All 14 Uses of
intellectual
in
Selected Essays
- This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.†
Chpt 3.
- It will happen for A time, that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.†
Chpt 3.
- But the rage of traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness of affecting the whole intellectual action.†
Chpt 3.
- Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection.†
Chpt 4. *
- The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual, and moral laws, and often violation on violation to breed such compound misery.†
Chpt 5.
- Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right; and although a different breeding, different religion, and greater intellectual activity, would have modified or even reversed the particular action, yet for the hero, that thing he does is the highest deed, and is not open to the censure of philosophers or divines.†
Chpt 5.
- The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf, and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.†
Chpt 6.
- And besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.†
Chpt 6.
- For, though the bias of her nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature, as to meet intellectual persons by the fullness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing, as she did, that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble."†
Chpt 6.
- When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick——no more.†
Chpt 7.
- Every intellectual jewel, every flower of sentiment, it is his fine office to bring to his people; and he comes to value his memory[549] equally with his invention.†
Chpt 9.
- A popular player,——nobody suspected he was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men, as from courtiers and frivolous people.†
Chpt 9.
- Who ever read the volume of the Sonnets, without finding that the poet had there revealed, under masks that are no masks to the intelligent, the lore of friendship and of love; the confusion of sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most intellectual of men?†
Chpt 9.
- Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.†
Chpt 11.
Definition:
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(intellectual as in: intellectual stimulation) related to intelligence -- such as requiring, appealing to, or possessing intelligence