His was an original brain, very
intelligent but--without method.
For, after a long series of military successes, or diligent and skilful labours, it is generally found that the more
intelligent among the Artisan and Soldier classes manifest a slight increase of their third side or base, and a shrinkage of the two other sides.
There had been a hasty consulta- tion, and since the Martians were evidently, in spite of their repulsive forms,
intelligent creatures, it had been resolved to show them, by approaching them with signals, that we too were
intelligent.
Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an
intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.
All which evils, and many more that I say nothing of, would be removed if there were some
intelligent and sensible person at the capital to examine all plays before they were acted, not only those produced in the capital itself, but all that were intended to be acted in Spain; without whose approval, seal, and signature, no local magistracy should allow any play to be acted.
What a sane man should be doing carrying about with him a woman's petticoat and silk stockings, may well be a puzzle to the most
intelligent reader.
de Manicamp; a very
intelligent young fellow, always poor, always needy, although he dipped his hand freely into the purse of M.
Every
intelligent person present could see that the prisoner's chance of an honorable acquittal depended on tracing the poison to the possession of his wife--or at least on proving her expressed intention to obtain it.
That was because she would also be extremely
intelligent, and, being extremely
intelligent, would have need of kindness to enable her to bear with a not very
intelligent man like himself.
The smallest boy I ever conversed with, carrying the largest baby I ever saw, offered a supernaturally
intelligent explanation of the locality in its old uses, and was very nearly correct.
Certainly it was agreeable, when the day's work was over, to find one's employer an
intelligent and cheerful companion; and if he was sometimes a little sarcastic and sometimes a little too insinuating, and if I did discover that his mildness was more a matter of appearance than of reality--if I did occasionally suspect the existence of flint or steel under an external covering of velvet--still we are none of us perfect; and weary as I was of the atmosphere of brutality and insolence in which I had constantly lived at X , I had no inclination now, on casting anchor in calmer regions, to institute at once a prying search after defects that were scrupulously withdrawn and carefully veiled from my view.
In truth, Monsieur Fouquet, ask me whatever you like, I am at your service; and, in return, if you will consent to do it, do me a service, that of giving my compliments to Aramis and Porthos, in case you embark for Belle-Isle, as you have a right to do without changing your dress, immediately, in your robe de chambre - just as you are." Saying these words, and with a profound bow, the musketeer, whose looks had lost none of their
intelligent kindness, left the apartment.