10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RELUCTATION»
Discover the use of
reluctation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
reluctation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reading Victorian Poetry
... from instruments of torture; device, strain, intolerable interludes. In the
passage's most brilliant line the rhythm of the poem merges with the gasps of the
victim. The '[r]elapse and reluctation' of her breath figures the resistance or
reluctation ...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
RELUCTATION. n.f. [reluctor, Lat.] Re- sgnaacc; resistance. — The king prevailed
with te prince, though not without some' reluctation. aeon. — Adam's fin, or tbe
curse upon it, did not :prive him of his rule, but left the creatures to a bellion or ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1816
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works
... but left the creatures to a rebellion or reluctation. And therefore if you note it
attentively, when this charter was renewed unto Noah and his sons, it is not by
the words, You shall have dominion ; but, Your fear shall be upon all the beasts
of the ...
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis,
1860
Nor as Rabbi Solomon takes it; he takes it for a petition, and no reluctation; but, a
petition, that God would send Joshua; for, (says that rabbi) Moses had had a
revelation, that Joshua, and not he, should be the man, that should bring that
people ...
John Donne, Henry Alford,
1839
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. ...
But this subverteth all government: neither did Adam's sin, or the curse upon it,
deprive him of his rule, but left the creatures to a rebellion or reluctation. And
therefore if you note it attentively, when this charter was renewed unto Noah and
his ...
Francis Bacon, David Mallet,
1740
6
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. ...
The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason, as to the will of man ; so
that as we are to obey his law, though we find a reluctation in our will; so we are
to believe his word, though we find a reluctation in our reason. For if we believe ...
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Works of Francis Bacon: 3
5 That is, estceming those actions good which are attended with clearness and
composure of mind, those had which proceed with dislike and reluctation—(
aclianer pm lmnis (mt "Ill"! hnbeuti-s. p-out u- rmima, mom puro at irrefi'acto, aut
contra ...
1 The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man ; so
that as we are to obey his law though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to
believe his word though we find a reluctation in our reason. For if we believe ...
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis,
1863
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The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His ...
But, of all these, that we may single out our last and utmost remedy, here must be
a zealous reluctation to evil. All those other negative carriages, of not
commanding, not counselling, not consenting, not soothing, not abetting, not
sharing, are ...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt,
1808
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A Treatise of Justification
... a reluctation os the Spirit against the evill, which the flesh affecteth 5 and a
reluctation of the flesh against that good, which is willed by the Spirit. By reason
os this conflict it comes to passe, that as the sinnes ol the saithfull are sinnesos ...