SPIRIT, but Matter an unintelligent, unperceiving being. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
She nodded and smiled from a kind and unperceiving heart and went back to tidying her pretty garden. From Wordnik.com. [Twice shy]
You indeed, who by SNOW and fire mean certain external, unperceived, unperceiving substances, are in the right to deny whiteness or heat to be affections inherent in. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
I have no immediate intuition thereof: neither can I immediately from my sensations, ideas, notions, actions, or passions, infer an unthinking, unperceiving, inactive. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Unable to see anything that might have drawn Pip's attention, he tried to reach out with his Talent, only to find that, as was too often the case, it had decided to shrink to an unperceiving blur in the back of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Running From The Deity]
Yes, it is infinitely more extravagant to say — a thing which is inert operates on the mind, and which is unperceiving is the cause of our perceptions, without any regard either to consistency, or the old known axiom, NOTHING CAN GIVE TO. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
And is any unperceiving thing capable of pain or pleasure?. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Enter your dwellings lest Solomon and his armies crush you, unperceiving. From Wordnik.com. [Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side] Reference
After the accounts given by the unperceiving astronomers, comes what follows. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
Can you then conceive it possible that they should exist in an unperceiving thing?. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Consequently, it cannot exist without the mind in an unperceiving substance, or body. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
I think you granted before that no unperceiving being was capable of pleasure, any more than of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
They think us merely cruel -- just as we, in the same unperceiving manner, think them merely covetous. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference
But how is it possible that pain, be it as little active as you please, should exist in an unperceiving substance?. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
I wonder if Don DeLillo designed that Best Buy signage to promote his new novel and to toy with our unperceiving minds. From Wordnik.com. [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference
Nor were we, I hope, altogether unperceiving of that other river which Emerson detected flowing underneath the Concord. From Wordnik.com. [Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman] Reference
I do not believe that it hath any figure or motion at all, being already convinced, that no sensible qualities can exist in an unperceiving substance. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
But, I do not know what is meant when it is said that an unperceiving substance hath inherent in it and supports either ideas or the archetypes of ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
This is my explication of your difficulty; and how it can serve to make your tenet of an unperceiving material SUBSTRATUM intelligible, I would fain know. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Thirdly, Whether, upon inquiry, you find there is anything distinctly conceived or meant by the absolute or external existence of unperceiving substances?. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Dialogue] Reference
But extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existing in the mind, and neither these ideas nor their archetypes can exist in an unperceiving substance. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference
And, doth it not follow from your own concessions, that the perception of light and colours, including no action in it, may exist in an unperceiving substance?. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
Clayton rose gravely, and offered his arm to Aunt Nesbit; and Nina found herself obliged to accept the delighted escort of Mr. Carson, who, entirely unperceiving, was in. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I] Reference
And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
You indeed, who by SNOW and fire mean certain external, unperceived, unperceiving substances, are in the right to deny whiteness or heat to be affections inherent in THEM. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
It was, in fact, that which, with a secret fatuity, he had watched Mrs. Thorley Rushworth play toward a fond and unperceiving husband: a smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Innocence] Reference
Each taut toe touched each point of bearing just as was required above the quagmire, and, all unperceiving and uncaring, he fled over dirty death as easily as he might have run upon some hardened woodland pathway. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference
King lay, round which the ecclesiastics were busying themselves, unperceiving that James, Bedford, and the nobles had quitted the apartment, till Percy first spoke to him in a whisper, then almost shook him, and led him out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Caged Lion] Reference
His wife's armchair, in its usual place by the fire, recalled her placid unperceiving presence, seated opposite to him during the long drowsy years; and he felt her kindness, her equanimity, where formerly he had only ached at her obtuseness. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
A SPIRIT, but Matter an unintelligent, unperceiving being. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
A perceiving being; it follows that no intense heat can really exist in an unperceiving corporeal substance. From Wordnik.com. [Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous] Reference
As he moved away he saw Lawrence Lefferts, tall and resplendent, leading his wife up to be introduced; and heard Gertrude Lefferts say, as she beamed on the Countess with her large unperceiving smile: "But. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Innocence] Reference
Time will tell if I am an unperceiving rube. From Wordnik.com. [Byredo "Blanche"] Reference
In homes, among dull unperceiving kin. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Purpose] Reference
"Who are you?" said Venn, still unperceiving. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
She felt the unperceiving sweetness of his smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
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