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Example sentences for "what passes"

  • When a mind is put into communication with another, the cognition it has of what passes in the other is not by mere general conceptions, but by a kind of intuition, which although mediate, does not therefore fail to be true.

  • We have no consciousness of what passes in another subject when it sees; but we know what it is to see; it is in others the same as in ourselves.

  • It will perhaps be asked how the understanding can perceive what passes without it, since sensible intuition is a function of a faculty distinct from the understanding?

  • Usually, however, the term has been employed in a more restricted sense--to denote the knowledge of what passes within, rather than of what lies without the mind itself.

  • I hope for the future to be able to give you more intelligence with regard to what passes out of my own little circle, but such has been my distress that I know nothing of the political world.

  • As to what passes in Congress, I am tied fast by my honor to communicate nothing.

  • I am much surprised that you have not been more accurately informed of what passes in the camps.

  • Persons so affected often believe they see, hear, and feel, what passes only in their brain, and which takes all its reality from their prejudices and self-love.

  • If we reflect upon what we have experienced since first we had consciousness of what passes within us, we shall observe in our being, two classes of phenomena.

  • What passes through is farther winnowed and sifted through a finer sieve than the first.

  • What passes through is to be diluted with boiling water, and again filtered.

  • What passes through is to be neutralized with muriatic acid, and concentrated by evaporation.

  • We have had no information of what passes in America but through England, and the advices are, for the most part, such only as the ministry choose to publish.

  • You will keep a daily journal of all your material transactions, and particularly of what passes in your conversation with great personages; and you will by every safe opportunity, furnish us with such information as may be important.

  • It is evident to any one who will but observe what passes in his own mind, that there is a train of ideas which constantly succeed one another in his understanding, as long as he is awake.

  • Whoever reflects on what passes in his own mind cannot miss it.

  • Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man's own mind.

  • These regulations are not peculiar to this department, and you must understand them as conveying a general idea of what passes in every part of France.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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