A moderate degree of impressibility which is almost universal in the South, belongs to more than half in the North. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
Our whole being is enriched, and made stronger and fuller by true impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
It may be added, that a capacity thus derived from religious impressibility, extended to. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Lincoln shared the impressibility of the community in which he grew up; no more, no less. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
To the natural impressibility of the southron, the Louisianian adds the enthusiasm of the Frenchman. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
First, there is in this temperament a certain pliability and impressibility, as compared with the rest of the Anglo-Saxon race; it shows a finer grain and a nicer touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
First, the quality of his judgment and the impressibility of his imagination are tested by a series of experiments as delicate as the atmospherical gauges of a barometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
Its close connection with the region of impressibility called. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9] Reference
This impressibility has even been made the subject of criticism. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of Gen Robert E Lee]
It is true in practice just to the extent of human impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6] Reference
Our system of Anthropology relies, for its demonstration, upon human impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
The cinematograph film is that brick wall raised to the nth power of impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference
They gain a peculiar strength, but lose in tenderness, elasticity, and impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Fear and grief diminish the impressibility of this tissue, while hope and joy increase it. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference
Mental impressibility is dependent upon intellectual organs, which feel the influences of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
To her alert impressibility, the sickness and apprehension it inclosed were something tangible. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
But such impressibility leads both ways: it may drive one to desperation as soon as to anything better. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Superior impressibility is then the result of a superior development of the organs which feel the various impressions. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
That he was a man of genius appears unmistakably in his impressibility by the deeper meaning of the epoch in which he lived. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
Mental and nervous impressibility being dependent upon these organs, it follows that a large development of the front lobe favors. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
Physiology, whose name is identified with one of the most remarkable discoveries of the age, the impressibility of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1] Reference
A sustained impressibility towards the mysterious conditions of man's everyday life, towards the very mystery itself in it, gives. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
In the Southern States of the Union, thirty or forty per cent. of the population will give at once distinct evidence of impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
He had betrayed no sense of suffering, no impressibility by pain; why should he not be willing, seeing he was always able to meet the end?. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing] Reference
As the effects of the poison wear off, which even in favorable cases takes months, the impressibility returns but never reaches normality again. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
A new element had appeared at the polls and both of the old parties began to exhibit a certain degree of impressibility to the latest attraction. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
I have an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
I hive an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
The early anecdotes give us the poetic impressibility and the enduring muscular fibre, that make themselves felt through the lively, facile nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia] Reference
In childhood impressibility is high, but until the age or four or five the duration of impression is low, and likewise the power of voluntary recall. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
As time goes on impressibility seems first of all to be lost, so that it becomes harder and harder to learn new things, to remember new faces, new names. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
In parting with the little occupations and relics that reminded her of Hartright, she seems to have parted with all her tenderness and all her impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
Admirable as Margaret appeared in public, I was yet more affected by this peculiar mingling of impressibility and power to influence, when brought within her private sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference
An enlarged pupil of the eye will be one of the best symptoms, and, in connection with a calm, spiritual, gentle expression of countenance rarely fails to indicate impressibility. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
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