Lexicographical Neighbors of Cogencies
Literary usage of Cogencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political by Franklin K. Lane (1922)
"His great soul was not warm enough to fuse them — they were rebellious ore — but
his simplicities were not to be mastered by their elaborate cogencies. ..."
2. Forgiveness and Law by Horace Bushnell (1874)
"... cogencies that make up the total of our life. • Christ will suffer nothing as
by his own fault, or to correct him in his own wrong, nothing to coerce ..."
3. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1878)
"... maxims admitted as self-evident truths, undiscussed cogencies, principles
learnt without a teacher: the sanctity which time alone can impart, ..."
4. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"At ten years old," says a sapient philosopher, " a man is influenced by cakes,—at
twenty, by the smiles of woman,—at thirty, by the cogencies of books,—at ..."
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