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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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
The ominous shadow of the night, the sequent gloom of the morning were gone; in their place rode an almost giddy hopefulness to which no scheme seemed too fanciful, no plan without its promise.
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
Do they not feel that the volition has a metaphysical possibility as well as that the sequent of the volition has a physical possibility?
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
The human volition is but the divine, manifested through a lengthened it may be, but a connected and necessary chain of antecedents and sequents.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
And so also we are blameworthy or praiseworthy for doing or not doing external actions, so far only as these actions are naturally connected with volitions, as sequents with their stated antecedents.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
Hence volitions are necessary; and, to carry out the reasoning, it must be added likewise that the connexion between volitions and their sequents is equally necessary.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
As the volition itself appears by an absolute necessity in relation to the individual man, so also do the stated sequents or effects of volition appear by an absolute necessity in relation to him.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
The relation of will to the sequents of its volitions, is not necessarily the same as its relation to its volitions.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan