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A like discretive power is exercised in the sphere of each of the senses ; thus it is that the expe- rienced cook judges not only of the "far too much," but of the "much too little" of some one ingredient in the compound upon which the epicure, his master, shall bestow his commendation.
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Nor can it necessarily move the will to cause the action, as evidenced by the will's ability to choose from among discretive judgments consented to.
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The vital power underlies acts of motion, the discretive power underlies generation and growth, and the attractive power assimilates nutrients.
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«But» is a particle, none more familiar in our language: and he that says it is a discretive conjunction, and that it answers to sed Latin, or mais in French, thinks he has sufficiently explained it.
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