Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensibilities
Literary usage of Insensibilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"... insensibilities, are agreeable to the Doctrine of Vibrations. NUMBNESS, being
a diminution of sensibility, ought, according to the doctrine of ..."
2. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"... insensibilities, are agreeable to the Doctrine of Vibrations. NUMBNESS, being
a diminution of sensibility, ought, according to the doctrine of ..."
3. Bible Defence of Slavery: And Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race by Josiah Priest (1852)
"C., in all ages—insensibilities of the negroes to bodily pain— Meanness of the
negro spirit—Their cruelties to their slaves—With many other curious matters. ..."
4. Bible Defence of Slavery: And Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race by Josiah Priest (1852)
"... and many of the Africans—Respecting their appetites—-Cannibalism, &c., in all
ages—insensibilities of the negroes to bodily pain— Meanness of the negro ..."
5. The Major Symptoms of Hysteria: Fifteen Lectures Given in the Medical School by Pierre Janet (1907)
"She had a great number of disturbances of sensibility, consisting both of pains
and diffuse insensibilities. Among all these miseries, there appeared from ..."
6. An Epitome of The Synthetic Philosophy by Herbert Spencer, Frederick Howard Collins (1890)
"... and recognizing only the trait common to them; the fact to be observed is,
that these abnormal insensibilities are inevitably interpreted in the same ..."
7. The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir (1897)
"Says Spencer : " He witnesses insensibilities various in their degrees. ...
him that the insensibility of death is like all the other insensibilities. ..."
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