Acted to Adepts
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
acted, v. (14)
DSA 1.138 4 If [the preacher] had ever lived and
acted, we were none the wiser for it.
Tran 1.335 14 Jesus acted so, because he thought so.
SL 2.162 16 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to
the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest
still.
Exp 3.78 26 Especially the crimes that spring from
love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view, but when acted
are found destructive of society.
Art2 7.38 5 [Action] rises in thought, to the end
that it may uttered and acted.
PI 8.24 26 It was sensation;...when the mind acted,
it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
LLNE 10.326 7 The former generations acted under the
belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
HDC 11.51 18 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of
Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their
desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright; and the
General Court acted on their request.
HDC 11.75 19 Those poor farmers who came up, that day
[April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest
instincts.
EWI 11.110 4 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the
abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...whilst he acted as
chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record his
protest against the limitation...
AsSu 11.249 20 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the
pity of the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good men
with whom he acted;...
acting, adj. (1)
acting, n. (1)
MMEm 10.422 5 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions
of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.
acting, v. (20)
YA 1.370 8 Without looking...into those extraordinary
social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I
think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on
the citizen...
SR 2.79 21 ...[creeds and churches] are also
classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought
of duty...
Comp 2.124 10 ...my brother is my guardian, acting
for me with the friendliest designs...
Fdsp 2.213 7 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the
faithful heart, that elsewhere...souls are now acting...which can love
us and which we can love.
Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic
class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain
ends.
GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the
power of talking wisely.
ET16 5.285 26 The interior of the [Salisbury]
Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle, acting like a
screen.
Civ 7.32 13 ...when I...see...man acting on man by
weight of opinion...I see what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine
arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our
individuality from acting.
Cour 7.275 6 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to
break every yoke all over the world which hinders his brother from
acting after his thought.
PI 8.34 24 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at
this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal
symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
QO 8.185 23 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan
which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence
the dreams of his youth...
Prch 10.224 23 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or
twenty less men than himself, acting at discord with one another...
LLNE 10.353 21 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ]
the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in
obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in
strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
LLNE 10.359 8 ...the architect, acting under a
necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he
knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
MMEm 10.432 9 Shame on me [Mary Moody
Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once
thought and felt so sure of, without ever being conscious of acting
from calculation.
PLT 12.31 10 The temptation is to patronize
Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the
good sort of people.
action, n. (357)
Nat 1.3 12 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose
floods of life...invite us...to action proportioned to nature, why
should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
Nat 1.15 11 By the mutual action of [the eye's]
structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
Nat 1.33 6 The axioms of physics translate the laws
of ethics. Thus... reaction is equal to action;...
Nat 1.72 26 ...there are not wanting...occasional
examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
AmS 1.90 9 The soul active sees absolute truth and
utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius;...
AmS 1.94 20 Action is with the scholar subordinate,
but it is essential.
AmS 1.95 2 ...the transition through which [thought]
passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.
AmS 1.98 1 If it were only for a vocabulary, the
scholar would be covetous of action.
AmS 1.100 12 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider
activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of
action.
AmS 1.114 23 Young men...are hindered from action by
the disgust which the principles on which business is managed
inspire...
LE 1.178 10 Let [the scholar] endeavor...to solve the
problem of that life which is set before him. And this by punctual
action...
LE 1.182 27 The student...is great only by being
passive to the superincumbent spirit. Let this faith then dictate all
his action.
MN 1.204 25 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and
strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution
to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love,
as an aim adorns an action.
MR 1.236 1 Who could regret to see...a purer
taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? ...
This would be great action...
LT 1.274 26 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the
woman, as much as the most diffusive and universal action.
LT 1.278 8 You have set your heart and face against
society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action
no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
LT 1.285 7 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises
out of a greater Belief; their inaction out of a scorn of inadequate
action.
LT 1.286 16 The excellence of this class
[spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and
higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the
recommendation of low methods.
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to
one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Tran 1.333 13 Although in his action overpowered by
the laws of action... yet when he speaks...after the order of thought,
[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives
of truths.
Tran 1.333 14 Although in his action overpowered by
the laws of action... yet when he speaks...after the order of thought,
[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives
of truths.
Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily
incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the
Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every
written commandment.
Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their
privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making
immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
Tran 1.350 3 Unless the action is necessary, unless
it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it.
Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or
even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite
Counsels?
Tran 1.354 25 A reference to Beauty in action
sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
Hist 2.8 13 There is no...mode of action in history
to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
Hist 2.15 4 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost
freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
SR 2.63 22 The magnetism which all original action
exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
SR 2.70 22 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as
examples of [virtue's] presence and impure action.
SR 2.82 9 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a
deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
Comp 2.93 15 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation]
might be shown men...the present action of the soul of this world...
Comp 2.96 16 Polarity, or action and reaction, we
meet in every part of nature;...
Comp 2.115 14 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible
to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns
of a leger than...in the all the action and reaction of nature.
SL 2.138 26 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous
action are we strong...
SL 2.140 15 ...the action which I in all my years
tend to do, is the work for my faculties.
SL 2.155 5 ...the effect of every action is measured
by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
SL 2.157 26 ...into every assembly that a man enters,
in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
SL 2.162 17 I see action to be good, when the need
is...
SL 2.163 24 The poor mind does not seem to itself to
be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo
diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it is
somewhat.
Fdsp 2.192 20 Having imagined and invested [the
commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation
and action with such a man...
Fdsp 2.195 19 I have often had fine fancies about
persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no
fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is very little modified.
Fdsp 2.210 20 ...that scornful beauty of [your
friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but
rather fortify and enhance.
Hsm1 2.251 2 ...a different breeding, different
religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even
reversed the particular action...
Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic]
action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
Hsm1 2.260 24 A simple manly character...should
regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion...
OS 2.268 26 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is...that common heart...to which all right
action is submission;...
OS 2.271 7 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly
call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our
knees bend.
OS 2.276 1 Those who are capable of humility, of
justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that
commands...action and grace.
OS 2.278 12 The action of the soul is oftener in that
which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any
conversation.
Cir 2.301 11 One moral we have already deduced in
considering the circular or compensatory character of every human
action.
Cir 2.312 25 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me
an ode or a brisk romance, full of daring thought and action.
Pt1 3.7 20 Criticism is infested with a cant of
materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is
action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
Pt1 3.33 21 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in
any form, whether in an ode or in an action...has yielded us a new
thought.
Exp 3.59 8 There is now no longer any right course of
action nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
Exp 3.68 5 All good conversation, manners and action
come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
Exp 3.69 1 There is a certain magic about [a man's]
properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...
Exp 3.74 1 ...in particulars, our greatness is always
in a tendency or direction, not in an action.
Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right
action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends...
Exp 3.80 7 The partial action of each strong mind in
one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
Exp 3.81 11 We must hold hard to this poverty...and
by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess
our axis more firmly.
Chr1 3.87 9 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As
hid all measure of the feat./
Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the
mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.
Chr1 3.96 14 [A man] encloses the world...as a
material basis for his character, and a theatre for action.
Chr1 3.97 7 Will is the north, action the south pole.
Chr1 3.101 27 I knew an amiable and accomplished
person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find
in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was
tentative...
Chr1 3.108 21 ...we should not require rash
explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of
[character's] action.
Mrs1 3.126 14 ...the politics of this country, and
the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and
irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in
fellowship with crowds, and makes their action popular.
Mrs1 3.155 20 Minerva said...there was no one person
or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl...to know whether
it was fundamentally bad or good.
Gts 3.164 15 ...our action on each other, good as
well as evil, is so incidental and at random that we can seldom hear
the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit,
without some shame and humiliation.
Nat2 3.184 4 If the identity [in nature] expresses
organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
Pol1 3.212 4 It makes no difference how many tons'
weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure
resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it
cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
NR 3.232 20 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of
a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field
of action...
NR 3.244 27 ...I would have...no speech, or action,
or thought, or friend, but the best.
NER 3.269 27 A canine appetite for knowledge was
generated...and this knowledge, not being directed on action, never
took the character of substantial, humane growth...
UGM 4.4 23 Our colossal theologies of
Judaism...Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the
human mind.
PPh 4.51 8 If speculation tends thus to a terrific
unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is
good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the
action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
SwM 4.124 1 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an
academic robe, and hinders action with its voluminous folds.
SwM 4.140 9 The illuminated Quakers explained their
Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
MoS 4.150 8 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is
conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things
to pass;--the men of talent and actio
MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why
should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the
best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...keep myself ready
for action...
MoS 4.174 14 My astonishing San Carlo thought the
lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would
not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by
saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
NMW 4.231 2 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and
such a man was born; a man...with the speed and spring of a tiger in
action;...
NMW 4.232 3 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action
never before combined with so much comprehension.
NMW 4.238 9 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a
quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
NMW 4.254 9 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a
passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is
poisoned by this calculation.
GoW 4.266 19 If I were to compare action of a much
higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to
pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
GoW 4.266 27 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is
the tax which all action must pay.
ET1 5.20 28 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never
to call into action the physical strength of the people...
ET4 5.58 18 These Norsemen are excellent persons in
the main, with...wise speech and prompt action.
ET5 5.86 10 ...the English can put more men into the
rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other
army.
ET5 5.95 20 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been
drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and
storms are said to disappear.
ET6 5.103 13 ...rule of court and shop-rule have
operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit
and action of men.
ET11 5.185 24 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... and...have been consulted in the conduct of
every important action.
ET13 5.222 24 The action of the university...is
directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a
psychologist.
ET13 5.223 11 ...whenever it comes to action, the
[English] clergyman invariably sides with his church.
ET14 5.239 12 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it
is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the
lesser class with which it has been conversant. Hence, all poetry and
all affirmative action comes.
ET14 5.250 18 There is in the action of [James
Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest
waters...
ET14 5.258 15 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the
salient and curative influence of intellectual action...
ET14 5.259 9 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all
references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of
propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called,
is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the
action of fire...
ET17 5.292 6 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added
to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a
pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and
action with fine jets of mead.
ET19 5.312 23 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you
could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little
good of them till you had seen them in action;...
F 6.43 5 History is the action and reaction of these
two,-Nature and Thought;...
Pow 6.76 14 A man who has that presence of mind which
can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a
dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
Pow 6.77 13 ...in human action, against the spasm of
energy we offset the continuity of drill.
Wth 6.103 27 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced
by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he
makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state
is more worth, in the hour of his action.
Wth 6.121 19 How often we must remember the art of
the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with
releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the
action of the muscles.
Ctr 6.158 8 We must have an intellectual quality in
all property and in all action, or they are naught.
Bhr 6.169 11 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but
in man she tells it all the time, by form...and by the whole action of
the machine.
Bhr 6.196 2 [Beautiful manners] must always show
self-control;...every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest.
Wsp 6.212 8 Even well-disposed, good sort of
people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures...
Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech
aims to say, and all action to evolve...
Wsp 6.222 15 ...the censors of action are as numerous
and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland;...
Wsp 6.226 25 It is our system that counts, not the
single word or unsupported action.
Wsp 6.231 14 He is great whose eyes are opened to see
that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed
into his action...
CbW 6.249 20 When [the population] reaches its true
law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Bty 6.290 4 ...the forms and colors of nature have a
new charm for us in our perception that...each is a sign of some better
health or more excellent action.
Bty 6.291 19 What a difference in effect between a
battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent
companies on a holiday!
Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the
beauty that all circular movement has; as...the action and reaction of
nature;...
Bty 6.294 4 ...this demand in our thought for an ever
onward action is the argument for the immortality.
Civ 7.34 22 ...the highest proof of civility is that
the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the
greatest good of the greatest number.
Art2 7.38 2 Thought is the seed of action; but action
is as much its second form as thought is its first.
Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in
speech and action may be conscious or unconscious.
Art2 7.38 22 The conscious utterance of thought, by
speech or action, to any end, is Art.
Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the
bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively;
but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of
all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct,
relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
Art2 7.42 13 All powerful action is performed by
bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.51 10 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature
in this, that they are organically reproductive. This is not, but
spiritually it is prolific by its powerful action on the intellects of
men.
Art2 7.54 20 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone
which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed
the rest.
Elo1 7.97 7 He who will train himself to mastery in
this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on
character and insight. Let him see that his speech is not differenced
from action;...
DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its
order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield
so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously
studied.
Boks 7.207 2 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar]
is at the richest period of the English mind, with the chief men of
action and of thought which that nation has produced...
Clbs 7.241 8 ...it is not this class, whom the
splendor of their accomplishment...makes them chancellors and
commanders of council and of action...whom we now consider.
Cour 7.261 4 I am much mistaken if every man who went
to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he
should behave in action.
Cour 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly
drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they
must each go into that action with a certain despair.
Cour 7.264 17 Courage is equality to the problem, in
affairs...or in action;...
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and
judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the
only aim.
Suc 7.311 5 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by
firm action, that is not easy...
PI 8.6 15 ...whilst the man is startled by this
closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the
independent action of the mind;...
PI 8.28 1 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do
not behold the outward creation, and that to me it would be a
hindrance, and not action.
PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at
leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not
for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
PI 8.49 2 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes,
namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...action and
reaction,--they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
PI 8.64 6 Is not poetry the little chamber in the
brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks,
sets in action the intellectual world?
PI 8.67 7 [A good poem] affects the characters of its
readers by...inevitably prompting their daily action.
SA 8.103 4 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long
ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was
such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
SA 8.107 9 These are the bases of civil and polite
society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public
action;...
Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the
general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
Elo2 8.120 1 ...this is quite as true of the action
of the mind itself, that a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes
finds himself cold and slow in private company...
Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and
of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice
remorseful to the conscience...
PC 8.211 6 Here...the freedom of action goes to the
brink, if not over the brink, of license.
Grts 8.308 14 ...Nelson, said, I feel that I am
fitter to do the action than to describe it.
Grts 8.314 15 Napoleon commands our respect...by the
speed and security of his action in the premises, always new.
Imtl 8.340 2 ...all our intellectual action, not
promises but bestows a feeling of absolute existence.
Imtl 8.340 25 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient
proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
Imtl 8.347 18 [Future state] is not duration, but a
taking of the soul out of time, as all high action of the mind does...
Dem1 10.6 3 This feature of dreams deserves the more
attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling
experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that
particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in
the same order before...
Dem1 10.12 21 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because
we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of
the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the
agents.
Dem1 10.15 18 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in
any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of
commerce and affairs...
PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our
career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and
protected and tenderly bred person... skilful in action...
Chr2 10.96 15 ...under the action of this sentiment
of the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above
Nature.
Chr2 10.96 22 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/
There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/
When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the
action of the heart within and of the senses without.
Chr2 10.100 25 Men are forced by their own
self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink
and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
Edc1 10.129 13 No dollar of property can be created
without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...a
study of the issues of one and another course of action...
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society
by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
Edc1 10.138 11 ...let us have men whose manhood is
only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still; such
are able and fertile for heroic action;...
Edc1 10.140 20 ...every one desires that [the boy's]
pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into
the habit of the young man...
Supl 10.171 15 ...whilst thus everything recommends
simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the
positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to
stir without great argument.
Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action
appear, they are to be heartily sought.
SovE 10.192 17 The idea of right...lays itself
out...in the level of the seas, in the action and reaction of forces.
SovE 10.199 3 While the immense energy of the
sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable
influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and the tradition
received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
SovE 10.199 26 When we ask simply, What is true in
thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private
heart to the Divine mind...
Prch 10.219 20 No age and no person is destitute of
the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious
exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief, of
heroic action...
Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of
his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
Prch 10.224 11 ...all that saints and churches and
Bibles...have aimed at, is to...animate man to central and entire
action.
Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are
not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.
MoL 10.243 26 The Greek was so perfect in action and
in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the
human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
Schr 10.267 10 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...
Schr 10.267 17 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an
over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action...
Schr 10.269 16 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but
truth...and brave obedience to it in right action?
CSC 10.376 17 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of
it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which
accompanies...a man...who does not anticipate his own action...
CSC 10.376 26 ...although no decision was had, and no
action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the
[Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
MMEm 10.405 1 ...The chief witness which I have had
of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested
joy felt in others' superiority.
MMEm 10.426 14 Usefulness, if it requires action,
seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God,
retaining consciousness.
SlHr 10.439 9 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a
clear perception of justice, and a perfect obedience thereto in his
action;...
Thor 10.452 24 [Thoreau] declined to give up his
large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or
profession...
Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small
framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years
alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit
for him.
Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of
[Thoreau's] rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a
fault in him that he had no ambition.
GSt 10.505 20 When one remembers...his immovable
convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the
cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...of feebler and interrupted
action.
GSt 10.507 20 ...there is to my mind somewhat so
absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of
him, so much as make any question of the future.
HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's
[April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the
people.
EWI 11.110 2 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the
abolition of the trade...
EWI 11.127 12 These considerations, I doubt not, had
their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of
trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action.
EWI 11.146 1 These considerations [of emancipation in
the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the
intellect and the conscience of the country.
War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the
charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual
action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or
never occur to the good and just man;...
War 11.173 22 ...the man who...without any notice of
his action abroad... takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does
not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
War 11.175 2 ...if the disposition to rely more, in
study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human
constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
FSLC 11.181 8 I met the smoothest of Episcopal
Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's
treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great
action of his life.
FSLC 11.197 19 Every person who touches this business
[the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our
lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by
their political action.
FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free
speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his
personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
FSLN 11.223 2 After [Webster's] talents have been
described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the
details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
AKan 11.257 4 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and
this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...on
the scale of a national action.
JBB 11.270 23 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to
that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
ACiv 11.308 15 A week before the two captive
commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could
not be done: it would divide the North. It was done, and in two days
all agreed it was the right action.
ACiv 11.308 16 ...this action [emancipation], which
costs so little...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading
nuisance [slavery]...
ACiv 11.309 7 Time, say the Indian Scriptures,
drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to
be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
ACiv 11.309 11 I hope it is not a fatal objection to
this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent
thoroughly, which is the tribute of a moral action.
EPro 11.318 14 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and
such the felicity attending the action [Emancipation Proclamation],
that he has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession
press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate
Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's]
efficiency and correctness of aim.
EdAd 11.392 6 We have a better opinion of the economy
of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity
presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be,
now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on
society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the
position of Woman.
Wom 11.411 14 There is...no style adopted into the
etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some
brilliant woman...
Wom 11.416 3 Another step [for Woman] was the effect
of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
Shak1 11.447 5 We seriously endeavored, besides our
brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and
social action falls...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer
lovers of the muse...
Humb 11.457 11 ...a man's natural powers are often a
sort of committee that slowly, one at a time, give their attention and
action;...
FRO1 11.479 24 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a
religion...that commands all the social and all the private action.
FRep 11.519 12 The spirit of our political action,
for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
FRep 11.524 26 ...we know, all over this country, men
of integrity, capable of action and of affairs...
FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to
the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it
were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men,
filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private
and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
PLT 12.13 12 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the
record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in
natural action.
PLT 12.18 21 [The perceptions of the soul] are
detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and
unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action...
PLT 12.23 8 The momentum, which increases by exact
laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual
action.
PLT 12.23 20 ...what a modern experimenter calls the
contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have
only to read the law that its application may be evident...
PLT 12.41 22 [A perception] is impatient to put on
its sandals and be gone on its errand, which is to lead to a larger
perception, and so to new action.
PLT 12.45 17 The primary rule for the conduct of
Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their
natural attitudes and action.
PLT 12.49 19 The difference is obvious enough in
Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in
Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In
debate, in legislature, not less in action;...
II 12.68 23 ...what is Inspiration? It is this
Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.
II 12.71 14 Novelty in the means by which we arrive
at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest
power, alike in intellectual and in moral action.
II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that
denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well
as in fine arts.
Mem 12.90 7 ...[memory] is the thread on which the
beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is
necessary to moral action.
Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days
or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's
books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report of no
more...
CL 12.152 19 We know the healing effect on the sick
of change of air,- the action of new scenery on the mind is not less
fruitful.
MAng1 12.220 6 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the
muscles...its action and counteraction learned;...
MLit 12.328 22 ...what shall we think of that absence
of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and
evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
Pray 12.354 8 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner
pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may
soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
Let 12.398 11 [American youths] are in the state of
the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and
said...there is now no longer any right course of action, nor any
self-devotion left among the Iranis.
Let 12.401 13 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and
full of discord because they despise genius, which brings power and
nobleness into manly action...
Action, n. (1)
actions, n. (113)
Nat 1.16 15 The influence of the forms and actions in
nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to
lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
Nat 1.20 2 We are taught by great actions that the
universe is the property of every individual in it.
Nat 1.21 9 Ever does natural beauty steal in like
air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.23 1 Therefore does beauty, which, in relation
to actions...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit
of the intellect;...
AmS 1.82 3 Events, actions arise, that must be
sung...
AmS 1.87 24 [Nature] came to [the scholar]
short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts.
AmS 1.90 24 ...there are creative manners, there are
creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is,
indicative of no custom or authority...
AmS 1.96 5 The actions and events of our childhood
and youth are now matters of calmest observation.
AmS 1.96 8 [The actions and events of our childhood]
lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so with our recent actions...
AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total
strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
AmS 1.102 7 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has
uttered as its commentary on the world of actions, - these [the
scholar] shall receive and impart.
LT 1.267 23 To-day always looks mean to the
thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and
great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
LT 1.278 1 We do not want actions, but men;...
LT 1.278 3 We...want...the spirit that sheds and
showers actions, countless, endless actions.
Tran 1.342 1 ...it would not misbecome us to
inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and
do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not
accidental and personal...
Hist 2.15 13 ...to the senses what more unlike than
an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and
the last actions of Phocion?
Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to
observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in
certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how
deep is the chain of affinity.
Hist 2.17 11 ...a profound nature awakens in us by
its actions and words... the same power and beauty that a gallery of
sculpture or of pictures addresses.
SR 2.53 13 ...for myself it makes no difference
whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
SR 2.59 1 ...of one will, the actions will be
harmonious...
SR 2.63 8 When private men shall act with original
views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to
those of gentlemen.
SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that
science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial
and impure actions...
Comp 2.106 12 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme
Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they
involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a
god.
SL 2.164 1 Let us, if we must have great actions,
make our own so.
SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and
scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
Lov1 2.182 3 ...if...the soul passes through the body
and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate
one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to
the true palace of beauty...
Hsm1 2.258 9 The pictures which fill the imagination
in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our
life is;...
Hsm1 2.260 11 ...we have the weakness to expect the
sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they
outrun sympathy...
OS 2.286 20 Neither his age...nor actions...can
hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
OS 2.296 26 [The soul saith] More and more the surges
of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in
my regards and actions.
Cir 2.317 22 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some
reader exclaim, you have arrived...at an equivalence and indifferency
of all actions...
Pt1 3.8 19 Words are also actions, and actions are a
kind of words.
Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few
books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all
spectacles.
Pt1 3.41 22 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall
represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet]; others shall
do the great and resounding actions also.
Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying
around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
Exp 3.74 16 [Just persons] refuse to explain
themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that
office.
Chr1 3.102 26 New actions are the only apologies and
explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to
receive.
Nat2 3.194 8 ...it also appears that our actions are
seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
Pol1 3.206 4 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of
all proportion to their means;...
NER 3.266 13 ...when [the individual's] thoughts look
one way and his actions another;...what concert can be?
NER 3.279 5 I suppose considerate observers, looking
at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions,
will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons
is fidelity.
UGM 4.7 1 ...there are persons who, in their
character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
MoS 4.169 21 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are
guided by example, not choice.
MoS 4.178 6 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave
the mind where they find it...and so do all events and actions.
NMW 4.232 21 I have gained some advantages over
superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte
writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my
thoughts.
NMW 4.249 15 When a man has been present in many
actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic]
without difficulty...
NMW 4.253 24 [Napoleon] is unjust to his
generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from
Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
GoW 4.267 15 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker]
each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is
anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day? In actions of
enthusiasm this drawback appears...
GoW 4.267 19 ...in...actions that steal and lie,
actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there
is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.274 7 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of
routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself...
ET5 5.79 21 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ...
Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do
aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior
actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple
discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of
it.
F 6.40 22 ...of all the drums and rattles by which
men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable
is this by which we are brought to believe that events
are...independent of actions.
Ctr 6.159 22 ...the [Greek] heroes, in whatever
violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect;...
Bhr 6.188 9 ...nothing is more charming than to
recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such
[persons of character].
Wsp 6.218 10 If your eye is on the eternal...your
opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined
advantages of other men can rival.
Wsp 6.231 13 He is great whose eyes are opened to see
that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
DL 7.124 12 In men, it is their...removal to the East
or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian
movement, and all the after years and actions only derive interest from
their relation to that.
PPo 8.265 13 What you see is He not;/ What you hear
is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you
perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
Dem1 10.4 14 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in
earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings...
Dem1 10.9 7 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose
turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same
affection.
Dem1 10.17 4 Heeded though [the belief in luck] be in
many actions and partnerships, it is not the power to which we build
churches...
Dem1 10.23 6 ...the so-called fortunate man is
one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his
instincts...
Aris 10.38 18 ...we wish to see those to whom
existence is most adorned and attractive...ready to answer for their
actions with their life.
Chr2 10.101 5 [The man of profound moral sentiment's]
actions are poetic and miraculous in [men's] eyes.
EzRy 10.395 10 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and
actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short
acquaintance.
LS 11.10 10 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed,
declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his
disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions.
HDC 11.48 7 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit,
at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed
of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
FSLC 11.184 17 The levity of the public mind has been
shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
Koss 11.397 9 ...[the people of Concord]...have been
hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the
splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
PLT 12.24 1 ...if one remembers...how much we are
braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not
need vigor of our own kind...
PLT 12.45 3 ...if [we converse] with high things,
with heroic actions, with virtues, the interval becomes a gulf and we
cannot enter into the highest good.
Mem 12.109 2 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and
going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we
start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are
surprised to find it was a short nap.
Milt1 12.273 12 And so, throughout all his actions
and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent spiritualist...
WSL 12.343 11 Do not brag of your actions, as if they
were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.
Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions
even few, prayers few;...
active, adj. (73)
Nat 1.23 5 Therefore does beauty, which...comes
unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;
and then again, in its turn, of the active power.
Nat 1.48 25 ...so long as the active powers
predominate over the reflective, we resist...any hint that nature is
more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
AmS 1.90 4 The one thing in the world, of value, is
the active soul.
AmS 1.90 7 The soul active sees absolute truth and
utters truth, or creates.
MN 1.219 24 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement]
was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein
the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of
natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
LT 1.284 23 I have seen the same gloom on the brow
even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived
deepest and with most success into active life.
YA 1.366 11 The habit of living in the presence of
these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral
sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and
aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
Hist 2.22 21 The antagonism of the two tendencies
[Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals...
Comp 2.108 12 That is the best part of each writer
which has nothing private in it;...that which flowed out of his
constitution and not from his too active invention;...
Lov1 2.180 3 The statue is then beautiful...when
it...demands an active imagination to go with it and say what it is in
the act of doing.
Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the
emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others
are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more
swift, more active...are these fine inward irradiations.
Prd1 2.233 4 The scholar shames us by his bifold
life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable;
when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Hsm1 2.258 24 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter
an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common
size of man.
Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural
images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory,
though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their
dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as
the word of its momentary thought.
Pt1 3.15 6 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and
dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet
active.
NER 3.277 4 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the
same healing should not stop in his thought, but should penetrate his
will or active power.
SwM 4.138 4 That is active duty, say the Hindoos,
which is not for our bondage;...
NMW 4.223 6 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to
the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief,
the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men,
throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as
the incarnate Democrat.
NMW 4.253 4 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men
every where...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
GoW 4.286 19 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung
und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with
us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years, that should be the most
active in his life, after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
ET2 5.29 11 The sea is masculine, the type of active
strength.
ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of
thought are counter... active intellect and dead conservatism;...
ET5 5.93 1 [The English] have made...London...such a
city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one
time or other forced to visit it.
ET11 5.185 18 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men...
F 6.39 21 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
Art2 7.51 7 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature, again in active operation.
Elo1 7.67 10 ...all these several audiences...which
successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the
orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes
the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make
allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
Insp 8.269 16 There are times when the intellect is
so active that everything seems to run to meet it.
Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the
base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
Imtl 8.331 14 Both [men] were men of distinction and
took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.
Dem1 10.16 16 [The young man] observes, with
pain...that his genius...is no longer present and active.
Edc1 10.129 12 No dollar of property can be created
without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a
constant contest with the active faculties of men...
Edc1 10.136 4 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the
man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of
becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought. It is not
less necessary that the intellectual and the active faculties should be
nourished and matured.
SovE 10.192 2 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls
institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
Prch 10.224 14 The human race are afflicted with a
St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously
active...
Prch 10.235 2 ...the power of sympathy is always
great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain
it when argument would fail. Such, too, is the active power of good
temperament.
MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but
passive...
MMEm 10.415 17 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my
mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when
thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
SlHr 10.447 5 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the
simple usages of his church; was always an honored and sometimes an
active member.
GSt 10.505 1 ...an active and intelligent
manufacturer and merchant... [George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
HDC 11.51 10 Early efforts were made to instruct [the
Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took
an active part.
HDC 11.81 10 In 1786...a large party of armed
insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of
the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same
people who had been active in a County Convention to consider
grievances, condemned the rebellion...
LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the
Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting
to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to
drag them over mountains and rivers...
War 11.167 6 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into
an active medicinal principle;...
War 11.168 22 A man does not come the length of the
spirit of martyrdom without some active purpose...
FSLN 11.240 2 ...torpor exists here throughout the
active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling
aggressions.
Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the
same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in
politics;...
FRO1 11.480 6 ...it is only on the basis of active
duty, that worship finds expression.
CPL 11.498 21 The religious bias of our founders had
its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and
hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an
acquaintance with history and with poetry.
FRep 11.524 22 Whilst each cabal...at last
brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good
and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
FRep 11.544 11 I could heartily wish that our will
and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
PLT 12.10 26 The wonder of the science of Intellect
is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active
quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
CW 12.171 24 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now
known the country through for their learning, or subtlety, or active or
patriotic power...
MAng1 12.224 24 After an active and successful
service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was
informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
WSL 12.345 15 What is the quality of the persons who,
without being public men, or literary men, or rich men, or active
men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
Let 12.397 27 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they
have finished their college education...
Let 12.399 6 ...this class [of over-educated youth]
is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class...
actively, adv. (7)
ET11 5.184 3 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848
(the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in
England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in
their own defence...
Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is
weaponed with a power of speech, it...works actively in all
directions...
Edc1 10.129 25 [Is it not true] That...sickness,
sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
EWI 11.115 23 The clergy and missionaries throughout
the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to
enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their
new relation...
War 11.152 16 The student of history acquiesces the
more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed
in God's name, too, when he learns that it...does actively forward the
culture of man.
activities, n. (13)
NER 3.255 1 There was in all the practical activities
of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal
of tender consciences from the social organizations.
UGM 4.17 9 Foremost among these activities [of the
intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by
the imagination.
GoW 4.267 16 ...in those lower activities, which have
no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more
cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
ET13 5.220 20 The spirit that dwelt in this [English]
church has glided away to animate other activities...
Farm 7.143 10 Science has shown...the manner in which
marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the
oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the
plants absorb. These activities are incessant.
Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities...
Schr 10.267 4 Young men, I warn you against the
clamors of these self-praising frivolous activities,-against these
busy-bodies;...
Schr 10.268 19 ...I prefer no action to misaction,
and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those
lower activities.
SlHr 10.448 16 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel
Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong
sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to
forward.
EdAd 11.385 10 One would say there is nothing
colossal in the country but its geography and its material
activities;...
CInt 12.123 7 All [the Understanding's] activities
are to short, personal ends...
PPr 12.381 12 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the exposure of the progress of fraud into all parts and
social activities;...
Trag 12.417 2 ...higher still than the activities of
art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are
not distinguished from each other...
activity, n. (128)
Nat 1.22 22 The intellectual and the active powers
seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one
generates the exclusive activity of the other.
Nat 1.22 23 The intellectual and the active powers
seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one
generates the exclusive activity of the other.
Nat 1.61 9 ...all the uses of nature admit of being
summed in one, which yields the activity of man an infinite scope.
Nat 1.70 9 A wise writer will feel that the ends of
study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered
regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to
the torpid spirit.
AmS 1.100 10 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider
activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of
action.
LE 1.165 23 The vision of genius comes by renouncing
the too officious activity of the understanding...
MN 1.223 16 I cannot tell if these wonderful
qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever
re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
Tran 1.350 1 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found
that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there
is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...an
activity without an aim.
Hist 2.17 7 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
SR 2.64 25 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,
which makes us... organs of its activity.
SR 2.79 13 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
Comp 2.112 8 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that
expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our
voluntary activity.
Hsm1 2.250 27 ...a different breeding, different
religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even
reversed the particular action...
OS 2.273 3 The least activity of the intellectual
powers redeems us in a degree from the conditions of time.
OS 2.289 12 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty
strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his
own;...
Int 2.332 12 ...now you must labor with your brains,
and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul
showeth.
Art1 2.352 2 What is that abridgment and selection we
observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
Art1 2.365 3 ...the statue will look cold and false
before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
Pt1 3.7 15 Criticism is infested with a cant of
materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first
merit of all men...
Exp 3.52 19 ...the individual texture holds its
dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of
activity and of enjoyment.
Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates
are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a
mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the
greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity...
Pol1 3.212 6 The fact of two poles, of two forces,
centripetal and centrifugal, is universal, and each force by its own
activity develops the other.
NER 3.251 7 Whoever has had opportunity of
acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five
years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and
experimenting.
NER 3.258 22 ...the Mathematics had a momentary
importance at some era of activity in physical science.
NER 3.260 24 ...in this, as in every period of
intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
NER 3.284 27 ...only by the freest activity in the
way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
UGM 4.16 17 Genius...by acquainting us with new
fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
UGM 4.29 1 Nothing is more marked than the power by
which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every
benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his
activity into places where it is not due;...
GoW 4.281 10 A German public asks for a controlling
sincerity. Here is activity of thought; but what is it for?
ET3 5.35 26 ...[England] has, in the last
centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with
its impress.
ET8 5.141 18 Does the early history of each tribe
show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its
activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
ET13 5.219 19 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself
thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English
nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
ET16 5.275 23 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I
return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that
no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural
advantages of that country...
ET18 5.308 3 By this general activity and by this
sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years
evolved the principles of freedom.
F 6.45 18 ...as every man is...vexed by his own
disease, this checks all his activity.
Pow 6.53 6 There are men who by their sympathetic
attractions...lead the activity of the human race.
Pow 6.73 18 ...there are two economies which are the
best succedanea which the case admits. The first is the stopping off
decisively our miscellaneous activity...
Pow 6.80 3 I remarked in England...that in literary
circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low
and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and
working talent.
Bhr 6.171 22 In hours of business we go to him who
knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling
stand in the way. But this activity over, we return to the indolent
state...
Wsp 6.209 18 ...in the momentary absence of any
religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there
is a feeling that religion is gone.
Wsp 6.233 2 ...[the will] penetrates the body and
puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
Wsp 6.239 18 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all,
from our own activity and designs...
Art2 7.41 15 [Our works] must be conformed to
[Nature's] law, or they will be ground to powder by her omnipresent
activity.
DL 7.121 7 What is the hoop that holds [the eager,
blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has
directed their activity in safe and right channels...
WD 7.183 27 There are people who...after years of
activity, say, We knew all this before;...
WD 7.185 6 ...this is the progress of every earnest
mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight
in the faculties which rule them;...
Clbs 7.227 21 ...in higher activity of mind, every
new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
Suc 7.312 3 ...[this tranquil, well-founded,
wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of
this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that
you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
Comc 8.160 16 The activity of our sympathies may for
a time hinder our perceiving the fact intellectually...
PC 8.209 12 A silent revolution has impelled, step by
step, all this activity [in America].
Imtl 8.341 24 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm
to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a
perception that comes by the activity of the intellect;...
Imtl 8.342 6 To me, said Goethe, the eternal
existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
Edc1 10.127 15 [Man's] continual tendency, his great
danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and
the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his
interior activity.
SovE 10.192 10 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by
unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may
come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it
never comes...
Prch 10.218 4 I see in those classes and those
persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of
to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
Prch 10.219 20 No age and no person is destitute of
the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious
exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief...of
intellectual activity...
Prch 10.221 5 In the activity of the understanding,
the sentiments sleep.
MoL 10.243 15 It is charged that all vigorous
nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental
activity...
MoL 10.245 5 We have...restless, gossiping, aimless
activity.
EWI 11.122 5 There are many faculties in man, each of
which takes its turn of activity...
War 11.156 8 In some parts of this country...the
absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which
whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the
speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no
other image of manly activity and virtue...
War 11.156 16 To men...in whom is any knowledge or
mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and
revolting.
War 11.168 17 In reply to this charge of absurdity on
the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I
wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite
omit to consider his activity.
FSLC 11.203 3 ...as the activity and growth of
slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the
senator became less sensitive to these evils.
SMC 11.366 11 The regiment [Fifty-ninth
Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great
activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
FRep 11.531 21 In this country...there is, at
present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity...
FRep 11.533 7 Contrast, change, interruption, are
necessary to new activity...
FRep 11.535 1 ...the land and sea educate the people,
and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed
activity.
FRep 11.542 20 ...man seems to play, by his instincts
and activity, a certain part that even tells on the general face of the
planet...
PLT 12.12 24 ...just in proportion to the activity of
thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the
faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
PLT 12.56 10 There are two theories of life;... One
is activity, the busybody...
Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect
recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high
activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
CL 12.151 4 The next day the Hylas were piping in
every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds...
Bost 12.196 23 ...the New Englander...lacks that
beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the
activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to
produce in climates nearer to the sun.
MAng1 12.215 18 The means, the materials of
[Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...
MAng1 12.219 1 ...certain minds...possess the power
of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on
any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone,
canvas, song, history.
Milt1 12.269 1 [Milton's] birth fell upon the
agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast
drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts. No period has
surpassed that in the general activity of mind.
MLit 12.312 8 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost
alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity
which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual
influence of the world...
MLit 12.315 14 The great never hinder us; for their
activity is coincident... with all the activity and well-being of the
race.
MLit 12.327 16 In these days and in this country...it
seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as
the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this
man...
Let 12.394 23 By the slightest possible concert,
persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think
that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each
other to the best activity.
Let 12.395 23 It were fit to forbid concert and
calculation in this particular... if we were up to the mark of
self-denial and faith in our general activity.
Let 12.402 11 ...the smallest new activity given to
the perceptive power, is a victory won to the living universe from
Chaos and old Night...
Acton, Massachusetts, n. (5)
HDC 11.54 4 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651,
[the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah,
lying near Nagog Pond, now partly in Littleton, partly in Acton, became
an Indian town...
HDC 11.62 22 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the
greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and
Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that
Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at
the bridge.
HDC 11.74 19 ...the British fired one or two shots up
the river...then a single gun...then a volley, by which Captain Isaac
Davis and Abner Hosmer of Acton were instantly killed.
ACri 12.305 8 Once in the fields with the lowing
cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell
whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.
actor, n. (18)
AmS 1.108 3 ...each bard, each actor has only done
for me...what one day I can do for myself.
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to
one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Con 1.303 8 We have all a certain intellection...of
reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the
character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose
themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction...reacts suicidally
on the actor himself.
ShP 4.218 10 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare
Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and
manager.
NMW 4.247 2 We can not, in the universal imbecility,
indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on
this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
Wsp 6.215 15 I can best indicate by examples those
reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the
actor...
OA 7.334 14 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams]
said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such
as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear
it at the meeting-house... and he had the grace...of an actor of plays.
PPo 8.248 2 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb
actor, is not pent in the poet...
Carl 10.494 19 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for
all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
TPar 11.288 23 ...[the next generation] will read
very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was
taken by each actor [in Boston];...
Actor, n. (1)
actors, n. (16)
LT 1.268 24 ...the movement party divides itself into
two classes, the actors, and the students.
LT 1.268 26 The actors constitute that great army of
martyrs who... compose the visible church of the existing generation.
LT 1.281 19 Quitting now the class of actors, let us
turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke,
namely, the students.
Tran 1.350 22 It is the quality of the moment, not
the number of days, of events, or of actors, that imports.
Comp 2.119 16 The history of persecution is a history
of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether
the actors be many or one...
Pt1 3.28 13 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and
actors, have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and
indulgence;...
ShP 4.205 21 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and
shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished
from other actors and managers.
Pow 6.77 27 John Kemble said that the worst
provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the
best amateur company.
Elo1 7.93 4 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his
mind is contemplating a whole...
PI 8.35 27 On the stage, the farce is commonly far
better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the
farce...
PI 8.44 16 This power [of characterization] appears
not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...
Dem1 10.27 3 [The demonologic] is a lawless world.
...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience
or reflection...
Prch 10.223 18 I find myself always struck and
stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do
not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor
the language the actors spoke...
II 12.88 9 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the
conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
actor's, n. (1)
Exp 3.78 25 Especially the crimes that spring from
love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
acts, n. (49)
Nat 1.26 8 Children and savages use only nouns or
names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous
mental acts.
Nat 1.77 6 ...[the advancing spirit] shall
draw...heroic acts, around its way...
Con 1.318 19 The objection to conservatism, when
embodied in a party, is that in its love of acts it hates
principles;...
Hist 2.6 12 Property also holds of the soul... The
obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation...of the heroism
and grandeur which belong to acts of self-reliance.
SR 2.43 5 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill/...
SR 2.57 7 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to
rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory...
SR 2.65 4 Every man discriminates between the
voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions...
SL 2.133 27 When we see a soul whose acts are all
regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such
things can be and are...
SL 2.159 20 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he
cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...ungenerous
acts...all blab.
Lov1 2.184 18 From exchanging glances, [lovers]
advance to acts of courtesy...
Hsm1 2.251 20 ...just and wise men take umbrage at
[the hero's] act, until after some little time be past; then they see
it to be in unison with their acts.
Cir 2.320 11 ...of acts of routine and sense, we can
tell somewhat;...
Pt1 3.3 6 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of
taste] are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair
pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
Chr1 3.93 13 In his parlor I see very well that [the
natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted
brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous
cannot shake off. I see plainly how many firm acts have been done;...
Pol1 3.218 10 ...we are constrained to reflect on our
splendid moment with a certain humiliation...and not as one act of many
acts...
NR 3.228 15 The acts which you praise, I praise
not...
PPh 4.50 16 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is
single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of
acts [said Krishna].
ET19 5.311 18 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man
to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy
persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...
F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the
most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will
reconcile us to strange company and work.
Wsp 6.213 6 The religion of the cultivated class
now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was
once their religion to assume.
Art2 7.40 22 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent
agent is Nature; all human acts are satellites to her orb.
Boks 7.216 21 We are [in the novel] cheated into
laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do
every day.
PI 8.45 6 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written
any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with
this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on
the floor of the watch-house.
SA 8.105 8 [This flame of desire] reinforces the
heart that feels it, makes all its acts and words gracious and
interesting.
Chr2 10.103 11 ...the acts which [the moral
sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
MMEm 10.421 23 In a religious contemplative public
[our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and
grander means;...a few successions of acts...
HDC 11.72 7 All the military movements in this town
[Concord] were solemnized by acts of public worship.
LVB 11.89 4 Before any acts contrary to his own
judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may
look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's]
government.
EWI 11.119 24 Parliament was compelled to pass
additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West
Indies], and in ill humor at these acts, the great island of
Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
TPar 11.288 8 It will not be in the acts of city
councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will
study what really befell [in Boston];...
EPro 11.316 5 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently,
President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of
September. These are acts of great scope...
EPro 11.317 9 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that
his decision has taken all parties by surprise, whilst yet it just the
sequel of his prior acts,-the firm tone in which he announces it...all
these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation]
that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the
capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument
of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.318 24 The virtues of a good
magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
EdAd 11.389 15 The facility of majorities is no
protection from the natural sequence of their own acts.
CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes,
all books, all past acts are forgotten...
PLT 12.37 3 In its lower function, when it deals with
the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the
performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then
it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition...
Mem 12.94 17 'T is because of the believed
incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind
with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached
with living in their memory.
acts, v. (33)
Nat 1.4 4 [Man] acts [his condition] as life, before
he apprehends it as truth.
AmS 1.99 1 The mind now thinks, now acts...
DSA 1.129 2 [Jesus] said...Through me, God acts;...
LE 1.165 16 The hero is great by means of the
predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to
act, and it acts.
MN 1.191 22 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood
of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the
house...
Con 1.325 26 The law acts then as a screen of [the
intemperate, covetous person's] unworthiness...
SR 2.67 11 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's]
whole life acts;...
OS 2.277 20 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property
in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they
were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which
every heart...thinks and acts with unusual solemnity.
Chr1 3.89 23 This is that which we call Character,--a
reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
ET5 5.77 22 A man of that [English] brain thinks and
acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of
brain...thinks the same thing...
ET5 5.85 11 In trade, the Englishman believes...that
if he do not make trade everything, it will make him nothing; and acts
on this belief.
ET6 5.104 26 Each man [in England]...in every manner
acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own
fashion...
Bhr 6.186 11 Society...if you do not belong to it,
resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon
enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the
date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow
old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the
solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any cause but the right
one.
Art2 7.37 22 The man not only thinks, but speaks and
acts.
Elo1 7.98 5 ...as soon as one acts for large masses,
the moral element will and must be allowed for...
PI 8.24 9 The senses collect the surface facts of
matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports...
PI 8.43 20 ...a being whom we have called into life
by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently
of the master's impulse...
Grts 8.306 13 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel
is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east
to west.
Dem1 10.22 9 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success
evinces the presence of rare agents;...
Dem1 10.23 9 ...the so-called fortunate man is
one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is.
Prch 10.224 21 A man acts not from one motive, but
from many shifting fears and short motives;...
FSLC 11.186 16 Let me remind you a little in detail
how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive
Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
RBur 11.440 2 I can only explain this singular
unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely
acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind
of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
Mem 12.103 15 The poor short lone fact dies at the
birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal
waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again...
Milt1 12.253 20 ...no man can be named whose mind
still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an
energy comparable to that of Milton.
actual, adj. (50)
Nat 1.73 16 The difference between the actual and the
ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
Nat 1.74 8 ...in actual life, the marriage [of
thought and devotion] is not celebrated.
MR 1.255 11 The mediator between the spiritual and
the actual world should have a great prospective prudence.
Con 1.298 2 The castle which conservatism is set to
defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
Con 1.303 27 You are welcome...if you can, to
displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...
YA 1.372 23 Remark the unceasing effort throughout
nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
SR 2.53 22 This rule [of self-reliance], equally
arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole
distinction between greatness and meanness.
Hsm1 2.251 9 [Heroism] is the avowal of the
unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more
excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
Hsm1 2.258 18 We have seen or heard of many
extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not
extraordinary.
Art1 2.362 26 Our best praise is given to what [the
arts] aimed and promised, not to the actual result.
Pt1 3.42 8 ...this is the reward; that the ideal
shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world
shall fall like summer rain...
Exp 3.51 3 Of what use is genius, if the
organ...cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human
life?
Exp 3.60 27 ...we should...do broad justice where we
are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic
officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
Mrs1 3.146 22 The persons who constitute the natural
aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
Nat2 3.175 19 That [the rich] have some high-fenced
grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to
watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from
which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance, compared
with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.
PPh 4.54 13 In actual life, [admirable souls] are so
rare as to be incredible;...
MoS 4.150 26 The genius is a genius by the first look
he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles
and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the
actual object.
Wth 6.127 3 Nor is the man enriched...unless through
new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual
experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
Art2 7.55 27 [The arts] come to serve [man's] actual
wants, never to please his fancy.
Boks 7.216 2 A person of less courage...will answer
[the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre]
does,--giving way...to conventionalism, to the actual state and doings
of men and women.
PI 8.32 4 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is
very well as a principle, but it is never quite the time for its
adoption without prejudicing actual interests.
PI 8.71 21 The free spirit sympathizes not only with
the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
Elo2 8.115 5 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the
orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.
Comc 8.159 14 We have a primary association between
perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual
men enter do not make good this anticipation;...
Comc 8.159 24 ...a prophet...or a
philosopher...bring...the ideal whole, exposing all actual defect;...
Comc 8.160 1 There is no joke so true and deep in
actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the
institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
Comc 8.165 20 The satire [on religion] reaches its
climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the
dictates of the religious sentiment...
Dem1 10.4 4 ...the astonishment remains that one
should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious
shows...a delicate creation outdoing the prime and flower of actual
Nature...
Chr2 10.118 17 In the present tendency of our
society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as
well as political.
Edc1 10.142 26 Culture makes [the youth's] books
realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on
his mind, than his actual mates.
Prch 10.219 18 No age and no person is destitute of
the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious
exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...
MMEm 10.409 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on
my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every
actual case, 't is hard...
Thor 10.460 10 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau]
found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost
equally opposed to every class of reformers.
Thor 10.475 8 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the
spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light
esteem in the comparison.
HDC 11.80 21 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the
person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should
receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service...
War 11.162 21 ...we never make much account of
objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this
moment...
Milt1 12.278 1 ...according to Lord Bacon's
definition of poetry...Poetry, not finding the actual world exactly
conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to accommodate the shows
of things to the desires of the mind...
MLit 12.309 2 In our fidelity to the higher truth we
need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the
twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
Actual, adj. (1)
Con 1.305 7 ...you are under the necessity of using
the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it;...
actual, n. (4)
War 11.163 22 This vast apparatus of
artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and
singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an
imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble,
deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
Milt1 12.249 11 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant,
an ideal justice. Therein [his tracts] are discriminated from modern
writings, in which a regard to the actual is all but universal.
MLit 12.330 1 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery? Yes, O
Goethe! but the ideal is truer than the actual.
Actual, n. (4)
LT 1.285 17 ...truly we shall find much to console
us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It
is...the contrast of the dwarfish Actual with the exorbitant Idea.
Hsm1 2.259 1 The magic [many extraordinary young men]
used was the ideal tendencies, which always make the Actual
ridiculous;...
MLit 12.329 7 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to
himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the
Actual...
MLit 12.331 5 Goethe...must be set down as the poet
of the Actual, not of the Ideal;...
actualite, n. (1)
Wsp 6.209 22 When Paul Leroux offered his article
Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La
question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
actuality, n. (1)
Wth 6.93 13 Power is what [men of sense] want...power
to give...form and actuality to their thought;...
actualization, n. (2)
War 11.161 2 [The idea that there can be peace as
well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees
of clearness; and its actualization...predicted according to the light
of each seer.
actualizing, v. (1)
actually, adv. (15)
MR 1.254 25 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor
fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty
ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head?
YA 1.376 7 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul
of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting
himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of
consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually speaking;...
SR 2.53 16 Few and mean as my gifts may be, I
actually am...
Mrs1 3.143 20 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if
we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply
these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the
individuals actually found there.
Nat2 3.183 21 Every known fact in natural science was
divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually
verified.
UGM 4.3 14 ...actually or ideally, we manage to live
with superiors.
SwM 4.142 5 Shall the archangels be less majestic and
sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
NMW 4.226 6 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of
adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely
representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
ET7 5.124 10 The old Italian author of the Relation
of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that
when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek
for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what
harm might befall them.
CbW 6.267 13 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to
be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and
happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this
was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly
wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to
any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed
the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
LS 11.10 25 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at
Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant,
he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten,
that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
FSLN 11.218 10 ...when I say the class of scholars or
students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours
of his life; and in these days not only virtually but actually.
Bost 12.202 20 The soul of a political party is by no
means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the
salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be
contented with the work actually accomplished...
acumen, n. (2)
SwM 4.129 24 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit
that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are
liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating
that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience
can resist.
FSLC 11.185 18 The learning of the universities...the
acumen of lawyers... are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
acute, adj. (18)
Chr1 3.91 12 [The people] cannot come at their ends
by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be
not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them,
was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Mrs1 3.154 8 Are you...rich enough to make...even the
poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception
of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;... What is vulgar but to refuse the claim on acute and
conclusive reasons?
NR 3.239 15 In every conversation, even the highest,
there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute
person...
Civ 7.33 3 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven
Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts
which carry forward races to new convictions...
Elo1 7.64 6 Isocrates described his art as the power
of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great,--an acute
but partial definition.
OA 7.323 27 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows
raged, the butchers said that though the acute degree was novel, there
never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
Comc 8.161 8 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding...
SovE 10.213 16 [The man of this age] must not be one
who can be surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word
which malignant and acute men may utter in his hearing...
FSLC 11.196 22 I wonder that our acute people who
have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find
out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a
Southern city.
Wom 11.416 11 Was never a University of Oxford or
Gottingen that made such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man
from the plough and made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing
of the doctors.
PLT 12.7 13 Seek the literary circles...the men of
splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction? I think you
could not find a club of men acute and liberal enough in the world.
PLT 12.8 19 Was it better when we came to the
philosophers, who found everybody wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon
and degrade mankind?
Bost 12.201 21 There is a little formula...I 'm as
good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of
Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And
this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in the Petitions to the King...
Milt1 12.257 18 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute
that he was not only enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer
himself;...
Let 12.398 16 ...[American youths] are educated above
the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more
acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things...
acutely, adv. (1)
Cour 7.265 8 ...men with little imagination are less
fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more
sensibility...suffer in the fear of the pang more acutely than in the
pang.
acuteness, n. (3)
II 12.68 2 One often sees in the embittered acuteness
of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
Bost 12.208 20 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her
real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
acuter, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.216 26 ...we very slowly admit in another
man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can.
acutest, adj. (1)
Acworth, New Hampshire, n. (1)
SlHr 10.446 6 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's]
respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural
ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...which are
found in Acworth, New Hampshire, not less perfect in their angles and
structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and
diamonds.
Adam, n. (16)
Nat 1.76 10 All that Adam had, all that Caesar could,
you have and can do.
Nat 1.76 11 Adam called his house, heaven and
earth;...
OS 2.274 25 The growths of genius are of a certain
total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over
John, then Adam, then Richard...
Mrs1 3.135 15 ...if perchance a searching realist
comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide
ourselves as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the garden.
NR 3.223 6 ...in the new-born millions,/ The perfect
Adam lives./
ET1 5.17 23 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public
persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a
rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
Farm 7.153 18 ...[the farmer] stands well on the
world,--as Adam did...
PI 8.31 21 [The poet] is a true re-commencer, or Adam
in the garden again.
Res 8.137 10 ...whether searched by the plough of
Adam...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments
[the earth] makes a gracious response.
Edc1 10.137 6 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man]
is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
Prch 10.237 9 Here is thought and love and truth and
duty, new as on the first day of Adam and of angels.
MoL 10.250 11 [Nature says to the American] One thing
you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the
wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
Milt1 12.274 3 Was there not a fitness in the
undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject
of Adam...
Milt1 12.275 19 The most affecting passages in
Paradise Lost are personal allusions; and when we are fairly in Eden,
Adam and Milton are often difficult to be separated.
adamant, adj. (1)
F 6.43 18 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the
want of thought.
adamant, n. (11)
LE 1.171 4 This starting, this warping of the best
literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in
philosophy.
Hist 2.13 25 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to
its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before
it...
Art1 2.360 9 ...through his necessity of imparting
himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands...
ET6 5.112 5 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England],
mediocrity gets... founded in adamant.
ET14 5.234 22 The Saxon materialism and narrowness,
exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of
Shakspeare and Milton. When it reaches the pure element, it treads the
clouds as securely as the adamant.
Prch 10.226 6 ...when we think our feet are planted
now at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us.
adamantine, adj. (8)
NR 3.247 10 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the
Bench, and never interposes an adamantine syllable;...
NER 3.267 15 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in
every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the
works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all,
the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke. Government
will be adamantine without any governor.
SwM 4.137 2 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of
a Swedish polemic, and his vast enlargements purchased by adamantine
limitations.
Wth 6.115 15 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up
from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning
thought, and to find that with his adamantine purposes he has been
duped by a dandelion.
Art2 7.55 22 This strict dependence of Art upon
material and ideal Nature, this adamantine necessity which underlies
it, has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
Cour 7.277 4 If you...see only an adamantine fate
coiling its folds about Nature and man, then reflect that the best use
of fate is to teach us courage...
PPo 8.246 27 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the
Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./
Adamitic, adj. (1)
Adams, John, n. (15)
F 6.39 22 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the
times?--...Adams...and the rest.
Ctr 6.135 21 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor
Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
Ctr 6.161 17 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington,
stood on a fine humanity...
Elo1 7.85 5 ...the splendid weapons which went to the
equipment...of Patrick Henry, of Adams...deserve a special enumeration.
OA 7.323 2 We still feel the force...of Franklin,
Jefferson and Adams...
OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a
record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
SA 8.102 19 Our gentlemen of the old school, that is,
the school of Washington, Adams and Hamilton, were bred after English
types...
MoL 10.248 22 You [scholars] are here as the carriers
of the power of Nature...as...Adams, with Independence;...
FSLC 11.204 18 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson,
but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
FSLC 11.204 19 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson,
but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
FSLC 11.204 20 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson,
but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain. A
present Adams and Jefferson he would denounce.
AsSu 11.250 27 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands
charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were
spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was
true...of Adams...
FRep 11.537 9 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab,
nor was Martin Luther, nor John Adams...
Bost 12.203 14 ...there is always [in
Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor
with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah
Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of
patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...
Bost 12.210 26 The elder President Adams has to
divide voices of fame with the younger President Adams.
Adams, John Quincy, n. (7)
OA 7.333 18 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to
see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come
to Quincy but to my funeral.
Elo2 8.122 14 It is said that one of the best readers
in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
Elo2 8.122 25 In the early years of this century, Mr.
[John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in
Harvard College.
EzRy 10.392 13 We remember the remark of a gentleman
who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a
man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John
Quincy Adams.
Bost 12.211 2 The elder President Adams has to divide
voices of fame with the younger President Adams.
Adam's, n. (1)
ShP 4.219 8 ...other men...beheld the same objects
[as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained.
And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life
became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of
Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
Adams, Samuel, n. (1)
Adams, William, n. (1)
CSC 10.375 14 ...H. C. Wright, Dr. Osgood, William
Adams...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or
philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
Adams's, John, n. (3)
OA 7.332 10 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with
my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
FSLC 11.180 16 ...The Boston of the American
Revolution, which figures so proudly in John Adams's
Diary...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
Adams's, John Quincy, n. (2)
OA 7.333 1 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy]
Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him.
OA 7.333 11 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned,
[John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
adapt, v. (3)
MN 1.218 11 Genius...draws its means and the style of
its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and
spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and
character of the ear we speak to.
Scot 11.464 13 ...finding [the old ballads] now
outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to
dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
adaptation, n. (10)
NMW 4.226 4 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of
adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely
representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
Suc 7.283 21 Men are made each with some triumphant
superiority, which, through some adaptation of fingers or ear or
eye...enriches the community with a new art;...
SovE 10.210 12 I know how delicate this [moral]
principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social
arrangements.
adaptations, n. (2)
LE 1.169 23 Men believe in the adaptations of
utility, always...
LE 1.169 25 ...in the mountains, [men] may believe in
the adaptations of the eye.
adapted, adj. (4)
Farm 7.135 7 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each
bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each
stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts
withal./
adapted, v. (8)
Fdsp 2.206 14 Friendship may be said to require
natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its
satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
WD 7.167 21 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is
adapted to all meridians by adding the ethics of works and of days.
Clbs 7.229 3 We remember the time...on a long journey
in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted, and,
if well adapted, more intimate in a day than if they had been neighbors
for years.
Clbs 7.242 14 There are men who are great only to one
or two companions of more opportunity, or more adapted.
PI 8.54 10 The difference between poetry and stock
poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense
adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing
or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on
that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
Trag 12.406 25 The bitterest tragic element in life
to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate
or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is
controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor man to that...
adapting, v. (3)
ET10 5.166 24 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of
his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in
the work of the world.
ChiE 11.474 5 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous
labor, their versatility in adapting themselves to new conditions...are
unlooked-for virtues.
adaptive, adj. (2)
Res 8.141 5 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man]
is! so shifty, so adaptive!...
adaptiveness, n. (1)
adapts, v. (1)
Exp 3.53 19 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his
conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
add, v. (108)
Nat 1.20 25 ...are not these heroes entitled to add
the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
AmS 1.107 9 [The poor and the low]...will perish to
add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
AmS 1.108 25 I ought not to delay longer to add what
I have to say of nearer reference to the time and to this country.
MN 1.214 16 ...I add, a man never sees the same
object twice...
Tran 1.354 17 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are
not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers
and worshippers of Beauty.
Hist 2.18 6 A man of fine manners shall pronounce
your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
Int 2.346 27 Well assured that their speech is
intelligible and the most natural thing in the world, [the Greek
philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
Art1 2.353 24 Shall I now add that the whole extant
product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as
history;...
Pt1 3.19 12 ...in a centred mind, it signifies
nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add
millions...the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight.
Pt1 3.27 24 All men avail themselves of such means as
they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
Exp 3.65 3 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought,
is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes
hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every
hour...
Exp 3.65 4 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought,
is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes
hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every
hour, and between whiles add a line.
Exp 3.66 20 ...what are these millions who read and
behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that
quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and
chisel.
Nat2 3.185 4 Given the planet, it is still necessary
to add the impulse;...
NER 3.274 11 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily
add names nearer home...they would know the worst...
NER 3.276 22 Dear to us are those who love us;...but
dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another
life...
UGM 4.12 24 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of
sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point
of light to our sky.
PPh 4.40 11 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy,
Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon
nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.
PPh 4.58 12 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him
tender for the superstitions of the people. Add to this, he believes
that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which
man is not master;...
PPh 4.67 24 [Plato] said, Culture; he said, Nature;
and he failed not to add, There is also the divine.
PNR 4.80 6 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial
Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an
occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest
dates.
SwM 4.98 2 Shall we say, that the economical mother
disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not
add a pennyweight...
MoS 4.179 15 Shall I add, as one juggle of this
enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation
impossible?
NMW 4.239 13 In his later days [Napoleon] had the
weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of
aristocracy;...
ET3 5.37 17 As soon as you enter England, which, with
Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land
stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. Add South
Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of
Scotland.
ET3 5.39 17 The only drawback on this industrial
conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day
are too nearly of a color. It strains the eyes to read and to write.
Add the coal smoke.
ET4 5.45 2 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps
forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of
America...and you have a population of English descent and language of
60,000,000...
ET4 5.49 12 Whatever influences add to mental or
moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
ET4 5.72 1 Add a certain degree of refinement to the
vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality
which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
ET5 5.97 1 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find
new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their
potteries and their foundries.
ET7 5.116 8 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude
the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you
have the English truth and credit.
ET8 5.139 12 I might even add, [the Englishmen's]
daily feasts argue a savage vigor of body.
ET15 5.271 27 I wish I could add that this journal
[the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...
F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to
some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new
aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
F 6.27 7 Just as much intellect as you add, so much
organic power.
Wth 6.95 3 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows
the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the
science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated,
and who is using these to add to the stock.
Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are
the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long
arithmetic.
CbW 6.250 11 Napoleon was called by his men Cent
Mille. Add honesty to him, and they might have called him Hundred
Million.
CbW 6.272 18 Add [to conversation] the consent of
will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
CbW 6.278 24 The secret of culture is to learn that a
few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be
regarded;...these are the essentials,--these, and the wish...to add
somewhat to the well-being of men.
Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the
newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated
schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little
sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the
mischievous member of Congress.
Elo1 7.82 10 ...the commonest populace is flattered
by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy
talent can add.
Elo1 7.93 11 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his
mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain
regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a
demoniacal power...
DL 7.116 23 Another age may...make the labors of a
few hours avail to the wants and add to the vigor of the man.
Cour 7.257 14 The terrors of the child are quite
reasonable, and add to his loveliness;...
Suc 7.306 3 That is the great happiness of life,--to
add to our high acquaintances.
Suc 7.308 1 The searching tests to apply to every new
pretender are amount and quality,--what does he add? and what is the
state of mind he leaves me in?
Suc 7.308 3 Your theory is unimportant; but what new
stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?
Suc 7.311 2 ...to help the young soul, add
energy...that is not easy...
OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look
over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the
conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject;
rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our
broader modern life.
OA 7.323 22 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner
marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee
threatens mortification.
PI 8.75 10 Sooner or later that which is now life
shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer
strain to the song.
Elo2 8.131 26 ...in Germany we have seen a
metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher,
Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending. To this we might add the great eras
not only of painters but of orators.
Res 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she
is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in
humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which
at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of
the poet.
PC 8.208 24 The war gave us the abolition of slavery,
the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of
social science;...
PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic
era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same
height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in
Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian
Nights, on the African coast.
Grts 8.312 4 With this respect to the bias of the
individual mind add...the most catholic receptivity for the genius of
others.
Imtl 8.332 17 I ought to add that, though men of good
minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their
daily aims and way of life.
Dem1 10.23 10 ...the so-called fortunate man is
one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is.
If to this you add a fitness to the society around him, you have the
elements of fortune;...
Aris 10.41 14 We shall come to add Kings in the
Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.
Aris 10.54 14 The more familiar examples of this
power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and
laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world
into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many
generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott, and now
we must add Dickens.
Edc1 10.140 26 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out
have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good
company through his impatience of bad.
Supl 10.168 19 ...the old head, after deceiving and
being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay
to-day what I said yesterday? I will not be responsible; I will not add
an epithet.
MoL 10.250 7 [Nature says to the American] I give
you...the forest and the mine, the elemental forces, nervous energy.
When I add difficulty, I add brain.
Schr 10.278 17 It seems as if two or three persons
coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive
energy, would carry the country with them.
CSC 10.376 24 ...not [the Chardon Street
Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure
ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...in spite, we might add, of his own
failures.
EzRy 10.383 10 To these facts, gathered chiefly from
[Ezra Ripley's] own diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
Thor 10.464 9 I must add the cardinal fact, that
there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.480 11 ...what were you [Thoreau] sent into
the world for, but to add this observation?
LS 11.18 10 I appeal, brethren, to your individual
experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God,
though it be but a silent wish that he may...add one moment to your
life,-do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings
from your thought?
EWI 11.142 24 I have said that this event
[emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly
from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part it is the
earning of the blacks.
EPro 11.321 6 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and
follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation
will add its irresistible strength.
EPro 11.324 13 If you could add, say [foreign
critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of
Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under
this government against their will.
EdAd 11.383 6 Add, that this energetic race
[Americans] derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...
RBur 11.441 4 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense
in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in
comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should add another name, I
find it only in a living countryman of Burns [Carlyle].
CPL 11.508 9 Let me add then, read proudly;...
FRep 11.519 11 Man exists for his own sake, and not
to add a laborer to the state.
PLT 12.15 8 Next I treat of the identity of the
thought with Nature; and I add a rude list of some by-laws of the mind.
PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to
the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of
mind;...
PLT 12.52 16 It is much to write sentences; it is
more to add method and write out the spirit of your life symmetrically.
II 12.72 11 It is as impossible for labor to
produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we
say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but
little increased, to add great results.
II 12.77 27 ...this reminds me to add one more trait
of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
CL 12.142 16 Good observers have the manners of trees
and animals...and if they add words, 't is only when words are better
than silence.
CW 12.174 10 If you can add to the garden a noble
luxury, let it be an arboretum.
MLit 12.321 10 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the
human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of
itself. Add to this, however, the great praise of Wordsworth, that more
than any other contemporary bard he is pervaded with a reverence of
somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
WSL 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John
Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the
truth...
Let 12.399 4 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a
postponement of [American youths'] proper work, with the additional
disadvantage of a two years' vacation. Add that this class is rapidly
increasing...
Trag 12.410 5 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our
strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
added, adj. (6)
NER 3.266 23 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern,
as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
SwM 4.100 21 [Swedenborg's] rare science and
practical skill, and the added fame of second sight...drew to him
queens, nobles, clergy...
FSLC 11.205 24 The people cleave to the Union,
because they see their advantage in it, the added power of each.
Wom 11.416 16 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among
its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty and an added
self-respect.
PLT 12.46 22 Heaven is the exercise of the faculties,
the added sense of power.
added, v. (72)
Nat 1.49 27 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline
and surface are at once added grace and expression.
Hist 2.12 7 When we have gone through this process,
and added thereto the Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man
that made the minster;...
SR 2.56 17 ...when to [the cultivated classes']
feminine rage the indignation of the people is added...it needs the
habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no
concernment.
Mrs1 3.133 8 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his
tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some
fashion, if not added as honor, then severed as disgrace.
Mrs1 3.141 24 England...furnished, in the beginning
of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world
loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social
disposition and real love of men.
NER 3.281 20 Each [man] is incomparably superior to
his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions
has added to his fitness for his own work.
PPh 4.45 8 I am struck...with the extreme modernness
of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know
so well... ... It has spread itself since into a hundred histories, but
has added no new element.
SwM 4.119 4 To a right perception...of the order of
nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their
widest social aspects;...
SwM 4.120 9 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the
fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling
nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added that they used the earth
symbolically;...
SwM 4.137 24 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the
desire to insert the element of personality of Deity. But nothing is
added.
ShP 4.213 13 This power...of transferring the inmost
truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of
the poet and has added a new problem to metaphysics.
NMW 4.239 10 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added
the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
NMW 4.249 18 This deputy of the nineteenth century
[Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general
topics.
GoW 4.277 4 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in
every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over
the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and
terror by every thing he added and by every thing he took away.
GoW 4.277 11 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in
his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for
some ages...
ET5 5.88 23 This highly destined race [the English],
if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain,
would not have built London.
ET8 5.136 22 This [English] race has added new
elements to humanity and has a deeper root in the world.
ET10 5.160 5 ...when, to this labor and trade and
these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of
steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
ET10 5.160 10 The steam-pipe has added to [England's]
population and wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.
ET11 5.193 11 The historic names of the Buckinghams,
Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and
now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters
added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
ET11 5.197 17 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds
of passage in this House of Commons, and then added, with a new figure,
they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
ET17 5.292 3 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added
to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
ET17 5.294 26 Incidentally [Wordsworth] added, Gibbon
cannot write English.
ET17 5.295 23 I said, if Plato's Republic were
published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find
any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not: and yet, he added
after a pause...and yet we have embodied it all.
ET17 5.298 10 New means were employed, and new realms
added to the empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
Pow 6.53 21 ...[a man] can well afford to let events
and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been
added to him in the shape of power.
Wth 6.84 17 ...Then docks were built, and crops were
stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./
Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by
tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as
if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood...
Wth 6.101 8 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion
[said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept
up:--and he might have added that the way in which it must be begun and
kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
Wth 6.117 8 ...after expense has been fixed at a
certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so
small, being added, wealth begins.
Bhr 6.197 4 An old man who added an elevating culture
to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room,
I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
Bty 6.290 2 ...the forms and colors of nature have a
new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for
ornament...
SS 7.3 14 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that
each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be
the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine
the last but one? He added many lively remarks...
DL 7.128 17 It has been finely added by Landor to his
definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most
select company when it pleases him.
Farm 7.150 2 ...in this very year, a large quantity
of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without
a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
Boks 7.210 1 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]
stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford].
Boks 7.210 17 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the
assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford].
OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more
political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my
time;...
Res 8.136 1 Day by day for her darlings to her much
[Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a
door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
QO 8.202 1 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just
impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating
these after the laws of thought. It implies Will, or original force,
for their right distribution and expression. If to this the sentiment
of piety be added...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile...
PC 8.208 14 I will not say that American institutions
have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man, but they
have added important features to the sketch.
Imtl 8.328 14 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught
that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology
could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
Imtl 8.342 14 ...the one doctrine in which all
religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as
it uses that which it has.
MoL 10.243 21 The subtle Hindoo...produced the
wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have
added new regions to thought.
MMEm 10.430 16 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say
nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the
earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical
kind of facts;...
LS 11.10 22 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at
Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant,
he added for their better understanding...that we might not think his
body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his
commandment.
HDC 11.37 4 To his bodily perfection, the wild man
added some noble traits of character.
HDC 11.62 18 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added
by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town
[Concord]...
EWI 11.140 10 The First of August [1834] marks the
entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the
civilization of the negro. A man is added to the human family.
JBS 11.277 3 ...the best orators who have added their
praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and
that is JOHN BROWN.
SMC 11.374 6 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second
Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major
Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with
more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold, added to
the annoyance of the artillery fire.
Wom 11.405 21 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a
lady for her judgment in questions of taste, and accept it; but when
she added-I think so, because-Pardon me, madam, he said, leave me to
find out the reasons for myself.
CPL 11.505 21 One curious witness [to the value of
reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the
Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's
Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he
knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
Mem 12.99 19 What is the newspaper but a sponge or
invention for oblivion? the rule being that for every fact added to the
memory, one is crowded out...
Milt1 12.258 18 To these endowments it must be added
that [Milton's] address and his conversation were worthy of his fame.
Milt1 12.260 1 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues
added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.
Milt1 12.266 4 To this antique heroism, Milton added
the genius of the Christian sanctity.
ACri 12.284 2 Chiefly in this country, the common
school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had
only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the
human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...
adder, n. (1)
Wsp 6.205 26 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to
Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which
burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in
excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of
the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
addicted, adj. (4)
LT 1.273 7 A wealthy man, addicted to his
pleasure...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all
mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
addicted, v. [addicted,] (5)
ET4 5.71 6 The people at home [in England] are
addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
T11 5.175 11 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and
Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.
EzRy 10.389 9 [Ezra Ripley] claimed privilege of
years, was much addicted to kissing;...
adding, n. (1)
AKan 11.259 23 ...the adding of Cuba and Central
America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
adding, v. (38)
Lov1 2.185 12 ...adding up costly
advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all
as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
OS 2.283 6 In past oracles of the soul the
understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall
exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places.
Chr1 3.102 21 ...[the hero] is again on his road,
adding new powers and honors to his domain...
Chr1 3.102 25 ...[the hero] is again on his road,
adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if
you...have not kept your relation to him by adding to your wealth.
Nat2 3.185 2 Nature sends no creature, no man into
the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.
NR 3.234 12 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry,
the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there and at all
points, adding and adding...
NER 3.266 7 ...the force which moves the world is a
new quality, and can never be furnished by adding whatever quantities
of a different kind.
PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to
his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...
ShP 4.193 14 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged
or altered [Elizabethan plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene, or
adding a song, that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work
of numbers.
ET14 5.253 25 ...in England, one hermit finds this
fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the
old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
Pow 6.79 21 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning,
by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
WD 7.167 21 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is
adapted to all meridians by adding the ethics of works and of days.
WD 7.179 4 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst
we are musing on these things, we are adding to the length of our
lives.
Boks 7.221 4 ...how attractive is the whole
literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science
of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one
of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere
result as it lies in his mind, adding nothing, keeping nothing back.
Cour 7.277 16 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by
adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
OA 7.333 25 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom
he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk
in the old town-house, adding, And I wish I could walk as well as he
did.
QO 8.182 2 ...what we daily observe in regard to the
bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology:
the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer,
everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the form...
Imtl 8.335 16 ...a century, when we have once made it
familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and
recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers...
Chr2 10.117 25 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities...
Plu 10.300 5 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken
[as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise
has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving
things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to
the spoil of those that are conversant with him.
Plu 10.321 22 We owe to these translators [of
Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author,
sometimes even to the adding of the point.
SlHr 10.441 22 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his
audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements,
adding clause on clause to do justice to all his conviction.
HDC 11.31 20 Among the silenced [English] clergymen
was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his
influence the weight of a large estate.
HDC 11.58 20 John Monoco, a formidable savage,
boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston;
adding, what me will, me do.
SHC 11.432 15 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]
fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...all
the ornaments of either adding so much value to all.
ChiE 11.474 10 I cannot help adding...that I have
read in the journals a statement from an English source, that Sir
Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy
reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
FRO2 11.489 19 Whoever thinks a story gains...by
adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds.
FRep 11.519 26 Our great men succumb so far to the
forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to
the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
PLT 12.25 15 I never hear a good speech at caucus or
at cattle-show but it helps me, not so much by adding to my knowledge
as by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can be
turned.
PLT 12.25 22 All great masters are chiefly
distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a
fourth step in a continuous line.
PLT 12.42 19 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the
laws of the world, adding the power to express them again in some new
form.
Mem 12.99 24 The mind has a better secret in
generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.
Pray 12.356 6 ...we must not tie up the rosary on
which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a
pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint
Augustine.
AgMs 12.363 22 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund
Hosmer] proceeded, adding many special criticisms.
Addison, Joseph, n. (3)
Schr 10.270 27 Where is the palace in England whose
tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
Milt1 12.252 15 We think we have seen and heard
criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have
more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
Milt1 12.255 11 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson,
students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together,
make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's
inspirations.
addition, n. (25)
Nat 1.66 14 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much
to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned
by any addition...of known quantities...
MR 1.232 4 In the island of Cuba, in addition to the
ordinary abominations of slavery, it appears only men are bought for
the plantations...
Con 1.300 20 Each of the convolutions of the
sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of
the shell for one season, with the addition of new matter by the growth
of the animal, becoming an ornamental node.
Int 2.339 23 Is it any better if the student...aims
to make a mechanical whole of...philosophy, by a numerical addition of
all the facts that fall within his vision.
Mrs1 3.140 6 ...the direct splendor of intellectual
power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its
rule and its credit.
Nat2 3.180 25 ...the addition of matter from year to
year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
NR 3.229 25 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric
influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an
arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
NMW 4.249 17 When a man has been present in many
actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic]
without difficulty: it is as easy as casting up an addition.
NMW 4.252 11 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and
her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and
dramatic power lent every addition.
ET14 5.241 7 Plato had signified the same sense, when
he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research
into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery
over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius.
SA 8.88 19 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is
perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself
irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance an addition of
confidence...
QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and
conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and
insignificant...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
PC 8.210 22 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well
as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all
implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true
nobles...
PerF 10.79 7 [The persistent man] is his own
apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power...
Carl 10.489 8 [Carlyle] is...a practical
Scotchman...and then only accidentally and by a surprising addition,
the admirable scholar and writer he is.
Carl 10.489 11 If you would know precisely how
[Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found
leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and
Shakspeare...
EWI 11.130 10 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the
States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in
jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent
addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this
official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold
for slaves, to pay that expense.
FRO2 11.488 6 The point of difference that still
remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of
somewhat positive and historical.
PLT 12.41 7 Every new impression on the mind is...to
be accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an
indisputable addition to our catalogue of natural facts.
Mem 12.93 23 ...in addition to this [photographic]
property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the
million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in
the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
CW 12.178 13 ...I am always glad to remember that in
proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.
EurB 12.373 11 ...we can easily believe that the
behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some
addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the
imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative
class.
additional, adj. (9)
Hsm1 2.245 17 ...there is in [the elder English
dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and
dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character,
that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot,
rises naturally into poetry.
Pol1 3.202 21 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac,
and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the
rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats
their bread and not his own?
ET18 5.302 6 ...this [English] shop-rule had one
magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to
political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give
additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest
star.
Elo1 7.61 9 One man is brought to the boiling-point
by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires
the additional caloric of a multitude and a public debate;...
EWI 11.115 13 I will not repeat to you the well-known
paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the
occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it
additional fame.
EWI 11.119 22 Parliament was compelled to pass
additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West
Indies]...
PLT 12.25 24 All great masters are chiefly
distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a
fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step.
With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your
first.
Let 12.399 3 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a
postponement of [American youths'] proper work, with the additional
disadvantage of a two years' vacation.
additions, n. (6)
Con 1.318 24 ...[the conservative party] makes so
many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will
play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
Comp 2.122 4 There is no penalty to virtue; no
penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being.
ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in
different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts;...
Boks 7.194 1 The inspection of the catalogue [of the
Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard
writers who are on every private shelf; and to these it can afford only
the most slight and casual additions.
addled, v. (1)
Supl 10.169 22 The poor countryman, having no
circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him,
is able to look straight at you... and he sees...whether your head is
addled by this mixture of wines.
address, n. (18)
Hist 2.24 20 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian
period] is for personal qualities; courage, address...
Prd1 2.224 2 Cultivated men always feel and
speak...as if a great fortune...a graceful and commanding address, had
their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
ET4 5.71 19 [The Englishman's] attachment to the
horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.
ET5 5.79 7 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful
elocution and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds
in any part of the world, he would have made himself respected;...
ET6 5.106 4 If [an Englishman] give you his private
address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship;...
Pow 6.63 11 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping
at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions,
will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our
buffalo-hunter...
Ctr 6.161 25 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to
the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And,
reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends,
and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou
leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed
Poverty./
Bhr 6.170 21 Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Bhr 6.171 3 We send girls of a timid, retreating
disposition...to the ball-room... where they may learn address, and see
it near at hand.
CbW 6.260 16 ...what we ask daily, is to be
conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect in my address...which
puts me a little out of the ring...
Civ 7.22 27 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax
or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes
to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon
as a fine meter of civilization.
SA 8.93 17 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She
strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives
unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
Grts 8.309 7 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey
that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his
address;...
Plu 10.312 3 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living
with men of business and emulating their address in affairs...learned
to temper his philosophy with facts.
HDC 11.59 26 The virtues of patriotism and of
prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on
both sides...
EWI 11.121 2 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new
governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself
to that late exasperated body in these terms...
Address, n. (1)
SMC 11.376 9 ...In the above Address I have been
compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have
used.
address, v. (14)
LE 1.155 1 The invitation to address you this
day...was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil
customs...
Pt1 3.37 6 We do not with sufficient plainness or
sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life...
Mrs1 3.145 11 What if the false gentleman contrives
so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his
discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
ET19 5.309 5 A few days after my arrival at
Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual
Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I was invited to be
present and to address the company.
Elo1 7.98 9 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to
these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address
nations.
Edc1 10.157 2 ...[these difficulties and perplexities
in education] solve themselves when we leave institutions and address
individuals.
EzRy 10.394 10 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each
person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an
individual.
Carl 10.497 13 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question
for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such
things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
AKan 11.255 9 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at
home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
ACri 12.284 1 ...the transformation of the laborer
into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to
address them.
addressed, v. (30)
MoS 4.165 4 In [Montaigne's] times, books were
written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of
statement was permitted, which our manners, of a literature addressed
equally to both sexes, do not allow.
NMW 4.228 5 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own
sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the
worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
ET1 5.24 1 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident
pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.
Bhr 6.180 16 One comes away from a company in which,
it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him...
Elo1 7.97 26 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint
of our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds
which will remain when everything else is taken...
Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a
delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...
PPo 8.243 8 Gnomic verses, rules of life
conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in
a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
EzRy 10.387 22 We presently arrived [at the funeral],
and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners
separately...
MMEm 10.417 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and
offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social
position...
Thor 10.473 10 [The farmers who employed Thoreau]
felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a
native authority.
LS 11.17 23 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of
gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep
Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are addressed to God.
LVB 11.95 14 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van
Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain
obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of
some of my friends.
ALin 11.333 5 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to
catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed.
ChiE 11.472 27 [Confucius's] morals, though addressed
to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day.
MAng1 12.215 19 The means, the materials of
[Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated, being
addressed for the most part to the eye;...
MAng1 12.237 2 A natural fruit of the nobility of
[Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante, to whom two of his
sonnets are addressed.
MAng1 12.240 11 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome
repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed;...
Milt1 12.251 4 The other piece is [Milton's]
Areopagitica, the discourse, addressed to the Parliament, in favor of
removing the censorship of the press; the most splendid of his prose
works.
Milt1 12.251 15 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable
in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a
practical end...
Milt1 12.258 16 The form and the voice of Leonora
Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome, and to her he
addressed his Italian sonnets and Latin epigrams.
PPr 12.384 10 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present]
is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but
hear.
Let 12.398 9 [American youths] are in the state of
the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and
said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...
addresses, n. (3)
CbW 6.259 14 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat
which...overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds and first
addresses in society...
HDC 11.83 14 I hope that History [of Concord] will
not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely
enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to
its agents...
EWI 11.117 26 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at
constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing
can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of the addresses of this
assembly.
addresses, v. (7)
Hist 2.17 14 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the
same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures
addresses.
Art1 2.363 12 Art has not yet come to its
maturity...if it do not make the poor and uncultivated feel that it
addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
Milt1 12.260 7 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave argument...
addressing, v. (6)
LE 1.166 9 A man of cultivated mind but reserved
habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in
the man addressing an assembly;...
Exp 3.53 23 I had fancied that the value of life
lay...in the fact that I never know, in addressing myself to a new
individual, what may befall me.
UGM 4.16 6 Senates and sovereigns have no
compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a
certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
Elo1 7.65 6 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is
not a particular skill in...dexterously addressing the prejudice of the
company...
Elo1 7.73 18 ...the power of detaining the ear by
pleasing speech, and addressing the fancy and imagination, often exists
without higher merits.
HDC 11.38 20 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord],
with their pious pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing
the land.
adds, v. (50)
Nat 1.36 12 The understanding adds, divides,
combines, measures...
LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in
the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best
institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of
Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one,
which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his character
heroic and sacred attributes...
Lov1 2.185 21 The union which is thus effected [by
love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature...is yet a
temporary state.
Exp 3.80 23 A subject and an object,--it takes so
much to make the galvanic circuit complete, but magnitude adds nothing.
Chr1 3.110 25 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad
without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on
him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to
betray must be yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness
and eloquence to him;...
Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni,
to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live
in sepulchres...
Mrs1 3.148 23 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles
that of being the best-bred man in England and in Christendom.
PPh 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who,
to the best thinking, adds a proportion and equality in his
faculties...
ShP 4.189 9 ...seeing what men want and sharing their
desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
GoW 4.287 27 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama
or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides,
and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal
refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the
parties...and the like.
ET2 5.30 23 The mate avers that this is the history
of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys; and adds that all of
them are sick of the sea...
ET4 5.64 26 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the
genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime
dexterity.
ET9 5.145 21 When [the Englishman] adds epithets of
praise, his climax is, so English;...
Wth 6.85 12 [A man] fails to make his place good in
the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to
the common wealth.
Ctr 6.158 16 I must have children...I must have a
social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or
basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as
contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me.
We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course; but what a
charm it adds when observed in practical men.
Bhr 6.187 7 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the
movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their
limbs as carelessly as they please...
CbW 6.246 22 ...whatever makes us either think or
feel strongly, adds to our power...
Bty 6.297 15 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere,
flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up
all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus]
proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one
who understands it.
OA 7.316 11 Nature lends herself to these illusions
[of time], and adds dim sight, deafness...
OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time] opens the senses, adds
power...
PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he
builds, adds and affirms.
QO 8.199 26 ...[the individual] is no more to be
credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which
adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
PPo 8.240 4 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and
flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...
PPo 8.244 12 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes
of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
Grts 8.309 8 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
the thought which he stands...adds to him a grander personality...
Grts 8.312 1 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds
brain.
Grts 8.312 2 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds
brain.
Chr2 10.115 18 Every exaggeration of [person and
text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to
take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the
Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his
freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the
inadmissible claim of positive authority...
SovE 10.188 13 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor
only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness...
Plu 10.296 5 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares,
I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances
attached to persons, which give great pleasure; and adds examples.
EWI 11.121 21 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes
the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new
population [of Jamaica] required, and adds that more are still
demanded.
ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which
in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved
under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm
to the picture.
SMC 11.362 24 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told
that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at
my company as he did yesterday;...
Wom 11.413 13 This is the victory of Griselda, her
supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all
our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that, it adds
to the soul a new soul...
FRO2 11.489 20 Whoever thinks a story gains...by
adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds.
CPL 11.496 2 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building...a quite new
attraction...
CPL 11.499 27 ...in reference to her favorite
authors, [Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority
is my best gift from God.
II 12.85 18 Within this magical power derived from
fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of
perseverance.
Mem 12.101 6 So is it with every fact in a new
science...each one adds transparency to the whole mass.
Mem 12.102 4 The experienced and cultivated man is
lodged in a hall hung with pictures...to which every step in the march
of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
MAng1 12.236 24 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the
Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of
his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no
longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime
by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.
Milt1 12.257 13 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton]
pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
ACri 12.296 5 Every historic autobiographic trait
authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
ACri 12.304 10 The classic unfolds, the romantic
adds.
Let 12.401 19 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all
hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes.
adduce, v. (3)
Exp 3.66 5 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to
superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples
of this treachery.
NER 3.279 17 If it were worth while to run into
details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit,
it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's
equality to the Church...
ET14 5.251 3 It would be easy to add exceptions to
the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce
examples of excellence in particular veins;...
adduced, v. (1)
QO 8.202 13 A phrase or a single word is adduced,
with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding
all argument, because thus had they said...
adept, n. (1)
GoW 4.282 19 In England and America, one may be an
adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic
taste or fire.
adepts, n. (8)
NR 3.235 7 ...these abnormal insights of the adepts
ought to be normal, and things of course.
NER 3.253 7 With these [reformers] appeared the
adepts of homoeopathy, of hydropathy...
ET7 5.124 27 ...when the Rochester rappings began to
be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in
the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all
somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the
number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six
months, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the
attention of the adepts;...
PC 8.220 2 The names of the masters at the head of
each department of science, art or function are...always known to the
adepts;...
Imtl 8.336 15 Will you...educate your children to be
adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce
a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
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