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"ref": "1655, Richard Baxter, “An Addition to the 11th Chapter of the 3d Part of the Saints Rest”, in Rich: Baxter’s Confesssion of His Faith, Especially Concerning the Interest of Repentance and Sincere Obedience to Christ, in Our Justification & Salvation. VVritten for the Satisfaction of the Misinformed, the Conviction of Calumniators, and the Explication and Vindication of Some Weighty Truths, London: Printed by R[obert] W[hite] for Tho[mas] Underhil, and Fra[ncis] Tyton, and are to be sold at the Anchor and Bible in Pauls Church-yard, and at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet, →OCLC",
"text": "[…] And as the Understanding doth at once apprehend it as Good Abſolutely, or in ſome Reſpect, and Evil in other reſpects, and Comparatively a Leſs Good; ſo doth the Will at once continue to Love or Will it ſo farre as it is Apprehended as Good, and to Nill and Reject it as inconſiſtent with a Greater Good, or a hinderer of it. But if it fall out that the Inconſiſtency of theſe is not diſcerned or believed, or but Imperfectly, then may the Will by a Practical Volition Will them both.",
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"ref": "2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-09-09",
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"ref": "1841, Thomas C[ogswell] Upham, “Distinction between Desires and Volitions”, in A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will. Forming the Third Volume of a System of Mental Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, →OCLC, § 54 (Volition may Exist in Respect to those Complex Acts which the Mind Can Embrace as One), page 104",
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"sense": "conscious choice or decision",
"word": "წადილი"
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