It will be universally admitted that instincts are as important as
corporeal structure for the welfare of each species, under its present conditions of life.
Besides, I had ideas of many sensible and
corporeal things; for although I might suppose that I was dreaming, and that all which I saw or imagined was false, I could not, nevertheless, deny that the ideas were in reality in my thoughts.
How wonderful is it then --except after explanation --that this great monster, to whom
corporeal warmth is as indispensable as it is to man; how wonderful that he should be found at home, immersed to his lips for life in those Arctic waters!
It is also from natural causes that some beings command and others obey, that each may obtain their mutual safety; for a being who is endowed with a mind capable of reflection and forethought is by nature the superior and governor, whereas he whose excellence is merely
corporeal is formect to be a slave; whence it follows that the different state of master [1252b] and slave is equally advantageous to both.
She might indeed be called a lover of men, as Socrates was a lover of mankind, preferring one to another for
corporeal, as he for mental qualifications; but never carrying this preference so far as to cause any perturbation in the philosophical serenity of her temper.
There was a
corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
Whereas now, in one moment of audition, I take as it were the census and statistics, local,
corporeal, mental and spiritual, of every living being in Lineland.
Tess's passing
corporeal blight had been her mental harvest.
At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its
corporeal associate.
"It would appear possible, and yet in so far as I am concerned I have all the attributes of
corporeal existence.
And Hannibal, snarling, growling, and spitting, ducking his head and with short paw-strokes trying to ward off the insistent broomstick, backed obediently into the corner, crumpled up his hind-parts, and tried to withdraw his
corporeal body within itself in a pain-urged effort to make it smaller.
The
corporeal wants of the convicts are tolerably well supplied: their prospect of future liberty and comfort is not distant, and, after good conduct, certain.