Apparition to Aratus

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

apparition, n. (4)

    Nat 1.4 7 Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us.

    Nat 1.62 8 ...the noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

    PI 8.21 10 [The poet's] own body is a fleeing apparition...

    Chr2 10.100 20 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth. Such souls are as the apparition of gods among men...

apparitions, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.9 15 However monstrous and grotesque [dreams'] apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

appeal, n. (18)

    Con 1.305 27 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator must confess his weakness...

    SR 2.53 11 I...refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.

    OS 2.267 10 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.

    OS 2.295 1 Whenever the appeal is made...to numbers, proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.

    Exp 3.82 12 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. This is a divine answer, and leaves no appeal...

    Chr1 3.100 18 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...

    Mrs1 3.147 17 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference...

    Pol1 3.218 12 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal.

    NR 3.230 26 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.

    ShP 4.199 12 Did [the bard] feel himself overmatched by any companion? The appeal is to the consciousness of the writer.

    ET5 5.81 22 There is on every question [in England] an appeal from the assertion of the parties to the proof of what is asserted.

    ET12 5.213 14 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind, as an appeal to moral order always must.

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

    FSLN 11.224 23 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.

    RBur 11.439 9 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival]. But I am told there is no appeal...

    FRep 11.529 7 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...

    MAng1 12.238 21 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.

    PPr 12.380 13 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten...

appeal, v. (15)

    DSA 1.148 15 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness and appeal to sympathies far in advance;...

    MN 1.198 9 In treating a subject so large, in which we must necessarily appeal to the intuition...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.

    Con 1.297 3 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred. I appeal to Fate, must there not be rest?

    Con 1.297 4 I appeal to Fate also, said Uranus, must there not be motion?

    SR 2.73 6 I appeal from your customs.

    Lov1 2.170 7 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love. But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.

    Hsm1 2.260 13 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they...appeal to a tardy justice.

    OS 2.295 10 It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one.

    Cir 2.306 9 There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness.

    NER 3.270 24 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal...

    Wsp 6.211 27 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.

    Elo1 7.98 8 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address nations.

    LS 11.17 13 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

    LS 11.18 6 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?

    FSLN 11.229 21 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...

appealed, v. (1)

    NER 3.270 25 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed...

appealing, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.131 12 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.

    Ctr 6.131 10 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers.

Appeals, Court of, n. (1)

    PerF 10.76 27 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!

appeals, n. (3)

    ET14 5.259 10 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.

    Elo1 7.71 3 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.

    PI 8.36 23 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,--all emblems and personal appeals to him.

appeals, v. (6)

    SR 2.59 13 Greatness appeals to the future.

    OS 2.295 19 ...[the soul] never appeals from itself.

    NMW 4.245 27 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

    ET14 5.246 23 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student.

    Dem1 10.27 10 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away all which appeals to the imagination...

    Edc1 10.134 18 ...what teaching, what book of this day appeals to the Vast?

appear, v. (188)

    Nat 1.7 12 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...

    Nat 1.34 3 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men. It appears to men, or it does not appear.

    Nat 1.45 11 [Words and actions] introduce us to the human form, of which all other organizations appear to be degradations.

    Nat 1.73 26 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque.

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

    DSA 1.148 27 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls, when they appear, are...the dictators of fortune.

    LE 1.182 9 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then...the perfection of his endowment will appear in his compositions.

    LE 1.182 23 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will...appear too vague and indefinite for the uses of life.

    MN 1.211 14 Whenever [poets] appear, they will redeem their own credit.

    MR 1.249 2 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man, which will appear at the call of worth...

    LT 1.259 5 To appear in these aspects, [the present aspects of our social state] must first exist...

    LT 1.265 22 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...

    LT 1.271 15 We arraign our daily employments. They appear to us unfit...

    LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...

    LT 1.275 26 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.

    LT 1.287 7 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.

    Tran 1.342 1 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not accidental and personal...

    Tran 1.349 12 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.

    YA 1.377 6 Meantime Trade had begun to appear...

    Hist 2.19 2 What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often...

    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 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.

    SR 2.76 20 Let a Stoic...tell men...that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear;...

    SR 2.89 8 ...thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.

    Comp 2.100 9 Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...

    Comp 2.100 10 Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist, and will appear.

    SL 2.155 9 The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear.

    SL 2.157 4 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...

    SL 2.166 5 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...

    Lov1 2.186 10 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract;...

    Lov1 2.187 1 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows...

    Hsm1 2.251 15 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him...

    Hsm1 2.256 23 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...

    Hsm1 2.261 6 Has nature covenanted with me that I should never appear to disadvantage...

    Hsm1 2.263 2 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear any signs of a decay of religion.

    OS 2.271 6 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

    Cir 2.306 1 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it...then its innocency and benefit appear...

    Int 2.329 22 ...the moment [logic] would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.

    Int 2.338 6 The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.

    Int 2.340 23 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature.

    Art1 2.369 5 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

    Pt1 3.8 17 ...nature...must as much appear as it must be done, or known.

    Pt1 3.36 20 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...

    Pt1 3.36 21 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men;...

    Pt1 3.36 22 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes.

    Exp 3.52 5 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament, which will appear in a given character...

    Exp 3.53 27 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what disguise soever he shall appear.

    Exp 3.56 25 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.

    Exp 3.57 20 The party-colored wheel must revolve very fast to appear white.

    Chr1 3.103 23 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

    Chr1 3.107 24 There is a class of men, individuals of which appear at long intervals, so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...

    Mrs1 3.155 18 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad, they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...

    Mrs1 3.155 19 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad, they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...

    Pol1 3.208 10 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.

    Pol1 3.221 24 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...

    NR 3.232 6 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into the markets and the custom-houses...it will appear as if one man had made it all.

    NER 3.255 17 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade, and the willingness to try that experiment, in the face of what appear incontestable facts.

    NER 3.263 23 ...the revolt against...the inveterate abuses of cities, did not appear possible to individuals;...

    NER 3.280 4 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.

    NER 3.281 4 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...

    UGM 4.18 23 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...

    UGM 4.19 18 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear;...

    UGM 4.22 1 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...

    UGM 4.31 17 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.

    PPh 4.55 13 [Plato]...is resolved that the two poles of thought shall appear in his statement.

    PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear;...

    PPh 4.57 10 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man, but in description appear incompatible.

    MoS 4.151 2 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes, so that the works appear heavy and faulty.

    MoS 4.175 19 The beliefs and unbeliefs appear to be structural;...

    MoS 4.179 8 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo...

    MoS 4.183 12 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.

    ShP 4.204 4 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.

    ShP 4.212 19 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.

    ShP 4.216 12 If [Shakespeare] should appear in any company of human souls, who would not march in his troop?

    NMW 4.229 9 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...

    NMW 4.256 2 It does not appear that [Napoleon] listened at key-holes...

    ET3 5.34 9 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.

    ET4 5.51 10 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived.

    ET4 5.53 14 In Scotland...a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear;...

    ET11 5.185 11 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.

    ET11 5.195 4 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.

    ET13 5.220 8 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which...great virtues and talents appear...

    ET14 5.232 13 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.

    ET14 5.241 16 A few generalizations always circulate in the world... which...appear to be avenues to vast kingdoms of thought...

    ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to proceed from a single will.

    ET19 5.309 18 Mr. Jerrold, who had been announced [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], did not appear.

    F 6.4 27 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.

    F 6.12 12 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...

    F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable forms appear;...

    F 6.45 9 I find...that a crudity in the blood will appear in the argument;...

    F 6.45 11 ...a hump in the shoulder will appear in the speech and handiwork.

    Pow 6.53 11 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

    Pow 6.62 9 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...

    Ctr 6.151 10 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...to appear a little more capricious than he was.

    Ctr 6.151 21 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./

    Ctr 6.157 10 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities, that more catholic and humane relations may appear.

    Ctr 6.165 14 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place; and that the lower perish as the higher appear.

    Bhr 6.186 16 Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste.

    Wsp 6.214 4 ...the religious appear isolated.

    Wsp 6.223 16 If you spend for show...it will so appear.

    Wsp 6.223 20 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.

    Bty 6.288 3 ...everybody knows people who appear beridden...

    Bty 6.296 27 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...

    Bty 6.306 10 ...the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,-- her locks must appear to us sublime.

    Elo1 7.64 15 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy.

    Elo1 7.67 7 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...

    Elo1 7.100 1 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent...to appear for show;...

    DL 7.130 23 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear ancient...

    WD 7.184 17 What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable.

    Boks 7.192 24 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...

    Clbs 7.234 26 ...once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.

    Cour 7.275 13 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...

    OA 7.313 12 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./

    PI 8.3 16 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...

    PI 8.19 24 ...the world exists for thought: it is to make appear things which hide...

    PI 8.27 23 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.

    PI 8.33 26 If your subject do not appear to you the flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it.

    PI 8.61 16 [Sir Gawaine said to Merlin] I pray you appear before me so that I may be able to recognize you.

    PI 8.74 14 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.

    SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.

    Elo2 8.114 21 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.

    Elo2 8.132 9 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.

    Res 8.152 24 Among fossil remains, the willow and the pine appear with the ferns.

    Comc 8.163 22 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...

    Comc 8.173 12 ...when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.

    QO 8.181 4 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...

    PPo 8.255 4 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs...

    Insp 8.284 24 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the sweet muses./ No dawn shines,/ And no day will appear:/ But at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./

    Grts 8.314 4 Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of unequal character...

    Aris 10.50 6 When the lawyer tries his case in court...his own merits appear as well as his client's.

    PerF 10.72 11 Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane.

    Chr2 10.100 7 Men appear from time to time who receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.

    Chr2 10.102 24 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...

    Chr2 10.102 27 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely...

    Edc1 10.134 4 If [a man] be dexterous, his tuition should make it appear;...

    Edc1 10.152 2 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear.

    Supl 10.166 7 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.

    Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought.

    SovE 10.196 15 When the stars and sun appear...we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.

    SovE 10.209 22 It does not yet appear what forms the religious feeling will take.

    Prch 10.217 15 The old [religious] forms rattle, and the new delay to appear;...

    Schr 10.273 4 The labor of ambition and avarice will appear fumbling beside [the scholar's].

    Schr 10.278 8 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to...draw the eager service of thousands, rarely appear [in America].

    Plu 10.295 1 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.

    Plu 10.312 23 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...

    LLNE 10.352 22 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear...

    MMEm 10.412 17 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable lustre...then, however awed, who can fear?

    SlHr 10.438 1 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...

    GSt 10.503 25 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support, but uniformly shunned to appear in public.

    LS 11.6 4 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark...

    LS 11.6 20 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.

    LS 11.15 21 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...

    LS 11.15 24 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].

    HDC 11.29 15 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear!

    HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.

    EWI 11.127 13 These considerations...had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men should feel these motives. But they do not appear to have had an excessive or unreasonable weight.

    EWI 11.137 9 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].

    War 11.161 22 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.

    War 11.161 24 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men; should appear laughable even, to numbers;...is very natural.

    War 11.161 25 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the grave and good-natured to be embarrassed with extreme practical difficulties,-is very natural.

    FSLC 11.182 2 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate...

    FSLC 11.198 18 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute...

    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...

    TPar 11.291 11 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.

    EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...

    Wom 11.410 11 ...[Women] are always making...that ornamental life in which they best appear.

    Wom 11.424 9 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.

    Wom 11.424 23 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness...

    SHC 11.429 10 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground, now that the new avenues make its advantages appear;...

    Humb 11.457 3 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...

    FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...

    CPL 11.503 4 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.

    FRep 11.525 4 Faults in the working appear in our system, as in all...

    PLT 12.12 12 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.

    II 12.83 19 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for.

    II 12.84 3 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life.

    Bost 12.191 19 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men...

    Milt1 12.275 26 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare that they do not appear in their poems;...

    MLit 12.329 8 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual, as, after years of dreams, it will still appear and reappear to wise men.

    WSL 12.342 12 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...

    EurB 12.378 7 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners...

    EurB 12.378 10 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to contrive even his civilities so that they may appear as near as may be to affronts;...

    EurB 12.378 15 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.

    PPr 12.386 23 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...

    PPr 12.387 5 ...[each age's] superstitions appear no superstitions to itself;...

    Let 12.400 7 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with this cold study,- literally, hypocritically, to appear that which he passes for...

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

    Trag 12.414 2 If a man is centred, men and events appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.

appearance, n. (78)

    Nat 1.8 1 Nature never wears a mean appearance.

    Nat 1.25 16 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

    Nat 1.26 14 Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind...

    Nat 1.26 17 ...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

    Nat 1.60 21 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...

    AmS 1.102 16 The world of any moment is the merest appearance.

    DSA 1.123 11 The least admixture of a lie, - for example...a favorable appearance, - will instantly vitiate the effect.

    Con 1.296 1 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is...the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature

    Tran 1.330 13 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts...

    Tran 1.333 1 The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness, and reckons the world an appearance.

    Tran 1.333 9 The idealist has another measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his consciousness; not at all the size or appearance.

    YA 1.380 3 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.

    YA 1.380 16 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.

    YA 1.391 18 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...

    Hist 2.12 15 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance;...

    Hist 2.12 26 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.

    Hist 2.20 15 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...

    Comp 2.99 15 To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, [the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

    Comp 2.105 15 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life...

    Fdsp 2.196 22 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance...

    Prd1 2.229 24 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity, and have a certain swimming and oscillating appearance.

    OS 2.281 23 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...which is its rarer appearance,--to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...

    OS 2.287 24 All men stand continually in the expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from within].

    Art1 2.364 16 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.

    Pt1 3.8 25 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes.

    Pt1 3.14 16 Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it.

    Pt1 3.21 20 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence...

    Exp 3.62 9 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing meteorous appearance can ill spare.

    Exp 3.78 5 The soul...though revealing itself as child in time, child in appearance, is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.

    Mrs1 3.122 23 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.

    Nat2 3.192 1 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society...

    Nat2 3.193 16 What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse...

    Pol1 3.215 24 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy;...

    Pol1 3.215 26 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...the appearance of the wise man;...

    Pol1 3.216 6 ...with the appearance of the wise man the State expires.

    Pol1 3.216 8 The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.

    NR 3.227 3 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...

    NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...

    UGM 4.13 21 Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections. Other help I find a false appearance.

    UGM 4.16 13 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.

    PPh 4.54 17 ...primarily there is not only no presumption against [admirable souls], but the strongest persumption in favor of their appearance.

    MoS 4.149 3 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other...

    MoS 4.178 19 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.

    MoS 4.185 10 The appearance is immoral; the result is moral.

    GoW 4.264 20 [The scholar] is no permissive or accidental appearance...

    ET12 5.209 2 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.

    F 6.38 7 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!

    Bty 6.288 21 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.

    Civ 7.32 27 The appearance of the Hebrew Moses, of the Indian Buddh... are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

    Art2 7.54 22 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.

    Art2 7.54 27 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.

    DL 7.128 15 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth...

    Cour 7.259 11 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys, who, without strength, wish to keep up the appearance of strength.

    OA 7.326 12 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of appearance...that once degraded him he is thus rid of!

    PI 8.26 27 ...against all the appearance [the true poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates matter.

    PI 8.50 26 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.

    Elo2 8.112 1 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot...at the appearance of new evidence...

    Comc 8.158 5 ...there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.

    Comc 8.169 9 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;...

    Comc 8.171 11 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.

    PC 8.210 21 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying the appearance of gifted men...

    PC 8.220 12 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;...

    PC 8.226 3 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.

    Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he is no permissive or accidental appearance...

    Schr 10.265 4 [Poets] have no toleration for literature; art is only a fine word for appearance in default of matter.

    Thor 10.479 6 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.

    Carl 10.497 10 ...now [the bad time] is coming, and the only good [Carlyle] sees in it is the visible appearance of the gods.

    HDC 11.67 22 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

    War 11.155 13 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this;...

    War 11.172 24 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...

    War 11.172 27 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue.

    FSLN 11.221 17 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill.

    EdAd 11.391 7 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.

    Wom 11.424 16 ...this appearance of new opinions...is itself the wonderful fact.

    II 12.66 15 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness]... equal in original science, though against appearance;...

    CL 12.142 26 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.

    CL 12.154 21 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...

    Trag 12.410 10 [Sorrow] is superficial; for the most part fantastic, or in the appearance and not in things.

Appearance, n. (2)

    Nat 1.47 9 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...

    Pt1 3.14 14 We stand before the secret of the world, there where Being passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.

appearances, n. (32)

    Nat 1.48 4 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?

    Nat 1.76 22 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...vanish;...

    AmS 1.100 20 The office of the scholar is...to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

    DSA 1.122 27 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere... correcting appearances...

    LT 1.289 1 Underneath all these appearances lies that which is...

    LT 1.289 3 This ever renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.

    SR 2.59 17 Always scorn appearances and you always may.

    SR 2.64 17 We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature...

    SR 2.72 26 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.

    Comp 2.101 1 These appearances indicate the fact that the universe is represented in every one of its particles.

    Comp 2.109 5 That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

    SL 2.161 3 Common men are apologies for men; they...accumulate appearances because the substance is not.

    Prd1 2.222 2 [Prudence] is the science of appearances.

    PPh 4.61 13 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world...

    MoS 4.166 6 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...

    ET8 5.140 1 Haldor was very stout and strong and remarkably handsome in appearances.

    ET15 5.265 20 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris, a very gentle person, with no hostile appearances.

    Wth 6.113 22 Let the realist not mind appearances.

    Wsp 6.219 20 Religion or worship is the attitude of those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.

    Ill 6.323 9 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...

    SS 7.9 7 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...against all appearances, is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...

    WD 7.173 5 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff, cooked and painted under many counterfeit appearances.

    Imtl 8.333 13 I know against all appearances that the universe can receive no detriment;...

    Edc1 10.143 9 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust, against all appearances, against all privations, in your own worth...

    SovE 10.189 1 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that, in spite of appearances...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...

    Prch 10.231 19 I do not love sensation preaching...the review of our appearances...

    Prch 10.237 19 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...

    War 11.163 25 ...always we are daunted by the appearances;...

    FSLC 11.188 27 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances...

    EdAd 11.386 10 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.

    Milt1 12.263 25 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

    AgMs 12.358 8 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances;...

appeared, v. (72)

    DSA 1.130 13 ...as it has appeared for ages, [Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...

    Con 1.317 9 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

    Tran 1.341 4 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

    YA 1.366 12 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared in the most unlooked-for quarters...

    Hist 2.28 11 More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...

    Comp 2.93 20 It appeared...that if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...

    Comp 2.94 12 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.

    Lov1 2.171 6 ...we must...study the sentiment [of love] as it appeared in hope...

    Pt1 3.9 5 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms...

    Pt1 3.10 13 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table.

    Pt1 3.35 26 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.

    Pt1 3.36 2 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...

    Pt1 3.36 4 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men...

    Pt1 3.36 14 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...

    Chr1 3.114 2 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in this direction.

    Mrs1 3.132 15 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.

    Nat2 3.192 14 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.

    Pol1 3.203 26 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...

    NR 3.240 10 A new poet has appeared;...why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?

    NER 3.253 7 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of hydropathy...

    NER 3.256 4 The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.

    UGM 4.30 12 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it, the black dot has appeared and the detachment has taken place.

    PPh 4.74 5 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him;...

    PNR 4.87 10 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls;...

    SwM 4.94 10 The human mind stands ever in perplexity, demanding intellect, demanding sanctity, impatient equally of each without the other. The reconciler has not yet appeared.

    SwM 4.98 13 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to his contemporaries a visionary...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...

    ShP 4.203 23 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];...

    NMW 4.247 18 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief of all military men that there could be nothing new in war;...

    GoW 4.285 25 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea...a novelty to England, Old and New, when the book appeared--that a man exists for culture;...

    ET1 5.10 13 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man...

    ET1 5.23 15 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public...

    ET4 5.54 20 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form;...

    ET13 5.222 6 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.

    ET16 5.280 8 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers; and, in fact, about the time when those writers appeared, the last of these were already gone.

    Wsp 6.216 12 ...when arts appeared...the human soul was in earnest...

    Wsp 6.227 24 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...

    Bty 6.301 23 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...

    Clbs 7.230 8 Every metaphysician must have observed...that...thoughts commonly go in pairs; though the related thoughts first appeared in his mind at long distances of time.

    Clbs 7.247 9 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.

    Cour 7.271 14 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.

    OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.

    SA 8.93 20 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she...electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.

    PPo 8.241 16 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.

    PPo 8.242 7 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...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;...

    PPo 8.265 3 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./

    Grts 8.313 16 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.

    Grts 8.314 2 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...

    Plu 10.305 26 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay: it appeared to me captious and labored;...

    LLNE 10.326 4 The key to the period [1820 and following] appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself.

    LLNE 10.328 19 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.

    LLNE 10.337 9 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.

    LLNE 10.344 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.

    LLNE 10.347 21 [The Socialists] appeared the inspired men of their time.

    LLNE 10.349 1 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...

    LLNE 10.354 10 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great sin.

    CSC 10.374 18 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

    EzRy 10.395 6 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.

    MMEm 10.399 4 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life, such as could hardly have appeared out of New England;...

    Thor 10.467 18 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence, yet appeared in gravest statement...

    LVB 11.94 24 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.

    EWI 11.117 10 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges...

    EWI 11.137 10 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared the reign of pounds and shillings...

    EWI 11.141 10 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa...

    War 11.159 11 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.

    ACiv 11.304 19 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such advantage as in the last twelvemonth.

    SMC 11.374 14 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge, when the white flag of General Lee appeared.

    FRep 11.534 20 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West...

    Bost 12.192 9 The lions have never appeared [in Massachusetts] since,- nor before.

    ACri 12.292 7 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

    MLit 12.318 24 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... appeared in England in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

    PPr 12.390 13 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature;...

    PPr 12.391 20 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...

appearing, v. (14)

    OS 2.277 6 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all.

    NR 3.227 27 ...[a man with fine traits] cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

    NER 3.251 11 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing in temperance and non-resistance societies;...

    Elo1 7.95 13 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.

    Cour 7.274 6 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...

    OA 7.322 3 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...

    Insp 8.278 28 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does not prevent me from appearing quite serene to the persons who surround me.

    Imtl 8.349 7 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.

    MoL 10.253 7 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.

    MoL 10.258 7 ...the issues already appearing overpay the cost.

    GSt 10.507 16 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that, after all his efforts to serve men without appearing to do so, there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.

    LVB 11.91 3 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...

    II 12.72 17 It is this employment of new means-of means spontaneously appearing for the new need...that denotes the inspired man.

    Let 12.392 21 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.

appearings, n. (1)

    Bty 6.288 1 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...but wait there appearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

appears, v. (183)

    Nat 1.4 18 Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence.

    Nat 1.12 13 The misery of man appears like childish petulance...

    Nat 1.34 3 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men. It appears to men, or it does not appear.

    Nat 1.45 12 When [the human form] appears among so many that surround it, the spirit prefers it to all others.

    Nat 1.58 27 It appears that motion, poetry...all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.

    Nat 1.59 20 Children...believe in the external world. The belief that it appears only, is an afterthought...

    DSA 1.120 22 A more...overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

    DSA 1.130 13 As it appears to us...[Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...

    LE 1.157 19 ...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable...

    MN 1.201 19 That no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby, appears from this...

    MN 1.203 7 ...tendency appears on all hands...

    MN 1.205 1 The termination of the world in a man appears to be the last victory of intelligence.

    MN 1.214 25 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...fair and generous as each appears, are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.

    MR 1.232 5 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations...

    LT 1.274 18 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.

    Con 1.296 6 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention, as it appears to relate to this subject.

    Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die, since it appears there was some mistake in my creation...

    Tran 1.329 10 ...thought only appears in the objects it classifies.

    Tran 1.329 12 What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.

    Tran 1.355 19 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

    YA 1.365 19 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...

    Hist 2.19 1 What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often...

    Hist 2.30 27 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...

    Comp 2.102 22 What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.

    Comp 2.111 24 One thing [Fear] teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.

    SL 2.154 6 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...

    SL 2.158 21 As much virtue as there is, so much appears;...

    Fdsp 2.189 15 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The mill-round of our fate appears/ A sun-path in thy worth./

    Cir 2.303 9 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact;...

    Int 2.332 2 ...in a moment, and unannounced, the truth appears.

    Int 2.332 3 A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the principle, we wanted.

    Art1 2.351 4 ...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...

    Art1 2.358 15 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art;...

    Pt1 3.13 13 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object...

    Exp 3.45 20 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...

    Exp 3.67 5 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.

    Chr1 3.90 7 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...

    Chr1 3.90 26 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...

    Chr1 3.91 5 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.

    Chr1 3.92 7 The same motive force [of character] appears in trade.

    Chr1 3.92 19 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.

    Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.

    Chr1 3.109 26 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...

    Mrs1 3.120 21 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.

    Mrs1 3.123 19 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.

    Mrs1 3.133 25 As the first thing man requires of man is reality, so that appears in all the forms of society.

    Mrs1 3.146 27 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum. Yet that is the infirmity of the seneschals, who do not know their sovereign when he appears.

    Nat2 3.194 8 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.

    NR 3.231 26 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...

    NR 3.245 4 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous...

    NR 3.246 16 We hide this universality if we can, but it appears at all points.

    NER 3.260 7 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...

    NER 3.265 9 ...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific of strength.

    NER 3.269 9 It appears that some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.

    NER 3.282 10 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house! but at last it appears that he is the true man, and I am the traitor.

    UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...

    UGM 4.27 3 ...a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man.

    UGM 4.30 6 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.

    UGM 4.30 8 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals. The ever-proceeding detachment appears not less in all thought and in society.

    UGM 4.33 13 ...the union of all minds appears intimate;...

    UGM 4.34 27 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will.

    PPh 4.57 7 The synthesis which makes the character of [Plato's] mind appears in all his talents.

    PNR 4.85 10 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds...

    SwM 4.100 19 In Sweden [Swedenborg] appears to have attracted a marked regard.

    SwM 4.110 26 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.

    SwM 4.116 17 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.

    SwM 4.125 9 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man;...

    SwM 4.126 10 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...

    SwM 4.140 9 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action, but it appears as an obstruction to any thing unfit.

    MoS 4.152 7 ...to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason.

    MoS 4.170 26 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive;...

    ShP 4.195 6 ...it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions...

    ShP 4.196 17 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.

    ShP 4.205 4 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...

    ShP 4.205 16 ...[Shakespeare]...in all respects appears as a good husband...

    ShP 4.206 6 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip, no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born;...

    NMW 4.240 1 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man. This appears in all parts of his Memoirs...

    NMW 4.252 2 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius...

    GoW 4.267 16 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day? In actions of enthusiasm this drawback appears...

    GoW 4.270 15 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture has spread itself...

    ET3 5.43 24 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world.

    ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...

    ET5 5.93 18 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.

    ET6 5.104 23 This vigor [of the Englishman] appears in the incuriosity and stony neglect, each of the other.

    ET8 5.133 4 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...

    ET11 5.186 2 Power of any kind readily appears in the manners;...

    ET11 5.197 20 Another stride that has been taken [in England] appears in the perishing of heraldry.

    ET12 5.203 24 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.

    ET14 5.251 9 ...the artificial succor which marks all English performance appears in letters also...

    F 6.9 26 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...

    F 6.21 7 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...

    F 6.28 17 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...

    Pow 6.72 15 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...

    Wth 6.93 14 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists...

    Ctr 6.137 12 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.

    Bhr 6.179 23 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.

    Wsp 6.220 3 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their creeds.

    Wsp 6.220 21 A man does not see that...as he deals, so he is, and so he appears;...

    DL 7.104 13 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First it appears in no great harm...

    DL 7.125 13 We are too easily pleased. I think this sad result appears in the manners.

    WD 7.166 24 It appears that we have not made a judicious investment.

    Cour 7.258 7 Lord Wellington said...When my journal appears many statues must come down.

    Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.

    Suc 7.297 6 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of impressionability...

    Suc 7.302 11 This sensibility appears in the homage to beauty which exalts the faculties of youth;...

    OA 7.317 4 ...the essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

    PI 8.4 16 First innuendos, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting...that matter is not what it appears;...

    PI 8.11 12 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.

    PI 8.13 1 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.

    PI 8.27 11 ...this power [the perception of the symbolic character of things] appears in Dante and Shakspeare.

    PI 8.44 15 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...

    PI 8.55 25 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs...

    PI 8.57 24 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards...

    PI 8.63 21 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears...

    Elo2 8.112 24 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...

    Elo2 8.115 5 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.

    Elo2 8.119 1 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming...

    Elo2 8.128 5 ...[Dr. Charles Chauncy] so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent; and, it appears, his prayer was granted.

    Comc 8.161 23 [A perception of the Comic] appears to be an essential element in a fine character.

    Comc 8.164 20 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...excluding, when it appears, all other considerations...

    Comc 8.167 11 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.

    QO 8.187 12 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales] came from India...

    QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.

    QO 8.195 1 ...a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.

    QO 8.203 21 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.

    PC 8.220 20 ...wherever a true man appears, everything usually reckoned great dwarfs itself;...

    Insp 8.293 20 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now a principle appears to all...

    Grts 8.303 3 Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.

    Grts 8.308 9 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace, so that his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull people.

    Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears...

    Dem1 10.18 11 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.

    Dem1 10.19 4 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. No equal appears in the field against them.

    Aris 10.33 21 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities. It is in vain to remind them that Nature appears capricious.

    Aris 10.41 20 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...

    PerF 10.74 20 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him. It never appears directly...

    Chr2 10.112 16 ...in America, where are no legal ties to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.

    SovE 10.203 24 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.

    SovE 10.212 16 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration...

    Prch 10.217 20 ...it appears, for the time, as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.

    Prch 10.220 10 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion...

    MoL 10.256 14 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.

    Schr 10.266 12 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.

    Plu 10.293 20 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions...

    Plu 10.305 16 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.

    Plu 10.307 20 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.

    LLNE 10.325 15 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

    MMEm 10.400 18 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...

    MMEm 10.418 5 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time.

    SlHr 10.444 1 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.

    LS 11.9 7 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.

    LS 11.12 14 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...

    LS 11.13 9 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot, as appears from the censures of St. Paul.

    HDC 11.41 5 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...

    HDC 11.44 16 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England]...

    LVB 11.91 10 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...

    EWI 11.101 25 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.

    EWI 11.141 24 It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization.

    EWI 11.143 25 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,- that conserves it;...

    War 11.151 17 War...when seen...in the infancy of society, appears a part of the connection of events...

    War 11.165 5 ...when a truth appears...it will build ships;...

    FSLC 11.206 13 ...one thing appears certain to me, as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.

    ACiv 11.299 24 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...

    ACiv 11.310 19 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...

    EPro 11.316 11 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know. At such times it appears as if a new public were created to greet the new event.

    Wom 11.423 26 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.

    ChiE 11.473 2 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN...

    ChiE 11.473 24 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...

    ChiE 11.474 19 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce. It appears that the ambassadors were emulous in their magnanimity.

    FRep 11.527 21 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears in the power of invention...

    PLT 12.4 27 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...

    PLT 12.31 13 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.

    PLT 12.46 20 When [will] appears in a man he is a hero...

    II 12.71 3 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears in new men...

    CL 12.150 8 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use, and it only appears in use...

    Bost 12.184 23 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...were preferred before others.

    Bost 12.200 20 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection...

    MAng1 12.218 13 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.

    ACri 12.300 12 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...

    MLit 12.311 7 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate it with a venom before any healthy result appears.

    MLit 12.313 4 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.

    PPr 12.385 23 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.

    Trag 12.413 25 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder;...

    Trag 12.416 8 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.

appease, v. (4)

    Chr1 3.113 24 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.

    ET8 5.142 4 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered...

    DL 7.125 22 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.

    SHC 11.432 8 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!

appeased, v. (5)

    MN 1.215 14 ...the soul can be appeased not by a deed but by a tendency.

    Nat2 3.191 4 ...wealth was good as it appeased the animal cravings...

    OA 7.327 19 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.

    Imtl 8.349 15 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...

    MAng1 12.241 19 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.

appeases, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.160 8 ...the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations...

appeasing, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.31 19 The poet...bred in the woods, whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes...shall not lose their lesson altogether...

    PPh 4.65 6 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;... what to astronomy, whose appeasing and medicinal power he celebrates!

appendage, n. (1)

    DSA 1.127 15 Once man was all; now he is an appendage...

appendages, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.134 15 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.

    DL 7.130 16 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?

appendix, n. (2)

    Nat 1.56 21 ...we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.

    Plu 10.318 17 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.

appertain, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.178 3 [The lover] does not longer appertain to his family and society;...

    War 11.165 17 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.

appertaining, v. (2)

    Pow 6.69 5 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.

    Wth 6.102 27 ...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston]...

appetency, n. (2)

    Exp 3.77 26 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.

    PI 8.55 25 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it.

appetite, n. (41)

    DSA 1.121 19 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.

    LT 1.274 7 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...

    Hist 2.23 1 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...dines with as good appetite...as beside his own chimneys.

    Comp 2.101 22 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.

    Prd1 2.231 24 Appetite shows to the finer souls as a disease...

    Nat2 3.186 19 ...we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

    NER 3.255 19 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...

    NER 3.269 25 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...

    SwM 4.131 11 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe] and turns with gloomy appetite to the images of pain.

    MoS 4.184 15 Each man woke in the morning with an appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake;...

    NMW 4.252 3 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth...he was wont to show in war.

    ET1 5.9 23 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...with an English appetite for action and heroes.

    ET4 5.49 7 ...the appetite for superiority grows by feeding.

    ET8 5.130 22 [The English] doubt a man's sound judgment if he does not eat with appetite...

    ET13 5.215 20 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...

    Wsp 6.238 22 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the insatiable curiosity and appetite for its continuation.

    Ill 6.311 26 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

    DL 7.105 19 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...

    Farm 7.140 6 The farmer has...the appetite of health, and means to his end;...

    Farm 7.149 9 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite for potash...he will indulge them.

    WD 7.167 27 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own. Bonaparte, who had the same appetite, endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.

    Boks 7.201 19 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...

    Elo2 8.113 16 ...[the orator]...creates a higher appetite than he satisfies.

    PerF 10.87 26 ...legislatures listen with appetite to declamations against [the moral sentiment], and vote it down.

    Edc1 10.150 9 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm.

    SovE 10.190 2 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and embodies itself in usages...

    HDC 11.40 20 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.

    EWI 11.126 21 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market, with an appetite like the grave, cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...

    War 11.159 19 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe combined against him...

    FSLN 11.232 12 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...

    FSLN 11.241 10 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power, and appetite and ambition will go for that.

    ACiv 11.309 1 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white man, red man, yellow man and black man. All like wages, and the appetite grows by feeding.

    SMC 11.356 24 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the adventurous type of New Englander, with his appetite for novelty and travel;...

    Wom 11.410 21 ...[the horse and ox]...say no thanks, but fight down whatever opposes their appetite.

    PLT 12.19 23 Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.

    PLT 12.33 3 The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge.

    Mem 12.107 5 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.

    MAng1 12.241 16 Towards his end, there seems to have grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...

    ACri 12.296 2 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite...

    Trag 12.409 22 There are people who have an appetite for grief...

    Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.

appetites, n. (10)

    LE 1.177 22 [The scholar's]...appetites...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.

    MN 1.215 10 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...

    SL 2.140 10 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice...of the appetites, and not a whole act of the man.

    F 6.6 6 For certainly, our appetites here/...All this is ruled by the sight above./

    Wth 6.88 25 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...

    Wsp 6.208 10 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,-- no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.

    PPo 8.250 25 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is not created to excite the animal appetites...

    Chr2 10.94 3 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which take from everybody else what they appropriate to themselves...

    Thor 10.454 22 [Thoreau] had...no appetites, no passions, no taste for elegant trifles.

    EWI 11.103 8 For the negro...no security from the humors, none from the crimes, none from the appetites of his master...

Appian Way, n. (1)

    Schr 10.285 22 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of Nature, which were before the Appian Way...

applaud, v. (4)

    UGM 4.23 5 I applaud a sufficient man...

    Elo1 7.78 17 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...

    SA 8.80 15 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points. They may scream or applaud, he is never engaged or heated.

    SovE 10.206 26 We in America are charged...that...we...do exceedingly applaud and admire ourselves...

applauded, v. (2)

    Hist 2.7 2 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...or the blow was struck, for us, as we ourselves in that place would have done or applauded.

    Bhr 6.190 18 A man already strong is listened to, and everything he says is applauded.

applauders, n. (1)

    ET5 5.91 23 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.

applause, n. (6)

    DSA 1.148 27 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.

    Fdsp 2.195 23 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

    Civ 7.17 25 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone,/ To outdo each other and extort applause./

    Elo1 7.83 10 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it, and with the applause of the assembly!

    Wom 11.407 11 ...there is usually no employment or career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of society quit for a suitable marriage.

    Mem 12.92 21 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it...with wonder at the deed, and with applause at the pain it has cost you.

apple, n. (22)

    Nat 1.65 14 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple...

    AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...

    AmS 1.108 6 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.

    Tran 1.355 14 A saint should be as dear as the apple of the eye.

    NR 3.242 9 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature like an apple or an oak...

    NR 3.244 25 ...a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...

    UGM 4.7 13 A sound apple produces seed...

    ET5 5.94 19 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...

    F 6.7 1 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...freezes a man like an apple.

    F 6.41 18 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed...

    Ctr 6.162 18 The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

    Bty 6.306 21 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.

    WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps,--a rattle, a doll, an apple, for a child;...

    PC 8.222 16 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall of the earth to the sun...that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...

    PPo 8.260 22 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./

    Schr 10.287 27 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave...an apple...

    CL 12.145 4 The Rosaceous tribe in botany, including the apple, pear, peach and cherry, are coeval with man.

    CL 12.145 6 The apple is our national fruit.

    CL 12.146 17 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...

    CL 12.146 23 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon.

    MLit 12.312 19 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple from the rock...

    MLit 12.312 24 ...[the poet] now revolves, What is the apple to me?...

apples, n. (13)

    MN 1.206 15 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples.

    Cir 2.310 10 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things, as a tree bears its apples.

    Int 2.333 25 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...

    Int 2.334 1 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...

    Gts 3.165 16 [Men] eat your service like apples, and leave you out.

    ShP 4.217 1 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...

    Wsp 6.203 15 A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

    CbW 6.250 16 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...

    WD 7.155 9 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./

    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./

    CL 12.145 12 ...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into apples.

    CL 12.146 26 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood...

    EurB 12.371 23 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded with potatoes and apples...

Apples of Knowledge, n. (1)

    Hist 2.39 5 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Apples of Knowledge...

Appleton, Sergeant, n. (1)

    SMC 11.368 25 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.

apple-tree, n. (4)

    UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...

    Wth 6.104 11 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.

    Wth 6.104 14 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.

    Wth 6.104 22 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar, which is not much stupider than an apple-tree, presently find it out?

apple-trees, n. (5)

    AKan 11.257 7 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...sell our apple-trees, our acres, our pleasant houses.

    CL 12.146 15 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees...

    CL 12.162 4 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks? Where the white grapes? Where are the choice apple-trees?

    CW 12.172 8 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.

    AgMs 12.358 3 In an afternoon in April...I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...

appliance, n. (2)

    PPh 4.52 8 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.

    Wth 6.101 11 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world...

appliances, n. (1)

    MR 1.246 10 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.

applicabilities, n. (1)

    YA 1.384 25 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who understand the land and its uses and the applicabilities of men...

applicability, n. (6)

    Int 2.346 18 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek philosophers'] thought is proved by its scope and applicability...

    Exp 3.57 7 There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men...

    WD 7.159 9 Why need I speak of steam...with its enormous strength and delicate applicability...

    PI 8.31 22 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to this moment...

    FRep 11.513 7 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things...

    Let 12.399 18 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of...so much power without equal applicability, as our young men pretend to.

applicable, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.132 5 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.

applicant, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.345 23 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...

application, n. (41)

    DSA 1.136 13 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

    LE 1.179 18 ...[Napoleon] had a faith...in the application of means to ends.

    MR 1.249 23 We use these words as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen. And yet they have...the most cogent application to Boston in this year.

    MR 1.255 1 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.

    Con 1.299 14 ...[conservatism] thinks there is a general law without a particular application...

    Hist 2.4 5 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.

    SR 2.82 20 [The work of art] was an application of [the artist's] own thought to the thing to be done...

    Comp 2.114 4 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.

    Comp 2.122 16 Our instinct uses more and less in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence;...

    Prd1 2.227 9 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.

    Chr1 3.95 14 ...justice is the application of [truth] to affairs.

    Pol1 3.213 6 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...

    SwM 4.105 2 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...

    SwM 4.114 21 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates; what was too large, by the units. There is no end to [Swedenborg's] application of the thought.

    SwM 4.122 12 [Swedenborg's] religion thinks for him and is of universal application.

    MoS 4.156 4 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute...of justness in its application...

    ShP 4.211 2 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.

    GoW 4.283 3 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.

    ET5 5.74 3 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...

    ET7 5.119 27 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her foreign readers would give to the remark.

    ET10 5.162 11 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture...

    ET10 5.167 23 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of...the application of their talent to new labor.

    Bty 6.290 10 It is a rule of largest application...that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.

    Elo1 7.88 16 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Franklin. Its application to law seems quite accidental.

    Farm 7.144 11 ...the earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.

    WD 7.158 26 ...the vast production and manifold application of iron is new;...

    Cour 7.263 23 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.

    PI 8.31 25 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as romantic and dangerous;...

    Elo2 8.127 27 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation to men, and quick application of his thought to the course of events.

    Res 8.150 2 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application...

    Grts 8.314 17 [Napoleon] has left...a multitude of sayings, every one of widest application.

    Chr2 10.92 26 ...justice is the application of this good of the whole to the affairs of each one;...

    Edc1 10.154 5 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it...is of so easy application...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.

    Prch 10.230 8 [The man of practice or worldly force] does not forgive an application in the preacher to the merchant's things.

    Schr 10.268 18 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those lower activities.

    FSLN 11.227 18 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.

    ALin 11.333 24 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches, hidden now by the very closeness of their application to the moment, are destined hereafter to wide fame.

    FRep 11.513 9 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things in the hands of thinking man, every new application being equivalent to a new material.

    PLT 12.23 21 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...

    II 12.67 1 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct), and fine application of it.

    MAng1 12.219 9 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric;...

applications, n. (9)

    DSA 1.124 11 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named...in its different applications...

    LT 1.286 11 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all possible applications to the state of man...

    Tran 1.336 1 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all possible applications to the state of man...

    Tran 1.350 8 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.

    Wth 6.85 17 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature...

    Wth 6.86 5 Wealth is in applications of mind to nature;...

    Cour 7.269 18 In all applications [courage] is the same power...

    Schr 10.264 2 All the sciences are only new applications...of the one law which [the scholar's] mind is.

    Milt1 12.272 14 [Milton's tracts] are all varied applications of one principle, the liberty of the wise man.

applied, v. (42)

    Nat 1.5 10 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the [unchanged essences]...

    Nat 1.28 8 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.

    Nat 1.33 11 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...

    LE 1.181 1 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts, which, applied to better purpose, make true wisdom.

    Comp 2.114 6 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening;...

    Comp 2.114 7 It is best...to buy...in your sailor, good sense applied to navigation;...

    Comp 2.114 8 It is best...to buy...in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...

    Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs.

    Exp 3.54 9 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution...

    SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth. It is false, if literally applied to marriage.

    GoW 4.277 8 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...

    ET1 5.9 3 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters; and I spoke of the uses to which they were applied.

    ET4 5.45 23 It has been denied that the English have genius. Be it as it may...they have made or applied the principal inventions.

    ET6 5.103 4 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England]...

    ET14 5.232 4 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought...

    ET14 5.242 10 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg, so cosmically applied by him, that the man makes his heaven and hell;...

    ET14 5.245 3 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.

    Pow 6.80 20 ...I hold that an economy may be applied to [spirit];...

    Wth 6.93 16 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

    CbW 6.245 16 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.

    SS 7.16 5 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied.

    Art2 7.43 19 ...being applied primarily to the common necessities of man, [language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.

    WD 7.159 27 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body...

    OA 7.331 7 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.

    Insp 8.281 24 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort, and it seems to us that this facility may be indefinitely applied and resumed.

    Aris 10.49 7 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed. Now,if it were possible, I should like to see that appraisal applied to every man...

    PerF 10.77 4 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and so domesticated.

    PerF 10.86 5 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim, so that each...is only the same spirit applied to new departments.

    Prch 10.230 7 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force...the same as his own, but wholly applied to the priest's things.

    LLNE 10.343 4 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom, or when it was first applied.

    MMEm 10.426 2 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element.

    Thor 10.451 17 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft...

    Thor 10.458 8 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.

    EWI 11.104 2 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men...we too should wince.

    EWI 11.105 15 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon...

    EWI 11.132 13 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied. If ordinary legislation cannot reach it, then extraordinary must be applied.

    AsSu 11.251 11 ...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.

    EdAd 11.384 11 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.

    RBur 11.442 5 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

    PLT 12.3 19 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...

    PLT 12.21 11 The retrospective value of each new thought is...like a torch applied to a long train of gunpowder.

    MLit 12.322 2 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...

applies, v. (9)

    Nat 1.72 9 At present, man applies to nature but half his force.

    DSA 1.123 18 See again the perfection of the Law as it applies itself to the affections...

    MN 1.207 20 ...[a man] applies himself to his work;...

    DL 7.116 24 ...the reform that applies itself to the household must not be partial.

    DL 7.123 15 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.

    Res 8.147 22 ...in earlier stages of the disorder [good sense] applies milder and nobler remedies.

    PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.

    PerF 10.73 1 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...

    PLT 12.23 9 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task...

apply, v. (29)

    Nat 1.26 7 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

    Hist 2.11 26 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production.

    Int 2.339 5 ...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 distorted...

    Mrs1 3.143 18 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.

    PNR 4.82 9 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.

    ET1 5.4 20 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world; without reflecting that they are prisoners, too, of their own thought, and cannot apply themselves to yours.

    ET4 5.67 22 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.

    ET5 5.83 24 [The English] apply themselves to agriculture, to draining...

    ET7 5.124 18 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.

    Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.

    Suc 7.307 27 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and quality...

    Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to letters, to manners...

    SA 8.99 13 When men consult you, it is...that they wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present question...

    Insp 8.271 27 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.

    PerF 10.72 21 ...the laws of force apply to every form of it.

    Edc1 10.136 6 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.

    Edc1 10.148 11 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...

    Edc1 10.153 18 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it;...

    Edc1 10.154 7 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...and tutor or schoolmaster in his first term can apply it,-that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.

    SovE 10.199 11 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.

    LLNE 10.344 21 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.

    LLNE 10.352 6 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.

    AKan 11.257 18 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.

    Wom 11.405 20 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste...

    FRep 11.513 24 As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man can apply.

    FRep 11.542 4 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...

    PLT 12.45 13 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they...make a distinction in favor of themselves from the rules they apply to the human race.

    CInt 12.113 22 Archimedes disdained to apply himself to the useful arts...

    Milt1 12.261 8 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music...

applying, v. (4)

    Elo1 7.89 22 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.

    Res 8.142 3 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...

    PerF 10.69 15 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature.

    EzRy 10.393 22 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.

appoint, v. (4)

    YA 1.385 11 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in light before them; they are in their element. Could any means be contrived to appoint only these!

    Hsm1 2.261 18 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...

    HDC 11.57 1 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

    Bost 12.195 17 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

appointed, adj. (7)

    YA 1.365 24 The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.

    SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire...

    ET12 5.210 20 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...

    F 6.5 16 On two days, it steads not to run from thy grave,/ The appointed, and the unappointed day;/...

    Cour 7.277 7 ...baseness cannot change the appointed event.

    LLNE 10.340 20 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.

    ACiv 11.310 5 Nature works through her appointed elements;...

appointed, v. (20)

    Lov1 2.187 9 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...

    Chr1 3.91 13 [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...

    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...

    Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...

    F 6.49 18 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed...

    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.

    Clbs 7.240 14 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?

    Suc 7.293 1 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution...

    Elo2 8.123 16 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams] was appointed Minister to Russia...

    PPo 8.239 3 [The religion of the East] distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment. Courage and absolute submission to what is appointed him are his virtues.

    PPo 8.262 7 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/

    Plu 10.293 14 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece.

    Plu 10.306 2 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.

    Thor 10.466 15 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...

    HDC 11.44 16 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court...

    HDC 11.54 25 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord]...were appointed.

    HDC 11.57 17 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics, and appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town [Concord], to the command.

    HCom 11.341 20 It is not the Government, but the War, that has appointed the good generals...

    Bost 12.188 23 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

    MAng1 12.224 3 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.

appointing, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in...appointing almoners to the helpless...

    HDC 11.44 13 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its constable, and other petty half-military officers.

appointment, n. (5)

    NMW 4.243 9 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent, and its appointment to trusts;...

    Suc 7.294 26 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment; but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...

    EWI 11.113 20 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners, whose appointment and duties were regulated by the Act [of emancipation].

    EWI 11.114 6 ...the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.

    Bost 12.189 14 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees...with...the sole power of legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of government-extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

appointments, n. (3)

    LE 1.180 15 ...[Napoleon's army was] strictly supplied in all its appointments...

    ET6 5.107 4 All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of an English inn, and of English households.

    Schr 10.278 22 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.

appoints, v. (5)

    SR 2.73 15 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever...the heart appoints.

    Clbs 7.240 15 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.

    Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.

    Supl 10.176 19 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...

    EWI 11.143 18 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...

apportioned, adj. (1)

    WD 7.178 25 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.

apportionment, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.213 7 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the apportionment of service...

appraisal, n. (1)

    Aris 10.49 7 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed. Now,if it were possible, I should like to see that appraisal applied to every man...

appreciable, adj. (2)

    Int 2.328 12 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.

    Pt1 3.19 16 ...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

appreciate, v. (13)

    LE 1.180 27 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts...

    YA 1.365 22 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in this country...

    ET14 5.248 27 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.

    Farm 7.153 22 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...

    Suc 7.297 7 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of... power to appreciate faint, fainter and infinitely faintest voices and visions.

    QO 8.195 22 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep...

    LVB 11.95 26 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.

    FSLN 11.241 24 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...

    SMC 11.370 4 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.

    PLT 12.6 12 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...

    CL 12.156 18 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate.

    MAng1 12.223 1 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...

    MAng1 12.238 24 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others...

appreciated, v. (6)

    DSA 1.130 8 Thus is [Jesus]...the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

    Wsp 6.226 4 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...

    Suc 7.294 20 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...

    EzRy 10.390 14 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic...that he was very justly appreciated in this community.

    Thor 10.453 25 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this work [surveying] were readily appreciated...

    MAng1 12.215 19 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...

appreciates, v. (3)

    ET14 5.246 4 ...better than Johnson [Hallam] appreciates Milton.

    WD 7.157 13 The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose.

    Aris 10.44 17 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the water-privilege...

appreciating, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.210 9 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...

appreciating, v. (1)

    ET14 5.259 20 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...

appreciation, n. (8)

    ShP 4.204 20 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...

    ET1 5.18 19 [Carlyle] was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation.

    ET5 5.76 10 [These Saxons] have...the telescopic appreciation of distant gain.

    Ctr 6.164 18 ...the chance for appreciation is much increased by being the son of an appreciator...

    SA 8.79 12 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.

    QO 8.198 4 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light; this idea of the authorship controlling our appreciation of the works themselves.

    Milt1 12.252 17 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was finer and closer appreciation;...

    WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.

appreciator, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.164 20 ...the chance for appreciation is much increased by being the son of an appreciator...

appreciators, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 20 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.

apprehend, v. (9)

    Nat 1.12 13 Yet although low, [Commodity]...is the only use of nature which all men apprehend.

    Nat 1.57 18 We apprehend the absolute.

    MN 1.213 24 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]...

    Int 2.331 21 We all but apprehend, we dimly forebode the truth.

    Chr1 3.99 24 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me apprehend, if it were only his resistance;...

    PPh 4.49 22 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.

    PI 8.48 26 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...

    Grts 8.308 19 This necessity...of speaking your private thought and experience, few young men apprehend.

    LS 11.19 5 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.

apprehended, v. (8)

    Nat 1.43 3 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature...

    AmS 1.99 4 ...when thoughts are no longer apprehended...[the artist] has always the resource to live.

    PPh 4.57 12 The mind of Plato...is to be apprehended by an original mind in the exercise of its original power.

    PPh 4.61 20 Plato apprehended the cardinal facts.

    MoS 4.178 21 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...

    NMW 4.248 22 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.

    FSLN 11.234 25 The teachings of the Spirit can be apprehended only by the same spirit that gave them forth.

    Scot 11.465 1 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...

apprehending, v. (2)

    UGM 4.22 11 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods.

    PLT 12.53 15 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality. Excellent in his own way by means of not apprehending the gift of another.

apprehends, v. (6)

    Nat 1.4 4 [Man] acts [his condition] as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

    Nat 1.39 4 How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another the laws of physics!

    Insp 8.293 10 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other;...

    Chr2 10.103 4 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him, until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and interprets every word.

    Edc1 10.144 21 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.

    PLT 12.45 6 Goethe...apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.

apprehension, n. (25)

    Nat 1.23 3 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...

    DSA 1.120 14 Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that...

    LT 1.265 25 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of...an apprehension which looks over all history and everywhere recognizes its own.

    Tran 1.343 18 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...

    Hist 2.17 4 By a deeper apprehension...the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.

    SL 2.142 17 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate...

    Lov1 2.182 12 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them.

    Fdsp 2.196 23 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension.

    Prd1 2.236 23 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...

    Prd1 2.237 14 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension...

    Hsm1 2.263 11 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.

    OS 2.281 7 Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.

    Cir 2.309 11 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 preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth...

    Int 2.340 20 The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works.

    SwM 4.132 8 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.

    ET14 5.246 15 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts.

    Wsp 6.238 17 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night, at our table by day,--the apprehension, the assurance of a coming change.

    DL 7.130 1 ...let [a man] not think that a property in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...

    WD 7.179 10 'T is the measure of a man,--his apprehension of a day.

    QO 8.201 16 The profound apprehension of the Present is Genius...

    Edc1 10.135 1 We exercise [boys'] understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts...

    SlHr 10.444 25 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.

    PLT 12.45 22 There are men of great apprehension...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...

    Mem 12.100 26 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...

    Let 12.399 16 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of...such undeniable apprehension without talent...as our young men pretend to.

apprehensions, n. (3)

    Elo2 8.129 16 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?

    LVB 11.95 17 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

    Trag 12.405 6 The conversation of men is a mixture of regrets and apprehensions.

apprehensive, adj. (5)

    NER 3.281 1 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...

    ShP 4.208 7 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us, that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

    Pow 6.76 6 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.

    Ctr 6.150 4 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.

    Schr 10.278 3 I think there is no more intellectual people than ours. They are very apprehensive and curious.

apprentice, n. (9)

    YA 1.368 16 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...

    WD 7.157 14 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule;...

    PerF 10.79 7 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice...

    Schr 10.264 12 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by tracing everything home to a cause;...

    EWI 11.108 4 John Woolman of New Jersey, whilst yet an apprentice, was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.

    EWI 11.114 4 ...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity. The new relation between the master and the apprentice, it was feared, would be mischievous;...

    EWI 11.114 7 ...the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.

    EWI 11.119 16 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to oppress, was greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to withstand.

    MAng1 12.220 15 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

apprenticed, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.112 9 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...

apprenticed, v. (1)

    Scot 11.467 19 [Scott] was apprenticed at Edinburgh to a Writer to the Signet...

apprentices, n. (6)

    ET10 5.154 25 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...

    Ctr 6.161 21 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients.

    EWI 11.117 13 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges, and overwork the apprentices;...

    EWI 11.119 19 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract, whilst the apprentices had fulfilled theirs;...

    CL 12.158 27 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners. These we call apprentices.

    CW 12.177 14 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors of that science from the apprentices.

apprentice's, n. (1)

    EWI 11.112 16 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own...

apprentices ['prentices], n. (1)

    ShP 4.193 6 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.

apprenticeship, adj. (2)

    EWI 11.113 22 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...

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

apprenticeship, n. (7)

    AmS 1.81 20 ...our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.

    Cir 2.301 13 Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn;...

    Wth 6.118 10 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth...

    Suc 7.290 13 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... mastery without apprenticeship...

    EWI 11.119 21 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton...demanded that the emancipation [in the West Indies] should be hastened, and the apprenticeship abolished.

    EWI 11.120 1 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved to throw up the two remaining years of apprenticeship, and to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.

    FRep 11.514 5 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd, however at first making his obedient apprenticeship in party tactics...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...

apprenticeships, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.41 25 The world is full of renunciations and apprenticeships...

apprise, v. (4)

    Cir 2.314 2 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.

    F 6.38 8 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!

    F 6.46 16 ...a hundred signs apprise [some people] of what is about to befall.

    EPro 11.316 10 These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know.

apprised, v. (13)

    OS 2.290 2 When we see those whom [the soul] inhabits, we are apprised of new degrees of greatness.

    Pt1 3.17 4 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...

    Pt1 3.39 9 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem him in.

    Exp 3.71 11 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.

    ET15 5.270 17 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.

    CbW 6.272 6 Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...

    Elo1 7.63 8 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...

    WD 7.174 10 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.

    PI 8.63 3 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...

    FRO1 11.479 14 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that exalts...

    FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...

    PLT 12.19 14 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.

    II 12.67 24 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...

apprises, v. (5)

    Pt1 3.5 3 [The poet]...apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common wealth.

    NER 3.280 24 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.

    UGM 4.22 6 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...

    GoW 4.263 22 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric...

    F 6.27 15 [Our thought] apprises us of its sovereignty and godhead...

apprising, v. (1)

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

apprize, v. (2)

    Nat 1.63 17 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize us of the eternal distinction between the soul and the world.

    MR 1.229 20 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.

apprized, v. (2)

    Nat 1.51 19 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.

    LT 1.264 11 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprized him shall be;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...

apprizes, v. (1)

    Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.

approach, n. (24)

    Nat 1.4 12 We have...scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation.

    Hist 2.18 16 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

    Fdsp 2.192 7 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.

    Fdsp 2.193 17 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!

    Fdsp 2.203 1 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments...

    Mrs1 3.152 22 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.

    UGM 4.27 22 Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness.

    UGM 4.27 25 [Geniuses] are very attractive, and seem at a distance our own: but we are hindered on all sides from approach.

    PPh 4.55 22 ...our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.

    ET1 5.15 27 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine; Fraser's nearer approach to possibility of life was the mud magazine;...

    F 6.43 15 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind...

    Boks 7.200 22 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical accuracy;...

    Clbs 7.226 8 With some men [conversation] is a debate; at the approach of a dispute they neigh like horses.

    Insp 8.289 9 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].

    Prch 10.231 22 We come to church properly...for approach to principles to see how it stands with us...

    MMEm 10.400 19 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...

    MMEm 10.421 8 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.

    MMEm 10.422 12 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration...by...the approach to God.

    MMEm 10.427 13 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.

    PLT 12.14 7 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...feel its approach...

    PLT 12.35 14 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.

    PLT 12.35 15 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.

    PLT 12.35 17 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast. There is somewhat awful in that first approach.

    Milt1 12.248 7 There is no name in English literature between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his own.

approach, v. (24)

    Nat 1.29 12 ...the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.

    LE 1.162 6 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...approach them...

    SR 2.68 20 That thought by what I can now nearest approach to say it, is this.

    SL 2.150 11 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result.

    Lov1 2.179 16 We cannot approach beauty.

    Fdsp 2.199 19 ...the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

    Fdsp 2.200 26 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...

    Hsm1 2.263 14 We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us...

    Int 2.343 19 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.

    Exp 3.48 2 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it...

    SwM 4.125 23 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived themselves of charity, wander and flee: the societies which they approach discover their quality and drive them away.

    Bhr 6.184 1 See [the successful man of the world] approach his man.

    Bty 6.281 2 Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

    Farm 7.151 1 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...

    PI 8.68 19 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...

    Grts 8.316 22 ...natural is really allied to moral power, and may always be expected to approach it by its own instincts.

    Edc1 10.155 19 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.

    Koss 11.401 5 ...as the shores of Europe and America approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...

    PLT 12.11 1 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.

    PLT 12.11 8 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...

    PLT 12.16 8 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not approach a solution.

    CL 12.146 7 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels, in a manner which no confectioner can approach...

    MAng1 12.233 27 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.

    MAng1 12.244 23 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature, and who seek by labor and self-denial to approach its source in perfect goodness.

approached, v. (12)

    MN 1.216 6 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god always approached, never touched;...

    Con 1.314 17 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty, when approached in the confidence of conversation...has also his gracious and relenting moments...

    Comp 2.116 22 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...

    NR 3.240 10 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?

    SwM 4.121 25 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].

    ET4 5.68 7 Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy...

    WD 7.163 22 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.

    Cour 7.269 17 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...

    Cour 7.274 21 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...

    MoL 10.253 10 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.

    SlHr 10.446 20 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators approached him, these memories left no scar;...

    PLT 12.16 25 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who has made a chart of its channel, or approached the fountain of this wonderful Nile?

approaches, n. (4)

    Bty 6.305 21 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...

    Elo2 8.127 19 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated, he tried to make soft approaches...

    Wom 11.411 21 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings-with fair approaches...

    PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...

approaches, v. (11)

    OS 2.273 24 ...we say...that the Millenium approaches...

    Mrs1 3.153 19 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which...will work after its kind and conquer and expand all that approaches it.

    NMW 4.234 12 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?

    ET13 5.222 22 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.

    Bty 6.296 13 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

    Imtl 8.341 19 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruin.

    Scot 11.466 21 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare.

    CPL 11.505 3 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which gives them to us approaches its ruin.

    PLT 12.23 12 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...

    Bost 12.185 13 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.

    AgMs 12.362 6 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them...

approaching, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.54 19 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./

    Exp 3.71 17 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains...

    MoS 4.174 13 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!

approaching, v. (3)

    LT 1.272 9 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...

    Prd1 2.240 9 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new women, approaching us.

    Dem1 10.16 3 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.

approbation, n. (9)

    Con 1.299 27 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...

    Cir 2.307 7 We thirst for approbation...

    Mrs1 3.133 10 There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation...

    NER 3.283 22 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...

    F 6.30 10 [The hero's] approbation is honor;...

    PI 8.64 13 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...

    QO 8.195 4 In [a writer's] own [book] he waits as a candidate for your approbation;...

    Aris 10.61 11 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.

    Milt1 12.273 18 [Milton] thought he could be famous only in proportion as he enjoyed the approbation of the good.

appropriate, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.61 7 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...wherein all [man's] faculties find appropriate and endless exercise.

    LT 1.275 26 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.

    Hist 2.3 18 ...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody... every emotion which belongs to it, in appropriate events.

    Elo1 7.81 18 Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

    PI 8.44 26 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costume;...

    PI 8.47 9 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...

    MAng1 12.233 19 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines, as its appropriate form.

appropriate, v. (9)

    Comp 2.103 20 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek...to appropriate;...

    Comp 2.110 22 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.

    Comp 2.124 13 It is the nature of the soul to appropriate all things.

    Fdsp 2.199 11 We seek our friend...with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

    PPh 4.55 16 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.

    QO 8.193 6 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent.

    Chr2 10.94 4 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which take from everybody else what they appropriate to themselves...

    Milt1 12.276 10 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they did not appropriate...

    MLit 12.316 24 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been exhibited;...literature is far the best expression.

appropriated, v. (3)

    Nat 1.25 22 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature.

    DSA 1.131 4 ...the language that describes Christ...is appropriated and formal...

    SS 7.7 27 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.

appropriately, adv. (1)

    SMC 11.350 23 ...the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.

appropriates, v. (2)

    YA 1.373 21 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred and appropriates it to the general stock.

    Pow 6.58 16 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...

appropriation, n. (6)

    Lov1 2.179 20 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.

    Cir 2.319 9 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia;...

    DL 7.110 12 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars and their fantastic appropriation of them?

    QO 8.200 18 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?

    HDC 11.41 27 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of...the appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.

    War 11.170 23 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...

approval, n. (2)

    Exp 3.59 24 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

    SA 8.100 6 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.

approve, v. (8)

    Int 2.344 20 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years. He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also.

    Mrs1 3.123 9 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...

    Clbs 7.241 3 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...

    Suc 7.282 6 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...

    Chr2 10.97 22 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness. We should say with Heraclitus: Come into this smoky cabin; God is here also: approve yourself to him.

    LS 11.18 9 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?

    LS 11.19 27 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.

    FRep 11.523 8 ...[Americans] take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it.

approved, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.96 25 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.

approved, v. (7)

    NMW 4.226 14 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin, who sat by him. Lord Elgin approved it...

    ET5 5.92 15 [The English] have approved their Saxon blood, by their sea-going qualities;...

    Insp 8.297 1 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social practices their experience suggested and approved.

    Thor 10.454 17 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much, but approved it with later wisdom.

    HDC 11.48 25 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...

    EWI 11.107 6 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...

    MAng1 12.225 20 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...

approver, n. (1)

    Cir 2.307 7 We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

approvers, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.387 25 Lovers of our country, but not always approvers of the public counsels, we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.

approves, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.262 22 ...let [a man]...stablish himself in those courses he approves.

    PLT 12.4 23 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...

approving, v. (1)

    Thor 10.458 7 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.

approvingly, adv. (1)

    Suc 7.283 9 Our eyes run approvingly along the lengthened lines of railroad and telegraph.

approximate, adj. (5)

    Cir 2.314 12 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...

    Cir 2.314 16 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost? Yet is that statement approximate also, and not final.

    NER 3.282 24 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer...

    MoS 4.157 16 ...there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had?

    Edc1 10.133 2 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life], the approximate result we call truth...

approximating, v. (1)

    PC 8.222 11 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...

approximation, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.7 6 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory?

    SovE 10.213 7 Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...

approximations, n. (3)

    AmS 1.106 17 ...in a millenium...one or two approximations to the right state of every man.

    Nat2 3.190 4 We live in a system of approximations.

    Imtl 8.336 1 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?

appulses, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 9 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...

appurtenances, n. (1)

    ShP 4.205 6 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre: its wardrobe and other appurtenances were his...

April, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.302 9 [Channing] is the April day incarnated...

April, n. (17)

    ET7 5.120 22 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.

    ET7 5.123 17 [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...

    ET11 5.184 1 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...

    ET12 5.203 7 I saw the whole [Thomas Lawrence art collection] collection in April, 1848.

    ET15 5.264 11 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists and make them ridiculous on the 10th April.

    Suc 7.285 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...

    LLNE 10.359 19 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...and took possession of the place in April.

    EzRy 10.384 17 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.

    EzRy 10.390 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.

    HDC 11.63 20 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...

    HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.

    HDC 11.77 20 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].

    FSLC 11.182 19 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat, on the 19th of April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.

    SMC 11.374 7 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...

    CL 12.136 8 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

    CL 12.138 5 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...

    AgMs 12.358 1 In an afternoon in April...I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...

apron, n. (1)

    Civ 7.22 17 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and put him and his plough and his oxen into her apron...

apt, adj. (23)

    Nat 1.66 6 Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight...

    MR 1.241 18 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...

    Int 2.337 27 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us with terror...

    SwM 4.106 8 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology...

    ET6 5.114 18 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French. In America, we are apt scholars...

    ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...

    F 6.18 11 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain, apt for the same vigorous computation...

    Ctr 6.132 1 ...if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

    Wsp 6.214 11 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training,--religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

    CbW 6.276 21 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...

    Elo1 7.75 11 ...we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.

    WD 7.159 14 Steam is an apt scholar and a strong-shouldered fellow...

    PerF 10.86 25 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.

    Schr 10.277 9 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.

    EzRy 10.393 17 [Ezra Ripley's] conversation was strictly personal and apt to the party and the occasion.

    LS 11.8 17 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.

    FSLC 11.211 21 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics.

    SMC 11.369 13 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men. There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing. For that word missing is apt to mean skulking.

    PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.

    Mem 12.95 3 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words? I answer, Yes, always; but they are apt to be instantly forgotten.

    CInt 12.118 25 ...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered expression of opinion.

    CInt 12.123 8 ...[the Understanding] is apt to be a talker, a boaster, a busy-body.

    WSL 12.342 26 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming.

aptitude, n. (7)

    Nat 1.56 15 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.

    ET4 5.58 23 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.

    Suc 7.291 15 Each man has an aptitude born with him.

    QO 8.191 12 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.

    PLT 12.31 12 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.

    PLT 12.31 16 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.

    WSL 12.342 14 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.

aptly, adv. (3)

    Hist 2.33 11 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...

    Elo2 8.110 8 ...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...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own places.--Milton.

    Milt1 12.262 12 ...[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...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own places.

aptness, n. (1)

    PI 8.11 20 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...

Apuleius, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.183 5 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.

    Plu 10.319 9 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Aratus, Apollonius and Apuleius.

aquatic, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.203 7 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men, of the azonic and the aquatic gods...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.

aqueduct, n. (2)

    Aris 10.40 9 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver...of the aqueduct, of the bridge, of the tunnel;...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

    II 12.67 1 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...

aqueducts, n. (4)

    SL 2.137 1 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...

    Cir 2.302 22 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...

    ET5 5.85 5 [The English] build roads, aqueducts;...

    Art2 7.40 27 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.

Aquinas, St. Thomas, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

Ara Coeli [Celi], Rome, I (1)

    MAng1 12.225 25 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi...

Arab, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.77 9 The hack is a better roadster than the Arab barb.

    Bhr 6.176 26 Take a date-tree [said the emir Abdel-Kader], leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates. Nobility is the date-tree and the Arab populace is a bush of thorns.

Arab, n. (8)

    F 6.5 13 The Turk, the Arab, the Persian, accepts the foreordained fate...

    Cour 7.264 1 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor an Arab by the simoon...

    PPo 8.240 6 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...

    Supl 10.177 4 Religion and poetry are all the civilization of the Arab.

    Prch 10.223 19 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy.

    CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.

    CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab, on air and water.

    CW 12.174 8 ...[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.

Arabia, n. (5)

    AmS 1.111 9 I ask not for...what is doing in Italy or Arabia;...

    Civ 7.26 9 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions,--as the genius of Egypt, of India and of Arabia.

    QO 8.180 15 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...

    Insp 8.275 15 The legends of Arabia, Persia and India are of the same complexion as the Christian.

    MoL 10.244 10 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!

Arabian, adj. (13)

    AmS 1.91 21 The Arabian proverb says, A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.

    LE 1.177 25 Why should [the scholar] read [human life] as an Arabian tale...

    MR 1.252 3 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes of living, a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...

    MR 1.255 13 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./

    LT 1.282 15 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity] in the Arabian, in the Hebrew...periods;...

    Hsm1 2.253 14 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.

    OS 2.278 26 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...

    Elo1 7.99 23 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...

    WD 7.160 15 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...piercing the Arabian desert?

    Suc 7.288 4 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts];...

    Insp 8.280 27 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!

    PerF 10.82 14 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the Arabian minstrel, are not fables...

    Pray 12.351 21 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life, the Arabian historians tell us, with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

Arabian Nights' Entertainme (1)

    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...

Arabian Nights' Entertainme (3)

    ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.

    Elo1 7.70 18 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are, in our translations of the Arabian Nights.

    DL 7.106 20 The Arabian Nights' Entertainments...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!

Arabian Night!s Entertainme (1)

    PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian Nights, on the African coast.

Arabian Nights, n. (1)

    CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not had the Arabian Nights...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.

Arabians, n. (4)

    Con 1.317 6 ...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.

    SwM 4.95 20 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...

    SA 8.104 5 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as... the Persians, the Romans, the Arabians...at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...

    Chr2 10.101 9 The Arabians delight in expressing the sympathy of the unseen world with holy men.

Arabian's, n. (1)

    MoL 10.253 8 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.

arable, adj. (3)

    LT 1.289 24 The granite is curiously concealed...under well-manured, arable fields...

    ET3 5.34 17 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities, the arable soil...

    Res 8.141 22 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...

Arabs, n. (8)

    MR 1.251 5 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example.

    PPh 4.76 9 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess.

    ET4 5.48 16 The Arabs of to-day are the Arabs of Pharaoh;...

    ET4 5.70 9 [The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.

    ET18 5.303 15 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect, like that of the Arabs in the time of Mahomet...

    PPo 8.239 12 The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.

    Insp 8.279 27 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...

    ACri 12.295 13 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius; the Arabs with their Mahomet;...

Arachnean, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 4 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy.

Arago, Dominique Francois, (2)

    PC 8.220 9 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of... Arago.

    CInt 12.124 15 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time, and only the other day, of Arago;...

Aratus, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 8 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Aratus, Apollonius and Apuleius.


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