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I remarked that I had bought her earlier works to satisfy myself of the successiveness of her convictions, as expressed in her writings, and thought she rightly described them as being intrinsically progressive.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

On the other hand, any two particulars of which I am aware are either simultaneous or successive, and their simultaneity or successiveness is sometimes itself a datum to me.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

His real objection to so-called Parliaments, it will be found, lay in the association with them of the ideas of shiftingness, interruptedness, successiveness, the turmoil and debauchery of successive general elections.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David

And if not can the acts by whose intrinsic uniqueness and successiveness time becomes filled for me and by which I feel time's sensible passage as swift or slow, lose their individuality?

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.