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Sentences starting with intellectual

Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. [5]
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than with a shovel. [5]
Intellectual companions can be found easily in men and books. [6]

Sentences ending with intellectual

Four or five years ago, when I was going to socialist lectures, my sense of all this--inequality, injustice was intellectual. [9]
During this period there was at the North, and especially in the East, great intellectual activity and agitation, and agitation ethical and moral as well as intellectual. [4]
Tom, needless to say, did not become intellectual. [9]
It was not precisely intellectual. [9]
Yes, sir, and more tangled up and scientific and intellectual. [5]
The intellectual? [5]

Short sentences using intellectual

Declaration of Independence, intellectual, 115. [6]

Sentences containing intellectual two or more times

So there are families which refine themselves into intellectual aptitude without having had much opportunity for intellectual acquirements. [6]
Epicurus, on the contrary, considers intellectual pleasure to be the higher one; for sensual enjoyment, which he believes free to every one, can be experienced only in the present, while intellectual delight extends to both the past and the future. [10]
I guess he's come to despise a great many things that he once respected, and that intellectual ability is among them--what we call intellectual ability. [8]

More example sentences with the word intellectual in them

Being about seven years younger than Waldo, he must have received much of his intellectual and moral guidance at his elder brother's hands. [6]
Day by day, year by year, new readers are coming forward with curiosity and intellectual wants. [4]
His intellectual side would always be stimulated by her, she would always "incite him to mental riot," as she had often said. [11]
Or, in other words, what effect is popular education having upon the general intellectual habit and taste? [4]
Poor Washington gradually woke up to the fact that he too was an intellectual marvel as well as his gifted sister. [5]
But we knew with what intellectual giants we had to do; no one had needed to tell us that, at least; and when they called me to them I felt as if the king himself had honoured me. [10]
The broad forehead, with arching eyebrows, gave an intellectual cast to a face the special stamp of which was purity. [4]
This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
Will not the wise novelist seek to encounter the least intellectual resistance? [4]
And I said, why not make her an intellectual woman? [4]
And a woman who has not this subtle feeling always lacks charm, however intellectual she may be; I always think of her as sitting in the glare of disenchanting sunlight as indifferent to the exposure as a man would be. [4]
The intellectual contest which preceded the physical was stirring the hearts of all men. [4]
In man, however, when cultivated, the sense of beauty is manifestly a far more complex feeling, and is associated with various intellectual ideas. [1]
I haven't got what you'd call an intellectual memory. [11]
And, indeed, to what an extent our physical wants are determined by our intellectual mold! [4]
Here, he owned, were the elements of intellectual delightfulness, but he said their assemblage in such quantity alone denied the salon; there was too much of a good thing. [8]
Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
You might as well try to jump upon your own shadow as to hit the little man's intellectual features. [6]
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]
A book which we could master and possess in an evening we can have read to us in a month in the club, without the least intellectual effort. [4]
All he said was, as for people like me and Jim, he'd just as soon have intellectual intercourse with a catfish. [5]
His intellectual activity was unremitting, he had no lack of friends, there was only now and then a discordant note in the general estimation of his literary work, and he was the object of the most tender care from his nieces. [4]
This higher education was offered to the mass that still lacked the rudiments of intellectual training, in the belief that education--the education of the moment, the education of superimposed information, can realize the theory of universal equality. [4]
In fact, she was an intellectual person, whom qualities of the heart saved from being disagreeable, as they saved her on the other hand from being worldly or cruel in her fashionableness. [8]
The country squire was a long-lived but not always an intellectual animal. [4]
When the civil war broke down the barriers of intellectual non-intercourse behind which the South had ensconced itself, it was found to be in a colonial condition. [4]
In every little village there is this intellectual stir and excitement; why, even in New York, readings interfere with the german;--['Dances', likely referring to the productions of the Straus family in Vienna. [4]
The greater intellectual vigour and power of invention in man is probably due to natural selection, combined with the inherited effects of habit, for the most able men will have succeeded best in defending and providing for themselves and for their wives and offspring. [1]
Thus is the utilitarian spirit eating away the foundations of a higher intellectual life, applying to everything a material measure. [4]
I haven't any use for your so-called intellectual woman. [9]
I took it up with a certain emulous interest (for I fancied at that day that I too had drawn a prize, say a five-dollar one, at least, in the great intellectual life-lottery) and read the first words. [6]
When, after an unhappy marriage and many desolate days, she had regained her former bright cheerfulness and saw her house become the centre of the intellectual life of the city, she had striven until now to extend the same welcome to all her guests. [10]
It was evening--dim twilight--the captain's hat was perched upon the big bell, and I supposed the intellectual end of the captain was in it, but such was not the case. [5]
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]
Perhaps it is true that he owed this to his physical strength, and that he will only keep it hereafter by intellectual superiority, by the dominance of mind. [4]
This is pre-eminently true of those writers whose charm lies less in distinctively intellectual qualities than in temperament, atmosphere, humor-writers of the quality of Steele, Goldsmith, Lamb, Irving. [4]
If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of human progress, how much more must it be true of those broad movements in the intellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? [6]
It happens only too often that Epicurus is confounded with Aristippus, who places sensual pleasure above intellectual enjoyment, as he holds that bodily pain is harder to endure than mental anguish. [10]
I don't mean too intellectual, of course, but too mental, don't you know--shows that first. [4]
This is just to the author, fair to the public, and, above all, valuable to the intellectual sanity of the critic himself. [4]
Yes, go back to the ant, the creature that--as you seem to think--sweeps away the last vestige of an intellectual frontier between man and the Unrevealed. [5]
Now I want to remind you that religion is not a matter of intellectual luxury to those of us who are interested in it, but something very different. [6]
If we come to our own country, who can fail to recognize that Benjamin Rush, the most conspicuous of American physicians, was the intellectual offspring of the movement which produced the Revolution? [3]
He stands near to Octavianus, for he was his intellectual guide, and I know that he reveres the Roman's sister, Octavia, as a goddess. [10]
The notion appears to be spreading that there must be some way by which one can get a good intellectual outfit without much personal effort. [4]
To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought--an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain--plow had gone over before. [5]
In the mean time, the great stronghold of intellectual conservatism, traditional belief, has been assailed by facts which would have been indicted as blasphemy but a few generations ago. [3]
But the books, though few, were of a high quality; and because they were few they were read much, and their contents became an integral part of his intellectual equipment. [4]
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]
People did not think whether he was handsome or not; his features bore the impress of his intellectual power so distinctly that the first glance revealed the presence of a remarkable man. [10]
And don't you think she's a little too intellectual for society? [4]
The tie between them might perhaps have been described as intellectual, for Elsie Shorter professed only to like people who were "worth while. [9]
He was now the well-modulated man of affairs, elegant in his simplicity of dress, with the dignified air of the intellectual, yet with the decision of a man who knew his mind. [11]
When he sees the value the intelligent and the well-to-do set upon material things, and their small regard for intellectual things and the pleasures of the mind, why should he not most passionately desire those things which his more fortunate neighbors put foremost? [4]
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
We have discovered the sure path for all intellectual labor, the true scientific method; and an observant study of things as they are, succeeds better with us than it did with our predecessors. [10]
It is not the sight of a Peter Cooper and his wealth that discontents him, nor the intellectual pursuits of the scholar who uses the leisure his fortune gives him for the higher pleasures of the mind. [4]
Now, what is the relation of our intellectual development to this physical improvement? [4]
But what is the relation of our general intellectual life to popular education? [4]
I frightened her, the other day, by saying that faith, as an intellectual state, was self-reliance, which, if you have a metaphysical turn, you will find is not so much of a paradox as it sounds at first. [6]
The head of the Museum, who bore the title of "high priest," had also appeared there with several members of this famous centre of the intellectual life of the capital. [10]
The editor has the more than royal power of selecting the intellectual food of a large public. [4]
They had not the means, intellectual or moral, of feeling as she fancied. [8]
Also, 'Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers,' by Dr. Abercrombie, 1838, p. [1]
I trust that the influence of this long intellectual and spiritual companionship never absolutely leaves one who has lived in it. [6]
It will be the inevitable result that these young ladies, setting themselves apart for a period to the intellectual life, will raise the standard of the young men, and of married life generally. [4]
It was all the impression of the moment, while the phrases in his mind had been wonderfully logical things which, from an intellectual standpoint, would have delighted the man whose cause he was now engaged in defending. [11]
He was in the fulness of his health and powers; his works had made him known in intellectual society, and I think his presence, on the other hand, increased their effects. [6]
They can elevate the entire present generation of young men, if they give their minds to it, to care for the intellectual pursuits they care for. [4]
In the retrospect, the elements in him that had disturbed her were less disquieting, his intellectual fascination was enhanced: and in that very emancipation from cant and convention, characteristic of the Order to which he belonged, had lain much of his charm. [9]
The controversy between the claims of the practical life and the intellectual is as idle as the so-called conflict between science and religion. [4]
One string of the animal nature has been taken away, but this gives only a greater predominance to the intellectual chords. [6]
Hence it is that what is called a practical education is set above the mere enlargement and enrichment of the mind; and the possession of the material is valued, and the intellectual life is undervalued. [4]
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]
I will say that the same high qualities, the same moral and intellectual attainments, the same graciousness of manner, of conduct, of observation, and expression have caused Admiral Harrington to be mistaken for me--and I have been mistaken for him. [5]
The signs are, that the next twenty years will bring about some noteworthy changes in the Valley, in the direction of increased population and wealth, and in the intellectual advancement and the liberalizing of opinion which go naturally with these. [5]
It is said that the fashion of this world passeth away, and so does the mere fashion in literature, the fashion that does not follow the eternal law of beauty and symmetry, and contribute to the intellectual and spiritual part of man. [4]
The disadvantage is that products, in the eagerness of competition for a market, are accepted which are of a character to harm and not help the development of the contemporary mind in moral and intellectual strength. [4]
You must remember that Number Seven has had a fair education, that he has been a wide reader in many directions, and that he belongs to a family of remarkable intellectual gifts. [6]
One would say that impulse was the rule in the society, without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say, intellectual sans-culottism, an impatience of the formal routinary character of our educational, religious, social, and economical life in Massachusetts. [6]
And a society that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in manners, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living--is there nothing pathetic in that? [4]
We have learned that English criticism is dictated by love for us, by a warm interest in our intellectual development, just as English anxiety about our revenue laws is based upon a yearning that our down-trodden millions shall enjoy the benefits of free-trade. [4]
He would be sure to make the most of any opportunity for display of intellectual emotion, and he would have burst his buttons if he had known. [11]
I am not sure but the notion is growing in what is called the intellectual class, that it is a mistake to intrust the government to the ignorant many, and that it can only be lodged safely in the hands of the wise few. [4]
This affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being. [1]
Looking at the story now after its publication, I am inclined to think that the introduction of the gipsy element was too bold, yet I believe it was carefully worked out in construction, and was a legitimate, intellectual enterprise. [11]
And if the stage goes on in this materialistic way, how long will it be before it ceases to amuse intelligent, not to say intellectual people? [4]
He might have softened the growing resentment by a change of manner, but his intellectual arrogance had control of him for the moment; and he said to himself that he had mastered the House before, and he would do so now. [11]
Everybody appreciates certain social properties, and likes his neighbour for possessing them; but perhaps few dwell upon a friend's capacity for the intellectual, or care how this might expand, if there were but facilities allowed for cultivation, and space given for growth. [14]
His face was smooth-shaven, thin, intellectual, or rather spiritual; the nose long, the mouth straight, the eyes deep gray, sometimes dreamy and puzzling, again glowing with an inner fervor. [4]
She was between sixty and seventy years old; her face, framed, as it were, into a picture by the lace veil, was exquisitely symmetrical in its form, intellectual, kind and benevolent in its expression. [10]
Let me but sit up there with those fine relics of the Old Red Sandstone Period and give Tone to an intellectual entertainment twice a week, and be so reported, and my happiness will be complete. [5]
It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects that unfit a man for military service, and all the intellectual ones that limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. [6]
This law of simultaneous intellectual movement, recognized by all thinkers, expatiated upon by Lord Macaulay and by Mr. Herbert Spencer among recent writers, is eminently applicable to that change of thought and feeling which necessarily led to the present conflict. [6]
Never did Emerson show the perfect sanity which characterized his practical judgment more beautifully than in this Lecture and in his whole course with reference to the intellectual agitation of the period. [6]
At one moment she is microscopically intellectual, critical, scrupulous in judgment as an analyst's balance, and the next as sympathetic as the open rose that sweetens the wind from whatever quarter it finds its way to her bosom. [6]
He does not send me his intellectual measurements, and he might as well have sent to a Boston tailor for a coat, without any hint of his dimensions in length, breadth, and thickness. [6]
For the solid sciences I had no particular fancy, but with mental modes and habits, and especially with the eccentric and fantastic in the intellectual and spiritual operations, I was tolerably familiar. [4]
This sort of scholarship, of widely apprehending intellectual activity, keeping step with modern ideas so far as they are historically grounded, is of the first importance. [4]

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