Selfsame Sentence Examples

It follows that we must call this selfsame essence, at once individual and universal, substance - a conclusion, however, which Aristotle never drew in so many words, though he continued always to call essence substance, and definition a knowledge of substance.

They sailed there, without effort, completed their task, and returned home the selfsame day.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with tears.

For this selfsame reason they do not exert sufficiently powerful pressure on the Socialist Party.

Each natural substance is a formal cause, as being what it is; a material cause, as having passive power to be changed; an efficient cause, as having active power to change, by communicating the selfsame essence into different matter so as to produce therein a homogeneous effect in the same species; and a final cause, as an end to be realized.

Sensation is not the reception of the selfsame essence of an external body, but one's perception of one's sentient organism as affected, and especially of its organs resisting one another, e.g.