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Meanings of intellectual labour in English

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Forms of labour in which the work is by the brain rather than by the hand.

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      1
      But with kind of knowledge work, it's trickier.
      The new yorker
      2
      Highly skilled, highly educated workers do increasingly well in an increasingly specialized economy driven by knowledge work.
      Wired
      3
      In an era of so-called " knowledge work", it should not be necessary for some people to go anywhere near an office.
      The Guardian
      4
      Was this instinct and knowledge working through the disordered fancies of fever?
      Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 03
      5
      His instincts and knowledge worked automatically, and his brain worked slowly and in words.
      Men without Women
      Usage of intellectual labour in English
      1
      To the woman with general intelligence is assigned the lowest drudgery of intellectual labour.
      As We Are and As We May Be
      2
      So that intellectual labour is not, necessarily, unfavourable to longevity.
      The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Colle...
      3
      But in intellectual labour there is another charm-webecome more intimate with our own nature.
      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 05
      4
      We cannot obtain Intuition without intellectual labour, for it must have an intellectual or scientific basis.
      Bergson and His Philosophy
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      He possessed in an extraordinary degree the power of continuous intellectual labour, nor did he spare himself.
      Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
      6
      Southward, beyond the river, was the city of study, of intellectual labour, so calm, so perfectly serene.
      The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2
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      Hopeless indeed is the position of that woman who brings into the intellectual labour market nothing but general intelligence.
      As We Are and As We May Be
      8
      And here is excellent advice as to the fashion in which men may hope to get through great intellectual labour: says Ellesmere,-
      The Recreations of a Country Parson
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      Then, too, he recoiled from Francois' purely intellectual labour, for he himself had scarcely emerged from the harrowing study of conflicting texts.
      The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4
      10
      The position of a man who wished to live by intellectual labour was far from easy at that time and not always dignified.
      Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
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      Thus habitual idleness gains too much power to be conquered, and the soul shrinks from the idea of intellectual labour and intenseness of meditation.
      The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / ...
      12
      In complexity and difficulty, I should say that the intellectual labour of a "good hunter or warrior" considerably exceeds that of an ordinary Englishman.
      Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02
      13
      The males absorbed the intellectual labours of life; slaves and dependents the physical.
      Woman and Labour
      14
      It was a common argument at the time, at least in intellectual Labour circles.
      The Guardian
      15
      Three among these-thegreatest scholars that Japan ever produced-especiallyprepared the way, by their intellectual labours, for the abolition of the Shogunate.
      Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
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