Adequate to Adults

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

adequate, adj. (25)

    MN 1.196 25 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.

    Tran 1.350 4 Unless the action is necessary, unless it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it.

    Prd1 2.239 18 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes, in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt. So at least shall you get an adequate deliverance.

    Int 2.336 5 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.

    Art1 2.360 10 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself...

    Art1 2.368 24 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.

    Pt1 3.5 20 ...adequate expression is rare.

    PPh 4.68 5 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...

    ShP 4.204 3 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.

    ShP 4.204 19 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...

    GoW 4.265 8 Society has, at all times, the same want, namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations.

    Wth 6.95 26 I have never seen a man...with an adequate command of nature.

    Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...

    Elo1 7.81 20 Personal ascendency may exist with or without adequate talent for its expression.

    Elo1 7.95 9 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains.

    Boks 7.197 13 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece...

    PI 8.22 19 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.

    PI 8.29 23 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate,-- defying adequate expression;...

    PI 8.65 2 The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.

    PI 8.71 18 The poet is representative...in him the world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.

    SA 8.100 22 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...

    AsSu 11.249 22 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the North, a little in advance of all the North, and therefore without adequate support.

    CPL 11.495 9 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...

    CPL 11.495 15 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...

    WSL 12.347 13 [Landor's] picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate.

adequately, adv. (10)

    DSA 1.121 20 These [divine] laws refuse to be adequately stated.

    LE 1.167 5 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...

    SL 2.157 10 That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say...

    Pt1 3.27 3 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...

    Pol1 3.214 11 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...

    SwM 4.120 23 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.

    ShP 4.198 16 Thought is the property...of him who can adequately place it.

    Cour 7.273 25 ...whenever the religious sentiment is adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.

    Dem1 10.28 2 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist...between him and his world; and until he can adequately tell them he will tell them wildly and fabulously.

    MLit 12.320 19 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been...that of the idea which he shared with his coevals, and which he has rarely succeeded in adequately expressing.

adequateness, n. (2)

    SwM 4.104 3 The robust Aristotelian method, with its breadth and adequateness...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.

    MMEm 10.402 27 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?

Adhem, Abou ben [Leigh Hun (1)

    EurB 12.372 7 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.

adhere, v. (8)

    SR 2.55 15 ...nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

    Hsm1 2.260 17 Adhere to your own act...

    Pt1 3.38 13 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the poet, we have our difficulties even with Milton and Homer.

    ET14 5.250 25 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions...

    Wsp 6.204 16 ...the public and the private element...adhere to every soul...

    Cour 7.266 13 ...to be really strong we must adhere to our own means.

    PerF 10.71 19 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them...

    LS 11.20 23 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable...

adhered, v. (2)

    F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...

    Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...

adherence, n. (15)

    Hist 2.12 2 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples, the adherence to the first type...

    SL 2.160 6 Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things...

    Lov1 2.171 5 ...we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...

    Exp 3.67 6 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.

    ET1 5.24 18 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth...

    ET7 5.121 25 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.

    ET7 5.122 12 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug. In the same proportion they value honesty, stoutness, and adherence to your own.

    ET7 5.124 4 This [English] dulness makes...their adherence in all foreign countries to home habits.

    ET15 5.263 19 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen, unflinching adherence to its objects...

    ET17 5.298 6 [Wordsworth's] adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.

    Wth 6.100 21 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...

    CbW 6.277 6 There must be fidelity, and there must be adherence.

    Cour 7.255 25 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.

    GSt 10.504 2 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.

    LS 11.24 2 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].

adheres, v. (9)

    LT 1.273 19 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...

    Comp 2.121 16 ...the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy...

    UGM 4.10 5 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...

    PPh 4.52 3 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].

    SwM 4.145 12 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].

    F 6.16 4 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.

    Wth 6.103 24 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote, or adheres to some odious right, he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...

    FSLC 11.204 7 [Webster] adheres to the letter.

    Mem 12.99 2 ...[the loadstone] gains new particles all the way as you move it, but one falls off for every one that adheres.

adhering, v. (1)

    Bost 12.211 15 ...[Boston] can only prosper by adhering to her faith.

adhesion, n. (4)

    ET19 5.311 15 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is that loyal adhesion...running through all classes...

    PC 8.221 27 ...the first measure of a mind is...its capacity of truth, and its adhesion to it.

    FSLN 11.222 23 [Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...

    EPro 11.321 4 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment, he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].

adhesions, n. (1)

    HCom 11.341 18 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions...

adhesive, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.97 1 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.

    PerF 10.71 23 ...gravity is as adhesive...as on the first day.

adhesiveness, n. (1)

    ET5 5.75 4 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...with German truth and adhesiveness.

adipocere, n. (1)

    ET8 5.139 4 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution...

Adirondack, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.213 19 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the Adirondack country...make such amends as they can.

adjacent, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.192 26 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields, or, if you stand in the field, then in the adjacent woods.

    HDC 11.41 22 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop, and 1000 to Thomas Dudley, of the lands adjacent to the town [Concord]...

adjective, n. (1)

    ACri 12.292 3 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...

adjoined, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.428 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.

adjoining, adj. (3)

    NMW 4.235 4 My method was immediately followed by the adjoining batteries...

    ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube...

    SlHr 10.442 7 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex, practising, also, in the adjoining counties.

adjoining, v. (1)

    SHC 11.432 10 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...

adjourn, v. (3)

    OS 2.293 6 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles.

    Pow 6.80 13 I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and Worship.

    EurB 12.378 18 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.

adjourned, v. (4)

    Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness, but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages.

    CSC 10.373 10 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841]...

    HDC 11.65 23 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.

    EWI 11.106 19 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again...

adjourning, v. (1)

    AKan 11.263 11 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent sessions, adjourning from week to week...

adjournment, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.

adjourns, v. (1)

    ET4 5.73 24 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...and the House of Commons adjourns over the Derby Day.

adjudge, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 9 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void.

adjudged, v. (1)

    WD 7.185 4 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left. So the bowman's prize was adjudged to him who drew no bow.

adjust, v. (5)

    SL 2.149 20 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?

    Exp 3.67 2 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves... to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.

    NR 3.229 17 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.

    Ctr 6.160 20 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.

    SS 7.13 21 ...[men] adjust themselves by their demerits...

adjusted, v. (3)

    Nat 1.9 2 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...

    Suc 7.295 21 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race.

    EdAd 11.391 16 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.

adjusting, v. (2)

    NMW 4.235 22 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.

    Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements...by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

adjustment, n. (9)

    Pt1 3.3 21 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ...

    SwM 4.130 12 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...

    ET6 5.104 19 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...

    F 6.37 17 There is adjustment between the animal and its food...

    Bty 6.290 22 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.

    Imtl 8.334 7 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!

    Aris 10.43 22 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements.

    Aris 10.46 2 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.

    FSLC 11.198 24 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment.

adjustments, n. (3)

    F 6.37 20 The like adjustments exist for man.

    F 6.37 25 These are coarse adjustments, but the invisible are not less.

    Imtl 8.334 9 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation; all these adjustments becoming perfectly intelligible to our study,-and the contriver of it all forever hidden!

adjusts, v. (3)

    LE 1.166 18 ...[the speaker] only adjusts himself to the free spirit which gladly utters itself through him;...

    Comp 2.102 11 Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life.

    MMEm 10.416 2 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...

adjutant, n. (1)

    SMC 11.365 18 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...

Admetus, n. (2)

    Hist 2.31 11 Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets.

    WD 7.176 4 In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus...

administer, v. (12)

    ET8 5.137 9 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...

    ET11 5.196 23 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that industry and administrative talent should administer;...

    Wth 6.97 11 They should own who can administer...

    Bty 6.285 9 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days;...

    DL 7.122 19 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices of master or servant...

    SA 8.103 9 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...

    Aris 10.65 3 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need to administer public offices...

    MoL 10.250 8 [Nature says to the American] See to it that you hold and administer the continent for mankind.

    LS 11.24 4 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it.

    LS 11.24 15 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it. Neither should I ever have obtruded this opinion upon other people, had I not been called by my office to administer it.

    LS 11.24 23 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.

    II 12.81 23 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...

administered, v. (6)

    YA 1.385 23 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference...

    MoS 4.184 11 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...

    FSLC 11.205 16 The destiny of this country...is to be greatly administered.

    FSLC 11.205 17 [The destiny of this country] is to be administered according to what is, and is to be...

    AKan 11.262 16 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that instant justice would be administered to each offence...

    EdAd 11.386 6 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...

administering, v. (4)

    YA 1.386 3 If any man has a talent...for administering difficult affairs...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...

    PI 8.6 3 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.

    LS 11.16 26 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.

    JBB 11.273 5 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...

administrari, v. (1)

    Comp 2.100 8 Res nolunt diu male administrari.

administration, n. (20)

    DSA 1.128 17 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...

    YA 1.373 4 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration...

    Prd1 2.236 22 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...

    Mrs1 3.129 22 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.

    Pol1 3.208 12 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.

    NER 3.255 13 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me.

    NER 3.284 10 ...we need not assist the administration of the universe.

    ET5 5.98 1 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.

    ET13 5.227 12 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?

    Pow 6.75 14 During the whole period of his administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.

    Ctr 6.165 1 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the estate shall suffer no harm by his administration...

    Suc 7.284 22 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone who have arranged the finances, as you know

    PC 8.210 12 Consider...what genius of science, what of administration...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...

    PC 8.230 14 The Divine Nature carries on its administration by good men.

    Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...

    LS 11.23 23 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...

    ACiv 11.302 22 The existing administration is entitled to the utmost candor.

    ACiv 11.307 3 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...

    EPro 11.319 21 Done, [The Emancipation Proclamation] cannot be undone by a new administration.

    CInt 12.115 15 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down...every dignified blunder that has crept into its administration.

administrative, adj. (3)

    ET11 5.196 23 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that industry and administrative talent should administer;...

    Elo2 8.132 23 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.

    PC 8.218 8 If [a man] has...administrative faculty...he is the king's king.

administrator, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.244 24 The man of thought...the administrator skilful in affairs... whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.

admirable, adj. (67)

    LE 1.162 11 ...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.

    MN 1.217 4 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...

    MN 1.223 3 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?

    Tran 1.342 6 ...whoso knows...these admirable radicals...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.

    Fdsp 2.197 11 I hear what you say of the admirable parts and tried temper of the party you praise...

    Prd1 2.233 5 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 2.247 11 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./

    Pt1 3.7 22 ...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.

    Pt1 3.39 25 ...an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet]...

    Exp 3.61 8 ...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. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment...is a more satisfying echo to the heart than... the casual sympathy of admirable persons.

    Mrs1 3.146 1 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes...

    Nat2 3.177 22 I would not be frivolous before the admirable reserve and prudence of time...

    NR 3.238 20 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own, and in their way admirable.

    NR 3.244 16 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals...

    PPh 4.54 12 The reason why we do not at once believe in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience.

    PPh 4.60 18 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only at intervals...

    PPh 4.78 5 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato].

    SwM 4.103 24 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...and this admirable writing is pure from all pertness or egotism.

    SwM 4.111 19 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...

    SwM 4.145 8 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude only...

    MoS 4.162 13 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].

    MoS 4.174 7 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...

    ShP 4.214 26 [Shakespeare's] means are as admirable as his ends;...

    ShP 4.218 11 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.

    NMW 4.226 16 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration], pronounced it admirable...

    GoW 4.268 23 Be real and admirable, not as we know, but as you know.

    GoW 4.288 9 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...

    ET5 5.77 18 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.

    ET5 5.83 10 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.

    ET5 5.85 3 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.

    ET12 5.207 27 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.

    ET13 5.222 4 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.

    F 6.40 20 ...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 arbitrary...

    Ctr 6.147 23 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...

    Bty 6.302 23 ...[the human form] is not only admirable in singular and salient talents, but also in the world of manners.

    Art2 7.51 12 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...

    Elo1 7.93 8 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him, however admirable, fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...

    DL 7.131 11 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...

    WD 7.175 3 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...

    Suc 7.297 15 What is so admirable as the health of youth?...

    OA 7.329 25 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...

    OA 7.330 11 The day comes...when the admirable verse finds the poet to whom it belongs;...

    PI 8.40 20 These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.

    Comc 8.157 16 ...[Aristotle's] definition [of the ridiculous], though by an admirable definer, does not satisfy me...

    QO 8.188 23 Admirable mimics have nothing of their own.

    QO 8.196 25 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.

    Imtl 8.327 25 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable...

    Imtl 8.337 20 I have known admirable persons, without feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.

    PerF 10.75 27 ...surprising and admirable effects follow [man] like a creator.

    Edc1 10.157 6 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men; admirable in its results...

    MoL 10.255 18 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show... admirable polish and finish;...

    EzRy 10.392 2 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...

    SlHr 10.446 3 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...

    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.

    HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs, and published an admirable report.

    HDC 11.81 13 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.

    EWI 11.134 8 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.

    FSLC 11.184 3 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?

    TPar 11.285 1 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.

    CPL 11.496 14 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country...

    CPL 11.504 23 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable...

    CPL 11.506 4 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze on, burst upon me.

    FRep 11.532 16 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...

    PLT 12.8 4 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...

    PLT 12.25 16 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can be turned.

    II 12.82 22 [A man] has a facility, which costs him nothing, to do somewhat admirable to all men.

    MLit 12.327 27 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.

Admirable Crichton [James (1)

    Humb 11.457 3 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...like the Admirable Crichton...

Admirable Crichtons, n. (1)

    NR 3.237 19 [Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.

admirably, adv. (2)

    Pt1 3.25 27 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song, subordinating how many admirably executed parts.

    QO 8.196 13 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...and which told admirably well.

admiral, n. (3)

    ET3 5.40 8 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.

    Suc 7.285 12 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.

    Grts 8.308 11 Montluc...says of the Genoese admiral, Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.

Admiral, n. (1)

    FRep 11.543 25 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...

admirals, n. (1)

    Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him for success;...

Admiralty, Board of, n. (1)

    ET15 5.269 8 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty.

admiralty, n. (1)

    Pow 6.62 26 The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.

Admiralty, n. (1)

    ET5 5.91 10 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...

admiration, n. (38)

    DSA 1.130 26 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...

    LE 1.162 16 The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.

    Hist 2.25 23 Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

    Hist 2.25 24 Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

    Comp 2.100 2 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must cast behind him their admiration...

    Fdsp 2.204 16 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by admiration...

    Hsm1 2.248 9 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.

    OS 2.276 27 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion; of love, hatred, fear, admiration, pity;...

    OS 2.290 22 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...does not want admiration;...

    OS 2.291 15 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration your wit...

    ET7 5.119 22 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.

    Ctr 6.133 2 The [egotistical] man...falls into an admiration of [his own talent]...

    Ctr 6.135 12 Though [men] talk of the object before them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.

    DL 7.120 13 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home, sometimes to the fatigue, sometimes to the admiration of sisters;...

    Clbs 7.247 15 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.

    Cour 7.253 14 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

    PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life...[poets'] admiration of heroes and benefactors...are hosts of ideals...

    SA 8.86 14 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.

    Grts 8.318 27 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.

    Imtl 8.347 25 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear.

    PerF 10.82 2 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater.

    Chr2 10.115 9 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration of him runs away with their reverence for the human soul...

    Supl 10.164 20 From want of skill to convey quality, we hope to move admiration by quantity.

    SovE 10.211 5 Man does not live by bread alone, but by faith, by admiration, by sympathy.

    Plu 10.306 24 It is fatal to spiritual health to lose your admiration.

    LLNE 10.354 24 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.

    SlHr 10.447 20 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...

    Koss 11.397 5 The people of this town [Concord] share with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...

    PLT 12.3 9 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts...

    PLT 12.30 5 ...nobody ever forgives any admiration in you of them...

    CInt 12.114 23 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...

    CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.

    MAng1 12.237 1 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante...

    MAng1 12.239 11 [Michelangelo] often expressed his admiration of Cellini's bust of Altoviti.

    MAng1 12.239 13 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration of Titian...

    Milt1 12.249 23 The reader [of a tract by Milton] is fatigued with admiration...

    Milt1 12.276 5 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...

    WSL 12.339 8 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...

admirations, n. (1)

    Ill 6.312 3 We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments.

admire, v. (56)

    Nat 1.65 18 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.

    DSA 1.120 18 ...I would admire forever.

    LE 1.163 16 I am tasting the self-same life...which I so admire in other men.

    MN 1.192 18 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.

    MN 1.193 4 If I see nothing to admire in the unit, shall I admire a million units?

    MN 1.193 5 If I see nothing to admire in the unit, shall I admire a million units?

    MN 1.199 13 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution.

    MN 1.205 13 So must we admire in man the form of the formless...

    MN 1.206 13 You admire pictures...

    LT 1.265 20 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...

    Hist 2.26 17 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes.

    Lov1 2.182 1 ...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...

    Fdsp 2.211 17 To those whom we admire and love, at first we cannot [speak on even terms].

    Hsm1 2.258 21 ...when we hear [many extraordinary young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their superiority;...

    Cir 2.302 26 You admire this tower of granite...

    Art1 2.364 25 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.

    Pt1 3.12 23 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...

    Gts 3.163 27 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.

    NR 3.228 9 Young people admire talents or particular excellences;...

    NR 3.246 24 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest offices beautiful by the energy and heart with which she does them; and seeing this we admire and love her and them...

    NER 3.272 4 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat. Let those admire who will.

    UGM 4.22 26 I admire great men of all classes...

    UGM 4.25 1 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.

    SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.

    NMW 4.251 20 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear narrative of his battles;...

    ET1 5.16 5 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.

    ET12 5.201 7 Albert Alaskie...who visited England to admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth, was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

    F 6.48 16 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...

    Wsp 6.227 11 Young people admire talents and particular excellences.

    CbW 6.260 19 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring: supply it, and let me be like the rest whom I admire...

    Civ 7.28 17 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...

    Elo1 7.88 14 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in Aristotle...

    DL 7.130 18 If by love and nobleness we take up into ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around us.

    Farm 7.153 27 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...

    Boks 7.216 4 We admire parks, and high-born beauties...

    Cour 7.254 1 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...

    SA 8.81 5 [Manners'] vast convenience I must always admire.

    Elo2 8.119 17 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat...

    QO 8.193 13 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...

    Grts 8.301 14 ...we admire eminent men, not for themselves, but as representatives.

    Aris 10.55 11 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men admire...

    PerF 10.87 9 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.

    SovE 10.183 12 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

    SovE 10.206 27 We in America are charged...that...we...do exceedingly applaud and admire ourselves...

    Plu 10.301 4 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style...

    Plu 10.301 19 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these stirring deeds and speeches.

    MMEm 10.426 22 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain.

    Carl 10.491 12 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...

    PLT 12.13 16 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.

    CL 12.147 27 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood;...

    CL 12.150 10 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.

    CW 12.173 9 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist...

    CW 12.175 21 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;...

    CW 12.178 3 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.

    CW 12.178 19 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.

    Milt1 12.273 20 [Milton] admonished his friend not to admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.

admired, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.3 3 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...

    Bty 6.301 16 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...

    II 12.87 24 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.

admired, v. (17)

    Comp 2.117 5 The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet...

    Comp 2.124 11 ...the estate I so admired and envied is my own.

    NR 3.227 25 [A man with fine traits] is admired at a distance...

    ShP 4.200 4 The Liturgy, admired for its energy and pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...

    ET1 5.7 15 ...[Landor] admired Washington;...

    ET12 5.208 8 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired...

    SS 7.5 17 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...

    SS 7.7 4 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.

    Art2 7.48 16 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...

    Clbs 7.232 17 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they...please themselves by sallies and chat which are admired by the idlers;...

    OA 7.334 22 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but a greater esteem, as he became more known. He did not terrify, but was admired.

    PI 8.68 9 What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a sound of tin pans;...

    SA 8.88 11 If the intellect were always awake...the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...

    Imtl 8.339 12 Every really able man...considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.

    Thor 10.472 27 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen...

    Thor 10.475 9 [Thoreau] admired Aeschylus and Pindar;...

    FSLN 11.220 12 I saw that a great man [Webster], deservedly admired for his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.

admirer, n. (2)

    QO 8.198 23 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce to you my only admirer.

    MAng1 12.240 9 [Vittoria Colonna] was...an admirer of [Michelangelo's] genius...

admirers, n. (4)

    GoW 4.277 21 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society...

    ET8 5.130 9 [The English] are...slow but obstinate admirers...

    Supl 10.167 4 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...speaking of him in a circle of his admirers, said...I believe him capable of virtue.

    Thor 10.478 26 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau...

admires, v. (10)

    LE 1.162 18 The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.

    LE 1.166 7 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...

    Comp 2.100 1 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?...

    Prd1 2.221 16 The poet admires the man of energy and tactics;...

    Pt1 3.37 19 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...

    Ill 6.312 18 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air and actions of people whom he admires...

    DL 7.123 20 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do the select individuals whom he admires...

    SA 8.86 11 A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.

    Grts 8.316 19 We must have some charity for the sense of the people, which admires natural power...

    MoL 10.252 14 All that the world admires comes from within.

admiring, adj. (4)

    PPh 4.43 16 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

    Pow 6.67 24 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.

    SA 8.88 23 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

    Thor 10.465 21 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...

admiring, v. (6)

    Nat 1.23 13 Others have the same love [of nature] in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms.

    MN 1.192 16 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics...

    ET12 5.212 25 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...

    Ill 6.311 11 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.

    PLT 12.3 7 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...

    EurB 12.367 11 ...Wordsworth...though...taking the public to task for not admiring his poetry, is really a master of the English language...

admission, n. (16)

    LT 1.286 12 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual...

    Tran 1.336 2 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual;...

    Mrs1 3.143 23 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission...

    UGM 4.33 13 ...the union of all minds appears intimate; what gets admission to one, cannot be kept out of any other;...

    MoS 4.161 13 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...

    ET11 5.174 10 ...the terms of admission to this club [English aristocracy] are hard and high.

    Wth 6.94 20 To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.

    Ctr 6.143 15 These minor skills and accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...

    Ctr 6.144 25 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.

    Bhr 6.180 21 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

    Ill 6.317 22 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions...

    PI 8.6 4 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...

    Edc1 10.138 16 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all shops...as flies have;...

    FRO2 11.490 5 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...

    PLT 12.9 20 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.

    CInt 12.130 27 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...

admissions, n. (1)

    SA 8.91 1 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions...

admit, v. (43)

    Nat 1.12 4 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.

    Nat 1.61 8 ...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one...

    AmS 1.110 7 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared;...

    MN 1.222 2 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God... I admit the force of what you say.

    MR 1.236 3 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...

    Fdsp 2.214 27 We must...admit or exclude [society] on the slightest cause.

    Pt1 3.13 18 Things admit of being used as symbols because nature is a symbol...

    Gts 3.160 8 ...[fruits]...admit of fantastic values being attached to them.

    Nat2 3.188 22 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...

    UGM 4.20 9 These [leaders and law-givers]...admit us to the constitution of things.

    PPh 4.56 27 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.

    ShP 4.205 21 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information.

    ET5 5.99 19 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a dye which is more lasting than the cloth.

    F 6.19 25 No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts.

    F 6.35 21 No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.

    Pow 6.58 11 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.

    Wth 6.125 15 ...there is no maxim of the merchant which does not admit of an extended sense...

    Wsp 6.216 23 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...

    Elo1 7.70 7 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.

    Clbs 7.235 17 He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.

    Clbs 7.239 12 To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man...

    Clbs 7.245 14 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

    PI 8.31 26 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.

    PI 8.32 5 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!

    PI 8.32 7 Eternal laws are very well, which admit no violation...

    PI 8.32 9 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.

    PC 8.223 21 All things admit of this extended sense...

    Insp 8.284 17 The fine influences of the morning few can explain, but all will admit.

    Imtl 8.332 19 I admit that you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the streets...

    Schr 10.270 6 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets. I do not mean to excuse it. I admit the enormous partiality.

    LS 11.8 20 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.

    LS 11.16 15 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?

    LS 11.18 3 ...I believe the human mind can admit but one God...

    HDC 11.68 2 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit, so bold from the first as hardly to admit of increase.

    War 11.162 14 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy, if the world were all a church...

    War 11.162 22 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project.

    Koss 11.400 8 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College).

    Koss 11.400 9 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College). We admit you to the same degree, without new trial.

    SHC 11.432 17 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...

    SHC 11.433 1 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.

    CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...

    PLT 12.30 3 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.

    MAng1 12.219 11 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric; as wide, namely, as the terms of the proposition admit.

admits, v. (21)

    Tran 1.330 6 [The idealist]...admits the impressions of sense, admits their coherency...

    Comp 2.124 25 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth...

    SL 2.164 3 ...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.

    Cir 2.301 12 ...every action admits of being outdone.

    Pt1 3.33 23 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene.

    Nat2 3.180 21 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.

    ShP 4.207 13 Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?

    ET5 5.99 10 ...the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.

    ET10 5.164 13 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.

    ET12 5.208 21 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.

    F 6.46 19 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.

    Pow 6.73 17 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.

    Wth 6.125 12 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily circulations.

    Insp 8.287 19 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear; if you have sensibility, it admits you to sacred interiors;...

    Insp 8.294 20 ...every word admits a new use...

    Chr2 10.93 26 [The moral intuition] admits of no appeal...

    Supl 10.175 26 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...

    MMEm 10.399 10 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life] is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate.

    FSLC 11.190 23 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...

    EPro 11.319 20 [The Emancipation Proclamation] is not a measure that admits of being taken back...

    SHC 11.433 7 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved for secular purposes;...

admitted, adj. (2)

    Con 1.310 1 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that with all its admitted defects...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.

    Pol1 3.203 16 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...

admitted, v. (30)

    Nat 1.64 14 ...being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...

    Hist 2.3 4 He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate.

    Hsm1 2.260 25 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.

    Pol1 3.221 7 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy of the bad State.

    PPh 4.65 25 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.

    PPh 4.78 16 Men, in proportion to their intellect, have admitted [Plato's] transcendent claims.

    SwM 4.95 10 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as following in the train of this.

    SwM 4.95 14 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./

    SwM 4.118 24 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...

    SwM 4.138 19 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!

    MoS 4.180 26 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night...

    ET9 5.147 12 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...

    ET12 5.200 15 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].

    ET12 5.201 11 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

    Wsp 6.219 14 ...though the new element of freedom and an individual has been admitted, yet the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...

    DL 7.112 26 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted;...

    Clbs 7.239 26 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.

    SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...

    PPo 8.254 26 ...[Hafiz's] claim [as a bard and inspired man of his people] has been admitted from the first.

    LLNE 10.340 16 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.

    LLNE 10.354 16 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.

    Carl 10.498 2 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...

    LS 11.3 14 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church, who should be admitted to the feast, and how often it should be prepared.

    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 11.43 7 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year...

    ACiv 11.301 9 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction. Is this new? No, everybody knows it. As a general economy it is admitted.

    CL 12.161 5 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.

    PPr 12.381 15 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...

    Let 12.402 5 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

    Trag 12.416 2 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

admitting, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.224 12 The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

    Exp 3.78 6 The soul...is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.

    SHC 11.430 19 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our children...

    MAng1 12.221 11 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.

admixture, n. (1)

    DSA 1.123 8 The least admixture of a lie...will instantly vitiate the effect.

admonish, v. (2)

    DSA 1.132 9 [The divine bards] admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine...

    DSA 1.145 18 Let me admonish you...to go alone;...

admonished, v. (12)

    LE 1.185 11 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...

    SR 2.71 15 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home...

    SR 2.78 4 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...

    Fdsp 2.213 13 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...

    ET10 5.167 18 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished of the mischief of the division of labor...

    LLNE 10.353 24 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...

    LS 11.10 4 [Jesus] admonished his disciples respecting the leaven of the Pharisees.

    HDC 11.56 3 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing, and admonished them to increase their faith with their griefs.

    HDC 11.67 12 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss of some improprieties of expression...

    LVB 11.94 16 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...

    Milt1 12.273 19 [Milton] admonished his friend not to admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.

    Pray 12.356 8 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct;...

admonishes, v. (4)

    Nat 1.64 18 This [spiritual] view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...

    Tran 1.350 13 Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

    Chr2 10.118 23 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no class-leader admonishes him of absences...

    MAng1 12.242 14 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari] that a man ought not to smile, when all those around him weep;...

admonishing, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.7 17 ...every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

admonition, n. (7)

    LE 1.161 26 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being...

    LE 1.167 11 The perpetual admonition of nature to us, is, The world is new...

    SR 2.45 4 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines...

    Prd1 2.236 3 ...let [a man] likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...

    Art2 7.52 6 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition...

    MAng1 12.223 2 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo, against the taste and against the admonition of his patrons, to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...

    Let 12.396 15 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...

admonitions, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.107 6 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...

    WD 7.167 16 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms, and what admonitions of the planets he must heed.

ado, n. (3)

    Cour 7.256 2 What an ado we make through two thousand years about Thermopylae and Salamis!

    SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.

    Bost 12.203 8 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire who makes an unnecessary ado to establish his dogma;...

adolescent, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.46 5 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...

adopt, v. (24)

    MN 1.209 21 If the man will exactly obey [that well-known voice], it will adopt him...

    SR 2.72 1 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly...

    Exp 3.52 12 Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...

    Exp 3.81 15 [The life of truth] does not...adopt another's facts.

    Mrs1 3.131 16 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.

    UGM 4.12 17 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies. How easily we adopt their labors!

    GoW 4.283 9 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...

    ET2 5.28 11 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.

    ET5 5.87 5 [The English] adopt every improvement in rig, in motor, in weapons...

    ET5 5.99 24 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...

    Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.

    Cour 7.276 24 Have the courage not to adopt another's courage.

    PI 8.49 17 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...

    SA 8.96 4 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you.

    SA 8.105 19 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit is in good repute...

    Aris 10.41 23 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man...

    Edc1 10.152 23 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted to adopt violent means...

    Edc1 10.153 1 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.

    Edc1 10.155 5 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature.

    LLNE 10.346 24 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism, or that all mankind would adopt it.

    GSt 10.506 13 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.

    LS 11.12 25 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...

    LS 11.19 25 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.

    CInt 12.123 3 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate.

adopted, adj. (1)

    SR 2.83 9 ...of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

adopted, v. (24)

    Chr1 3.101 25 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. He adopted it by ear...

    Mrs1 3.126 21 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating. The good forms, the happiest expressions of each, are repeated and adopted.

    Pol1 3.219 15 [The movement toward self-government] was never adopted by any party in history, neither can be.

    NER 3.254 18 Every project in the history of reform...is...very dull and suspicious when adopted from another.

    SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.

    ET10 5.168 21 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments and their whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

    ET15 5.263 24 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.

    ET15 5.263 26 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law system, and almost alone lifted it through.

    ET15 5.264 3 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.

    ET15 5.264 11 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire...

    Wth 6.110 11 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.

    Bhr 6.193 27 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they...adopted his manners;...

    QO 8.192 19 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.

    PC 8.208 16 Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted [in America].

    Plu 10.310 1 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...

    Plu 10.317 22 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch; but the matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius, that if he had found it, he would have adopted it.

    EzRy 10.395 5 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...

    GSt 10.505 21 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...

    LS 11.13 4 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...

    HDC 11.71 27 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.

    EWI 11.114 14 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature... adopted absolute emancipation.

    EWI 11.129 25 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...

    EPro 11.322 24 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger, but through it was the sole safety. The measure he has adopted was imperative.

    Wom 11.411 13 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...

adopting, v. (3)

    SovE 10.198 1 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will.

    FSLC 11.197 14 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.

    EdAd 11.393 7 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...

adoption, n. (8)

    NER 3.254 1 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...a tendency to the adoption of simpler methods...

    NMW 4.226 27 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them, and that his adoption of them gave them their weight.

    PI 8.32 3 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.

    Edc1 10.154 10 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.

    LLNE 10.354 4 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...

    HDC 11.81 17 The grievances [in Concord] ceased with the adoption of the Federal Constitution.

    ALin 11.333 14 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later, by the very acceptance and adoption they find in the mouths of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.

    Bost 12.211 17 Let every child that is born of her and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...

adopts, v. (11)

    Tran 1.335 21 The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine.

    Tran 1.337 19 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.

    Pt1 3.19 7 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles...

    Mrs1 3.120 19 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.

    NMW 4.227 14 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures...

    F 6.13 11 Now and then a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.

    QO 8.197 15 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan. I never like my own bon-mots until he adopts them.

    Aris 10.34 1 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them...

    LS 11.13 21 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].

    PLT 12.4 26 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...

    MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...which the age adopts by quoting them.

adorable, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.98 8 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.

adoration, n. (6)

    OS 2.284 6 ...in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance.

    SwM 4.139 8 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... They who serve me with adoration,--I am in them, and they in me.

    Chr2 10.117 11 There will always be a class of imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the adoration of the moral sentiment...

    Prch 10.218 13 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant; but more than this I do not readily find. The gracious motions of the soul,- piety, adoration,-I do not find.

    Prch 10.222 18 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains forever unhurt and identical.

    FSLN 11.243 14 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...

adore, v. (8)

    Nat 1.7 14 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...

    SL 2.161 8 We adore an institution...

    OS 2.296 19 [The soul saith] I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfect.

    SwM 4.129 16 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.

    SA 8.105 15 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...

    MMEm 10.419 8 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment. I adore Him.

    AKan 11.258 11 We adore the forms of law...

    ACiv 11.296 5 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/

adored, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.365 4 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic. The institutions were whispering-galleries, in which the adored Saxon privacy was lost.

adored, v. (4)

    SR 2.57 18 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...

    PPh 4.61 22 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...

    Ill 6.307 2 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./

    MMEm 10.403 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] adored [genius] when ennobled by character.

adorer, n. (3)

    UGM 4.14 12 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.

    Bty 6.306 7 An adorer of truth we cannot choose but obey...

    Grts 8.320 19 The man...in whom no regard of self degraded the adorer of the laws...he it is whom we seek...

adores, v. (8)

    Nat 1.71 26 [Man] adores timidly his own work.

    DSA 1.122 22 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility.

    Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which adores the Rule of Three...

    MoS 4.172 2 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.

    Suc 7.308 9 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...

    SovE 10.194 22 Let [a man]...find the riches of love which possesses that which it adores;...

    SovE 10.195 14 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.

    MMEm 10.425 4 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down...

adoring, adj. (2)

    SA 8.81 21 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young child?

    CInt 12.112 9 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./

adorn, v. (21)

    YA 1.387 12 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude by forethought...

    YA 1.388 18 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...

    Art1 2.349 11 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./

    Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house to adorn the landscape and strengthen the laws.

    Mrs1 3.140 7 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival...

    NER 3.268 27 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...

    UGM 4.12 11 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...

    PPh 4.57 20 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.

    ET5 5.94 27 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./

    ET10 5.163 5 A hundred thousand palaces adorn the island [England].

    ET13 5.219 17 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with history, which adorn it.

    ET17 5.293 14 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England], if I do not adorn my page with their names.

    DL 7.106 12 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best. His fears adorn the dark parts with poetry.

    Boks 7.213 9 [The great arts] are [man's] becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

    Clbs 7.230 12 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other;...

    SA 8.106 15 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.

    PPo 8.251 23 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations.

    MMEm 10.415 7 I am not infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and imprisoned, the tool of mind, even of the beings I feed and adorn.

    CInt 12.126 9 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism...

    CInt 12.127 22 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius...

    CL 12.135 13 Plant [the land], adorn it, study it, it will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.

adorned, v. (18)

    Hist 2.20 21 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.

    Pt1 3.7 9 ...the world is not painted or adorned...

    Pt1 3.9 17 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house, adorned with fountains and statues...

    Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...

    ET11 5.175 12 The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and devotion.

    ET11 5.176 10 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.

    Bhr 6.169 24 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.

    Clbs 7.231 17 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.

    PI 8.51 11 Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving of them but as hospitia, or inns, while they adorned the sepulchres of the dead...

    SA 8.93 6 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection, as easily as the wit with which it was adorned.

    SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments.

    Imtl 8.325 18 [The Greek] adorned death...

    Aris 10.38 16 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...

    Schr 10.277 14 I delight in men adorned and weaponed with manlike arts...

    LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

    MMEm 10.404 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.

    SlHr 10.441 17 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric...

    AsSu 11.247 10 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education, with skilful labor...

adorner, n. (2)

    Wom 11.412 22 Beautiful is the passion of love, painter and adorner of youth and early life...

    Wom 11.425 11 Let us have the true woman, the adorner...

adorning, v. (2)

    YA 1.366 25 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor... could suggest.

    ET11 5.187 10 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon;...

adornments, n. (1)

    Wom 11.410 26 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of society.

adorns, v. (6)

    MN 1.216 7 A man adorns himself with prayer and love...

    MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love, as an aim adorns an action.

    Pt1 3.10 2 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that...it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

    ET15 5.267 18 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.

    Aris 10.52 8 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise and adorns them not...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...

    Wom 11.410 22 ...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and degrees...

Adrastia, n. (1)

    Exp 3.84 21 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.

Adriatic Sea, n. (1)

    Con 1.311 19 ...for thee the fair Mediterranean, the sunny Adriatic;...

adrift, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.413 21 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored;...

adroit, adj. (5)

    Con 1.298 16 ...[conservatism] goes to make an adroit member of the social frame...

    Prd1 2.221 5 My prudence consists...not in adroit steering...

    GoW 4.282 5 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?

    ET5 5.83 22 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts, but adroit at the coarse;...

    PPr 12.388 22 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...

adroitly, adv. (3)

    Exp 3.57 9 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.

    PPh 4.55 26 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.

    Insp 8.289 14 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].

adroitness, n. (1)

    Cir 2.321 1 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.

Adsched of Meru, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 5 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru...

adulation, n. (2)

    MN 1.195 1 Not exhortation...becomes our lips, but paeans of joy and praise. But not of adulation...

    Bost 12.210 10 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.

adulatory, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.59 27 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.

adult, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.

    Nat 1.46 6 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...

    Con 1.318 10 ...beside that charity which should make all adult persons interested for the youth...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.

    OS 2.279 5 [The soul] is adult already in the infant man.

    Nat2 3.182 4 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...

    PPh 4.45 24 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...

    PPh 4.47 3 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health...

    SS 7.9 23 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...

    SA 8.81 24 The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult;...

    Aris 10.49 9 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen...

    FRO2 11.487 24 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult, self-searching soul...

adult, n. (2)

    AmS 1.109 11 The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic; the adult, reflective.

    WD 7.173 2 ...I will not begin to name those [illusions] of the youth and adult...

adulterate, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.199 10 We seek our friend...with an adulterate passion...

adulterated, adj. (1)

    PI 8.11 8 ...Nature was called a kind of adulterated reason.

adulteration, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 25 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...

adulterer, n. (1)

    F 6.11 9 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet looked on the woman...

adulterers, n. (1)

    ET7 5.121 4 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...

adulterous, adj. (1)

    MN 1.221 5 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.

adultery, n. (2)

    F 6.11 9 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.

    EWI 11.124 8 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...

adults, n. (5)

    Hist 2.26 1 [Greek] Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children.

    SR 2.48 11 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

    UGM 4.29 11 ...[children] are not at the mercy of such poor educators as we adults.

    Pow 6.55 25 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...

    Ill 6.313 12 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.


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