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Apart from its irreconcilableness with many of his most emphatic judgments, Mr. Carlyle's doctrine about Nature's registration of the penalties of injustice is intrinsically an anachronism.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John

The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never was a crueller comment upon the irreconcilableness of these two things.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

The more this doctrine obtained root and life in the convictions of men, the more strongly its irreconcilableness with the ordinary theology must have made itself felt by fearless and competent thinkers.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Her husband had turned out to be no better than an adventurer; had spent her fortune, which in consequence of the irreconcilableness of her family was less than he expected, and had broken her heart.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William