When Bashti promised plenty of fresh recruits, Van Horn, used to the changeableness of the savage mind, urged signing them up right away. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Aquinas says that between the unqualified changelessness of God's eternity and the qualified changeableness of corporeal existence, there is the qualified immutability of angelic being. ❋ Viney, Donald (2008)
The fact is that Pudentilla, knowing your changeableness and unreliability no less than your shamelessness and mendacity, rather than forward the letter preferred to keep it as clear evidence of your intentions. ❋ Apuleius (2008)
For if innocence cannot attract common civility, what must guilt expect, when novelty has ceased to have its charms, and changeableness had taken place of it? ❋ Unknown (2006)
And, perhaps, such is the vanity, as well as changeableness, of human estates, in their turns set up for pride of family, and despise the others! ❋ Unknown (2006)
Every man of observation had seen in the democratic branches of the State Legislatures, precipitation—in Congress changeableness, in every department excesses against personal liberty private property & personal safety. ❋ Unknown (2004)
See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed, and be quiet at last. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But Crassus is very generally blamed for his changeableness in his friendships and enmities, for his unfaithfulness, and his mean and underhand proceedings; since he himself could not deny that to compass the consulship, he hired men to lay violent hands upon Domitius and ❋ Plutarch (2003)
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)
Through its sensors he felt power coursing, control surfaces flexing, air slipping by like water by a swimmer; he heard and tasted its changeableness; he scanned over wide horizons or magnified perception to follow the least of living creatures kilometers below. ❋ ANDERSON, Poul (2000)
Author of an impressive study of multiple personality (Rewriting the Soul, 1995), Professor Hacking here narrows down his interest in the extraordinary changeableness of mental symptoms to one circumscribed instance: a psychiatric epidemic of 'hysterical fugues' — cases of people who suddenly left home, suffered from amnesia, and took on a new identity, at least for a while. ❋ Dinnage, Rosemary (2000)
But this same earth which Thou madest was formless matter, because it was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, of which invisible earth and without form, of which formlessness, of which almost nothing, Thou mightest make all these things of which this changeable world consists, but subsists not; whose very changeableness appears therein, that times can be observed and numbered in it. ❋ Unknown (1999)
For the changeableness of changeable things, is itself capable of all those forms, into which these changeable things are changed. ❋ Unknown (1999)
For verily that heaven of heavens which Thou createdst in the Beginning, is some intellectual creature, which, although no ways coeternal unto Thee, the Trinity, yet partaketh of Thy eternity, and doth through the sweetness of that most happy contemplation of Thyself, strongly restrain its own changeableness; and without any fall since its first creation, cleaving close unto Thee, is placed beyond all the rolling vicissitude of times. ❋ Unknown (1999)
… This applies to the angels, who have an unchangeable being together with changeableness as regards choice, which pertains to their nature; moreover, they have changeableness of intelligence, of affections, and of places, in their own degree. ❋ Mortimer J. Adler (1982)
Lord from a charge of changeableness upon his supposal needs little pains to demonstrate. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
That God should morally try and essay to do and effect or bring about any thing, which yet he doth not, will not, or cannot, compass and effect, is not to be ascribed to him without casting the greatest reproach of impotency, ignorance, changeableness, upon him imaginable. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
And yet this sandy foundation is thought sufficient to bear up many rhetorical expressions concerning the changeableness of God, in respect of sundry of his attributes, if he should not destroy such impenitent apostates as it is splendidly supposed believers may be. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
The shallowness of their understanding, the shortness of their foresight, the weakness of their power, the changeableness of their minds, the uncertainty of all the means they use, puts them upon many devices, and often to no purpose. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
