Our judgment of the laws of a people must not then be founded Future Condition Of Three Races In The United States exclusively upon its inclinations, since those inclinations change from age to age; but upon more elevated principles and a more general experience. The love which a people may show for its law proves only this: - that we should not be in too great a hurry to change them.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
It must be now or never, Mrs. Thompson felt; and as regarded M. Lacordaire, he probably entertained some idea of the same kind. Thompson's inclinations, though they had never been very strong in the matter, were certainly in favour of the "now." M. Lacordaire's inclinations were stronger. He had fully and firmly made up his mind in favour of matrimony; but then he was not so absolutely in favour of the "now." Mrs. Thompson's mind, if one could have read it, would have shown a great objection to shilly- shallying, as she was accustomed to call it. But M.英文原著 · 《The Chateau of Prince Polignac》
My eldest brother had gone to sea with a relative who was master of a merchant vessel in the South American trade. His inclination led him that way; it seemed to open before him a prospect of profitable business, and my mother looked upon him as her future stay and support.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
This, and other verses that I wrote then, serve to illustrate the child's usual inclination to look forward meditatively, rather than to think and write of the simple things that belong to children.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
A girl's place in the world is a very strong one: it is a pity that she does not always see it so. It is strongest through her natural impulse to steady herself by leaning upon the Eternal Life, the only Reality; and her weakness comes also from her inclination to lean against something,--upon an unworthy support, rather than none at all. She often lets her life get broken into fragments among the flimsy trellises of fashion and convention- ality, when it might be a perfect thing in the upright beauty of its own consecrated freedom.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
It is unwholesome. It puts one into a fever."
Hermione looked at him, and saw a red spot burning on each side of his face near his cheek-bones. "Perhaps it would be better to walk," she said, doubtfully. Her inclination was for movement, for her fatigue was combined with a sensation of great restlessness. "What do you say, Vere?" she added. "Oh, I should love to go among the people and see everything," she answered, eagerly. The Marchesino's brow cleared. "Let us go, Emilio!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Son, I have neither time nor inclination to dicker around with protestations of emotion.美剧 · 《Billions》