Ails to Almira
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
ails, v. (1)
aim, n. (95)
Nat 1.4 10 All science has one aim, namely, to find a
theory of nature.
Nat 1.55 16 The true philosopher and the true poet
are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is
the aim of both.
LE 1.182 18 ...to the [crowd], [the man of genius]
must owe his aim.
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love,
as an aim adorns an action.
MR 1.227 4 ...the aim of each young man in this
association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
MR 1.233 14 ...all such ingenuous souls as feel
within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find
these ways of trade unfit for them...
MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament, when its aim is
grand;...
Tran 1.350 2 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found
that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there
is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...an
activity without an aim.
YA 1.388 22 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are
on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to
make a capitalist of the poor man.
Comp 2.106 23 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders;
Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working
of the All and of its moral aim.
SL 2.160 3 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold
the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim...
SL 2.161 22 The object of the man, the aim of these
moments, is to make daylight shine through him...
Lov1 2.183 17 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes
into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection
of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a
housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Lov1 2.185 1 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet],
has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the
useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works
according to their aim either at use or beauty.
Art1 2.351 8 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but
creation is the aim.
Exp 3.82 10 A preoccupied attention is the only
answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and
to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
Mrs1 3.122 20 The point of distinction in all this
class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that
the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It
is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth.
Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of
fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of
direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
NER 3.251 6 Whoever has had opportunity of
acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five
years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute
any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will
have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
PPh 4.57 25 With the palatial air there is [in
Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works...a certain
earnestness...
SwM 4.95 9 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...
ShP 4.189 19 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic
in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with
the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
ShP 4.215 23 One more royal trait properly belongs to
the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a
poet,--for beauty is his aim.
NMW 4.224 20 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim.
NMW 4.233 16 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing
every thing...to his aim;...
NMW 4.258 18 Every experiment...that has a sensual
and selfish aim, will fail.
GoW 4.267 17 ...in those lower activities, which have
no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more
cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.285 5 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but
only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to
highest culture.
GoW 4.288 26 In this aim of culture, which is the
genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
ET15 5.267 20 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the
London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by
older engineers;...
F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to
some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new
aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
F 6.30 8 One way is right to go; the hero sees it,
and moves on that aim...
Wsp 6.232 21 A high aim reacts on the means, on the
days, on the organs of the body.
Wsp 6.232 22 A high aim is curative, as well as
arnica.
CbW 6.262 27 Men achieve a certain greatness
unawares, when working to another aim.
Art2 7.39 20 If we follow the popular distinction of
works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its
creation, aims at use or at beauty...
DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find in the
housemates no aim;...
DL 7.117 12 ...our social forms are very far from
truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is
to raise our aim.
DL 7.118 5 With a change of aim has followed a change
of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
Cour 7.263 19 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when
he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
Cour 7.278 3 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold
was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you
should see./
Cour 7.280 1 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice
of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave
heart./
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and
judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the
only aim.
OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered
their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each
instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
PI 8.52 13 ...we talk of our work, our tools and
material necessities, in prose; that is, without any elevation or aim
at beauty;...
QO 8.192 20 In so far as the receiver's aim is on
life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
Grts 8.301 3 There is a prize which we are all aiming
at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of
that aim.
Grts 8.306 23 ...every mind has...a new direction of
its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind;...
PerF 10.86 3 That band which ties [cosmical laws]
together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim...
Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons
coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive
energy, would carry the country with them.
LLNE 10.339 2 ...the humanity which was the aim of
all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the
people.
EPro 11.325 4 ...the aim of the war on our part is
indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.325 5 ...the aim of the war on our part is
indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.325 20 The malignant cry of the Secession
press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate
Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's]
efficiency and correctness of aim.
EdAd 11.390 7 ...[man] lives in such connection with
Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element
thereof, but is not its end and aim.
FRO2 11.486 9 ...we find parity, identity of design,
through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
PLT 12.48 10 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the
state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
PLT 12.55 2 The natural remedy against this
miscellany of knowledge and aim...is to substitute realism for
sentimentalism;...
II 12.82 19 If [a man] is wrong, increase his
determination to his aim, and he is right again.
II 12.83 15 Him we account the fortunate man whose
determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
Bost 12.199 23 What should hinder that this
America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to
propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
MAng1 12.217 15 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate
aim of the human being.
Milt1 12.250 3 Only its general aim, and a few
elevated passages, can save [Milton's Defence of the English People].
MLit 12.335 20 [The Genius of the time] will write in
a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim
than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
EurB 12.377 10 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli,
Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume, because
the aim is purely external success.
aim, v. (25)
AmS 1.93 21 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us
when they aim not to drill, but to create;...
AmS 1.114 16 The mind of this country, taught to aim
at low objects, eats upon itself.
LE 1.172 14 I by no means aim in these remarks to
disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
MN 1.198 9 In treating a subject so large, in which
we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not
easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
MN 1.214 21 He who aims at progress should aim at an
infinite, not at a special benefit.
MN 1.215 27 ...there is no end to which your
practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at
last become carrion...
Hist 2.11 2 ...we aim to master intellectually the
steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our
fellow, our proxy has done.
SL 2.136 7 Our Sunday-schools and churches and
pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of
arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Exp 3.48 22 An innavigable sea washes with silent
waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
MoS 4.158 5 ...shall the young man aim at a leading
part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a
success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best
and inmost in his mind.
Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We
cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our
jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with
the greatest pleasure.
Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine
arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our
individuality from acting.
Chr2 10.94 13 Every hour puts the individual in a
position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty
forbids him to seek.
Edc1 10.135 3 ...we aim to make accountants,
attorneys, engineers;...
II 12.78 11 ...before the good we aim at, all history
is symptomatic...
Milt1 12.259 3 ...as far as possible [writes Milton],
I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have
written, if I have written anything well.
aime, v. (1)
Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says
Fourier.
aimed, v. (11)
YA 1.384 7 ...the Communities aimed at a higher
success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough
education.
Ctr 6.146 11 ...if...nature has aimed to make a
legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her
hint...
Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten
blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is
as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and
told on his person.
Suc 7.294 18 I pronounce that young man happy who is
content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
Prch 10.224 9 ...all that saints and churches and
Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent
surface-action...
HCom 11.343 18 Here...in this little nest of New
England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed
at Sumter.
FRep 11.515 9 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when
men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws
at last records the victory.
PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing
or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on
that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
MAng1 12.230 16 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively
[in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to
express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
aiming, v. (11)
Prd1 2.223 21 ...culture...aiming at the perfection
of the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
Pol1 3.213 12 The idea after which each community is
aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
NMW 4.252 15 I call Napoleon the agent or
attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses,
manufactories, ships, of the modern world, aiming to be rich.
Pow 6.76 21 The good judge is not he who does
hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at
substantial justice, rules something intelligible for the guidance of
suitors.
Wth 6.96 2 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be
rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of
power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his
large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or
profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of
living well.
SMC 11.361 23 [George Prescott] never remits his care
of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits...
Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming
at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a
disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
aimless, adj. (8)
Nat2 3.192 2 The appearance strikes the eye
everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations.
SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a
leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has
given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and
a beating heart.
ET7 5.122 14 ...[Englishmen] hate the Irish, as
aimless;...
Wsp 6.208 11 How is it people manage to live on,--so
aimless as they are?
Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless,
aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in
God's resplendent creation?
MoL 10.245 5 We have...restless, gossiping, aimless
activity.
aimless, n. (1)
aims, n. (75)
DSA 1.148 2 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and
universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places
that they must shine.
DSA 1.149 18 So it is...in aims which put sympathy
out of question, that the angel is shown.
LT 1.287 17 ...we think the Genius of this Age more
philosophical than any other has been, righter in its aims...
Con 1.305 16 You [reformers] are not only identical
with us [conservatives] in your needs, but also in your methods and
aims.
Tran 1.338 14 ...we have yet no man...who, working
for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
Tran 1.346 4 We easily predict a fair future to each
new candidate who enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example
do what we can to defeat this hope.
YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of
these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral
sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and
aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
YA 1.384 10 ...one may say that aims so generous and
so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished,
even if these attempts fail...
Comp 2.101 11 Each new form repeats not only the main
character of the type, but part for part...all the aims...
SL 2.142 22 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness
and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the
obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
SL 2.150 2 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now
avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in
the senate...
SL 2.150 4 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now
avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no
conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
Lov1 2.178 2 [The lover] is a new man, with...a
religious solemnity of character and aims.
Lov1 2.187 22 Looking at these aims with which two
persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the
nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis
with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
Nat2 3.191 16 ...it was known that men of thought and
virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in
winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these
inconveniences...the old aims have been lost sight of...
Nat2 3.195 19 They say that by electro-magnetism your
salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for
dinner; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors...
Pol1 3.208 14 Parties...have better guides to their
own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
NMW 4.223 5 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to
the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief,
the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
NMW 4.241 21 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the
people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and
aims...
NMW 4.257 2 The counter-revolution...still waits for
its organ and representative, in a lover and a man of truly public and
universal aims.
GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative
of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
ET3 5.35 23 The culture of the day, the thoughts and
aims of men, are English thoughts and aims.
ET10 5.170 16 [England's] prosperity, the splendor
which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon
vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
ET10 5.171 2 ...not the aims of a manly life, but the
means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is
considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
ET14 5.246 21 [Dickens] is a painter of English
details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and
local in his aims.
ET14 5.255 15 In the absence of the highest
aims...there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
Bhr 6.181 16 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would
consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and
universal.
Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims
are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them
together...
Bty 6.285 26 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant
dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of
more force. Have they... grand aims...which we demand in man...
SS 7.13 18 So many men whom I know are degraded by
their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their
relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
DL 7.117 27 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly
descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not
ask your house how theirs should be kept. They have aims;...
DL 7.123 22 ...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 heroes
of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their
aims are low...
DL 7.133 12 Beside these aims [of the household],
Society is weak...
Cour 7.273 9 ...it is not the means on which we
draw...that count, but the aims only.
PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the
new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
PPo 8.247 17 An air...of incompetence to their proper
aims, belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
Imtl 8.332 19 ...though men of good minds, [the two
friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and
way of life.
Chr2 10.108 5 ...So far the religion is now where it
should be. Persons...are discriminated according to their aims, and not
by these ritualities.
Edc1 10.132 1 ...truly the population of the globe
has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
Prch 10.237 26 ...how rare and lofty, how
unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
LLNE 10.343 21 ...the intelligence and character and
varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims
and results.
LLNE 10.353 25 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce
schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly
aims [as Fourier's]...
MMEm 10.409 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on
my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every
actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here
too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite
aims.
SlHr 10.444 9 ...was it only the lot of excellence,
that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of
life alone...
Thor 10.454 20 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote
in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my
aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
AsSu 11.250 13 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him
neither of drunkenness... nor personal aims of any kind.
SMC 11.350 10 ...the virtues we are met to honor were
directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American
citizen...
CInt 12.127 14 You all well know...the facility with
which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too
severe, the prize too high for me;...
EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the
styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the
books read there and the aims pursued...
EurB 12.374 8 Whoever looked on the hero [the
complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims
were universal, not selfish;...
PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the
vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
Let 12.396 16 How joyfully we have felt the
admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...
Let 12.396 23 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve
society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in
vigorous individuals it...is satisfied along with the satisfaction of
other aims.
Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which strips them
of all manly aims...
Let 12.404 1 Apathies and total want of work...never
will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden;
not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can
find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the
Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...
aims, v. (25)
AmS 1.83 5 In the divided or social state these
functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are
parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the
joint work...
MN 1.214 20 He who aims at progress should aim at an
infinite, not at a special benefit.
MR 1.229 8 It is when your facts and persons grow
unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for
refuge to the world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish nature
from that source.
LT 1.280 21 ...how trivial seem the contests of the
abolitionist, whilst he aims merely at the circumstance of the slave.
Int 2.339 21 Is it any better if the student...aims
to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all
the facts that fall within his vision.
UGM 4.28 23 ...whilst every individual strives...to
impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily
aims to protect each against every other.
ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man
is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in
that;...
ET13 5.224 2 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is
hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The
church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims
at diffusion of knowledge.
Art2 7.37 23 Every thought that arises in the mind,
in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act;...
Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at
use or at beauty...
Elo1 7.73 21 ...the power of detaining the ear by
pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated,
as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a
juggle...
PI 8.47 8 ...human passion, seizing these
constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
Grts 8.305 23 ...there is not a piece of Nature in
any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
ACiv 11.300 5 The evil you contend with has taken
alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the
blows it aims...
air, n. (311)
Nat 1.5 9 Nature, in the common sense, refers to
essences unchanged by man;...the air...
Nat 1.9 16 In good health, the air is a cordial of
incredible virtue.
Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head
bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
Nat 1.13 27 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars,
and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise
behind him, he darts... from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow
through the air.
Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like
air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.44 7 The river, as it flows, resembles the air
that flows over it;...
Nat 1.51 24 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates,
as on air, the sun...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A
crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To
an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
Nat 1.64 13 Once inhale the upper air...and we learn
that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
LE 1.168 7 ...the fall of swarms of flies, in autumn,
from combats high in the air...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all,
are alike unattempted [by poets].
MN 1.193 24 ...the sturdiest defender of existing
institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
MN 1.212 6 ...there is a certain infatuating air in
woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
LT 1.275 2 Grimly the same spirit [of
Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless
providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
LT 1.278 9 You have set your heart and face against
society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action
no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
LT 1.285 9 By the side of these men [of the
intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and
ridiculous air;...
Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts
that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and
buried years.
Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...lies floating in soft air...
Hist 2.13 2 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this
all-creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should
we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let
his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air,
and appear stupid.
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a
statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
Comp 2.92 12 ...all that Nature made thy own,/
Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the
sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to
my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two
currents of air mix...
SL 2.140 5 If we would not be mar-plots with our
miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom
of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose and the air and
the sun.
SL 2.164 4 ...the least [action] admits of being
inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Lov1 2.176 11 In the noon and the afternoon of life
we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the air was coined
into song;...
Prd1 2.225 15 ...we are poisoned by the air that is
too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet.
Prd1 2.238 27 If you meet a sectary or a hostile
partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen
very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye
had fastened have melted into air.
Hsm1 2.258 5 A great man makes his climate genial in
the imagination of men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate
spirits.
Hsm1 2.258 19 We have seen or heard of many
extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not
extraordinary. When we see their air and mien...we admire their
superiority;...
OS 2.275 5 With each divine impulse the mind...comes
out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air.
OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to
be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the
infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a
phial...
Int 2.338 9 ...when we write with ease and come out
into the free air of thought, we seem to be assured that nothing is
easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
Int 2.339 7 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the
air, which is our natural element...but if a stream of the same be
directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/
Singing in the sun-baked square./
Art1 2.353 10 ...[a man] is necessitated by the air
he breathes...to share the manner of his times...
Art1 2.355 21 I should think fire the best thing in
the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters
the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
Pt1 3.8 7 ...whenever we are so finely organized that
we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those
primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and
ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
Pt1 3.25 12 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist
or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air...
Pt1 3.40 24 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes
pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again
to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our
respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...
Exp 3.73 1 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to
represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaximenes by air...
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...
Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing
manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...
Mrs1 3.149 24 The open air and the fields, the street
and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an
element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily
with a thousand substances.
Nat2 3.169 4 There are days which occur in this
climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a
harmony...
Nat2 3.172 10 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the
music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty
by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the
road...
Nat2 3.175 26 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty
by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the
road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to
patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of
the air.
NER 3.274 20 The heroes of ancient and modern
fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully
played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be
held as a trifle light as air...
UGM 4.7 9 Certain men affect us as rich
possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the
sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
UGM 4.20 13 We swim...on a river of delusions and are
effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
UGM 4.26 1 ...the ideas of the time are in the air,
and infect all who breathe it.
PPh 4.47 15 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise
Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and
ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux
or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
PPh 4.50 12 As one diffusive air, passing through the
perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so
the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold
[said Krishna]...
SwM 4.101 17 There is a common portrait of
[Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig, but the face has a wandering or
vacant air.
SwM 4.106 6 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge
makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings
when the air sparkles with crystals.
SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer,
goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the
first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river,
air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings
and duties, other science would be put by...
SwM 4.131 8 There is an air of infinite grief and the
sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
SwM 4.142 18 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world
of men...and with nonchalance and the air of a referee, distributes
souls.
MoS 4.159 11 Men...like trees, receive a great part
of their nourishment from the air.
MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till
he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.
ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of
Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has
kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
ShP 4.213 6 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is
strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by
the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air...
NMW 4.245 21 ...as intellectual beings we feel the
air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown
by intellectual energies.
NMW 4.248 25 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the
most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is
then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and
only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains
there are often very fine days in December...with an extreme calmness
in the air.
NMW 4.251 13 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief
articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
GoW 4.261 20 The air is full of sounds; the sky, of
tokens;...
GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is
Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century, breathing its air...
ET1 5.21 20 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication. It
was like the crossing of flies in the air.
ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England],
the fine soot or blacks...contaminate the air...
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his
advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local
wealth...
ET4 5.47 14 How came such men as...Francis Bacon,
George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these
delicate natures? was it the air?...
ET4 5.65 24 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the
American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people. Here they
are in the identical costumes and air which so took him.
ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live
jolly in the open air...
ET5 5.77 10 Each vagabond that arrived [in England]
bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him.
ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself
of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
ET6 5.112 15 When Thalberg the pianist was one
evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the
Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and
all England shuddered from sea to sea.
ET8 5.134 6 ...however derived,--whether a happier
tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed
for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the
best stock in the world...
ET8 5.141 20 Does the early history of each tribe
show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its
activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early
history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to
conceal in a tempest of variations.
ET9 5.147 16 ...it must be admitted, the island
[England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated
among our Scandinavian forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard
in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
ET9 5.149 5 Their culture generally enables the
travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this
self-pleasing, and to give it an agreeable air.
ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait
and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been
ridiculous in another man;...
ET10 5.158 3 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it
would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of
wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
ET10 5.161 9 Already [steam] is ruddering the
balloon, and the next war will be fought in the air.
ET11 5.186 13 ...[English nobles] have that
simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of
greatness.
ET11 5.192 19 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let
down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air,
was a scandal to Europe...
ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars
and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
ET16 5.285 16 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was
finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of
their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now
for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon
seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under
some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came
was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the
open air but robust men and virtuous women...
F 6.1 1 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone
bard true witness bare;/...
F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this
constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes
were made of Vaucansons...
F 6.25 2 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but
for the reaction of the air within the body.
F 6.25 21 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe
and live;...
F 6.32 21 ...the ductility of metals, the chariot of
the air, the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.
Pow 6.64 23 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and
narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh
air into radicalism.
Ctr 6.132 4 The air, said Fouche, is full of
poniards.
Ctr 6.152 4 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans
that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
Bhr 6.177 2 If [the human body] were made of glass,
or of air...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
Bhr 6.183 1 It is reported of one prince that his
head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the
crowd.
Bhr 6.183 6 It was said of the late Lord Holland that
he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met
with some signal good fortune.
Bhr 6.184 24 ...the high-born Turk who came hither
[to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and
exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...
Bhr 6.185 6 Look on this woman. There is not
beauty...but all see her gladly; her whole air and impression are
healthful.
Bhr 6.189 3 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air
and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is
the natural expression.
Bhr 6.197 20 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the
young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not
primary...
CbW 6.265 11 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the
dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling,
discontented people.
CbW 6.265 13 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the
dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling,
discontented people.
Bty 6.279 6 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In
flame, in storm, in clouds of air./
Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred
boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and
enlarge us.
Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all
degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers
of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for
an instant, the air clears...there are the gods still sitting around
him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open
day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average
structure such as... atmospheric air and water.
Civ 7.29 25 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never
from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a
bubble of air, nor a mote of dust.
Art2 7.48 23 The artist who is to produce a work
which is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the
soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs.
DL 7.122 10 ...[the most polite and accurate men of
Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity
of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and
dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air;...
Farm 7.142 24 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the
Irish...but...the quarry of the air, the water of the brook...
Farm 7.144 14 The tree can draw on the whole air, the
whole earth...
Farm 7.144 17 The plant is all
suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by
its leaves, with all its might.
Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and
decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
Farm 7.148 19 The high wall reflecting the heat back
on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing
in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
Farm 7.149 19 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which
kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm
rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the
surface soil;...
WD 7.169 9 In college terms, and in years that
followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary
returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly
echoing with plausive academic thunders.
WD 7.171 5 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...the intellectual, temperamenting air;...are given
immeasurably to all.
Boks 7.195 8 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
Boks 7.210 20 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the
assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There
ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the
hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air;...
Clbs 7.225 6 The flame of life burns too fast in pure
oxygen, and Nature has tempered the air with nitrogen.
Clbs 7.226 21 Opinions are accidental in
people,--have a poverty-stricken air.
Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who
tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though
she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into
convulsions and died.
Suc 7.298 2 We remember when in early youth the earth
spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening...was enough
us; the houses were in the air.
OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the
Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and
defiance which vastly became him.
PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then
plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a
moment in any form.
PI 8.18 27 Our indeterminate size is a delicious
secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains
begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
PI 8.57 15 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do
to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his
facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the
forest or the air they inhabit.
PI 8.60 7 [The Crusades brought out the genius of
France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since
the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...
PI 8.60 23 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of
one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing
save a kind of smoke which seemed like air...
PI 8.61 26 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir
Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world
there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is
neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but of air...
SA 8.85 5 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment
of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by
your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
Elo2 8.128 9 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot
learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
Comc 8.162 21 The victim who has just received the
discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a
stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
QO 8.187 5 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends,
laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the
air as soon as they were pronounced...
QO 8.192 5 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with
such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon;
although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master
of the house.
PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an
air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
PC 8.226 16 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum
with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.
PC 8.227 14 ...the air and water that hang invisibly
around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
PC 8.228 1 If [men in Kansas and California] are made
as [the wise man] is, if they breathe the like air...he knows that
their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca
[Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune.
Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor
has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which
I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
PPo 8.255 27 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/
Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of
Allah's love his soul./
Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising
the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the
mind.
Insp 8.284 9 Plutarch affirms that souls are
naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause
that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air
and winds.
Grts 8.319 9 What are these [heroes] but the promise
and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be
purified by nobler society...
Imtl 8.340 4 ...all our intellectual action...bestows
a feeling of absolute existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a
purer air.
Dem1 10.21 4 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the
guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...flying through the air...can
well be spared.
Dem1 10.21 19 The best are never demoniacal or
magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.
Aris 10.55 6 He is beautiful in face, in port, in
manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be
superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can
obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly
the sympathy of men in his designs?
PerF 10.70 5 Ah, if you knew what was in the air.
PerF 10.71 13 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is
full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of
keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted
into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
PerF 10.73 27 It is curious to see how a creature so
feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild
beasts...none for a fog, or a damp air...is yet able to subdue to his
will these terrific [natural] forces...
PerF 10.76 5 ...a man draws on all the air for his
occasions, as if there were no other breather;...
PerF 10.84 20 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and
fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
PerF 10.88 19 ...as the bird on the air...so do
nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
Supl 10.167 26 [People of English stock's] houses
are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in
hurricanes...
SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on
their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is
great, and gives a great air to the people.
MoL 10.247 19 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat,
electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
Schr 10.276 5 There is plenty of air, but it is worth
nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and
service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
Plu 10.301 26 A poet might rhyme all day with hints
drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion
for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
LLNE 10.344 25 I habitually apply to [Theodore
Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of
Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs
breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
LLNE 10.348 9 A man is entitled to pure air, and to
the air of good conversation in his bringing up...
EzRy 10.386 21 Some of those around me will remember
one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr.
Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of
leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor,
as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for
you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will
pray myself.
SlHr 10.439 20 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic
might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural
reverence, which made him modest and courteous, though his courtesy had
a grave and almost military air.
Thor 10.466 19 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of
the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all
known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air
on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
GSt 10.501 3 High virtue has such an air of nature
and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water
for flowing...
HDC 11.35 18 The hardships of the journey and of the
first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary
with some air of romance...
HDC 11.39 12 ...if...[the settlers of Concord] found
the air of America very cold, they might say with
Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great
fires as New England.
HDC 11.66 9 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield
preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
EWI 11.107 9 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established
the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to
breathe...
FSLC 11.180 1 There are men who are as sure indexes
of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the
air...
EdAd 11.391 20 Will [a journal] venture into the thin
and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are
discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of
demonology?
Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the
perfecting of beauty;...a statue should stand in the air;...
Wom 11.423 15 ...there is contamination enough [in
politics], but it rots the men now, and fills the air with stench.
SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral
stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
SHC 11.435 16 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote
century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have
made the air timeable and articulate.
Shak1 11.446 8 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/
The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him
became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
PLT 12.22 7 A fish in like manner is man furnished to
live in the sea; a thrush, to fly in the air;...
PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids,
neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to
resist the palsy of mis-association.
PLT 12.32 19 The air rings with sounds, but only a
few vibrations can reach our tympanum.
PLT 12.57 20 There is a conflict between a man's
private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light
which wisdom is;...
II 12.76 14 That is the quality of [the moral sense],
that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and
without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
II 12.81 24 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, as leaves and
wood are made of air, an idea fashioned them...
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made
a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you
expose your atheism.
CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/
And all through which it blows;/...
CL 12.138 21 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible
distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was
occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or
hand, or other uncovered part...
CL 12.140 15 The importance to the intellect of
exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents
of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
CL 12.140 26 The power of the air was the first
explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual
understanding that men have.
CL 12.141 2 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul,
and the essence of life.
CL 12.141 5 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul,
and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent, and,
because we breathe the same air, understand one another.
CL 12.141 10 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the
knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed
with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites
that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
CL 12.141 12 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject
their imagination or influence into the air.
CL 12.141 17 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves
himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of
man's mind and body.
CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab,
on air and water.
CL 12.152 3 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with music;...
Bost 12.183 2 The old physiologists said, There is in
the air a hidden food of life;...
Bost 12.183 4 [The old physiologists] believed the
air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
Bost 12.183 5 [The old physiologists] believed the
air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
The air was a good republican...
Bost 12.186 1 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and
honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
Bost 12.186 9 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and
honor is powerfully generates by the air of that place...whereby...all
labor by every means to be foremost. We find no less stimulus in our
native air;...
Bost 12.196 20 New England lies in the cold and
hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and
heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their
suppleness, from the skin its exposure to the air;...
Bost 12.196 23 ...the New Englander...lacks that
beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the
activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to
produce in climates nearer to the sun.
MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at
Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
Milt1 12.258 8 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons
of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and
sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
ACri 12.299 21 ...the secret interior wits and hearts
of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less
surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire,
or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of
these...
MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine,
and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
MLit 12.325 16 We are provoked with...the patronizing
air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and
performances of other mortals...
MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver
with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to
get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but
dares not break from his slavery...
WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of
spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and
unquestionable nobility.
EurB 12.370 16 Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is
better.
PPr 12.385 1 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every
lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism
tossed like a football into the air...
PPr 12.385 2 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every
lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism
tossed like a football into the air, and kept in the air, with
merciless kicks and rebounds...
PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present]
has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim
waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it
inflicts.
Let 12.393 12 Our friend suggests so many
inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the
heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these
details.
air-ball, n. (1)
air-balloon, n. (1)
PPr 12.390 24 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove
does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...
air-balloons, n. (1)
Pow 6.62 25 The commerce of rivers...and who knows
but the commerce of air-balloons, must add an American extension to the
pond-hole of admiralty.
air-borne, adj. (1)
PI 8.53 3 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you
heaps of rainbow-bubbles, opaline, air-borne...instead of a few drops
of soap and water.
air-castle, n. (1)
Pt1 3.4 3 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to
talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
air-chamber, n. (1)
Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in
the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the
air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by
Stephenson...
aired, v. (1)
ET11 5.193 22 [English noblemen]...keep [their
houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of
four or five thousand pounds a year.
air-fed, adj. (1)
MN 1.198 13 I do not wish in attempting to paint a
man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
air-line, adj. (1)
Thor 10.453 18 A natural skill for mensuration,
growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances
of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the
air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate
knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the
profession of land-surveyor.
air-lord, n. (1)
Pt1 3.42 16 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that
wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord!
sea-lord! air-lord!
air-pictures, n. (1)
Pol1 3.221 13 I do not call to mind a single human
being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple
ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained
except avowedly as air-pictures.
air-pump, n. (1)
Air-roads, n. (1)
Let 12.392 14 ...in regard to the writer who has
given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent
shall have his own way.
airs, n. (12)
Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so
well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the
hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as
readily as a policeman, and with the most provoking airs of
condescension.
Imtl 8.346 18 ...only by rare integrity, by a man
permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven...can the vision [of
immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
LLNE 10.349 23 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di
Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or
cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
Bost 12.202 5 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say
to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of
courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf
and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the
swamp.
air's, n. (1)
CbW 6.243 19 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/
Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
airth, n. (1)
Carl 10.493 2 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me,
three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was
some great cheese, and these were mites.
air-tight, adj. (1)
YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a
market; in-doors an air-tight stove of conventionalism.
airy, adj. (5)
Art1 2.349 15 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy
behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels,
starry wings/...
ShP 4.194 1 The rude warm blood of the living England
circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which
[Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
OA 7.313 2 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/
Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me
with the wonted spell./
Elo2 8.110 6 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed
with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity
to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would
speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about
him at command...
Milt1 12.262 10 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever
is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with
the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when
such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy
servitors, trip about him at command...
airy, n. (1)
MoS 4.159 6 ...we ought to secure those advantages
which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
aisles, n. (2)
DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his
dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite...
NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...in the aisles of
false churches... wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds
itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
Aix, France, n. (1)
SA 8.94 19 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged
circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party
returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
ajar, adj. (2)
ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested,
[Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of
ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes
had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar...
Ajax [Homer, Iliad], n. (2)
Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector
dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of
Achilles...
Akenside, Mark, n. (1)
MMEm 10.402 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading
was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...
Akhlak-y-Jalaly, n. (1)
PPh 4.40 24 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy, in
its hand-book of morals, the Akhlak-y-Jalaly, from [Plato].
akimbo, adj. (1)
akin, adj. (2)
Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel,
the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and
country life...
MLit 12.316 17 Another element of the modern poetry
akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
Alabama, n. (2)
LT 1.280 10 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the
state of Georgia, or Alabama...walking here on our north-eastern
shores.
AKan 11.260 15 Can any citizen of Massachusetts
travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
Alabama River, n. (1)
Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or
Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or
Alabama rivers...
alabaster, n. (1)
EurB 12.370 11 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and
alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in
Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
alacrity, n. (3)
Elo1 7.83 23 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which
overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with
more than his usual alacrity...
HDC 11.79 11 The numbers [of of men for the
Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are
large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their
brethren...will...with the utmost alacrity and despatch, fill up the
numbers proportioned to the several towns.
War 11.167 7 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome
tasks of denial and charity;...
Aladdin [Arabian Nights'], (1)
Res 8.142 8 ...we have found the Taurida in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have
the Aladdin oil.
Aladdin [Arabian Nights], n (2)
Dem1 10.25 14 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again
that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians
and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
LLNE 10.351 10 Aladdin and his magician, or the
beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the
[Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in
the Golden Horn].
Aladdin [Arabian Nights'], (1)
Res 8.142 7 ...we have found the Taurida in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have
the Aladdin oil.
Aladdin, [Arabian Nights], (1)
Edc1 10.126 5 All the fairy tales of Aladdin or the
invisible Gyges...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of
intellectual enlargement.
Aladdin's [Arabian Nights], (1)
PerF 10.84 21 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's
lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and
lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
alar, adj. (2)
Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird
gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
Alaric, n. (3)
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Alaric the
Goth...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the
instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Suc 7.304 26 To-day at the school examination the
professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and
Alaric.
Alaric, Norway [Sturluson, (1)
ET4 5.59 3 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on
a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits
out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them, as
did Alaric and Eric.
alarm, n. (8)
Hist 2.38 5 Who knows himself before he...has shared
the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
ET4 5.56 4 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of
Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen
cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town
where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of
his galleys.
PI 8.6 10 The admission, never so covertly, that this
[material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our
little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm
everything is compromised;...
CSC 10.374 8 These meetings [of the Chardon Street
Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of
hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
HDC 11.72 18 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson]
preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles
xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.
FRep 11.533 11 If a temperate wise man should look
over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite
his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
PLT 12.6 23 ...if [the student] finds at first with
some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or
the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his
insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may
cost him.
alarm, v. (2)
LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to
alarm the ear of mankind...
PI 8.35 21 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer
is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and
suffocate his fancy...
alarm-bell, n. (1)
CInt 12.115 26 [The college] is essentially the most
radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the
alarm-bell...
alarmed, v. (8)
Pol1 3.211 7 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at
our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
Boks 7.198 2 ...in these days, when it is
found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull,
[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
Clbs 7.229 10 ...the days come when we are alarmed,
and say there are no thoughts.
Cour 7.263 26 The hunter is not alarmed by bears,
catamounts or wolves...
Prch 10.220 24 ...the sober eye finds something
ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the
triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle;
but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed
at our solitude;...
HDC 11.68 18 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great
majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of
unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
FSLC 11.197 5 New York advertised in Southern markets
that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who
would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design.
alarm-gun, n. (1)
HDC 11.73 2 In these peaceful fields [of Concord],
for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were
heard...
alarming, adj. (8)
Int 2.344 4 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their
blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be no longer an
alarming meteor...
Ill 6.309 17 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with
music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...
Elo1 7.62 10 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas]
in turn exhibits similar symptoms...an alarming loss of perception of
the passage of time...
HDC 11.57 11 ...a new and alarming public distress
retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...
HDC 11.71 5 In August [1774], a County Convention met
in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public
affairs...
LVB 11.95 14 I will not hide from you [Van Buren], as
an indication of the alarming distrust, that a letter addressed as mine
is, and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations
of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my
friends.
alarmists, n. (1)
Pow 6.61 13 A timid man, listening to the alarmists
in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and
his country have seen their best days...
alarms, n. (3)
Hsm1 2.250 16 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily
[the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in
the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Nat2 3.187 4 The excess of fear with which the animal
frame is hedged round...protects us, through a multitude of groundless
alarms, from some one real danger at last.
SMC 11.368 3 [George Prescott's] next note is,
cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left
the ranks for thirty hours, and the nights were broken by frequent
alarms.
alarms, v. (3)
MoL 10.247 12 Disease alarms the family, but the
physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and
expel.
MMEm 10.412 27 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane
aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct
perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself,
in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not
one wish of others detains her, not one care. But it alarms me [Mary
Moody Emerson] not...
FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then
alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
alarums, n. (1)
EWI 11.146 24 ...some degree of despondency is
pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the
watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of
selfishness and tyranny.
Alaskie, Albert, n. (1)
ET12 5.201 6 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with
stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in
1583.
Albany, New York, n. (3)
CbW 6.268 7 The farm is near this, 't is near that;
[the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is near Albany...
FSLN 11.224 26 ...the appeal is sure to be made to
[Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at
Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
FSLN 11.228 13 ...when allusion was made to the
question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly
said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between
here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
Albertus Magnus, St., n. (1)
QO 8.181 9 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas
Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
Albion, n. (1)
ET7 5.123 24 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the
movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which,
to be sure, is paralleled...by the French popular legends on the
subject of perfidious Albion.
Alburz, [Firdusi, Shah Nam (1)
PPo 8.242 4 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh
the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace, built by demons on Alburz,
gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the
brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared
the same;...
alchemy, n. (3)
Ctr 6.132 10 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because
the Canon Yeman' s Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4,
against alchemy.
Bty 6.282 15 Alchemy, which sought to transmute one
element into another...that was in the right direction.
Dem1 10.25 23 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal
Magnetism] ends always and always will, as sorcery and alchemy have
done before, in a very small and smoky performance.
Alcibiades, n. (3)
Hist 2.5 22 ...I can see my own vices without heat in
the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
NER 3.274 16 The heroes of ancient and modern fame,
Cimon... Alcibiades...have treated life and fortune as a game to be
well and skilfully played...
Boks 7.199 11 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of Pericles,
Alcibiades...
alcohol, n. (5)
Cir 2.322 7 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium
and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular
genius...
OA 7.319 2 ...alcohol, hashish...are weak dilutions:
the surest poison is time.
PI 8.70 18 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this
multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay
indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or
of money.
Insp 8.279 7 There are...certain risks in this
presentiment of the decisive perception, as in the use of ether or
alcohol...
HDC 11.36 19 [The Indians'] physical powers...before
yet the English alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English
sword, astonished the white men.
alcohol-receiver, n. (1)
Thor 10.467 16 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used,
more important to him than microscope or alcohol-receiver to other
investigators, was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...
Alcor, n. (1)
Ill 6.318 18 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in
Orion, the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor, must come down and be
dealt with in your household thought.
Alcott, Amos Bronson, n. (3)
LLNE 10.342 10 ...a sympathizing
Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me
desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
CSC 10.375 12 Dr. Channing, Edward Taylor, Bronson
Alcott...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian of
philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
CSC 10.376 21 By no means the least value of this
[Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the
genius of Mr. Alcott...
alcoves, n. (3)
Boks 7.193 18 It is easy...to demonstrate that though
[a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die
in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
Boks 7.210 26 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among
the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer
Boccaccio.
PI 8.65 22 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I
can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and
lawgivers to their race.
alcun, adj. (1)
MAng1 12.214 1 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun
concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio,
e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M.
Angelo, Sonneto primo.
alder-bush, n. (1)
PI 8.45 16 ...no matter what objects are near
[water]...an alder-bush, or a stake,--they become beautiful by being
reflected.
alderman, n. (2)
Ill 6.312 15 In the life of the dreariest alderman,
fancy enters into all details...
LLNE 10.350 22 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty
men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure
that you have got...an umbrella-maker, a mayor and alderman, and so on.
aldermen, n. (1)
F 6.14 10 ...it would be rather the speediest way of
deciding the vote, to put the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen at
the hay-scales.
alders, n. (2)
Nat2 3.176 15 The uprolled clouds and the colors of
morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.
Res 8.145 6 ...[the old forester] draws his boat
ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with
cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his
comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout
roof.
Alderson, Baron, n. (1)
QO 8.184 22 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron
Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has
Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of
everything.
ale, n. (5)
ET4 5.48 26 Trades and professions carve their own
lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not
less effective; as...good ale and mutton;...
ET4 5.71 14 If in every efficient man there is first
a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy,
juicy, broad-chested creature, steeped in ale and good cheer...
ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude,
daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
Comc 8.163 15 Dost thou think, because thou art
virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...ale, the
poor man's wine;...
Alembert, Jean le Rond d', (2)
Ill 6.313 8 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said
by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux,
parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
Chr2 10.110 17 The time will come, says Varnhagen von
Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and
church-rituals of Christianity-say the sarcasms
of...D'Alembert-good-naturedly...
alembic, n. (4)
PI 8.5 13 I believe this conviction makes the charm
of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic,
without a vestige of the old form;...
Aris 10.43 10 When Nature goes to create a national
man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;
as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from
broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
alembics, n. (2)
LT 1.270 18 ...it is well if government and our
social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find
themselves still government and social order.
PI 8.16 18 Mountains and oceans we think we
understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are
safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean
alembics and come out men...
alert, adj. (5)
Cir 2.309 12 Valor consists in the power of
self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him
where you will, he stands. This can only be by...his alert acceptance
of [truth] from whatever quarter;...
ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the
best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow,
to keep that will alive and alert.
War 11.167 2 At a certain stage of his progress, the
man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage,
he...is alert to repel injury...
Alewife River, Massachusett (1)
HDC 11.41 19 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent
his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General
Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr.
Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
alewives, n. (1)
HDC 11.34 24 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for
[the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time, and especially,
alewives...
Alexander I, of Russia, n. (1)
WD 7.168 1 Czar Alexander was more expansive [than
Bonaparte], and wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
Alexander, Mr., n. (1)
Elo2 8.117 23 A worthy gentleman, Mr.
Alexander...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand
pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in
public.
Alexander, On the Fortune o (2)
Plu 10.318 16 The chapters On the Fortune of
Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the
portrait in the Lives.
War 11.153 12 Plutarch, in his essay On the Fortune
of Alexander, considers the invasion and conquest of the East by
Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
Alexander the Great, n. (19)
Mrs1 3.125 10 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe
have been of this strong type; Saladin...Alexander...
NER 3.274 17 The heroes of ancient and modern fame,
Cimon... Alexander...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well
and skilfully played...
PPh 4.77 12 ...you shall feel that Alexander indeed
overran, with men and horses, some countries of the planet;...
ET1 5.7 21 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress,
if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man
ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception;...
ET1 5.7 25 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything
else, and after that, the head of Alexander, in the gallery here [in
Florence].
CbW 6.254 2 ...the cruel wars which followed the
march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece
into the savage East;...
Boks 7.199 23 Plutarch cannot be spared from the
smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then
that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Alexander,
Demosthenes...are what history has of best.
OA 7.321 18 We have, it is true, examples of an
accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as in the
Macedonian Alexander...
QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open
secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are
published and not published.
Grts 8.302 11 'T is...not Alexander, or
Bonaparte...surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
Plu 10.307 24 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander
invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his
father Philip.
Plu 10.315 4 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior
virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
Plu 10.318 19 The union in Alexander of sublime
courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to
Plutarch.
War 11.153 14 Plutarch...considers the invasion and
conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and
pleasing pages in history;...
TPar 11.285 9 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and
Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their
lovers and trusty friends.
WSL 12.339 5 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will
never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor
think as he will;...
AgMs 12.358 20 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling
for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the
soil...
Alexandria, Egypt, n. (2)
ET9 5.152 7 [George of Cappadocia] saved his
money...and got promoted by a faction to the episcopal throne of
Alexandria.
Plu 10.319 5 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...
Alexandria, Syria, n. (1)
Edc1 10.149 24 Happy the natural college thus
self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of
Alexandria around Plotinus;...
Alexandria, Virginia, n. (1)
SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was
encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching
orders came.
Alexandrian, adj. (2)
Alexandrians, n. (1)
PPh 4.40 16 How many great men Nature is incessantly
sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists! the
Alexandrians, a constellation of genius;...
Alf, of Norway [Sturluson, (1)
ET4 5.58 26 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner,
will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's
body, as did Yngve and Alf.
Alfieri, Vittorio, n. (4)
PPh 4.39 20 ...every brisk young man who says in
succession fine things to each reluctant
generation,--Boethius...Alfieri...is some reader of Plato...
MAng1 12.244 8 There [in Santa Croce], near the
tomb...of Boccaccio, and of Alfieri, stands the monument of Michael
Angelo Buonarotti.
Alfieri's, Vittorio, n. (1)
Boks 7.208 12 Among the best books are certain
Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's,
Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.
Alfred the Great, Life of [ (1)
Boks 7.206 24 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred...
Alfred the Great, n. (24)
Con 1.317 4 ...the vigor of...Alfred the
Saxon...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the
instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
ET4 5.47 9 How came such men as King Alfred, and
Roger Bacon...
ET5 5.76 26 Certain Trolls or working brains, under
the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of
Britain...
ET7 5.117 21 Alfred...is called by a writer at the
Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
ET8 5.141 22 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read
the genius of the English society...
ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother
of Alfred, who can read it;...
ET11 5.175 5 He shall have the book, said the mother
of Alfred, who can read it; and Alfred won it by that title...
ET13 5.231 7 ...if religion be the doing of all good,
and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has
existed in England from the days of Alfred...
ET14 5.233 25 A taste for plain strong speech...marks
the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle...
ET16 5.289 25 I think I prefer this church
[Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York.
Here was Canute buried, and here Alfred the Great was crowned and
buried...
ET16 5.290 6 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried
at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
ET18 5.307 10 ...retrospectively, we may strike the
balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney,
one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
CbW 6.256 20 What is the benefit done by a good King
Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by
the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Suc 7.287 27 Newton was a great man,
without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain; so was Shakspeare and
Alfred and Scipio and Socrates.
Suc 7.295 24 How often it seems the chief good to be
born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels
himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like
Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
PI 8.3 12 The restraining grace of common sense is
the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Alfred, Luther...
PC 8.214 19 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and
Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.220 16 How much more are...the wise and good
souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the
philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions aroun them!
Plu 10.318 6 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of Arthur, Saxon Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit
as...laureate of the ancient world.
JBS 11.281 24 ...the arch-abolitionist...is Love,
whose other name is Justice, which was before Alfred, before Lycurgus,
before slavery, and will be after it.
Milt1 12.257 5 Perfections of body and of mind are
attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had
not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would
lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal, like...the popular
traditions of Alfred the Great.
Alfred the Great's, n. (2)
ET16 5.290 12 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was
destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now
lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
algebra, n. (8)
Pt1 3.30 16 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine
that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the
charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every
definition;...
Pt1 3.35 9 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All
that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as
with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite
rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
Ctr 6.143 4 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing
and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned
algebra and geometry in the same time.
Wsp 6.241 12 There will be a new church founded on
moral science;...the algebra and mathematics of ethical law...
CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you select, algebra,
planting...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for
which you are apt;...
PC 8.214 22 ...[The Middle Ages']...chemistry,
algebra, astronomy;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.217 22 If a man know the laws of Nature better
than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the
secret of geometry, of algebra;...
Edc1 10.149 3 Not less delightful is the mutual
pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
Algebra, n. (1)
CInt 12.128 19 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art
were in the parents, it will be in the children...
algebraic, adj. (1)
Comp 2.116 17 All love is mathematically just, as
much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
algebraist, n. (1)
WD 7.179 13 ...we do not listen with the best regard
to the verses of a man who is only a poet, nor to his problems if he is
only an algebraist;...
Algiers, French, n. (1)
EPro 11.324 21 This is an odd thing for an
Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the
condition...of France, French Algiers...
Algiers, n. (2)
AmS 1.97 25 Authors we have, in
numbers...who...ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable
stock.
Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...gypsying with Borrow in Spain and Algiers;...
Ali, Caliph, n. (4)
MN 1.222 16 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph,
calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar
the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and
in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
SR 2.88 15 Thy lot or portion of life, said the
Caliph Ali, is seeking after thee;...
Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving
success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of
attaining it...
Ali Seena, Abu, n. (1)
SwM 4.95 21 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the
mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
alien, adj. (9)
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a
statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
OS 2.268 16 When I watch that flowing river, which,
out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see
that...from some alien energy the visions come.
SwM 4.124 24 That metempsychosis which is familiar in
the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really
takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more
philosophic character.
F 6.40 1 [Man] thinks his fate alien, because the
copula is hidden.
Dem1 10.15 10 It is not the tendency of our times to
ascribe importance...to omens. But the faith in peculiar and alien
power takes another form in the modern mind...
LS 11.20 25 ...to adhere to one form a moment after
it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of
Christ.
alienated, adj. (1)
alienation, n. (2)
MR 1.253 2 In every household, the peace of a pair is
poisoned by the... alienation of domestics.
ET13 5.228 18 The English Church, undermined by
German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an
element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such
men [the educated class] from the church became complete.
alienations, n. (1)
Tran 1.356 16 Grave seniors insist on
[Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or
evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it
costs such...alienations and misgivings,-they have so many moods about
it;...
aliens, n. (2)
alight, v. (2)
Art1 2.354 23 It is the habit of certain minds to
give an all-excluding fulness to...the word, they alight upon...
alighted, v. (1)
DL 7.118 25 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to
cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman
who has alighted at our gate...
alighting, v. (2)
Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul,
after...alighting upon a few true [books] which made him happy and
wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or
ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
PPo 8.255 8 In the following poem the soul is figured
as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
alights, v. (4)
Exp 3.58 3 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but
hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no
man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for
another moment from that one.
DL 7.114 10 ...we desire to play the benefactor and
the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door.
PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then
plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a
moment in any form.
alike, adj. (31)
Tran 1.334 5 [The idealist's] experience inclines him
to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing
perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself,
centre alike of him and of them...
Hist 2.9 3 [Each man] must attain and maintain that
lofty sight where... poetry and annals are alike.
SR 2.73 21 It is alike your interest, and mine, and
all men's...to live in truth.
Comp 2.100 24 Under all governments the influence of
character remains the same,--in Turkey and in New England about alike.
SL 2.136 24 If we look wider, things are all
alike;...
Pt1 3.19 27 The chief value of the new fact is to
enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of
wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
ET4 5.60 26 [The Normans] were all alike, they took
everything they could carry...
Wth 6.101 5 ...the true and only power, whether
composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles
banker];...
CbW 6.278 7 The man,--it is his attitude...in repose
alike as in energy, still formidable and not to be disposed of.
Ill 6.314 15 ...a friend of mine complained that all
the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected
by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear, and only
cultivated such as had that perfume; they were all alike.
Boks 7.192 12 ...your chance of hitting on the right
[book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and
Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a
million caskets, all alike.
Cour 7.271 25 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader,
become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
Suc 7.303 15 ...the genial man is interested in every
slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere,
creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the
equator...
Chr2 10.93 15 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is
alike in all.
MMEm 10.422 18 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws
his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws
around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb,
sometimes creep into the meanest holes-but they are all alike in
vanishing...
EWI 11.145 22 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest
and of the newest philosophy, that man is one...
TPar 11.291 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] great
hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an
earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the
brave slave-rescuer.
FRep 11.534 5 A man is coming, here as [in England],
to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not
his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee. The
tendency of this is to make all men alike;...
II 12.71 13 Novelty in the means by which we arrive
at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest
power, alike in intellectual and in moral action.
II 12.72 13 One master could so easily be conceived
as writing all the books of the world. They are all alike.
ACri 12.294 3 ...in the conduct of the play, and the
speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the
tone of high and low alike...
alike, adv. (29)
Nat 1.48 7 Whether nature enjoy a substantial
existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is
alike useful and alike venerable to me.
Nat 1.48 8 Whether nature enjoy a substantial
existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is
alike useful and alike venerable to me.
DSA 1.150 17 Two inestimable advantages Christianity
has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into
the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
LE 1.168 12 ...indeed any vegetation, any
animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].
YA 1.391 14 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are
vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike
ephemeral.
Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume
that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should
achieve the like;...
Hist 2.34 22 The preternatural prowess of the hero,
the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of
the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the
mind.
Hsm1 2.250 15 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily
[the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in
the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Gts 3.164 11 The service a man renders his friend is
trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood
in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his
friend, and now also.
NER 3.260 7 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...alike in one
place and in another,-- wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds
itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
ET16 5.279 13 To these conscious stones [of
Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and
near.
ET19 5.311 20 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man
to man, running through all classes...which is alike lovely and
honorable to those who render and those who receive it;...
CbW 6.278 17 The secret of culture is to learn that a
few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the
obscurest farm and in the miscellany of metropolitan life...
Elo1 7.88 11 The statement of the fact...sinks before
the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers
nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense, alike
interesting to laymen as to clerks.
Edc1 10.131 12 By the permanence of Nature, minds are
trained alike...
MMEm 10.416 4 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me
[Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything,
and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome.
JBB 11.268 13 ...every one who has heard [John Brown]
speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined
with his sublime courage.
EPro 11.316 7 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently,
President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of
September. These are acts...honoring alike those who initiate and those
who receive them.
ALin 11.337 20 There is a serene Providence which
rules the fate of nations, which...conquers alike by what is called
defeat or by what is called victory...
EdAd 11.392 21 ...the moral and religious sentiments
meet us everywhere, alike in markets as in churches.
Scot 11.464 26 ...[Scott] had the...skill...not to
write solemn pentameters alike on a hero or a spaniel.
PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in
Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In
debate, in legislature, not less in action; in war or in affairs, alike
daring and effective.
PLT 12.53 20 No man passes for that with another
which he passes for with himself. The respect and the censure of his
brother are alike injurious and irrelevant.
Trag 12.413 6 When two strangers meet in the highway,
what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm
mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency
of the next moment may require.
aliment, n. (2)
WD 7.172 13 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the
cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our
daily aliment;...
MLit 12.317 25 There are...sentiments, which find no
aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or
market...
alimentation, n. (1)
Ali's, Mehemet, n. (1)
WD 7.160 22 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet
Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
Alison, Archibald, n. (2)
ET19 5.309 12 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian,
presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet]...
ET19 5.310 9 ...when I came to sea, I found the
History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
alive, adj. (74)
Nat 1.45 18 [The spirit] says...in such as this
[human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it;...it
can yield me thought already formed and alive.
DSA 1.123 14 Speak the truth, and all things alive or
brute are vouchers...
DSA 1.133 25 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ]
lie as they befell, alive and warm...
DSA 1.150 10 ...if once you are alive, you shall find
[the old forms] shall become plastic and new.
MR 1.227 10 ...some of those offices and functions
for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the
memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
MR 1.255 5 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of
ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
LT 1.289 4 This ever renewing generation of
appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
Hist 2.32 23 As near and proper to us is also that
old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put
riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed
him alive.
Comp 2.102 5 The value of the universe contrives to
throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the
evil;...if the force, so the limitation. Thus is the universe alive.
SL 2.155 19 [The things the great man did] are the
demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show
the direction of the stream. But the stream is blood; every drop is
alive.
Prd1 2.224 21 ...our existence...so alive to social
good and evil...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Art1 2.365 5 ...the statue will look cold and false
before that new activity which...is impatient of...things not alive.
Art1 2.368 3 In nature, all is useful, all is
beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving,
reproductive;...
Pt1 3.9 27 ...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...
Exp 3.52 7 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and
we presume there is impulse in them.
Mrs1 3.122 11 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular
the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the
gentleman imports.
NR 3.240 8 If John was perfect, why are you and I
alive?
NER 3.283 9 ...the man...whose advent men and events
prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and
beautiful...
UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of
society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
SwM 4.134 17 Though the agency of the Lord is in
every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
MoS 4.168 13 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would
bleed; they are vascular and alive.
GoW 4.262 7 ...nature strives upward; and, in man,
the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and
finer form of the original. The record is alive, as that which it
recorded is alive.
GoW 4.282 17 ...through every clause and part of
speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of
men;...the commas and dashes are alive;...
ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the
best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow,
to keep that will alive and alert.
ET4 5.58 14 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the
only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers
could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues
through the kingdom.
ET13 5.228 1 ...you, who are an honest man in other
particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man
whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to
false gods...
ET14 5.253 10 The eye of the naturalist must have...a
susceptibility...alive to the heart as well as to the logic of
creation.
Wth 6.118 23 When men now alive were born, the farm
yielded everything that was consumed on it.
Ctr 6.129 5 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod
whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to
gentle influence/...
Wsp 6.221 7 ...in the human mind, this tie of fate is
made alive.
CbW 6.251 21 Fate keeps everything alive so long as
the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
Art2 7.37 9 [All the departments of life] are sublime
when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the
vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...
Elo1 7.68 25 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman
recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a
river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true
transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech, all warm and
colored and alive...
DL 7.103 24 [The child's] flesh is angel's flesh, all
alive.
Suc 7.305 20 An Englishman of marked character and
talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a
library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible
interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away.
PI 8.41 9 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and
sentiment...know as well as coarser how to...maintain their stock
alive, and multiply;...
Res 8.137 9 The world is...strings of tension waiting
to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic
and impressionable medium, alive to every touch...
Grts 8.316 2 A poor scribbler who had written a
lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and
Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so
raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.
Supl 10.171 23 The superlative is as good as the
positive, if it be alive.
LLNE 10.365 20 ...in every instance the newcomers [to
Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the
society...
MMEm 10.415 20 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my
mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the
solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God
is enough,-'t is rapture.
SlHr 10.446 18 No person was more keenly alive to the
stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the
commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
Thor 10.483 7 Immortal water, alive even to the
superficies.
EWI 11.110 24 In attempting to make its escape from
the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive
into the sea.
EWI 11.140 16 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into
the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in
favor of the master and owners...
FSLC 11.187 27 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave
Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk
of being...burned alive...to get away from his driver...
AKan 11.256 23 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread,
clothes, arms and men, to save them alive...
AKan 11.263 19 When [the country] is lost it will be
time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to
gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
SMC 11.375 2 Those who went through those dreadful
fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all
the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields,
and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
Wom 11.420 11 On the questions that are
important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted
alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as
in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote
as the voters of Boston or New York.
CPL 11.501 1 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read
some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
FRep 11.521 13 John Quincy Adams was a man of an
audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in
regard to what he might do.
CL 12.157 12 The landscape is vast, complete, alive.
CW 12.169 8 ...unto me not morn's
magnificence/.../Nor wit, nor eloquence,-no, nor even the song/ Of any
woman that is now alive,-/ Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/
Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the
morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue
violets out of the black loam./
MAng1 12.239 7 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's
pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
MAng1 12.243 24 Whilst he was yet alive,
[Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa
Croce]...
Milt1 12.248 2 [New criticism] implied merit [in
Milton] indisputable and illustrious; yet so near to the modern mind as
to be still alive and life-giving.
Milt1 12.251 8 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther
said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
MLit 12.309 4 In our fidelity to the higher truth we
need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the
twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the
memory and the hope of a better day.
MLit 12.319 4 In Byron...[the subjective tendency]
predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good,
alive and beautiful...
alkali, n. (3)
Nat 1.34 23 ...acid and alkali, preexist in necessary
Ideas in the mind of God...
MN 1.216 13 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of
the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above
its chemical influence, as of an alkali...is more predicable of man.
PI 8.49 1 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes,
namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature,--acid and akali...they
do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
alkalies, n. (2)
ET4 5.52 16 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic
battery, to distribute acids at one pole and alkalies at the other.
PI 8.13 21 ...if crystals, if alkalies...say what I
say, it must be true.
All, n. (7)
Nat 1.24 21 Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but
different faces of the same All.
Comp 2.106 22 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders;
Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working
of the All and of its moral aim.
Comc 8.159 1 The perpetual game of humor is to look
with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying
the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the
unrespecting All...
PPo 8.263 6 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal
All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
PLT 12.36 1 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they
represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike
form...had emblematic horns and feet? Pan, that is, All.
Trag 12.405 10 In the dark hours, our existence seems
to be...a struggle against the encroaching All...
all-abstaining, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.115 22 ...when that love which is
all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets
and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
Allah, n. (5)
PI 8.64 13 Bring us...poetry like that verse of
Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in
Heaven;...
PPo 8.249 12 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a
groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress
or to his cupbearer.
PPo 8.253 23 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I
rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz
went./
CW 12.174 7 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that
Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab
spends in the chase.
Allah's, n. (3)
PPo 8.255 28 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/
Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of
Allah's love his soul./
PPo 8.261 11 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with
love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest
thine./
PPo 8.261 13 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with
love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest
thine./
all-aspiring, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.115 22 ...when that love which is
all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets
and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
all-beholding, adj. (1)
CL 12.149 11 The Hindoos called fire Agni...the
sacrificer visible to all, thousand-eyed, all-beholding...
all-commanding, adj. (1)
Chr2 10.93 14 ...the high, contemplative,
all-commanding vision...is alike in all.
all-confounding, adj. (1)
Fdsp 2.209 25 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a
friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure...
all-creating, adj. (1)
Hist 2.13 1 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this
all-creating nature... why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify
a few forms?
all-dissolving, adj. (2)
Bty 6.306 24 Wherever we begin, thither our steps
tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the
perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early
expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale
to the temple of the Mind.
PC 8.223 13 On...this all-dissolving unity, the
emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
allegation, n. (3)
HDC 11.66 22 The ninth allegation [against Daniel
Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile
worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his
people.
EWI 11.132 19 The Congress should instruct the
President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New
Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all
such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the
allegation of any crime...
allegations, n. (1)
NR 3.234 25 Anomalous facts, as...the new allegations
of phrenologists and neurologists, are of ideal use.
allege, v. (3)
SwM 4.123 1 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that
their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
Dem1 10.13 12 For Spiritism, it shows that no man,
almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere
among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest
them on any legends. If I have no facts, as you allege, I can very well
wait for them.
AsSu 11.251 10 ...when I think of these most small
faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may
borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton,
and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
alleged, adj. (3)
Bhr 6.181 6 The alleged power to charm down insanity,
or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Dem1 10.21 13 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent
and moral with a certain terror; so...the alleged second-sight of the
pseudo-spiritualists.
FSLC 11.182 26 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave
Law] showed the shallowness of leaders; the divergence of parties from
their alleged grounds;...
alleged, v. (12)
YA 1.365 15 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking
a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great
tract of land in the western hemisphere...
MoS 4.157 18 Is not marriage an open question, when
it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the
institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
ET1 5.5 20 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his
person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged,
the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay,
were idealizations of his own.
ET4 5.47 24 Race avails much, if that be true which
is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are
Protestants;...
ET12 5.200 22 [Oxford's] foundations date...from
Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary
here.
F 6.27 21 I know not whether there be, as is
alleged...a permanent westerly current...
Chr2 10.109 5 ...when once it is perceived that the
English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools (as
is alleged)...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English
Christianity.
FSLC 11.187 23 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law]
is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it
is alleged, are very comfortable where they are...
WSL 12.338 8 Add to this proud blindness [of John
Bull]...the peculiarity which is alleged of the Englishman, that his
virtues do not come out until he quarrels.
EurB 12.373 3 We have heard it alleged with some
evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's
romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of
young men in England and America.
alleges, v. (1)
Bhr 6.195 13 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness
and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus
alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus
Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
Allegheny [Alleghany] Mount (2)
ET16 5.288 22 There, in that great sloven continent
[America], in high Alleghany pastures...still sleeps and murmurs and
hides the great mother...
ET19 5.314 7 ...if the courage of England goes with
the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of
Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the
elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany
ranges, or nowhere.
Allegheny [Alleghany] Range (1)
Con 1.308 19 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the
White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps
up to me to show me that it is his.
Allegheny Mountains, n. (4)
Nat2 3.176 9 In every landscape the point of
astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen
from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.
Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited,
easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not
express more repose than his behavior.
Elo2 8.132 9 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate
the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were
lifted...
allegiance, n. (8)
Chr1 3.115 8 This is confusion, this the right
insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its
allegiance, its religion, are due.
PNR 4.88 12 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he
writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/
Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the
story./
MoS 4.158 1 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and
suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance;...
Chr2 10.109 27 Paganism has only taken the oath of
allegiance, taken the cross...
SovE 10.185 9 ...presently...[the man down in Nature]
is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good
member of this universe.
Plu 10.314 26 So keen is [Plutarch's] sense of
allegiance to right reason, that he makes a fight against Fortune
whenever she is named.
FSLC 11.191 20 Even the Canon Law says (in malis
promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can
bind to obey that which is wrong.
allegiances, n. (1)
alleging, v. (2)
ET7 5.118 26 An Englishman...checks himself in
compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak
without lying.
OA 7.319 18 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at
sixty proposed to resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in
his faculties;...
allegories, n. (4)
Nat 1.33 26 What is true of proverbs, is true of
all...allegories.
SwM 4.120 2 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.
SovE 10.192 3 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls
institutions, when once his mind is active are...wonderful
allegories...
allegory, n. (6)
Hist 2.34 8 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere
caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
PNR 4.83 1 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in
the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen
and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he
exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private
soul;...
SwM 4.116 25 The fact [of Correspondence] thus
explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in allegory...
Art2 7.47 4 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an
honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix
to it.
PPo 8.262 13 The following passages exhibit the
strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious
poetry and to allegory.
WSL 12.348 18 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture
of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
Allegro, L' [John Milton], (2)
PLT 12.52 19 ...to arrange general reflections in
their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece,-a
Lycidas, an Allegro...this continuity is for the great.
Milt1 12.275 7 L'Allegro and Il Peneroso are but a
finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...
Allen, William, n. (1)
alleviating, adj. (1)
Trag 12.416 9 The individual who suffers has a
mysterious counterbalance to that condition, which, to us who look upon
her, appears to be attended with no alleviating circumstance.
alleviations, n. (2)
YA 1.394 18 That there are mitigations and practical
alleviations to this rigor [of English aristocracy], is not an excuse
for the rule.
NER 3.268 26 We do not believe that...any influence
of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to
procure alleviations...
all-excluding, adj. (3)
Art1 2.354 22 It is the habit of certain minds to
give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
ShP 4.219 4 ...other men...beheld the same objects
[as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained.
And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished; they
read...all-excluding mountainous duty;...
EurB 12.375 22 ...this reward granted [the novels of
costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...
alley, n. (1)
II 12.78 25 ...we must be openers of doors, and not a
blind alley;...
alleys, n. (3)
YA 1.368 8 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his
alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of
the White Hills...are superfluities.
FSLC 11.185 14 Because of this preoccupied mind, the
whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime:
and the poor black boy, whom the fame of Boston had reached...in the
alleys of Savannah, on arriving here finds all this force employed to
catch him.
ACri 12.295 7 My friend thinks the reason why the
French mind is so shallow, and still to seek, running into vagaries and
blind alleys, is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
All-fadir, n. (1)
Ctr 6.137 27 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not
get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left
his eye in pledge.
all-fair, n. [all-Fair,] (2)
ET14 5.247 14 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive
merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic,
its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and
all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and
a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
all-feeding, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and
ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
Allgemeine Zeitung, Augsbur (1)
ACri 12.304 17 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
All-Giver, n. (1)
MN 1.194 20 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the
highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but
glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its
turn, as the receiver is only the All-Giver in part and in infancy.
all-giving, adj. (1)
ET10 5.160 25 The wise, versatile, all-giving
machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
all-Good, n. (1)
ET14 5.247 14 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive
merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic,
its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and
all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and
a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
all-hearing, adj. (1)
NR 3.232 24 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such
equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the
narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing
gentleman.
all-hoping, adj. (1)
MN 1.194 5 ...come...hither, thou loving, all-hoping
poet!...
Alliance, French, n. (1)
ET15 5.264 13 [The London Times] first denounced and
then adopted the new French Empire, and urged the French Alliance and
its results.
Alliance, Holy, n. (1)
alliance, n. (8)
Nat 1.30 24 ...picturesque language is at once a
commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with
truth and God.
Fdsp 2.201 20 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace
which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut
itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
Fdsp 2.209 1 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two
large, formidable natures...
ET14 5.254 1 ...for the most part the natural science
in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...
Wsp 6.217 22 So intimate is this alliance of mind and
heart, that talent uniformly sinks with character.
PPo 8.256 6 I declare myself the slave of that
masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever
renounces./
FSLC 11.205 20 The union of this people is a real
thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one
system of manners and ideas.
alliances, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.205 19 I hate the prostitution of the name of
friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Aris 10.60 19 That highest good of rational existence
is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
LLNE 10.341 22 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and
many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's
houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man quite
too cold and contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
allied, adj. (3)
SA 8.87 15 To pass to an allied topic [to manners],
one word or two in regard to dress...
EdAd 11.390 24 Will [a journal] cope with the allied
questions of Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that
category?
PLT 12.20 22 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours,
reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed
after a method which we can well understand, and all the parts, to the
most remote, allied or explicable...
allied, v. (10)
DSA 1.147 22 There are...persons...to whom all we
call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are
so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent
minds...
PPh 4.65 14 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us
for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in
the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which,
though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are
still allied to their circulations;...
Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied
to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may
be called Table-Talks...
Suc 7.295 6 ...it is a nice point to discriminate
this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the
exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
Insp 8.295 21 Fact-books, if the facts be well and
thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books
are that are written in rhyme.
allies, n. (11)
UGM 4.7 13 What is good...makes for itself room, food
and allies.
Bhr 6.195 10 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus
Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against
the Republic.
Bhr 6.195 14 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness
and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus
alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus
Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
PC 8.231 12 I believe that the checks are as sure as
the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies.
PC 8.231 13 I believe that the checks are as sure as
the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies.
And who are the allies? Rude opposition, apathy, slander,-even these.
PC 8.232 10 In the Rebellion, who were our best
allies? Always the enemy.
Schr 10.273 21 Other men are...heaving and carrying,
each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all
are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from
far with reverence, attributing to him the...conversing with
supernatural allies?
LVB 11.92 20 The piety, the principle that is left in
the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the
Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such
a denial of justice...were never heard of...in the dealing of a nation
with its own allies and wards...
EWI 11.146 18 ...some degree of despondency is
pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of
intellect, his own natural allies and champions...so hotly offended by
whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders
of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of
the human race;...
FSLN 11.236 25 Whenever a man has come to this mind,
that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then
certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
allies, v. (2)
AmS 1.113 7 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious
bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
SovE 10.197 9 What is this intoxicating sentiment
that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of
Fate...
alligators, n. (1)
Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...riding alligators in South America with Waterton;...
Allingham, William, n. (1)
JBS 11.276 25 But though they slew him with the
sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be
o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future
harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each
grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
alliterations, n. (1)
PI 8.54 1 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have
iterations and alliterations...
all-knowing, adj. (3)
PNR 4.87 12 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light,
had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred,
all-knowing Greek geometer comes with command, gathers them all up into
rank and gradation...
OA 7.323 4 We still feel the force...of Goethe, the
all-knowing poet;...
all-loving, adj. (1)
WD 7.175 14 [That flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all
men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the
tattle of towns.
Allonville, M. d', n. (1)
QO 8.190 20 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M.
d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M.
Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the
universe and I were mistaken.
allotment, n. (1)
CW 12.174 7 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that
Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab
spends in the chase.
allotted, v. (1)
MMEm 10.419 17 ...so poor are some of those allotted
to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is
benevolence enjoins self-denial.
allow, v. (47)
MR 1.252 18 See this wide society of laboring men and
women. We allow ourselves to be served by them...
LT 1.276 7 [These reforms] are the simplest
statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong. I cannot
choose but allow and honor them.
Con 1.325 15 ...if I allow myself in derelictions and
become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a
strong law...
SR 2.64 27 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of
ourselves, but allow a passage to [universal intelligence's] beams.
Comp 2.109 6 That which the droning world...will not
allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in
proverbs without contradiction.
Comp 2.123 1 ...all the good of nature is the soul's,
and may be had if paid for...by labor which the heart and the head
allow.
SL 2.131 23 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly
as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely
ridden hack that ever was driven.
OS 2.289 3 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare,
Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing
soul...
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...
Exp 3.69 14 I would gladly be moral and keep due
metes and bounds...and allow the most to the will of man;...
Mrs1 3.133 15 There will always be in society certain
persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their
standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods.
Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and
allow them all their privilege.
Mrs1 3.154 9 Are you...rich enough to make...even the
poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception
of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give
their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the
baser sort, as people allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
MoS 4.165 5 In [Montaigne's] times, books were
written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of
statement was permitted, which our manners...do not allow.
MoS 4.175 21 ...as soon as each man attains the poise
and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need
extreme examples...
ET5 5.74 2 The Saxon and the Northman are both
Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the
application of these names with any accuracy...
ET5 5.77 25 A man of that [English] brain thinks and
acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of
brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his
retainer or tenant...
ET13 5.225 23 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin
and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and
apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by
quoting the texts they must allow.
ET17 5.291 8 In these comments on an old journey
[English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons,
except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to
have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must
further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of
debts that cannot be paid.
ET18 5.305 5 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk
with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
F 6.30 16 We can afford to allow the limitation, if
we know it is the meter of the growing man.
Ctr 6.156 21 The high advantage of university life is
often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and
fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at
Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.
Ctr 6.163 25 ...every brave heart must treat society
as a child, and never allow it to dictate.
QO 8.198 22 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow
me to introduce to you my only admirer.
Edc1 10.125 16 ...the poor man, whom the law does not
allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand
into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Prch 10.227 5 What is essential to the theologian
is...not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
MoL 10.256 13 I allow [senators and lawyers] the
merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs
and practice.
HDC 11.42 10 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the
North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges
over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of
the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow
the North quarter 3 pounds.
EWI 11.139 15 There are now other energies than
force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself
to disregard.
FSLC 11.191 3 ...if any human law should allow or
enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are
bound to transgress that human law;...
ACiv 11.302 26 [The existing administration] is to be
thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences
with which we have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to
indulge in compliment.
EPro 11.325 10 ...the aim of the war on our part
is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes
it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow
its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.
SMC 11.363 3 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point
officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked
me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear
such language...
SMC 11.363 7 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West
Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to.
FRep 11.517 11 ...a court or an aristocracy...can
more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many
observers...to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
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.
MLit 12.321 19 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets
by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
MLit 12.329 10 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] That all shall right itself in the long Morrow, I may well
allow, and my novel [Wilhelm Meister] may wait for the same
regeneration.
WSL 12.338 1 Here [in America] is very good earth and
water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow;...
WSL 12.342 15 Let us thankfully allow every faculty
and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.
allowance, n. (20)
Con 1.301 26 Our experience, our perception is
conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is,
with every truth a certain falsehood. As this is the invariable method
of our training, we must give it allowance...
Con 1.319 5 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but
he makes no allowance for friction;...
OS 2.296 5 The saints and demigods whom history
worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
Mrs1 3.142 27 ...I will neither be driven from some
allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief
that love is the basis of courtesy.
Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our
society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative: it is great by
their allowance;...
SwM 4.119 15 ...to a reader who can make due
allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's]
peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
ET5 5.83 5 This [English] common-sense is a
perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be
stated, or that are learned only by practice, in which allowance for
friction is made.
Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of
peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his
work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy
laborers;...
Clbs 7.232 5 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make
allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
Clbs 7.233 11 Able people, if they do not know how to
make allowance for [men of a delicate sympathy], paralyze them.
PI 8.52 6 With...the first strain of a song,...we
pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine
is silent. The like allowance is the prescriptive right of poetry.
Aris 10.52 27 [Men] are honored by rendering [Genius]
honor, and the reason of this allowance is that Genius unlocks for all
men the chains of use, temperament and drudgery...
HDC 11.65 24 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.
Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming
at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a
disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
allowances, n. (1)
SwM 4.134 11 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches
in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and
classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are
to be taken into account;...
allowed, adj. (2)
ET18 5.301 26 In Magna Charta it was ordained that
all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by
the ancient allowed customs...
PI 8.36 27 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape
from the gossip and routine of society, and the allowed right and
practice of making better.
allowed, v. (49)
Chr1 3.112 19 [Friends'] relation is not made, but
allowed.
Pol1 3.204 1 ...doubts have arisen whether too much
weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
Pol1 3.204 2 ...doubts have arisen whether too much
weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a
structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the
poor...
MoS 4.183 7 All moods may be safely tried, and their
weight allowed to all objections...
ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too
much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even
adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
ET16 5.278 21 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is,
that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a
monument...
Pow 6.60 15 Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we
are not allowed to be nice in choosing.
Wth 6.119 24 Nor is any investment so permanent that
it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
Bhr 6.194 14 The legend says [the monk Basle's]
sentence was remitted, and he was allowed to go into heaven...
Elo1 7.98 6 ...as soon as one acts for large masses,
the moral element will and must be allowed for...
Farm 7.147 4 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and
their fruit will never be allowed to ripen.
Cour 7.271 19 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise
and John Brown] would prefer each other's society...
OA 7.313 15 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool
me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new
delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your
change and cheer the best./
PI 8.69 10 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be
allowed as an offset...
SA 8.91 11 A universal etiquette should fix an iron
limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave
granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a
premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill
which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a
disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
PC 8.218 20 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von
Arnim...is always allowed.
Imtl 8.348 6 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed
themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the
people with that picture [of personal immortality].
Dem1 10.18 10 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in
the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be
called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence
originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and
religions have attempted...to settle the thing once for all, as...they
may be allowed to do.
Aris 10.56 11 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones.
There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed.
PerF 10.80 18 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent
of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
Edc1 10.125 18 ...the poor man...is allowed to put
his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
MoL 10.256 10 Reading!-do you mean that this senator
or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws,
was a reader of Greek books?
MMEm 10.409 5 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over the apartments of social affections...
HDC 11.66 25 The ninth allegation [against Daniel
Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile
worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his
people.
HDC 11.67 3 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was
filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was
allowed to represent Christ...
EWI 11.107 5 We cannot say the cause set forth by
this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom
[England];...
EWI 11.139 25 The tendency of things runs steadily to
this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally
exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who
owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of
things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the
change...
FSLN 11.227 24 ...Mr. Webster and the country went
for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If
any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he
had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
But not a moment's pause was allowed.
FSLN 11.237 26 I suppose in general this is allowed,
that if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go
with it to Louis Napoleon...
FSLN 11.242 22 ...in one part of the discourse the
orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will,
a little sober sense.
ALin 11.334 26 If ever a man was fairly tested,
[Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of
ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...
Wom 11.420 16 On the questions that are
important...whether the unlimited sale of cheap liquors shall be
allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the
voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.423 1 If the wants, the passions, the vices,
are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
Wom 11.423 4 If the wants, the passions, the vices,
are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
SHC 11.433 23 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein
may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that
every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to
die out of the eastern counties;...
PLT 12.61 18 ...all great minds and all great hearts
have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.
allowing, v. (10)
Con 1.318 23 Under pretence of allowing for friction,
[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the
machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no
longer grind any grist.
ET3 5.37 26 The innumerable details [in
England]...all these catching the eye and never allowing it to pause,
hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless
wealth.
SS 7.11 23 ...the one event which never loses its
romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the
happiest intercourse.
PI 8.53 25 Outside of the nursery the beginning of
literature is the prayers of a people, and they are always hymns,
poetic,--the mind allowing itself range...
Elo2 8.128 14 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is
so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk
from the games of ball and skates...that I wish his guardians to
consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part
when he is full-grown.
Res 8.151 12 [Taste] should be extended to gardens
and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in
the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture
half a day without risk, so allowing the picnic-party the full freedom
of the woods.
SovE 10.190 11 ...it is found at last that some
establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to
fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.
LLNE 10.350 1 By concert and the allowing each
laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
LLNE 10.360 18 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the
feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive,
not allowing each to do what he had a talent for...
HCom 11.341 18 War passes the power of all chemical
solvents, breaking up the old adhesions, and allowing the atoms of
society to take a new order.
allows, v. (22)
MN 1.201 1 The simultaneous life throughout the whole
body...allows the understanding no place to work.
SR 2.58 13 In this pleasing contrite wood-life which
God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without
prospect or retrospect...
Comp 2.126 21 The death of a dear friend...somewhat
later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks
up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows
the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
NR 3.241 12 A recluse sees only two or three persons,
and allows them all their room;...
NMW 4.248 12 If [the land-commander] allows himself
to be guided by the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never
stir...
ET3 5.38 20 Here [in England] is...a temperature
which...allows the attainment of the largest stature.
ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of
their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now
for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon
seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under
some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
CbW 6.254 22 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy
that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural
order.
Bty 6.291 5 ...our taste in building...allows the
real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
Farm 7.149 18 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which
kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm
rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the
surface soil;...
Farm 7.149 21 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which
kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the
soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of
his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
Boks 7.193 15 It is easy to count...the number of
years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
OA 7.327 25 He is serene...whose condition, in
particular and in general, allows the utterance of his mind.
PI 8.52 26 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that
allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the
mental eye.
SA 8.88 20 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is
perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself
irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification
that...allows him to go gayly into conversations where else he had been
dry and embarrassed.
PPo 8.239 6 The favor of the climate...allows to the
Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
Insp 8.292 19 ...in discourse with a friend, our
thought...detaches itself, and allows itself to be seen as a thought...
Imtl 8.344 2 ...[the belief in immortality] must have
the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill...a longer term
than Nature here allows him.
Imtl 8.349 21 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks
that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which
also Yama allows...
Plu 10.303 13 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness the
upturning of the alphabets of old races...
FRep 11.541 3 We want...a state of things which
allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of
every other man.
alloy, v. (1)
alloyed, v. (1)
All-perfect, n. (2)
Prch 10.228 6 Christianity taught the capacity, the
element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal
happiness.
MMEm 10.431 7 That greatest of all gifts, however
small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the
element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal
happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
all-piercing, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.12 25 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and
ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
all-preserving, adj. (1)
ET3 5.38 12 In the history of art it is a long way
from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may
still be traced in this all-preserving island [England].
all-reconciling, adj. (2)
LT 1.275 25 Here is great variety and richness of
mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of
some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and
appropriate decoration of his robes.
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society
by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
all-related, adj. (2)
SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man]
did...looks large, all-related...
Edc1 10.127 27 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
all-repaying, adj. (1)
HCom 11.340 24 Where faith made whole with deed/
Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw
[Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And
all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration
Ode.
all-seeing, adj. (1)
NR 3.232 24 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such
equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the
narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing
gentleman.
Allston, Washington, n. (7)
Wth 6.113 1 Allston the painter was wont to say that
he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he
would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes
to his own.
Ctr 6.135 20 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor
Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
Art2 7.47 12 We fear that Allston and Greenough did
not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
Insp 8.291 20 Allston...had two or three rooms in
different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
CW 12.176 6 In walking with Allston, you shall see
what was never before shown to the eye of man.
Allston's, Washington, n. (1)
ET1 5.14 3 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a
picture of Allston's...
all-suffering, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.115 21 ...when that love which is
all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets
and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
allude, v. (2)
PI 8.30 20 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it
were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their
expression, so that they only hint the matter, or allude to it...
LS 11.4 20 I allude to these facts only to show that,
so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are
fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of
opinion upon this particular.
alluded, v. (2)
WSL 12.344 6 [Landor's appreciation of character] is
the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality, to which
we have already alluded.
alludes, v. (2)
ET1 5.22 22 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's
Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
alluding, v. (2)
NER 3.267 24 In alluding just now to our system of
education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
MMEm 10.417 13 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her
farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that
foolish place...
allured, v. (1)
DL 7.111 4 [The citizen] brings home whatever
commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
allurement, n. (1)
Comp 2.105 25 ...when the disease began in the will,
of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that
the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not
see the sensual hurt;...
allures, v. (1)
Aris 10.39 10 I wish...men...whom the mystery of
botany allures, and the mineral laws;...
alluring, adj. (4)
LE 1.155 5 A summons to celebrate with scholars a
literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I
might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of
your attention.
Schr 10.262 5 ...in the worldly habits which harden
us, we find with some surprise...that the face of Nature remains
irresistibly alluring.
allusion, n. (18)
NMW 4.241 25 ...when allusion was made to the
precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood
ditch-water.
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.
Art2 7.40 26 It was said, in allusion to the great
structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their
Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the
newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated
schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little
sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the
mischievous member of Congress.
Elo1 7.91 6 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts,
learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable
illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and
mislead the audience and the orator.
Comc 8.171 21 A lady of high rank, but of lean
figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier
Tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
PPo 8.249 9 His complete intellectual emancipation
[Hafiz] communicates to the reader. There is no example of such
facility of allusion...
PPo 8.259 12 ...the celerity of flight and allusion
which our colder muses forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
Plu 10.302 4 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and
allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and
what he invents.
LLNE 10.333 9 [Everett] abounded...in splendid
allusion, in quotation impossible to forget...
FSLC 11.181 5 I met the smoothest of Episcopal
Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's
treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great
action of his life.
FSLN 11.228 11 ...when allusion was made to the
question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly
said...Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and
the third heaven,-I do not know where.
II 12.78 21 ...[the writer]...should write nothing
that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held
conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to
the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other
speakers;...
MLit 12.327 4 It is all design with [Goethe],
just...analogies, allusion, illustration...
allusions, n. (13)
LT 1.275 14 A great deal of the profoundest thinking
of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
Hist 2.7 16 Books, monuments, pictures,
conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the
lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and
accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves, as by personal
allusions.
Hist 2.7 17 A true aspirant therefore never needs
look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
ShP 4.191 18 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took
offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress
[dramatic entertainments].
Clbs 7.243 23 We know well the Mermaid Club...of
Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers
are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
Elo2 8.123 19 [John Quincy Adams's] last
lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had
received from his old friends...
Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his
hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions
to Homer, to Virgil...
Schr 10.272 25 ...the allusions just now made to the
extent of [the scholar' s] duties...may show that his place is no
sinecure.
MMEm 10.417 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and
offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her
pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what
grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a
religious act...
CPL 11.507 15 ...it is a disadvantage not to have
read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand
their allusions to it...
alluvium, n. (1)
Bty 6.281 14 ...does [the geologist] know...what
effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf? what on the
inhabitants of marl and of alluvium?
all-wise, adj. (1)
PPo 8.240 19 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the
all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world...
ally, n. (8)
ET8 5.137 20 England is the lawgiver, the patron, the
instructor, the ally.
ET15 5.272 15 If only [the London Times] dared to
cleave to the right... genius would be its cordial and invincible
ally;...
HDC 11.58 26 A still more formidable enemy [of
Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally
of Philip...
FSLN 11.241 21 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that
better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
ACiv 11.302 9 In this national crisis, it is not
argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself
to a principle, believing that Nature is its ally...
HCom 11.343 10 ...the infusion of culture and tender
humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their
own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that
enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war
without it.
Almacks, n. (1)
Almanac, Farmer's, n. (1)
almanac, n. (7)
ET13 5.217 5 [The English Church]...has coupled
itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed,
no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
Boks 7.219 6 All these [sacred] books...are more to
our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
PI 8.46 6 Who would hold the order of the almanac so
fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...
EzRy 10.384 11 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate
this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a
record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's]
predecessor...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year
1735.
HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among
some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
Almanac, n. (1)
CL 12.164 17 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading
the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
Almanack, Thomas's, n. (1)
AgMs 12.361 2 The story [in the Agricultural Survey]
of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything
useful on a farm,- that is good, too, and we have much that is like it
in Thomas's Almanack.
almightiness, n. (2)
LE 1.177 5 ...literary men...dealing with the organ
of language...rob it of its almightiness by failing to work with it.
almighty, adj. (1)
Art2 7.42 7 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what
is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
Almighty, adj. (1)
SR 2.47 26 ...we are...guides, redeemers and
benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort...
Almighty God, n. [Almighty,] (10)
Chr1 3.91 14 [The people] cannot come at their ends
by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be
not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them,
was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
ET13 5.221 8 A great duke said on the occasion of a
victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had
not been well used by them...
Wsp 6.212 17 Only those can help in counsel or
conduct...who were appointed by God Almighty...to stand for this which
they uphold.
Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to
beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding
entire;...
Schr 10.270 18 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may
well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited
six thousand years for an observer like myself.
Carl 10.497 5 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for
in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put
there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
LS 11.22 21 ...the Almighty God was pleased to
qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with
the heart;...
War 11.158 12 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote
thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath
pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the
world...
War 11.159 2 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously
begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
MAng1 12.236 13 The combined desire to fulfil, in
everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his
worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through
numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
Almighty Maker, n. (1)
AsSu 11.252 5 ...if our arms at this distance cannot
defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a
life so precious...to the Almighty Maker of men.
Almighty, n. (7)
Comp 2.126 2 The voice of the Almighty saith, Up and
onward for evermore!
Civ 7.30 14 It was a great instruction, said a saint
in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the
Almighty.
Cour 7.273 24 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some
passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a
great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the
Almighty.
Plu 10.317 11 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to
flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion
to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at;...
FSLN 11.236 18 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of
hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the
Almighty is rocked from side to side.
Almira, n. (1)
Lov1 2.173 18 The girls may have little beauty, yet
plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most
agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest,
about Edgar and Jonas and Almira...
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