I suffer for their guilt now, and my soul,
Like one that looks on ill-affected eyes,
Is hurt with mere intention on their follies.
Ben Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels.
But did you not
Observe with what intention the duke
Set eyes on Domitilla?
Shirley, The Royal Master, act ii. sc. 1.
According as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect; meditation being the soul of prayer, and the intention of our spirit.—Bishop Taylor, Life of Christ, part i. § 5.
Jacobin. The great French Revolution has stamped itself too deeply and terribly upon the mind of Europe for ‘Jacobin’ ever again to have any other meaning than that which the famous Club, assembling in the hall of the Jacobin convent, has given it; but it needs hardly to say that a ‘Jacobin’ was once a Dominican friar, though this name did not extend beyond France.