Careful Words

intellect (n.)

  I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. vii.

  The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs. London and Westminster Review, 1838.

The march of intellect.

Robert Southey (1774-1843): Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. Vol. ii. p. 360. The Doctor, Chap. Extraordinary.