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"Percipient" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consider the percipient mind. Men's minds have limited and imperfect faculties and capabilities. That which is good, or true, or beautiful, to one mind can hardly be the same in the same way and degree to any other mind. It is true—as some writers have stated, but none seems willing ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... subject of Miss JESSIMINA MANKLETOW, and already may have concluded that I was long since up to the hilt in the tender passion. In this deduction, however, they would have manufactured a stentorian cry from an extreme paucity of wool; the actual fact being that, although percipient of the well-proportionate symmetry of her person and the ladylike liveliness of her deportment, I did never regard her except with eyes of strictly platonic philandering ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... audile phenomena are perceived at night is that the percipient is tolerably still. Father H. and other people heard these sounds more when in bed after daylight. If loud clangs, &c., were heard by night by the garrison under Miss Freer's command, it was that the attacking hypnotists did not have the chances ...
— Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men • John Harris |
Words linked to "Percipient" : watcher, somebody, eyeglass wearer, viewer, witness, discoverer, spectator, seer, finder, someone, clear, informant, perceiver, witnesser, discerning, looker, beholder, attender, audile, hearer, soul, observer, visualizer, visualiser, motile, individual, auditor, noticer, perceive |
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