10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRACTABLENESS»
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tractableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tractableness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes
Tractableness. How is this implied ? A little child shall lead them and rule them. It
is a true sign of grace when we become easy to be ruled and brought in compass
. We read of lions to have been tamed to draw in chariots ; this is tractableness.
Richard Sibbes, Alexander Balloch Grosart,
1864
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Synonyms and Antonyms: Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites
Dubious. Ant. Unquestionable. Incontrovertible. Contumact, n. Contumacia, from
temnere, to despise authority, or tumere, to swell against it. Stn. Rebelliousness.
Stubbornness. Res- tiveness. Waywardness. Self-will. Un- tractableness.
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A complete dictionary of the English language
use ; tractableness, easiness to be governed. MANAGEMENT. min'-nldzh- mcnt.
s. Conduct, administration ; practice, transaction, dealing. MANAGER, man'-ni,
Jzh-6r. s. One who has the conduct or direction of any thing ; a roan ot" frugality, ...
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The instruction of youth in Christian piety. From the Fr
Of Tractableness. This is one of the first, and chief virtues of youth, which being
blind, subject to many faults, and not able to conduct itself, is under an absolute
necessity of being guided by others more knowing, and submitting itself to their ...
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel ...
2. Piece (of land), part, portion, parcel, plot, patch. 3. Treatise, dissertation,
pamphlet, essay. Tractability, n. Docility, tractableness. Tractable, a. Docile,
manageable. Tractableness, n. Docility, tractability. Traction, n. Drawing, pulling,
draught.
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The Instruction of Youth in Christian Piety: ...with a Very ...
And in a word, that during your youth, tractableness and submission to the
instruction of others is so necessary, that on this virtue depends your good
education, your advancement in virtue, your happi- nese in this life, and your
eternal ...
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Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
Hyweddlad, s. m. (hywedd) A rendering conformable, or tractable, a breaking in,
a taming, a conforming or becoming tractable. Hyweddiant, ». m. (hywedd)
Tractableness; aptitude. Tair catnc hyweiddlant lafth ; a ddëclllr, a hoffir, ar a
gredir.
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English Synonymes: with copious Illustrations and ...
A young person ought to be ductile to imbibe good principles : the want of docility
may spring from a defect in the disposition ; the want of tractableness may spring
either from a defect in the temper, or from self conceit ; the want of ductility lies ...
[Wollstonecraft quotes from Rousseau's comments on the tractableness of
women] . . . "There results," he continues, "from this habitual restraint a
tractableness which women have occasion for during their whole lives, as they
constantly remain ...
William Godwin, Gary Handwerk, A.A. Markley,
2000
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order
... in the disposition ; the want of tractableness may spring either from a defect in
the temper, or from self-conceit ; the' want of ductility lies altogether in a natural
stubbornness of character : docility, being altogether independent of the
judgment, ...