Upon this account, the Divine power is not said to extend to the working of any thing which implies a contradiction, and the terms whereof speak a repugnancy to one another, and mutually destroy one another, and the doing whereof is contrary to the nature of the thing which is supposed to be done; that is, is nonsense, and cannot be imagined to be. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)
A judgment of "repugnancy" versus"divergence" depended on the skill of legal argument: "If the English empire and Englishness required transatlantic uniformity, then some nonuniform colonial laws would be judged repugnant. ❋ Mary L. Dudziak (2009)
The repugnancy of the law of Delaware is placed entirely on its repugnancy to the law to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, a power which has not been exceeded as to affect this question. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This uncertainty about where the line between divergence and repugnancy lay was the crux of the problem, and the dynamic thrill, artfully illustrated by the author. ❋ Mary L. Dudziak (2009)
In her new book, Bilder argues that the "repugnancy principle"controlled the legal structures between England and her colonies. ❋ Mary L. Dudziak (2009)
Your level of repugnancy never ceases to amaze me. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Certainly, Bayle asserts that the value of faith is directly proportional with its repugnancy to reason. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In earlier guests, and particularly Mickey Sherman, have pointed out the moral repugnancy associated with that particular act. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In my lifetime, a period in which there has been radical changes in technology, I have not seen the sort of changes in attitudes that could support your position your reference about usury fails to take note of how much repugnancy has declined in the past three or four centuries. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We are therefore of opinion that there is no repugnancy between the several acts of the general assembly of Maryland, given in evidence by the defendants at the trial of this cause, in the court of that State, and the Constitution of the United States. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And its death was not due to the great tactics or machinations of the Bush administration, but due to its own crimes and callous repugnancy. ❋ As'ad (2009)
Because of the repugnancy of the Nazis, we sometimes forget there were Germans of conscience who were not marching “lock-step” in the same direction as their country. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Who knows .. one thing is certain - it won't work in Jerusalem against Jews, because of one simple reason, a wall of repugnancy and distrust, - not a nice thing by itself but .. but body armor isn't Gianni Versace, you know .. ❋ Unknown (2008)
No matter which category this falls into to this represents a scandalous outrage that is off the scale of repugnancy and duplicity. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Surely he had to have an opinion about the moral repugnancy of the supermodel's late husband Peter Cook. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion of and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The perception of the connexion or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Where our inquiry is concerning co-existence, or repugnancy to co-exist, which by contemplation of our ideas we cannot discover; there experience, observation, and natural history, must give us, by our senses and by retail, an insight into corporeal substances. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A steady application and pursuit are required to this discovery: and there must be a progression by steps and degrees, before the mind can in this way arrive at certainty, and come to perceive the agreement or repugnancy between two ideas that need proofs and the use of reason to show it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
