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1. And she knows that my father is a careless child of nature, lamentably impressible by birth and office; that my mother was an Englishwoman with a name inspiring little confidence; and that we let ourselves go to an indecent indifference to appearances, not even trying to conceal that we are poor
2. The day which sees a revival in Europe of the vigorous teaching of some formidable doctrine on future punishment, credible by the general intelligence of humanity,—some doctrine which men cannot put aside, saying, 'It is too horrible to be true; ’ which will come home to their consciences as just, to their fears as most awful, and which will shut out all hope of redemption from it, when once the indignation begins,—that day will see, among the impressible part of mankind, a wholly new public opinion prevailing on the evil of sin,—taking this phrase now to signify only its dangerousness to the wicked
3. So polite and so impressible was Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more influence with him in the tiresome articles of state affairs and state secrets, than the needs of all France
4. For effective magic is transcendent nature; and who shall measure the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul as well as body, and make a man's passion for one woman differ from his passion for another as joy in the morning light over valley and river and white mountain-top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns and glass panels? Will, too, was made of very impressible stuff
5. This is a gentle delineation, is it not, reader? Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature
6. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous
7. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels
8. "What a fine-looking pair they are," whispered the impressible Mrs
9. As to the mineralizing matter, it is evidently silicious, and the specimens are principally the holzstein of Werner; crystals of quartz are apparent in the cavities; some parts are agatized, and veins of chalcedony occasionally pervade the fissures: they are not impressible by steel, and give fire with it
10. What kind of homes do we find among these people, where the children with their impressible minds are receiving their first instruction?