10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSUEFACTION»
Discover the use of
assuefaction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
assuefaction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The primordial metaphor
Surely enough, once we destroy all preexisting Platonic ideas we destroy God.15
The sense of priority inherent in each situation or circumstance prompts us to
respond to the appeal it issues forth; in other words, we must achieve
assuefaction ...
2
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received ...
For rght and lest as parts inservient unto the motive saeulty, are differenced by
degrees from use and assuefaction, assuefaction, according whereto the one
grows stronger, and oft. timesþigger 2 33 * Enquirie: into Vnlger si Book 4.
3
James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays
Joyce used Saintsbury, choosing a specimen passage which is carefully marked
out in scanned feet. He avoids direct quotation except for 'Assuefaction unto
anything minorates the passion for it' 20 which he turns into 'Assuefaction
minorates ...
Clive Hart, David Hayman, 1977
4
A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution
83 James Joyce in Ulysses parodied Browne's phrase “forget not how
assuefaction unto any things minorates the passion from it” into “assuefaction
minorates atrocities.”84 Browne's style, like his ideas, could be dazzling,
disconcerting and, ...
Ivan Bunn, Gilbert Geis, 2005
5
Care of the Psyche: A History of Psychological Healing
In discussing how "the Antipathy of beasts towards one an other, may be taken
away by assuefaction," Digby observed, "Any aversion of the fantasy may be
mastered not only by a more powerfull agent upon the present sense, but also by
...
... diminishing response because of assuefaction, for instance, is not considered.
The reason we do not wish to push it farther is that it appears too easy, rather
than too difficult, to answer such questions at a qualitative level — which may be
as ...
James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld, Andras Pellionisz, 1993
7
Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce
It is "a choppy Latin gossipy bit, style of Burton-Browne" (Letters I.139): "
Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics)" (U 14.383-
384). In plain English this adage means "Becoming accustomed to horrors
mitigates their ...
8
A New English Dictionary of the English Language: A to K
The received story of Milo, who by daily lifting a calf, attained an ability to carry ft
being a bull, is a witty conceit, and handsomly sets forth the efiicacy of
assuefaction. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 18. For so (to say nothing of such as
by ...
9
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
Assuefaction minorates atrocities - That is, the act of becoming accustomed to
atrocities ... Part III, section 10, that memento mori are not effective: "Forget not
how assuefaction unto anything minorates the passion from it, how constant
objects ...
10
The roots of psychology: a sourcebook in the history of ideas
Nor is the acquisition of a Habit by assuefaction proper only to Man, but is
common also to all Living Creatures, such especially as are used to the hand and
government of Man, as Horses, Doggs, Hawks, and all prating and singing Birds.
