She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect
, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, `truth, reverence, and good will', then her friend friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
His integrity was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather than a choice or a principle; nor can it be otherwise than the main condition of an intellect
so remarkably clear and accurate as his to be honest and regular in the administration of affairs.
Nothing has been left undone to cripple their intellects
, darken their minds, debase their moral nature, obliterate all traces of their relation- ship to mankind; and yet how wonderfully they have sustained the mighty load of a most frightful bond- age, under which they have been groaning for cen- turies
The senses could refine, and the intellect
But Laurence thought it strange that a man with such a face, indicating hardly a common share of intellect
, should have had influence enough on human affairs to convulse the world with war.
is not a serious thing, and never has been.
Where the temperament is serene though the intellect
be sluggish, an unconquerable dullness opposes every effort to instruct.
His form in ungainly--his intellect
small--"(So the Bellman would often remark) "But his courage is perfect
Let it be those whom the gifts of intellect
have united in a noble brotherhood.
Yet Wordsworth and Coleridge are men in years; the one imbued in contemplation from his childhood; the other a giant in intellect
His sister, too, is, I hope, convinced how little the ungenerous representations of anyone to the disadvantage of another will avail when opposed by the immediate influence of intellect
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect
, which delights in detachment or boundary.
It was a poor, awkward, and clumsy organization, which stood with lowered head and supplicating eyes before a lofty and profound, a powerful and superior intellect
charge d'affaires from Copenhagen- a profound intellect
," and simply, "Mr.
He could have been whatever he turned his agile intellect
and his cunning hand to; he had been a schoolmaster and a watch-maker, and I believe an amateur doctor and irregular lawyer; he talked and wrote brilliantly, and he was one of the group that nightly disposed of every manner of theoretical and practical question at the drug-store; it was quite indifferent to him which side he took; what he enjoyed was the mental exercise.