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But, had the power of the devil in death been unassailed and uncounteracted, the dissolution of the body and the eternal ruin of the soul would have been alike complete and irrecoverable.
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What conditions in the life of a student may, if uncounteracted, lead to poor health?
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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State will become disorganized; the nation will become confused by the magnetic force of the Lower House, uncounteracted by any other attraction; and very soon a complete revolution of the whole system will set in: the monarch will be dethroned, and a Republican form of government, with all the eccentricities of a parabolic course, will take the place of a more orderly and settled constitution.
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Nor should we fail to mention how the asceticism of the monks checked those flagrant social evils that had sapped the strength of the Roman race, and which uncounteracted would have contaminated and weakened the purer peoples of the North; nor how, through its requirements of self-control and self - sacrifice, it gave prominence to the inner life of the spirit.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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They must not assert that something will always, or certainly, happen; but only that such and such will be the effect of a given cause, so far as it operates uncounteracted.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Having evidence that the effects had remained unaltered and been punctually conjoined for five thousand years, we could infer that the unknown causes on which the conjunction is dependent had existed undiminished and uncounteracted during the same period.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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The counsels of Muza, the exhortations of the queen-mother, the enthusiasm of his mistress, Amine, uncounteracted by the arts of the magician, aroused the torpid lion of his nature.
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The counsels of Muza, the exhortations of the queen-mother, the enthusiasm of his mistress, Amine, uncounteracted by the arts of the magician, aroused the torpid lion of his nature.
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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For infinite repulsion, uncounteracted and alone, is tantamount to infinite, dimensionless diffusion, and this again to infinite weakness; viz., to space.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Cold is the attractive or astringent power, comparatively uncounteracted by the dilative, the diminution of which is the proportional increase of the contractive.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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