Faculties

Examples

• The best faculties of man are employed for futurity: speaking is better than acting, writing is better than speaking. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I've got my faculties as if I was in my prime, but names wear out, by Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I do not know that my mental faculties are impaired. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. Plato. The Republic.
• His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I believe that the strange incidents connected with it will afford a view of nature, which may enlarge your faculties and understanding. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Emphasis is placed upon the devising, adapting, constructing faculties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Sight and hearing, for example, I should call faculties. Plato. The Republic.
• The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It's three o'clock in the morning, and I've got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I will begin by placing faculties in a class by themselves: they are powers in us, and in all other things, by which we do as we do. Plato. The Republic.
• I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Education as Training of Faculties. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had mastered this rude coarse nature; and he loved and worshipped her with all his faculties of regard and admiration. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then opinion and knowledge have to do with different kinds of matter corresponding to this difference of faculties? Plato. The Republic.
• My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The man had now regained full possession of his faculties, and was regarding us intently from where he lay bound upon the deck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His faculties seemed walled up in him, and were unmurmuring in their captivity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Modern psychology has substituted for the general, ready-made faculties of older theory a complex group of instinctive and impulsive tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There were only three types of faculties or powers in the individual's constitution. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Everywhere they were disposed to resist the prince, but it was not everywhere that they found the same faculties for an organized resistance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Quite other feelings absorb his reflections and govern his faculties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We are concerned only with the diversities of instinct and of the other mental faculties in animals of the same class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And the criterion which he proposes is difference in the working of the faculties. Plato. The Republic.
• Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But the faculties soon settled each in his place; the life-machine presently resumed its wonted and regular working. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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