Now no one of these powers or faculties has either colour or figure, whereby it may be recognised or distinguished from others.
That is the truest Partition of humane Learning, which hath reference to the three Faculties of Man's soule, which is the feat of Learning.
Carlyle, "then plant into the deep, infinite facultiesof man, his fantasy and heart; wouldst thou plant for a year and a day?
If not visibly at work the reflective faculties are certain to be actively employed.
He will, perhaps, cause you many researches of the heart, so you must come fully equipped with all your intellectual faculties in the full vigorous glow of health, and then I promise myself some happy hours.
Make haste with the little education absolutely necessary for ripening the faculties of my alter ego, and telegraph to me the moment the time has arrived--that time of complete development so anxiously waited for by me.
But if thou seek what is becoming for a man, look into thy stores, see what faculties thou hast come here furnished withal.
For it is impossible but that aptitudes and faculties should spring up where they were not before, or spread and grow mightier, by the corresponding acts.
And what kind of work is that which hath in itself the faculties that were manifest in the making of it?
Of all our faculties ye shall find but one that can contemplate itself, or, therefore, approve or disapprove itself.
For what is that which declareth concerning all these faculties how much each of them is worth?
If you think of it, you will find one of the robin's very chief ingratiatory faculties is his dainty and delicate movement,--his footing it featly here and there.
As attention is considered an exertion of the will on the organs of sense and faculties of the mind, it may be allowable to remark on the nature and meaning of the term.
This is, however, a question for future examination, and will be discussed when their faculties are more particularly investigated.
The simple acts of perception and memory appear to be the same in man and animals; and there are many facts which would induce us to suppose, if these faculties be identical in their nature, that the endowment of the latter is more excellent.
The faculties which constitute mind are so blended, and dependant on each other, that it would only hazard confusion to proceed.
It has been endeavoured, in the foregoing pages, to describe the intellectual capacities of the human being, and to account for his superiority, from the peculiarity of his structure, and the extended faculties it has conferred.
Men are not equal, either in their faculties or in their requirements.
All the faculties were endowed with a liberality of which those outside of Freeland can have scarcely any conception.
The instruction in all faculties was absolutely untrammelled, and, like that in the lower schools, gratuitous.
Man without these faculties of thought, reason and will would not be man at all, but a brute.
It is inseparable from the faculties of thought, reason and will.
Some reminiscences of the parental speech would probably remain with the older children, and be revived and strengthened as their faculties gained force.
Of course, if it were said that these two faculties are one in kind—that in order to conceive we must judge, and in order to name we must predicate—I should have no objection to offer.
First let it be observed that there can be no dispute about one point, namely, that all the faculties or cases presented by the schema, with the single exception of the last (No.
For while Mivart and Wallace found their arguments upon the mind of man considered as a whole, Quatrefages expressly limits his ground to the faculties of conscience and religion.
Lastly, to give only one other illustration, in some forms of aphasia the patient has lost every trace of verbal memory, and yet his faculties of thought for all the practical purposes of life are not materially impaired.
The desires of every individual are limited, because extraordinary faculties are rarely to be met with.
Religion perceives that civil liberty affords a noble exercise to the faculties of man, and that the political world is a field prepared by the Creator for the efforts of the intelligence.
Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses; and they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient.
But How-ha's faculties of observing and remembering details had been developed in a hard school where death dealt his blow to the lax and life saluted the vigilant.
She believed in natural selection and in sexual selection, and was certain that if man had thereby become possessed of faculties and functions, they were for him to use and could but tend to his good.
He has faculties which in me are rudimentary, but which I can appreciate by their contrast to my own feebleness.
In the Egyptian palace-temple we find a monument at once political and religious, upon the production of which were concentrated all the energies and faculties of all the artificers of the race.
A little way off is the university, which has faculties of law, medicine and natural science (hardly 100 students in all); the library has valuable MSS.
As music appeals to our faculties for taking pleasure in non-imitative combinations of transitory sound, so architecture appeals to our faculties for taking pleasure in non-imitative combinations of stationary mass.
The first of these faculties is as needful to the artist in words, as a knowledge of anatomy is to the artist in colors or in stone.
His appreciation of that fact I rather think tended to blunt his faculties of observation.
He was in possession of all his faculties before you entered.
When the lull returned, no exertion of his faculties could catch a single sound foreign to the proper character of the scene, such as the plash of the water, and the creaking of the long, swinging yards.
Her parents, too, were stupified by the suddenness of the unexpected shock, and it was longer before their faculties recovered the tone proper to meet an insult so unprovoked and gross.
Pippo was staggered, for, just drunk enough to be audacious, he had not all his faculties at his perfect command, and his usual acumen was a little at fault.
He had seized the rope which the mariner had not ceased to throw, as the fisherman casts his line, and he was at the side of the bark, before his confused faculties enabled him to understand the means employed for his rescue.
He took the seat to which she silently pointed, and sat motionless as if carved in stone, his faculties absorbed in the single sense of hearing.
His best hope was in the inexplicable faculties of this animal.
There was little cross-examination, though McAllister established Jansen's incomplete recovery of his mental faculties when the men were brought before him.
Anti-prosecution papers hinted that his faculties were failing.
Undoubtedly man's knowledge is limited, from the very nature of our faculties or the organization of our brain and sense-organs.
But the two faculties are equally functions of the phronema, and depend on the normal anatomic and chemical condition of this organ of thought.
Our contemplativefaculties hold to the manner in which the object appears to them, without taking heed to its logical constitution.
But this assumes that the freedom of the intellectualfaculties can be balked, which appears contradictory to the conception of an autonomous power.
For we see not only individual subjects, but whole classes of men, uphold their capacities only in part, while the rest of their faculties scarcely show a germ of activity, as in the case of the stunted growth of plants.
Tell me where lives that thing so meek and tame, That doth not all his livingfaculties Put forth in preservation of his life?
Accordingly we can only seek them and love them in moments in which we need calm, and not when our faculties aspire after movement and exercise.
Genius will never mount high, where the faculties of the mind are benumbed half the year.
Don't expect me to write again till May; one's faculties are absolutely congealed this weather.
If the lightning strikes my house and discovers with infallible certainty all the metal in the walls, even where the sharpest eye could not detect it, must you recognize mental faculties in the lightning in discovering the metal?
I am a free citizen, and am at liberty to dispose of my time and faculties as I please.
The human system is just a kind of universe of its own; and the very same faculties that investigate the laws of nature in one case is good in the other.
Of the slavery men endure from their own faculties I have no experience.
Poor Billy Traynor is now upwards of eighty; but hisfaculties are clear, his memory unclouded, and, like Moses, his eye not dimmed.
We shall need his assistance," said Upton, whose quick faculties were already busily travelling many a mile of the future.
She saw that, when the time of coquetry and its fascinations has passed, still, with faculties like hers, there was yet a great game to be played.
I saw that he often labored to recall some of the events of the interview with the King; but his memory had not retained them, and he seemed like one eternally engaged in some problem which his faculties could not solve.
Traynor, the only one whose faculties were unshaken by the shock, sat quietly beside the bed, his fingers firmly compressed upon the orifice of the vessel, while with the other hand he motioned to them to keep silence.
Thus mastering small ambitions and petty desires, we shall concentrate all our facultieson our art; and even the humblest may thus outstrip those whose higher gifts reject such discipline.
Let us only decide upon that one most fitted for him, and, depend upon it, his faculties will day by day conform to his duties, and his tastes be merely dissipations, just as play or wine is to coarser natures.
The tone of the remark, and a certain wild energy of his manner, showed that poor Billy's faculties were slightly under the influences of the Tuscan grape; and the youth smiled at sight of an excess so rare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faculties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: capacity; consciousness; faculty; parts; senses
