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But I would look for a remedy not to brute convulsions, but to the natural supervenience of a more able sovereign.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But I would look for a remedy not to brute convulsions, but to the natural supervenience of a more able sovereign. 

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The mere “representation” does not include the further supervenience of consciousness: it represents, but it is not as yet necessary that we should also be conscious that there is representation.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich