The former admire sensual beauty, and are content therewith; the latter recall intelligible beauty, but, without scorning visible beauty, regard it as an effect and image of the intelligible Beauty.
So let us define these characteristics of the sensualand veritable existence, and let us put aside all other attributes.
Wherefore, even in the error of the senses, it seeks to escape from the sensual into worlds of fancy, subtle and refined.
Sensual philosopher, he desired only supreme sensualism, a last voluptuousness in his agony.
It was an ardent look, more sensual than tender, for he felt more desire than love for her, and suddenly with a brusque movement, like a man who is going to set to work, he took off his coat.
Worn out with privations, penances and sensual temptations he returned in A.
Monotheism and sensual Endæmonism drawn from Judaism, Christianity and Arabian paganism.
The mystic union of God and man they represented by lascivious acts of sensual love.
Liberius, but afterwards fell into sensual excesses which he atoned for by penitential pilgrimages to the catacombs.
Faith in the one God and His prophet Mohammed secure for him the divine favour, and his good works win for him the most abundant fulness of eternal blessedness, which consists in absolutely unrestricted sensual enjoyments.
There were men in that church that had defiled their souls and their flesh, and corrupted the community, and blasphemed the name of Christ by such foul, sensual sin as was 'not even named among the Gentiles.
Paul distinguishes between the true self and the accumulation of selfish and sensual habits which make up so much of ourselves.
But ere one fleeting hour is pass'd, The flattering world employs Some sensual bait to seize my taste, And to pollute my joys.
When in the light of faith divine We look on things below, Honour, and gold, and sensual joy, How vain and dangerous too!
Now we are born a sensual race, To sinful joys inclin'd; Reason has lost its native place, And flesh enslaves the mind.
The wine suffices in itself for sensual gratification and for intellectual conversation: all the guests have an opinion; what gentleman, indeed, cannot judge on a horse or a bottle?
But during the dialogues we have sketched, we must not suppose that Sir Miles himself had been so wholly absorbed in the sensual gratification bestowed upon Europe by the immortal Raleigh as to neglect his guest and kinsman.
Intense covetousness lay at the core of his heart; he had the sensual temperament, which yearns for every enjoyment, and takes pleasure in every pomp and show of life.
He saw but a charlatan, and he had not yet learned from experience what strength and what danger lie hid in the boa parading its colours in the sun, and shifting, in the sensual sportiveness of its being, from bough to bough.
It remains only to cast our glance over the punishments which befell the sensual villany of Varney, the intellectual corruption of his fell stepmother.
Man is sensualand inclined to sin, for flesh is weak and inclined to resist the Law.
One of the great causes of disease is sensual beliefs, the appetites and passions of the carnal man.
That the earth-bound spirits of murderers, suicides, and grossly sensual people haunt certain localities in the shape of certain animals has been firmly believed for many centuries.
Kant (who from his youth up had been a model of temperance) died of sensual indulgence.
Mahomet himself, after all that can be said about him, was not a sensual man.
In reference to this of the sensual Paradise and Mahomet's sensuality, the sorest chapter of all for us, there were many things to be said; which it is not convenient to enter upon here.
Fond though he was of sensual pleasures, he was possessed of great ambition which led him to such a position of prominence that he was forced to adopt the cause of one of the two political factions in the state.
Her personal charms and keen intelligence, which had enthralled the great Julius, exercised an even greater fascination over Antony, whose cardinal weaknesses were indolence and sensual indulgence.
A substantial supper might frighten away the ghost, who doubtless parted with sensual propensities when she died," said De Malfort.
You must consider, sweetheart, that he was the most moral of men, and that with him love meant a passion as free from sensual taint as the preferences of a sylph.
If you can think that there is not more profaneness than piety in such sensual revelries--why, it is that you do not know how to think.
He well remarked that the debility and sickening of Europeans in many tropical countries are wrongly ascribed to the climate, but are rather the consequences of indolence, sensual gratification and an irregular mode of life.
He looks at art from the side of culture and the forces of human nature, and finds in an aesthetically cultivated soul the reconciliation of the sensual and rational.
Then comes the reprobate, with a sensual upper lip, the only one in the family; all the others have thin, long slit mouths, as well as long straight noses.
Note also the swarm of hornets issuing from the tree-trunk by his head--significant of the power that sensualindulgence has of venomously wounding.
For the dragon whom St. George slew represents the samesensual enemy.
He condemned the extreme physical mortification of the ascetics, on the one hand, and the enjoyment of sensual pleasures on the other; pointing out and recommending the Noble Eightfold Path as the Middle Path.
No; that would be as absolute selfishness as though the reward hoped for had been money, a throne, or any other sensual enjoyment.
The seats and couches here referred to are those used by the worldly-minded for the sake of pleasure and sensual enjoyment.
