Chromatic to Cites

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

chromatic, adj. (1)

    NR 3.233 13 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.

chrome, n. (1)

    Wom 11.412 1 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./

chromes, n. (1)

    PLT 12.29 5 ...to the painter [Nature's] plumbago and marl are pencils and chromes.

chronic, adj. (2)

    OA 7.319 27 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    Thor 10.479 26 ...[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...

Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, n. (2)

    ET4 5.73 7 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.
    ET14 5.233 26 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle...

chronicle, n. (4)

    ShP 4.206 2 We tell the chronicle of parentage...
    ET10 5.154 13 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET13 5.216 2 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories, the chronicle of Richard of Devizes.
    Wsp 6.206 17 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.

Chronicle of the Cid, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 26 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Chronicle of the Cid, in Spain;...

Chronicle of the Cid [Rober (2)

    Boks 7.208 24 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...
    Boks 7.217 27 The Greek fables...the Chronicle of the Cid...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...

Chronicle [Richard of Deviz (1)

    ET13 5.224 16 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard, in Richard of Devizes' Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.

chronicled, v. (1)

    SovE 10.187 5 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher...

chronicler, n. (2)

    HDC 11.35 5 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins...
    CPL 11.500 5 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory as a careful student and chronicler;...

chroniclers, n. (1)

    ET4 5.66 18 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...

Chronicles [Jean Froissart] (1)

    Boks 7.208 23 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...

chronicles, n. (2)

    ShP 4.193 2 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly;...
    ET4 5.60 21 The [Norman] conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the memory of sorrow.

Chronicles, Saxon, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 9 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 third on the Saxon Chronicles...

Chronicles, Second, xiii.12, (1)

    HDC 11.72 15 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12...

Chronicles [Walter Scott], (1)

    Plu 10.318 9 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

chronologies, n. (1)

    Nat 1.70 20 To [spirit]...the oldest chronologies are young and recent.

chronology, n. (6)

    LE 1.159 3 ...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
    Hist 2.40 24 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride...
    Pt1 3.11 24 ...the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
    Res 8.149 7 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting...from astronomy by optics; from optics by chronology.
    PC 8.212 24 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    Mem 12.108 7 I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan chronology, but not Shakspeare.

chronometer, n. (1)

    Civ 7.24 20 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...longitude reckoned by lunar observation and by chronometer...

chronometers, n. (2)

    Tran 1.358 27 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify our bearings from superior chronometers.
    FRep 11.511 6 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year...

chrysalis, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.166 1 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!

Chrysostom, John, St., n. (1)

    Prch 10.227 7 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.

chub, n. (1)

    Thor 10.482 12 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.

chuckle, n. (3)

    Exp 3.53 1 I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists.
    UGM 4.24 26 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
    ET10 5.169 4 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...

chuckle, v. (1)

    UGM 4.24 20 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.

chuckling, v. (1)

    ACri 12.299 3 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling...

church, adj. (6)

    ET11 5.177 4 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.
    ET13 5.216 13 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    ET13 5.217 11 The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
    EzRy 10.386 3 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    MMEm 10.428 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
    HDC 11.64 20 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord], either in church or in civil affairs.

Church, adj. (2)

    ET15 5.270 18 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of...every Church squabble...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    Chr2 10.111 13 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.

Church, American, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.339 18 Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the American Church...

Church, Anglican, n. (3)

    ET13 5.223 13 The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms...
    ET14 5.249 11 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    Chr2 10.112 14 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.

Church, Benjamin, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 22 Hunted by Captain [Benjamin] Church, [King Philip] fled from one swamp to another;...

Church, Book of the [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...

Church, Calvinistic, n. (1)

    Bost 12.195 10 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England; first, namely, the culture of the intellect, which has always been found in the Calvinistic Church.

Church, Catholic, n. (9)

    DSA 1.142 19 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...
    Hist 2.12 8 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
    ET13 5.216 23 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    Wsp 6.227 20 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri...
    PI 8.34 19 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of the Catholic Church...
    Prch 10.227 17 The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and influences.
    MoL 10.245 8 We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...
    LS 11.3 16 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...
    Wom 11.415 9 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.

Church, Christ, College, O (2)

    ET12 5.201 9 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College] Oxford] in 1583.
    ET12 5.201 11 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

Church, Christian, n. (3)

    FSLN 11.228 10 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do, made very low bows to the Christian Church...
    FRO1 11.478 1 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    Pray 12.350 23 Let us not have the prayers of one sect, nor of the Christian Church...

Church, Dundee, Scotland, a (1)

    ET13 5.215 8 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.

Church, Dundee, Scotland, n (1)

    ET13 5.215 25 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and dundee...

Church, English, n. (7)

    ET13 5.217 18 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    ET13 5.222 22 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET13 5.228 12 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    Clbs 7.236 13 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English limitations, English politics, English Church...
    SovE 10.203 20 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the piety of the English Church in Cranmer, and Herbert, and Taylor;...
    Scot 11.465 23 [Scott] saw in the English Church the symbol and seal of all social order;...
    FRep 11.535 7 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... as the English Church, and entailed estates...we should feel this...absurdly out of place.

Church, Established, n. (3)

    ET13 5.228 22 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects...
    ET13 5.230 16 But the religion of England,--is it the Established Church? no;...
    ET13 5.230 18 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a coach...

Church Government, Reason o (4)

    Milt1 12.267 5 ...the following passage, in the Reason of Church Government, indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of humility.
    Milt1 12.268 11 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 12.270 16 ...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English genius.
    Milt1 12.275 12 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

Church, Lutheran, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.112 10 The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the opinions of the universities.

Church, Millennial, n. (1)

    NR 3.235 4 So with Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.

church, n. (174)

    Nat 1.43 23 A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
    AmS 1.110 17 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already...through church and state.
    DSA 1.127 11 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become... hurtful. Then falls the church...
    DSA 1.128 7 These general views...find abundant illustration...especially in the history of the Christian church.
    DSA 1.137 20 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.138 24 It seemed strange that the people should come to church.
    DSA 1.139 20 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like the zodiac of Denderah...
    DSA 1.143 7 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.143 17 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying church...
    DSA 1.149 25 The evils of the church that now is are manifest.
    MN 1.192 2 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...
    MN 1.193 20 ...we set...a bound to the pretensions of the law and the church.
    MN 1.215 23 Tell me not how great your project is...[the world's] conversion into a Christian church...
    MN 1.219 14 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty; another, the desire of founding a church;...
    MR 1.228 19 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state...
    LT 1.263 22 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would; and not only in ours but in any church, mosque, or temple on the planet;...
    LT 1.268 9 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation...
    LT 1.269 3 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    LT 1.274 16 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...but was a holiday guest. Such omissions judge the church;...
    LT 1.279 7 ...the state, the church...are phantasms...beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    Tran 1.333 24 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves;...
    Tran 1.354 27 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    Tran 1.357 11 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
    YA 1.388 16 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    YA 1.394 3 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy, and in the Romish church also, there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    Hist 2.20 9 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees...
    SR 2.50 17 I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
    SR 2.54 9 If you maintain a dead church...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    SR 2.54 21 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
    SR 2.71 19 I like the silent church before the service begins...
    Comp 2.94 4 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    SL 2.156 8 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times, on the church...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Fdsp 2.191 8 How many we...sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    Prd1 2.221 17 ...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
    Cir 2.313 16 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Art1 2.361 14 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations. I had had the same experience already in a church at Naples.
    Exp 3.57 27 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage...
    Exp 3.64 5 The lights of the church...[nature] does not distinguish by any favor.
    Mrs1 3.146 17 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
    Nat2 3.170 20 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Pol1 3.216 14 [The wise man] needs...no church, for he is a prophet;...
    NER 3.254 5 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
    NER 3.254 7 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    NER 3.254 10 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church...
    NER 3.262 24 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    NER 3.262 27 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? the street is as false as the church...
    NER 3.268 10 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    NER 3.279 22 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    NER 3.279 24 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession: a religious church would not complain.
    PPh 4.44 23 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet...
    SwM 4.122 7 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again...
    SwM 4.134 24 Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal wisdom, but we are always in a church.
    SwM 4.136 15 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    ShP 4.191 21 ...the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    ShP 4.200 7 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
    ShP 4.201 18 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...and the final detachment from the church...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    NMW 4.247 22 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...or in church...
    NMW 4.250 13 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they could not agree, viz. that of hell, and that of salvation out of the pale of the church.
    ET4 5.63 22 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room while the other cadets went to church;...
    ET5 5.98 6 [The Englishmen's] church is artificial.
    ET6 5.109 18 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    ET11 5.187 5 [English noblemen] have been a social church...
    ET11 5.187 8 Politeness is the ritual of society, as prayers are of the church...
    ET13 5.214 6 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET13 5.216 18 The church was the mediator, check and democratic principle, in Europe.
    ET13 5.217 7 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
    ET13 5.217 9 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.
    ET13 5.217 26 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed;...
    ET13 5.219 3 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect. The minster and the music were made for each other. It was a hint of the part the church plays as a political engine.
    ET13 5.219 14 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    ET13 5.219 26 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
    ET13 5.220 19 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities...
    ET13 5.221 12 [The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is not the church of the poor.
    ET13 5.221 13 [The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is not the church of the poor.
    ET13 5.221 17 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET13 5.221 21 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation; their church is a doll;...
    ET13 5.223 12 ...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman invariably sides with his church.
    ET13 5.223 21 [The Anglican Church] is not in ordinary a persecuting church;...
    ET13 5.223 26 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder of the London University...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.
    ET13 5.226 4 ...[the religious element] is in its nature constructive, and will organize such a church as it wants.
    ET13 5.226 24 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
    ET13 5.228 8 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    ET13 5.228 18 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete.
    ET13 5.230 3 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied.
    ET13 5.230 13 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET16 5.285 21 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the lightness of a mullein plant, and not at all implicated with the church.
    ET16 5.286 4 ...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be divided by a screen.
    ET16 5.286 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] loitered in the church [Salisbury Cathedral]...while the service was said.
    ET16 5.286 13 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us, but returned to our inn, after seeing another old church of the place.
    ET16 5.289 11 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple who take care of the church.
    ET16 5.289 21 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church;...
    ET16 5.289 23 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York.
    ET16 5.289 27 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...and, later, in his own church, William of Wykeham.
    ET16 5.290 3 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    Wsp 6.203 3 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web.
    Wsp 6.203 20 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Wsp 6.241 10 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...
    Wsp 6.241 13 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the church of men to come...
    CbW 6.245 12 ...[the priest] walked to the church without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or could heal it.
    Art2 7.46 12 The effect of music belongs how much to the place, as the church...
    DL 7.132 25 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house?
    Clbs 7.226 19 ...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.
    Cour 7.268 19 The beautiful voice at church goes sounding on, and covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
    Cour 7.274 3 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not imparted...
    Suc 7.299 13 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    Suc 7.303 9 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    SA 8.101 22 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Elo2 8.121 2 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    PC 8.211 23 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory...
    Imtl 8.326 18 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.328 3 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views and creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
    PerF 10.88 2 Every new asserter of the right surprises us, like a man joining the church...
    Chr2 10.116 5 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Chr2 10.116 15 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    Edc1 10.133 6 If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church or old church...I have died to all use of these new events...
    Supl 10.174 11 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    SovE 10.200 13 Certainly it is human to value...a crowded church;...
    SovE 10.205 2 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded...and never more evident than in our American church.
    SovE 10.205 3 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
    SovE 10.206 4 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    Prch 10.221 8 The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a church, concludes that a church is an error;...
    Prch 10.221 9 The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a church, concludes that a church is an error;...
    Prch 10.227 6 What is essential to the theologian is...not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Prch 10.231 21 We come to church properly for self-examination...
    Plu 10.321 15 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in...the palace, the college and the church.
    LLNE 10.325 21 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...
    LLNE 10.334 9 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    LLNE 10.346 10 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice, but did not enlarge his church of believers.
    CSC 10.374 15 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...many persons whose church was a church of one member only.
    EzRy 10.379 7 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
    EzRy 10.384 7 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for their church and congregation.
    EzRy 10.385 22 Trained in this [New England] church...it was never out of [Ezra Ripley's] mind.
    EzRy 10.386 4 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    EzRy 10.387 14 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    EzRy 10.387 27 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place, a member of the church...
    SlHr 10.441 3 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    SlHr 10.447 4 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his church;...
    SlHr 10.447 8 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be its friend and defender;...
    Thor 10.454 8 ...[Thoreau] never went to church;...
    LS 11.3 14 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    HDC 11.45 7 Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    HDC 11.47 8 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.49 15 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power...
    HDC 11.76 6 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    HDC 11.77 8 The agitating events of those days [of the battle of Concord] were duly remembered in the church.
    War 11.156 14 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy, as an Indian in church.
    War 11.162 15 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy, if the world were all a church...
    JBB 11.267 15 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the church...
    SMC 11.351 6 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;...
    Wom 11.424 7 ...let [women] enter a school as freely as a church...
    FRO1 11.476 12 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
    FRO1 11.478 9 The church is not large enough for the man;...
    FRO1 11.478 24 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    FRO2 11.485 15 I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the tendency of society...
    FRep 11.511 5 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops...the college and the church, have all found out this secret.
    FRep 11.528 21 We began well. No inquisition here, no kings, no nobles, no dominant church.
    FRep 11.528 25 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.
    FRep 11.533 24 Every village, every city, has...its hotel, its private house, its church, from England.
    MAng1 12.225 26 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi leading to the church once the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus;...
    MAng1 12.229 22 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ;...
    MAng1 12.235 6 On the death of San Gallo, the architect of the church [St. Peter's], Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.243 15 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
    MAng1 12.243 21 Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.
    MAng1 12.243 23 In the church of Santa Croce are [Michelangelo's] mortal remains.
    MAng1 12.243 25 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce]...
    MAng1 12.244 1 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.
    MAng1 12.244 3 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
    MAng1 12.244 17 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    Milt1 12.266 25 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
    Milt1 12.269 17 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    Milt1 12.271 9 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom; of freedom in the house, in the state, in the church;...
    Milt1 12.273 3 [Milton] would remove hirelings out of the church...
    Milt1 12.273 10 The most devout man of his time, [Milton] frequented no church;...
    Pray 12.351 6 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.

Church, n. (59)

    DSA 1.135 25 The Church seems to totter to its fall...
    DSA 1.144 3 The remedy is already declared in the ground of our complaint of the Church.
    DSA 1.144 4 We have contrasted the Church with the Soul.
    Hist 2.9 19 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers...
    Pol1 3.197 23 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    NER 3.251 9 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal...
    NER 3.251 10 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal...
    NER 3.251 18 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting to call in question the authority of the Sabbath, of the priesthood, and of the Church.
    NER 3.251 23 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    NER 3.279 18 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    NER 3.279 27 A religious man...is not irritated by wanting the sanction of the Church...
    NER 3.280 1 ...the Church feels the accusation of [the religious man's] presence and belief.
    NER 3.280 19 ...as a man is equal to the Church and equal to the State, so he is equal to every other man.
    SwM 4.122 3 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church...
    MoS 4.151 7 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle, and all the institutions.
    MoS 4.158 3 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of doing worse in disorganizing. Is it otherwise with the Church?
    MoS 4.175 5 What flutters the Church of Rome...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    MoS 4.176 17 I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once a week.
    ShP 4.190 13 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
    ET10 5.154 16 ...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.
    ET18 5.300 10 The Church [in England] punishes dissent, punishes education.
    Wth 6.118 3 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church...
    Boks 7.206 5 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
    OA 7.321 11 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    Comc 8.165 15 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians, and the enlargement of the Church.
    Comc 8.165 21 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    PC 8.233 20 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it.
    Dem1 10.26 24 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
    Chr2 10.109 26 ...Paganism hides itself in the uniform of the Church.
    Chr2 10.114 1 The Church...clings to the miraculous...
    Chr2 10.115 23 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Prch 10.217 4 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Prch 10.218 24 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things. No Church, no State emerges;...
    Prch 10.220 15 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church;...
    Prch 10.237 24 The Church is open to great and small in all nations;...
    MoL 10.249 6 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions, of which the first was when the clergy fell from the Church.
    MoL 10.249 7 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
    MoL 10.249 11 The true scholar is the Church.
    LLNE 10.325 16 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
    LLNE 10.329 7 Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law, Faculties, Medicine.
    LLNE 10.336 2 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church...
    CSC 10.373 7 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.
    CSC 10.373 14 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    Carl 10.496 2 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them; they have this great lying Church; and life is a humbug.
    LS 11.3 3 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.12 19 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols. I look upon this fact as very natural in the circumstances of the Church.
    LS 11.15 1 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    LS 11.16 4 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
    LS 11.23 21 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
    FSLN 11.236 21 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is no Church for him but his believing prayer;...then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    TPar 11.284 2 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
    FRO1 11.478 25 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    FRO1 11.479 3 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    FRO1 11.480 4 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    FRO2 11.486 15 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in the Church...
    II 12.81 21 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
    CInt 12.126 1 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.127 6 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CInt 12.127 10 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone from the City...

Church, New England, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.383 12 [Ezra Ripley] was identified with the ideas and forms of the New England Church...
    EzRy 10.395 3 ...[Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.

Church, New Jerusalem, n. (1)

    OS 2.282 15 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

Church of England, n. (2)

    LS 11.4 6 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
    LS 11.4 9 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...

Church of Minerva, Rome, I (2)

    MAng1 12.221 15 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MAng1 12.229 22 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ;...

Church of Rome, n. (3)

    SovE 10.203 17 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...
    LS 11.4 7 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
    LS 11.11 26 That rite [washing of the feet] is used by the Church of Rome...

Church of Santa Croce, Flo (1)

    Hist 2.17 21 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.

Church of St. Cross, Engla (1)

    ET16 5.289 5 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...

Church, Old South, Boston, (1)

    OA 7.334 6 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...

Church Records, n. (1)

    HDC 11.66 15 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.

Church, Reformed, n. (1)

    SovE 10.203 22 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the Reformed Church, Scougal;...

Church, Roman, n. (1)

    Prch 10.217 12 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church broke into Protestant and Catholic...

Church, Temple, London, En (1)

    ET4 5.66 5 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

church-bells, n. (1)

    EWI 11.124 9 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...

church-chimes, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.226 18 ...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

churches, n. (102)

    Nat 1.58 13 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    DSA 1.129 15 ...churches are not built on [Jesus's] principles, but on his tropes.
    DSA 1.129 23 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...
    DSA 1.136 6 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches;...should be heard...
    DSA 1.136 14 In how many churches...is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...
    DSA 1.141 5 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    DSA 1.142 24 ...no man can go with his thoughts about him into one of our churches, without feeling that what hold the public worship had on men is gone...
    LE 1.159 10 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. ... What else are churches, literatures, and empires?
    LT 1.263 20 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    LT 1.272 27 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned...to the prayers and the sermons of churches;...
    LT 1.290 9 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...statues, tombs, churches, built to its honor;...
    Con 1.322 5 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... churches...or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    YA 1.388 9 I find no expression...in our lyceums or churches...of a high national feeling...
    Hist 2.13 7 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
    Hist 2.18 25 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
    SR 2.79 20 ...chiefly is this [power of a new mind] apparent in creeds and churches...
    SL 2.136 4 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck.
    Hsm1 2.256 18 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations...
    OS 2.282 16 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the revival of the Calvinistic churches;...are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Chr1 3.111 16 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
    Nat2 3.177 25 The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
    NER 3.253 15 [Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of churches and meetings for public worship;...
    NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...in the aisles of false churches... wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.268 12 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    NER 3.279 21 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    UGM 4.8 4 Churches believe in imputed merit.
    MoS 4.167 1 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    MoS 4.173 4 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
    ShP 4.200 2 ...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to perfection.
    ShP 4.201 17 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries celebrated in churches and by churchmen...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET1 5.20 16 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
    ET2 5.33 17 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests;...
    ET3 5.38 8 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    ET4 5.67 14 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded...for colleges, churches, charities and colonies.
    ET12 5.212 14 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    ET13 5.219 23 Good churches are not built by bad men;...
    ET13 5.223 3 I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican than in other churches...
    ET13 5.226 21 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious,--and driven to other churches;...
    ET16 5.277 7 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
    F 6.42 21 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... churches...of that town.
    Bhr 6.173 27 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
    Wsp 6.204 19 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Wsp 6.207 25 Here are know-nothing religions, or churches that proscribe intellect;...
    Wsp 6.209 7 ...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the Dark Ages.
    Wsp 6.210 4 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches...
    Wsp 6.238 1 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    CbW 6.252 25 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil.
    Art2 7.45 20 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    DL 7.129 3 [Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and commerce and churches cheap.
    Suc 7.308 23 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    OA 7.320 2 Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
    PI 8.26 13 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    SA 8.102 15 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Comc 8.165 27 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/...
    Comc 8.166 14 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours/...
    QO 8.182 6 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth...
    QO 8.182 26 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    QO 8.202 12 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    Imtl 8.326 19 ...the churches of Europe are really sepulchres.
    Imtl 8.328 2 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views and creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
    Dem1 10.17 5 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power to which we build churches...
    Chr2 10.105 7 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Chr2 10.105 12 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches should be burned in one night.
    Chr2 10.112 16 ...in America, where are no legal ties to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.
    Chr2 10.114 19 It is only yesterday that our American churches...wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    Chr2 10.117 24 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
    SovE 10.200 15 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds. It makes churches of two, churches of one.
    SovE 10.203 15 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have fixed the hearts of men...
    SovE 10.207 8 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...
    Prch 10.218 21 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being, and make him sublime, it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Prch 10.224 8 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
    Prch 10.227 13 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims.
    Prch 10.227 15 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches.
    MoL 10.248 13 If churches are effete, it is because the new Heaven forms.
    MoL 10.249 15 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...who warp the churches of the world from their traditions...
    LLNE 10.334 8 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    Thor 10.477 16 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    LS 11.11 24 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.
    LVB 11.92 2 Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.
    EWI 11.114 22 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
    EWI 11.115 21 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches and chapels.
    EWI 11.120 22 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    EWI 11.121 20 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    War 11.165 16 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or cannons or churches.
    FSLC 11.182 4 The college, the churches, the schools, the very shops and factories, are discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law];...
    FSLC 11.209 5 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The churches will melt their plate.
    FSLN 11.234 7 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant, no, not on sacred forms, none on churches, none on bibles.
    FSLN 11.234 17 These things show that no forms, neither constitutions... nor churches, nor bibles, are of any use in themselves.
    TPar 11.291 14 Fops, whether in hotels or churches, will utter the fop's opinion...
    EdAd 11.392 11 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    EdAd 11.392 21 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere, alike in markets as in churches.
    RBur 11.442 23 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes; he would bring them into the churches;...
    FRO1 11.478 4 We are all very sensible...of the feeling that churches are outgrown;...
    FRO1 11.478 19 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less;...
    FRO1 11.479 2 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    FRO2 11.488 2 ...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all churches are churches of one member.
    FRO2 11.488 5 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    CPL 11.495 9 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...
    CInt 12.122 5 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    Bost 12.201 22 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in...the platforms of churches...
    MAng1 12.223 3 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    MAng1 12.227 9 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.

Churchill, John [Duke of M (3)

    ET4 5.68 25 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    Boks 7.209 26 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
    CPL 11.504 15 The great Duke of Marlborough could not encamp without his Shakspeare.

Churchill, John [Marquis of (4)

    Boks 7.209 26 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
    Boks 7.210 2 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A Thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford].
    Boks 7.210 7 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
    Boks 7.210 17 Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford].

churching, v. (1)

    ET4 5.62 26 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.

church-meeting, n. (1)

    HDC 11.66 23 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself, in a church-meeting...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.

church-member, n. (1)

    Con 1.321 12 ...if priest and church-member should fail, the chambers of commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.

church-members, n. (1)

    Grts 8.316 9 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal, nor educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly examples.

churchmen, n. (8)

    Pol1 3.221 16 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    ShP 4.201 17 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries celebrated in churches and by churchmen...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET14 5.251 17 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology: so members of Parliament are made, and churchmen.
    Pow 6.65 4 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Chr2 10.112 13 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
    Thor 10.477 17 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    FRO2 11.490 7 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...
    MLit 12.329 20 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] Fierce churchmen and effeminate aspirants will chide and hate my name, but every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...

church-organ, n. (1)

    EWI 11.124 10 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound.

church-rituals, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.110 15 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...

church-warden, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.107 2 ...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor;...

church-wardens, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 11 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees of that day converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

churl, n. (10)

    SL 2.147 26 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
    Pt1 3.41 26 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season.
    MoS 4.178 8 I find a man who has passed through all the sciences, the churl he was;...
    ET8 5.135 6 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart...
    SS 7.1 2 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl,/ Served high and low, the lord and churl/...
    Clbs 7.223 2 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    Aris 10.30 4 ...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;/ For vilaines' sinful dedes make a churl./
    Aris 10.56 25 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
    War 11.172 20 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    CL 12.152 6 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or remember. The dullest churl begins to quaver.

churlish, adj. (3)

    SR 2.81 11 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...
    ET8 5.137 26 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be who do not forget a debt...
    PerF 10.80 24 I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his gains...

churls, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.174 5 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson... held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the deformity.
    LLNE 10.328 8 The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have power of life and death over the churls...

chyle, n. (2)

    ET13 5.226 2 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail, any more than the supply of fibrine and chyle;...
    PI 8.24 19 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...

chyme, n. (1)

    PI 8.24 19 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...

cicatrize, v. (1)

    Pow 6.61 9 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.

cicatrizes, v. (1)

    Comp 2.118 8 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin...

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.348 6 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].

Cicero, n. (12)

    SwM 4.133 25 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    SwM 4.133 26 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    SwM 4.134 1 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...
    GoW 4.285 10 [Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
    OA 7.316 4 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time...
    Elo2 8.124 15 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke...
    Elo2 8.132 1 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    QO 8.196 7 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley, Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
    QO 8.202 10 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLN 11.227 1 Cicero, Grotius, Coke...do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
    CInt 12.120 5 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry, and of what was best in Cicero and Burke;...

Cicero [Tully], n. (2)

    AmS 1.89 12 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
    AmS 1.89 14 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

Cicero's, n. (5)

    OA 7.315 11 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
    OA 7.315 14 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    OA 7.315 20 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    Elo2 8.132 1 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    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...

Cid, Chronicle of the, n. (2)

    Boks 7.217 27 The Greek fables...the Chronicle of the Cid...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    PC 8.213 27 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Chronicle of the Cid, in Spain;...

Cid, Chronicle of the [Robe (1)

    Boks 7.208 24 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...

Cid, El, n. (11)

    Mrs1 3.125 10 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...the Cid...
    Mrs1 3.146 17 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio, and the Cid...
    ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    Boks 7.197 21 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...the Spanish, through the Cid.
    Clbs 7.248 24 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Cour 7.255 14 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation;...
    OA 7.322 5 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at My Cid, with the fleecy beard, in Toledo;...
    PI 8.25 13 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that; or the Cid, and that rings well;...
    Aris 10.51 22 To a right aristocracy, to Hercules, to Theseus, Odin, the Cid, Napoleon;...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Plu 10.318 5 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur, Saxon Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    JBS 11.281 1 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of their bed;...

Cid, El [Poema del Cid], n (1)

    Aris 10.42 24 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper...

cider, n. (1)

    CL 12.147 1 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.

cider-barrel, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 19 Witness the cider-barrel...and all the cognizances of party.

cider-press, n. (1)

    Aris 10.45 3 If we see tools in a magazine, as...a cider-press, a diving-bell, we can predict well enough their destination;...

Cid's, El, n. (1)

    Grts 8.311 27 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's...

cigar, n. (2)

    ShP 4.217 24 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than...the breath of a cigar?
    ET16 5.277 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.

cigars, n. (1)

    MoL 10.243 9 ...professors of colleges sold cigars, mince-pies, matches [in California]...

Cilicia, n. (1)

    ET9 5.152 2 George of Cappadocia, born at Epiphania in Cilicia, was a low parasite...

Cimon, n. (2)

    NER 3.274 16 The heroes of ancient and modern fame, Cimon, Themistocles...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    Boks 7.199 23 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of Cimon, Lycurgus...are what history has of best.

Cincinnati, Ohio, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.531 3 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...Cincinnati or Philadelphia caucus;...

Cincinnati, Ohio, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.383 23 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.

cinder, n. (3)

    CbW 6.276 11 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    CbW 6.276 13 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    CbW 6.276 14 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.

Cinderella, n. (1)

    PI 8.12 22 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...

cinders, n. (3)

    Nat 1.32 17 We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
    AmS 1.90 21 ...cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.
    SovE 10.209 20 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.

Cineas, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 21 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question,-the famous question of Cineas to Pyrrhus,-the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...

cinquefoils, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.90 5 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./

Cintra, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.123 5 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.

cipher, n. (6)

    Nat 1.32 14 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
    OS 2.284 20 ...the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect.
    Cir 2.301 4 [The circle] is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.
    Pt1 3.37 13 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher...
    UGM 4.20 18 We will know the meaning of our economies and politics. Give us the cipher...
    Art2 7.40 3 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal cipher;...

cipher, v. (3)

    NMW 4.229 16 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.
    NMW 4.239 27 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man.
    Suc 7.311 9 There is an external life, which is...taught to read, write, cipher and trade;...

cipherers, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.386 8 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered...by deft partisans, good cipherers;...

ciphering, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.229 19 This ciphering operative [Bonaparte] knows what he is working with and what is the product.
    Suc 7.283 22 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary craft, enriches the community with a new art;...

ciphering, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.348 15 [Fourier's] ciphering goes where ciphering never went before...

ciphering, v. (2)

    Boks 7.212 13 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering...is hustled out of sight.
    War 11.167 20 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.

ciphers, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.176 11 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the stars were letters and the flowers ciphers...

Circe, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.144 1 ...Fashion loves lions, and points like Circe to her horned company.
    NR 3.238 11 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe;...

circle, n. (80)

    Nat 1.44 21 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere...
    Nat 1.60 4 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
    DSA 1.120 16 Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that, but not come full circle.
    DSA 1.130 19 [The soul] invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe...
    DSA 1.133 24 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of the circle of this charm...
    DSA 1.151 17 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    MN 1.193 21 Into our charmed circle, power cannot enter;...
    LT 1.263 15 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    Con 1.311 21 ...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under the polar circle;...
    Tran 1.339 8 ...[man] is balked when he tries to fling himself into this enchanted circle...
    Tran 1.349 18 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these, since they are parts of this vicious circle;...
    SR 2.74 20 I have my own...perfect circle.
    Comp 2.96 15 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
    Lov1 2.183 26 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the circle of household acquaintance...
    Fdsp 2.206 23 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    OS 2.285 9 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    OS 2.291 9 Nothing can pass [in the soul], or make you one of the circle, but the casting aside your trappings...
    Cir 2.301 1 The eye is the first circle;...
    Cir 2.301 6 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    Cir 2.301 14 ...around every circle another can be drawn;...
    Cir 2.304 1 The life of man is a self-evolving circle...
    Cir 2.304 27 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
    Cir 2.305 1 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
    Cir 2.305 4 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.
    Cir 2.312 1 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
    Cir 2.321 25 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
    Int 2.342 14 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth.
    Mrs1 3.132 12 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.132 27 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically.
    Mrs1 3.143 7 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Mrs1 3.147 14 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...
    Mrs1 3.147 15 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...
    Mrs1 3.153 8 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the literary or scientific circle...
    NER 3.272 18 In the circle of the rankest tories...let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    UGM 4.28 8 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    SwM 4.115 11 The second and next higher form is the circular, which is also called the perpetual-angular, because the circumference of a circle is a perpetual angle.
    SwM 4.124 14 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    SwM 4.146 7 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
    MoS 4.151 8 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle, and all the institutions.
    ShP 4.190 5 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...to-day I will square the circle...
    GoW 4.266 7 In this country...the solid portion of the community is named with significant respect in every circle.
    ET2 5.29 15 Is this sad-colored circle [of the sea] an eternal cemetery?
    ET9 5.151 23 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    ET16 5.277 11 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...
    ET16 5.278 12 The nineteen smaller stones of the inner circle [at Stonehenge] are of granite.
    F 6.36 10 The whole circle of animal life...pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Pow 6.74 17 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
    Wth 6.87 1 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...
    Bhr 6.171 12 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    Art2 7.55 1 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...
    Elo1 7.70 26 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Suc 7.284 2 Giotto could draw a perfect circle...
    PI 8.72 12 After the largest circle has been drawn, a larger can be drawn around it.
    SA 8.94 16 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet...
    QO 8.179 18 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle.
    QO 8.191 26 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    QO 8.199 13 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences...
    Insp 8.273 21 A fuller inspiration...should bend the line and complete the circle.
    Dem1 10.23 12 ...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
    PerF 10.81 9 See in a circle of school-girls one with no beauty...but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
    PerF 10.81 13 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her...
    Edc1 10.128 8 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations...
    Edc1 10.147 22 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of Shakspeare.
    Supl 10.167 4 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...speaking of him in a circle of his admirers, said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    SovE 10.198 12 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle...
    LLNE 10.344 1 ...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
    LLNE 10.344 26 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
    LLNE 10.369 26 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    Thor 10.458 25 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.
    GSt 10.501 18 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    HDC 11.85 19 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    War 11.156 11 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    RBur 11.439 4 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that, in this accomplished circle, it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    Shak1 11.447 2 'T is not our fault if we have not made this evening's circle still richer than it is.
    Scot 11.467 27 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was broken up.
    PLT 12.12 3 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he does not interfere with its vast curves by prematurely forcing them into a circle or ellipse...
    CInt 12.131 12 ...the men and women of your time, the circle of your friends and employers...are the interrogators.
    CL 12.139 20 ...Massachusetts...is on the northern slope, towards the Arctic circle, and the Pole.
    ACri 12.287 13 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
    Let 12.397 2 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...

circle, v. (1)

    UGM 4.10 11 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...

circles, n. (45)

    Nat 1.27 2 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
    Nat 1.44 22 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles;...
    LT 1.270 2 The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    Con 1.314 5 ...in the darlings of the selectest circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    YA 1.393 18 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    Lov1 2.183 21 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever...
    Cir 2.304 3 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...
    Cir 2.304 5 The extent to which this generation of circles...will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Cir 2.310 13 Conversation is a game of circles.
    Cir 2.313 27 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    Cir 2.318 21 Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides.
    Cir 2.318 24 That central life is somewhat...superior to knowledge and thought, and contains all its circles.
    Pt1 3.19 8 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles...
    Mrs1 3.125 23 If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...
    Mrs1 3.127 19 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    Mrs1 3.133 22 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Mrs1 3.143 18 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Mrs1 3.147 24 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NER 3.260 4 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    UGM 4.33 11 A new quality of mind travels...in concentric circles from its origin...
    PPh 4.65 10 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
    PNR 4.86 25 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
    PNR 4.86 26 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
    SwM 4.110 7 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens.
    NMW 4.256 4 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;...
    ET17 5.292 18 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.
    ET17 5.293 7 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found...
    F 6.31 5 [Men] are under one dominion...in social circles...
    Pow 6.79 24 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    CbW 6.272 7 Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
    Farm 7.143 5 Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
    Boks 7.196 17 ...in the best circles is the best information.
    Clbs 7.225 24 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
    Clbs 7.230 26 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Clbs 7.243 12 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.
    SA 8.95 20 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.
    PerF 10.82 24 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
    SovE 10.186 25 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
    LLNE 10.349 22 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles...accuse man.
    CSC 10.374 6 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
    Thor 10.459 19 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
    Carl 10.498 3 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society,-a very few houses only in the high circles being ever opened to them,-[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    FSLN 11.240 12 ...all the refined circles...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    SMC 11.371 8 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    PLT 12.7 10 Seek the literary circles, the stars of fame...will they afford me satisfaction?

Circles, Ohio, n. (1)

    Hist 2.11 7 ...all curiosity respecting...the Ohio Circles...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...

circles, v. (1)

    SL 2.144 7 [A man] takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps and circles round him.

circoscriva, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 2 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

circuit, n. (12)

    Nat 1.23 27 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
    AmS 1.95 15 ...I dispose of [the world] within the circuit of my expanding life.
    SL 2.137 13 The circuit of the waters is mere falling.
    Pt1 3.26 8 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms...
    Exp 3.80 23 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    ET11 5.182 19 The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in circuit.
    Wth 6.116 3 Long free walks, a circuit of miles, free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
    Insp 8.291 5 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
    Imtl 8.344 27 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a string, leaves this out of its circuit, leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    PerF 10.84 9 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    MAng1 12.217 26 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    MAng1 12.218 3 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.

circuits, n. (6)

    SL 2.160 14 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
    NER 3.284 20 ...let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
    Civ 7.30 25 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    PC 8.210 18 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the home trade (whose circuits in this country are as spacious as the foreign)... have evoked!...
    PerF 10.83 3 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man] and become property, but he rose to it and followed its circuits.
    HDC 11.32 26 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid hills and swamps.

circular, adj. (11)

    AmS 1.85 8 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
    MN 1.201 5 Nature can only be conceived as...a work of ecstasy, to be represented by a circular movement...
    Cir 2.301 10 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
    Cir 2.304 8 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Cir 2.317 19 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
    SwM 4.115 9 The second and next higher form is the circular...
    SwM 4.115 12 The form above [the circular] is the spiral, parent and measure of circular forms...
    SwM 4.115 14 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters are not rectilinear, but variously circular...
    ET16 5.276 24 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet...
    ET16 5.277 26 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered...
    Bty 6.293 26 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has;...

circulars, n. (1)

    GSt 10.505 13 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...

circulate, v. (9)

    Nat 1.10 10 ...the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;...
    AmS 1.96 11 Our affections as yet circulate through [our recent actions].
    MN 1.223 21 ...these qualities...circulate through the Universe...
    Lov1 2.172 7 What books in the circulating library circulate?
    Pt1 3.26 26 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;...
    ET14 5.241 14 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...
    Comc 8.171 25 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise, a compliment to her skeleton which did not fail to circulate.
    QO 8.181 23 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology...
    MoL 10.256 6 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...

circulated, v. (2)

    ShP 4.193 27 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play...
    MoL 10.253 13 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square. It made a good story, and circulated in that day.

circulates, v. (6)

    Nat2 3.188 19 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe.
    SwM 4.121 11 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts, as each particle of matter circulates in turn through every system.
    Wth 6.103 22 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.
    Art2 7.48 23 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs.
    Comc 8.170 10 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    QO 8.198 27 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...

circulating, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.172 6 What books in the circulating library circulate?
    Boks 7.213 17 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.

circulating, v. (1)

    UGM 4.30 5 The microscope observes a monad or wheel-insect among the infusories circulating in water.

circulation, n. (19)

    SL 2.154 13 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
    OS 2.294 12 ...one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men...
    Exp 3.55 11 ...health of body consists in circulation...
    SwM 4.104 10 Harvey had shown the circulation of the blood;...
    MoS 4.170 1 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen...
    MoS 4.177 24 There is a painful rumor in circulation that we have been practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
    ET15 5.264 20 ...[the London Times] attacks its rivals by perfecting its printing machinery, and will drive them out of circulation...
    ET15 5.264 20 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    ET15 5.265 25 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us...that, since February, the daily circulation [of the London Times] had increased by 8000 copies.
    Pow 6.55 5 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Bty 6.293 27 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as the circulation of waters, the circulation of the blood...
    Ill 6.307 23 When thou dost return/ On the wave's circulation,/ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Imtl 8.328 1 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day...
    Dem1 10.7 4 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years?
    MoL 10.248 20 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Harvey, with his circulation;...
    LLNE 10.334 22 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.
    PLT 12.22 10 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy circulation...
    MLit 12.319 11 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    EurB 12.373 1 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

circulations, n. (8)

    Nat 1.13 15 ...thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.
    MN 1.210 12 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels...enriched by the circulations of omniscience and omnipresence.
    Nat2 3.196 8 The divine circulations never rest nor linger.
    PPh 4.65 14 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which, though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are still allied to their circulations;...
    Wth 6.125 13 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily circulations.
    Suc 7.297 17 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...brisk circulations keep him warm in cold rooms...
    PI 8.40 25 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...
    SHC 11.430 18 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature...

circumambient, adj. (2)

    Dem1 10.27 24 [Man] is sure...the circumambient soul which flows into him as into all...has not been searched.
    MLit 12.336 4 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole...

circumcision, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.17 19 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

circumference, n. (12)

    Nat 1.34 27 The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
    Nat 1.42 1 The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference.
    Nat 1.62 14 ...we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
    AmS 1.85 13 Far too as her splendors shine...without centre, without circumference...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    OS 2.276 12 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...
    Cir 2.301 7 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    Cir 2.304 24 There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.
    SwM 4.115 10 The second and next higher form is the circular, which is also called the perpetual-angular, because the circumference of a circle is a perpetual angle.
    DL 7.109 5 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
    PC 8.221 21 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth, whose centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere...
    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 circumference of things.
    Schr 10.277 20 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference...

circumjacent, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.62 7 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture...

circumlocution, n. (1)

    PI 8.68 26 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution...

circumnavigation, n. (2)

    Hist 2.27 10 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own.
    SR 2.81 11 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...

circumpass, v. (1)

    War 11.158 12 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...

circumscribe, v. (1)

    OS 2.272 10 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.

circumscribed, v. (2)

    MLit 12.328 7 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    Trag 12.408 16 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.

circumscribes, v. (1)

    OS 2.272 11 The soul circumscribes all things.

circumscription, n. (1)

    Cir 2.311 20 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes. And yet here again see the swift circumscription!

circumspection, n. (3)

    PPh 4.58 23 ...[Plato's] circumspection never forsook him.
    ET15 5.265 15 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill;...
    Art2 7.47 5 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.

circumstance, n. (118)

    Nat 1.56 18 ...in [Ideas'] presence we feel that the outward circumstance is a dream and a shade.
    DSA 1.122 10 [The laws of the soul] are...not subject to circumstance.
    DSA 1.143 10 What was once a mere circumstance, that the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    LE 1.163 14 The difference of circumstance is merely costume.
    MN 1.211 8 We rather envied [a poet's] circumstance than his talent.
    LT 1.279 25 ...the man of ideas, accounting the circumstance nothing, judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.
    LT 1.280 21 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist, whilst he aims merely at the circumstance of the slave.
    Con 1.298 15 ...conservatism [stands] on circumstance...
    Con 1.301 7 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Tran 1.334 27 You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.
    Tran 1.335 7 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould. You call it the power of circumstance, but it is the power of me.
    Tran 1.335 16 ...I say I make my circumstance;...
    Hist 2.7 21 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks...in every fact and circumstance...
    Hist 2.12 23 To the poet...all men [are] divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance.
    Comp 2.98 24 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing...substantially on the same ground with all others.
    Comp 2.103 2 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    Comp 2.103 3 Men call the circumstance the retribution.
    Comp 2.103 5 The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding;...
    Comp 2.105 21 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    Comp 2.107 9 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares...
    Comp 2.108 18 The name and circumstance of Phidias...embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
    Comp 2.116 11 [Commit a crime and] Some damning circumstance always transpires.
    Comp 2.120 26 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    SL 2.138 19 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again,--not in the low circumstance, but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul.
    SL 2.140 14 ...that which I call heaven...is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
    Lov1 2.175 9 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
    Lov1 2.184 6 Cause and effect...the longing for harmony between the soul and the circumstance...predominate later...
    Fdsp 2.194 22 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance...
    Fdsp 2.204 17 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by every circumstance and badge and trifle...
    OS 2.287 2 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him, through all the disguises...of unfavorable circumstance.
    OS 2.290 13 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    Cir 2.304 8 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Int 2.326 26 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought...constitute the circumstance of daily life;...
    Art1 2.353 18 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyptian hieroglyphics...
    Art1 2.363 24 Art should...throw down the walls of circumstance on every side...
    Pt1 3.19 25 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life, which can dwarf any and every circumstance...
    Pt1 3.37 7 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life, nor dare we chaunt our own times and social circumstance.
    Exp 3.74 7 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Exp 3.74 23 Why should I fret myself because a circumstance has occurred which hinders my presence where I was expected?
    Mrs1 3.131 22 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    Mrs1 3.155 15 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
    Nat2 3.170 3 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance...
    Nat2 3.170 4 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance...
    Pol1 3.209 5 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...
    Pol1 3.216 12 [The wise man] needs...no vantage ground, no favorable circumstance.
    NR 3.238 24 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only talent;...
    UGM 4.3 5 All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic;...
    UGM 4.3 18 ...every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of [great men].
    SwM 4.122 14 [Swedenborg's religion]...interprets and dignifies every circumstance.
    SwM 4.128 3 [Swedenborg] exaggerates the circumstance of marriage;...
    SwM 4.140 26 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.
    MoS 4.168 15 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue.
    NMW 4.233 24 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward, in the dazzle and uproar of the present circumstance.
    GoW 4.268 7 The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
    ET1 5.22 24 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music; the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.
    ET6 5.105 27 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons; so that a presentation is a circumstance as valid as a contract.
    ET6 5.112 15 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and all England shuddered from sea to sea.
    ET8 5.134 6 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET9 5.147 24 ...[the Englishman] thinks every circumstance belonging to him comes recommended to you.
    ET14 5.260 4 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always becoming the other; for Robert Owen does not exaggerate the power of circumstance.
    F 6.14 12 In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
    F 6.15 2 We have two things,-the circumstance, and the life.
    F 6.15 4 Now we learn that negative power, or circumstance, is half.
    F 6.15 6 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...
    Wth 6.124 18 The odd circumstance is that Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
    Bhr 6.174 17 Manners...grow out of circumstance as well as out of character.
    Bhr 6.186 22 ...Godfrey acts ever as if he suffered from some mortifying circumstance.
    Wsp 6.235 24 [Benedict said] I could not stoop to be a circumstance...
    CbW 6.267 5 Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance;...
    Ill 6.311 16 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    Ill 6.311 17 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    Ill 6.323 24 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence;...
    SS 7.15 26 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
    Elo1 7.81 26 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials. This circumstance enters into every consideration of the power of orators...
    DL 7.125 2 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism.
    Farm 7.137 12 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling...that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstance which made him delegate it for a time to other hands.
    WD 7.182 18 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine.
    Boks 7.217 13 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...in all the plight and circumstance of men, the analogons of our own thoughts...
    Cour 7.263 20 To the sailor's experience every new circumstance suggests what he must do.
    Cour 7.271 26 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader...if their nation and circumstance did not keep them apart, would run into each other's arms.
    Cour 7.276 26 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.
    PI 8.34 10 ...every word in language, every circumstance, becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
    PI 8.34 14 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs,--to fuse the circumstance of to-day;...
    PI 8.38 6 A poet comes who...shows [mortal men] the circumstance as illusion;...
    SA 8.83 7 The circumstance of circumstance is timing and placing.
    SA 8.83 8 The circumstance of circumstance is timing and placing.
    PPo 8.245 17 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance;...
    Dem1 10.5 9 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams]. The fairest forms...are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.
    Dem1 10.9 9 Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance...
    Supl 10.169 17 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    SovE 10.211 26 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...
    Prch 10.233 26 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
    Prch 10.234 1 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find the circumstance not altered...
    Thor 10.457 21 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...
    Thor 10.473 16 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These, and every circumstance touching the Indian, were important in [Thoreau's] eyes.
    LS 11.13 20 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.14 24 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    LVB 11.89 15 ...the circumstance that my name will be utterly unknown to you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable construction of what I have to say.
    LVB 11.94 13 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...
    EWI 11.142 27 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments. I think this a circumstance of the highest import.
    EWI 11.144 6 ...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...
    JBS 11.278 14 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    Wom 11.409 26 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative; the circumstance must always be fit;...
    PLT 12.41 1 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from... any accidental benefit or recommendation it has in our trade or circumstance...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.42 23 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    PLT 12.48 26 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
    PLT 12.49 2 Webster naturally and always grasps, and therefore retains something from every company and circumstance.
    Mem 12.98 5 [The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.
    Mem 12.104 5 In low or bad company you...withdraw yourelf entirely from all the doleful circumstance, recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    MLit 12.314 2 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...eased in some circumstance...
    MLit 12.314 12 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    MLit 12.331 25 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which dissipate by dreadful melody all this iron network of circumstance...
    MLit 12.332 2 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
    WSL 12.344 18 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of delineating character.
    EurB 12.375 2 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance...
    EurB 12.375 5 In this class [novel of costume or of circumstance], the hero, without any particular character, is in a very particular circumstance;...
    Let 12.400 10 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.
    Trag 12.416 9 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition, which, to us who look upon her, appears to be attended with no alleviating circumstance.

Circumstance, n. (2)

    F 6.14 20 Yes,-but the tyrannical Circumstance!
    F 6.14 27 The Circumstance is Nature.

circumstanced, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.206 14 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.

circumstances, n. (68)

    LT 1.276 15 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...not on a principle, but...on circumstances...
    LT 1.280 6 ...how frivolous is your war against circumstances.
    LT 1.281 8 These benefactors [the reformers] hope to raise man by improving his circumstances...
    LT 1.281 17 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Tran 1.329 22 The materialist insists...on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man;...
    Tran 1.334 26 You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.
    Tran 1.339 11 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances...
    Tran 1.344 13 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances...
    Hist 2.3 22 Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant...
    Hist 2.19 13 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
    SR 2.61 6 The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.
    SR 2.69 12 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances...
    Comp 2.100 21 The true life and satisfactions of man seem...to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances.
    Comp 2.120 13 Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances.
    Comp 2.125 12 ...such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day...
    SL 2.149 1 [A man]...comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances.
    SL 2.155 11 ...[what the great man did]...grew out of the circumstances of the moment.
    Lov1 2.174 24 ...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.
    Lov1 2.177 19 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Lov1 2.186 26 ...the circumstances vary every hour.
    Hsm1 2.262 5 The circumstances of man, we say, are historically somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
    Exp 3.61 1 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Chr1 3.96 25 The natural measure of this power [of character] is the resistance of circumstances.
    Chr1 3.97 18 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a certain chain of circumstances, and they will ask no more.
    Chr1 3.97 24 ...the soul of goodness escapes from any set of circumstances;...
    Chr1 3.98 1 No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
    Pol1 3.214 25 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    NMW 4.230 10 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
    NMW 4.232 2 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself. I am the creature of circumstances.
    ET1 5.19 20 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition.
    ET4 5.48 24 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective;...
    ET8 5.140 3 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
    ET12 5.210 27 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances will play the manly part.
    F 6.14 20 A vesicle in new circumstances...became an animal;...
    Wth 6.91 3 ...Wall Street thinks...that in failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
    Wsp 6.220 6 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...
    CbW 6.260 8 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Bty 6.293 21 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
    Art2 7.47 22 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances.
    Elo1 7.89 14 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and worth.
    DL 7.118 14 The great make us feel...the indifference of circumstances.
    WD 7.173 6 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not...
    Boks 7.193 15 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
    Comc 8.158 12 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
    Insp 8.296 8 The occasions or predisposing circumstances [of inspiration] I could never tabulate;...
    Insp 8.296 19 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization]...
    Imtl 8.327 13 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;...
    Imtl 8.348 25 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God...
    Edc1 10.141 14 ...if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
    SovE 10.213 23 A man who has accustomed himself to look at all his circumstances as very mutable...has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Plu 10.296 4 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
    LLNE 10.356 3 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an auction or a fire.
    EzRy 10.393 27 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    MMEm 10.412 7 There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances while superior to them.
    LS 11.8 27 ...the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a faithful account of that ceremony [the Passover].
    LS 11.12 19 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols. I look upon this fact as very natural in the circumstances of the Church.
    EWI 11.121 14 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
    War 11.163 7 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
    War 11.166 1 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...
    Wom 11.410 5 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    Wom 11.422 5 For the other point, of [women]...aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
    PLT 12.42 22 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    CInt 12.129 16 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you.
    CInt 12.129 17 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered;...
    CL 12.142 24 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing...
    ACri 12.292 17 Dangerous words in like kind are...circumstances, commence for begin.
    WSL 12.345 2 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior, where the circumstances are in harmony with the man.
    PPr 12.386 25 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,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.

circumstantial, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.482 10 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

circumstantiality, n. (1)

    ET13 5.218 14 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...

circumvent, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.218 27 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he afford to circumvent the favor of the caucus and the press, and covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    Ctr 6.132 4 If [nature] creates a policeman like Fouche, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.

circus, n. (1)

    F 6.47 11 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse...

cisterns, n. (1)

    AmS 1.108 11 ...we drain all cisterns...

citadels, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.235 2 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be citadels and warriors yourselves...

citation, n. (6)

    ET14 5.236 18 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it in the citation of wills, letters and public documents;...
    ET15 5.268 22 A statement of fact in The [London] Times is as reliable as a citation from Hansard.
    QO 8.194 3 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour; and the reader sometimes giving more to the citation than he owes to it.
    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... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
    Plu 10.305 7 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
    FSLC 11.190 18 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void]. I have no intention to recite these passages I had marked:-such citation indeed seems to be something cowardly...

citations, n. (3)

    OA 7.329 18 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    QO 8.194 4 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    PPo 8.259 7 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations...

cite, v. (12)

    Nat 1.54 2 I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.
    NMW 4.247 8 I should cite [Napoleon], in his earlier years, as a model of prudence.
    ET14 5.236 24 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    ET14 5.242 21 I cite these generalizations...merely to indicate a class.
    Suc 7.292 11 ...we import the religion of other nations;...we cite their laws.
    QO 8.202 11 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    PPo 8.263 20 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    Plu 10.294 11 ...though the contemporary...Pliny the Elder and the Younger, [Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.303 18 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias...
    Plu 10.304 8 ...I cannot forbear to cite one or two sentences [from Plutarch] which none who reads them will forget.
    FSLN 11.227 3 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them, not that they can give evidence to what is indisputable...
    Mem 12.106 4 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...

cited, v. (10)

    Prd1 2.237 20 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Pol1 3.209 17 The vice of our leading parties in this country (which may be cited as a fair specimen of these societies of opinion) is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    ET1 5.23 24 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...
    ET11 5.178 3 ...some curious examples are cited to show the stability of English families.
    F 6.23 26 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    QO 8.183 10 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    Plu 10.304 2 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion...
    FSLC 11.191 14 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLN 11.224 27 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
    Milt1 12.266 6 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...

cites, v. (3)

    QO 8.195 26 ...Hallam cites a sentence from Bacon or Sidney...and straightway it commends itself to us...
    Plu 10.295 23 ...Rabelais cites [Plutarch] with due respect.
    Plu 10.313 6 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...

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