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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

Psychic Propensities of Dogs compared with those of Cats Though dogs are, perhaps, rather more alarmed at the Unknown than cats, I do not think they have a keener sense of its proximity.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott

The great power of his Animal Propensities would give him strong temptations to waste; but the combination just mentioned would impose a powerful restraint.

From Phrenological Development of Robert Burns From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834 by Combe, George

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