But if the brain is perfectly at rest, while the mind is actively employed, the brain undergoes no strain and suffers no exhaustion; and the mind suffers no strain or exhaustion because it is in its nature incapable of wear and tear.
It is only when the mind acts on the brain that exhaustiontakes place.
It is in moments of exhaustion that men lose all their reserves of civilization, and such a moment had come.
Sounds good to me," he retorted; and out of the depths of his exhaustion he almost half meant it.
The impetuous Leopold, impatient of delay, resolved upon an immediate attack, notwithstanding the exhaustion of his troops, and though a few hours of delay would bring strong reinforcements to his camp.
Although each member of the little party had borne himself well in the face of peril, now each one found himself in the utter exhaustion that follows unusual stress of mind or body.
The preparations are proceeding slowly, however, owing to the exhaustion of the country.
It was therefore no wonder that through utter exhaustion they fell into slumber; for youth and weariness will assert themselves against the tyranny of nerve-racking stress.
There is no exhaustion for the youth of such faculties.
She cannot rely any further upon France, which happens to be in such a fearful state of exhaustion that it could not give any help to Spain, which was on the point of declaring war against England.
French monarchy; it all at once collapses, betraying thus the exhaustion of Louis XIV.
Their silence and their exhaustion had for some time protected the Protestants; fanaticism and indifference made common cause once more to crush them at their reawakening.
Occasionally sheer exhaustion of nerves made it impossible for her to drink herself again into apathy before the effects of the last doses of the poison had worn off.
But for that matter only exhaustion could have kept her asleep in that vermin-infested hole.
It seemed to him the exhaustion of a child worn out with the excitement of a spectacle.
Susan came out of her fit of faintness and exhaustion with a different point of view--as if time had been long at work softening her, grief.
The exhaustion occasioned by each obstructs the progress of the other, and both are starved; a circumstance which affords a strong confirmation of the above theory.
The exhaustion of their horses and camels had prevented flight, quarter was not asked or given, and the battle continued until not a fighting-man was left alive.
I have employed it with great benefit at times--that is, where it was better to afford the exhaustion following a mere stimulant, than to submit to an exhaustion which the stimulant could for the moment counteract.
But if mental labour be continued for a long time, until exhaustion be felt, then the resort to a pipe gives to some habitues a feeling of relief; it soothes, it is said, and gives new impetus to thought.
Premature and permanent exhaustion of the muscles is bad enough; but premature and permanent exhaustion of brain is infinitely worse.
As far as my experience goes, the use of stimulants enables one at moments of severe bodilyexhaustion to make mental efforts of which, but for them, he would be absolutely incapable.
Exhaustion and nervousness followed; and finally he was attacked by an obscure disorder of the sympathetic nerves which control the veins, at times turning his whole body to the colour of purple.
But, if friendship carried with it temptation, yet when physical exhaustion brought spiritual exhaustion in its train, the love and tenderness {130} of his friends upheld him.
Such exhaustion is never merely physical or merely spiritual; the two things are one.
Once more I wiped a few tears from my own cheek, and then I went up-stairs very quietly in my exhaustion to prepare for our walk.
Was this the man who half an hour ago was sleeping the sleep of exhaustion after a deadly struggle with his malady?
Whether this reversion is due to an exhaustion of the normal process or to an inhibition of it is not definitely known.
In his exhaustion and misery, he accepted the alternative and slept again.
The exhaustion and lassitude to which she had partially succumbed soon after Dawes's arrival, had now completely overcome her, and she was unable to rise.
He had been caught by the center claw of one foot and had died of exhaustionin attempting to escape.
He was a vigorous man, and his exhaustion had chiefly been brought about by lack of food.
He watched the weary face before him until the eyes gradually closed, and, in spite of the burning pains of the frost-bites, exhaustion did its work, and the man slept.
His state of exhaustion fostered these feelings, and only his brain fought for him and clung to life.
We do not consider the awful road we travel, nor the gradual exhaustionwhich is overtaking us.
Kitty showed no signs of exhaustion yet, and faced her work amidst the rush of refugees with all her original zest.
The exhaustion of the land, however, as experience and observation have fully demonstrated, takes place mainly when the seeds of a plant are allowed to perfect themselves.
The broad leaves of the turnips likewise shade the ground, preserve its moisture, and prevent, in some measure, its exhaustion by the sun and air.
As her father entered the office to take her home, Missy gave a deep sigh, a sigh of mingled satisfaction and exhaustion such as seals a difficult task well done.
At last exhaustionhad its way with the taut, quivering little body; the hot eyelids closed; the burning cheek relaxed on the pillow.
There was something in the situation, in Elsmere's comments, or arguments, or silences which after a while banished the scholar's sense of exhaustion and made him oblivious of the country distances.
And yet under the look of physical exhaustion there was a now serenity, almost a peacefulness of expression, which gave the whole man a different aspect.
The next morning Catherine, finding that Robert still slept on, after their usual waking time, and remembering his exhaustion of the night before, left him softly, and kept the house quiet that he might not be disturbed.
But the truth is, that after the mind has been stretched beyond its usual pitch and tone, it must either sink into exhaustion and inanity, or seek relief by change.
His morning exhaustion had passed; he recovered even his humor, for he felt satisfied with himself.
He woke late in the morning, wearied and somewhat ill; he felt such dissatisfaction and exhaustion as he had never felt before.
They still pressed on, and discovered, to their dismay, that this recovery was only temporary, and that the second state of exhaustion was infinitely worse than the first.
Moreover, they twist the traces into such an ingeniously complicated mass that it renders disentanglement almost impossible, even after exhaustion has reduced them to obedience.
The ostrich would speedily have distanced its pursuer, if it had not been for the pain and exhaustion of the wound it had received, and the effect of the poison, which had now begun to work.
The old man made a great effort and rolled himself over the bulwarks, reaching the boat by the help of the rope, and the hands of the boys below, though he fainted from pain and exhaustion immediately afterwards.
I have sometimes reproached myself for allowing you to go, considering what the danger and exhaustion must needs be.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void, Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Much speech to swift exhaustion lead we see; Your inner being guard, and keep it free.
Deprived of body, because freed through the exhaustion of acts from bodies that are the results of merits and demerits, Jiva at last attains to Brahma.
One who betakes himself to acts at first wins prosperity, but then (upon the exhaustion of his merit) he once more encounters adversity.
What is meant is that if once the consequences of the acts of a past life are exhausted, the creature (with respect to whom such exhaustion takes place), is freed from all vicissitudes of life.
A person upon the exhaustion of his merit, comes down from heaven to earth, and takes birth as a king conversant with the science of chastisement.
And know, O king, that upon the exhaustion of the fruits of good acts, those of sinful acts begin to manifest themselves.
When Jiva enters that mass of effulgence, he no longer suffers like Shoma who, with the gods, upon the exhaustion of merit, falls down on the Earth and having once more acquired sufficient merit returns to heavens.
For the exhaustion of both merits and demerits, Knowledge has been ordained as the cause in the Sankhya school.
Those, on the other hand, who eat such food in the observance of Vedic sacrifices and vows and induced by the desire of fruits in the shape of heaven and children, ascend to heaven but fall down on the exhaustion of their merits.
He who enters the solar effulgence has not to undergo any change, unlike Shomah and the deities who have to undergo changes, for they fall down upon the exhaustion of their merit and re-ascend when they once more acquire merit.
They attain to regions of great felicity, but then they have to fall down therefrom upon the exhaustion of their merits.
