It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you: you are formed for labour, not for love.

The Owenite doctrine that character was formed by one's social circumstances would initially appear opposed to phrenology's theory of innate mental endowments, or faculties.

It was said of her that she was a woman of superior mental endowments.

The few again: educated people, sensitively organized, with superior mental endowments, who seek lofty planes of thought and find their contentment there.

With a very fair mental endowment, he was able to get what the Watauga public schools could give him, secure a few years training at Nashville, then read law.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.

God has taken his eyes, but given him the physical endowment and mental endowment to encompass the greatest works of piano.

Vulcan training involves a mental endowment, tu- tor to pupil and vice versa.

Last-Trick is a man of mental endowments and a high public character; but in this country the relations of employers and employed are considerably strained.

Unhappily, his mental endowments by no means corresponded with these unprecedented successes.