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But there is no indication that sub sequent crops on the same land are affected by the chemical dousing.
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Bellow's sub sequent novel, Henderson the Rain King, rambled even more; and in Herzog the tension has snapped completely in a flood of good will.
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Parents, physician, and nurses no doubt witnessed from day to day such anomalous and changeful manifestations, sequent upon the administration of “physic,” as confounded their judgments, and made them at last suspect “an evil hand.”
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
To have contrived such an elaborate allegory, so welded link by sequent link together, seems an exercise of logical patience to which Blake would hardly have submitted his passionate genius, his overstrained and wayward will.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
In the usages of mothers and nurses, it is interesting to observe with what persistence survives the conception that the initial action of the series determines the character of events sequent in order.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson) Bergen
We have seen how every volition is connected with its motive; how the motive lies in a pre-constitution; how the series of antecedents and sequents necessarily runs back and connects itself with the infinite wisdom.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
Now it must be supposed to have a connexion by a chain of sequents and antecedents with a first cause.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
What we observe in relation to all causes—not ourselves, whether they be self-conscious or not, is not the nisus, but the sequents of the nisus.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
Thus in men we do not observe the volition or nisus in their wills, but the phenomena which form the sequents of the nisus.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
Absolute and necessary connexion of all sequents and antecedents in nature.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan