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The faculty of feeling, modified in every organ, perceives those qualities for which the peculiar structure of the organ is fitted; and all the various sensations of sound, colour, taste, smell, resistance, and temperature, find appropriate organs by which they are perceived, without mixing with, or confounding each other.

Here, however, the sources of knowledge are so definite and conspicuous, that we are in no danger of confounding the knowledge gained from studying them with the results of abstract contemplation.

At those times, I would decide conclusively that my disaffection to dear old Joe and the forge was gone, and that I was growing up in a fair way to be partners with Joe and to keep company with Biddy,-when all in a moment some confounding remembrance of the Havisham days would fall upon me like a destructive missile, and scatter my wits again.

It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar's posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor's shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb's boy.

Some of them seized my cake, and carried it piecemeal away; others flew about my head and face, confounding me with the noise, and putting me in the utmost terror of their stings.

” His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: “My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.

Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

I insist upon it that people finally cease confounding philosophical workers, and in general scientific men, with philosophers-that precisely here one should strictly give "each his own," and not give those far too much, these far too little.

The third day Nikolay induced his brother to explain his plan to him again, and began not merely attacking it, but intentionally confounding it with communism.

Snagsby to and fro, and up and down, and to piece suspicious circumstances together-and every circumstance that has happened has been most suspicious; and in this way she has pursued her object of detecting and confounding her false husband, night and day.

I believe I have been confounding myself with the bad boy who "didn't care", and became food for lions-a grander kind of going to the dogs, I suppose.

' I dismiss this as reifying a purely mental phenomenon, plus it's too confounding for my developmental stage.

" And "vagina" was too confounding altogether.

(Delightful, and a bit confounding to we Northerners who can't believe what a sleepy Southern city this still is.

Confounding our initial assumption, the spot prompts us to question why this kind of discrimination is accepted--even legal in 41 states, a fact the narrator tells us "most Americans don't know.

Nature has done a wonderful job of confounding "speculation" on forms of life so far, Myhrvold is, in effect, taking scientists to task for not letting their imaginations run riot.

" It seems the pope enjoys confounding his critics.

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