Birth to Blurs
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
birth, n. (52)
DSA 1.128 8 In [the Christian church], all of us have
had our birth and nurture.
LE 1.170 13 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf,
Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
YA 1.394 7 ...in England...such is the transcendent
honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is
received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
OS 2.272 25 We are often made to feel that there is
another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our
natural birth.
Art1 2.360 16 ...that house and weather and manner of
living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious
and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol
of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of...birth...are symbols of
the passage of the world into the soul of man...
Mrs1 3.148 5 ...elegance comes of no breeding, but of
birth.
PPh 4.50 4 What is the great end of all [said
Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...exempt from birth,
growth and decay...
SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one
or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg
another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and
annunciation of one of the laws of nature.
ShP 4.206 3 We tell the chronicle of parentage,
birth, birth-place...
NMW 4.225 17 [The man in the street] finds
[Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen...
GoW 4.281 15 There must be a man behind the book; a
personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines
there set forth...
ET5 5.92 18 [The English] have approved...their
British birth, by husbandry and immense wheat harvests;...
ET11 5.186 15 The upper classes have only birth, say
the people here [in England], and not thoughts.
F 6.11 19 If, later, [these drones] give birth to
some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
Ctr 6.144 13 Each class fixes its eyes on the
advantages it has not;...the democrat, on birth and breeding.
Bhr 6.188 24 I had received, said a sibyl, I had
received at birth the fatal gift of penetration;...
Bty 6.286 7 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by
side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an
enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
Bty 6.287 15 The ancients believed that a genius or
demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Art2 7.38 10 What is in, will out. It struggles to
the birth.
WD 7.172 17 We are coaxed, flattered and duped...from
birth to death;...
OA 7.318 1 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old
Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to
himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself
for a few moments.
SA 8.77 8 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle
with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
Aris 10.48 15 ...society must have the benefit of the
best leaders. How to obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed.
Schr 10.279 27 What is the use of...birth, or
breeding, or money to a maniac?
Schr 10.280 4 ...society...sometimes is for an age
together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and
money.
Plu 10.293 5 It is remarkable that of an author so
familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death,
should have come down to us.
LLNE 10.364 19 There is agreement in the testimony
that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their
life, the birth of valued friendships...
EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth,
marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
MMEm 10.409 11 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson]
wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral
philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to
enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and
patronage.
MMEm 10.422 2 ...a few lamps held out in the
firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these
lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth
and death of nations...
EWI 11.113 5 ...be it enacted, that all and every
person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery
within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and
forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such
persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be
free, from their birth;...
JBB 11.267 16 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find
traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One
finds a relation in the church...another in the place of his birth.
ALin 11.328 14 How beautiful to see/ Once more a
shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to
lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any
cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old
wisdom of sincerity!/
RBur 11.439 15 At the first announcement...that the
25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep
the festival.
RBur 11.440 12 ...[Robert Burns's] birth, breeding
and fortunes were low.
Shak1 11.452 9 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great
wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
PLT 12.48 25 I have heard that idiot children are
known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not
close round anything.
Bost 12.198 9 ...no good birth or breeding...can
bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a
mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
MAng1 12.242 13 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by
[Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who
had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew
Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.
Milt1 12.268 24 [Milton's] birth fell upon the
agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast
drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.
birthday, n. (5)
ET7 5.120 27 On the king's birthday, when each bishop
was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry
VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge;...
PPo 8.239 1 The religion [of the East] teaches an
inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's
history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of
Judgment.
HDC 11.76 19 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle
of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful
birthday of our town.
Scot 11.463 7 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial
anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...
birthplace [birth-place], n. (1)
ShP 4.206 4.206 We tell the chronicle of parentage,
birth, birth-place...
birthplace, n. (5)
ET9 5.147 24 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of
his form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
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.
Plu 10.319 6 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace
or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
JBS 11.281 19 ...our blind statesmen go up and
down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will
need a very vigilant committee indeed to find its birthplace...
CL 12.148 14 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky...
births, n. (6)
Fdsp 2.209 11 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow,
nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.
SwM 4.96 6 The soul having been often born, or, as
the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of
births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
NMW 4.224 10 The second [democratic] class is selfish
also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class] and
recruiting its numbers every hour by births.
Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught
not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the
best scholars of.
Farm 7.140 17 Early marriages and the number of
births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
birth-star, n. (1)
F 6.23 23 They who talk much of destiny, their
birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane...
biscuit, n. (1)
Boks 7.210 4 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer
Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...
bisected, adj. (2)
SwM 4.116 27 The fact [of Correspondence] thus
explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of
language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in
the sixth book of the Republic.
bisecting, v. (1)
Prch 10.226 12 ...when [the railroads] came into his
poetic Westmoreland, bisecting every delightful valley...[Wordsworth]
yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In
your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's
art/...
bisects, v. (1)
bishop, n. (12)
NMW 4.250 9 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with
Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.
NMW 4.250 15 The Emperor told Josephine that he
disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of
the pale of the church], on which the bishop [Fournier] was inexorable.
ET7 5.120 27 On the king's birthday, when each bishop
was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry
VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge;...
ET13 5.222 15 The most sensible and well-informed
[English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop
in religious matters...
ET13 5.222 27 [The English university] ripens a
bishop, and extrudes a philosopher.
ET13 5.230 5 If a bishop [in England] meets an
intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he
has no resource but to take wine with him.
Cour 7.258 11 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.
Imtl 8.346 24 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my
pastor, is there any resurrection?
Chr2 10.118 21 How many people are there in Boston?
Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each
poor soul loses all his old stays; no bishop watches him...
CPL 11.494 1 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's
friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
Bishop, n. (1)
Bishop of London, n. (2)
ET1 5.13 15 ...on learning that I had been in Malta
and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating
what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that
country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
FRep 11.534 12 [A man's life] is manufactured for
him. The tailor makes your dress;...the Bishop of London your faith.
bishopric, n. (1)
ET13 5.226 13 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy,
a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
Bishops, Bench of, n. (1)
ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with
the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
bishops, n. (10)
ET10 5.169 24 A part of the money earned [in England]
returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers,
chemists and artists with;...
ET13 5.220 2 These [English] minsters were neither
built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned,
industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of
their gowns, would turn their backs on no man.
ET13 5.227 6 Brougham...said, How will the reverend
bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of
the crime of perjury...
Pow 6.79 27 I remarked in England...that in literary
circles, the men of trust and consideration...university deans and
professors, bishops too, were... usually of a low and ordinary
intellectuality...
Clbs 7.246 6 [A man of irreproachable behavior and
excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of
gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
Chr2 10.112 13 In England, the gentlemen, the
journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away
from the Anglican Church.
Carl 10.490 20 They keep Carlyle as a sort of
portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where
he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of
all persons,-bishops, courtiers, scholars, writers...
Bost 12.202 2 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say
to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of
courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.
Milt1 12.266 20 [Milton] told the bishops that
instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine
example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from
human consent and authority.
Bishops, n. (2)
Bost 12.207 11 With all their love of his person,
[the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the
counsel of the clergy; as they had come so far for the sweet
satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the King.
PPr 12.384 17 It is plain that...all the great
classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even
those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor
Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords!
bishop's, n. (2)
SwM 4.136 20 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains
the Lutheran bishop's son;...
SwM 4.136 27 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains
the Lutheran bishop's son;...
Bishops of Durham, England, (1)
ET4 5.51 6 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of
extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen
colliers;...
Bishops Waltham, England, n (1)
ET16 5.286 20 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle]
stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who...took us to his house at Bishops
Waltham.
Bishopstoke, England, n. (1)
ET16 5.286 18 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle]
stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]....
Bismarck, Otto Eduard von, (1)
PC 8.218 9 If [a man] has...administrative faculty,
like Chatham or Bismarck, he is the king's king.
bit, n. (10)
Tran 1.332 5 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet...
Nat2 3.182 13 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of
stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man
must exist, as readily as the city.
ET16 5.282 20 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was
the compass,--a bit of loadstone...
Ill 6.317 8 [The new style or mythology] is like the
cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery
hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which
will make it hold when he is gone.
Elo1 7.96 16 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went
through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in
the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any...
Boks 7.217 4 Money, and killing, and the Wandering
Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to
another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no
new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any
bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
Thor 10.469 4 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring
everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of
his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He
expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from
you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat
than any other in this world, or in any world.
FSLC 11.201 11 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by
the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the
North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking
the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...
AKan 11.262 10 A bit of ground [in California] that
your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
bite, n. (2)
Cir 2.315 7 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through
the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes;...
Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the
wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying
us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog
bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.
bite, v. (7)
LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and
affect us as the insane do. They bite us, and we run mad also.
ET10 5.168 2 England is aghast at the disclosure of
her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk
will not nourish...nor pepper bite the tongue...
Cour 7.257 6 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head,
and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young,
and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures
contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but
also to bite before they are born.
Cour 7.257 7 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head,
and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young,
and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures
contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but
also to bite before they are born.
Res 8.153 1 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite
the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
Grts 8.311 12 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir
Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are
frivolous.
EWI 11.143 4 Our planet, before the age of written
history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle
and bite in a drop of putrid water.
Bite-me-if-you-dare, n. (1)
CL 12.146 25 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties
of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and
Cow-apple, and the Bite-me-if- you-dare...
biter, n. (1)
biters, n. (2)
F 6.8 5 Without...groping after intestinal parasites
or infusory biters...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in
the interiors of nature.
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;...
bites, v. (2)
Cour 7.257 4 Break the egg of the young
[snapping-turtle], and the little embryo, before yet the eyes are open,
bites fiercely;...
biting, adj. (1)
Supl 10.174 1 ...these raptures of fire and frost,
which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of
well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
biting, v. (1)
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; and biting, gets strangled...
bits, n. (3)
ET4 5.59 1 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on
a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits
out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
ET6 5.114 11 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come
all manner of clever projects, bits of popular science...
Elo1 7.91 12 ...people always perceive whether you
drive or whether the horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
bitten, adj. (1)
bitten, v. (1)
bitter, adj. (21)
MN 1.214 25 The reforms whose fame now fills the
land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
Comp 2.104 22 [Men] think that to be great is to
possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the
bitter.
Prd1 2.235 20 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at
his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations
to other men;...
ET4 5.51 2 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of
thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with
bitter class-legislation;...
ET8 5.135 7 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft
place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters...
ET11 5.196 1 Fuller records the observation of
foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before
they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering
justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes
but one fool in a family.
ET13 5.224 3 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is
hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The
church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims
at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter
against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
ET15 5.270 21 [The editors of the London Times] watch
the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal
movement...
ET17 5.294 19 [Wordsworth] was nationally bitter on
the French; bitter on Scotchmen, too.
ET18 5.300 12 A bitter class-legislation gives power
[in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
F 6.45 25 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious
nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him
first...then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
Suc 7.310 16 Despondency comes readily enough to the
most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter
confirmation...
Schr 10.286 16 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink
insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this
bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...
MMEm 10.422 27 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but
does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities, pinching,
bitter warfare of the human heart...
MMEm 10.426 19 Number the waste places of the
journey...the bitter dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the
purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
FSLC 11.181 23 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave
Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper
without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer
even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of
paragraphs...what bitter mockeries!
TPar 11.290 15 Two days, bitter in the memory of
Boston, the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion
of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
bitterer, adj. (2)
MMEm 10.415 25 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age...
EWI 11.118 13 ...experience...shows the existence,
beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love
of power...
bitterest, adj. (2)
GSt 10.504 10 [George Stearns's] examination before
the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is
a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in
which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the
bitterest adversaries.
Trag 12.406 21 The bitterest tragic element in life
to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate
or Destiny;...
bitterly, adv. (2)
Ill 6.313 8 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said
by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux,
parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
MMEm 10.417 16 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her
farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that
foolish place, which I most bitterly lament...
bittern, n. (3)
SHC 11.435 25 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not
displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song
the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the
hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
CL 12.162 10 [Is it not an eminent convenience to
have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild
bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and
heard...
bitterness, n. (10)
DSA 1.143 6 I have heard a devout person...say in
bitterness of heart, On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
Comp 2.124 3 The heart and soul of all men being one,
this bitterness of His and Mine ceases.
Prd1 2.239 11 ...neither should you put yourself in a
false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of
hostility and bitterness.
Hsm1 2.254 21 It seems not worth [the hero's] while
to...denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking...
SwM 4.131 5 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely,
when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent
leads to satire...
MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic
moans;...
NMW 4.243 21 In a moment of bitterness [Napoleon]
said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which
they inspire me.
NMW 4.258 23 As long as our civilization is
essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our
riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter...
WSL 12.339 15 A less pardonable eccentricity [in
Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not
so much the suggestion of merriment as of bitterness.
bitter-sweet, adj. (1)
Grts 8.303 13 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when
we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and
found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
bitumen, n. (3)
UGM 4.24 25 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being
wrong. Was it not a bright thought that made things cohere with this
bitumen, fastest of cements?
Wsp 6.202 26 The whole creation is made of hooks and
eyes, of bitumen...
Mem 12.90 3 Memory is...the cement, the bitumen, the
matrix in which the other faculties are embedded;...
bivouac, n. (2)
Comc 8.166 30 A classification or nomenclature used
by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through
indolence a barrack and a prison...
bivouacs, v. (1)
WD 7.176 27 A general, said Bonaparte, always has
troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and
bivouacs with them.
blab, v. (1)
SL 2.159 21 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he
cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...and the want of
due knowledge,--all blab.
blabs, v. (1)
Nat2 3.185 16 ...when now and then comes along some
sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses
to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
black, adj. (47)
MR 1.243 4 Let [the man with a strong bias to the
contemplative life] learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black
bread.
SR 2.51 17 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable
ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand
miles off.
Cir 2.321 16 People say sometimes, See what I have
overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black
events.
Cir 2.321 17 People say sometimes, See what I have
overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black
events. Not if they still remind me of the black event.
UGM 4.30 11 Children think they cannot live without
their parents. But, long before they are aware of it, the black dot has
appeared and the detachment has taken place.
ET1 5.10 16 [Coleridge] took snuff freely, which
presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit.
ET3 5.39 20 In the manufacturing towns [of England],
the fine soot or blacks...give white sheep the color of black sheep...
ET11 5.176 10 In the same line of Warwick, the
successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of
Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose
heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
F 6.9 24 How shall a man...draw off from his veins
the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
Pow 6.58 9 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the
temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster (which one
has and one has not, as one has a black mustache and one a
blond),--then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit
his right to absorb them.
Wsp 6.209 3 In creeds never was such levity;
witness...the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and
black art.
CbW 6.265 16 I know those miserable fellows...who see
a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the
sky overhead;...
CbW 6.265 19 I know those miserable fellows...who see
a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the
sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but
the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
Ill 6.309 6 We traversed...the six or eight black
miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost
recess which tourists visit...
Ill 6.310 22 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling
high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid
lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the
position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of
the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Elo1 7.70 23 ...who does not remember in childhood
some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of
telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens,
was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in
England or America is now?
OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a
large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat, black small-clothes,
white stockings;...
PPo 8.242 27 These legends [of Persian kings],
with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly
stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the
lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of
Persian odes.
HDC 11.64 15 The public charity seems to have been
bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being
informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to
Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow, of a black color, with a white
face, unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
EWI 11.103 15 Very sad was the negro tradition, that
the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved
better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
EWI 11.103 18 Very sad was the negro tradition, that
the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved
better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a
little one. The black man was greedy, and chose the largest.
EWI 11.130 2 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of
this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the
slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana
have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
EWI 11.142 13 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of
Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success
of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...
EWI 11.143 27 If the black man is feeble and not
important to the existing races...the black man must serve, and be
exterminated.
EWI 11.144 2 If the black man is...not on a parity
with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
EWI 11.144 3 ...if the black man carries in his bosom
an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake
of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
EWI 11.144 27 ...you must save yourself, black or
white, man or woman;...
EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee
[of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the
black race can contend with the white...
FSLC 11.185 12 Because of this preoccupied mind, the
whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime:
and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed
to catch him.
FSLC 11.200 5 ...it is cheering to behold what
champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor
black boy;...
FSLC 11.200 22 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years,
words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the
people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
AKan 11.258 6 ...the governor and legislature should
neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send
effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else
should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the
halls of the state-house with black crape...
ACiv 11.309 1 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white
man, red man, yellow man and black man.
FRep 11.541 21 The genius of the country has marked
out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and
not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade
with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now
make...to every race and skin, white men, red men, yellow men, black
men;...
CL 12.149 18 ...what countless uses [of the forest]
that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of
milkweed...or root of spruce, black or white, for strings;...
CW 12.169 13 ...unto me not morn's
magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such
resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/
Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out
of the black loam./
Bost 12.184 9 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to
the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the
property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance
introduced into its bosom.
Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of
Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
Black Hawk Indians, n. (1)
Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had
contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see
the Keokuks, Black Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons
at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent
solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
Black Hawk War, n. (1)
ALin 11.330 14 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a
flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...
Black, Joseph, n. (1)
Nat2 3.184 1 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton,
Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements
which now it discovers.
black, n. (5)
PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of
rhyme]...in a funeral procession, where all wear black...
EWI 11.117 5 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord
Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for
ten months...only one black [in the West Indies] had been hurt in
800,000 negroes...
EWI 11.144 16 ...if you have man, black or white is
an insignificance.
FSLC 11.190 21 ...no reasonable person needs a
quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be
legislated to be black...
blackballed, v. (1)
ET7 5.121 16 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot
arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private
friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary
member of the Athenaeum. M. Guizot was blackballed.
blackberries, n. (1)
SMC 11.367 24 In McClellan's retreat in the
Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet
out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the
way over my boots, and with short rations; on one day nothing but
liver, blackberries, and pennyroyal tea.
blackboard, n. (1)
ET9 5.145 25 France is, by its natural contrast, a
kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in
chalk.
black-browed, adj. (1)
Elo2 8.113 23 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the
Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling
to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned
in driving cattle to the hills...
black-coats, n. (2)
blacken, v. (1)
LVB 11.92 6 We have inquired if this [rumored
relocation of the Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the
party opposed to the government and anxious to blacken it with the
people.
blackened, v. (1)
ET8 5.135 25 Here [in England] was lately a
cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of
beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the
splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's
that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
blacker, adj. (3)
MR 1.232 14 ...the general system of our trade (apart
from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system
of selfishness;...
Tran 1.336 18 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him
with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not
I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
blackest, adj. (1)
black-faced, adj. (1)
Art1 2.357 9 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal
picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and
children...white-faced, black-faced...
Blackfriars' Theatre, Londo (1)
ShP 4.205 5 It appears that from year to year
[Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...
black-letter, adj. (2)
Elo1 7.88 24 ...I read without surprise that the
black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable
decisions...
SlHr 10.445 22 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or
aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to
keep men out of prison...
blackmail, n. (2)
Gts 3.161 27 This is...a false state of property, to
make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical
sin-offering, or payment of blackmail.
Insp 8.290 14 Some of us may remember, years ago, in
the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning,
Tennyson, Dickens and other writers...against the license of the
organ-grinders, who infested the streets near their houses, to levy on
them blackmail.
Blackmore, Richard, n. (1)
SL 2.154 15 Blackmore, Kotzebue or Pollok may endure
for a night...
blacks, n. (6)
ET3 5.39 19 In the manufacturing towns [of England],
the fine soot or blacks darken the day...
EWI 11.142 24 I have said that this event
[emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly
from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part it is the
earning of the blacks.
EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or
oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
ACiv 11.307 17 Now, [the Southern people's] interest
is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they
must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if
they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.
ACiv 11.308 23 What is so foolish as the terror lest
the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?
ACiv 11.308 26 What is so foolish as the terror lest
the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying
these that is the outrage, and makes the danger from the blacks.
blacks, v. (1)
MoL 10.251 16 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet,
Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your
shoes? I do.
blacksmith, n. (1)
Schr 10.273 26 If [the scholar] is not kindling his
torch or collecting oil...he cannot look a blacksmith in the eye;...
blacksmiths, n. (2)
RBur 11.442 24 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs
and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and
street, and clothe it with melody.
Blackstone, William, n. (4)
FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists...Coke,
Blackstone...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are
void].
FSLC 11.190 20 ...no reasonable person needs a
quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be
legislated to be black...
FSLC 11.190 23 Blackstone admits the sovereignty
antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
FSLN 11.227 2 ...Blackstone, Burlamaqui, Vattel...do
all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
Blackwood's Magazine, n. (1)
ET1 5.15 26 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all
the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand
magazine;...
bladder, n. (1)
PPo 8.242 27 These legends [of Persian kings],
with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly
stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the
lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of
Persian odes.
blade, n. (8)
LT 1.266 5 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may
search through nature in vain to parallel...
ET5 5.89 8 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was
told...that they make no mistakes, every blade in the hundred and in
the thousand is good.
QO 8.201 2 One leaf, one blade of grass, one
meridian, does not resemble another.
PPo 8.241 18 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage,
all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind
them all came the ant, with a blade of grass...
Let 12.401 1 Full of love, talent and hope spring up
the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later,
and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison, that it
will not bear a blade of grass.
Let 12.402 20 In all the cases we have ever seen
where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit, or, as men
said, from a blade too sharp for the scabbard, it turned out that they
had not wit enough.
blades, n. (1)
Suc 7.284 4 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round
his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in
motion;...
Blair, Hugh, n. (1)
Elo2 8.117 27 A worthy gentleman...listening to the
debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in
Edinburgh...delighted with the talent shown by Dr. Hugh Blair, went to
him and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him
to speak with propriety in public.
Blake, Robert, n. (1)
ET4 5.68 25 ...[the English] know where their
war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and
Wellington are not to be trifled with...
Blake, William, n. (4)
PI 8.27 15 In some individuals this insight or second
sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in
Behmen, Swedenborg and William Blake the painter.
Insp 8.290 24 William Blake said, Natural objects
always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
Grts 8.317 8 William Blake the artist frankly says, I
never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
blame, n. (9)
MoS 4.167 25 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why
should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the
best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf
at last with decency. If there be anything farcical in such a life, the
blame is not mine: let it lie at fate's and nature's door.
OA 7.315 13 ...the transparent good faith of [Josiah
Quincy's] praise and blame...gave unusual interest to the College
festival.
FSLC 11.205 1 It is neither praise nor blame to say
that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
ChiE 11.473 4 [Confucius's] rare perception appears
in...his unerring insight,-putting always the blame of our misfortunes
on ourselves;...
AgMs 12.363 25 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of
the [Agricultural] Surveyor, and acquitted him of any blame in the
matter...
blame, v. (9)
Fdsp 2.208 8 A man is reputed to have thought and
eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his
uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame
the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
PPo 8.244 20 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold
Paradise for two kernels of wheat; then blame me not, if I hold it dear
at one grapestone.
Aris 10.52 11 ...if the dressed and perfumed
gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill
examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his
barns...
MMEm 10.409 2 It is so universal with all classes to
avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
blamed, v. (1)
blameless, adj. (4)
NER 3.279 5 I suppose considerate observers, looking
at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions,
will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons
is fidelity.
SovE 10.184 24 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree,
by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
TPar 11.292 25 ...amiable and blameless at home,
feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has
gone down in early glory to his grave...
Blanc, Mont, Switzerland, n (1)
Boks 7.213 20 [Men's] education is neglected; but the
circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour to Mont
Blanc...make such amends as they can.
Blanchard, Luther, n. (1)
HDC 11.74 17 ...the British fired one or two shots up
the river...then a single gun, the ball from which wounded Luther
Blanchard and Jonas Brown...
Blanche, n. (2)
Bhr 6.185 20 Nothing can be more excellent in kind
than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners, and yet Blanche, who
has no manners, has better manners than she;...
Bhr 6.185 22 ...the movements of Blanche are the
sallies of a spirit which is sufficient for the moment...
bland, adj. (1)
Fdsp 2.212 2 Who set you to cast about what you
should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No
matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland.
Blandford, Marquis of [John (4)
Boks 7.209 26 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, then Marquis of
Blandford.
Boks 7.210 2 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]
stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford].
Boks 7.210 7 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer
Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
Boks 7.210 17 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the
assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford].
blandishments, n. (1)
Elo1 7.73 2 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses
at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the
blandishments of speech.
blandly, adv. (1)
FSLC 11.181 6 I met the smoothest of Episcopal
Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's
treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great
action of his life.
blank, adj. (6)
LT 1.267 24 To-day always looks mean to the
thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and
great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
Mrs1 3.147 5 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/
Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels
a fresh perfection treads/...
Wth 6.93 22 Few men on the planet have more truly
belonged to it. But [Columbus] was forced to leave much of his map
blank.
LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in
the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
EzRy 10.384 11 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate
this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a
record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's]
predecessor...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year
1735.
HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among
some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775, in a blank
leaf of which he has written a narrative of the fight [battle of
Concord];...
blank, n. (2)
Nat 1.73 23 The ruin or the blank that we see when we
look at nature, is in our own eye.
Elo2 8.127 3 If [some men] are to put a thing in
proper shape, fit for the occasion and the audience, their mind is a
blank.
blanket, n. (3)
SA 8.80 24 I think Hans Andersen's story of the
cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's
garment--must mean manners, which do really clothe a princely nature.
Such a one can well go in a blanket, if he would.
Res 8.144 21 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself
in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down...
blankets, n. (4)
HDC 11.79 18 For these men [in the Continental army]
[Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats,
blankets and beef.
SMC 11.369 20 Another incident [reported by George
Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not
treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I
think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for...we had to carry
him and all our wounded nearly two miles in blankets.
SMC 11.369 24 [George Prescott writes] We laid
[Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long
distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
II 12.76 25 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t
is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and
blankets, most part of our days...
blanks, n. (3)
Wsp 6.226 8 Wherever work is done, victory is
obtained. There is no chance, and no blanks.
Boks 7.192 14 ...it happens in our experience that in
this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to
a prize.
OA 7.329 15 [The conchologist] labels shelves for
classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year
fills some blanks...
blank-verse, n. (1)
PI 8.49 18 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt
conventional metre, as the...heroic blank-verse...) will by any
sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
blaspheme, v. (2)
YA 1.390 17 We cannot give our life to the cause...of
the pauper, as another is doing; but to one thing we are bound, not to
blaspheme the sentiment and the work of that man...
PI 8.63 17 There is something...the eminent scholars
of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included,
might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and
planting itself.
blasphemer, n. (3)
DSA 1.140 24 In the street, what has [the poor
preacher] to say to the bold village blasphemer?
DSA 1.140 24 The village blasphemer sees fear in the
face, form, and gait of the minister.
NR 3.239 20 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom
Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this
exuberance of power.
blasphemes, v. (1)
SwM 4.131 2 ...though aware that truth is not
solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry,
[Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...and, on all occasions, traduces
and blasphemes it.
blasphemies, n. (1)
ACri 12.288 14 ...some men swear with genius. I knew
a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only
graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
blasphemous, adj. (2)
MN 1.198 24 Statements of the infinite are usually
felt to be unjust to the finite, and blasphemous.
Wsp 6.207 2 The religion of the early English poets
is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
blast, n. (5)
Mrs1 3.137 21 Proportionate is our disgust at those
invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
Pow 6.77 24 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded
with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He
fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until
it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion? Every stroke. Which
blast burst the piece? Every blast.
DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear an
endless chatter and blast;...
HDC 11.59 13 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house,
or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we
already hear the flourish of victory.
TPar 11.284 5 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has
been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in
earnest/...
blast, v. (1)
FSLC 11.210 7 Let [the United States] confront this
mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and
shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.
blasted, adj. (1)
blasted, v. (1)
OS 2.282 2 A certain tendency to insanity has always
attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been
blasted with excess of light.
blasts, n. (1)
MMEm 10.397 19 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/
Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains
hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/
Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
blaze, n. (2)
Ctr 6.152 22 ...I remember one rainy morning in the
city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Farm 7.145 24 Whilst all thus burns,--the universe in
a blaze kindled from the torch of the sun,--it needs a perpetual
tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
blaze, v. (1)
SwM 4.146 4 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the
trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the
realities of being which beam and blaze through him...
blazes, v. (4)
NR 3.229 9 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its
size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the
Will-of-the-wisp...only blazes at one angle.
PPo 8.262 26 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is
found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is
one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart
blazes with light!/
blazing, adj. (2)
EWI 11.147 18 The Intellect, with blazing eye,
looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot
[slavery] and it disappears.
blazing, v. (4)
Grts 8.317 12 Bret Harte has pleased himself with
noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates
of the ranches and mines of California.
Chr2 10.113 24 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing
through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and
joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
CW 12.169 6 ...unto me not morn's
magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich
men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine
influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I
behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the
blue violets out of the black loam./
blazon, v. (3)
Chr1 3.105 21 Care is taken that the greatly-destined
shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to
watch and blazon every new thought...
MoS 4.173 7 [The wise skeptic] does not wish
to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him.
SovE 10.185 15 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment,
and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut
flowers.
bleaching, v. (1)
Prch 10.215 4 Ascending through just degrees/ To a
consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching
all souls like the sun./
bleak, adj. (8)
LT 1.263 2 ...[persons] have the skill to make the
world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and
joy.
Nat2 3.169 6 There are days which occur in this
climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to
desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
ET5 5.98 15 Man in England submits to be a product of
political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as
water in a sluice-way...
RBur 11.441 26 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and,
shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the
luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around
them,-bleak leagues of pasture and stubble...
bleakest, adj. (1)
Con 1.308 18 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the
White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps
up to me to show me that it is his.
bleakness, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.154 5 Are you...rich enough to make...even the
poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception
of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;...
blear-eyed, adj. (1)
CL 12.154 23 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch
mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from
her care. The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet.
bleatings, n. (1)
Dem1 10.28 10 The voice of divination resounds
everywhere and runs to waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with
the bleatings of cattle.
bleed, v. (4)
Hsm1 2.246 10 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/
And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So,
't is well;/...
MoS 4.168 12 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would
bleed;...
Clbs 7.234 11 We know beforehand that yonder man must
think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails? Does
he not eat,--bleed,-- laugh,--cry?
bleeding, v. (1)
bleeds, v. (1)
MN 1.220 9 A [New England] man was born...to suffer
for the benefit of others like the noble rock-maple which all around
our villages bleeds for the service of man.
bleibt, v. (1)
MoS 4.153 18 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther
had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/
Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...
blemish, n. (2)
SwM 4.99 1 ...it is easier to see the reflection of
the great sphere in large globes, though defaced by some crack or
blemish, than in drops of water...
Scot 11.467 7 ...[Scott] had no insanity, or vice, or
blemish.
blemishes, n. (1)
Lov1 2.182 21 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, and is able to point it out, and
this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to
indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
blench, v. (1)
Int 2.331 14 I would put myself in the attitude to
look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw
on this side and on that.
blend, v. (7)
SR 2.80 6 ...the walls of the system blend to
[unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the
universe;...
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.
Chr1 3.114 17 ...the mind requires...a force of
character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with
the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
Ill 6.324 8 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless
the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with
one another.
Milt1 12.276 11 Shall we say that in our admiration
and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have
even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which
streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they...did not
blend with their own being?
blended, adj. (1)
Art2 7.40 9 When we reflect on the pleasure we
receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a
dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not
a quite simple, but a blended origin.
blended, v. (2)
ET13 5.216 27 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system...at once domestical and stately. In the long time, it
has blended with everything in heaven above and the earth beneath.
blending, n. (1)
blending, v. (7)
MN 1.217 10 ...[Love] is that in which the
individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object, blending for the
time that object with the real and only good...
SL 2.135 3 Could ever a man of prodigious
mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If
he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its
exaggerated value, blending with the daylight and the vital energy the
power to stand and to go.
Int 2.344 6 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their
blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more
bright star...blending its light with all your day.
ET4 5.66 10 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying
cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by...an expression
blending good-nature, valor and refinement...which is daily seen in the
streets of London.
EdAd 11.391 27 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to
that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has
distinguished the Religious Ages?
PLT 12.45 26 A blending of these two-the intellectual
perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
blends, v. (4)
War 11.152 9 ...in the first dawnings of the
religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
PLT 12.44 22 Affection blends, intellect disjoins
subject and object.
bless, v. (6)
ET13 5.224 22 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys
piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make
my heart rejoice and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me, and
continue it.
Elo2 8.127 22 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr.
Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog
Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to
improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his
prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to
them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.
QO 8.190 8 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser
men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine?
Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban
Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences
and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that
will bless the friends.
LS 11.9 11 It was the custom for the master of the
feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...
MAng1 12.232 7 Raphael said, I bless God I live in
the times of Michael Angelo.
blessed, adj. (13)
SR 2.79 2 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster,
the blessed Immortals are swift.
Cir 2.307 22 O blessed Spirit, whom I forsake for
[persons called high and worthy], they are not thou!
Int 2.342 17 The circle of the green earth he [in
whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to
find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is
somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
Ctr 6.162 4 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to
the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost
all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than
thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Imtl 8.351 3 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is
good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good...
SovE 10.197 5 I have not discovered, until this
blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any
power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
EzRy 10.384 19 In March following [Joseph Emerson]
notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we
find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much
hurt. Blessed be our gracious Preserver.
LS 11.22 27 ...the Almighty God was pleased to
qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke,
and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose;
and now, with his blessed word and life before us, Christians must
contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to
commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
EWI 11.147 12 There is a blessed necessity by which
the interest of men is always driving them to the right;...
Blessed Soul, n. (1)
ET14 5.254 23 ...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.
Blessed Unity, n. (1)
blessed, v. (4)
Cir 2.315 22 Blessed be nothing and The worse things
are, the better they are are proverbs which express the
transcendentalism of common life.
LS 11.9 12 It was the custom for the master of the
feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this
formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of
the vine...
blessedness, n. (1)
Ctr 6.157 1 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred
friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
blesses, v. (1)
OS 2.289 5 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare,
Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing
soul, which through their eyes beholds again and blesses the things
which it hath made.
blesseth, v. (1)
MLit 12.321 21 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets
by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which
through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it
hath made.
blessing, n. (18)
Hist 2.39 12 [Each man] shall...bring with him into
humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars...
CbW 6.256 23 What is the benefit done by a good King
Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by
the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Bty 6.283 18 A deep man...believes that the evil eye
can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal;...
Cour 7.272 5 Courage of the soldier awakes the
courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of
her shadow.
Schr 10.262 17 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly
overshone by a sympathy of blessing.
EzRy 10.379 7 We love the venerable house/ Our
fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their
dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the
pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their
homes again./
EzRy 10.384 14 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes
against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
The Lord grant it may be a comfort and blessing to my family.
MMEm 10.432 20 It was the privilege of certain boys
to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to
their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could
supply.
HDC 11.34 14 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims]
sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them
houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth, by the Lord's
blessing, brought forth bread to feed them.
HDC 11.68 25 ...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.
ACiv 11.298 7 ...who is this who tosses his empty
head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...
FRep 11.544 5 Such and so potent is this high method
by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the
mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse
ingenuity prevent the blessing.
Bost 12.182 17 A blessing through the ages thus/
Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/
Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
ACri 12.299 22 ...the secret interior wits and hearts
of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less
surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire,
or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of
these...
Let 12.402 1 ...where the divine nature and the
artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men
deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety
for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...
blessing, v. (5)
MR 1.255 22 He who would help himself and others
should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person,-such as we
have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the
world;...
Mrs1 3.155 7 Too good for banning, and too bad for
blessing, [society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology,
in any attempt to settle its character.
NER 3.270 2 A canine appetite for knowledge was
generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of
substantial, humane truth, blessing those whom it entered.
MMEm 10.431 14 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself
amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I
indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their
Original...
FRep 11.520 14 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was
still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a
piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped
short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
blessings, n. (5)
DSA 1.142 13 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any
man dare to be wise and good, and so draw after him the tears and
blessings of his kind.
Chr1 3.103 6 If your friend has displeased you, you
shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to
serve you, and ere you can rise up again will burden you with
blessings.
Wsp 6.199 20 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/
Floods with blessings unawares./
EWI 11.121 8 All those who are acquainted with the
state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population
are...as strongly sensible of the blessings of liberty, as any that we
know of in any country.
War 11.169 17 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is
looked upon as the asylum of the human race and has the tears and the
blessings of mankind.
blest, adj. (1)
ET6 5.108 19 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every
Englishman is counted blest.
blest, n. (1)
PPo 8.255 20 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will
perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which
cools the blest below.
blest, v. (1)
MMEm 10.418 11 If ever I [Mary Moody Emerson] am
blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful.
blew, v. (6)
ET2 5.26 21 At last...the storm came, the winds
blew...
ET4 5.59 23 The wind blew off the land, the ship
flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean,
and there was the right end of King Hake.
Pow 6.68 24 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a
Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his
joy;...
OA 7.323 21 The humorous thief who drank a pot of
beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was
unhealthy;...
EWI 11.103 10 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow,
no wind of good fame blew over him...
EWI 11.104 23 ...a good man or woman...once in a
while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the
indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds
blew it all over the world.
blight, n. (3)
Nat 1.42 6 ...blight, rain, insects, sun, - [a farm]
is a sacred emblem...
PLT 12.24 21 What happens here in mankind is matched
by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This
curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the...crossings,
blight, parasites, and in short, all the accidents of the plant.
blighted, v. (1)
HDC 11.55 16 The [Concord] river, at this period,
seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its
drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn;...
blights, v. (1)
JBB 11.266 19 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys
vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand
old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
blind, adj. (40)
Nat 1.34 6 When in fortunate hours we ponder this
miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and
deaf;...
Nat 1.77 11 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall
enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually
restored to perfect sight.
Cir 2.307 19 I know and see too well, when not
voluntarily blind, the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
Exp 3.61 15 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct
of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with
sincere homage.
Pol1 3.219 12 Much has been blind and discreditable,
but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the
revolters;...
PPh 4.46 21 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to
truth, from blind force.
MoS 4.177 8 We paint...Love and Fortune, blind;...
ET18 5.304 12 [The English] mind is in a state of
arrested development...a blind savant like Huber and Sanderson.
Wsp 6.204 26 There is always some religion, some hope
and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which
nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the
Elders in the Apocalypse.
Bty 6.289 15 We say love is blind, and the figure of
Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he
does not see what he does not like;...
Bty 6.289 20 ...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.
Ill 6.309 14 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three
quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River, whose waters are peopled
with the blind fish;...
OA 7.322 6 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo, elected
doge at eighty-four years...
QO 8.195 23 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry
unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and
analogy-loving souls...
PC 8.216 8 The early names are too typical,-Homer, or
blind man;...
PC 8.230 18 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists...amidst fools and blind, to see the right done;...
SovE 10.189 2 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the
bottom of the heart that...in spite of malignity and blind
self-interest...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing
things right;...
Prch 10.215 3 Ascending through just degrees/ To a
consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching
all souls like the sun./
Schr 10.259 6 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought
is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And
willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...
MMEm 10.424 16 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are
prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored...by the prophecy of
others, more dreary, blind and sickly.
FSLC 11.190 4 I am surprised that lawyers can be so
blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
JBS 11.281 16 ...our blind statesmen go up and
down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
PLT 12.61 15 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of
souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind
guides and thriftless workmen...
PLT 12.62 14 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred
before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force
and impetus;...
II 12.78 25 ...we must be openers of doors, and not a
blind alley;...
Mem 12.102 26 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old,
blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune,
finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more
invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
Milt1 12.278 27 We have offered no apology for
expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John
Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote
Paradise Lost;...
ACri 12.289 5 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion
and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.
ACri 12.295 7 My friend thinks the reason why the
French mind is so shallow, and still to seek, running into vagaries and
blind alleys, is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
blind, n. (4)
Chr2 10.118 6 The power that in other times
inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and
the blind...
CPL 11.503 5 Think how indigent Nature must appear to
the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.
blind, v. (2)
Aris 10.63 27 ...shame to the fop of learning and
philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to
the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
blinded, v. (2)
Pt1 3.33 10 The fate of the poor shepherd, who,
blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few
feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
PPh 4.65 21 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each
of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and
reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
blinders, n. (2)
ET5 5.88 8 ...it must be owned [the English] are
capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or
accumulations of mental power. In common, the horse works best with
blinders.
blinding, v. (1)
EPro 11.322 27 It is wonderful to see the
unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...blinding
their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.
blindly, adv. (1)
Con 1.303 6 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.
blind-man's-buff, n. [blindman's-buff,] (2)
Dem1 10.19 14 ...I find...some play at
blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the
demonological.
blindness, n. (10)
Nat 1.75 2 To our blindness, these [common] things
seem unaffecting.
LT 1.277 15 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral
sentiment, with...the blindness that prefers some darling measure to
justice and truth.
Comp 2.95 10 The blindness of the preacher consisted
in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a
manly success...
Pt1 3.18 20 In the old mythology...defects are
ascribed to divine natures, as...blindness to Cupid, and the like,--to
signify exuberances.
OA 7.322 18 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of
whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature
ever made...
MLit 12.334 13 He who doubts whether this age or this
country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only
betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
WSL 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John
Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the
truth...
blindnesses, n. (1)
Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the
highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an
unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have
unbridled desires!
blink, v. (1)
Bliss, Daniel, n. (6)
HDC 11.66 19 The charges seem to have been made by
the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a
favorer of religious excitements.
HDC 11.66 26 ...Mr. Bliss replied, In the prayer you
speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between
God and man;...
HDC 11.67 12 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used
the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;
but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some
would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss
of some improprieties of expression...
HDC 11.67 16 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached
again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in
the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them
the better sermon of the two.
Bliss, Emerson, Phebe, n. (1)
EzRy 10.383 2 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16,
1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...
bliss, n. (5)
PI 8.26 16 Who has heard our hymn in the churches
without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And
soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
Plu 10.317 13 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to
flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion
to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be
with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss.
MMEm 10.403 14 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and
mysterious elections to eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to
fix [Byron's] imagination.
Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again
into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
CL 12.134 7 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if
one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the
whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one
import, of varied tone;/ They chant the bliss of their abodes/ To man
imprisoned in his own./
blissful, adj. (2)
Chr2 10.119 15 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel
expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees
each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
Milt1 12.260 14 At nineteen years...[Milton]
addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice
to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep
transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's
door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the
thunderous throne doth lie./
blithe, adj. (1)
Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head
bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
bloated, adj. (7)
LT 1.266 1 ...there will be fragments and hints of
men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or
little.
DL 7.108 19 We are sure that the sacred form of man
is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...
Comc 8.164 16 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly
the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
War 11.170 14 Men who love that bloated vanity called
public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling
through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
PPr 12.389 4 That morbid temperament has given
[Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...
bloats, v. (1)
ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national
church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a
stertorous clang...
block, n. (12)
Nat 1.55 21 It is, in both cases [Plato and
Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded
and dissolved by a thought;...
Hist 2.18 25 ...my companion pointed out to me a
broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over
churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate
with eyes and mouth...
Art1 2.357 27 No mannerist made these varied groups
and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself
improvising, grim and glad, at his block.
ET16 5.283 13 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at
work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston,
swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the
Stonehenge columns...
Bty 6.295 5 In a house that I know, I have noticed a
block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty
years together...
Clbs 7.228 10 I prize the mechanics of conversation.
'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and
send it jingling down, a good boulder,--a block of quartz and gold...is
a wonderful relief.
ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which
in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved
under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm
to the picture.
SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]
fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's
ground...making together a large block of public ground...
PLT 12.44 10 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring
the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall
attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
PLT 12.44 14 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring
the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall
attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
MAng1 12.213 3 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A
form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
Trag 12.416 15 Napoleon said to one of his friends at
St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of
marble.
block, v. (2)
YA 1.379 14 Our part is plainly not to throw
ourselves across the track, to block improvement...
Prch 10.226 23 ...we can keep our religion, despite
of the violent railroads of generalization...that block and intersect
our old parish highways.
blockade, n. (2)
MAng1 12.224 23 ...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, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were
suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
This simple expedient was sufficient, and the Prince was obliged to
turn his siege into a blockade.
blocked, v. (8)
F 6.15 22 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first
misshapen animals...rude forms, in which she has only blocked her
future statue...
TPar 11.288 25 ...[the next generation] will read
very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was
taken by each actor [in Boston]; who...came to the rescue of
civilization at a hard pinch, and who blocked its course.
ACiv 11.303 16 ...there have been days in American
history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been
blocked...
PLT 12.35 26 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they
represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike
form, blocked rather...
CInt 12.114 15 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the
people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of
highest and most important matters to be reformed...
MAng1 12.233 2 The things proposed to [Michelangelo]
in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to
express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
For this reason he only blocked his statue.
blockhead, adj. (1)
blockhead, n. (3)
PLT 12.28 26 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor,
sterile, inhospitable.
blockheads, n. (3)
MoS 4.171 25 Every superior mind...will know how to
avail himself of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon
against the exaggeration and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
Thor 10.480 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a
certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended
completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected
to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe
the seeds or count the sepals. That is to say, we replied, the
blockheads were not born in Concord;...
CPL 11.504 14 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet
said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
blocking, v. (1)
HDC 11.70 27 On the 27th June [1774], near three
hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant,
solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial
intercourse with Great Britain, until the act for blocking the harbor
of Boston be repealed;...
block-printing, n. (1)
blocks, n. (9)
Tran 1.331 22 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how
deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of
his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown
materials and solidity...
Art1 2.367 10 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull,
and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of
marble.
ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called,
is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the
action of fire...
ET16 5.279 19 The spot, the gray blocks [of
Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of
ages...
DL 7.104 14 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and
checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...
Edc1 10.146 1 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on
the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking
about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this.
Edc1 10.146 3 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on
the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking
about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to
the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
PLT 12.20 4 This methodizing mind meets no resistance
in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a
symmetrical structure, fit.
MAng1 12.226 4 [Michelangelo] was charged with
rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly,
a large quantity of blocks of travertine...
Blois, France, n. (1)
ET11 5.181 5 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The
wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children
out of the streets;...
Blois, Henry de, n. (1)
ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we
stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of
bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in
1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the
gate.
blond, adj. (2)
Pow 6.58 9 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the
temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster (which one
has and one has not, as one has a black mustache and one a
blond),--then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit
his right to absorb them.
SMC 11.358 27 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
blonde, adj. (1)
ET4 5.66 25 When it is considered...what resources of
mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its
accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
blood, n. (149)
AmS 1.107 9 [The poor and the low]...will perish to
add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O
conservatism! your horses are of the best blood;...
Con 1.317 16 Rich and fine is your dress, O
conservatism!...but every one of these goods steals away a drop of my
blood.
YA 1.388 11 I find no expression...especially in our
newspapers, of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that
rightfully stir the blood.
SR 2.71 26 Why should we assume the faults of our
friend...or child, because they...are said to have the same blood?
Comp 2.107 6 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for
a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...
SL 2.150 20 ...a person of related mind...comes to
us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper
veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having
come;...
SL 2.155 18 [The things the great man did] are the
demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show
the direction of the stream. But the stream is blood; every drop is
alive.
Lov1 2.169 20 The natural association of the
sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in
order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
Lov1 2.177 11 ...[the lover] feels the blood of the
violet, the clover and the lily in his veins;...
Lov1 2.178 27 [The lover's] friends find in [his
mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not
of her blood.
Fdsp 2.204 15 We are holden to men by every sort of
tie, by blood...
Fdsp 2.213 3 The higher the style we demand of
friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and
blood.
Hsm1 2.248 22 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
OS 2.291 17 Souls such as these treat you as gods
would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say
rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper
blood...
Int 2.332 9 It seems as if the law of the intellect
resembled that law of nature...by which the heart now draws in, then
hurls out the blood...
Pt1 3.31 14 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse,
compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
Exp 3.51 15 What cheer can the religious sentiment
yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on...the state
of the blood?
Chr1 3.108 24 I look on Sculpture as history. I do
not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.
Mrs1 3.126 2 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are
gentlemen of the best blood...
Mrs1 3.145 16 ...nor is it to be concealed that
living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's
gentleman from Fashion's.
Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the
purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of
centuries, should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no
lady;...
Mrs1 3.153 16 Everything that is called fashion and
courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal
blood...
Nat2 3.187 14 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in
his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head...
NER 3.283 8 ...the man...whose advent men and events
prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall not take counsel of flesh and
blood...
UGM 4.21 7 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our
loftier brothers, but one in blood;/...
SwM 4.113 27 The principle of all things, entrails
made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small
sanguine drops reduced to one;/...
SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many
little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the
body.
SwM 4.141 12 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as
street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit
is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun
rolls, and the globule of blood...
NMW 4.234 6 [Napoleon was] Not bloodthirsty, but not
sparing of blood,-- and pitiless.
NMW 4.241 26 ...when allusion was made to the
precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood
ditch-water.
NMW 4.242 1 ...when allusion was made to the precious
blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood
ditch-water.
ET4 5.52 21 The Scandinavians in [the English] race
still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean; the
Briton in the blood hugs the homestead still.
ET4 5.55 1 The sources from which tradition derives
[the English] stock are mainly three. And first they are of the oldest
blood of the world,--the Celtic.
ET5 5.74 6 ...from the residence of a portion of
these [Scandinavian] people in France, and from some effect of that
powerful soil on their blood and manners, the Norman has come popularly
to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic
principle.
ET5 5.87 15 It is not usually a point of honor...and
never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
ET5 5.92 15 [The English] have approved their Saxon
blood, by their sea-going qualities;...
ET6 5.105 14 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl,
or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made. And as he
has been doing this for several generations, it is now in the blood.
ET6 5.110 14 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders
of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a
consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five
hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
ET9 5.146 2 I suppose that all men of English blood
in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are
not French natives.
ET9 5.152 14 ...this precious knave [George of
Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride
of the best blood of the modern world.
ET11 5.178 23 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl
Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood
six hundred years.
ET11 5.180 12 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the
token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in
London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man
who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that
shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
ET11 5.180 25 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from
England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the
aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be
spilt in torrents.
ET11 5.197 8 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage
and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the
continual recruiting of these from new blood.
ET13 5.229 2 The English (and I wish it were confined
to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both
hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other
nations.
F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles
your blood...
Pow 6.55 5 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as
the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Pow 6.55 8 During...trials of strength, wrestling,
fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
Pow 6.55 12 Where the arteries hold their blood, is
courage and adventure possible.
Pow 6.68 11 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood
cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...
Pow 6.69 8 The young English are fine animals, full
of blood...
Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by
tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as
if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood...
Wsp 6.206 14 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both
fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love
fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/
For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and
mathen./
Bty 6.293 27 To this streaming or flowing belongs the
beauty that all circular movement has; as the circulation of waters,
the circulation of the blood...
Bty 6.300 27 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us,
was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with
pimples, and of high blood, and long.
SS 7.1 22 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/
The tie of blood and home was rent/...
Civ 7.32 12 ...when I...see...how self-helped and
self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural
societies, societies...of kindred blood...I see what cubic values
America has...
Elo1 7.65 1 The orator sees himself the organ of a
multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers:--But now the
blood of twenty thousand men/ Blushed in my face./
Elo1 7.93 20 This terrible earnestness [of the
eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that
the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's
blood.
Elo1 7.95 22 ...the slight yet sufficient party
organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city
with new blood from the woods and mountains.
Farm 7.139 25 In the town where I live...most of the
first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day,
would find their own blood and names still in possession.
WD 7.160 4 How excellent are the mechanical aids we
have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of
all,--the transfusion of the blood...
WD 7.160 5 How excellent are the mechanical aids we
have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of
all,--the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed,
enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen!
WD 7.175 7 ...that flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was...the heat of the blood
and the heaving of the lungs;...
WD 7.182 12 The masters painted for joy, and knew not
that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold
blood.
Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make
allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
Cour 7.266 22 Undoubtedly there is a temperamental
courage, a warlike blood...
PI 8.24 19 The atoms of the body were once nebulae,
then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
PI 8.73 18 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of
every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of
an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of
ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...
QO 8.198 27 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into
the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which
all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates
in her unborn child;...
Grts 8.315 14 ...I please myself with [greatness's]
diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption. It is
some guaranty, I hope, for the health of the soul which has this
generous blood.
Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or private language...the transfusion of the
blood...are of this kind.
Aris 10.36 6 I cannot tell how English titles are
bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the
three-per-cents.
Aris 10.45 21 The blood royal never pays, we say.
Aris 10.55 5 He is beautiful in face, in port, in
manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be
superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can
obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly
the sympathy of men in his designs?
Supl 10.165 19 ...much of the rhetoric of terror,-It
froze my blood, It made my knees knock, etc.-most men have realized
only in dreams and nightmares.
Prch 10.220 24 ...the sober eye finds something
ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the
triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle;
but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed
at our solitude;...
Prch 10.232 9 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance
or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our
countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish
history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
LLNE 10.355 11 ...like the dreams of poetic people on
the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist
community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
EzRy 10.388 11 I can remember a little speech [Ezra
Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my
brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
MMEm 10.423 4 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but
does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by
the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are
storming and conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which
corrupts into worms and dragons.
MMEm 10.430 25 ...one secret sentiment of
virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate
presence, more than the blood of many a martyr who has it not.
LS 11.7 10 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his
disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect
to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish
nation. Hereafter it will remind you of a new covenant sealed with my
blood.
LS 11.9 23 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus
make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body
which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for
you. Drink it?...
LS 11.10 20 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the
Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye
have no life in you.
HDC 11.30 24 ...the honor you have done me this day,
in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to
[Bulkeley's] blood.
HDC 11.33 14 Some of [the pilgrims], having no
leggins, have had the blood trickle down at every step.
HDC 11.79 10 The numbers [of of men for the
Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are
large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their
brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
EWI 11.111 4 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip
and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
EWI 11.117 18 It soon appeared in all the [West
Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same
licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the
magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill
blood continually grew worse.
EWI 11.134 3 ...you will not suffer me to forget one
eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of
Massachusetts rolls...
War 11.175 10 ...if the rising generation...shall
feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short
day, and human blood will cease to flow.
FSLC 11.183 6 ...you cannot rely on any man for the
defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and
temperament on that side.
FSLC 11.192 15 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of
Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must
humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives
in things that are possible, however hazardous they may be, and we will
exert ourselves to the last drop of our blood.
JBS 11.280 27 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John
Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and
perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
HCom 11.341 22 It is not the Government, but the War,
that has...sifted out the pedants, put in the new and vigorous blood.
HCom 11.344 3 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts]
has a fist big enough to knock down an empire.
HCom 11.344 5 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts]
has a fist big enough to knock down an empire. And her blood was
roused.
FRep 11.528 9 All this [American] forwardness and
self-reliance...proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and
law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition.
CInt 12.121 23 Here are still perverse millions full
of passion, crime and blood.
Bost 12.182 9 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred
thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/
Make sunshine in her brain./
Bost 12.186 10 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to
be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood...
Bost 12.207 19 The Massachusetts colony grew...all
the while sending out colonies...until it has infused all the Union
with its blood.
Bost 12.209 8 Greater cities there are that sprung
from [Boston], full of its blood and name and traditions.
Bost 12.210 26 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good
sons to good sires, or at least continued merit in the same blood.
MAng1 12.222 8 ...not the most swinish compost of mud
and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us
from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or
surpassing beauty in human clay.
MLit 12.332 19 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two
more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its
veins.
Blood, n. (1)
HDC 11.30 15 Here are still around me the lineal
descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is
Blood, Flint, Willard, Meriam...
Blood, Thaddeus, n. (1)
HDC 11.74 15 ...the British fired one or two shots up
the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck
by the first ball);...
bloodhound, n. (1)
Cour 7.264 1 The hunter is not alarmed by bears,
catamounts or wolves... nor the dog-breeder by his bloodhound...
bloodhounds, n. (2)
EWI 11.104 11 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with
bloodhounds into swamps and hills;...we too should wince.
Wom 11.420 13 On the questions that are
important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted
alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as
in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote
as the voters of Boston or New York.
bloodless, adj. (1)
SwM 4.142 12 Strange, scholastic, didactic,
passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls
as a botanist disposes of a carex...
Blood's Farms, Concord, Ma (1)
HDC 11.48 4 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling
freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of
Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.
bloods, n. (2)
ET4 5.54 25 ...the Roman has implanted his dark
complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].
bloodshed, n. (3)
Boks 7.210 9 Earl Spencer bethought him like a
prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...
War 11.152 13 The student of history acquiesces the
more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he
learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
War 11.152 14 The student of history acquiesces the
more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed
in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and
preparatory state...
bloodthirsty, adj. (2)
NMW 4.234 4 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be
collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought
his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not
bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his
way!
NMW 4.234 6 [Napoleon was] Not bloodthirsty, but not
sparing of blood,-- and pitiless.
blood-vessels, n. (1)
ET5 5.100 23 The boys [in England] know all that
Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels;...
blood-warm, adj. (1)
AmS 1.112 10 In contrast with their [Goethe's,
Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of
Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic. This writing is blood-warm.
bloody, adj. (3)
LT 1.269 23 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of his bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear
of mankind...
bloody-minded, adj. (1)
War 11.168 9 Will you stick to your principle of
non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered
in your sight? If you say yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would
soon butcher the good.
bloom, n. (4)
Lov1 2.170 3 The delicious fancies of youth reject
the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and
pedantry their purple bloom.
OA 7.320 24 Universal convictions are not to be
shaken...by the sentimental fears of girls who would keep the infantile
bloom on their cheeks.
bloom, v. (2)
Hist 2.34 26 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a
garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...
Thor 10.470 8 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket
his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on
this day...
bloomed, v. (3)
Hsm1 2.259 16 [A woman] has a new and unattempted
problem to solve, perchance that of the happiest nature that ever
bloomed.
PPo 8.261 18 While roses bloomed along the plain,/
The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be
dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to
man./
Thor 10.481 17 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with
special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he
visited every year when it bloomed...
Bloomer, adj. (1)
Bty 6.293 13 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will
know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by
interposing the just gradations.
blooming, adj. (1)
blooms, n. (2)
MMEm 10.398 2 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an
angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by
ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by
summer blooms./
HDC 11.38 26 The little flower which at this season
stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract
even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble
beauty.
blooms, v. (6)
Nat 1.19 2 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in
large beds...
Hist 2.21 5 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in
stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain
of granite blooms into an eternal flower...
Chr1 3.115 12 Is there any religion but this, to know
that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish
has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
Chr1 3.115 14 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I
will keep sabbath or holy time...
blossom, n. (2)
Nat 1.19 11 The shows of day...orchards in
blossom...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
Edc1 10.152 5 In these judgments one needs that
foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was
said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the
end of a hundred years.
blossom, v. (1)
blossomed, v. (1)
Pt1 3.35 25 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels
affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their
hands.
blossoming, v. (1)
Hist 2.21 3 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in
stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
blossoms, n. (2)
SwM 4.98 24 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a
composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are
matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
Bost 12.185 18 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or
of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited
by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our
blossoms.
blossoms, v. (1)
PI 8.35 14 The test of the poet is the power to take
the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees
it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of
the world. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
blot, n. (6)
SovE 10.195 1 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot
on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one
proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
MMEm 10.397 8 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/
If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My
heart's content would find it right./
MMEm 10.416 19 ...the simple principle which made me
[Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair
face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been
equalled...
MMEm 10.428 8 The sickness of the last week was fine
medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary
Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that
to be a blot on this fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.
EWI 11.147 19 The Intellect, with blazing eye,
looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot
[slavery] and it disappears.
EPro 11.321 14 With this blot [slavery] removed from
our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces
among mankind.
blot, v. (3)
PPo 8.265 20 You as three birds are amazed,/
Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am
in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find
yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows
in the sun./ Farewell!/
PPo 8.265 22 You as three birds are amazed,/
Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am
in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find
yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows
in the sun./ Farewell!/
ACri 12.291 8 As soon as you read aloud, you will
find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find
the words that drag.
blotting, n. (2)
PNR 4.87 26 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the
centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so
modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this
rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of
one short-lived scribe.
ACri 12.291 10 Resolute blotting rids you of all
those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...
blotting, v. (1)
FSLC 11.201 23 [Webster] must learn...that the
obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as
things go well, but who feel the disgrace of the new legislation
creeping like miasma into their homes, and blotting the
daylight...disown him...
blouse, n. (2)
YA 1.380 15 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the
operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
RBur 11.441 14 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the
poet, too, of poor men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the
blouse.
blow, n. (14)
AmS 1.105 2 ...what overgrown error you behold is
there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and
you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Hist 2.6 27 We sympathize in the great moments of
history...because there law was enacted...or the blow was struck, for
us...
SR 2.85 2 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and
in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the
blow into soft pitch...
Pt1 3.23 10 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought
him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder
at a blow...
MoS 4.174 17 Bad as was to me this detection by San
Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...this blow
from a bride, there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of
the saints.
PC 8.221 23 To this material essence [centrality]
answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...the soundness and
health of things, against which no blow can be struck but it recoils on
the striker;...
Insp 8.283 14 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness
that befell him, The thought of my father, who could not have sustained
such a blow as my death, restrained me;...
Aris 10.37 13 We like cool people, who...can survive
the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall...
LVB 11.96 2 However feeble the sufferer and however
great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should
recoil upon the aggressor.
ALin 11.329 17 In this country, on Saturday, every
one was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's
death].
Milt1 12.265 25 There is a forbearance even in
[Milton's] polemics. He opens the war and strikes the first blow.
blow, v. (15)
Nat 1.69 4 For us, the winds do blow/...
Comp 2.116 26 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to
the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
Comp 2.122 25 Material good...if it came without
desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it
away.
OS 2.274 5 The things we now esteem fixed
shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience, and
fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.
Exp 3.49 12 The Indian who was laid under a curse
that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire
burn him, is a type of us all.
ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the
best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow,
to keep that will alive and alert.
Pow 6.68 25 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a
Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his
joy; Blow! he cried, me do tell you, blow!
Pow 6.68 26 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a
Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his
joy; Blow! he cried, me do tell you, blow!
Suc 7.311 3 ...to help the young soul...and blow the
coals into a useful flame;...that is not easy...
PI 8.4 17 First innuendos, then broad hints, then
smart taps are given, suggesting...that matter is not what it
appears;--that chemistry can blow it all into gas.
PerF 10.72 8 These [natural] forces...seem to leave
no room for the individual; man or atom...he sails the way these
irresistible winds blow.
Supl 10.167 25 [People of English stock's] houses
are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in
hurricanes...
Milt1 12.272 13 The events which produced [Milton's
tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for
this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
blowing, adj. (7)
DSA 1.129 24 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by
Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not
one with the blowing clover...
Con 1.318 2 ...an army encamps in a desert, and where
all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour...
CL 12.137 11 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found
that the farms on the shore were perpetually...ruined by blowing sand.
Bost 12.183 22 There are countries, said Howell,
where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping
sponge, most parts of the year.
blowing, v. (2)
Pt1 3.16 24 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting,
blowing on the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the
blood tingle...
Nat2 3.172 12 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the
music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
blown, adj. (2)
Wth 6.120 8 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke
of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame.
Wth 6.120 9 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke
of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with
blown and lame oxen?
blown, v. (8)
Nat 1.37 26 ...Property, which has been well compared
to snow, - if it fall level to-day, it will be blown into drifts
to-morrow, - is the surface action of internal machinery...
Int 2.339 17 I cannot see what you see, because I am
caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am
out of the hoop of your horizon.
ET2 5.29 20 To the geologist...the land is in
perpetual flux and change, now blown up like a tumor, now sunk in a
chasm...
PI 8.31 5 Every writer is...a sailor, who can only
land where sails can be blown.
PPo 8.243 22 The secret that should not be blown/ Not
one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But
never the mouth of a foe./
Schr 10.265 13 ...[poets] sit white over their
stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of
book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a
wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
II 12.86 22 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
blowpipe, n. (1)
ET13 5.222 9 [The English] value a philosopher as
they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration
is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.
blows, n. (12)
Comp 2.108 4 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to
Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night
and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows...
Fdsp 2.199 23 After interviews have been compassed
with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled
blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Wsp 6.199 2 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung
harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
Wsp 6.225 12 The American workman who strikes ten
blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is
as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and
told on his person.
Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten
blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is
as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and
told on his person.
Elo1 7.96 6 [The woods and mountains] send us every
year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor
blows...make any impression.
Grts 8.311 13 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir
Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are
frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true
of ourselves.
War 11.154 5 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at
first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.
TPar 11.284 9 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on
you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an
oak/...
ACiv 11.300 4 The evil you contend with has taken
alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the
blows it aims...
RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more
telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer
[Burns].
blows, v. (11)
ET12 5.212 19 The university must be retrospective.
The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out
of antiquity.
F 6.27 26 A breath of will blows eternally through
the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
Elo2 8.121 15 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; he also is a sharer of the higher
wind that blows over his strings.
Chr2 10.92 9 When a man...insists to do...something
absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he blows with his lips
against the tempest...
Chr2 10.120 20 The grass must bend, when the wind
blows across it.
SMC 11.348 18 Yea, many a tie, through iteration
sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half
they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The
invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their
memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to
zone;/...
CL 12.133 2 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/
And all through which it blows;/...
blue, adj. (29)
Nat 1.18 4 The leafless trees become spires of flame
in the sunset, with the blue east for their background...
Nat 1.19 1 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in
large beds...
Tran 1.354 3 What am I? What but a thought of
serenity and independence, an abode in the deep blue sky?
Pt1 3.42 18 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by
clouds or sown with stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Nat2 3.174 18 ...it is the magical lights of the
horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of
art...
ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick
old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
ET4 5.67 5 On the English face are combined decision
and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid
aspect.
F 6.48 14 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon
and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of
the eye.
Bty 6.299 6 Portrait painters say that most faces and
forms are irregular and unsymmetrical; have one eye blue and one
gray;...
WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should
find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched
above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me
now...
WD 7.173 22 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years
have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours
shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of
beauty and poetry?
OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a
large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat...
PI 8.59 8 To an exile on an island [Taliessin]
says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
PPo 8.244 25 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who
rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has
thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat
from the old graybeard of the sky.
Dem1 10.26 21 I think the rappings a new test, like
blue litmus or other chemical absorbent, to try catechisms with.
SovE 10.191 17 An Eastern poet...said that God had
made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice
lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a
snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion,
with strong, serious blue eyes...
Thor 10.482 4 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot
cut down the clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground
with this fibrous white paint.
CW 12.169 13 ...unto me not morn's
magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such
resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/
Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out
of the black loam./
AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always
impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances;
excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...
Blue Books, n. (1)
Blue Hills, Massachusetts, (1)
Wth 6.122 19 When a citizen...comes out and buys land
in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his
windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills...
blue, n. (4)
Tran 1.354 7 ...we retain the belief that this petty
web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the
blue...
Art1 2.357 8 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal
picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine
ladies, draped in red and green and blue and gray;...
ACiv 11.296 5 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/
Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The
white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
SMC 11.361 22 [George Prescott] writes, You don't
know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and
sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart. I know
every man's weak spot,-who is shaky, and who is true blue.
blueberries, n. (1)
bluebird, n. (4)
SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not
displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song
the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will
find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
Mem 12.104 13 The spring days when the bluebird
arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
CL 12.151 5 The next day the Hylas were piping in
every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds, the premature
arrival of the bluebird...
bluebirds, n. (1)
CW 12.171 2 When I bought my farm, I did not know
what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which
were not charged in the bill;...
bluebird's, n. (1)
Mem 12.104 16 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a
bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
blue-fire, n. (1)
GoW 4.276 25 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of
mythologic gear, of horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and
blue-fire...
Blue-Laws, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.256 22 Simple hearts...play their own game in
innocent defiance of the Blue-Laws of the world;...
bluer, adj. (1)
bluff, adj. (1)
Blumenbach, Johann Friedric (1)
blunder, n. (12)
Exp 3.79 6 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder,
said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
Pol1 3.214 16 This undertaking for another is the
blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the
world.
F 6.31 9 ...[men] think...that it would be a
practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one
sphere into the other.
PI 8.4 4 ...the most imaginative and abstracted
person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail. We should not
pardon the blunder in another, nor endure it in ourselves.
LLNE 10.331 25 It was remarked that for a man who
threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.
II 12.79 9 ...you shall not speak of any work of art
except in its presence; then you will...make no blunder.
CInt 12.115 14 ...if the intellectual interest be, as
I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to
give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting
down...every dignified blunder that has crept into its administration.
Let 12.397 15 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic
village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several
blunder;...
blunder, v. (1)
PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are
obtuse, men and women...blunder and quarrel...
blundered, v. (5)
Exp 3.69 26 [The individual] designed many things,
and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all,
blundered much, and something is done;...
Suc 7.310 21 Which of [the most sanguine] has
not...blundered where they were most ambitious of success?...
MoL 10.256 17 [Senators and lawyers] read that they
might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws]
did not know. They blundered;...
FRep 11.532 20 ...as soon as the success stops and
the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer
the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet
blundered.
blunderhead, n. (1)
Wth 6.119 20 [A farm] requires as much watching as if
you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with
it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it
all leaks away.
blunders, n. (10)
Fdsp 2.213 10 We may congratulate ourselves that the
period...of blunders...is passed in solitude...
PPh 4.65 19 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us
for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in
the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and
that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set
right our own wanderings and blunders.
Wsp 6.217 27 The bias of errors of principle carries
away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control
their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final
wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.
Wsp 6.229 26 ...for ourselves it is really of little
importance what blunders in statement we make...
CbW 6.262 16 In our life and culture everything is
worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not
less, folly and blunders...
Plu 10.321 16 there are, no doubt, many vulgar
phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the
printer;...
FSLC 11.205 7 The scraps of morality to be gleaned
from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he
says what he hears said, but often makes signal blunders in their use.
Milt1 12.250 18 What under heaven had...the manner of
living of Saumaise...or his blunders of grammar...to do with the solemn
question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
blunders, v. (2)
FRep 11.532 16 ...as soon as the success stops and
the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...
PLT 12.28 25 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her
doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint
and uses her goods she speaks no word; if he blunders and starves she
says nothing.
blunt, adj. (3)
ET5 5.82 6 In politics [the English] put blunt
questions, which must be answered;...
PI 8.59 22 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle
blind or deaf, and their weapons so blunt that they could no more cut
than a willow-twig.
blunted, v. (2)
FSLC 11.183 23 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a
sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.
bluntly, adv. (4)
ET13 5.224 13 [The English] put up no Socratic
prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say
bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
Aris 10.48 20 In the South a slave was bluntly but
accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good
field-hand;...
bluntness, n. (1)
ET8 5.133 8 There are multitudes of rude young
English who have the self-sufficiency and bluntness of their nation...
blur, n. (6)
Hist 2.24 13 In [the Grecian state] existed those
human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules,
Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of
modern cities, wherein the face is a confused blur of features...
Mrs1 3.155 16 Minerva said...[men] were only
ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had
a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
Ill 6.318 17 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in
Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
Supl 10.166 21 I...am content that [my eyes] should
see the real world, always geometrically finished without blur or halo.
PLT 12.31 18 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey
it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was
blur to everybody else.
blurred, v. (1)
CPL 11.500 24 In a private letter to a lady,
[Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have
been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred
and defaced.
blurs, v. (1)
SR 2.54 7 The objection to conforming to usages that
have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It...blurs the
impression of your character.
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