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Propensities inherited         If some fortuitous circumstance places promising chil- 61:15 dren in the arms of gross parents, often these beautiful         children early droop and die, like tropical         flowers born amid Alpine snows.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

Propensities, Natural, effect on voluntariness of acts, 54.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

Propensities, passions, desires, inclinations, aspirations, capacities, powers, stand up side by side and press against each other, either to please or fret and chafe each other.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

All Constitutional Propensities good, and designed to be gratified.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas