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Sentences ending with faculties

He was born with rare faculties. [11]
The renewed sensibility which comes after seasons of decay or eclipse of the faculties. [6]
My object in this chapter is to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. [1]
Turning now to the social and moral faculties. [1]
And so of the other faculties. [6]
He had watched the development of Lurida's intelligence from its precocious nursery-life to the full vigor of its trained faculties. [6]
We have seen that man incessantly presents individual differences in all parts of his body and in his mental faculties. [1]
Why was it that doing wrong agreed with her, energized her, made her more alert, cleverer, keying up her faculties? [9]
By the time she had got it open again--a crack--he had reached the sidewalk, and was apparently in full possession of his powers and faculties. [9]
The higher intellectual powers of man, such as those of ratiocination, abstraction, self- consciousness, etc., probably follow from the continued improvement and exercise of the other mental faculties. [1]

Short sentences using faculties

Venters's faculties seemed singularly acute. [13]

Sentences containing faculties two or more times

To lead their classmates they must have quick apprehension, fine memories, thorough control of their mental faculties, strong will, power of concentration, facility of expression,--a wonderful equipment of mental faculties. [6]

More example sentences with the word faculties in them

These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will, moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of life. [1]
We can understand why a classification founded on any single character or organ--even an organ so wonderfully complex and important as the brain--or on the high development of the mental faculties, is almost sure to prove unsatisfactory. [1]
Among nonagenarians, three whose names are well known to Bostonians, Lord Lyndhurst, Josiah Quincy, and Sidney Bartlett, were remarkable for retaining their faculties in their extreme age. [6]
His faculties were wholly unprepared for the blow she struck him. [9]
If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
His artistic faculties were once more roused into play, and found a field for their freest exercise when Antinous told him that he was at his disposal till mid-day, since his master--or rather Caesar as he was now permitted to name him--was engaged in business. [10]
All his faculties were on the alert. [9]
It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
These faculties are variable; and we have every reason to believe that the variations tend to be inherited. [1]
We will now turn to the more intellectual emotions and faculties, which are very important, as forming the basis for the development of the higher mental powers. [1]
I am counselled to wait and watch--D. V. I will do so; yet it is harder to wait with the hands bound, and the observant and reflective faculties at their silent and unseen work, than to labour mechanically. [14]
She herself appealed to the world's judgment for her use of some of the faculties she had,--not the best,--but still the only ones she could turn to strangers' benefit. [14]
I was just to that pass I didn't have no reasoning faculties no more. [5]
We have only to look over the lists of the Faculties and teachers of our Universities to see the subdivision of labor carried out as never before. [6]
Murray Bradshaw returned to his hotel, and, going to his chamber, summoned all his faculties in state council to determine what course he should follow, now that he had the object of his search certainly within reaching distance. [6]
For we can thus see how it has come to pass that certain mental faculties, in various and widely distinct groups of animals, have been developed in nearly the same manner and to nearly the same degree. [1]
He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. [1]
Nobody knows what the weariness of instruction is, as soon as the teacher's faculties begin to be overtasked, but those who have tried it. [6]
I have taken the inventory of my faculties as calmly as if I were an appraiser. [6]
As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, wonder, and curiosity, together with some power of reasoning, had become partially developed, man would naturally crave to understand what was passing around him, and would have vaguely speculated on his own existence. [1]
The variability of the faculties in the individuals of the same species is an important point for us, and some few illustrations will here be given. [1]
Judging from all that we know of man and the lower animals, there has always been sufficient variability in their intellectual and moral faculties, for a steady advance through natural selection. [1]
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. [1]
He was aware that he was undergoing a cool and critical examination by those present, and that they were men who used all their faculties in making up their minds. [9]
So it was that he had passed his life in the patient mechanical labor of instruction, leaving too many of his instincts and faculties in abeyance. [6]
In vain I summoned my faculties to meet it. [9]
This affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being. [1]
Her faculties were still caked; she had not yet found her voice. [5]
I find myself somewhat singularly placed at our table between a minute philosopher who has concentrated all his faculties on a single subject, and my friend who finds the present universe too restricted for his intelligence. [6]
Because I have some faculties which are more than bread and butter, and I must give them opportunity. [11]
They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. [5]
By, all my senses, all my faculties, I know that the icestorm is Nature's supremest achievement in the domain of the superb and the beautiful; and by my reason, at least, I know that the Taj is man's ice-storm. [5]
We can only say that it depends on an increase in the actual number of the population, on the number of men endowed with high intellectual and moral faculties, as well as on their standard of excellence. [1]
If I had really known what I was about to require of my faculties, I should not have had the courage to begin. [5]
His faculties were quite numbed, he was stupefied, and noticing nothing around him went on moving his legs as the others did till they all stopped and he stopped too. [2]
The cry of 'quarter twain' did not really take his mind from his talk, but his trained faculties instantly photographed the bearings, noted the change of depth, and laid up the important details for future reference without requiring any assistance from him in the matter. [5]
So he had only hacked that place in order to be doing something--in order to pass the weary time--in order to employ his tortured faculties. [5]
Once, long before, on the night Venters had carried Bess through the canyon and up into Surprise Valley, he had experienced the strangeness of faculties singularly, tinglingly acute. [13]
That vise-like hold on her faculties apparently did not relax for a long time, and it was a voice under her window that released her. [13]
With the advent of the new passion all his dormant faculties start into life, and the seeming simpleton becomes the bright and intelligent lover. [6]
In the exercise of new faculties, which had more to do with the soul than with reason, he now believed what he could not see, and recognised what was not proved. [11]
The musical faculties of man have likewise been already discussed. [1]
To maintain, independently of any direct evidence, that no animal during the course of ages has progressed in intellect or other mental faculties, is to beg the question of the evolution of species. [1]
But there is nothing anomalous in the musical faculties lying dormant in man: some species of birds which never naturally sing, can without much difficulty be taught to do so; thus a house-sparrow has learnt the song of a linnet. [1]
Emerson, indeed, had not heard the speech: His faculties were already blurred by the mental mists that would eventually shut him in. [5]
Still, it might not have been so; she always had a quick mind and a capable tongue, and her faculties were constantly developing in these latter weeks. [5]
It was a new experience for the Honourable Hilary to go into a business meeting with his faculties astray. [9]
Their intelligence, and most of their mental faculties, are extremely feeble. [1]
It has still more serious significance to-day, when in every profession, in every branch of human knowledge, special acquirements, special skill have greatly tended to limit the range of men's thoughts and working faculties. [6]
The intellectual and moral or social faculties must of course be excepted from this remark. [1]
As the various mental faculties gradually developed themselves the brain would almost certainly become larger. [1]
Myrtle Hazard no longer required the physician's visits, but her mind was very far from being poised in the just balance of its faculties. [6]
We listened a long time, with intent faculties and bated breath; every time one of us would relax, and draw a long sigh of relief and start to say something, a comrade would be sure to utter a sudden "Hark! [5]
But his faculties, keenly alert, grasped the entire field; marked once more the empirical trait in her that he loved her unflinching willingness to submit herself to an experiment. [9]
Although man, as just remarked, has no special instincts to tell him how to aid his fellow- men, he still has the impulse, and with his improved intellectual faculties would naturally be much guided in this respect by reason and experience. [1]
It has lost its lustre now, and the years which have dulled its surface have whitened the dome of that fragile structure in which my consciousness holds the session of its faculties. [6]
He could solve it by none of the old intellectual means, but by the use of new faculties, slowly emerging from the unexplored fastnesses of his nature. [11]
How long will it be before we shall learn that for every wound which betrays itself to the sight by a scar, there are a thousand unseen mutilations that cripple, each of them, some one or more of our highest faculties? [6]
The case, however, is widely different, as Mr. Wallace has with justice insisted, in relation to the intellectual and moral faculties of man. [1]
The whole discipline is to put a man in possession of his faculties, to give him self-respect, to get him in the way of leading a normal and natural life. [4]
Some mechanical employment is the greatest possible relief, after the purely intellectual faculties begin to tire. [6]
Our friend Jethro is confronted with a problem to tax even his faculties, and to look at him, a man wouldn't suspect he had a care in the world. [9]
Cuvier maintained that instinct and intelligence stand in an inverse ratio to each other; and some have thought that the intellectual faculties of the higher animals have been gradually developed from their instincts. [1]
I remember that in the sermon preached by Dr. Grazer after Dr. Holyoke's death, one of the points most insisted upon as characteristic of that wise and good old man was the perfect balance of all his faculties. [3]
For I was in full possession of my faculties, and never copied more neatly and legibly any manuscript than I did the one that night. [4]
There is something in failing health--ill-health without disease--which sharpens and refines the faculties, and makes the temper exquisitely sensitive--that is, with people of a certain good sort. [11]
Of the high importance of the intellectual faculties there can be no doubt, for man mainly owes to them his predominant position in the world. [1]
Year by year his knowledge and power, his experience and reputation extended, and his mental faculties seemed to grow by what they fed on. [7]
Hodder pushed back his chair, crossed his knees, and sat perfectly still regarding his host, his body suggesting a repose that did not interfere with his perceptive faculties. [9]
It is, therefore, highly probable that with mankind the intellectual faculties have been mainly and gradually perfected through natural selection; and this conclusion is sufficient for our purpose. [1]
These causes might have produced insanity, but there was no evidence that they have produced it in this case, or that the prisoner was not at the time of the commission of the crime in full possession of her ordinary faculties. [5]
I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. [5]
Unfortunately the unit has been too minutely subdivided, and many faculties are practically lost for want of use. [6]
On the other hand a belief in all-pervading spiritual agencies seems to be universal; and apparently follows from a considerable advance in man's reason, and from a still greater advance in his faculties of imagination, curiosity and wonder. [1]
Her brain too had recovered its faculties. [10]
The term, general good, may be defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected. [1]
The faculties for getting into jail seem to be ample. [4]
In order to get the highest enjoyment, the faculties must be alert, and not be lulled into a mere recipient dullness. [4]
He has stepped from the iron routine of daily effort into a sudden freedom, and his faculties have failed him, the iron of his will has vanished. [11]
The relays of fresh pupils, each new set with its exhausting powers in full action, coming one after another, take out all the reserved forces and faculties of resistance from the subject of their draining process. [6]
It elicited the following fragment of a characteristic reply:-- "Leave home!--I shall neither be able to find place nor employment, perhaps, too, I shall be quite past the prime of life, my faculties will be rusted, and my few acquirements in a great measure forgotten. [14]
His conception, so far as I could reach it, involved a huge, uplifted forehead, embossed with protuberant organs of the intellectual faculties, such as all writers are supposed to possess in abounding measure. [6]
The historians quite falsely represent Napoleon's faculties as having weakened in Moscow, and do so only because the results did not justify his actions. [2]
Young people who fall out of line through weakness of the active faculties are often confounded with those who step out of it through strength of the intellectual ones. [6]
Straining all her faculties Princess Mary looked at him. [2]
All her fine faculties of tact and fairness, of harmless strategy, and her gifts of wit and unexpected humour were needed to keep her cavaliers constant and hopeful to the last; but she never faltered, and she did not fail. [11]
Venters's strangely acute faculties grasped the meaning of that limp arm, of the swaying hulk, of the gasp and heave, of the quivering beard. [13]
How can one explain its significance to those whose musical faculties are in a rudimentary state of development, or who have never had them trained? [6]
No being could experience so complex an emotion until advanced in his intellectual and moral faculties to at least a moderately high level. [1]
As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man in reference to his daily habits of life, they must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed. [1]
They heartily, greedily enjoyed the fruits of her labours, and then found out she was much to be blamed for possessing such faculties. [14]
But to avoid enemies or to attack them with success, to capture wild animals, and to fashion weapons, requires the aid of the higher mental faculties, namely, observation, reason, invention, or imagination. [1]
For man is enabled through his mental faculties "to keep with an unchanged body in harmony with the changing universe. [1]
Davouassoux, more than eighty years old, contemplated the mournful remains mutely and with a vacant eye, for his intelligence and his memory were torpid with age; but Couttet's faculties were still perfect at seventy-two, and he exhibited strong emotion. [5]
She learned so easily that she undervalued her own extraordinary gifts, and felt the deepest admiration for those of her friends endowed with faculties of an entirely different and almost opposite nature. [6]
My dulled faculties dragged themselves partly back to life and took a receptive attitude. [5]
But human nature does not wait for the diploma of the Apollinean Institute to claim the exercise of it, instincts and faculties. [6]
As far as differences in certain important points of structure are concerned, man may no doubt rightly claim the rank of a Sub-order; and this rank is too low, if we look chiefly to his mental faculties. [1]
As for those courtesies which the old need, to soften the sense of declining faculties and failing attractions, the younger pastor bestowed them in public, but was negligent of them, to say the least, when not on exhibition. [6]
Pierre maintained the contrary, and as his mental faculties were greater and more resourceful, Nicholas felt himself cornered. [2]

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