Atmosphere to Attire
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
atmosphere, n. (45)
Nat 1.7 8 One might think the atmosphere was made
transparent with this design, to give man...the perpetual presence of
the sublime.
DSA 1.146 18 ...when you meet one of these men or
women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your
atmosphere;...
MR 1.250 17 ...we cannot make a planet, with
atmosphere, rivers, and forests, by means of the best
carpenters'...tools...
Prd1 2.234 23 ...beer, if not brewed in the right
state of the atmosphere, will sour;...
OS 2.268 21 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest as the
earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere;...
OS 2.291 8 The simplest utterances are worthiest to
be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the
infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the
ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and
the whole atmosphere are ours.
Pt1 3.40 26 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes
pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again
to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our
respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace; not a measure of
gallons, but the entire atmosphere if wanted.
Mrs1 3.121 16 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the
character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain
permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition...
Mrs1 3.127 2 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of
defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the
other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences
disappear, and the youth finds himself in a more transparent
atmosphere...
Pol1 3.211 27 It makes no difference how many tons'
weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure
resists it within the lungs.
UGM 4.12 5 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the
atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
SwM 4.94 18 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a
region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
ET11 5.179 3 The names [of English towns and
districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread
over the land.
ET12 5.207 3 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and
Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning;...
ET14 5.242 24 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and
element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the
Elizabethan age...
F 6.25 1 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but
for the reaction of the air within the body.
F 6.27 21 I know not whether there be...in the upper
region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current...
Wsp 6.232 2 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated
from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and
soils.
Ill 6.316 4 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region
of affection, and its atmosphere always liable to mirage.
Farm 7.144 18 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks
the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...
Boks 7.217 19 If our times are sterile in genius, we
must cheer us with books of rich and believing men who had atmosphere
and amplitude about them.
OA 7.313 14 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./
SA 8.90 14 The delight...in pure, brilliant, social
atmosphere;...doubles the value of life.
Dem1 10.11 6 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is
filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
Prch 10.222 11 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if
you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but
his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone
forever.
LLNE 10.350 12 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the
bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good
Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould
slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere;...
MMEm 10.427 25 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely
now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the
atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
SHC 11.431 10 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable;
their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses; their heads
expand to feed the atmosphere.
CL 12.140 18 So exquisite is the structure of the
cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the
atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the
first part to sympathize...
CW 12.178 10 ...the top of the tree is also a
tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.
WSL 12.345 18 What is the quality of the persons
who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history,
almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?
Let 12.401 16 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...
atmospheres, n. (2)
Farm 7.145 26 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a
perpetual tempering... atmospheres of azote...to check the fury of the
conflagration;...
LLNE 10.348 16 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into
stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women...
atmospheric, adj. (5)
Nat 1.68 13 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so
long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which
subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because
he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of...atmospheric
influence...
NR 3.229 23 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric
influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an
arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
ET14 5.248 11 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an
element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges,
that he is impressive...
SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open
day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average
structure such as... atmospheric air and water.
Insp 8.284 10 My anchorite thought it sad that
atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the
soul with the Infinite.
atmospherically, adv. (1)
Mrs1 3.132 27 A man should not go where he cannot
carry his whole sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole
circle of his friends, but atmospherically.
atom, n. (40)
Nat 1.60 7 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of
persons and things...not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom...
AmS 1.98 23 That great principle of Undulation in
nature, that shows itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom
and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity...
MN 1.200 9 How silent, how spacious, what room for
all, yet without place to insert an atom;...the dance of the hours goes
forward still.
Lov1 2.185 22 The union which is thus effected [by
love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature...is yet a
temporary state.
Fdsp 2.202 21 ...I...may deal with [a friend] with
the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets
another.
Nat2 3.167 9 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And
hints the future which it owes./
Nat2 3.180 15 It is a long way from granite to the
oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of
the soul. Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
Nat2 3.184 24 That famous aboriginal push propagates
itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of
every ball;...
PPh 4.77 8 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world
passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have
the Platonic tinge;...
PPh 4.77 9 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world
passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have
the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew
before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
SwM 4.106 10 In the atom of magnetic iron
[Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of
sun and planet.
SwM 4.113 14 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces
[Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates,
that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known
by the mass;...
F 6.48 8 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity
which...compels every atom to serve an universal end.
Wsp 6.221 25 ...the globe is a battery, because every
atom is a magnet;...
Farm 7.135 24 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And
for the whole./
Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an
atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare.
PI 8.5 3 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that
under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter
to the last atom.
PC 8.222 23 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an
apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the
centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by
which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...that atom draws
to atom throughout Nature...
PC 8.224 15 As language is in the alphabet, so is
entire Nature...in one atom.
PerF 10.68 1 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My
oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives
back the bending heavens in dew./
PerF 10.72 7 These [natural] forces...seem to leave
no room for the individual; man or atom, he only shares them;...
Edc1 10.130 20 If Newton come and...perceive...that
every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of
his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.130 21 If Newton come and...perceive...that
every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of
his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.130 22 If Newton come and...perceive...that
every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of
his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
War 11.152 23 On its own scale, on the virtues it
loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the
place its specific gravity assigns it.
PLT 12.29 27 If [a man] could attain full size he
would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new
form.
CW 12.170 5 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for
the whole..../
atomic, adj. (8)
UGM 4.9 7 Each man is by secret liking connected with
some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is;
as...Dalton, of atomic forms;...
SwM 4.102 10 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated
much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in chemistry, the
atomic theory;...
SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is
good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the
action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
ET1 5.24 4 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident
pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he
said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and
forgotten; and Dalton's atomic theory.
Clbs 7.239 1 It happened many years ago that an
American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of
Manchester, England, the author of the theory of atomic proportions...
atomies, n. (1)
War 11.154 21 The microscope reveals miniature
butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in
an illuminated drop of water;...
atoms, n. (36)
Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned
his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective
affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is
only a partial or approximate statement...
PPh 4.56 15 ...The physical philosophers had sketched
each his theory of the world; the theory of atoms, of fire, of flux, of
spirit;...
SwM 4.133 5 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of
the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in
uninterrupted order...
MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and
beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
ET5 5.100 22 The boys [in England] know all that
Hutton knew of strata, or Dalton of atoms...
F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this
constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic
atoms;...
F 6.24 26 If the Universe have these savage
accidents, our atoms are as savage in resistance.
F 6.27 23 I know not whether there be...in the upper
region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries
with it all atoms which rise to that height...
Wsp 6.231 25 ...I look on those sentiments which make
the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the
intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
Ill 6.324 7 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless
the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with
one another.
DL 7.109 4 An increased consciousness of the soul,
you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only
arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
DL 7.109 5 An increased consciousness of the soul,
you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only
arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called
courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or
give this virtue;...
PI 8.4 22 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive
at the...primordial elements...we should not find cubes, or prisms, or
atoms, at all, but spherules of force.
Grts 8.311 7 The world was created as an audience for
[the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities.
SovE 10.188 7 It is the same fact existing as
sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as
irresistible law, exerting influence...down in the kingdoms of brute or
of chemical atoms.
FSLC 11.205 11 In Mr. Webster's imagination the
American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as
the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
HCom 11.341 18 War passes the power of all chemical
solvents, breaking up the old adhesions, and allowing the atoms of
society to take a new order.
FRep 11.528 13 In Mr. Webster's imagination the
American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into
atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
CInt 12.128 1 ...I thought...a college was to teach
you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form,
and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.
Bost 12.184 15 How can we not believe in influences
of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that
chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and
not other;...
WSL 12.348 27 Many of [Landor's sentences] will
secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly
considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the
genetical atoms of which both are composed.
atone, v. (1)
PPr 12.384 6 To atone for this departure from the
vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we
have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a
message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
atoned, v. (1)
Con 1.311 7 Have we not atoned for this small
offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid
indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
atones, v. (1)
atoning, v. (3)
MR 1.232 27 [The general system of our trade] is not
that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour
of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only
showing the brilliant result, and atoning for the manner of acquiring,
by the manner of expending it.
DL 7.120 5 ...who can see unmoved...the eager,
blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel
hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother,--atoning for
the same by some pages of Plutarch or Goldsmith;...
SA 8.104 23 The consolation and happy moment of life,
atoning for all short-comings, is sentiment;...
atrocem, adj. (1)
SlHr 10.437 19 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and
the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief.
All was conquered praeter atrocem animum Catonis.
atrocious, adj. (1)
ET1 5.20 19 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel
Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures
me that the newspapers are atrocious...
atrocity, n. (2)
NR 3.227 22 ...if an angel should come to chant the
chorus of the moral law, he would...do some precious atrocity.
AKan 11.256 2 When pressed to look at the cause of
the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the
discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare
the intolerable atrocity of the code.
attach, v. (12)
Tran 1.358 3 What is the privilege and nobility of
our nature but its persistency, through its power to attach itself to
what is permanent?
Exp 3.77 1 By love on one part and by forbearance to
press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we
will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon, and ascribe to him
the properties that will attach to any man so seen.
Pol1 3.206 14 The law may do what it will with the
owner of property; its just power will still attach to the cent.
ET17 5.297 16 I do not attach much importance to the
disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
Pow 6.80 17 ...this force or spirit, being the means
relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as
we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we
must respect that.
WD 7.179 23 ...him I reckon the most learned
scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can
he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know
to the First Cause?
Res 8.145 21 Wanting a picket to which to attach my
horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg.
SovE 10.196 4 Shall we attach ourselves violently to
our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation
shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
EWI 11.133 6 ...perhaps I know too little of politics
for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
EWI 11.134 13 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain
attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.
Bost 12.184 22 Even at this day men are to be found
superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of
the planet special powers attach...
attached, v. (21)
Prd1 2.224 18 ...our existence, thus apparently
attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods
which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Chr1 3.90 25 Man, ordinarily...only half
attached...to the world he lives in, in these examples [of men of
character] appears to share the life of things...
Mrs1 3.121 3 The word gentleman, which, like the word
Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few
preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to
personal and incommunicable properties.
UGM 4.20 4 Mankind have in all ages attached
themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of
leaders and law-givers.
SwM 4.100 11 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office
of Assessor: the salary attached to this office continued to be paid to
him during his life.
ET8 5.130 13 [The English] are of the earth, earthy;
and of the sea, as the sea-kinds, attached to it for what it yields
them...
ET13 5.216 11 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred
and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
ET14 5.241 9 ...[Pericles] meeting with
Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with
sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
Pow 6.58 17 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the
results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...
Prch 10.221 11 The understanding...because it has
found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached,
sneers at veneration;...
Plu 10.296 4 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares,
I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances
attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
MMEm 10.413 12 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear
heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel
people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
GSt 10.502 12 [George Stearns] was the more engaged
to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain
John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him...by
lasting ties.
LS 11.16 8 We know how inveterately [the primitive
Church] were attached to their Jewish prejudices...
SMC 11.361 19 [George Prescott] writes, You don't
know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
EdAd 11.390 23 Can [a journal] front this matter of
Socialism, to which the names of Owen and Fourier have attached, and
dispose of that question?
attaches, v. (17)
Tran 1.355 13 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are
still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange
world attaches to the zealot.
Lov1 2.186 12 ...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; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
Pt1 3.32 16 All the value which attaches to
Pythagoras...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and
that here is a new witness.
Chr1 3.97 23 A given order of events has no power to
secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to
it;...
SwM 4.134 7 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches
in nature to each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by
his right;....
ET8 5.136 4 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of
a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which
attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of
inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to
make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though
perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.
Suc 7.293 11 The fame of each discovery rightly
attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the
details...
Aris 10.62 3 ...[the true man] is to
know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of
simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain
speech...
Chr2 10.94 19 He who doth a just action seeth therein
nothing of his own, but an inconceivable nobleness attaches to it,
because it is a dictate of the general mind.
FSLC 11.198 17 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the
bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its
incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman
and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...to whom the
dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
WSL 12.341 24 A charm attaches to the most inferior
names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers
of the House of Fame...
WSL 12.345 11 What is the nature of that subtle and
majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
attaching, v. (4)
ET6 5.108 10 An English family consists of a few
persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet
of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that
cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
ET13 5.221 3 So far is [the English gentleman] from
attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have
done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in
him to pray to God.
Wom 11.410 13 The spiritual force of man is as much
shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things
and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of
truth.
attachment, n. (8)
Pt1 3.16 9 The inwardness and mystery of this
attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
ET4 5.71 17 [The Englishman's] attachment to the
horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.
EzRy 10.395 7 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern
Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
MMEm 10.402 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to
the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers
and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
SlHr 10.445 24 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or
aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to
keep men out of prison, and their lands out of attachment.
TPar 11.287 16 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when,
to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the
most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something
less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous
logic, rejected them.
attachments, n. (1)
ET19 5.311 23 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man
to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast
with the superficial attachments of other races...
attack, n. (12)
NMW 4.237 8 A thunderbolt in the attack, [Napoleon]
was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.
ET4 5.56 19 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of
concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who
have the choice of the battle-ground.
ET5 5.78 26 In [the English] parliament, the tactics
of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a
pitiless attack;...
Plu 10.305 18 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen
appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or
Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
HDC 11.61 11 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's]
piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame
of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the
Indian.
EWI 11.109 18 These debates [on West Indian slavery]
are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed
and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come
to the attack.
AsSu 11.251 24 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know
the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first
tidings of this brutal attack.
PLT 12.22 1 If man has organs...for digesting, for
protection by house-building, by attack and defence...you shall find
all the same in the muskrat.
MAng1 12.224 18 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed
the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist
[Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the
attack...
attack, v. (8)
YA 1.388 21 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are
on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to
make a capitalist of the poor man.
Comp 2.105 13 If [the unwise man] escapes [the
conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital
part.
NMW 4.238 3 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered
Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse...
Cour 7.262 6 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of
an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied
Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to
attack...I was overpowered with fear...
Schr 10.285 24 Genius delights only in statements
which are themselves true, which attack and wound any who opposes
them...
attacked, v. (9)
NER 3.253 13 [Other reformers] attacked the
institution of marriage as the fountain of social evils.
NMW 4.230 1 [The art of war] consisted, according to
[Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point
where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
ET1 5.10 1 Landor is strangely undervalued in
England;...sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews.
Bhr 6.186 6 Society is very swift in its instincts,
and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly
drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked;...
Civ 7.34 3 ...if there be...a country...where liberty
is attacked in the primary institution of social life;...that country
is...not civil, but barbarous;...
HDC 11.72 24 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.
War 11.167 9 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns
the other cheek...
PPr 12.385 9 Worst of all for the party attacked,
[Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all
sympathy...
attacking, adj. (3)
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.
attacking, v. (1)
Con 1.298 12 ...innovation is always in the right,
triumphant, attacking...
attacks, n. (3)
Hist 2.22 5 The nomads of Africa were constrained to
wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
ET15 5.264 26 [The London Times] will kill all but
that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers,
first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
attacks, v. (5)
PPh 4.73 6 ...under his hypocritical pretence of
knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine
speakers...
NMW 4.230 1 [The art of war] consisted, according to
[Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point
where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
Cour 7.276 11 ...[the hideous facts in history]
require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us...
attain, v. (29)
Nat 1.59 14 I only wish to indicate the true position
of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the
object of human life...
AmS 1.106 21 All the rest behold in the hero or the
poet their own green and crude being, - ripened; yes, and are content
to be less, so that may attain to its full stature.
Hist 2.9 1 [Each man] must attain and maintain that
lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
Lov1 2.170 27 ...it is to be hoped that...we may
attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever
young and beautiful...
Lov1 2.188 21 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept
over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God,
to attain their own perfection.
Hsm1 2.255 21 It is a height to which common duty can
very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
Chr1 3.114 20 If we cannot attain at a bound to these
grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
SwM 4.115 22 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as
Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all
sciences...
GoW 4.285 6 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but
only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to
highest culture.
ET11 5.195 21 In the university, the [English]
noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by
which they attain a degree called honorary.
Wsp 6.210 10 Let a man attain the highest and
broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by
sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has
happened to him;...
CbW 6.272 15 In excited conversation we have...hints
of power native to the soul...such as we can hardly attain in lone
meditation.
Bty 6.298 11 That Beauty is the normal state is shown
by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
Elo1 7.70 13 It is said that the Khans or
story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a
controlling power over their audience...
SA 8.100 22 There is in America a general conviction
in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty
and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
Elo2 8.121 12 In moments of clearer thought or deeper
sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises
the speaker as much as the auditor;...
Chr2 10.105 24 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No
leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin)
to-day.
SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age
truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion
and philosophy reached in any former age.
LLNE 10.360 24 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the
feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and
expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart
with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an
attempt...to share the advantages they should attain, with others now
deprived of them.
War 11.155 5 Nature implants with life...perpetual
struggle...to attain to freedom, to attain to a mastery and the
security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
Wom 11.407 1 ...the general voice of mankind has
agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by
toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
Shak1 11.446 5 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/
The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him
became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
PLT 12.29 26 If [a man] could attain full size he
would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new
form.
II 12.77 23 ...one day, though far off, you will
attain the control of these [higher] states;...
Milt1 12.254 12 If hereby we attain any more
precision, we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages,
and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly
character [as Milton].
attainable, adj. (8)
MN 1.198 11 In treating a subject so large...I know
it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less
scope.
Con 1.302 4 For the present...to come at what sum is
attainable to us, we must even hear the parties plead as parties.
Hist 2.7 9 ...all that is said of the wise man by
Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist...describes [to each reader] his
unattained but attainable self.
Art1 2.366 25 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable
by him in canvas or in stone...
CbW 6.276 19 ...whatever art you select...all are
attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are
apt;...
ACiv 11.299 22 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when
something much better than happiness and security of life is
attainable.
attainder, n. (1)
GoW 4.290 13 No mortgage, or attainder, will hold on
men or hours.
attained, v. (23)
Nat 1.55 26 In physics, when [discovery of natural
law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous
catalogues of particulars...
MR 1.246 11 [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.
Fdsp 2.203 12 I knew a man who...spoke to the
conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight
and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he
attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance
into true relations with him.
ET6 5.114 19 English stories, bon-mots and the
recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the
French. In America, we...have not yet attained the same perfection...
ET12 5.212 2 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country...
ET15 5.267 25 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the
London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by
older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled
views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the
object to be attained...
Pow 6.81 6 ...we infer that all success and all
conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach,
and has its own sublime economies by which it may be attained.
Bhr 6.197 18 What finest hands would not be clumsy to
sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances
seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
Bty 6.292 20 The interruption of equilibrium
stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch
the steps through which it is attained.
Elo1 7.78 3 It was said that a man has at one step
attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
DL 7.133 9 These are the consolations,--these are the
ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If
these are sought and in any good degree attained, can the state...yield
anything better, or half as good"
Res 8.146 27 ...one man whose eye commands the end in
view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all
mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
Comc 8.158 13 ...if there be phenomena in botany
which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the
like completeness with the further function to which in different
circumstances it had attained.
Dem1 10.8 16 Once or twice the conscious fetters
shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams], and a freer utterance attained.
Schr 10.270 15 Even the demonstrations of Nature for
millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter
[the poet] arrives.
War 11.174 18 If peace is to be maintained, it must
be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their
own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a
sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as
treating a man like a sheep.
ACiv 11.306 19 ...what kind of peace shall at that
moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for
it...
FRep 11.526 26 ...instead of the doleful experience
of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the
condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here
that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...tight roof and
coals enough have been attained;...
MAng1 12.219 15 [Michelangelo] labored to express the
beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by
knowledge of the true.
Pray 12.355 16 I thank thee for the knowledge that I
have attained of thee by thy sons who have been before me...
attaining, v. (6)
OS 2.277 21 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property
in what was said, as well as the sayer. ... All are conscious of
attaining to a higher self-possession.
Pt1 3.28 16 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont
to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and, as it was a spurious
mode of attaining freedom...they were punished for that advantage they
won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
WD 7.184 8 There are people...who in their
consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means
of attaining it;...
Aris 10.58 27 In his consciousness of deserving
success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of
attaining it...
Carl 10.495 2 Nor can that decorum...in attaining
which the Englishman exceeds all nations, win from [Carlyle] any
obeisance.
ACiv 11.297 5 ...it is the mark of nobleness to
volunteer the lowest service, the greatest spirit only attaining to
humility.
attainment, n. (7)
MN 1.222 4 If you ask, How can any rules be given for
the attainment of gifts so sublime? I shall only remark that the
solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
ET3 5.38 20 Here [in England] is...a temperature
which...allows the attainment of the largest stature.
Elo1 7.90 26 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos,
are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts...do often
hinder a man's attainment of [eloquence].
Elo1 7.99 20 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they
valued every help to its attainment...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;...
EWI 11.115 26 The clergy and missionaries throughout
the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the
attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children
free.
War 11.156 10 In some parts of this country...the
absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which
whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the
speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no
other image of manly activity and virtue...none of the attainment of
truth.
CPL 11.501 23 Every attainment and discipline which
increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his
being.
attainments, n. (2)
attains, v. (7)
DSA 1.121 5 When...[man] attains to say, - I love the
Right...then...God is well pleased.
Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
Lov1 2.182 17 In the particular society of his mate
[the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her
beauty has contracted from this world...
Exp 3.80 11 The partial action of each strong mind in
one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same
extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
MoS 4.175 20 ...as soon as each man attains the poise
and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need
extreme examples...
Elo2 8.119 16 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a
certain creative heat, which a man attains to perhaps only once in his
life.
Grts 8.307 16 ...it is only as [a man] feels and
obeys [his bias] that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate
power in the world.
Attar, Ferideddin, n. (2)
PPo 8.237 11 The seven masters of the Persian
Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names; and others, like Ferideddin
Attar and Omar Khayyam, promise to rise in Western estimation.
PPo 8.263 15 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird
Conversations, a mystical tale...
attar, n. (1)
PLT 12.51 24 Nature having for capital this rill [of
thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a
phial or a hair-tube that will hold as it were a drop of attar.
attempt, n. (43)
AmS 1.112 26 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a
purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
Such an attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could
surmount.
DSA 1.123 10 The least admixture of a lie, - for
example...any attempt to make a good impression...will instantly
vitiate the effect.
LE 1.172 18 ...any particular portraiture does not in
any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...
SR 2.47 10 A man is relieved and gay when he has put
his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done
otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not
deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him;...
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 2.111 13 ...as soon as there is any departure
from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not
good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
Lov1 2.179 10 Who can analyze the nameless charm
which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed
for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization.
Cir 2.304 15 ...if the soul is quick and strong
it...expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a
high wave, with attempt again to stop and to bind.
Mrs1 3.146 14 Even the line of heroes is not utterly
extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to
organize beauty of behavior.
Mrs1 3.155 9 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition
of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
PPh 4.77 23 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the
world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves
too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.
He falls abroad in the attempt;...
SwM 4.128 14 I know how delicious is this cup of
love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize
the fireside and nuptial chamber;...
ET14 5.249 9 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the
attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church,
with eternal ideas.
F 6.12 22 It was a poetic attempt to lift this
mountain of Fate...which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but
the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Wth 6.119 25 Nor is any investment so permanent that
it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history
of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for
an unborn inheritor may show.
Wsp 6.221 4 ...cant and lying and the attempt to
secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked
and vain.
OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look
over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the
conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject;
rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our
broader modern life.
PI 8.23 1 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of
many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who
felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to
draw a moral or affix a meaning.
PI 8.53 13 Poetry being an attempt to express, not
the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and
soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
Insp 8.283 21 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more
easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know
this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the
injurious effect by greater exertion, and my attempt is successful.
Chr2 10.93 23 The extreme simplicity of this [moral]
intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
SovE 10.185 14 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment,
and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut
flowers.
LLNE 10.337 14 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a
rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging
down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and
odious to scientific men...
LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a
well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they
were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door
opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so
ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
LLNE 10.341 9 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing
opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited
a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present.
Though I recall the fact, I do not retain any instant consequence of
this attempt...
LLNE 10.355 3 It was easy to see what must be the
fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and
comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
LLNE 10.360 22 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the
feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and
expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart
with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an
attempt to lift others with themselves...
HDC 11.68 21 ...it gives life and strength to every
attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of
this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the
important and interesting opposition...
EWI 11.109 12 During the next sixteen years, ten
times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery]
was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
FSLN 11.228 1 ...the decision of Webster [for the
Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to
freedom and good morals. There was something like an attempt to debauch
the moral sentiment of the clergy and of the youth.
FRep 11.517 24 [The American people] are now
proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of
human duties. And look what revolution that attempt involves.
FRep 11.517 27 Hitherto government has been that of
the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to
resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the
government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear
indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal
Thought.
PLT 12.12 20 We have invincible repugnance...to study
of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men
is that the attempt is unnatural...
II 12.84 23 Men generally attempt, early in life, to
make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is
going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the
attempt...
MLit 12.311 11 In order to any complete view of the
literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it
quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present
attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall
have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
WSL 12.345 7 [Landor's] portraits, though mere
sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of
narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any
success, but very few competitors in the attempt.
EurB 12.368 17 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and
Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was
not the least attempt to reconcile these with the spirit of fashion and
selfishness...
PPr 12.386 19 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...
attempt, v. (26)
Con 1.303 7 We have all a certain intellection or
presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend
into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose
themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction, fails...
Comp 2.96 11 I shall attempt in this and the
following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the
law of Compensation;...
Lov1 2.170 21 It matters not...whether we attempt to
describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
Int 2.329 11 As far as we can recall these ecstasies
[of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and
all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment
we...attempt to correct and contrive, it is not truth.
Pt1 3.8 9 ...whenever we are so finely organized that
we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those
primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
Chr1 3.101 6 All things...attempt nothing they cannot
do, except man only.
SwM 4.101 21 The genius [of Swedenborg] which
was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its
lessons in quarries and forges...
MoS 4.180 3 There are these, and more than these
diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to
remove.
GoW 4.263 2 ...[the writer] would report the Holy
Ghost, or attempt it.
ET13 5.215 4 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche
or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried
and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above
your strength, like removing it.
Elo1 7.84 20 If [the orator] should attempt to
instruct the people in that which they already know, he would fail;...
Farm 7.151 16 The first planter, the savage...takes
poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot
clear; they need drainage, which he cannot attempt.
PI 8.62 18 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be
borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak
with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it;...
Comc 8.158 20 ...separate any part of Nature and
attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the
ridiculous begins.
Imtl 8.346 11 A conclusion, an inference, a grand
augury [of immortality], is ever hovering, but attempt to ground it,
and the reasons are all vanishing and inadequate.
War 11.162 18 All admit that [peace] would be the
best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule. But it is absurd
for one nation to attempt it alone.
FRO2 11.489 12 ...do not attempt to elevate [the
lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a
man...
PLT 12.14 25 What I am now to attempt is simply some
sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a
Natural History of Intellect.
PLT 12.15 11 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the
relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the
present time.
II 12.79 18 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say
only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness,
and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by
memory, charlatanism begins.
II 12.84 20 Men generally attempt, early in life, to
make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is
going forward in their private theatre;...
CL 12.157 13 The landscape is vast, complete, alive.
We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those
angelic radiations.
attempted, adj. (1)
Milt1 12.264 12 His mind gave him, [Milton] said,
that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought
to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him
up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted
innocence.
attempted, v. (37)
Comp 2.107 11 It would seem there is always this
vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild
poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
Chr1 3.101 14 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were
quite equal to what they attempted, and did it;...
Chr1 3.101 18 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were
quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was
not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands
that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history. Many have
attempted it since, and not been equal to it.
Gts 3.165 14 When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
PPh 4.68 3 Plato...attempted as if on the part of
human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...
SwM 4.119 10 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce
the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
SwM 4.127 5 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to
be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...
ShP 4.191 18 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took
offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress
[dramatic entertainments].
ET4 5.68 12 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was
so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on
him...
ET5 5.89 11 ...that is characteristic of all [the
Englishmen's] work,--no more is attempted than is done.
ET9 5.144 14 There is no freak so ridiculous but some
Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.
ET10 5.169 22 We estimate the wisdom of nations by
seeing what they did with their surplus capital. And, in view of these
injuries, some compensation has been attempted in England.
ET14 5.239 17 Whoever...requires heaps of facts
before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
ET14 5.245 12 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of
European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great
ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.
ET14 5.254 22 ...having attempted to domesticate and
dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the
English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will
sweep their system away.
F 6.34 8 The opinion of the million was the terror of
the world, and it was attempted...to dissipate it, by amusing
nations...
Bhr 6.194 3 The angel that was sent to find a place
of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse
pit...
Art2 7.45 4 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape, in
which imitation is all that is attempted,--these things give to
unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a
picture of Titian.
SA 8.101 8 In Europe...it has been attempted to
secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
Dem1 10.18 8 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in
the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be
called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence
originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and
religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...
LLNE 10.334 13 ...not a sentence was written in
academic exercises, not a declamation attempted in the college chapel,
but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
LLNE 10.337 20 On the heels of this intruder
[Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of
miracle and prophecy...
Carl 10.492 4 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle]
says...I know not what they would have done to anybody that had got in
there and attempted to tell out of doors what they did.
FSLC 11.196 18 But worse, not the officials alone are
bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is
solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the
mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet:
no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
ACiv 11.299 4 ...a higher state, where labor and the
tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower
state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of
power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy: we have attempted to
hold these two states of society under one law.
Scot 11.464 12 ...finding [the old ballads] now
outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to
dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
ChiE 11.473 17 I am sure that gentlemen around me
bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has
twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates
for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary
qualifications for the same.
FRep 11.517 17 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost
ideal perfection.
CW 12.175 13 How many poems have been written, or, at
least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
Bost 12.198 26 When one thinks of the enterprises
that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased
respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New
England]...
MLit 12.318 20 The music of Beethoven is said...to
labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted
before.
attempting, v. (13)
MN 1.198 12 I do not wish in attempting to paint a
man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
MR 1.243 13 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic
with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only
discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
SL 2.153 20 That statement only is fit to be made
public which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own
curiosity.
ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the
elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
ET12 5.212 27 ...I should as soon think of
quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile
sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for
not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original
writers.
ET16 5.280 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound
[Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we
were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out
attempting to protect their spread windrows.
Elo2 8.129 6 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a
premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he
was not able to proceed;...
Insp 8.293 13 ...two men of good mind will excite
each other's activity, each attempting still to cap the other's
thought.
EzRy 10.382 6 Always inclined to notice ministers,
and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate
them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher
of the gospel.
EWI 11.110 22 In attempting to make its escape from
the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive
into the sea.
PLT 12.11 26 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what facts he has observed, without attempting to
arrange them within one outline, follows a system also...
attempts, n. (29)
DSA 1.130 12 Historical Christianity has fallen into
the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
DSA 1.149 27 ...all attempts to project and establish
a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
DSA 1.150 3 All attempts to contrive a system are as
cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of
Reason...
LT 1.270 23 ...each of these aspirations and attempts
of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration
of its advocates...
LT 1.285 13 [Speculators] have some piety which looks
with faith to a fair Future, unprofaned by rash and unequal attempts to
realize it.
Tran 1.336 6 ...[the Transcendentalist] resists all
attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
YA 1.384 12 ...one may say that aims so generous and
so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished,
even if these attempts fail...
Comp 2.105 18 So signal is the failure of all
attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the
experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the
disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in
attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
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.
Exp 3.85 2 ...I have not found that much was gained
by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
Mrs1 3.124 9 The society of the energetic class...is
full...of attempts which intimidate the pale scholar.
NMW 4.253 1 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
ET14 5.249 2 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life,
his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the
closing of an era.
ET14 5.250 17 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann,
has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a
catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...
WD 7.167 6 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us
the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that
those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of
the universe, called him the Day...
WD 7.168 4 Czar Alexander...wished to call the
Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts
to make it a close sea.
Boks 7.218 7 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth,
and the poems and the prose of Goethe...inspire hope and generous
attempts.
Clbs 7.242 16 ...in all civil nations attempts have
been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated
people under the most favorable conditions.
PerF 10.86 11 All our political disasters grow as
logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the
sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.
Edc1 10.145 5 This is the perpetual romance of new
life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for
something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes
wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the
bystanders.
LLNE 10.351 26 [Fourierism] contained so much truth,
and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much
valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its
progress.
MMEm 10.411 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her
attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of
monotonous Sabbaths...
MAng1 12.231 23 ...[St. Peter's dome] is said to have
been injured by unskilful attempts to repair it.
WSL 12.345 4 [Landor's] portraits, though mere
sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of
narrative...
attempts, v. (12)
SL 2.157 26 ...into every assembly that a man enters,
in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
OS 2.290 7 The vain traveller attempts to embellish
his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
Chr1 3.101 8 All things...attempt nothing they cannot
do, except man only. He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things
beyond his force.
Pol1 3.217 17 ...successes in those fields [of trade
and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed
soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
NR 3.243 27 As soon as [a man] needs a new object,
suddenly he beholds it, and no longer attempts to pass through it...
NER 3.261 15 ...society gains nothing whilst a man,
not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...
NER 3.267 7 Each man, if he attempts to join himself
to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...
PI 8.53 21 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies
every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is
the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical grace.
PLT 12.48 17 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by
smiths; as soon as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.
attend, v. (18)
Nat 1.69 21 Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and
hath/ Another to attend him./
LE 1.158 20 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things
attend [the scholar's] steps.
SR 2.78 11 Regret calamities if you can thereby help
the sufferer; if not, attend your own work...
Int 2.344 11 ...he [in whom the love of truth
predominates] is to refuse himself to that which draws him not,
whatsoever fame and authority may attend it...
NER 3.272 2 How sinks the song in the waves of melody
which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious
Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look,
though the praises of the world attend them.
UGM 4.6 1 A main difference betwixt men is, whether
they attend their own affair or not.
PPh 4.64 4 This also is the essence of justice,--to
attend every one his own...
GoW 4.262 23 The gardener saves every slip and seed
and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less
does the writer attend his affair.
ET1 5.18 2 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public
persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the
stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
Farm 7.149 2 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go
sprawling about in the fields outside, [the farmer] will attend to the
roots in his tub...
WD 7.177 8 How wistfully, when we have promised to
attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their
seductions!
Aris 10.45 12 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he
is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too
early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already
arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only
multiply his friends and agents.
EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a
house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a
family.
CL 12.140 25 We are very sensible of this [power of
the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into
the landscape, with any leisure to attend to its soothing and expanding
influences.
attendance, n. (4)
ET11 5.194 7 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the
nobility, I could never keep up. It requires a life of idleness,
dressing and attendance on their parties.
LS 11.14 5 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as
if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...
War 11.166 20 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide
themselves...inviting the attendance only of relations and friends;...
attendant, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.403 14 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...and all its
attendant wonders, would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's]
imagination.
attendant, n. (1)
Tran 1.336 14 In the play of Othello, the expiring
Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
attendants, n. (2)
Comp 2.107 18 The Furies, [the ancients] said, are
attendants on justice...
Wom 11.411 20 Society...colors, forms, are [women's]
homes and attendants.
attended, v. (35)
OS 2.282 1 A certain tendency to insanity has always
attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
SwM 4.119 22 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some
account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in
the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as
to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
GoW 4.261 10 The planet, the pebble, goes attended by
its shadow.
ET5 5.82 13 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my
opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which
the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
DL 7.112 12 If the children...are...dieted,
attended...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
DL 7.112 21 If the children...are...schooled and at
home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house
suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and
mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own
accomplishments and growth;...
Boks 7.209 24 Among the distinguished company which
attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of
Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
Clbs 7.227 22 ...in higher activity of mind, every
new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
Clbs 7.227 24 ...in higher activity of mind, every
new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure, and the imparting
of it to others is also attended with pleasure.
Cour 7.258 10 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop
Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who
attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would
burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no
bigger than a calf-skin.
Elo2 8.118 18 We have all attended meetings called
for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
Elo2 8.123 13 When, on his return from Washington,
[John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class
attended...
Comc 8.160 3 There is no joke so true and deep in
actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the
institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
Dem1 10.10 7 Every man goes through the world
attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate...
Dem1 10.14 16 As I was once travelling by the Red
Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named
Masollam...
Dem1 10.15 14 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in
any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who
take part in political and military projects...
SovE 10.206 7 Superstitious persons we see with
respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination,
to which they pay homage.
LLNE 10.335 12 By a series of lectures largely and
fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a
beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
LLNE 10.337 23 ...a certain success attended
[Mesmerism], against all expectation.
CSC 10.375 11 The assembly [at the Chardon Street
Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain,
sylvan strength and earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual
and cultivated persons attended its councils.
HDC 11.68 26 ...it gives life and strength to every
attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of
this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the
important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in
some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will
be attended with still greater success, in future.
HDC 11.77 9 On the second day after the affray
[battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700
soldiers.
EWI 11.105 16 The man [West Indian slave] applied to
Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon, who attended the diseases of
the poor.
EWI 11.137 14 ...every liberal mind...had had the
fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West
Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr.
Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this
trade even in the mode of defending it.
ALin 11.331 15 A plain man of the people, an
extraordinary fortune attended [Lincoln].
SMC 11.358 3 One [volunteer] wrote to his father
these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally
rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is
a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty, and gives them
courage to face the dangers with which those duties are attended.
Wom 11.421 17 For their want of intimate knowledge of
affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at
any town-meeting which I ever attended.
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.
attending, v. (6)
Lov1 2.178 16 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's]
eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
Hsm1. 2.252 22 ...the little man...is born red, and
dies gray...attending on his own health...
MoL 10.251 10 I chanced lately to be at West Point,
and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into
the barracks.
EPro 11.318 13 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and
such the felicity attending the action [Emancipation Proclamation],
that he has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
EurB 12.371 22 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a
harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...
attends, v. (10)
OS 2.281 18 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the
individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
Cir 2.309 6 Generalization is always a new influx of
the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
Chr1 3.93 2 ...[the natural merchant] inspires
respect and the wish to deal with him...for the quiet spirit of honor
which attends him...
GoW 4.264 26 There is a certain heat in the breast
which attends the perception of a primary truth...
F 6.22 6 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power
attends and antagonizes Fate.
Imtl 8.338 20 As a hint of endless being, we may rank
that novelty which perpetually attends life.
attention, n. (96)
Nat 1.56 16 [Intellectual science] fastens the
attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures...
Nat 1.66 11 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much
to learn of his relation to the world...
LE 1.155 7 A summons to celebrate with scholars a
literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I
might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of
your attention.
LE 1.158 2 The want of the times and the propriety of
this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary
Ethics.
MR 1.234 24 Considerations of this kind have turned
the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a
part of the education of every young man.
LT 1.268 3 Let us not see the foundations...of a new
and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with
trifles.
Lov1 2.172 9 ...what fastens attention, in the
intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two
parties?
Lov1 2.178 18 ...[the maiden] extrudes all other
persons from [the lover's] attention as cheap and unworthy...
Prd1 2.224 17 ...the order of the world and the
distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception
of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
Int 2.339 4 ...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...
Art1 2.364 23 I do not wonder that Newton, with an
attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should
have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
Exp 3.71 1 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of
the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one
will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope.
Exp 3.82 8 A preoccupied attention is the only answer
to the importunate frivolity of other people;...
Exp 3.82 9 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.
Nat2 3.191 15 ...it was known that men of thought and
virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in
winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these
inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
NER 3.251 8 [The observer of New England's] attention
must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is
falling from the Church nominal...
SwM 4.101 8 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to
England, where he does not seem to have attracted any attention
whatever from the learned or the eminent;...
ShP 4.210 22 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of
that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
NMW 4.240 24 In the time of the empire [Napoleon]
directed attention to the improvement and embellishment of the markets
of the capital.
NMW 4.247 6 We can not...sufficiently congratulate
ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us
how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all
men possess in less degrees; namely, by punctuality, by personal
attention, by courage and thoroughness.
ET5 5.85 12 The spirit of system, attention to
details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the
mercantile power of England.
ET7 5.124 27 ...when the Rochester rappings began to
be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in
the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all
somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the
number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six
months, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the
attention of the adepts;...
ET7 5.125 15 I knew a very worthy man...who went to
the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across
a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the
attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his
judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
ET15 5.261 9 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no
good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers
had not directed his attention.
ET16 5.286 17 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the
train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood,
though Carlyle had wished to pay closer attention to the birthplace of
the Decrees of Clarendon.
Ctr 6.133 12 ...we have seen children who finding
themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until
they choke, to draw attention.
Wsp 6.228 14 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect,
drew back with anger...
Bty 6.289 21 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan
was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that
one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
Bty 6.291 26 In the midst of...a festal procession
gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on
the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most
elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated
procession by this startling beauty.
Art2 7.55 4 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a
circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so
make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
Elo1 7.64 14 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...
Elo1 7.66 15 If anything comic and coarse is spoken,
you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies,
so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with
them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters
recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
Elo1 7.66 18 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the audience] deepens...
WD 7.174 2 How difficult to deal erect with [these
passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw
dust in the eyes and distract attention.
PI 8.6 14 ...whilst the man is startled by this
closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the
independent action of the mind;...
PI 8.28 17 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must
have the like cause with his own. What, have his daughters brought him
to this pass? But when, his attention being diverted, his mind rests
from this thought, he becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the
superficial resemblances of objects.
Elo2 8.120 13 A good voice has a charm in speech as
in song; sometimes of itself enchains attention...
Elo2 8.125 12 That something which each man was
created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you, and has a right
to supreme attention so far.
Dem1 10.5 26 In sleep one shall travel certain
roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road
or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of
dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to
that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person
confesses in daylight...
Dem1 10.13 7 Nature...works...by infinite graduation;
so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid
on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is
called to them.
Dem1 10.24 3 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism,
omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into
this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your
philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they
are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share.
Dem1 10.24 5 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive
subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state
of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
PerF 10.81 17 See in a circle of school-girls one
with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that
she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the
laughter...see where is the rapt attention...
Edc1 10.132 19 Day creeps after day, each full of
facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert.
The time we seek to kill: the attention it is elegant to divert from
things around us.
Supl 10.171 10 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to
say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the
dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the
attention of every farmer.
SovE 10.200 11 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought
harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind
and matter. What narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years
ought to charm his attention like this?
Plu 10.297 11 Whatever is eminent in fact or in
fiction...or in memorable sayings, drew [Plutarch's] attention...
Plu 10.303 7 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an
ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
LLNE 10.351 25 The ability and earnestness of the
advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and
respect.
CSC 10.374 6 These meetings [of the Chardon Street
Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
EzRy 10.389 3 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient,
continuing courtesy, carrying out every respectful attention to the
end, which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
GSt 10.501 24 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest
in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom
with keener attention.
GSt 10.504 14 I have heard...that [George Stearns]
had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all
the details of the task in hand.
LS 11.4 25 Having recently given particular attention
to this subject [the Lord's Supper], I was led to the conclusion that
Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual
observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
LVB 11.89 8 Each has the highest right to call your
[Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...
LVB 11.94 14 One circumstance lessens the reluctance
with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my
conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new
historical fact...
EWI 11.99 12 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was
the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the
attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
EWI 11.107 11 Public attention...was drawn that way
[to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the
transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
EWI 11.129 10 ...in the last few days that my
attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the
West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the
most painful comparisons.
EWI 11.146 19 ...some degree of despondency is
pardonable, when [the negro] observes...those whose attention should be
nailed to the grand objects of this cause [emancipation], so hotly
offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet
defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the
enemies of the human race;...
EPro 11.316 15 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he
conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human
principles involved;...
Koss 11.398 3 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with
attention your progress through the land...
Humb 11.457 11 ...a man's natural powers are often a
sort of committee that slowly, one at a time, give their attention and
action;...
FRO2 11.485 7 ...quite against my design and my will,
I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written
remarks...
PLT 12.11 7 Let me have your attention to this
dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect]...
PLT 12.26 21 ...no friendly attention and fostering
kindness...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
II 12.70 24 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient
to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert
attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
Mem 12.105 17 ...we understand best what we like; for
this doubles our power of attention, and makes it our own.
Mem 12.109 20 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge
calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by
strained attention and recapitulation now falls into place...we cannot
fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless
increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
CL 12.138 24 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible
distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was
occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or
hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills
the sufferer. By timely attention, it is easily extracted.
CL 12.143 11 ...De Quincey prefixes to this
description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has
not attracted more attention.
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 12.221 18 Those who have never given attention
to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much
to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human
body.
MAng1 12.239 1 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, and so lacked...one of the best elements of
humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied
attention as from jealousy.
Milt1 12.247 3 The discovery of the lost work of
Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden
attention to his name.
Milt1 12.247 14 ...the new-found book having in
itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of
the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of
his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is
incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary
challenge of universal attention to his claims.
Milt1 12.265 1 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to
the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning
haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in
summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to
read good authors...till the attention be weary...
attentions, n. (4)
SR 2.73 17 ...if you are not [noble], I will not hurt
you and myself by hypocritical attentions.
ET17 5.291 22 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my
Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception
was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
Bhr 6.186 3 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do
not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
MMEm 10.406 5 Society is shrewd to detect those who
do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
attentive, adj. (6)
Nat 1.18 13 To the attentive eye, each moment of the
year has its own beauty...
Elo1 7.70 14 It is said that the Khans or
story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a
controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours
attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
Imtl 8.331 20 [One of the men] said that when he
entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his
colleagues, and, though attentive enough to the routine of public duty,
they daily returned to each other...
Supl 10.172 9 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the
late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring
on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken
the whole English language three times over in his speech.
SlHr 10.440 3 [Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds, and
attentive to their manners and habits;...
attentively, adv. (1)
Plu 10.305 3 The paths of life are large, but few are
men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked
attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his
nature and inclinations.
attest, v. (5)
PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from
the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his
master's behalf...
Wth 6.105 9 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept
bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest
it.
Aris 10.54 23 The manners of course must have that
depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of
the man.
MLit 12.327 16 In these days and in this country...it
seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as
the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this
man...
Pray 12.351 27 ...what led us to these remembrances
[of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately
brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the
eternity of the sentiment...
attestation, n. (2)
Tran 1.351 14 If no call should come for years, for
centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation
of faith by my abstinence.
Pray 12.351 27 ...what led us to these remembrances
[of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately
brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest, if there
be need of attestation, the eternity of the sentiment...
attested, v. (4)
PNR 4.81 1 It seems as if nature, in regarding the
geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had
turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was
no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue
of the tree.
PNR 4.83 25 The eye attested that justice was best,
as long as it was profitable;...
Elo1 7.77 20 ...any swindlers we have known are
novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name.
SMC 11.367 11 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at
last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty
battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...
attesting, v. (1)
Res 8.143 27 The whole history of our civil war is
rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of
our people.
attests, v. (2)
Pt1 3.11 23 All that we call sacred history attests
that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
attic, adj. (1)
Wth 6.121 26 Of the two eminent engineers in the
recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went
straight...shooting through this man's cellar and that man's attic
window...
Attic, adj. (2)
GoW 4.271 23 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when
Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell
the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride, such as might have
cheered...once, a Roman or Attic genius.
Boks 7.202 5 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due
time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic
genius.
attic, n. (1)
CbW 6.274 4 It makes no difference, in looking back
five years...whether you have been lodged on the first floor or the
attic;...
Attica, n. (3)
Schr 10.261 4 The Athenians took an oath, on a
certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the
olive the bounds of Attica.
FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe.
Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts.
Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
attics, n. (1)
Int 2.333 4 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as
good [as the writer's], would they only get a lamp to ransack their
attics withal.
attire, n. (1)
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