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Meanings of critical faculty in English

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Usage of critical faculty in English
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Perhaps few are endowed with both the inventive and the critical faculty.
Taken Alive
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The critical faculty must never be permitted to slumber or to sleep.
For Every Music Lover / A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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Balzac read these headings attentively, and applied to them his critical faculty.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry James's work.
Notes on Life & Letters
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He learns by his mistakes, and steadily improves in critical faculty.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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His critical faculty was stricken dumb and it asked no questions of him.
The Blazed Trail
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Or, as I believe, some subtle quickening of the critical faculty.
The Soul of a Bishop
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The taste and critical faculty of that public are in their fulness of vigour.
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors
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The incisive critical faculty was almost entirely wanting in him.
Washington Irving
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For it is the critical faculty that invents fresh forms.
Intentions
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It unravels secrets more surely than the highest critical faculty.
Manners and Social Usages
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Presently his critical faculty flooded back again-almostfor the first time since his arrest.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
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She was a good writer, with a fine critical faculty.
An Autobiography
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Then the hurly-burly of tone will not intoxicate the player and submerge his critical faculty.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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But no novelist is possessed of the critical faculty.
Jaffery
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These brusque lapses into the formless, indeterminate state, are the price of my critical faculty.
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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