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Sentences starting with intellect

Intellect must find its play through the senses, be vitalized by the elements of physical life, or it could not prevail. [11]
Intellect conquered. [11]

Sentences ending with intellect

During three successive years, 1868, 1869, 1870, Emerson delivered a series of Lectures at Harvard University on the "Natural History of the Intellect. [6]
The brief questions with which he received the blind artist were kindly, and as natural as though addressing an equal, and every remark made in connection with Hermon's answers revealed a very quick and keen intellect. [10]
Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect. [10]
The mother, Matter, whom for the sake of the verse I called by her Greek name Hyle, was also invested with a shade of comedy as a dissatisfied wife and the mother-in-law of Intellect. [10]
The charm by which she ensnares hearts is indescribable, and the iron power of her intellect! [10]
Well, that is what sermons always had been,--and even now pretended to be,--educational and stirring, appealing to the emotions through the intellect. [9]
They are, indeed, weaving a charmed web, for these are the looms from which comes the knowledge that clothes the nakedness of the intellect. [3]
Yet the tension was not constant, rising and falling with his moods and struggles, all of which she read--unguessed by him--as easily as a printed page by the gift that dispenses with laborious processes of the intellect. [9]
A peasant's cap was no safe disguise for it; you could know it for a king's under a diving-bell, if you could hear it work its intellect. [5]
During 1817 Irving was mostly in the depths of gloom, a prey to the monotony of life and torpidity of intellect. [4]

Short sentences using intellect

They have no intellect. [5]
Subtlety is not intellect. [11]
Oh, that glorious intellect! [10]
Intellect, confidence in, 134. [6]
Intellect, 166, 175. [6]
Is it intellect? [5]
This is intellect. [4]
Intellect? [5]

More example sentences with the word intellect in them

By ingenious fetters you force the mighty winged intellect to content itself within the narrow world of reality. [10]
The blows that wound the affections can only be healed by the affections, and not by the intellect and considerations of reason. [10]
Hang it, he would say to himself, she is nothing but pure intellect anyway. [5]
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. [5]
As for Barbara, with the subtle power of presentiment of a loving heart she felt that his passion was waning, and tortured her mobile intellect to discover the right cause. [10]
The Minorite Ignatius, whom Father Benedictus had sent after him that he might finish the work which the latter had begun, was a man who lacked neither intellect nor eloquence; but he did not possess the fiery enthusiasm and aristocratic confidence of the dead man. [10]
Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
The pliant intellect which the gods bestowed on me would ill sustain the test in this hour of anguish. [10]
Away with everything which can cloud her intellect in these decisive days! [10]
But Philip wondered what would be the effect on his own character and on his intellect if he indulged much in the habit of making the worse appear the better cause, and taking up indifferently any side that paid. [4]
But his intellect was superficial, and his temperament was dangerous, because there were not the experiences of a soul of truth to give the deeper hold upon the meaning of life. [11]
Not that he was deficient in intellect, but, to her thought, his was a purely objective mind; or was it objective because it had not been trained or developed subjectively? [11]
Surrounded as he was by servile favorites, whose superior he was in gifts and intellect, what had here come under his notice seemed to interest him above measure. [10]
She was not very quick of intellect, so she had to feel her way fumblingly. [11]
What a brilliant, versatile intellect must animate this remarkable creature! [10]
Human intellect is vanity; only the soul survives. [11]
His intellect was unimpaired, and his memory tenacious, up to within a few minutes of his decease. [5]
And yet a Trojan war of the intellect has been kindled concerning them. [10]
A man instinctively tries to get rid of his thought in conversation or in print so soon as it is matured; but it is hard to get at it as it lies imbedded, a mere potentiality, the germ of a germ, in his intellect. [6]
You are eating too much mental sugar; you will bring on Bright's disease of the intellect. [5]
It is exhausting to the intellect. [5]
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them sloshing around in your head same as so much drawn butter. [5]
It was difficult to supply her wonderfully vigorous intellect with sufficient sustenance, and she really felt that to enrich it was the highest pleasure. [10]
On the ride to Nuremberg he had perceived in Heinz a pious heart and a keen intellect which yearned for higher things. [10]
Caracalla even said to himself that he had underrated the prefect's intellect, for his eyes flashed and glowed like fire, notwithstanding their smallness, and lending a force to his ignoble face which Caracalla had never noticed before. [10]
But something happened to him one afternoon, on the occasion of his giving proof of an intellect which may eventually bring him, in the footsteps of his great namesake, to the White House. [9]
I've always used to get up with the lark, till I came under the petrifying influence of your turgid intellect. [5]
The intellect has to come to the front, now. [5]
Divine honours are to be paid to some newly attracted hero of the intellect. [10]
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. [5]
Why then should those who serve it with their intellect be burdened with petty cares? [10]
Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. [7]
During my stay there I had letters from her which did not change my opinion of either her intellect or intention, but on the contrary confirmed it in both. [7]
Your religious people there are too feeble, in intellect, in morality, in piety in everything, pretty much. [5]
Did they suppose their well-fed magistrates and solemn States-General, who never looked beyond their own city and country, would govern them better than the far-sighted wisdom of a Granvelle or the vast intellect of a Viglius, which comprised all the knowledge of the world? [10]
But what is the use in my pouring out my whole intellect on this subject? [5]
We flutter in the sunshine, and seize on all that satisfies our intellect or gratifies our senses: they gaze at the earth, but walk on with a firm step to seek power and profit. [10]
The individuals of the same species graduate in intellect from absolute imbecility to high excellence. [1]
The intellect, say the priestly sages, is a vivifying breath of the eternal spirit, and our soul is the mould or core for the mass of matter which we call a human being. [10]
He lived on the plane of the impulses and intellect, discarded as inhibiting factors what are called moral standards, decried individual discipline and restraint. [9]
The face of the old man was deeply lined now, but it might once have been handsome, and in the large blue eyes there still lay evidence of a quick intellect and a dignified self-respect. [10]
Natural History of the Intellect, 249, 268, 347. [6]
The vision of the intellect does not extend far enough to discover the boundary where, at the end of eternity--which in truth is endless--it is replaced by something else. [10]
To avoid becoming the bore of the domestic circle, he proposed to ease off this surcharge of the intellect by inflicting his tediousness on the public through the pages of the periodical. [4]
The practice of the art is so mixed up with the deepest human interests that it is hard to pursue it with that even poise of the intellect which is demanded by science. [6]
I merely knew that she was my superior in fineness of mind, in the delicacy and subtlety of her intellect, but to fully measure her I was not competent. [5]
It was evident that Kutuzov despised cleverness and learning and even the patriotic feeling shown by Denisov, but despised them not because of his own intellect, feelings, or knowledge--he did not try to display any of these--but because of something else. [2]
And he saw that his understanding of her--or of any human being--could never be of the intellect. [9]
His intellect more than his passions were now at work. [11]
He was a tall thin man of over sixty, with a head of that oval form which gives the impression of refinement and intellect. [10]
I think he suspects himself of a three-story intellect, and I don't feel sure that he is n't right. [6]
He had not suspected her of so much intellect. [9]
She admired intellect, supremacy, the gifts of temperament, deeds of war and adventure beyond all. [11]
Great occasions only summon as with a trumpet-call the slumbering reserves of my intellect. [5]
Will you--an energetic student, you--a man of powerful intellect, zealous in your duty, and in favor with the gods--will you pine like a deserted maiden or spring from the Leucadian rock like love-sick Sappho in the play while the spectators shake with laughter? [10]
It was a strong will and a subtle intellect that had arrayed their force and skill against the ill-defended citadel of Myrtle's heart. [6]
My intellect might strain to penetrate the secrets of your sages, but my heart and mind can never be at home in a creed which views life as a short pilgrimage to the grave, and death as the only true life! [10]
I found her still handsome, though somewhat matronly in appearance, seated, with her daughters, in the box of a fashionable nobleman, younger than herself, rich in purse but poor in intellect, and who was openly and notoriously her cavalier servante. [4]
But there is still another sort of intellect which is very apt to jump over the thought that stands next and come down in the unexpected way of the knight. [6]
It was a stern and terrible trial for a man of acute sensibility, and not without force of intellect and will, and the manly ambition for himself and his family-name which belonged to his endowments and his position. [6]
Presently her eye steadied to mine, and her intellect rallied. [11]
The Oriental recklessly squandered her once noble gifts of intellect and the wealth of her people, yielded to the hasty impulses of her passionate nature. [10]
It needs a special effort of the intellect to understand them. [10]
But there was something in her face that haunted him--a wistful, appealing delicacy, which yet was associated with an instant readiness of intellect, with a perspicuous judgment and a gift of organization. [11]
These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. [5]
He was now set to see what sort of match this intellect could play, when faced by the inherent contradictions present in all truths or the solutions of all problems. [11]
He took her seriously; and this was not all dissimulation, for her every word had glamour, and he now exalted her intellect unduly. [11]
It is so searching and so effective that it keeps the general level of Russian intellect and education down to that of the Czar. [5]
An adopted kitten scratched this affectionate baboon, who certainly had a fine intellect, for she was much astonished at being scratched, and immediately examined the kitten's feet, and without more ado bit off the claws. [1]
Nay, I remember scarcely any other powerful wave of the intellect visible during this period of stagnation. [10]
Rush thought and said that there were twenty times more intellect and a hundred times more knowledge in the country in 1799 than before the Revolution. [3]
Few countenances lacked ruddy color, and strong vitality, clear intellect, immovable will and firm resolution flashed from many blue eyes around the table. [10]
Its head, Professor Richter, the learned editor of the fragments of Sappho, did not equal Tzschirner in keenness of intellect and bewitching powers of description, yet we gladly followed the worthy man's interpretations. [10]
Henrica did not remain in his debt, her eyes sparkled, and in the increasing pleasure of trying the power of her intellect against his, she sought to surpass every jest and repartee made by the Junker. [10]
Every man of reflection is vaguely conscious of an imperfectly-defined circle which is drawn about his intellect. [6]
Yet he, also, recognised in philosophy, first of all, the bond which unites the widely sundered acquisitions of the intellect, the vital breath which pervades them, the touchstone which proves each true or false. [10]
No one can read understandingly the life of Cowper and that of Carlyle without having some idea of the influence of hypochondriasis and of dyspepsia upon the disposition and intellect of the subjects of these maladies. [6]
It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. [6]
For the only qualification for Membership is intellect and the spirit of good will; other distinctions, hereditary or acquired, do not count. [5]
For it has proved for many,--I will not say a _pons asinorum_,--but a very narrow bridge, which it made their heads swim to attempt crossing, and yet they must cross it, or one domain of Emerson's intellect will not be reached. [6]
Even Timotheus, the priest of Serapis, who as head of the Museum had so often delighted in the piercing intellect of this youth, and had prophesied a great future for him, was silent, and looked at him with troubled gaze. [10]
Obedient to a powerful instinct, my untrained intellect had sought to read the souls of men. [10]
Their chief, a person of quite extraordinary intellect for a Cooper Indian, warily watched the canal-boat as it squeezed along under him, and when he had got his calculations fined down to exactly the right shade, as he judged, he let go and dropped. [5]
I have never, perhaps, been overburdened with intellect, but the time arrived nevertheless when I began to think for myself. [9]
Their function, he perceived now, was precisely to compel him to see what had saved him, to reenforce it with the intellect, with the reason, and enable him to save others. [9]
Each one a peerless picture, the powerful thinker, the man of action, who permits his restless intellect to repose, and suffers his heart to overflow with the love of youth! [10]
There was a pause; his intellect was struggling to comprehend; presently it did manage to catch the idea in time to save embarrassment all around, and he said gratefully-- "Dear Gwendolen! [5]
For the most part his intellect was unclouded when his attention was aroused. [6]
Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth; imagine the boulder it emerged from on some petrified legislator's shoulders. [5]
Pain and illness paralysed his keen intellect, and difficulty of breathing often checked the eloquent tongue, both of which had served him so readily in his intercourse with Heinz Schorlin. [10]
It was Landrassy's own last battle-field of wit and scheming, of intellect and ambition. [11]
Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts--and in a dozen generations five-sixths of the population would be Celts, but five- sixths of the property, of the power, of the intellect, would belong to the one-sixth of Saxons that remained. [1]
He used it once upon O'Fallen, who was a rough, mannerless creature, with a good enough heart, but easily irritated by the man with the eye-glass, whose superior intellect and manner, even when drunk, were too noticeable. [11]
In intellectual matters, on the other hand, Mr. Eng Nye was always dynamo, Mr. Chang Riley was always motor; Mr. Eng Nye had a stately intellect, but couldn't make it go; Mr. Chang Riley hadn't, but could. [5]
It was the old Charley Steele who spoke, the Charley Steele in whom the intellect was supreme once more. [11]
Oh, the vanity of youth and the conceit of intellect! [4]
The utmost degree of variety had entered into the simplicity of the monotonous desert, the most refined abundance for the intellect and the need of beauty appeared amid its barrenness. [10]
The rare charm of their sunny sparkle, when his warm heart expanded to pleasure or his keen intellect had succeeded in solving any problem, comes back vividly to my memory as I write, and they beamed brightly enough when he perceived our companion. [10]
The whole wealth of the magic of beauty, intellect, and pleasure in life, characteristic of the Greek nature, appeared to have followed King Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoe-Philadelphus hither. [10]
Without the use of some language, however imperfect, it appears doubtful whether man's intellect could have risen to the standard implied by his dominant position at an early period. [1]

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