Bonny to Bosses
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
bonny, adj. (2)
PI 8.48 15 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny
bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
Bonny Doons, n. (1)
RBur 11.442 3 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson
my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses
been applied to!
Boo, Le, Prince, n. (1)
CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not
had...Prince Le Boo...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts
and passages which you will hear of with envy.
Book, Commonplace [Robert (1)
QO 8.184 1 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book
this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir
G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
Book, Domesday, n. (2)
ET7 5.116 22 Private men [in England] keep their
promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets,
and is indelible as Domesday Book.
HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently
presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of
the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
Book, First [Wordsworth, T (1)
MLit 12.321 2 ...the interest of the poem
[Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the
influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
Book, Golden, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.152 17 The constitution of our society makes
it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their
names enrolled in its Golden Book...
book, n. (281)
AmS 1.88 26 The writer was a just and wise spirit:
henceforward it is settled the book is perfect;...
AmS 1.89 5 The sluggish and perverted mind of the
multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
AmS 1.90 1 I had better never see a book than to be
warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
AmS 1.90 12 The book, the college...stop with some
past utterance of genius.
LE 1.167 3 ...to have written a book that is read,
satisfies us.
LE 1.185 1 ...you shall get your lesson out of the
hour, and the object...even in reading a dull book...
MN 1.196 14 The new book says, I will give you the
key to nature...
MN 1.196 21 ...a man lasts but a very little while,
for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months. It is
so with every book and person...
MR 1.242 13 Better that the book should not be quite
so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
Tran 1.347 17 ...a book...can give
[Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall
seem real, and society the illusion.
Tran 1.357 11 ...church and old book mumble and
ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a
statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
SL 2.146 21 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in
his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
SL 2.149 7 Take the book into your two hands and read
your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
SL 2.149 11 If any ingenious reader would have a
monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book
is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
SL 2.154 5 They who make up the final verdict upon
every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it
appears...
SL 2.154 12 ...presentation-copies to all the
libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic
date.
SL 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written
down by any but itself.
Lov1 2.174 20 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a
parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Fdsp 2.200 11 The valiant warrior famoused for
fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of
honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
Hsm1 2.248 24 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that
book its immense fame.
Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy
who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in
the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
OS 2.280 4 In the book I read, the good thought
returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
OS 2.294 3 ...every book...that belongs to thee for
aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
Cir 2.313 25 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms
itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of
the book itself.
Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more
service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards
when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
Exp 3.55 18 Once I took such delight in Montaigne
that I thought I should not need any other book;...
Exp 3.56 7 A deduction must be made from the opinion
which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
Exp 3.80 26 What imports it whether it is...a reader
and his book, or puss with her tail?
Chr1 3.101 9 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr.
Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had
served up to it, and would have it.
Chr1 3.106 19 How captivating is [children's]
devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in
that book;...
Nat2 3.189 5 Days and nights...of communion with
angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters
on that tear-stained book.
NR 3.242 7 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took
up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
NER 3.254 20 It is right and beautiful in any man to
say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of
yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
UGM 4.17 16 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious
mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and a sentence
in a book...sets free our fancy...
PPh 4.39 4 Among secular books, Plato only is
entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said,
Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
PNR 4.89 22 In his eighth book of the Republic,
[Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the
problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions
of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a
life, and not in a book.
SwM 4.112 15 It is remarkable that this sublime
genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a
daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid
experience.
SwM 4.117 1 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.
SwM 4.127 2 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love]
one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
SwM 4.127 11 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love]
had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted...
MoS 4.158 27 ...once let [the savage] read in the
book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's
translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my
father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many
years...I read the book...
MoS 4.163 17 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book
which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's]
library.
MoS 4.168 11 I know not anywhere the book that seems
less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of
conversation transferred to a book.
MoS 4.169 25 This book of Montaigne the world has
endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five
editions of it in Europe;...
MoS 4.175 27 ...a book...shoots a spark through the
nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
ShP 4.211 3 ...the occasion which gave the saint's
meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the
universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare
and his book of life.
GoW 4.274 14 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of
conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man
write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
GoW 4.278 2 I suppose no book of this century can
compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
GoW 4.278 9 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very
provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius...
GoW 4.279 15 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm
Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public, when
the book was translated, were disgusted.
GoW 4.279 20 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its
way...
GoW 4.280 5 No generous youth can escape this charm
of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized
the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and
prosaic;...
GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of
speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of
men;...
GoW 4.285 25 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the
expression of the idea...a novelty to England, Old and New, when the
book appeared--that a man exists for culture;...
GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung
und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with
us a Life of Goethe;...
GoW 4.287 6 ...the charm of this portion of the book
[Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the
relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and
himself;...
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the
power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a
book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book,
which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three
pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
ET1 5.14 15 ...I...find it impossible to recall the
largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many
printed paragraphs in his book...
ET1 5.16 20 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that
when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown
across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast
turkey.
ET1 5.21 22 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than
the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that
he threw the book across the room.
ET1 5.21 24 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than
the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that
he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath, and said
what I could for the better parts of the book...
ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has
written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
ET5 5.79 12 Sir Kenelm wrote a book...in which he
propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of
man's life.
ET5 5.93 11 There is no department of literature, of
science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a
first-rate book.
ET8 5.131 6 [The English] are headstrong believers
and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining
their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the
Lord's Prayer.
ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother
of Alfred, who can read it;...
ET12 5.212 5 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more
and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a
book, can consult it...
ET13 5.218 4 The carved and pictured chapel...made
the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's
eye.
ET14 5.245 12 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of
European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great
ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.
ET16 5.273 11 It seemed a bringing together of
extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in
company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced
in every contemporary book.
ET17 5.295 21 I said, if Plato's Republic were
published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find
any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
F 6.9 1 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the
spine, is a book of fate;...
Wth 6.101 14 Political Economy is as good a book
wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to
us.
Wth 6.124 2 ...'t is very well that the poor husband
reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if
he dare.
Bhr 6.174 6 Unhappily the book [Dickens, American
Notes] had its own deformities.
Wsp 6.219 2 ...to [man] the book of history, the book
of love...are opened;...
CbW 6.253 3 [Good men] find...the governments, the
churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men
have met this obstruction in their times...like Erasmus, with his book,
The Praise of Folly;...
CbW 6.272 2 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of
worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not
the men they were. ... There is no book and no pleasure in life
comparable to it.
Bty 6.286 16 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners,
the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts
of a science which we study without book...
Civ 7.19 9 Mr. Guizot, writing a book on the subject
[Civilization], does not [attempt a definition].
DL 7.110 10 How could such a book as Plato's
Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
WD 7.164 23 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if
it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
WD 7.170 4 The scholar must look long for the right
hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early
dawn...and in its wide leisures we dare open that book.
WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles
his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
Boks 7.187 2 The reader and the book,--either without
the other is naught.
Boks 7.193 1 ...private readers, reading purely for
love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of
what he found.
Boks 7.194 24 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand
deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read
both...
Boks 7.197 4 ...I find certain books vital and
spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a
richer man.
Boks 7.200 11 ...it signifies little where you open
[Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
Boks 7.204 11 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German,
Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can
procure in a good version.
Boks 7.204 22 If [the student] can read Livy, he has
a good book;...
Boks 7.209 13 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when
the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to
a manuscript.
Boks 7.217 8 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts
awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...but we close the book
and not a ray remains in the memory of evening.
Boks 7.217 15 ...this passion for romance, and this
disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry:
that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by
the face of Nature.
Boks 7.221 14 Another member [of the literary club]
meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British
mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth,
on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the
Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold...and every other
shall then decide whether this is a book indispensable to him also.
Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was
not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual
jewels,--the favorite passages of each book...
Clbs 7.240 8 You may condemn [the eloquent man's]
book, but can you fight against his thought?
Cour 7.269 17 ...out of love of the reality [the
scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
Cour 7.269 21 In all applications [courage] is the
same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can
easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all
books.
Cour 7.270 3 ...I remember the old professor, whose
searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class,
when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have
never read that book;...
Cour 7.270 4 ...I remember the old professor, whose
searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class,
when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have
never read that book; instantly the book lost credit...
Suc 7.296 18 ...in every book [a good reader] finds
passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and
unmistakably meant for his ear.
PI 8.15 27 ...the book, the landscape or the
personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is
not forgotten.
PI 8.32 16 I require that the poem should impress me
so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...
PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which
expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to
mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
PI 8.34 7 No matter what [your subject] is...if it
has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart
of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it
were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
PI 8.34 8 No matter what [your subject] is...if it
has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart
of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it
were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
QO 8.177 20 Of a large and powerful class we might
ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift?
What but the book that shall come, which...shall speak to the
imagination?
QO 8.180 15 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book
out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new
researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he
turned to the table of contents...
QO 8.183 27 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he
turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of
matters and topics...before he read the book.
QO 8.184 8 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a
well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon
the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said
upon that subject, before he read the book;...
QO 8.188 16 In opening a new book we often discover,
from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or
text, all we have to expect from him.
QO 8.188 21 If Lord Bacon appears already in the
preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
QO 8.195 19 It is curious what new interest an old
author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other
historian of literature. Their registration of his book...carries the
sentimental value of a college diploma.
PC 8.219 13 Every book is written with a constant
secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer
believes to exist in the million.
Insp 8.272 5 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is
of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a
motion...
Insp 8.276 12 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;
as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or
conversation could fire the train...
Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by
providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me
quite out of prosaic surroundings...
Insp 8.295 11 You shall not read...Montaigne, nor the
newest French book.
Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena
the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil
appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he
rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he
was more worthy to sit there than himself.
Dem1 10.27 23 [Man] is sure no book, no man has told
him all.
Aris 10.50 9 When old writers are consulted by young
writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all
means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
Chr2 10.90 1 For what need I of book or priest/ Or
Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
Edc1 10.134 17 ...what teaching, what book of this
day appeals to the Vast?
Edc1 10.158 1 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a
Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good
book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the
class.
SovE 10.209 7 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not
now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with song
and book...
Schr 10.280 15 When a man begins to dedicate himself
to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius
pauses;...seal the book;...
Schr 10.284 8 ...the sure months are bringing [the
scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no
lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
Plu 10.294 7 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful
exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
Plu 10.295 18 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put
this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the
breast.
Plu 10.295 25 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had
been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
Plu 10.298 20 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter
written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book
well-written, in the happiness of his life.
Plu 10.300 16 I do not know where to find a book-to
borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
Plu 10.311 18 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book,
we forget to open it again.
Plu 10.320 15 Professor Goodwin is a silent
benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared
the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old
book was...
Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to
publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic
Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
MMEm 10.411 13 In her solitude of twenty years, with
fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost,
without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of
Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she
knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her
companion and solace.
MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
EWI 11.118 26 The child will sit in your arms
contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he
commences hostile operations.
EWI 11.125 27 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or
a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...
EdAd 11.385 6 At least as far as the purpose and
genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no
genius.
EdAd 11.391 9 ...the current year has witnessed the
appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's]
manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...
EdAd 11.393 11 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly
Review] might convey the impression of a book of criticism...
SHC 11.433 18 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein
may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name
recorded in a book;...
RBur 11.443 12 The memory of Burns,-every man's,
every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they
say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them
from a book...
Shak1 11.450 13 Young men of a contemplative turn
carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade
of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to
sit out their happiest hours.
Scot 11.463 19 I can well remember as far back as
when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my
own and my school-fellows' joy in the book.
CPL 11.497 11 Every faculty casts itself into an art,
and memory into the art of writing, that is, the book.
CPL 11.499 26 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think
that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the
feelings...
CPL 11.500 7 ...events so important have occurred in
the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was
published, that it now needs a second volume.
CPL 11.503 13 ...what omniscience has music! so
absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow
reached. Yet to a scholar the book is as good or better.
CPL 11.506 12 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the
golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far
away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the
book is written;...
FRep 11.534 11 [A man's life] is manufactured for
him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported
book of patterns, your furniture;...
II 12.67 13 ...we can only judge safely of a
discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of
mind it induces...
II 12.86 19 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine
ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over
his head.
Mem 12.91 16 ...a book I read...has a value at this
moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
CInt 12.119 5 ...the book written against fame and
learning has the author's name on the title-page.
CL 12.164 19 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons
but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature]
into words...
CW 12.176 18 ...it is much better to learn the
elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than
dully from a book.
Bost 12.204 2 ...I do not find in our [New England]
people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of
thought;-not any remarkable book of wisdom;...
Milt1 12.247 7 ...the new-found book having in itself
less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the
public as quickly subsided...
Milt1 12.268 10 The memorable covenant, which in his
youth, in the second book of the Reason of Church Government, [Milton]
makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
Milt1 12.271 27 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of
literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as
freely as a man...
ACri 12.296 5 Every historic autobiographic trait
authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
ACri 12.298 2 What [Carlyle] has said shall be
proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any
longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that
ever was written;...
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the
English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly
on practice;...
ACri 12.299 11 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the
men and nations and manners of modern times.
ACri 12.299 16 ...this book [Carlyle's History of
Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it...and
you would think there was no such book.
MLit 12.310 2 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and
read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and
grandeur invite us on every hand, life is made up of them. Such is our
debt to a book.
MLit 12.310 20 [The library of the Present Age] can
hardly be characterized by any species of book...
MLit 12.327 14 In these days and in this country...it
seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as
the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this
man...
WSL 12.340 5 [Landor] has capital enough to have
furnished the brain of fifty stock authors, yet has written no book.
WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library
and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
Pray 12.356 6 ...we must not tie up the rosary on
which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a
pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint
Augustine.
EurB 12.375 27 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and
Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand
adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
EurB 12.376 12 Everything good in such a story [novel
of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.
PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]
makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
PPr 12.380 16 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the
merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining
before it was eloquent...
PPr 12.380 23 The scholar shall read and write, the
farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the
book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
PPr 12.381 25 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and
nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old
nobilities.
PPr 12.382 3 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the
morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book.
PPr 12.384 25 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...
PPr 12.385 18 We are at some loss how to state what
strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and
Present]...
PPr 12.386 20 It was perhaps inseparable from the
attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that
a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
Book, n. (2)
AmS 1.92 18 I would not be hurried...by any
exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book.
ACri 12.299 23 ...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, and not less of this Book, which is like these.
Book of Epistles, n. (1)
SMC 11.361 16 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the
Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might
furnish the Book of Epistles.
Book of Job, n. (1)
Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem
of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
Book of Peerage, n. (1)
Aris 10.32 24 It will not pain me...if it should turn
out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but
so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of
Peerage...
Book of the Church [Robert (1)
Cour 7.274 12 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe
of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at...Southey's Book of
the Church...
Book of Venice, Golden, n. (1)
Aris 10.32 26 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of
European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or
centigraded Man.
Book, Pirate's Own, n. (1)
WD 7.165 17 I believe they have ceased to publish the
Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family
newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the
horror of their records of crime.
Book, Sacred, of China, n. (1)
Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the
Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
bookbinder, n. (1)
GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama
or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides,
and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal
refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties,
leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left
that will not find any place. This the bookbinder alone can give any
cohesion to;...
book-clubs, n. (1)
GoW 4.271 1 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the
absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have
come in. There is...no learned man, but...reading-rooms and book-clubs
without number.
book-fancying, v. (1)
Boks 7.209 11 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
booking, v. (1)
Thor 10.470 26 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which
he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never
identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by
day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life
should have nothing more to show him.
book-keeper, n. (2)
book-learned, adj. (1)
AmS 1.89 18 Hence the book-learned class, who value
books, as such;...
book-maker, n. (1)
MR 1.242 14 Better that the book should not be quite
so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
book-makers, n. (2)
Pow 6.79 25 I remarked in England...that in literary
circles, the men of trust and consideration, book-makers,
editors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
Schr 10.265 7 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves,
and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers.
bookmaking, n. (1)
book-office, n. (1)
ET6 5.106 3 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At
the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the
book-office.
book-read, adj. (1)
NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at
dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich,
ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
Books, Blue, n. (1)
books, n. (357)
AmS 1.89 16 Meek young men grow up in
libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men
in libraries when they wrote these books.
AmS 1.89 19 Hence the book-learned class, who value
books, as such;...
AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well
used;...
AmS 1.91 24 It is remarkable, the character of the
pleasure we derive from the best books.
AmS 1.98 17 ...the final value of action, like that
of books, and better than books, is that it is a resource.
AmS 1.99 5 ...when...books are a weariness, - [the
artist] has always the resource to live.
AmS 1.108 5 The books which once we valued more than
the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
DSA 1.144 7 When a man comes, all books are
legible...
LE 1.163 27 Be lord of a day, through wisdom and
justice, and you can put up your history books.
LE 1.177 22 [The scholar] must work with men in
houses, and not with their names in books.
MR 1.227 10 ...some of those offices and functions
for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the
memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
MR 1.238 26 ...when [a man] comes to give all the
goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his
son,-house...books...the son finds his hands full...
LT 1.275 10 By the books [the Times] reads and
translates, judge what books it will presently print.
LT 1.275 11 By the books [the Times] reads and
translates, judge what books it will presently print.
Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle
mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how
they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them.
What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...piles of books about
you?
Con 1.315 19 Look at our pictures and books, [the
mothers] said...
Con 1.316 16 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything
they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have...more books, but less
wit.
Hist 2.7 11 Books, monuments, pictures,
conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the
lineaments he is forming.
Hist 2.8 3 The student is...to esteem his own life
the text [of history], and books the commentary.
Hist 2.40 2 What connection do the books show between
the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
SR 2.45 16 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,
Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions...
SR 2.71 7 Let us stun and astonish the intruding
rabble of...books...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
SR 2.76 24 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself,
tossing...the books... out of the window, we pity him no more...
Comp 2.109 3 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each
nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
SL 2.132 9 Let [a man] do and say what strictly
belongs to him, and though very ignorant of books, his nature shall not
yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not
yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the
Latin School.
SL 2.144 17 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell
in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of
value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he
would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and
other minds.
SL 2.164 17 I may say it of our preposterous use of
books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
Lov1 2.172 25 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes
running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;
he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she
removed herself from him infinitely...
Fdsp 2.195 27 Every thing that is [our
friend's],--his name, his form, his dress, books and
instruments,--fancy enhances.
Fdsp 2.204 24 I find very little written directly to
the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We
go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these
will call it out...
Fdsp 2.214 11 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons,
or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us
to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an
old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts.
Prd1 2.224 24 ...our existence...so fond of splendor
and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary
lessons out of these books.
Hsm1 2.248 25 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that
book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...
Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that
book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more
than books of political science...
Hsm1 2.258 20 ...when we hear [many extraordinary
young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their
superiority;...
OS 2.267 21 Why do men feel that the natural history
of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you
have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics
worthless?
OS 2.286 19 Neither his age...nor books...can hinder
[a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of
the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Int 2.344 15 [One soul] must treat things and books
and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few
books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all
spectacles.
Exp 3.64 25 Law of copyright and international
copyright is to be discussed, and in the interim we will sell our books
for the most we can.
Chr1 3.101 26 I knew an amiable and accomplished
person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find
in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear and
by the understanding from the books he had been reading.
Mrs1 3.134 27 Everybody we know surrounds himself
with a fine house, fine books...
NR 3.225 12 ...how few particulars of [the genius of
the Platonists] can I detach from all their books.
NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
NR 3.246 27 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair
girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature
of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books,
philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
NER 3.259 8 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is
parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he
shuts those books for the last time.
PPh 4.39 1 Among secular books, Plato only is
entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said,
Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
SwM 4.101 27 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and
metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these
matters.
SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best
acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
SwM 4.105 21 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views
the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine
of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these
doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
SwM 4.105 27 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is
one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
SwM 4.111 11 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a
pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to
the day...
SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain
books of the Old and New Testaments were exact
allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating
from the literal, the universal sense.
SwM 4.122 1 Swedenborg styles himself in the
title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
SwM 4.123 2 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that
their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young
man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them
aside for ever.
SwM 4.136 24 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the
indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's
son;...
SwM 4.137 14 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's
parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the
day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.
Swedenborg confounds us not less with...his own books, which he
advertises among the angels.
SwM 4.144 5 ...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the
vision [of heavenly society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of
the intellectual that pervades his books?
MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were
written to one sex only...
ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer,
Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books,
traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
ShP 4.199 19 Is there at last in [the writer's]
breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether
it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that?
All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never
disturb his consciousness of originality; for the ministrations of
books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to that most private
reality with which he has conversed.
ShP 4.200 27 The translation of Plutarch gets its
excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time
when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are
kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something
like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of
these books.
NMW 4.225 21 [The man in the street] finds
[Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible
merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all
those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal
and deny: good society, good books...
GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books,
Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the
practical faculties as two.
GoW 4.276 26 ...[Goethe]...instead of looking in
books and pictures, looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
GoW 4.289 5 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very
truth...
GoW 4.289 12 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized
time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of
books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this
mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in
sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a
purpose;...
ET1 5.9 14 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me
that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
ET1 5.17 15 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums
paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes
that...no books are bought...
ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the
favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred
the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable
hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
ET3 5.41 10 It is not down in the books...that
fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus
which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
ET6 5.110 8 Holdship has been with me, said Lord
Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
ET7 5.123 16 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands
recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was
urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET8 5.127 21 Religion, the theatre and the reading
the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his
natural melancholy.
ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the
world served up to them in books, maps, models...
ET9 5.150 13 ...in books of science, one is surprised
[in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching
nationality.
ET10 5.154 15 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty
to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr.
Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is
the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each
several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles
of books contained in the library of that college...
ET12 5.204 8 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is
the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each
several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles
of books contained in the library of that college,--the theory being
that the Bodleian has all books.
ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent
during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
ET12 5.209 10 ...so eminent are the members that a
glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be
in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or
Cambridge colleges.
ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more
and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a
book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and
reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
ET13 5.229 7 What is so odious as the polite bows to
God, in our books and newspapers?
ET16 5.278 8 The sacrificial stone [at
Stonehenge]...as I read in the books, must have been brought one
hundred and fifty miles.
ET18 5.307 17 ...the American people do not
yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties,
talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in tools to work with, in
books to read;...
Ctr 6.134 17 ...the student we speak to must have a
mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of
intercourse...
Ctr 6.137 11 It is not a compliment but a
disparagement to consult a man only...on eating, or on books...
Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic
egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by
acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy,
art and religion; books, travel, society, solitude.
Ctr 6.143 2 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod,
horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing,
dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy...is of a noble
and ingenuous strain, these will not serve him less than the books.
Ctr 6.148 27 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas
Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there
was a good library and books enough for him...
Ctr 6.149 2 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes
say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a
good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the
library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
Ctr 6.152 6 ...one of the traits down in the books as
distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
Bhr 6.191 22 Novels are the journal or record of
manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact
that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part
of life more worthily.
Bhr 6.195 3 How much we forgive to those who yield us
the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of
books...
Wsp 6.214 23 Forget your books and traditions, and
obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
Wsp 6.221 13 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a
definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
CbW 6.271 19 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of
living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
Ill 6.316 25 I, who have all my life...read poems and
miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest
life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts
and trained experiment/...
Art2 7.56 18 Who cares, who knows what works of art
our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere
flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books
and galleries.
Elo1 7.95 6 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes
of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by
those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
DL 7.106 19 The first ride into the country...the
books of the nursery, are new chapters of joy [to the child].
DL 7.108 9 It is easier...to criticise [a
territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and
dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.109 26 ...some things each man buys without
hesitation; if it were only...books that are written to his
condition...
DL 7.110 16 Another man is...a builder of ships...and
could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
DL 7.121 10 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of
Nature and of man!...
WD 7.174 20 History of ancient art, excavated cities,
recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and
the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.189 4 ...certainly there is dilettanteism
enough, and books that are merely neutral and do nothing for us.
Boks 7.189 13 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The
shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his
passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his
passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them
on board. So is it with books, for the most part;...
Boks 7.189 23 ...there are books which are of that
importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the
fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
Boks 7.190 3 ...there are books which are of that
importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the
fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our
life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
Boks 7.190 7 ...there are...books which are the work
and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts
them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his
way of living.
Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of
certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will
represent the science already accumulated.
Boks 7.191 17 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to
be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is
familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have
once for all been disposed of.
Boks 7.191 23 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us
with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul,
after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting
upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right
act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him
safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
Boks 7.192 23 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This
would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to
time appear...
Boks 7.193 3 There are books; and it is practicable
to read them, because they are so few.
Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in
the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand
volumes...
Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are
only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few
great voices of time.
Boks 7.195 7 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed
books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid
pleasure;...
Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture...to count the few
books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare...
Boks 7.203 16 The reader of these books [of the
Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind;...
Boks 7.204 1 I do not hesitate to read all the books
I have named, and all good books, in translations.
Boks 7.204 5 ...in our Bible, and other books of
lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and
music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
Boks 7.204 18 I should as soon think of swimming
across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my
books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother
tongue.
Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied
to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may
be called Table-Talks...
Boks 7.211 19 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of
Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to
be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern
Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
Boks 7.214 2 ...books that treat the old pedantries
of the world...with a certain freedom... put us on our feet again...
Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we
must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
Boks 7.218 10 ...I might as well not have begun as to
leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
Boks 7.218 11 ...I might as well not have begun as to
leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred
books of each nation...
Boks 7.218 14 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures,
which constitute the sacred books of Christendom, [the sacred books]
are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
Boks 7.218 19 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the books of the Buddhists;...
Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four
books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
Boks 7.218 21 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four
books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other
books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world...
Boks 7.220 13 In comparing the number of good books
with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had
good proxies;...
Clbs 7.229 8 Later, when books tire, thought has a
more languid flow;...
Clbs 7.249 18 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not
speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
Cour 7.269 22 In all applications [courage] is the
same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can
easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all
books.
Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of
youth?--with his long days because...he loves books that speak to the
imagination;...
OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The
total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed
mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/
And stony pathway to the wood./
OA 7.329 27 We have an admirable line worthy of
Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in
vain.
PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish
poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite
of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking
of poetry.
PI 8.51 2 St. Augustine complains to God of his
friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
PI 8.65 8 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the
counterpart of Nature, and equally rich. I find her not often in books.
Comc 8.168 2 ...in the country we cannot find every
day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.
Comc 8.168 17 The pedantry of literature belongs to
the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases
there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books
to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages
and books;...
Comc 8.168 19 The pedantry of literature belongs to
the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases
there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books
to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages
and books;...
QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours
when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his
views.
QO 8.178 5 If we encountered a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he read.
QO 8.181 12 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas
Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante
absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open
secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are
published and not published.
QO 8.188 12 As they do by books, so [people] quote
the sunset and the star...
QO 8.194 7 Most of the classical citations you shall
hear or read in the current journals or speeches were...drawn...from
previous quotations in English books;...
PC 8.222 9 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one, his hand shook...
PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is
communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
PPo 8.239 12 The Persians and the Arabs, with great
leisure and few books, are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of
poetry.
Insp 8.289 19 ...Montaigne travelled with his books,
but did not read in them.
Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have
suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts...
Insp 8.295 22 Fact-books, if the facts be well and
thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books
are that are written in rhyme.
Insp 8.295 25 Books of natural science...all the
better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago, the books read...were
all directed on death.
Imtl 8.328 10 The emphasis of all the good books
given to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a garden, a field...
Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism.
Chr2 10.106 19 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look
into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves
in such a pinfold.
Edc1 10.140 16 If [a boy] can turn his books to such
picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how
his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
Edc1 10.142 23 There comes the period of the
imagination to each, a later youth; the power of beauty, the power of
books, of poetry.
Edc1 10.153 16 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to
be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine
of grammars and books of elements.
Supl 10.165 16 The books say, It made my hair stand
on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
MoL 10.256 12 Reading!-do you mean that this senator
or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws,
was a reader of Greek books?
Schr 10.265 6 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves,
and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...
Schr 10.283 11 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books,
but knew it all already;...
Schr 10.288 17 ...[the scholar's] use of books is
occasional, and infinitely subordinate;...
Plu 10.293 12 [Plutarch] has been represented as
having been the tutor of the Emperor Trajan, as dedicating one of his
books to him...
Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture,
[Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
Plu 10.302 21 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
Plu 10.318 4 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and
self-sacrifice has made his books...a bible for heroes;...
Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the
Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the
1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to
greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
LLNE 10.341 21 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and
many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's
houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure
idealist, not...a writer of books;...
LLNE 10.354 6 It argued singular courage, the
adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books
lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French
language.
EzRy 10.381 23 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and
to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his
instruction, clothing and books.
EzRy 10.392 24 With a very limited acquaintance with
books, [Ezra Ripley' s] knowledge was an external experience...
MMEm 10.405 15 ...the minister found quickly that
[Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
MMEm 10.405 26 None but was attracted or piqued by
[Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with
books and with eminent names.
MMEm 10.406 22 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion
were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on
which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop
the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
MMEm 10.411 9 In her solitude of twenty years, with
fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise
Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and
solace.
MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...
SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential,
and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less
with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
Thor 10.458 23 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President
[of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which
permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
Thor 10.459 5 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Thor 10.459 7 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Carl 10.489 15 If you would know precisely how
[Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found
leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and
Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time,
should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books...
HDC 11.48 24 ...I have set a value upon any symptom
of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique
books [Concord Town Records]...
HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the
manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
HDC 11.84 6 These soiled and musty books [the Concord
Town Records] are luminous and electric within.
War 11.165 15 We surround ourselves always...with
true images of ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or
cannons or churches.
War 11.175 5 ...if the search of the sublime laws of
morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in
the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short
day...
FSLC 11.189 26 All arts, customs, societies, books,
and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual
element...
ACiv 11.300 18 Neither was anything concealed of the
theory or practice of slavery. To what purpose make more big books of
these statistics?
HCom 11.340 2 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's
best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for
guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
HCom 11.343 25 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's]
influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States,
and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books...the
diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the
little state bigger than I knew.
EdAd 11.386 17 Here are no books, but who can see the
continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose
for which this muster of nations...is made?
RBur 11.441 21 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear
society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for
want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the
immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the
era of his books...
Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the
immense enlargement of the reading public...which his books and Byron's
inaugurated;...
CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you
when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested
you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all
towns equal...
CPL 11.497 6 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a
shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...
CPL 11.498 2 The town [Concord] was settled by a
pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of
their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they
shared.
CPL 11.499 20 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her
diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by
remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are
ever the same.
CPL 11.500 15 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a
man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which
have been written in this country...
CPL 11.500 27 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read
some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
CPL 11.504 9 There is a wonderful agreement among
eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their
estimate of books.
CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that
Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling
carriage as fast as he had read them...
CPL 11.505 20 One curious witness [to the value of
reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the
Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's
Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he
knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
CPL 11.507 24 In saying these things for books, I do
not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes,
all books...are forgotten...
CPL 11.508 8 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they
set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the
sentiment,-and in their inspirations we dispense with books.
FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles, dancers, singers,
laces, books of patterns...
FRep 11.533 22 See the secondariness and aping of
foreign and English life, that runs through this country...in eating,
in books.
II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the
thought...appears...in art, in books.
II 12.80 19 Whence came all these tools, inventions,
books, laws, parties, kingdoms?
II 12.88 15 Our books are full of generous
biographies of Saints, who knew not that they were such;...
Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days
or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's
books.
Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect
recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high
activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
CInt 12.124 3 No books, no aids...can compare with [a
good teacher].
Bost 12.186 18 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T
is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the
means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
Milt1 12.268 15 ...the invocations of the Eternal
Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms,
but are thoughts...
ACri 12.286 23 Look at this forlorn caravan of
travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a
courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society
of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have
served a better purpose, which they can explore at home, sauced...with
reference to all the books in your library.
ACri 12.291 24 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of
Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our
universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of
books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our
words;...
ACri 12.299 26 After Low Style and Compression what
the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
ACri 12.305 2 A clear or natural expression by word
or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique. In
society I do not find it, in modern books, seldom;...
MLit 12.309 6 When we flout all particular books as
initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
MLit 12.310 26 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents...books for which men and women peak and pine;...
MLit 12.310 27 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote
them...
MLit 12.327 13 In these days and in this
country...where men read easy books and sleep after dinner, it seems as
if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the
letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
WSL 12.340 19 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready
memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor
of the reading world.
WSL 12.345 21 ...intellectual, but scornful of books,
[character] works directly and without means...
WSL 12.348 17 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture
of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the
styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the
books read there and the aims pursued...
PPr 12.390 15 We have been civilizing very fast...and
it has not appeared in literature; there has been no analogous
expansion and recomposition in books.
bookseller, n. (2)
Boks 7.189 14 The bookseller might certainly know
that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and
consumption of his wares.
MLit 12.319 13 Nothing certifies the prevalence of
this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the
poems-one would say most incongruously united by some bookseller-of
Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
booksellers, n. (2)
ET1 5.17 13 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums
paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
ET1 5.17 16 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums
paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes
that...the booksellers are on the eve of bankruptcy.
bookselling, n. (1)
book-shelf, n. [bookshelf,] (2)
Insp 8.291 26 Perhaps if you were successful abroad
in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your
book-shelf and your task.
CPL 11.505 19 One curious witness [to the value of
reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the
Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's
Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he
knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
book-shop, n. (1)
Nat 1.14 6 [The private poor man] goes...to the
book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for
him;...
bookshops, n. [book-shops,] (4)
Nat2 3.177 15 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as
wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in
the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's
chaplets of the bookshops;...
ET14 5.252 7 Nothing comes to the [English]
book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and
engineering;...
WD 7.175 11 ...that flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou
heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek
in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor,
Egypt and England.
FSLC 11.194 15 You can commit no crime, for [men] are
created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless
you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the
English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
bookstall, n. (1)
ShP 4.201 25 Elated with success and piqued by the
growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no
bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy
Shakspeare poached or not...
bookworm, n. (1)
AmS 1.89 18 ...instead of Man Thinking, we have the
bookworm.
booms, n. (1)
SL 2.144 8 [A man] is like one of those booms which
are set out from the shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
boon, adj. (2)
SS 7.13 2 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the
structure of a pyramid. Their result is a lord, a general, or a boon
companion.
Plu 10.298 8 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the
illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most
amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus
like Goethe's.
boon, n. (8)
MN 1.202 1 When we have spent our wonder in computing
this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new
firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help
asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space
with so poor an article.
Imtl 8.349 17 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let
Gautama...forget his anger against me: this I choose for the first
boon.
Imtl 8.349 19 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks
that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
Imtl 8.349 22 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks
that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which
also Yama allows, and says, Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!
Imtl 8.350 3 Yama said, For this question [of
immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not
easy to understand it. Subtle is its nature. Choose another boon, O
Nachiketas!
Imtl 8.350 8 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it
inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death,
that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be
found like thee. There is no other boon like this.
Imtl 8.350 13 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the
wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if
thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and
far-extending life.
Imtl 8.351 1 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those
[worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and
elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we
live only as long as thou pleasest. The boon which I choose I have
said.
boons, n. (2)
Imtl 8.349 12 Yama, the lord of Death, promised
Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own
choice.
Imtl 8.349 27 Nachiketas said [to Yama], there is
this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others
say it does not exist. This I should like to know, instructed by thee.
Such is the third of the boons.
boor, n. (3)
ET13 5.216 13 The [English] clergy obtained respite
from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
ET13 5.216 14 The [English] clergy obtained respite
from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The
lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and
sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
SS 7.12 4 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard
the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned
himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to
himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
boors, n. (1)
SS 7.12 6 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard
the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned
himself a boor; but whenever he...had one to himself alone, then they
were the boors and he the better man.
boot, n. (3)
MR 1.244 2 I ought to be armed by every part and
function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to
any of these things. Custom does it for me...and runs me in debt to
boot.
MR 1.250 19 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of
the best...engineers' tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's
forge to boot...
CL 12.149 23 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree,
and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
booted, v. (1)
Aris 10.45 20 Men are born to command, and...come
into the world booted and spurred to ride.
Booth, Edwin Thomas, n. (1)
DL 7.120 18 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious
comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready,
Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
boot-jacks, n. (1)
LLNE 10.345 22 [The pilgrim] thought every one should
labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than
enough for himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he
should give of the commodity to any applicant...
boots, n. (6)
ET9 5.146 27 ...so help him God! [the Englishman]
will...trample down all nationalities with his taxed boots.
Wsp 6.228 13 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
SMC 11.367 22 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...
Boots, n. (1)
ET1 5.16 22 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that
when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown
across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast
turkey.
boots, v. (3)
Cir 2.308 5 As soon as you once come up with a man's
limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he
enterprise? has he knowledge? it boots not.
CL 12.133 5 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or
lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I
cannot stray./
bo-peep, n. (1)
ET1 5.5 1 It is probable you left some obscure
comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated
scribes.
Bordeaux, France, n. (1)
border, adj. (2)
EPro 11.323 9 If we had consented to a peaceable
secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states
made peaceable secession impossible...
Border, adj. (3)
MoL 10.257 21 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a
Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern
and Border statesmen could not untie.
JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for
Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his
dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
SMC 11.356 9 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with
rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most
determined avengers.
border, n. (3)
AKan 11.255 18 The testimony of the telegraphs from
St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
JBB 11.266 15 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty
rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border
the fierce invading band/...
EPro 11.323 12 If we had consented to a peaceable
secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border, wherever the
border might be, were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.
bordered, v. (1)
PI 8.59 5 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron
of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the
food of a coward./
bordering, adj. (1)
LT 1.281 26 Other times have had...a barbarism,
domestic or bordering, as their antagonism.
borders, n. (9)
MR 1.230 22 The ways of trade are grown...supple to
the borders (if not beyond the borders) of fraud.
ET8 5.140 19 The slow, deep English mass smoulders
with fire, which at last sets all its borders in flame.
DL 7.133 3 ...the pulses of thought that go to the
borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the
Household.
Elo2 8.112 8 Our community runs through a long scale
of mental power, from the highest refinement to the borders of savage
ignorance and rudeness.
PPo 8.259 10 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut
of passion,-from the sacred to the borders, and over the borders, of
the profane.
Imtl 8.338 21 On the borders of the grave, the wise
man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
Edc1 10.159 11 Consent yourself to be an organ of
your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an
energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of
society...
Bost 12.207 14 The Massachusetts colony grew and
filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American
State...
border-wars, n. (1)
ET3 5.43 11 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the
people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality.
It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on
their feet, by poverty, border-wars... seafaring...
bore, n. (3)
EurB 12.369 13 ...the Court Journals and Literary
Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.
EurB 12.377 26 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an
Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore.
bore, v. (15)
MN 1.196 3 Here comes by a great inquisitor with
auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our
conventions and theories...
Con 1.315 12 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle
mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love
they bore their children...
Tran 1.354 13 ...it will please us to reflect that
though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our
indigence...
SwM 4.131 13 ...a bird does not more readily weave
its nest, or a mole bore into the ground, than this seer of the souls
[Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round each new crew of
offenders.
ShP 4.217 3 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew
that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the
earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and
finer harvest to the mind...
Wth 6.83 6 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/
Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock
abrade?/
SS 7.3 4 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who
had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me
that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a
misnomer...
Plu 10.316 15 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch]
would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to
fires...
EzRy 10.391 4 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra
Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the
insult...
HDC 11.45 10 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John
Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness.
HDC 11.67 13 ...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...bore witness to his
purity and fidelity in his office.
FSLC 11.210 6 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.
AsSu 11.249 16 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore the cold
shoulder from some of his New England colleagues...
TPar 11.292 13 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms
it...
Milt1 12.270 1 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a
speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.
Borealis, Aurora, n. (1)
Insp 8.288 8 Perhaps you can recall a delight like
[the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have
stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of
wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so
sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of
the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.
bored, v. (1)
PPo 8.253 19 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The
songs I sung, the pearls I bored./
boren, v. (1)
Aris 10.29 23 ...he that wol have prize of his
genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders
noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe
his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke
or erl;/...
borers, n. (3)
F 6.45 22 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious
nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms;...
Pow 6.62 3 We prosper with such vigor that like
thrifty trees, which grow in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we
do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national
treasury.
PerF 10.75 14 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form
and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
bores, n. (2)
Borghese Gardens, Rome, It (1)
CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately
luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Borghese, the Orsini at
Rome...
Borghese, Villa, Rome, Ita (1)
YA 1.367 10 There is no feature of the old countries
that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the
beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the Villa Borghese in Rome...
Borgia, Caesar, n. (2)
Hist 2.5 10 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is
as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what
has befallen us.
Cour 7.276 5 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a
taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish
lives, Nero, Caesar Borgia...
Borgo, San, Italy, n. (1)
MAng1 12.225 25 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted
by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
Borgu [Borgoo], Nigeria, n. (1)
boring, v. (1)
ACri 12.290 12 The French have a neat phrase, that
the secret of boring you is that of telling all...
born, adj. (6)
PLT 12.31 24 There is no property or relation in that
immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last
found who...delights to unfold and work it, as if he were the born
publisher and demonstrator of it.
CL 12.135 10 The land, the care of land, seems to be
the calling of the people of this new country, of those, at least, who
have not some decided bias, driving them to a particular craft, as a
born sailor or machinist.
born, v. (219)
AmS 1.110 5 If there is any period one would desire
to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
DSA 1.120 26 [Man] learns...that to the good, to the
perfect, he is born...
LE 1.163 13 ...in the great idea and the puny
execution;...behold Pericles's day,-day of all that are born of women.
LE 1.167 14 By Latin and English poetry we were born
and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
LE 1.173 7 Thus is justice done to each generation
and individual,- wisdom teaching man...that he shall not bewail
himself, as if...he was born into the dotage of things;...
MN 1.208 8 Hereto was [a man] born, to deliver the
thought of his heart from the universe to the universe;...
MN 1.220 7 A [New England] man was born not for
prosperity, but to suffer for the benefit of others...
MR 1.234 7 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born
a saint...and he is to get his living in the world;...
MR 1.236 24 We must have an antagonism in the tough
world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties, or they will not
be born.
MR 1.246 20 One must have been born and bred with
[infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned
stomach.
LT 1.263 11 There is no interest or institution so
poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he
would immediately redeem and replace it.
Con 1.306 10 There [the youth] stands, newly born on
the planet...
Con 1.306 16 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the
earth, where is my part?...
Con 1.307 8 We wrought for others under this law, and
got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just? Not quite
just, but necessary. Moreover, it is juster now than it was when we
were born;...
Con 1.309 3 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the
Earth is given to me...
Con 1.317 25 ...no moss, no lichen is so easily born
[as man];...
Con 1.319 18 Now that a vicious system of trade has
existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and
misers are born.
Con 1.326 16 ...amidst a planet peopled with
conservatives, one Reformer may yet be born.
Tran 1.353 14 Much of our reading, much of our labor,
seems mere waiting; it was not that we were born for.
Hist 2.30 5 [The advancing man's] own secret
biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted
down before he was born.
SR 2.75 24 We shun the rugged battle of fate, where
strength is born.
Fdsp 2.195 18 I have often had fine fancies about
persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no
fruit. Thought is not born of it;...
Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and
dies gray...
OS 2.296 18 Behold, [the soul] saith, I am born into
the great, the universal mind.
Pt1 3.6 19 ...the Universe has three children, born
at one time...
Exp 3.46 20 Some heavenly days must have been
intercalated somewhere, like those that Hermes won with dice of the
Moon, that Osiris might be born.
Exp 3.56 16 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like
the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is
even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy
question to say, Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a
particular?
Exp 3.72 4 I am ready...be born again into this new
yet unapproachable America I have found in the West...
Exp 3.82 18 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of
Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the
threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and
compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness
of the two spheres. He is born into other politics...
Chr1 3.93 21 [The natural merchant] too
believes...that a man must be born to trade or he cannot learn it.
Mrs1 3.147 9 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and
Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a
fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty, born of us/...
Pol1 3.199 4 In dealing with the State we ought to
remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed
before we were born;...
Pol1 3.207 23 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified
to judge of monarchy...
NER 3.283 3 ...the man who shall be born...is one who
shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
NER 3.283 25 ...whether thy work be fine or
coarse...so only it be honest work...no matter how often defeated, you
are born to victory.
UGM 4.20 25 With each new mind, a new secret of
nature transpires; nor can the Bible be closed until the last great man
is born.
PPh 4.54 9 Metaphysics and natural philosophy
expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of
Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of
the two elements.
PPh 4.54 22 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his
lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was
born.
PPh 4.70 2 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the
fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according
to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea
and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be
beautiful. But when he beholds that which is born and dies, it will be
far from beautiful.
SwM 4.96 4 The soul having been often born...there is
nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
SwM 4.98 12 In modern times no such remarkable
example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg,
born in Stockholm...
SwM 4.104 16 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg
was born, published the Principia, and established the universal
gravity.
SwM 4.122 16 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born,
when he married, when he fell sick and when he died...here was a
teaching which accompanied him all day...
MoS 4.150 1 Each man is born with a predisposition to
one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals];...
MoS 4.170 18 A book or statement which goes to show
that there is no line, but...a hero born from a fool, a fool from a
hero,--dispirits us.
NMW 4.230 25 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted,
and such a man was born; a man of stone and iron...
NMW 4.239 11 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added
the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
GoW 4.262 18 ...besides the universal joy of
conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second
creation. Men are born to write.
ET1 5.11 6 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I
interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was
bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
ET1 5.13 11 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong
emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in
Christ--/
ET4 5.45 22 It has been denied that the English have
genius. Be it as it may, men of vast intellect have been born on their
soil...
ET5 5.82 27 Montesquieu said, No people have true
common-sense but those who are born in England.
ET5 5.99 5 Not only good minds are born among [the
English], but all the people have good minds.
ET9 5.152 1 George of Cappadocia, born at Epiphania
in Cilicia, was a low parasite...
ET10 5.154 17 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and,
second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
ET11 5.175 24 In France and in England, the nobles
were, down to a late day, born and bred to war...
ET11 5.178 10 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke
of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire...
ET11 5.180 10 ...[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
was born by them...
ET11 5.185 19 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men, born to wealth and power...
ET12 5.207 21 When born with good constitutions,
[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of
performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the
music-box;...
ET14 5.243 4 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period
almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord
Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits
that could honor a nation, or help study.
ET19 5.313 27 I see [England] in her old age...still
daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this,
I say, All hail! mother of nations...truly a home to the thoughtful and
generous who are born in the soil.
F 6.25 10 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born
and afterward we were born again...
F 6.25 11 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born
and afterward we were born again...
Pow 6.73 15 ...a man cannot return into his mother's
womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...
Wth 6.104 27 If a talent is anywhere born into the
world, the community of nations is enriched;...
Wth 6.117 26 I remember in Warwickshire to have been
shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The
rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when
the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was
perplexed how to provide for him.
Wth 6.118 23 When men now alive were born, the farm
yielded everything that was consumed on it.
Ctr 6.146 6 Naturalists, discoverers and sailors are
born.
Bhr 6.188 25 I had received, said a sibyl, I had
received at birth the fatal gift of penetration; and these Cassandras
are always born.
Wsp 6.205 7 In all ages, souls out of time,
extraordinary, prophetic, are born...
Wsp 6.216 20 It is true that genius takes its rise
out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men
covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
Wsp 6.220 11 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of
him and of his deed;...
Wsp 6.220 12 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of
him and of his deed;...
Wsp 6.226 12 There was never a man born so wise or
good but one or more companions came into the world with him, who
delight in his faculty and report it.
CbW 6.249 20 When [the population] reaches its true
law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
CbW 6.265 24 A man should make life and nature
happier to us, or he had better never been born.
CbW 6.267 7 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to
be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and
happiness...
Bty 6.293 9 ...many a good experiment, born of good
sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively
sudden.
Ill 6.307 7 House you were born in,/ Friends of your
spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon,
/They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
SS 7.10 11 A man is born by the side of his father,
and there he remains.
Civ 7.21 21 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house
being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and
art are born...
Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the
sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
WD 7.162 7 Our selfishness...would have excluded from
a quarter of the planet all that are not born on the soil of that
quarter.
WD 7.172 4 Kinde was the old English term,
which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its
delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
WD 7.176 6 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a
barn...
Boks 7.202 3 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due
time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic
genius.
Clbs 7.227 26 Thought is the child of the intellect,
and this child is conceived with joy and born with joy.
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.
Cour 7.274 7 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack
of the inquisitor...
Suc 7.292 20 ...because we cannot shake off from our
shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
OA 7.333 9 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age
may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do
not know; it has been very much on the stretch, ever since he was born.
OA 7.336 8 ...the inference from the working of
intellect...at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the
inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
PI 8.58 16 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And
is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears
no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
SA 8.84 18 As long as men are born babes they will
live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are
born a whole age too soon.
Grts 8.305 23 ...there is not a piece of Nature in
any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
Grts 8.313 10 No aristocrat, no prince born to the
purple, can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint.
Aris 10.58 12 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up
of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day...defeated
all the time and yet to victory born.
Chr2 10.92 1 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a
beast: but choice is born in him;...
Chr2 10.100 15 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
Chr2 10.100 26 When a man is born with a profound
moral sentiment... men readily feel the superiority.
Chr2 10.117 6 In the worst times, men of organic
virtue are born...
Edc1 10.133 8 If I have renounced the search of
truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of
prolific time into multitude of life every hour.
Edc1 10.142 7 The [solitary] man is, as it were, born
deaf and dumb...
Edc1 10.156 13 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell
you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a
revolution as great as theirs.
SovE 10.187 17 The civil history of men might be
traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral
generalizations;...at last came the day when...the nerves of the world
were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and
equal.
SovE 10.208 24 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
MoL 10.242 2 [The scholar]...is born one or two
centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he
is thrown.
Schr 10.260 3 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like
sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
Plu 10.305 12 ...I had rather a great deal that men
should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they
should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children
as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
Plu 10.311 10 'T is almost inevitable to compare
Plutarch with Seneca, who, born fifty years earlier, was for many years
his contemporary...
LLNE 10.325 8 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a
misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live
till men were nothing.
LLNE 10.357 13 [Thoreau said] I have never got over
my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place
in all the world...
EzRy 10.381 1 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O.
S.)...
EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah, born August 18, 1781; Samuel...Daniel...
EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel, born May 11, 1783; Daniel...
EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784.
Thor 10.451 7 [Thoreau] was born in Concord,
Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817.
Thor 10.457 19 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of
the truth, born such...
Thor 10.466 10 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was
born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the
Merrimack.
Thor 10.471 25 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born
among Indians, would have been a fell hunter.
Thor 10.480 5 ...[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;...
Thor 10.480 6 ...the blockheads were not born in
Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to
be born in London, or Paris, or Rome;...
Carl 10.494 5 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a
man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically
committed.
HDC 11.29 20 The river, by whose banks most of us
were born, every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the
great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
EWI 11.113 3 ...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;...
EWI 11.124 20 ...unhappily, most unhappily,
gentlemen, man is born with intellect...
War 11.149 4 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but
unto Victory born./
FSLC 11.182 11 Just now a friend came into my house
and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be
glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
FSLC 11.188 9 ...all men that are born are, in
proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found
to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
FSLC 11.204 7 [Webster] adheres to the letter.
Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared,
the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
JBB 11.272 11 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them
as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At
a pinch, they are no more use than idiots. After the mischance they
wring their hands, but they had better never have been born.
JBS 11.277 16 John Brown...was born in Torrington,
Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.
ALin 11.336 24 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the
term;...that...what remained to be done required...a new spirit born
out of the ashes of the war;...
Wom 11.414 24 When a daughter is born, says the
Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
Shak1 11.448 15 What shocks of surprise and
sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to
every fine mind that is born!
Shak1 11.452 12 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great
wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when
Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...
Shak1 11.452 22 ...there are some men so born to live
well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well,
and lead it!...
Scot 11.467 16 Under what rare conjunction of stars
was this man [Scott] born, that, wherever he lived, he found superior
men...
FRep 11.515 18 When the cannon is aimed by
ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the
combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last
records the victory.
FRep 11.537 17 The flowering of civilization is the
finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social
power,-the gentleman. What hinders that he be born here?
PLT 12.18 17 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous
progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls;...
PLT 12.35 10 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the
cave...Behemoth... aboriginal...and saying, like poor Topsy, never was
born; growed.
PLT 12.48 6 Each of these talents is born to be
unfolded and set at work for the use and delight of men...
CL 12.149 7 The Hindoos called fire Agni, born in the
woods...
Bost 12.207 24 The towns or countries in which the
man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live
and die where he did, are of no great account.
Bost 12.211 16 Let every child that is born of her
and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as
clean as the sun;...
MAng1 12.216 20 It is a happiness to find...a soul at
intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
MAng1 12.242 17 Michael [Angelo] admonishes
[Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born,
which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
Milt1 12.264 8 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that
every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to
be born a knight;...
Milt1 12.267 3 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the
gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may
be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger
disdains not to be preached in a barn.
Milt1 12.273 23 ...it would not be matter of rational
wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with
horns that could batter down cities and towns.
WSL 12.342 13 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual
life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as
so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and
writing.
PPr 12.382 9 It is not by sitting still at a grand
distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be
helped...but by doing unweariedly the particular work we were born to
do.
borne, v. (19)
AmS 1.106 22 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full
of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor
clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
LT 1.283 14 ...the current literature and poetry with
perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
This could well be borne, if it were great and involuntary;...
Gts 3.162 22 Some violence I think is done, some
degradation borne, when I rejoice or grieve at a gift.
ET5 5.94 26 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/
The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those
precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees
adorn./
ET11 5.184 24 In the army, the [English] nobility
fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a
tone...of exclusiveness. They have borne their full share of duty and
danger in this service...
ET16 5.278 16 I, who had just come from Professor
Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to
maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and
laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
Ctr 6.163 11 [The ancients] preferred the noble
vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor
with colors flying and guns firing.
PI 8.62 16 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be
borne...
PC 8.228 21 The affections are the wings by which the
intellect launches on the void, and is borne across it.
HDC 11.79 22 The great expense of the [Revolutionary]
war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord]...
HDC 11.86 9 The merit of those who fill a space in
the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight
of thousands whom they lead, sheds a perfume less sweet than do the
sacrifices of private virtue.
EWI 11.100 24 When we consider what remains to be
done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of
humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. The hardest
selfishness is to be borne with.
AKan 11.256 5 It is a maxim that all party spirit
produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts; and
our recent political history has abundantly borne out the maxim.
Wom 11.417 5 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had
its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this
subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais, in whom it is...not borne
out by anything in nature...
Borneo, n. (1)
Pow 6.69 19 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...running on the creases of Malays in Borneo.
Bornoos, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.120 1 Again, the Bornoos have no proper
names;...
borough, n. (2)
ET18 5.306 24 It was pleaded in mitigation of the
rotten borough [in England], that it worked well...
Aris 10.42 14 In 1373, in writs of summons of members
of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens,
and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in
shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
borough-court, n. (1)
ShP 4.205 14 About the time when [Shakespeare] was
writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers, in the borough-court at
Stratford, for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to
him at different times;...
borough-mongers, n. (1)
ET11 5.182 27 ...before the Reform of 1832, one
hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to
Parliament. The borough-mongers governed England.
boroughs, n. (1)
Con 1.310 2 ...precisely the defence which was set up
for the British Constitution, namely that with all its admitted
defects, rotten boroughs and monopolies, it worked well...the same
defence is set up for the existing institutions.
Borrow, George, n. (3)
Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...gypsying with Borrow in Spain and Algiers;...
ACri 12.285 15 You know the history of the eminent
English writer on gypsies, George Borrow;...
borrow, v. (17)
Chr1 3.108 2 Divine persons are character born, or,
to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
NR 3.226 26 All persons exist to society by some
shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the
proportions of the man from that one fine feature...
ShP 4.216 14 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does
not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
Civ 7.29 27 ...as our handiworks borrow the elements,
so all our social and political action leans on principles.
Boks 7.220 16 ...it would be well for sincere young
men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British
Association...
QO 8.189 16 The capitalist of either kind [mental or
pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow;...
Plu 10.300 17 I do not know where to find a book-to
borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
LVB 11.90 13 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the
painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and
domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
AsSu 11.251 11 ...I think I may borrow the language
which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles
Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
AKan 11.261 21 ...I borrow the language of an eminent
man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations
of the Capitol;...
SMC 11.351 5 The art of the architect and the sense
of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument]
speak; have, if I may borrow the old language of the church, converted
these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
MAng1 12.217 18 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly
borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that
because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask,
Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
borrowed, adj. (2)
borrowed, v. (14)
Nat 1.25 15 Every word which is used to express a
moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material
appearance.
Exp 3.64 14 If we will be strong with [nature's]
strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed too
from the consciences of other nations.
SwM 4.120 6 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the
fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling
nigher to the gods;...
ET4 5.64 9 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the
kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall, as security for money
which he borrowed.
Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as
metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from
good and bad ancestors...
SA 8.98 4 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by
anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
QO 8.186 19 There are many fables which, as
they...betray no sign of being borrowed, are said to be agreeable to
the human mind.
QO 8.188 3 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a
custom, and our body borrowed...from a hundred charities?
LLNE 10.333 22 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton,
and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as
he borrowed;...
Thor 10.467 26 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic
Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that
Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
CL 12.160 22 ...[the earthquake] wrought to purpose
in craters, and we borrowed the hint in crucibles.
borrower, n. (4)
Suc 7.292 21 ...because we cannot shake off from our
shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...every man is a borrower and a
mimic...
QO 8.189 17 The capitalist of either kind [mental or
pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the
transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower
than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
borrowers, n. (1)
borrowing, v. (9)
Comp 2.112 20 Has [a man] gained by borrowing,
through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares...
ShP 4.205 11 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was
intrusted by his neighbors with their commissions in London, as of
borrowing money, and the like;...
Civ 7.27 11 ...all our strength and success in the
work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
Civ 7.28 26 That is the way we are strong, by
borrowing the might of the elements.
PerF 10.69 15 Art is long, and life short, and [a
man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his
task the energies of Nature.
SlHr 10.441 26 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of
putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing
the aid of a good story...
ACiv 11.308 21 [Emancipation] is borrowing, as I
said, the omnipotence of a principle.
borrowings, n. (1)
LE 1.178 1 ...out of earnings, and borrowings, and
lendings, and losses;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful
laws.
Borrow's, George, n. (1)
SA 8.84 8 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly
detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune
has befallen him...
borrows, v. (11)
NR 3.229 6 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its
size from the momentary estimation of the speakers...
UGM 4.12 21 Every carpenter who shaves with a
fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
ShP 4.197 1 [The poet in illiterate times]
is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from
whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience.
Nay, he borrows very near home.
Ill 6.318 23 What if you shall come to discern that
the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from
yourself, and that the sun borrows his beams?
Civ 7.30 9 ...when [man] is the vehicle of ideas, he
borrows their omnipotence.
Suc 7.296 2 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his
Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows
of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...
Suc 7.296 4 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his
Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows
of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline, and knows not that he
borrows and gives.
Elo2 8.130 21 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of
character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an
illustrious advocate.
QO 8.178 10 He that borrows the aid of an equal
understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
QO 8.194 16 ...a passage from one of the poets, well
recited, borrows new interest from the rendering...
boscage, n. (1)
Con 1.311 13 Would you have...preferred...the range
of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and
wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
Boscovich, Ruggiero Guisepp (1)
bosh, n. (1)
ACri 12.288 1 Who has not heard in the street how
forcible is bosh, gammon and gas.
bosom, adj. (1)
Boks 7.190 20 A company of the wisest and wittiest
men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years
have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of
their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and
inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their
bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us...
bosom, n. (24)
Nat 1.64 10 As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests
upon the bosom of God;...
LE 1.177 26 Why should [the scholar]...not know, in
his own beating bosom, [human life's] sweet and smart?
LE 1.184 11 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can
thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into
his bosom...
MR 1.230 15 It cannot be wondered at that this
general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society...
Con 1.295 14 The war [between Conservatism and
Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every
hour.
Lov1 2.170 15 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its
first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and
enlarges...
Fdsp 2.189 10 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through
thee alone the sky is arched,/...
Hsm1 2.262 20 I see not any road of perfect peace
which a man can walk, but after the counsel of his own bosom.
Cir 2.320 19 [The new position of the advancing man]
carries in its bosom all the energies of the past...
Chr1 3.111 2 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad
without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on
him and...the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to
betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but
remember, who...kindled another life in his bosom.
SwM 4.135 14 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by
attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral
sentiment, which carries innumerable christianities, humanities,
divinities, in its bosom.
GoW 4.271 21 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when
Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell
the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
DL 7.133 4 ...the pulses of thought that go to the
borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the
Household.
Insp 8.285 18 ...the love-filled singers
[nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet
melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my
lately touched bosom/...
Prch 10.236 3 ...we should...retire a moment to the
grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
EWI 11.144 4 ...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...
FSLC 11.193 24 The very defence which the God of
Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment
of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
II 12.68 6 One often sees in the embittered acuteness
of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they
pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at
that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.
Bost 12.184 12 [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.
MLit 12.333 11 When one of these grand monads is
incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her
bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial
forms of daily life will now end...
bosom-glow, n. (1)
PI 8.1 10 ...From blue mount and headland dim/
Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of
heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer
bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
bosoms, n. (1)
OS 2.277 15 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal
level in all bosoms...
boss, n. (1)
Res 8.140 3 See...how...every impatient boss who
sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order
quicker...improves the national tongue.
bosses, n. (1)
ET16 5.276 14 On the broad downs...not a house was
visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows, which
rose like green bosses about the plain...
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