. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z We know that the philosophy of the subject is intricate and complex, and that we have the prejudices, fanaticism and prepossessions of a world to oppose and conquer. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Nevertheless there have been few moral philosophers who have, apart from the idiosyncrasies of their special prepossessions, set forth with clearer insight or with greater nobility of language the essential nature of the moral consciousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The critics have instinctively felt that this is true; and that is why their political and religious prepossessions have nearly always coloured, and perhaps must colour, every judgment passed upon him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z These prepossessions, which frequently control, are only bulwarks of classes differing economically. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z Cicero, however, overcame his prepossessions, and extorted from him a pardon. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z And so, when facts come to light which do not chime in with his prepossession, he does his best either to discredit them or to set them down as immoral, heretical or contrary to policy. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z This gave real pleasure to Ellen, who thought so well of Sir Edward, as to wish he might succeed in rendering the prepossession mutual. Mystery and Confidence, Vol. 2 A Tale 2011-01-17T03:00:56.773Z It excludes the bias of prepossessions and preconceived theories and lends itself to the discussion of results based on incontestable facts. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z They were soon quite at home on the subject of education, and Dr. Halford added no little to the prepossession he had created by listening to her anxieties respecting Freddy's health with courteous interest. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z Peoples seem older when their perennial natural youth is encumbered with more possessions and prepossessions, and they are mindful of the many things they have lost or missed. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Moreover, the absence of sensible parallaxes in the stellar heavens seemed inconsistent with its validity; and a mobile earth outraged deep-rooted prepossessions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The solution of the question depends, not only on the value which is to be attached to our authorities, but on the prepossessions and prejudices which are brought to their interpretation. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius My numerous friends counselled me according to their various temperaments and prepossessions. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician The world taken 'en masse' is a monster, crammed with prejudices, packed with prepossessions, cankered with what it calls virtues, a Puritan, a prig. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man If they differ, he is perplexed, does not know whom to believe, and decides, probably, in accordance with prepossessions of his own. How to Observe Morals and Manners This historical enquiry is accordingly all-important, and it is one which should be easy to undertake without any prepossessions, for it is hard to see upon what � priori grounds these could rest. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer Only the force of the prepossession of mathematical atomism in analytic logic can account for its failure to do so. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude He, good man, sanctioned the deeds already done, and only made through the force of their prepossessions, an addition to the dark catalogue of demons which already assailed if they did not actually possess him. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician In attempting this the writer does so not from the standpoint of the theologian or the professional clergyman, but from that of a liberal thinker with mind unfettered by any prepossession. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 In England, there is a growing taste for works which exhibit the life of the lower orders of society, though all aristocratic prepossessions appear in practice as strong as ever. How to Observe Morals and Manners Certain sayings and doings of Francis which appealed to his prepossessions are insisted upon with evident emphasis. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order "You shall hope—and we shall see," she answered, not carelessly, but rather with an honest skepticism which was willing to respect his prepossessions, but would pay them no insincere homage. The Great Miss Driver Her appearance at this time was well calculated to confirm his prepossessions in her favor. Lives of Celebrated Women He should feel inspired with a strong and awful prepossession in its favor. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The cultivation of geology began at a later period; and in every step which it has hitherto made towards sound theoretical principles, it had to contend against more violent prepossessions. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology This effect appears variously, according to the temper and previous prepossessions of those among whom it has taken place. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 My appeals were vain; they only served to confirm the prepossessions of my hearers that I was guilty. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 They hope by this proceeding, to root out all the prepossessions and unreasonable prejudices which are fixed in the minds of children. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts He had a keen perception of the fact that Miss Vane was making an enormous effort over pride and prejudice and affectionate prepossessions of all kinds in even speaking a word to Andrew Westwood's child. A Life Sentence A Novel A false theory, it is well known, may render us blind to facts which are opposed to our prepossessions, or may conceal from us their true import when we behold them. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It was some time before his prepossession allowed him to discover that she was weak and ill-informed, selfish and bad-tempered. Coelebs In Search of a Wife He allowed, also, certain political or personal prepossessions to colour the tone of his remarks from the bench. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" And his strong and awful prepossession in favor of the Bible led him, first of all, to go to the book. Prisoners of Conscience We are apt, under the influence of prepossession or prejudice, to remember certain coincidences better than others, and so to imagine extra-casual coincidence where none exists. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Old prepossessions have been effaced, erroneous opinions have been corrected, new habits of thought have taken the place of old ones and the narrow world of youth has expanded on every side. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography And I did not allow myself to make this slight sketch of Lucilla, and of the effect she produced on my heart, till more intimate acquaintance had justified my prepossessions. Coelebs In Search of a Wife McJimsey, whose prepossessions were decidedly and manifestly in favor of the attitude of his brother staff officer. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign In spite of his prepossessions against it, Shorty took naturally to Headquarters duty, as he did to everything else in the army. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys The Anthologies of Diabolical Literature may be considered, I trust, without any risk of offence to any theological or philosophical prepossession. Devil Stories An Anthology Critical estimate of Browning's poetry was for years hampered by, and cannot even yet be said to have been quite cleared from, the violent prepossessions of public opinion respecting him. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) With a distinguished frankness, M. Metchnikoff defines his attitude to our universal prepossessions. The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente In deciding a question of this nature, however, we should not allow our prepossessions to bias our judgment, nor take without allowance the opinion of those steeped in worldly wisdom, but lacking in spiritual insight. What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People For these reasons I take it for a rule, that in marriage, the chief business is to acquire a prepossession in favour of each other. The Tatler, Volume 3 “Baudelaire,” said Théophile Gautier, his master and friend, “had a singular prepossession for the devil as a tempter, in whom he saw a dragon who hurried him into sin, infamy, crime, and perversity.” Devil Stories An Anthology I am grieved, Captain Mertoun, that domestic fractions should be promulgated on our first meeting, and feel much prepossession for your corroboration of the Admiral's folly. Olla Podrida Submit, however, to no compromise with truth, but, when it allows, accommodate yourself with honest courtesy to the prepossessions of others. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Perhaps, too, they have prepossessions against it, they have already marked out their own career, they never think about the counsels, or pray for guidance. What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People This unfixed poetical prepossession, reduced to an abstract form, petrified into an idea, is the conception which gives a unity of aim to Greek philosophy. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century First, we have to remember that the scientific method is most clearly exhibited and recognised in connection with subjects about which there are no prepossessions to wound, no fears to excite, no interests to threaten. The History of Freedom His spirit was free from all other prepossession. Jena or Sedan? To do this, we must emerge from our "narrow chamber of Doctrinal and Ecclesiastical prepossessions." Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford And what is even more to the point, my mind was perfectly free from prepossession or association in connection with the place we were living in, or the people who had lived there before us. Four Ghost Stories Nine-tenths of the American nation are pacifists, either through their education and sentimental prepossession in favor of the principle, or out of a sense of commercial expediency. My Three Years in America These Quarrels of Authors are not designed to wound the Literary Character, but to expose the secret arts of calumny, the malignity of witty ridicule, and the evil prepossessions of unjust hatreds. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors She acts and sings admirably in it, and, all sisterly prepossessions apart, looks beautiful. Records of Later Life It will be perceived that prepossessions still predominate over this criticism; but they are of a different kind from those which existed earlier. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion There cannot well be a prepossession in favour of this exposition. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 This is shrewdly said, and is a good example of the readiness with which obvious truths are recognised when they do not clash with religious prepossessions. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development They had an obstinate prepossession, that, in a settled democracy like ours, the selfishness of the individual was so stimulated that he became incapable of self-sacrifice for the public good. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 I doubted that, for I was confident Mrs. Eaton had no great prepossession in my favor, but of course I let it pass. Mabel's Mistake With whatever prepossessions one looks back upon it, the ground traversed by the Church of England during the past fifty years cannot be otherwise regarded than as a field sown with mingled tares and wheat. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer I would keep my mind clear and free from prepossessions on either side. Dreamers of the Ghetto It is only a prepossession, pleasant and profitable, promising many every-day advantages. An Orkney Maid From a petty creature wrapped up in his own problems and prepossessions he would make himself over into a man worthy of the name of friend. Hidden Water But his conclusions, if general in nature and limited in range, are such as commend themselves to all minds competent to grasp the problems presented and not led astray by prepossessions. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 I believe that prepossession, and the prejudices of childhood, have much more to do with this belief than reason and experience. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Haupt with his Indian prepossessions suggests a dome surrounded by eight great domed pinnacles. Portuguese Architecture While these sectional prepossessions, imbibed by their descendants, gave to their religious persuasions, an ascendency in that section of country, which it still retains. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State And for a moment, in face of prejudices so strong, and of prepossessions so deeply rooted, he paused. The Wild Geese But, though this Christian prepossession is a perfectly legitimate one with which to begin, it is not a legitimate one in which to remain. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Will it be said that this is only the effect of imagination, prepossession, or the trickery of a clever charlatan? The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Hadn't he usually in his heart a prepossession for some young lady? The Macdermots of Ballycloran They brought with them, their religious principles, and sectional prepossessions; and acting upon those principles acquired for their infant colony a moral and devotional character rarely possessed by similar establishments. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Here, therefore, he reaches the point at which his utilitarian and his Puritanical prepossessions coincide. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice But if disbelieved, it can be done only by setting aside all the ordinary rules of evidence, and all the laws of belief, in favor of a negative prepossession of a purely empirical character. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Others have looked upon them simply as the effect of a heated imagination, or a sort of prepossession. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Hadn't he usually a prepossession in his heart for some young lady? The Macdermots of Ballycloran It is perhaps, more frequently founded in prepossession; and based on the prejudices of education and habit. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State How were they to be combined with his earlier prepossessions? The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice This is what we call the Christian prepossession. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Amidst such a general prepossession we made up our minds to say nothing; we should not only have been considered as absurd, but as infidels. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Could he swear that he had never whispered with the present object of his prepossession? The Macdermots of Ballycloran A prejudice or prepossession is grounded often on feeling, fancy, associations, etc. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Surely nothing but an early and inveterate prepossession in favour of the arrangements of Latin Grammar could ever have suggested the idea of Six Cases in Gaelic or in English. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The Christian Church is their mother; she has taught them out of this book to know God, and out of this book to pray to him, and they cannot regard it without a certain prepossession. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Some persons have denied and rejected them as chimerical, and as an effect of the prepossession and ignorance of the people of those countries, where they are said to come back or return. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. There was a great deal of hesitation about this question, but at last he was got to inform the jury on his oath that he usually—in fact always—did entertain such a prepossession. The Macdermots of Ballycloran A prepossession is always favorable, a prejudice always unfavorable, unless the contrary is expressly stated. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions "Stay not a moment, Howadji," we exclaimed, "in removing our deep-seated prepossession that New York is the most expensive place on the planet." Imaginary Interviews A prepossession often misleads the industry of active genius. Practical Education, Volume II Who cannot perceive in these words the surest marks of prepossession and fear? The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. It is, I consider, a liberal education to any person who has the slightest prepossession for art to wander through such a gallery and admire the masterpieces of these wonderful art-workers of Japan. The Empire of the East He had wanted to save her, in the one worldly way of saving her, from open shipwreck, for her own sake, against every prejudice and prepossession of his mind. The Marriage of Elinor Nevertheless she had caught from her wealthy and public-spirited relative certain prepossessions which guided her points of view. The Dust Flower It is curious to observe, how nearly he once touched upon the discovery, and yet, misled by his prepossessions, quitted his hold. Practical Education, Volume II A prepossession for speech and ideas blinds man to the important rôle in human conduct still exerted by emotional communication, facial expression, and gesture. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He began his study with a prepossession against the idea of the immense diversity of modern pigeons having originated from one common stock. Life of Charles Darwin He began his investigations with no party prepossessions, and his present views were evolved entirely from his own gradually amassed observations. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete His wife, the duchess, though aristocratic in all her prepossessions, and sympathizing not at all with her husband in his democratic views, was a woman of unblemished character, of amiable disposition, and of devoted piety. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series Give the child an equal quantity of amusement when he is not in a coach and six, and then he will form fresh pleasurable associations with other objects which may balance his first prepossession. Practical Education, Volume II They have formed or picked up their convictions, and, what is of more consequence, their prepossessions, in early manhood, which is the one period of life when men are easily impressed with new ideas. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It was my strong desire and prepossession to elevate the political arena above the revolutionary track, and to imbue the heart of the constitutional system with ideas of strong and legal conservatism. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Men," says Mr. Sumner, "are prone to find in uncertain, disconnected texts, a confirmation of their own personal prejudices or prepossessions. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Their antecedents and their prepossessions were of the East, eastern; and at their births they were introduced to scenes and began to breathe the atmosphere of the Orient. India, Its Life and Thought Some standard, some rules may be taught to them, by which they may judge of character independently of prejudice, or childish prepossession. Practical Education, Volume II As my first view of Mrs. Mott was through his prejudices, no prepossessions in her favor biased my judgment. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It was the fashion to set the Kalam over against the philosophers to the disadvantage of the former, as being deficient in logical knowledge and prejudiced by theological prepossessions. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy They mistake loyalty to their own self-esteem, loyalty to their own dogmatic convictions, mental limitations, prejudices, and prepossessions for loyalty to truth, which is a passionless, modest, lovely and noble quality. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 A striking indication of the prepossessions which controlled the authorities at Richmond was elicited by Commodore Hollins, of the Confederate Navy. Admiral Farragut This I imagine may have in part arisen from the prepossession, which has almost universally prevailed, that ideas are immaterial beings, and therefore possess no properties in common with solid matter. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life In any case the instinctive prepossessions, the tastes and favourite pursuits of the profession were essentially those of the class with which it was so intimately connected. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. And, despite the prepossession and prejudices of the multitude, they shouted unanimously as the knight rode into the tilt-yard. Coronation Anecdotes A thousand dogmas and prepossessions, the inherited treasures of thirty centuries, are his. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ They deal with directly felt fitnesses between things, and often fly in the teeth of all the prepossessions of habit and presumptions of utility. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Neither did their appearance lead to the slightest prepossession in their favour. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Every allowance should be made for their following their prepossessions, where the evidence seemed so evenly balanced. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The journey made him acquainted with the theatre of his intentions, and with the prepossessions which it gave or fostered, doubtless had a great influence upon his life and action. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Apart, then, from traditional prepossessions, examination of the Biblical narratives discloses nothing to invalidate the hypothesis which one who is acquainted with the copious record of apparent but unreal death must seriously and impartially consider. Miracles and Supernatural Religion That test, however, must be incarnated in the demand of some actually existent person; and how can he pick out the person save by an act in which his own sympathies and prepossessions are implied? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy This, however, may have been only a favourable prepossession; but it is nevertheless certain, that in no other warehouse were so many objects, alike useful and ornamental, collected together, as in that of Jussuf. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers But if we lay aside our prepossessions for antiquity, and examine these actions without prejudice, we cannot but acknowledge, that they are rather the effects of human weakness and obstinacy than of resolution and magnanimity. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World And there is every excuse for her deep-seated prepossessions against her brother Bernard's family. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls The "hypocrisy" with which Mr. Disraeli taunted them still flourishes in the form of amiable prepossessions. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 National instincts and prepossessions have lost none of their force; national character now divides neighbouring peoples more sharply, perhaps, than a hundred years ago. Studies in Literature and History No counteractive effect to this prepossession was to be found in contemporary opinion in Europe. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 Nothing could have buoyed you up against the prepossessions of nature and of custom, but a desire to fly from tyranny and oppression. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America It is curious and sad to see how very deep down are her prepossessions on that subject. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Old prepossessions and prejudices lose half their force when sea and mountains part us from their native soil. Stray Studies from England and Italy But, except these prepossessions, they have no parti pris. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets Clear-headed men became hopelessly involved, as they wrestled with each others' interpretations; and the most got no farther than sticking to their first opinions, probably reached in the majority of cases by sheer prepossession. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 So large a part of this evidence is contaminated by prepossessions, and a yet larger part is so unverified in any scientific sense, that for purposes of sound inquiry it is worthless. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Some time or other I hope to visit you, and suffer my present prepossessions to be confirmed by actual experience.’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Before entering upon the actual acquaintance with the works in the program, it is advisable for the hearer to be disabused at the outset of certain prepossessions likely to be harmful. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Small steamers, he contended, would accompany sailing fleets, to tow vessels becalmed, or disabled in battle; a most entertaining instance of professional prepossession. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Clay found his delight in dealing with some of the oratory, which on the present occasion still sustained—and for the moment successfully sustained—the prepossessions of Jefferson. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 The mind of an Author receives an early bias from prepossession, and the dislike which he conceives to a particular fault precipitates him at once to the opposite extreme. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients My own prepossessions naturally lead me to the conclusion that much of the religious machinery in operation here is unfavorable to the development of high moral character. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. This prepossession is included in the phrase which describes all serious music as "classical," as contradistinguished from that which is merely beautiful and pleasing. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations I cannot tell how far these opinions were the result of prepossession in those from whom they derived. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life All this I mention purely to obviate the prepossession of the art being so frivolous, so unworthy of the attention of the manly and grave, as it is vulgarly, or on a superficial view, imagined. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing What prepossession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary! The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I A prepossession for a particular individual usually makes one jealous of attentions bestowed by him on other persons. The Young Maiden The world taken en masse is a monster, crammed with prejudices, packed with prepossessions, cankered with what it calls virtues, a puritan, a prig. The Green Carnation I shared the prepossession, common at that time, that the naval history of the past was wholly past; of no use at all to the present. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life To whom can it be unknown that a favorable prepossession at the first sight is often of the highest advantage; and that the power of first impressions is not easily surmountable? A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Some difficulties have occurred in settling matters with my father, owing to certain prepossessions which you can easily conceive his adopting. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) The discussions always reveal the dominion of the prepossessions in the minds of the disputants which are in the mores. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals These disagreeable prepossessions were instantly dissipated, as so often happens, by personal acquaintance. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch This prepossession extended particularly to brigs, of which the navy then had several. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Here was her prepossession all the while—that the thing would seem absurd, not that there was sin in it. The King's Mirror It was true that Savonarola’s glance at Romola had some of that hardness which is caused by an egotistic prepossession. Romola It means a development and training of all useful powers which the pupil possesses, and repression of all bad prepossessions which he has inherited. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals We ask both parties to lay aside prejudice and prepossession, and examine with us this most important social question in all its bearings. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother The experiences of life, together with subsequent reading and reflection, modified and in the end entirely overcame these early prepossessions. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life On the part of Goethe there existed prepossessions no less hostile; and derived from sources older and deeper than the present transitory meeting, to the discontents of which they probably contributed. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works If they had any prepossession at all, it was in favour of joining the American States, and to this they were instigated by the number of Americans who had settled in Upper Canada. Diary in America, Series Two One only finds again the prepossessions which he brought to the consideration of the subject, returned to him with a little more intense faith. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals But old prepossession will find reason for anything. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Decatur, however, also shared, and shared inevitably, the prepossessions of his day. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The winds of the prairies swept away almost at once a mass of old habits and prepossessions. The Frontier in American History From time to time, these prepossessions are greatly strengthened by the spectacle of frauds, unheard of before the period at which they were observed, and astonishing from their complication as well as shocking from criminality. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society They are bound up with a hundred transmitted prepossessions, and they have become identified with a hundred social customs that are the most dearly cherished parts of men’s lives. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. It will be found, however, that several circumstances tended to counteract or reverse the king's favorable prepossessions. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 There are not a few who, in their prepossession for everything transatlantic, seem to be of opinion that the English language is generally better written in England than it is in America. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The phrase can scarcely be applied to the Old Testament, unless it be read through a medium surcharged with association and prepossession. The Chief End of Man The house, which was high and narrow, presented only two windows to the street, but the staircase was clean, and it was impossible to cross the threshold without feeling a prepossession in Felix's favour. In Kings' Byways He entered joyously into the tumult which the utterance of the different opinions, prejudices and prepossessions of the company became. The Coast of Bohemia Into such parts and situations as the drama could afford are impressed every possible revelation of our motives; but his model was always reality and he never yielded truth to whim or prepossession. The Facts About Shakespeare Narrow-minded prejudices and prepossessions are imbibed, through the facility, with which, in our own little community, we adopt and maintain opinions. The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young The achievements of three centuries in this direction have been made under the constant necessity of attention to reality, at whatever cost to prepossession or desire. The Chief End of Man In the next place, the earliest observations are our own, unmixed with the conclusions and prepossessions of other minds. My Contemporaries In Fiction If she suspected any prepossession elsewhere, it could not be in that quarter. Sense and Sensibility Besides, there are many so weak in their resolution as not to be capable of breaking the fetters of habit and prepossession, although they are, at the same time, sensible of their destructive consequences. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 His friendships, therefore, and no less aversions, Though oft well founded, which confirm'd but more His prepossessions, like the laws of Persians And Medes, would ne'er revoke what went before. Don Juan Miss Standish's manner was marked by all the old Covenanters' directness, and in spite of her prepossession in Nora Costello's favor, showed clearly that she looked upon her as an extremist, if not a fanatic. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes He has deliberately allowed his critical prepossessions to exclude him from all chance of greatness, but within his self-set limits he moves with a certain serene mastery, and his detail is finely accurate. My Contemporaries In Fiction "Man might be so educated that all his prepossessions would be truth, and all his feelings virtues." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power My prepossession in your favour has, I trust, been the means of preserving the lives of those who remain.” The Pacha of Many Tales I am jealous, not without cause, of ecclesiastical tendencies and prepossessions in the interpretation of the parables. The Parables of Our Lord Clearly the United States, from its very nature as a republic, could hope for no favour, in spite of the noticeably English prepossessions of Hamilton's party. The Wars Between England and America I should be heartily sorry if there were no signs of partiality and no evidence of prepossession. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 His early prepossessions, granting that they may have accorded with those of his father, were, however, soon dissipated when he allied himself with a family who had been conspicuous in the Jacobite cause. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. The same prepossessions led him to think that all the true things had been said, and one could do no better than hunt them up again for new uses. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs To settle dogmatically into this bosh-view would save labor, but it would go against too many intellectual prepossessions to be adopted save as a last resort of despair. Memories and Studies This inexplicable prepossession at first manifested itself in a religious form. The Man With The Broken Ear He went to Naples with no purposes of political propagandism, and his prepossessions were at that time pretty strongly in favour of established governments, either at Naples or anywhere else. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 He fought against his own convictions, the hereditary and ineffaceable prepossessions implanted in the heart by a parent. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. That question can, of course, not be answered in absolute terms, inasmuch as it resolves itself into a question of taste and prepossession. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Such a hovering faith as this, which refuses to settle upon any determination119, is absolutely necessary in a mind that is careful to avoid errors and prepossessions. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Written in his popular and attractive style, and thoroughly in accord with the cosmological and theological prepossessions of the age, the Discours was widely read, and passed through many editions. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work Both judgments show how far prepossession is capable of misleading the most learned men. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March But the prepossessions of Flora were unalienably engaged in favour of the exiled Stuarts; and they were not, perhaps, the less likely to glow from being necessarily suppressed. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. The reports of the trial do not, however, differentiate these points in any way, and the religious prepossession of the recorders colours every account. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology It was a great relief to his prepossessions in the form of conclusions to have Grayson appear, with the air of looking for some one, and of finding the object of his search in Godolphin. The Story of a Play A Novel Any one can see how this side of the Emersonian gospel harmonised with the prepossessions of a new democracy. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson Surrounded by such dangers, it becomes twofold the duty of an author carefully to avoid distortion in the outline of his pictures, and to keep his own soul free from unjust prepossession. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Men, I believe, are seldom struck with these sudden prepossessions in favour of each other. Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies As to people, you are less easily converted from the original prejudice—or prepossession. The Price To such a lame conclusion do these venerable prepossessions lead. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America If these do not agree with the dominant hypothesis of evolution, that is due to the brutal facts, and not to the prepossessions of the observer. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique The declared intention of easing the dissenters, and the secret purpose of favoring the Catholics, were equally disagreeable to them and in these prepossessions they were encouraged by the king's ministers themselves, particularly the chancellor. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. The assembly, when it met, paid no deference to the king's prepossessions, but gave full indulgence to their own. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Though some imaginative persons would have it otherwise, a detective may still be a man of like passions—and generous prepossessions—with other men. The Price Carelessness, prepossessions, and ignorance have disfigured them with false colors and foreign additions without number. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Our vulgar prepossession in favor of the morals of former and rude ages, is very absurd, and ill-grounded. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. But all such reflections, and many more equally obvious, were vainly employed against that general prepossession with which the nation was seized. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Montrose then hastened to Oxford where his invectives against Hamilton's treachery, concurring with the general prepossession, and supported by the unfortunate event of his counsels, were entertained with universal probation. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell That princess had imbibed a strong prepossession against the French nation, particularly against Charles, the author of all the calamities which, from her earliest infancy, had befallen her family. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary What strength of prepossession the master must have had to make the feathered pupil repeat the sound of 'Vesta,' and call me 'sweet!' The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times The first measures which Mary embraced confirmed all the prepossessions entertained in her favor. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. I am apt, therefore, to imagine, that Charles was in this particular guided chiefly by inclination, and by a prepossession in favor of the French nation. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Thus, they were full of prejudices, prepossessions, and foregone conclusions, all of which had the sanction of their culture. The Empire of Love These favorable prepossessions of the public were encouraged by the measures which Henry embraced in the commencement of his reign. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary I assure your Majesty, as a good vassal, that neither prepossession nor prejudice influences me to make this report, but the belief that I am thereby discharging the obligations of my conscience. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The national prepossessions which prevail, will perhaps render the former liberty not the least perilous for an author. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. Nay, so prevalent were his unfortunate prepossessions, that amidst all his present distresses, he could not forbear, at the baptism of the young prince, appointing the pope to be one of the god-fathers. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Outside these phases of a governing prepossession—filial, conjugal, maternal—she knew nothing, felt nothing, and could see nothing. The Emigrant Trail Nevertheless, Zwingli was a persecutor and was bound by many of the dogmatic prepossessions of his time. The Age of the Reformation His friendships, therefore, and no less aversions, Though oft well founded, which confirmed but more His prepossessions, like the laws of Persians And Medes, would ne'er revoke what went before. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Retaining still his prepossessions in favour of a military life, he cheerfully embraced this opportunity of re-entering the army. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States There was nothing in her features or air to obviate disadvantageous prepossessions. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Though early allied to Jehoshaphat and removed into the kingdom of Judah, she retained all the idolatrous prepossessions of her father's house, and she exhibited all the traits which marked her race. Notable Women of Olden Time The pure light of criticism has been crossed by the shadows of controversial prepossession on both sides. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" You are inclined to be pleased with his work, on account of the strong prepossession you entertain for his subject. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country All search and inquiry after her had been fruitless, and were the more likely to be so because they were carried on under the prepossession that she had committed suicide. Scenes of Clerical Life I imagined, by the mildness of her tone and manners, that her unfavourable prepossessions were removed; but they seemed to have suddenly regained their pristine force. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 As is always the case, he grew more and more confirmed in his ill humour, so soon as the eye of jealousy began to view everything in the light of prepossession. The Black Douglas Berenicé knew this, and with tears implored me not to sacrifice her happiness and my own to an unjust prepossession. Dialogues of the Dead But his prepossession for Cicero prevented him from much frequenting the dry and dusty walks of jurisprudence. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch He seemed unconscious of the necessity of trying to make allowance for his unavoidable prepossessions. Practical Essays She made me no answer, but somewhat in her looks seemed to evince that my favourable prepossessions were just. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Still you see the prepossession for light, but for more tempered rays and softer shadows. The Book of Art for Young People All her prepossessions are in favor of her friends in the Forest. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax The recurrence of this prepossession is illustrative of his view of possibilities. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Not, perhaps, without reason; for it was a time when political prepossessions which could not openly be declared found vent in all kinds of byways. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century A nearer scrutiny confirmed my early prepossessions; but, at the distance at which I now stood, the lofty edifices, the splendid furniture, and the copious accommodations of the rich excited my admiration and my envy. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 The controversy respecting the authorship of the "Eikon Basilike" is a remarkable instance of the degree in which literary judgment may be biassed by political prepossession. Life of John Milton In his criticism of books, as in his criticism of life, he aimed first at Lucidity—at that clear light, uncoloured by prepossession, which should enable him to see things as they really are. Matthew Arnold Its most striking characteristic is one that may be considered a fault or a virtue according to the point of view and the prepossessions of the observer. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects Her prepossessions are reasonable, but are easily removed by telling the truth. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Marbois' representations, and Luzerne's prepossessions against our trade with their colonies, occasioned him, as minister of that department, not only to reverse the ordinance, but to recall Chillon and send out a successor. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 The Norman fascination, which had been turned to such good account in England, in Italy, and in the Holy Land, had completely vanquished such English prepossessions as David might have inherited from his mother. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) We learned to discard prepossessions, and try to see things as they really are. Matthew Arnold Hence he was preparing to go to the new field with a rather strong prepossession in favor of the defendant corporation. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush My wife's prepossessions were still more powerful advocates of this youth. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Old habits, old prepossessions—even in some cases old principles—are Page 288 cast aside with a levity which even Wordsworth's young actor could not have surpassed. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences The intricacies of social problems predispose men to value an invisible Ally, and such prepossession is, as Herbert Spencer said, "nine-points of belief." Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Men write from the standpoint of some school of opinion; and, until we know their prepossessions, their statements that this is good, that is bad, the third thing is profound, are of no significance whatever. An Introduction to Philosophy We need not dissemble the truth about certain prepossessions current in Europe. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 There was something in the style of this remark, that heightened my prepossession in his favour, and made me pursue my purpose with more zeal. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The squaws and children looked askance at the strangers, but their glances were rather timid than obtrusive, and augured no unfavorable prepossessions. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance He had in the first place no prepossession in favor of the United States. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Nevertheless, it has been possible for man, under the prepossession of a mistaken philosophical theory, to assume the whole brute creation to be without consciousness. An Introduction to Philosophy The question is, which speculation is most in accordance with the known facts, and not with prepossessions only? Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 Into this elevated and artificial circle of society our youthful and unsophisticated poet was now thrown, with a mind not vitiated by any prepossessions of false taste, studious of nature and alive to the ridiculous. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Now, how may this be done, if respect be not had to the prepossessions and prejudices of mankind? The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance In particular it shows an abiding prepossession with the psychology of dreams, apparitions, and mental illusions of all sorts. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century That there should be no navy was a cardinal prepossession of his political thought, born of an exaggerated fear of organized military force as a political, factor. The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future Personal observation must always be colored by prejudices and prepossessions, but my own have been so wide, and so uniformly in one direction, that it seems justifiable to report them. Woman in Modern Society He approaches this question free from any doctrinal prepossessions whatever. Constructive Imperialism Henry VIII., a mere boy on his accession, was borne away with the prevailing stream; and trained from his childhood by theologians, he entered upon his reign saturated with theological prepossessions. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) In their praise, both the pagan and the Christian, as well as critics biased by their prepossessions in favor either of the Reformed or the Roman phase of the faith, can unite. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji He set out with classical prepossessions—forming his verse, as he declared, after Dryden—and ended with translations from Welsh and Norse hero-legends, and with an admiration for Ossian and Scotch ballads. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century During our residence, we found the interior to fall no ways short of the sanguine prepossessions we at first entertained. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time I am here to speak the truth and not to flatter the prejudices and prepossessions of any man. Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century The harder that age fights against prepossessions, born of the past, which gather round to obstruct the free operation of its mind, the longer will be the period of a happy, successful, and active life. Success (Second Edition) In its ideal properties we find the means of determining the form of equations which are valid, and to the learned detached from all metaphysical prepossession this is the essential point. The New Physics and Its Evolution Dr. Parr's judgement in this case might be somewhat influenced by his prepossessions as an Harrovian. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 Because of the gross incompetence of my Counsel, and the ridiculous adverse prepossessions of the Jury at my recent appearance in public at the C.C.C. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 What people have not examined without prepossessions, they have not examined thoroughly. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The oriental attitude does not argue a lack of brain power, but a prepossession hostile to scientific inquiry. Sex and Society No eloquence or ingenuity of argument could have availed to stem the strong current of growling prepossession. Daniel Defoe Oddly enough, on the other hand, there was a prepossession, quite as unreasoning, for Hallock. The Taming of Red Butte Western Selma was content to have it so, especially as the assertion did not jar with her own prepossessions; and thus they rode home in the summer night in the mutual contentment of a betrothal. Unleavened Bread But there were, as has been said, elements in Browning's mental make which kept this abstract and formal theory, fortified though it was by theological prepossessions, in check. Robert Browning One of the most important origins of association and prepossession is seen in the relation of parents, particularly of mothers, to children. Sex and Society They went into the jury-box with an invincible prepossession against the scheme of their opponents. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Now, this prepossession is precisely that for which the imagination of the poet makes us ready by working on our own. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays And the monuments of the past are a more solid argument than the guesses and prepossessions of the modern theorist. Patriarchal Palestine This summing-up of the case is in effect the poet's own, and is rich in the familiar prepossessions of Browning's individualist and unecclesiastical mind. Robert Browning Strindberg wrote of Gauguin's first exhibition and expressed dislike for the artist's prepossession with form, and for the savage models he chose. White Shadows in the South Seas I must be governed by stern facts—not by my own prepossessions. The Missing Bride When the light of day shone upon the earth he would be ashamed of the desire which ran counter to all his prepossessions. The Magician While these prepossessions remain, all argument is useless. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) His determination indeed did not protect him from the attacks of conscience; of certain moral instincts and prepossessions, that is, natural to a man of his birth and environment. The Mating of Lydia Since writing the above, I have read Dr. Granville’s letter on the Emperor of Russia, some passages of which seem applicable to the prepossession I have described. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time In dissenting from this view, one is not pleading for a race of reviewers without moral or religious ideas, or even prepossessions. The Art of Letters It is a prolonged analysis by a man of clear vision, and perfect balance of judgement, and no prepossessions; who was, moreover, master of the easy pellucid style that tends to maxim and epigram. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles After this prepossession, all that she had next to do, was to make sallies to our end of the town, and find out who it is her fate to have. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 In restoring the old text I had, therefore, to contend with prepossession, against which, it seems, the Rev. Mr. Dyce was not proof, although I only know it from MR. Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 We were unwilling to believe anything but the best, and it took some time to destroy our favourable prepossessions. Korea's Fight for Freedom I am wrong to spy out faults so early;—perhaps to-morrow my opinion may be different.—First prepossessions—Ah! Barford Abbey They both were acquainted with the singular prepossessions which controlled both myself and my father, and I think Mr. Dodan was himself, though he admitted nothing, most curious and interested in the whole matter. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars It is not to be imagined how far prepossession will run away with people's understandings, in cases wherein they are under present uneasiness. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 In particular he was harassed by a curiosity in regard to the "unpardonable sin," and a prepossession that he had already committed it. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Yet if it were possible entirely to lay aside one's prepossessions respecting monastic history, it would still be no easy task to estimate the influences of the monks upon human life. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Heaven knows how long that will be!—Your nonpareil has given me a dislike to all my former slight prepossessions. Barford Abbey This I think so plain that nothing but prepossession or stupidity can hinder people from comprehending it. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences These questions of a broad state of affairs are like questions of policy in that in the end their settlement depends thus largely on temperamental and practical prepossessions. The Making of Arguments Every judicious eye will see, that the author of these sheets wrote with strong passions, but with stronger prepossessions and prejudices in favour of a party. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings "It was a very lucky cheat for me, Sir Jacob; for it gave you a prepossession in my favour under so advantageous a character, that I could never have expected otherwise." Pamela, Volume II What would I have said of first prepossessions?—Is it not to them I owe a thousand blessings?—I, who have nothing to recommend me but being unfortunate. Barford Abbey In the pieces on the American war, on the contrary, Burke was conscious that he could trust nothing to the sympathy or the prepossessions of his readers, and this put him upon an unwonted persuasiveness. Burke On this point knowledge of your readers, of their acquaintance with the subject, and of their prepossessions will count as much as knowledge of the subject when you come to the arguments of practical life. The Making of Arguments The having them with any urgency and persistence implies strong spiritual prepossessions: men must be self-possessed with their higher self, with their spirit. Essays Æsthetical This evangelizing prepossession of Arnold's mind must be recognized in order to understand alike his attitude of superiority, his stiffly didactic method, and his success in attracting converts in whom the seed proved barren. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 And, First: That the business of prepossession may lead and betray a man into a false judgment of his own heart. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 A man of strong prepossessions and prejudices, he allowed them to colour his narratives, and particularly his portraits; but he cannot be charged with dishonesty. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Differences in thy prepossessions of your audience and in their knowledge of the subject have, therefore, a direct and practical effect on the planning of your argument. The Making of Arguments Character seen in action is always his prepossession; plot is naught save as it exhibits this. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Washington, on the contrary, harbored no prepossessions for or against the black man. George Washington For Racine, with his prepossessions of sublimity and perfection, some such barrier between his universe and reality was involved in the very nature of his art. Books and Characters French and English The form underlying public opinion is sound common sense, which is a fundamental ethical principle winding its way through everything, in spite of prepossessions. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Enter the audience for whom your argument might be written, and note what you think would be their knowledge of the subject, and their prepossessions toward it. The Making of Arguments Narrow-minded prejudices and prepossessions are imbibed through the facility with which, in our own little community, we adopt and maintain opinions. The Teacher I cannot understand a prepossession like this on your part. The Precipice When we reached the undressing-room, this prepossession was still further strengthened. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 565, September 8, 1832 Anything great and rational is eventually sure to please public opinion, to be espoused by it, and to be made one of its prepossessions. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Always, one must remember that the burden of proof depends on the prepossessions of the audience, and that on the same question it may change within a moderately small number of years. The Making of Arguments He was quite ready to submit his prepossessions to the test and limitation of facts. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 This question is one by no means easy to answer, and the solution of it must obviously depend to some extent on the moral surroundings and prepossessions of the person who undertakes to answer it. Progressive Morality An Essay in Ethics Now this favourable presumption with regard to human beings is not a causeless prepossession, it is no idle superstition of the mind, nor is it a natural instinct. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice He exposes the fallacy of that prepossession, by laying open the sources from whence the English have sprung. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV Note whether the burden of proof is with you or against you, taking into account the probable prepossessions of the audience you have selected. The Making of Arguments He is at least as likely as the expert to tell the reader all that he wants to know, and at least as likely to be free from bias and injurious prepossession. Studies in Literature The thing that impressed me most about him, aside from the prepossession in his favor due to the faith of Alma Willard, was the nerve he displayed, whether guilty or innocent. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 M. Renan, at any rate, does not think this an illusion of Christian prepossessions, a fancy picture of a mythic age of gold, of an unhistorical period of pure and primitive antiquity. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 Mr. Smith's character grew upon his friends by intimacy, and exceeded the strongest prepossessions which had been conceived in his favour. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV But when you get out into the world, you will have to consider in each case the needs and prepossessions of the particular audience. The Making of Arguments Jefferson's arguments, when read with the prepossessions of the present day, are so apt to leave an impression of absurdity that they constitute a troublesome episode for his biographers. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism An imperfect sympathy with the prepossessions of one's environment may often lead the unwary talker to give a totally erroneous impression of his meaning. Collections and Recollections But energetic fervour in prayer was, she thought, of no use,—nay, was likely to be most dangerous, when used in furtherance of human prepossessions and desires. John Caldigate From the bosom of the retirement where I have been secluded for these 15 years, I can judge, without prepossession, of the extraordinary revolution in manners which has lately taken place. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 So in a debate on the "closed shop," in most workingmen's clubs the negative would be able to accomplish little, for the other side would be intrenched in the prejudices and prepossessions of the audience. The Making of Arguments The party prepossessions and party expectations of his constituents alone make it possible for them to think and feel with him. Human Nature in Politics Third Edition This prepossession, powerful in every case, becomes doubly so, if the step be taken at a time when the religion adopted seems more readily to pave the way for the temporal prosperity of the proselyte. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author It would be so manifest that this morsel of evidence had been falsely concocted, that no clear-headed man, let his prepossessions be what they might, could doubt it. John Caldigate She indulged in no sentiment, had no poetic prepossession concerning the people she protected and worked for, but the dominant sense of duty carried her through all difficulties. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II Name three questions in which the evidence would be affected by temperamental and other prepossessions of the witness. The Making of Arguments It remain'd to dissolve another still more irrational prepossession, that a Taylor cannot be a Poet. An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects Another incident, microscopic, and almost too ludicrous to mention, had no less its weight in the scale of prepossession. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 The unpleasant sensation that is produced by modesty, is amply compensated by the prepossession it creates in our favour. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832 If she had not been under the effect of an early prepossession in favour of Walter, she might have doubted the sincerity of his statement, as it came from his own mouth. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII You begin a new acquaintanceship with perhaps not very charitable prepossessions; these later a deeper and better knowledge removes, and where you have before seen an idiosyncrasy you come to love a character. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge I believed that it was in vain to hope to recover the favourable prepossession and tranquillity I had lately enjoyed. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Byron hesitated at first; ancient prepossessions made him attribute this rupture to a partial convulsion, the ultimate effort of a being ready to breathe the last sigh. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 Over and over again he repeated this to his Medicean patrons; but they compelled him to build, and he applied himself with the predilections and prepossessions of a plastic artist to the task. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Might he not be precipitated into some further defence or confession, which might fortify suspicions still battling against her prepossessions, and diminish her love? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII The historian has had his mind full of prepossessions derived from ancient reading, and has, generally, been seated three thousand miles across the water, where the work of personal comparison was impossible. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers It is your business to create in those who hear you a prepossession in your favour. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Their offence is that they are free, and that their habits and prepossessions are those of Freedom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Napier describes battles scientifically, and Carlyle revolutions melodramatically,—each with original power, in their respective methods,—while Miss Strickland brings to the record of queenly sorrows and duties a woman's sympathetic prepossessions. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Let us look for it without any manner of prepossession or prejudice. The Existence of God Consistently with such prepossessions, they held obstinately to the notion of some beginning, and therefore some ending of the ordered world. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern The notice Mr. Falkland bestowed on her in return, appeared sufficiently encouraging to a mind so full of prepossession as that of Emily. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Apart from any natural prepossession in my own favour, I believed I was. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty She was by no means beautiful; but, as in other matters, I have my own prepossessions on the subject of beauty. A Hero of Our Time It may take him two or three years to come even on it; but it is a prepossession with him. Her Father's Daughter A more accurate view of the character and conduct of Julian will remove this favorable prepossession for a prince who did not escape the general contagion of the times. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 With this favorable prepossession they summoned to their aid the science, or rather the language, of Metaphysics. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 I hope it may not be my worthy friend Mr Aaron, for, to tell you the truth, Mortimer, I doubt he may have a prepossession against me. Our Mutual Friend As for political prepossessions, they had nothing to do with the question. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon And despite the prepossessions and prejudices of the multitude, they shouted unanimously as the knight rode into the tiltyard, The second glance, however, served to destroy the hope that his timely arrival had excited. Ivanhoe The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favorite. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The notice was too short after so long a prepossession the other way. David Copperfield No social interest, no personal prepossession, has attracted them to my work.' Life and Letters of Robert Browning The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonize with its temporary intellectual prepossessions. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature In fine, I conceived at first sight equal disgust for her, and prepossession in favour of her Husband, whose appearance was calculated to inspire esteem and confidence. The Monk; a romance The fat boy's perception being slow, he looked rather puzzled at first to account for this sudden prepossession in his favour, and stared about him in a very alarming manner. The Pickwick Papers He had never freed himself from the shackles of early prepossessions. Tracks of a Rolling Stone It is a prepossession which all of us received in our infancy with our first lessons in grammar, that collective nouns, the names of genera and species, do not designate realities. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery In neither of these cases was telepathy or the prepossession of the medium a possible explanation. The Vital Message I verily believe that spight and passion would have killed her, had I not luckily discovered her prepossession in favour of Cherry Brandy. The Monk; a romance It shocked him a little that she should give him so marked a lead: it did not tally altogether with his prepossessions about the modesty of the feminine temperament. Of Human Bondage It opens his designs to his family, it introduces you among them, it diffuses through the party those pleasantest feelings of our nature, eager curiosity and warm prepossession. Emma Rosamond could not avoid meeting her glance, could not avoid putting her small hand into Dorothea's, which clasped it with gentle motherliness; and immediately a doubt of her own prepossessions began to stir within her. Middlemarch Not merely do the legislature and the executive thereby acquire in the highest degree a specialist character, but there disappears from public life that passionate prepossession which elsewhere is the characteristic note of party politics. Freeland A Social Anticipation At all events, what ever steps you may take, what ever may be the Duke's decision, till you know it let me beg your forbearing to strengthen by your presence Antonia's prepossession. The Monk; a romance I say the most permanent, because I know myself well, and how far I can promise either on my prepossessions or powers. The Letters of Robert Burns Mr. Smith's character grew upon his friends by intimacy, and outwent the strongest prepossessions which had been conceived in his favour. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 It hurried me beyond the narrow limits of prejudices and prepossessions, and transported me wherever it pleased. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor I see very plainly, girl, said my uncle, your prepossession, your fond prepossession, for the person of a man without morals. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 It encourages me to indulge my prepossession in his favour; and you know not with what pain I should have repressed the sentiment! The Monk; a romance Can no honest man have a prepossession for a fine woman, but he must run his head against an intrigue? The Letters of Robert Burns From such prepossessions Milton seems not to have been free. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 I therefore began and continued to read him with all the prepossession that an author himself could wish in his favour. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Permit me, my dear Mamma, to pursue my needleworks in your presence, as one of your maidens; and you shall be witness, that it is not either wilfulness or prepossession that governs me. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Influenced by many subordinate considerations, it will select those requirements which are most easily performed, most calculated to attract public attention, or most conformable to natural prepossessions. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II But the sentiments and prepossessions of the writer disappear from the narrative of Scripture. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Since you seriously ask my opinion, my lord, I must lay aside my own prepossessions, and endeavour to speak with impartiality. Tales and Novels — Volume 06 So uncontrollable were his prepossessions, that Mr. Hunter conceived he would have died had not the dog which inflicted the wound been found and brought into his room in perfect health. The Dog She was then pleased to charge me with prepossession and prejudice. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 What is difficult to some, may prove comparatively easy to others, whose constitutional tendencies or mental prepossessions are of another description. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II In opposition to the whole world, its prepossessions, reproofs, revilings, persecutions, and contempt? Anna St. Ives A citizen of the American Republic, he is free alike from national prejudices and national prepossessions; if he is perhaps not uniformly correct in his inferences, his rigorous impartiality is always conspicuous. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places He was even determined to make that rival his friend, notwithstanding the prepossession which, he clearly perceived, Mr. Vincent felt against him. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Whilst prepossessions were thus strong, the time, the important time, in Ireland the most important season of the year, the assizes, arrived. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Still the fact remains that upon ordinary human nature, without regard to religious prepossessions, the record of the Maid's life, as brought out at her trial, makes an impression of the marvelous. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Let us not then despise, or teach the other sex to despise, the traditional maxims of experience, or those early prepossessions, which may be termed prejudices, but which in reality serve as their moral instinct. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 Such extraordinary prepossessions to a particular person must be owing to extraordinary prepossessions in another's favour! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Lady Delacour received him with all the politeness imaginable; and even her prepossessions in favour of Clarence Hervey could not prevent her from being struck with his appearance. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Upon this occasion national prejudice heightened the prepossession which circumstances had raised. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 I had been too much given to the attempted production in myself of effects to justify the vague theories towards which my inborn prepossessions carried me. Wilfrid Cumbermede Some allowance must no doubt be made for early prepossession. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 All this, Clarissa, makes your prepossession in a certain man's favour the more evident. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 By strength of mind, and timely exertion, she had prevented her prepossession from growing into a passion that might have made her miserable. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 It has however served to weaken her prepossessions, and relax the chains of her attachment. Imogen A Pastoral Romance Lord Mowbray, by several other slight anecdotes, which he introduced with happy effect, contrived to please Mr. Montenero; and if any unfavourable prepossession had existed against him, it was, I thought, completely removed. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 He sees nothing obscure in physic, nothing doubtful, nothing difficult, and through an impetuous prepossession, an obstinate confidence, a coarse common sense and reason, orders right and left purgatives and bleedings, and hesitates at nothing. The Imaginary Invalid What doubts, what jealousies, what want of tenderness, what unfavourable prepossessions, will there be, in a matrimony thus circumstanced! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 In their first essay of foreign travel, our British youths generally carry with them too ample a share of national prepossession and presumption. Paris as It Was and as It Is Perhaps he bribed our judgment a little at first by the kind, affectionate manner in which he spoke of you; but, independently of this prepossession, we should, I hope, soon have discovered his merit. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 I record with quite a different intention these facts, to mark the effect of circumstances in changing my own prepossessions. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Those persons who are most enlightened, frequently cling on some side to the general prepossession. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Indeed, your brother and sister cannot go any where, but they hear of these prepossessions. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Let us then, if possible, raise ourselves above these clouds of prepossession! The System of Nature, Volume 1 My love," said Mrs. Percy, "I have no pleasure but that you should please yourself and judge for yourself, without referring to any prepossession of mine. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 The feeling of party spirit, which is caught by children as quickly as it is revealed by men, now combined to strengthen still more and to exasperate my early prepossession. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 In spite of the substance of her speech, and the circumstances under which Delmé saw her, he could not avoid feeling an involuntary prepossession in her favour. A Love Story Indeed, my beloved Miss Howe, I am ashamed to have your mother say, with ME in her view, 'What strange effects have prepossession and love upon young creatures of our sex!' Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 But for an old prepossession—an unconquerable prepossession—in favour of the old minstrel, I think I should prefer this to either the Lay or Marmion. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 It might be unjust, but she owned that it was a prepossession she could not conquer. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 My early prepossessions and antipathies, my mother's presentiments, and prophecies of evil from the connexion with the Monteneros, the prejudices which had so long, so universally prevailed against the Jews, occurred to me. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 A committee of a local bar is unavoidably subject to some local influences or prepossessions. The American Judiciary I am charged with prepossession in another person's favour. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 How long he stood there, and how utterly he had yielded to the strange prepossession of his dream, he scarce realized until he heard a soft voice close behind him. The Wheel O' Fortune Her parents now, as in Mr. Gresham's case, did not suffer their own tastes or prepossessions to interfere with her happiness. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 I perceived that he was aware of what I had hoped had escaped his penetration—my mother's prepossession against him and his daughter. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 It is confidently hoped that similar instances of unfavourable prepossession, may be corrected by the same means. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey My prepossessions must be very strong; doubtless some of the readier faculties have been left out in my mental constitution. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories I am not of those who explain this steadfastness by a theory of early prepossession on Hawthorne's part, blinding him to Pierce's errors or defects. A Study of Hawthorne They had heard much, also, of the beauty and urbanity of the inhabitants: the mode of their reception was calculated to confirm their favorable prepossessions. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Evidence that would have been convincing in ordinary cases was of no weight against the general prepossession. Among My Books First Series So they chose, by a fine instinct of humility rather than from any dogmatical prepossessions, the name that expresses, in its most absolute and roughest form, the notion of bondage and servitude. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts What has filled you with these hideous prepossessions? Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker We draw Him to our sides when we wish and try to grasp the real facts concerning Him, whether they coincide with our prepossessions or not. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke This seems perfectly natural to anyone who considers the following facts: The sharp distinction between the mind and the body is, as we shall find, a very ancient and spontaneous uncritical savage prepossession. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform |
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