Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Love is “desire to enjoy beauty”; and nourished by the spiritual senses of sight and hearing alone, it is temperate, ascensive, morally beneficient. From Wordnik.com. [PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE] Reference
The vapors were of a violet-gray color and seemingly very dense, for, although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force, they retained to the zenith their rounded summits. From Wordnik.com. [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference
Naturalists are familiar with insects which walk on water, and imagination has no more difficulty in putting a man in place of the insect than it has in giving a man some of the attributes of a bird and making an angel of him; or in ascribing to him the ascensive tendencies of a balloon, as the "levitationists" do. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
Mammalia,” which was printed in the Society’s Journal, and contains the following passage: — “In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
"In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Society's Journal, and contains the following passage: -- "In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
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