I am confident that Sir Gilbert is in the possession of his intellects as completely as ever, and that he is a victim--but not a maniac.
But he had one of those happily constituted intellects which, across labyrinths of sophistry, and through masses of immaterial facts, go straight to the true point.
Perhaps in the days of Scotists and Thomists even his intellect might have run to waste, as many intellects ran to waste which were inferior only to his.
It is gratifying to know, that individuals who at that time expressed so exalted an opinion of the intellects and temper of each other, should have met and consented to act together in a spirit of mutual forgiveness.
Are you aware, sir, that you are answerable for the intellects of that unhappy boy?
Breeding in and in, to a certainty, would enfeeble their intellects as surely as their constitutions.
The great intellects who flourished under his pontificate had risen to fame before his time.
So far as we know, no one has ever been able to explain why Giovanni Andrea Doria imprisoned his secretary Antonio Ricciardi da Loano, whom Spotorno calls one of the brightest intellects of Liguria.
We are indebted to her for restraining Cæsar from destroying among us even the name of liberty; and this explains why our Republics, our people and our firstintellects were so friendly to France.
The great fact remains, in any case, that by harlotry, licentiousness and prostitution the grandest intellects are overturned and the most harrowing discords produced in society.
As long as human intelligence advances, as long as the race improves, as long as men have eyes to see and intellects to comprehend scientific facts, Phrenology will advance.
Euler and Lagrange spent their keen intellects upon them to no profit.
As might be expected, the vigorous intellects of the Aztecs impressed upon this myth a fixity of outline nowhere else met with on the continent, and wove it intimately into their astrological reveries and religious theories.
They all foresaw a great writer in d'Arthez; they looked upon him as their chief since the loss of one of their number, a mystical genius, one of the most extraordinary intellects of the age.
It is one of the misfortunes attendant upon great intellects that perforce they comprehend all things, both good and evil.
These extraordinary men, clad in armor damascened by their vices, these intellects environed by cold and brilliant analysis, seemed so far greater in his eyes than the grave and earnest members of the brotherhood.
The action of their intellects resolved to a blank marvel at seeing an imminent thing--an interrogation to almighty heaven treated with method, not with fury streaming forward.
But let the council meet; let it declare the Syllabus an article of faith; it will never succeed in destroying the treasures of independent thought which creative intellects have been hoarding up for centuries among every people.
The intellects that breathe in that atmosphere are few and far between.
Let me tell the honorable Senator I am not alone in this opinion; the Senator from Ohio with me is not alone; one of the first intellects of this age, perhaps the first man of the first country of the earth, is of the same opinion.
And so keen were their intellects and so marked was their progress in the most abstract studies, that many of them were recognized as the most distinguished pupils of their masters.
Tory influence has long blunted your energies: Tory machinations have for years dimmed the bright and brilliant intellects of the Rottenboroughers.
A mountainous region did for them what it has done in Switzerland for the races of to-day, and dwarfed the intellects of many while their thyroids underwent great enlargement.
Owing to this, the highest intellects have, in Germany, so outstripped the general progress of the nation, that there is no sympathy between the two parties; nor are there at present any means by which they may be brought into contact.
The origin and extent of that connexion between the French and English intellects which subsequently arose, is a subject of immense importance; but, like most others of real value, it has been entirely neglected by historians.
Ignorance of that law is the shoal on which some of the most powerful intellects which have adorned the human race have been stranded.
And there certainly are passages in Mr. Buckle's writings which speak of the influence exercised by great individual intellects in as strong terms as could be desired.
His purely literary habits forbid all suspicion of his disinterestedness, and will go far to commend him to the sympathies of the commanding intellects of the age.
No important transaction upon which patriotism of such an order and intellects of such caliber as distinguished the public men of that day were earnestly employed, can be without interest to inquiring minds of this.
Their intellects are mobile if shallow; and, perhaps, their want of serious interest in contemporary intellects renders them more accessible to the earliest symptoms of superficial shiftings of taste.
It oppresses the lungs and irritates the nerves of men whose keen brilliant intellects mark them as the natural servants of literature.
He reasoned from his well-chosen principles with such clearness, force, and compactness that the tallestintellects in the land bowed to him in this respect.
Startled, Anna turned her gaze upon him, and she saw that his intellects were restored.
When pressed upon the point, Mr. Turtle acknowledged that his intellects might not have been in the clearest state of perception, the supper party having been a jovial one.
The aggrandisement of the Church, the spread and pre-eminence of the Catholic faith, formed a cause which for centuries engaged the greatest intellects and the most devoted hearts of her followers.
To intellects like his what we call excess may give that repose which to sluggish natures comes of mere apathy.
These tidings break on me as I am worn down by misfortune and broken by illness, so that my shattered intellects scarcely credit them.
His father consequently sent him to Cambridge, and allowed him to turn his intellects to those pursuits in which Nature had best fitted him to excel.
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