perplexedness

For whensoever we would proceed beyond these simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive further into the nature of things, we fall presently into darkness and obscurity, perplexedness and difficulties, and can discover nothing further but our own blindness and ignorance.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Talmudists, who say that there is so little harm in that manner of searching the truth, that in the anxiety and perplexedness of human wits God oftentimes manifesteth the secret pleasure of his divine will.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Talmudists, who say that there is so little harm in that manner of searching the truth, that in the anxiety and perplexedness of human wits God oftentimes manifesteth the secret pleasure of his divine will.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948

She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948