Conscriptions to Construing

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

conscriptions, n. (2)

    NMW 4.241 23 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...even when he decimated them by his conscriptions.
    NMW 4.257 20 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions;...they deserted [Napoleon].

conscripts, n. (1)

    ET7 5.120 9 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it; much less a nation decimated for conscripts and out of pocket, like France.

consecrate, v. (1)

    NR 3.227 16 We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.

consecrated, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.226 13 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... deforming every consecrated grove, [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...

consecrated, v. (4)

    Pt1 3.19 4 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these; for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their reading;...
    Pol1 3.207 19 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient.
    HDC 11.85 21 ...[Concord] has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    II 12.87 1 There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible, virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.

consecrating, adj. (1)

    OS 2.285 3 By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...

consecration, n. (5)

    MN 1.191 4 The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.
    ET13 5.219 7 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family and the Parliament, by name; and this lifelong consecration cannot be without influence on his opinions.
    DL 7.132 23 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
    DL 7.132 24 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house?
    SHC 11.430 26 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.

consecutive, adj. (3)

    ET14 5.245 4 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    Insp 8.273 16 We cannot make the inspiration consecutive.
    Insp 8.291 7 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days.

consecutiveness, n. (2)

    Insp 8.272 27 ...what we want is consecutiveness.
    PLT 12.52 26 ...what we want is consecutiveness.

consent, n. (25)

    DSA 1.133 20 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    LT 1.278 24 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    Fdsp 2.208 14 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Prd1 2.239 25 ...assume a consent [in a dispute] and it shall presently be granted...
    Mrs1 3.126 21 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent everything superfluous is dropped...
    ET8 5.136 18 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical grounds. He is there with his own consent...
    F 6.37 1 ...where shall we find the first atom in this house of man, which is all consent, inosculation and balance of parts?
    Wsp 6.213 16 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
    CbW 6.253 26 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    CbW 6.272 18 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
    DL 7.122 14 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
    WD 7.180 16 ...life is good only when it is...a perfect timing and consent...
    SA 8.93 25 Madame de Stael, by the unanimous consent of all who knew her, was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
    Grts 8.310 7 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake, and which the consent of all mankind could not confirm.
    PerF 10.80 17 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    Chr2 10.100 10 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each;...
    Edc1 10.145 6 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
    SovE 10.200 12 Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
    HDC 11.29 3 By a common consent, the people of New England, for a few years past, as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    TPar 11.290 24 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    RBur 11.439 16 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    PLT 12.28 12 Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
    PLT 12.56 16 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...consent to be nothing for eternity...
    Milt1 12.266 23 [Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    MLit 12.315 5 The great never with their own consent become a load on the minds they instruct.

consent, v. (18)

    LT 1.278 21 I must consent to inaction.
    Tran 1.341 14 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] consent to such labor as is open to them...
    SR 2.53 14 I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.
    NR 3.248 24 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
    F 6.21 15 God may consent, but only for a time, said the bard of Spain.
    Bhr 6.181 15 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will...
    QO 8.198 14 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame...
    PerF 10.80 22 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time, and consent that he should go without his fine.
    Edc1 10.159 7 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
    MoL 10.258 17 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    EWI 11.136 16 ...It is better to suffer every evil, than to consent to any.
    War 11.173 27 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    FSLN 11.229 6 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.
    FSLN 11.239 1 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival. They say, God may consent, but not forever.
    Scot 11.463 24 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again.
    CInt 12.113 1 I cannot consent to wander from the duties of this day into the fracas of politics.
    Pray 12.355 22 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.
    EurB 12.374 8 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will...

consentaneous, adj. (1)

    F 6.36 20 Our life is consentaneous and far-related.

consented, v. (5)

    OA 7.331 9 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
    Schr 10.287 8 [The scholar] has not consented to the frivolity, nor to the dispersion.
    HDC 11.56 2 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates, to which the General Court consented.
    EPro 11.323 7 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels, the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession impossible...
    Bost 12.189 2 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...

consenting, adj. (1)

    Let 12.397 16 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several blunder; his genius was good, his stars consenting, but he was a marplot.

consents, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.382 21 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./

consents, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.114 25 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...

consequence, n. (30)

    Nat 1.48 24 It is a natural consequence of this structure [of man], that...we resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    AmS 1.114 15 The scholar is...complaisant. See already the tragic consequence.
    DSA 1.134 3 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    YA 1.364 9 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.376 3 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
    YA 1.376 5 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually speaking;...
    YA 1.376 8 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually speaking; and so long only as I am speaking to him is he of any consequence.
    YA 1.379 27 In consequence of the revolution in the state of society wrought by trade, Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    Prd1 2.238 3 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    Mrs1 3.136 14 [Montaigne's] arrival in each place...is an event of some consequence.
    Pol1 3.215 16 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end,--not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence.
    NER 3.259 18 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing? What was the consequence?
    NER 3.282 25 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns...
    GoW 4.275 23 It is really of very little consequence what topic [Goethe] writes upon.
    ET9 5.145 4 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who are of that nation...
    Pow 6.54 11 A belief in causality...and, in consequence, belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Elo1 7.89 15 Every fact gains consequence by [the orator's] naming it...
    Cour 7.277 15 ...there is one good opinion which must always be of consequence to you, namely, your own.
    Insp 8.272 5 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
    Chr2 10.102 9 A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him.
    Prch 10.217 19 In consequence of this revolution in opinion, it appears, for the time, as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    Plu 10.303 23 It is a consequence of this poetic trait in his mind, that I confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
    LLNE 10.341 9 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain any instant consequence of this attempt...
    Thor 10.458 17 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company. It was of no consequence if every one present held the opposite opinion.
    HDC 11.31 5 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    HDC 11.49 6 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    EWI 11.110 14 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    War 11.175 12 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    SMC 11.362 21 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk. I told the colonel this morning I should [march my men away], and shall,-don't care what the consequence is.
    Let 12.392 4 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

consequences, n. (12)

    Nat 1.48 12 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory, as if its consequences were burlesque;...
    LE 1.179 23 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between means and consequences...
    SR 2.49 6 [The boy] cumbers himself never about consequences...
    SL 2.146 13 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.
    Exp 3.78 17 The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside; in its quality and in its consequences.
    Nat2 3.184 22 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it, for there is no end to the consequences of the act.
    PPh 4.50 16 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna].
    Pow 6.61 16 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    HDC 11.77 20 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].
    War 11.167 23 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    War 11.168 13 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    War 11.173 25 ...the man who...takes in solitude the right step uniformly, on his private choice and disdaining consequences,-does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.

consequent, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.157 18 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes, the consequent necessity of the reform of the calendar;...
    PC 8.233 16 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...and a consequent national decline;...

conservation, n. (3)

    SR 2.70 23 I see the same law working in nature for conservation and growth.
    NMW 4.237 1 ...as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
    PerF 10.71 20 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them, such as conservation...

conservatism, n. (33)

    LT 1.268 14 No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full justice to the side of conservatism.
    Con 1.297 24 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism...
    Con 1.298 1 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
    Con 1.298 4 ...conservatism always has the worst of the argument...
    Con 1.298 13 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...
    Con 1.298 15 ...conservatism [stands] on circumstance...
    Con 1.298 18 ...conservatism is debonair and social...
    Con 1.298 23 Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;...
    Con 1.298 24 ...conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
    Con 1.298 25 Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
    Con 1.298 27 Conservatism makes no poetry...
    Con 1.299 6 Conservatism never puts the foot forward;...
    Con 1.299 8 Conservatism tends to universal seeming and treachery...
    Con 1.302 6 That which is best about conservatism...is the Inevitable.
    Con 1.305 17 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own;...
    Con 1.305 25 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Con 1.316 11 Conservatism is affluent and open-handed...
    Con 1.317 10 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...
    Con 1.318 17 The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
    Con 1.320 1 Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human action and passion.
    Con 1.326 12 [Man's hope]...grew here on the wild crab of conservatism.
    Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia;...
    ET4 5.50 27 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... active intellect and dead conservatism;...
    Pow 6.64 21 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Wsp 6.208 5 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe in nothing.
    Supl 10.163 7 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command which respect the conservatism of the entire energies of the body, the mind, and the soul.
    FSLN 11.230 26 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure, and they threw themselves on the extreme conservatism, as a drag on the wheel...
    FSLN 11.231 2 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood stiffly on conservatism... only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.
    FSLN 11.231 11 I have a respect for conservatism.
    ChiE 11.471 16 [China's] people had such elemental conservatism that by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in her annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    Bost 12.207 6 From Roger Williams...down to...William Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    PPr 12.385 1 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...
    PPr 12.385 11 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea of poetic and humane conservatism...

Conservatism, n. (5)

    LT 1.260 8 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...
    LT 1.260 17 ...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude and starve: so says Conservatism;...
    Con 1.295 2 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old...
    Con 1.297 19 Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
    Con 1.297 21 That which is was made by God, saith Conservatism.

conservative, adj. (19)

    Con 1.295 6 The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.
    Con 1.305 14 However men please to style themselves, I see no other than a conservative party.
    Con 1.319 1 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    YA 1.393 7 The English, the most conservative people this side of India, are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy]...
    Pol1 3.210 15 ...the conservative party...is timid...
    Pol1 3.220 6 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    NR 3.246 11 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
    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.
    NMW 4.223 19 In our society there is a standing antagonism between the conservative and the democratic classes;...
    NMW 4.252 24 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.256 13 ...Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business, against the stationary or conservative party.
    ET8 5.141 7 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving;...
    ET11 5.173 23 The taste of the [English] people is conservative.
    ET12 5.200 20 Oxford is old, even in England, and conservative.
    F 6.13 17 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die...becomes conservative.
    Pow 6.60 6 Health is good,--power, life, that...is conservative as well as creative.
    Chr2 10.116 17 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    FSLN 11.230 14 In Massachusetts...there has always existed a predominant conservative spirit.
    Bost 12.206 19 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...

conservative, n. (10)

    Con 1.301 4 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.
    Con 1.302 9 There is the question not only what the conservative says for himself, but, why must he say it?
    Con 1.314 13 ...it is to be considered that there is no pure conservative...
    Con 1.319 7 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Con 1.319 9 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity...
    NER 3.271 4 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity...
    MoS 4.172 15 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative, he sees the selfishness of property and the drowsiness of institutions.
    NMW 4.256 11 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    NMW 4.256 17 The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat.
    ET1 5.20 27 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....

Conservative, n. (1)

    Con 1.297 15 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.

conservatives, n. (8)

    Con 1.305 13 ...you [reformers] are betrayed by your own nature. You also are conservatives.
    Con 1.326 15 ...amidst a planet peopled with conservatives, one Reformer may yet be born.
    NER 3.270 18 I do not recognize...a class of conservatives...
    NER 3.272 11 Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous...
    NER 3.272 13 [Men] are conservatives after dinner...
    ET4 5.52 18 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America, and her conservatives at London.
    F 6.13 17 All conservatives are such from personal defects.
    FSLN 11.231 14 We are all conservatives...in our essences...

conservatories, n. (2)

    CW 12.173 17 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their greenhouses, conservatories, palm-houses...
    EurB 12.370 8 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

conservators, n. (2)

    Con 1.321 11 [Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value as conservators of property;...
    NER 3.272 22 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...

conservatory, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.134 27 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage and all manner of toys...

conserve, v. (1)

    SwM 4.135 6 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...

conservers, n. (2)

    Con 1.298 22 We are...reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
    MoS 4.171 17 ...we are natural conservers and causationists...

conserves, v. (1)

    EWI 11.143 26 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,- that conserves it;...

conserving, adj. (4)

    YA 1.390 10 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the timorous, the lock-and-bolt system.
    UGM 4.24 14 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature, the conserving, resisting energy...
    MoS 4.171 1 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive;...
    FRep 11.538 18 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...

consider, v. (71)

    Nat 1.62 12 When we consider Spirit, we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
    AmS 1.84 21 Let us...consider [the scholar] in reference to the main influences he receives.
    LE 1.166 21 I pass now to consider the task offered to the intellect of this country.
    MR 1.235 2 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    MR 1.238 4 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.
    MR 1.253 25 The State must consider the poor man...
    LT 1.260 26 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...
    LT 1.285 14 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
    Con 1.313 9 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
    YA 1.394 26 [The system of English aristocracy] is for Englishmen to consider, not for us;...
    SR 2.54 17 A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity.
    SR 2.74 14 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father...
    SR 2.75 7 If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.
    Hsm1 2.253 8 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside...
    OS 2.270 8 If we consider what happens in conversation...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Int 2.329 13 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    Int 2.331 7 At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit down to consider an abstract truth;...
    Pt1 3.30 15 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
    Exp 3.58 17 If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
    Chr1 3.96 25 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.
    Chr1 3.103 3 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it...
    Chr1 3.108 1 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine, and who seem to be an accumulation of that power [of character] we consider.
    Gts 3.160 18 ...if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.
    Nat2 3.174 22 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    Nat2 3.178 17 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    Nat2 3.182 25 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns...
    PPh 4.60 21 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    PPh 4.78 8 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    MoS 4.156 24 [The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider how it is.
    MoS 4.156 25 [The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider how it is.
    ShP 4.210 18 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider how well he filled his place...
    NMW 4.250 4 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe...
    ET14 5.240 15 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    F 6.14 11 In science we have to consider two things...
    Wsp 6.230 19 Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer an objection to it? Consider only whether it remains in my life the same it was.
    Civ 7.32 18 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.40 20 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
    Art2 7.42 27 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
    Elo1 7.67 14 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Elo1 7.81 15 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence...
    Boks 7.190 12 Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library.
    Clbs 7.241 10 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them at last fatalists...whom we now consider.
    Clbs 7.241 10 We consider those who are interested in thoughts...
    Elo2 8.128 19 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    PC 8.210 10 Consider...what variety of issues...the railroad, the telegraph... have evoked!...
    PC 8.234 4 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Insp 8.277 18 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Chr2 10.108 11 I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
    SovE 10.207 10 It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
    Prch 10.234 15 They need not consider them.
    GSt 10.506 24 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.6 12 I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus. I shall presently consider its meaning.
    LS 11.13 10 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    LS 11.24 3 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it.
    HDC 11.49 16 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.
    HDC 11.79 26 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    HDC 11.81 11 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
    EWI 11.100 20 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.
    EWI 11.107 24 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    War 11.168 14 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    War 11.168 17 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
    EPro 11.317 25 When we consider the immense opposition that has been neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
    HCom 11.343 22 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state bigger than I knew
    SMC 11.360 10 Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business arrangements this war-blast made.
    CPL 11.496 23 If you consider what has befallen you when reading a poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    CPL 11.502 23 Consider that it is our own state of mind at any time that makes our estimate of life and the world.
    PLT 12.19 23 Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
    II 12.73 23 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists?
    CW 12.171 7 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
    MAng1 12.227 3 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the platform could be constructed in no other way..
    Milt1 12.253 12 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.

considerable, adj. (14)

    Cir 2.303 19 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will...these leaves hang so individually considerable?
    Pt1 3.36 27 We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and caterpillars.
    ShP 4.192 9 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of no account...
    NMW 4.240 7 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...and reduced the claims by considerable sums.
    ET3 5.35 24 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET4 5.45 7 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...in which the foreign element, however considerable, is rapidly assimilated, and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    DL 7.132 2 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the more considerable the institution had become.
    HDC 11.84 27 ...without any considerable mill privileges, the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    EdAd 11.383 4 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet...
    MAng1 12.224 20 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
    ACri 12.292 25 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is considerable of a compliment...
    ACri 12.292 26 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is considerable of a compliment...
    ACri 12.292 27 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is considerable of a compliment, under considerable of a cloud;...
    MLit 12.317 12 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.

considerable, adv. (1)

    ACri 12.292 1 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...considerable as an adverb for much;...

considerably, adv. (1)

    ET4 5.57 26 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people considerably advanced in rural arts...

considerate, adj. (9)

    Hist 2.29 9 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Exp 3.67 22 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists, and doctors, and considerate people;...
    NER 3.279 3 I suppose considerate observers...will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    UGM 4.20 27 These [great] men...make us considerate...
    ET15 5.269 4 [The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and petulant, but considerate and determined.
    Ctr 6.165 3 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    CbW 6.249 22 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    Comc 8.158 23 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    Carl 10.495 16 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence...

considerately, adv. (2)

    YA 1.366 23 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately; this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    Ctr 6.137 12 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.

consideration, n. (38)

    Nat 1.16 11 For better consideration, we may distribute the aspects of beauty in a threefold manner.
    MR 1.227 1 I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
    LT 1.290 15 Only as far as [the Moral Sentiment] shines through them are these times or any times worth consideration.
    Con 1.302 14 Here is the fact which men call Fate...not to be disposed of by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
    Con 1.306 12 In his first consideration how to feed, clothe, and warm himself, [the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    YA 1.363 15 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    Comp 2.120 9 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities...
    SL 2.138 21 A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    Cir 2.307 24 Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state.
    Int 2.326 1 Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
    Int 2.337 14 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
    Pt1 3.4 24 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
    Pol1 3.204 9 ...there is an instinctive sense...that truly the only interest for the consideration of the State is persons;...
    NER 3.267 21 I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in man...which engages the more regard, from the consideration that the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    NER 3.275 9 The consideration of an eminent citizen...a naval and military honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    MoS 4.159 20 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...
    Pow 6.79 25 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Ctr 6.160 4 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    CbW 6.260 5 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
    Art2 7.45 26 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
    Art2 7.48 5 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
    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...
    OA 7.320 11 Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
    SA 8.100 4 The consideration the rich possess in all societies is not without meaning or right.
    Comc 8.169 2 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on account of their condition.
    Insp 8.282 3 Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
    PerF 10.85 6 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    Edc1 10.152 13 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
    LLNE 10.332 5 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...as if in the consciousness and consideration of all history and all learning ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    CSC 10.373 10 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath...
    MMEm 10.417 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it...
    GSt 10.501 12 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    LS 11.8 23 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
    HDC 11.41 16 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.57 24 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    EWI 11.145 17 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens...
    FSLC 11.179 3 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    EdAd 11.386 3 It is a poor consideration that the country wit is precocious...

Consideration, n. (1)

    HDC 11.50 15 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].

considerations, n. (31)

    AmS 1.101 24 [The scholar] is one who raises himself from private considerations...
    LE 1.185 6 ...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...
    MR 1.234 23 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    Con 1.318 6 These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    Hsm1. 2.252 27 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense. Indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with greatness.
    Int 2.326 2 The considerations of time and place...tyrannize over most men' s minds.
    Mrs1 3.149 9 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
    Pol1 3.208 24 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and obeying personal considerations, throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    NMW 4.232 8 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on the precise point of resistance, and slights all other considerations.
    ET4 5.68 9 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear, which he surmounted only by considerations of honor and public duty.
    Pow 6.80 9 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Wth 6.111 9 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    Elo1 7.70 8 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.
    Cour 7.263 10 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty...
    Elo2 8.117 1 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are... carried off out of all recollection of their malignant considerations...
    Comc 8.164 20 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...excluding, when it appears, all other considerations...
    QO 8.189 11 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    PC 8.230 20 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...by considerations of humanity to the workman and to his child;...
    PC 8.230 24 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and good sense;...
    Insp 8.272 18 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...
    Schr 10.262 19 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...which draws by being beautiful, and not by considerations of advantage, comes in and puts a new face on the world.
    LS 11.13 26 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.
    LS 11.22 6 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
    LS 11.23 20 Influenced by these considerations, 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]...
    HDC 11.48 19 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations.
    EWI 11.126 24 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the dullest in Britain.
    EWI 11.127 9 These considerations [of trade], I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies];...
    EWI 11.145 27 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.
    War 11.154 10 Considerations of this [historical] kind lead us to a true view of the nature and office of war.
    ACiv 11.302 16 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
    FRep 11.537 3 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...

considered, adj. (4)

    LT 1.271 22 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful; but not...the ripe fruit and considered labors of man.
    PPh 4.70 19 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
    Thor 10.465 24 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    CInt 12.118 26 ...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered expression of opinion.

considered, v. (45)

    Nat 1.4 23 Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
    Nat 1.27 14 That which intellectually considered we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit.
    Nat 1.28 24 The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's;...
    LE 1.172 18 ...any particular portraiture...when considered by the soul, warps and shrinks away.
    MN 1.201 20 ...if man himself be considered as the end...we see that it has not succeeded.
    LT 1.261 17 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Con 1.313 24 ...if the mitigations are considered, do not all the mischiefs virtually vanish?
    Con 1.314 12 ...it is to be considered that there is no pure conservative...
    Comp 2.122 11 There can be no excess to love...none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.
    Lov1 2.170 8 ...it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
    Prd1 2.232 4 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art.
    Cir 2.314 20 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart, but, rightly considered, these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul.
    Int 2.326 4 Intellect separates the fact considered, from you...
    Exp 3.60 10 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    NR 3.231 24 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been...in classes and (the whole life-time considered, with the compensations) in the individual also.
    NR 3.232 1 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered!
    SwM 4.116 16 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.
    GoW 4.275 11 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    GoW 4.275 20 ...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of light and darkness in new proportions.
    ET4 5.66 23 When it is considered what humanity...the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET10 5.156 4 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays;...
    ET10 5.171 4 ...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET14 5.256 24 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    Bhr 6.170 19 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
    DL 7.110 22 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found to have unity...
    DL 7.112 12 If the children...are considered, dressed...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    PI 8.6 4 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
    SA 8.88 5 There are always slovens in State Street or Wall Street, who are not less considered.
    Elo2 8.126 12 ...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much considered and practised as preparation...
    Dem1 10.24 2 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered.
    Chr2 10.93 6 ...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
    Edc1 10.152 16 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
    LLNE 10.325 5 Children had been repressed and kept in the background; now they were considered, cosseted and pampered.
    SlHr 10.438 17 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.439 1 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    Thor 10.454 26 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation...
    LS 11.15 25 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul, all things considered, ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.23 27 My brethren have considered my views [on the Lord's Supper] with patience and candor...
    JBS 11.278 12 ...[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 11.420 27 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves considered...
    ChiE 11.471 9 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event, considered in connection with the late innovations in Japan, marks a new era...
    II 12.69 23 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile? That force or flame is alone to be considered;...
    MLit 12.320 12 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the reigning taste...
    WSL 12.344 5 [Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality...
    WSL 12.348 26 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit.

considerer, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 26 [The skeptic] is the considerer...

considering, v. (16)

    AmS 1.87 18 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
    LT 1.263 14 A personal ascendency,-that is the only fact much worth considering.
    SR 2.82 27 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Cir 2.301 10 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
    Gts 3.163 14 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    NR 3.241 20 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game...
    Wth 6.90 20 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man must take care of himself...
    SA 8.90 1 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...
    Imtl 8.351 5 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man. But thou, considering the objects of desire, hast abandoned them.
    Aris 10.64 16 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering large interests...
    Prch 10.234 18 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    Thor 10.480 8 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw Bateman's Pond...
    LS 11.3 8 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...
    FRep 11.532 7 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade,-not at all considering the remote reaction and bankruptcy...
    PLT 12.24 14 The idea of vegetation is irresistible in considering mental activity.
    MAng1 12.217 10 In considering a life dedicated to the study of Beauty, it is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?

considers, v. (8)

    Nat 1.12 1 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    MR 1.230 16 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
    Pol1 3.201 21 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Imtl 8.339 11 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    SovE 10.201 7 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    War 11.153 13 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    FRep 11.519 13 The spirit of our political action, for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
    PLT 12.40 8 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself.

consigned, v. (2)

    LT 1.272 26 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 poet and musical composer...
    ET11 5.198 1 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.

consilia, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 26 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth, and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus divinitatis habent.

consist, v. (23)

    Nat 1.33 14 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact...
    MN 1.208 26 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    MN 1.210 7 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
    Hist 2.4 21 Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him.
    Comp 2.101 24 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Prd1 2.237 10 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Mrs1 3.140 2 ...[society] values all peculiarities as in the highest degree refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
    PNR 4.82 11 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    ShP 4.189 6 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men.
    NMW 4.247 10 [Napoleon's] power does not consist in any wild or extravagant force;...
    GoW 4.277 15 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET10 5.164 1 This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with perfect order.
    ET14 5.260 13 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    Ctr 6.142 8 I like people who like Plato. Because this love does not consist with self-conceit.
    Wsp 6.231 1 ...the happiness of one cannot consist with the misery of any other.
    DL 7.114 26 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth.
    Suc 7.301 1 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
    Prch 10.224 1 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from surfaces to solids;...
    Plu 10.308 5 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to...make truth consist with sober sense.
    LLNE 10.350 23 Your community should consist of two thousand persons, to prevent accidents of omission;...
    ACiv 11.297 17 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other men's labor.
    PLT 12.12 7 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees...and waits for a new opportunity, well assured that these observed arcs will consist with each other.
    Trag 12.409 21 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.

consisted, v. (7)

    YA 1.391 8 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals...
    SR 2.87 2 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor...
    Comp 2.95 10 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    Pt1 3.35 13 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    NMW 4.229 25 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
    LLNE 10.361 1 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main of young people...
    Milt1 12.265 15 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the organ.

consistency, n. (4)

    SR 2.56 24 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency;...
    SR 2.57 17 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
    SR 2.57 19 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    SR 2.60 10 I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.

consistent, adj. (11)

    Prd1 2.232 20 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Nat2 3.181 6 Nature is always consistent...
    NMW 4.228 27 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in money and in troops, and a very consistent and wise master-workman.
    Grts 8.312 4 With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add, what is consistent with it, the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
    Chr2 10.102 20 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    EzRy 10.395 10 ...[Ezra Ripley's] whole life and conversation were consistent.
    LS 11.8 2 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.20 12 The importance ascribed to this particular ordinance [the Lord' s Supper] is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity.
    War 11.168 2 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...
    FRO2 11.488 17 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.
    Milt1 12.273 13 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent spiritualist...

consistere, v. (1)

    SwM 4.113 22 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...

consisting, v. (1)

    Grts 8.319 12 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?

consists, v. (54)

    AmS 1.109 18 ...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists;...
    LE 1.179 12 ...the modern majesty consists in work.
    MN 1.210 23 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    LT 1.286 14 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that they have believed;...
    Hist 2.36 1 [Man's] power consists in the multitude of his affinities...
    SL 2.160 8 [Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming...
    Prd1 2.221 3 My prudence consists in avoiding and going without...
    Prd1 2.234 18 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...
    OS 2.286 4 ...the wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge [men];...
    Cir 2.309 7 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery...
    Cir 2.316 3 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts...
    Pt1 3.22 7 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    Pt1 3.34 19 Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
    Exp 3.55 11 ...health of body consists in circulation...
    Exp 3.57 9 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    Pol1 3.204 20 Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish persons.
    SwM 4.126 16 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    MoS 4.159 2 since true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    MoS 4.180 19 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul;...
    ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    ShP 4.191 11 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
    NMW 4.237 11 [Napoleon's] idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party.
    GoW 4.287 6 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET6 5.108 6 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    Wth 6.86 6 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better order...
    Wth 6.101 11 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world...
    Wth 6.112 15 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Wsp 6.213 6 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Wsp 6.213 20 ...our faith in ecstasy consists with total inexperience of it.
    CbW 6.277 27 Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.
    Bty 6.300 9 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    DL 7.118 10 ...poverty consists in feeling poor.
    Cour 7.264 9 ...courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
    Cour 7.264 18 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    Suc 7.293 3 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat...
    PI 8.19 19 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...
    QO 8.191 11 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.
    Insp 8.297 14 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints...
    Imtl 8.342 19 The health of the mind consists in the perception of law.
    Imtl 8.342 20 [The mind's] dignity consists in being under the law.
    Dem1 10.10 1 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints...
    Aris 10.61 7 The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the persons and practices about him...
    PerF 10.70 11 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    SovE 10.189 11 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    EWI 11.122 11 [Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast...
    ALin 11.337 2 The kindness of kings consists in justice and strength.
    EdAd 11.387 5 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.
    PLT 12.39 9 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact] under a new order...
    PLT 12.62 18 ...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
    II 12.80 4 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas.
    II 12.87 1 [The probity of the Intellect] consists in an absolute devotion to truth...
    CInt 12.113 17 Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of scholars, which consists in ignoring the other.
    CInt 12.117 15 ...sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.
    MAng1 12.217 19 The nature of the beautiful...consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.

consociated, v. (1)

    SS 7.6 24 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...

consolation, n. (16)

    AmS 1.101 22 [The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature.
    DSA 1.128 13 Of [the Christian church's] blessed words, which have been the consolation of humanity, you need not that I should speak.
    DSA 1.136 7 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
    Hsm1 2.261 2 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is a part of my constitution...
    Pt1 3.5 12 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later.
    ET10 5.171 7 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England]. And it is a consolation in the death of the young, that a source of expense is closed.
    ET14 5.256 14 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    PI 8.37 25 Poetry is the consolation of mortal men.
    SA 8.104 22 The consolation and happy moment of life...is sentiment;...
    PerF 10.85 14 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation...
    SovE 10.198 16 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    Schr 10.273 6 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation...but as a decalogue.
    Thor 10.475 24 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...
    ACiv 11.309 22 This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is moral...
    CPL 11.501 5 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so and all the more, that they are not intended for consolation.
    CW 12.177 15 [Walking] is the consolation of mortal men.

consolations, n. (3)

    Tran 1.354 12 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    DL 7.133 6 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted...
    EurB 12.368 22 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...

console, v. (10)

    LE 1.161 11 I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts...by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    LT 1.285 14 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
    Art1 2.367 9 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of marble.
    Pt1 3.42 3 ...thou [O poet] shalt be known only to thine own, and they shall console thee with tenderest love.
    Chr1 3.104 24 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so.
    SwM 4.93 12 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for the shortcomings of the day...
    Bty 6.297 19 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...
    PI 8.52 19 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    EWI 11.118 23 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again.
    TPar 11.285 2 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.

consoled, v. (6)

    Ctr 6.148 2 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    SS 7.4 19 ...[my new friend] consoled himself with the delicious thought of the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
    OA 7.313 17 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    LS 11.25 4 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.
    FSLC 11.189 15 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    TPar 11.292 7 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius...

consoler, n. (5)

    MoL 10.250 20 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... consoler, upholder...
    Shak1 11.448 10 Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition...
    WSL 12.341 9 In these busy days...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    Trag 12.414 13 Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes, dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.
    Trag 12.416 20 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune...

consolers, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.242 1 The Laws are [man's] consolers...

consoles, v. (2)

    Insp 8.283 7 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
    Trag 12.415 1 Time consoles, but Temperament resists the impression of pain.

consolidate, v. (1)

    II 12.81 9 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.

consolidated, v. (1)

    ET6 5.112 5 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets... consolidated...

consolidation, n. (1)

    NR 3.240 6 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.

consoling, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.385 27 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...consoling the defeated...

consonance, n. (1)

    ET11 5.189 23 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.

consonant, adj. (2)

    Elo2 8.125 27 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    ACri 12.284 7 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

consonat, v. (1)

    Nat 1.44 21 Omne verum vero consonat.

consort, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.272 20 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition;...

conspicuous, adj. (26)

    Nat 1.26 10 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import, - so conspicuous a fact in the history of language, - is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.44 26 The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions.
    DSA 1.122 6 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue] by an enumeration of some of those classes of facts in which this element is conspicuous.
    MN 1.195 18 It is [great men's] solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
    LT 1.259 22 Nature itself seems...to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.
    Tran 1.340 25 It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Comp 2.99 14 To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, [the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    SL 2.134 5 Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
    Mrs1 3.120 22 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman?
    Pol1 3.218 18 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
    ShP 4.192 7 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history...
    ShP 4.197 15 The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early literature;...
    ET15 5.263 7 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper.
    Pow 6.64 7 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those;...
    Art2 7.54 17 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    WD 7.170 2 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven...
    PI 8.47 20 The fact is made conspicuous, nay, colossal, by this simple rhetoric [of iterations of phrase]...
    Res 8.147 25 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have on conspicuous occasions, handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Supl 10.168 10 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    War 11.154 13 ...[war] has been the principal employment of the most conspicuous men;...
    Wom 11.415 7 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
    CW 12.174 27 Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens...
    Bost 12.201 26 What is very conspicuous is the saucy independence which shines in all [the Massachusetts colonists'] eyes.
    MAng1 12.230 26 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
    MLit 12.312 2 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    Trag 12.406 20 What are the conspicuous tragic elements in human nature?

conspicuously, adv. (7)

    ET3 5.43 24 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world.
    Art2 7.37 11 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence. This influence is conspicuously visible in the principles and history of Art.
    DL 7.109 11 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    Cour 7.253 2 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
    Aris 10.53 18 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent. I have seen it conspicuously shown in a village.
    FSLC 11.186 18 ...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.
    FRep 11.538 9 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No, that has been conspicuously decided already;...

conspicuousness, n. (1)

    Wom 11.416 27 Of course, this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences.

conspiracies, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.20 14 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.

conspiracy, n. (10)

    SR 2.49 26 Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
    SR 2.72 5 At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
    CbW 6.256 13 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry,--coarse selfishness, fraud and conspiracy;...
    LVB 11.93 9 ...how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor [Cherokee] Indians our government...
    FSLN 11.237 12 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons to hold him up...
    AsSu 11.250 18 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    AKan 11.259 20 ...Union is a conspiracy against the Northern States which the Northern States are to have the privilege of paying for;...
    ACiv 11.297 7 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it an institution, I call it a destitution...
    PLT 12.10 10 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things...
    PLT 12.57 8 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to utilize every gift prematurely...

conspirator, n. (1)

    F 6.22 27 ...here they are, side by side...king and conspirator...

conspirators, n. (3)

    SR 2.66 21 The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
    GoW 4.285 11 [Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
    LLNE 10.342 18 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion, of which design the supposed conspirators were quite innocent;...

conspire, v. (12)

    Nat 1.17 10 ...I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
    Nat 1.47 5 To this one end of Discipline, all parts of nature conspire.
    Nat 1.50 14 Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
    DSA 1.124 14 All things proceed out of the same spirit, and all things conspire with it.
    YA 1.379 16 Our part is plainly...to conspire with the new works of new days.
    ET11 5.173 21 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    F 6.23 27 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny. They conspire with it;...
    Art2 7.51 22 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
    Elo1 7.84 16 Of course the interest of the audience and of the orator conspire.
    Chr2 10.121 6 In a sensible family...all conspire and joyfully cooperate.
    Edc1 10.135 14 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence.
    War 11.156 26 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.

conspired, v. (2)

    ET5 5.75 15 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius of the place conspired to this effect.
    HDC 11.40 18 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and tender hearts; the people conspired with their teacher.

conspires, v. (3)

    GoW 4.264 1 Nature conspires.
    Art2 7.51 18 [A work of great art] conspires with all exalted sentiments.
    HDC 11.45 21 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience...

conspiring, adj. (1)

    MN 1.194 18 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception...

conspiring, v. (4)

    Nat 1.41 20 ...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end is essential to any being.
    YA 1.374 21 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    YA 1.395 9 If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    FRep 11.525 22 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.

constable, n. (5)

    Elo1 7.70 1 The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
    PC 8.209 25 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity...executed...by policemen and the constable.
    HDC 11.44 13 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its constable, and other petty half-military officers.
    HDC 11.44 24 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable...
    HDC 11.66 3 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats], after the constable has cut off the ears.

constables, n. (2)

    ET11 5.184 5 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables with the rest.
    ET15 5.264 9 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...

constancy, n. (5)

    Nat 1.53 13 In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to [Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
    SR 2.72 18 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy...
    ET4 5.46 11 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.
    F 6.46 19 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.
    Wsp 6.224 22 Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike. Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in his energy and constancy.

constant, adj. (37)

    Nat 1.27 21 ...these analogies...are constant...
    Nat 1.36 20 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Nat 1.48 4 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    AmS 1.85 26 ...since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.
    MR 1.254 22 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its constant...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    YA 1.369 6 ...these [European estates]...are a constant education to the eye of the surrounding population.
    Hist 2.13 15 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
    SL 2.155 1 The permanence of all books is fixed...by...the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
    SL 2.161 20 This revisal or correction is a constant force...
    Prd1 2.221 23 ...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
    Hsm1 2.245 3 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    Pt1 3.19 24 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...
    PNR 4.85 2 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical; the proportions are constant of oxygen, azote and lime;...
    PNR 4.85 4 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia; not less are the proportions constant of the moral elements.
    SwM 4.114 5 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    ET3 5.38 25 The constant rain...keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
    ET5 5.86 24 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them; and from constant practice they came to do it in three minutes and a half.
    Pow 6.55 10 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins. This condition is constant with intrepid persons.
    Wth 6.103 17 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and arsenic are in constant play.
    Civ 7.25 1 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Art2 7.41 6 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
    Elo1 7.66 7 The audience is a constant meter of the orator.
    Farm 7.149 17 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...
    SA 8.79 7 ...the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful persons.
    PC 8.219 13 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    Insp 8.288 18 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I...resolutely omit, to my constant damage, all that can be omitted.
    Imtl 8.329 24 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Chr2 10.107 19 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.
    Edc1 10.129 7 [The desire of power] is a constant teaching of the laws of matter and of mind.
    Edc1 10.129 11 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a constant contest with the active faculties of men...
    Prch 10.221 2 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    HDC 11.82 10 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    HDC 11.85 1 ...the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    EWI 11.117 23 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature.
    SMC 11.361 26 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he keeps up a constant acquaintance with them;...
    Mem 12.100 21 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed the magnetism was only a constant amount, and that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    MLit 12.326 26 [Goethe] has an eye constant to the fact of life...

Constant, Benjamin, n. (1)

    SA 8.95 1 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel!...

Constantinople, Turkey, n. (10)

    Con 1.311 16 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this world of Rome...and Constantinople...
    Hist 2.40 13 How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople!
    Prd1 2.233 14 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
    Pow 6.56 26 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.
    Wth 6.94 24 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Boks 7.205 19 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...
    OA 7.322 8 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...storming Constantinople at ninety-four...
    LLNE 10.351 6 ...know you one and all, that Constantinople is the natural capital of the globe.
    EdAd 11.383 18 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence...of Rome and Constantinople...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    Let 12.393 2 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day from Brussels to Vienna, from Vienna to Constantinople, it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

constantly, adv. (7)

    PPh 4.70 13 ...[Plato] constantly affirms that virtue cannot be taught;...
    WD 7.184 7 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
    Plu 10.311 3 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    MMEm 10.428 10 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
    HDC 11.78 8 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great.
    Milt1 12.271 5 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties in the defence of liberty...

constants, n. (1)

    ET14 5.241 18 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants...

constellated, v. (1)

    Art1 2.359 21 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...

constellation, n. (10)

    AmS 1.82 6 ...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...
    MN 1.203 8 ...planet, system, constellation, total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    Hist 2.9 13 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it...
    NR 3.240 23 We want the great genius only...for one star more in our constellation...
    PPh 4.40 16 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists! the Alexandrians, a constellation of genius;...
    ShP 4.203 22 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];...
    Civ 7.32 6 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    WD 7.167 13 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman at the rising of what constellation he might safely sow...
    CW 12.175 14 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
    MLit 12.309 15 We go musing into the vault of day and night; no constellation shines...

constellations, n. (6)

    LE 1.158 21 Over [the scholar] stream the flying constellations;...
    Bty 6.304 11 My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise, meteors and constellations.
    Farm 7.142 9 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...rotating its constellations...the farmer is the minder.
    Res 8.139 4 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides.
    CW 12.175 1 Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens, and the chief constellations.
    WSL 12.342 6 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...the old constellations have set...

consternation, n. (4)

    MR 1.229 27 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not, to your consternation almost, quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    NMW 4.252 24 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    Chr2 10.105 11 ...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.
    Carl 10.490 20 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons...

constituencies, n. (3)

    ET18 5.307 2 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament, when their return by large constituencies would have been doubtful.
    Chr2 10.118 14 ...in the new importance of the individual, when... presidents and governors are forced every moment to remember their constituencies;...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    FSLN 11.220 22 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses;...they use the constituencies at home only for their shoes.

constituency, n. (8)

    Chr1 3.91 25 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words...
    UGM 4.11 16 ...the constituency determines the vote of the representative.
    ShP 4.198 24 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
    Elo2 8.133 4 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    PC 8.209 19 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power, and that resting on a vast constituency of intelligent labor...
    EPro 11.320 17 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...
    FRep 11.538 20 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    CInt 12.113 8 ...here in the college we are in the presence of the constituency and the principle [of freedom] itself.

constituent, n. (2)

    LT 1.270 12 The political questions touching...the right of the constituent to instruct the representative;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    ET3 5.36 8 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility...

constituents, n. (6)

    Chr1 3.91 21 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...
    NMW 4.253 7 [Napoleon] had the virtues of the masses of his constituents...
    Elo2 8.123 11 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    EWI 11.133 14 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    FSLC 11.203 4 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
    ALin 11.331 11 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln], and which they had imparted to their colleagues, that they also might justify themselves to their constituents at home, was not rash...

constitute, v. (26)

    LT 1.262 10 ...trees...constitute the hospitality of the landscape...
    LT 1.264 16 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.268 26 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who... compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    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;...
    Mrs1 3.146 21 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
    NER 3.251 5 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.256 27 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    PPh 4.49 27 The words I and mine constitute ignorance.
    SwM 4.107 24 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
    ET5 5.85 14 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.101 23 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET18 5.299 8 ...[the English] constitute the modern world...
    F 6.10 13 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
    Ctr 6.144 4 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.
    Wsp 6.232 16 Life is hardly respectable...if it has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.
    CbW 6.271 17 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...what access to poetry, religion and the powers which constitute character,--he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    SS 7.12 26 Animal spirits constitute the power of the present...
    Boks 7.218 14 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, which constitute the sacred books of Christendom, [the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
    PI 8.32 1 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
    PI 8.50 16 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets (measured lines not being necessary to constitute one) he did not know what poetry meant.
    Supl 10.177 17 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
    HDC 11.28 4 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./
    War 11.163 22 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    AsSu 11.247 6 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state.
    AKan 11.255 3 I regret...the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas, whose narrative was to constitute the interest of this meeting.
    MLit 12.333 23 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.

constituted, adj. (2)

    FRep 11.542 9 The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor.
    PLT 12.37 5 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men...

constituted, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.147 20 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native;...
    MoS 4.172 19 ...neither is [the wise skeptic] fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted;...
    PI 8.32 10 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    HDC 11.46 6 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    FSLC 11.189 11 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life...
    FSLC 11.190 10 I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every technical law library...

constitutes, v. (24)

    Tran 1.344 15 That, indeed, constitutes a new feature in [the Transcendentalists'] portrait, that they are the most exacting and extortionate critics.
    SR 2.70 16 Self-existence...constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms.
    Comp 2.95 12 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    SL 2.145 24 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which in fact constitutes a sort of free-masonry.
    Mrs1 3.131 13 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    Mrs1 3.140 25 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    NER 3.256 12 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men;...
    PPh 4.70 10 This faith in the Divinity...and constitutes the ground of all [Plato's] dogmas.
    PPh 4.70 26 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    GoW 4.281 23 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind...and it constitutes his business and calling in the world to see those facts through...
    F 6.27 19 [Thought] is poured into the souls of all men, as the soul itself which constitutes them men.
    Wth 6.99 26 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
    Bhr 6.193 16 ...it is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
    Bty 6.303 17 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
    Elo1 7.89 6 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    OA 7.329 10 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    QO 8.177 5 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction, which constitutes the main business of their life.
    PC 8.212 1 That cosmical west wind which...constitutes, by the revolution of the globe, the upper current, is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    Chr2 10.91 24 The will constitutes the man.
    Chr2 10.93 19 [the sense of Right and Wrong] is in all men, and constitutes them men.
    Edc1 10.136 10 One fact constitutes all my satisfaction...viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.
    EWI 11.135 26 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives.
    II 12.66 8 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which constitutes sanity;...
    II 12.67 8 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...

constituting, v. (4)

    YA 1.392 26 Would [our youths and maidens] like...a pauperism now constituting one thirteenth of the population?
    Mrs1 3.121 24 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    PerF 10.77 8 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence.
    EdAd 11.388 23 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... constituting a snivelling and despised opposition...and persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

Constitution, American, n. (1)

    Art2 7.39 2 ...from the simplest expedient of private prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

Constitution, British, n. (1)

    Con 1.309 27 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely...that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.

Constitution, English, n. (1)

    CbW 6.253 27 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;-- which is the basis of the English Constitution.

Constitution, Federal, n. (1)

    HDC 11.81 17 The grievances [in Concord] ceased with the adoption of the Federal Constitution.

constitution, n. (128)

    Nat 1.15 4 Such is the constitution of all things...that the primary forms... give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.20 9 ...[man] is entitled to the world by his constitution.
    Nat 1.67 8 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution...
    AmS 1.89 20 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...not as related to nature and the human constitution...
    AmS 1.99 17 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    AmS 1.104 5 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution.
    DSA 1.127 14 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    LE 1.173 18 ...[the scholar] must possess [the world] by putting himself into harmony with the constitution of things.
    LE 1.176 16 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may...bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution.
    MN 1.204 24 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    LT 1.274 19 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    Con 1.295 21 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    Con 1.302 23 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude, but...such a one as the faculties of man and the constitution of things will warrant.
    YA 1.391 6 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
    SR 2.50 27 ...the only right is what is after my constitution;...
    Comp 2.108 11 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which flowed out of his constitution and not from his too active invention;...
    Comp 2.114 13 ...because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
    Comp 2.119 22 [The mob's] actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
    SL 2.140 12 ...that which I call right or goodness, is the choice of my constitution;...
    SL 2.140 14 ...that which I call heaven...is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
    Fdsp 2.202 5 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
    Hsm1 2.261 3 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is a part of my constitution, part of my relation and office to my fellow-creature.
    OS 2.281 18 By the necessity of our constitution a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    Pt1 3.6 3 ...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    Exp 3.54 9 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...
    Exp 3.54 10 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution...
    Mrs1 3.152 14 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...
    Pol1 3.204 6 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    Pol1 3.219 8 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution;...
    NER 3.254 17 Every project in the history of reform...is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    NER 3.276 7 [A man's] constitution will not mislead him.
    UGM 4.16 2 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
    UGM 4.20 10 These [leaders and law-givers]...admit us to the constitution of things.
    UGM 4.23 19 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a monarch who gives a constitution to his people;...
    PPh 4.47 25 Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
    SwM 4.119 7 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw, through some excessive determination to form in his constitution, he saw not abstractly, but in pictures...
    NMW 4.230 10 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
    GoW 4.261 1 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    ET4 5.54 18 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution.
    ET5 5.82 3 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...a working constitution...
    ET6 5.103 18 The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
    ET6 5.103 26 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
    ET8 5.139 5 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution...
    ET18 5.305 18 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.
    F 6.11 12 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet looked on the woman, by...the defect of thought in his constitution.
    F 6.26 13 [The mind] dates from itself; not from...constitution...
    F 6.42 2 The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Pow 6.59 27 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit. 'T is a question of stomach and constitution.
    Pow 6.62 7 ...the rancor of the disease attests the strength of the constitution.
    Wth 6.85 15 [A man] is by constitution expensive...
    Ctr 6.147 17 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Wsp 6.229 13 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest;...
    CbW 6.245 16 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    Bty 6.290 20 It is...health of constitution that makes the sparkle and the power of the eye.
    Ill 6.317 11 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
    Civ 7.22 2 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Art2 7.53 2 The plumage of the bird...has a reaon for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.
    Art2 7.53 16 The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things.
    Art2 7.55 9 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world,--in... the constitution of governments,--the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.69 14 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].
    Elo1 7.78 1 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might...abrogate any constitution in Europe and America.
    DL 7.107 17 It is what is done and suffered in the house, in the constitution...that has the profoundest interest for us.
    WD 7.178 3 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Boks 7.215 27 A person of less courage, that is of less constitution, will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...
    Clbs 7.225 8 ...thought is the native air of the mind, yet pure it is a poison to our mixed constitution...
    Cour 7.270 6 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties...
    Cour 7.275 3 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal;...seeking...to have no other limitation than that which his own constitution imposes.
    Suc 7.283 15 Our political constitution is the hope of the world...
    Suc 7.293 1 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution...
    Suc 7.300 21 The fundamental fact in our metaphysic constitution is the correspondence of man to the world...
    Suc 7.307 20 What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our constitution?...
    OA 7.324 4 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them; such is the affirmative force of the constitution;...
    OA 7.336 4 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution.
    SA 8.84 2 It is the law of our constitution that every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    QO 8.201 10 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...
    PPo 8.247 20 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution to which every morrow is a new day...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.283 1 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself, not only in his constitution...
    Imtl 8.337 1 The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...
    Dem1 10.17 21 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution;...
    Aris 10.43 19 ...the manners betray the like puny constitution.
    Aris 10.46 23 ...the constitution of things has distributed a new quality or talent to each mind...
    PerF 10.73 13 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity.
    Chr2 10.112 1 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    Edc1 10.130 11 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power; learning that in his own constitution he can set the shining maze in order...
    Edc1 10.137 9 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.
    Schr 10.285 1 These questions [of life] speak to Genius, to that power... which proceeds out of the constitution of every man...
    LLNE 10.328 1 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week.
    LLNE 10.354 15 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.
    MMEm 10.408 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first...
    MMEm 10.425 8 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    SlHr 10.444 8 Was it some reserve of constitution...that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    Carl 10.495 15 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution than his humor...
    GSt 10.506 22 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him...wore out prematurely his constitution.
    HDC 11.45 18 [The settlers] were to settle the internal constitution of the towns...
    HDC 11.47 10 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws. The constitution of the towns forbid it.
    HDC 11.69 20 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    HDC 11.70 19 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.
    HDC 11.81 18 The constitution of Massachusetts had been already accepted.
    HDC 11.81 22 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    HDC 11.81 24 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord]...
    HDC 11.82 1 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...
    War 11.152 18 War...perfects the physical constitution...
    War 11.162 26 ...what is true-that is, what is at bottom fit and agreeable to the constitution of man-must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
    War 11.175 3 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.195 16 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave. What kind of legislation is this? What kind of constitution which covers it?
    FSLC 11.197 14 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    FSLC 11.203 22 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his blood and constitution.
    FSLC 11.204 9 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    FSLC 11.204 26 [Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but it means as much from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand. This is all inevitable from his constitution.
    FSLC 11.206 14 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.213 25 It is very certain from the perfect guaranties in the constitution...that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.233 5 You relied on the constitution.
    FSLN 11.236 25 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear: for the constitution of the Universe is on his side.
    TPar 11.286 10 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution.
    ACiv 11.298 7 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise, the constitution of human nature, and calls labor vile...
    ACiv 11.307 13 ...[Emancipation] alters the atomic social constitution of the Southern people.
    EdAd 11.392 15 ...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...
    Wom 11.418 20 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...unhindered by any influence of constitution.
    PLT 12.6 6 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is.
    PLT 12.28 12 Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
    PLT 12.52 4 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    PLT 12.54 26 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution.
    II 12.85 8 Every constitution has its own health and diseases.
    II 12.85 9 A new constitution, a new fever, say the physicians.
    CInt 12.123 26 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
    CL 12.141 17 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    MAng1 12.219 25 The symptoms disclose the constitution to the physician;...
    PPr 12.386 1 [Carlyle's] humors are expressed with so much force of constitution that his fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.

Constitution, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.211 12 It is said that in our license of construing the Constitution... we have no anchor;...
    Res 8.142 15 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.
    FSLN 11.236 22 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no Constitution but his dealing well and justly with his neighbor;...then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    FRep 11.540 14 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    Bost 12.209 27 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her sailors will man the Constitution;...

Constitution of Man [George (1)

    LLNE 10.339 1 The popularity of Combe's Constitution of Man;...was all on the side of the people.

Constitution of the United (2)

    HDC 11.82 5 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States...
    EWI 11.131 10 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.

constitutional, adj. (22)

    Exp 3.81 4 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
    NR 3.228 23 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine! how constitutional to thee, and incommunicable!
    NER 3.284 27 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
    MoS 4.177 15 What can I do against hereditary and constitutional habits;...
    ET4 5.70 5 [The English] have more constitutional energy than any other people.
    ET5 5.81 7 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.
    ET8 5.132 1 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough;...
    ET12 5.211 6 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    ET14 5.232 18 [The English] ask their constitutional utility in verse.
    Pow 6.55 1 We must reckon success a constitutional trait.
    Pow 6.71 20 We say that success is constitutional;...
    Farm 7.154 6 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence.
    Clbs 7.236 25 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is...a constitutional value for a thought or opinion, among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    Cour 7.266 6 ...there is no separate essence called courage...but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
    PI 8.47 8 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    Grts 8.307 11 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Swedenborg called it the proprium,-not a thought shared with others, but constitutional to the man.
    Aris 10.36 11 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities.
    Chr2 10.102 15 Character denotes...habitual regard to interior and constitutional motives...
    Prch 10.225 16 ...[the moral sentiment] is so near and inward and constitutional to each, that no commandment can compare with it in authority.
    CSC 10.375 25 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    EdAd 11.385 23 What more serious calamity can befall a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
    CW 12.178 26 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each, that which is constitutional to him only.

constitutionally, adv. (3)

    Chr1 3.106 8 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized. How cloistered and constitutionally sequestered from the market and from scandal!
    ET10 5.166 20 The English are so rich...because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    FSLC 11.183 5 ...you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.

constitutionals, n. (1)

    CL 12.141 26 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...or, taking their famed constitutionals...

constitutions, n. (12)

    AmS 1.86 11 The ambitious soul...one after another reduces all strange consitutions...
    MN 1.207 17 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    ET12 5.207 21 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
    Ctr 6.132 23 [Egotism] is a disease that like influenza falls on all constitutions.
    SS 7.6 1 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    SS 7.13 4 ...this genial heat [of animal spirits] is latent in all constitutions...
    Farm 7.141 21 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who, heedless of laws and constitutions, stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    LLNE 10.361 19 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time, and came forth some of them perhaps with shattered constitutions.
    FSLC 11.184 11 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLN 11.232 27 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    FSLN 11.234 16 These things show that no forms, neither constitutions, nor laws, nor covenants...are of any use in themselves.
    ACiv 11.298 2 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and goverments exist for that,-to protect and insure it to the laborer.

constrain, v. (5)

    OS 2.292 9 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity...
    MoS 4.167 13 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...old friends who do not constrain me...the most suitable.
    Ctr 6.162 13 Fear not a revolution which will constrain you to live five years in one.
    Bty 6.298 20 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    DL 7.114 12 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the wants of each day...constrain us to a continual vigilance lest we be betrayed into expense?

constrained, v. (13)

    DSA 1.119 18 One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse.
    MN 1.204 24 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    Tran 1.331 6 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Tran 1.333 17 ...[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Hist 2.22 5 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
    SL 2.155 26 By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.
    Fdsp 2.203 17 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing...
    OS 2.268 7 I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
    OS 2.296 4 The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
    Pol1 3.218 7 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    Bhr 6.189 21 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...
    SS 7.6 22 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    EWI 11.110 5 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...

constrains, v. (3)

    Comp 2.126 23 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances...
    OS 2.267 5 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    OS 2.269 1 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which...constrains every one to pass for what he is...

constraint, n. (4)

    ET8 5.142 23 [The English]...can direct and fill their own day, nor need so much as others the constraint of a necessity.
    Wth 6.104 9 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, which all need;...
    SS 7.14 18 ...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.
    Milt1 12.271 1 Toland tells us...[Milton] thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...

constraints, n. (1)

    Art1 2.360 20 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the narrow lodging where [the artist] has endured the constraints and seeming of a city poverty, will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.

constrast, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 13 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.

constrictor, boa, n. (1)

    PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.

construct, v. (7)

    MR 1.250 20 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    Cir 2.317 24 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Nat2 3.184 6 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    NER 3.261 1 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
    Bty 6.282 15 Chemistry takes to pieces, but it does not construct.
    Suc 7.284 18 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The gun-carriages I know how to construct.
    Bost 12.185 21 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.

constructed, v. (15)

    SwM 4.119 9 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw...he saw not abstractly, but in pictures, heard it in dialogues, constructed it in events.
    ShP 4.196 2 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ET6 5.114 1 The English dinner is precisely the model on which our own are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
    ET10 5.157 22 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.157 26 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed...
    Wsp 6.204 11 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Clbs 7.242 24 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Clbs 7.243 4 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her hotel with a view to society...
    QO 8.181 26 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...
    PC 8.215 2 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    Plu 10.296 21 M. Octave Greard...has...constructed from the works of Plutarch himself his true biography.
    MAng1 12.224 7 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato...
    MAng1 12.225 19 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
    MAng1 12.227 4 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the platform could be constructed in no other way..
    MAng1 12.227 6 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...

constructing, v. (1)

    WD 7.164 26 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.

construction, n. (18)

    YA 1.363 12 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    Comp 2.115 4 Human labor...from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Int 2.325 10 Intellect is the simple power anterior to all action or construction.
    Int 2.338 24 ...some of the conditions of intellectual construction are of rare occurrence.
    Art1 2.366 26 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him...in sound, or in lyrical construction;...
    NR 3.226 2 We are greatly too liberal in our construction of each other's faculty and promise.
    SwM 4.143 18 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    ET4 5.67 8 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine perception and poetic construction.
    ET5 5.94 1 A proof of the energy of the British people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.
    ET14 5.236 1 The ardor and endurance of [English] study, the boldness and facility of their mental construction...astonish...
    Wth 6.121 22 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...
    Bty 6.290 11 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Art2 7.39 27 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself;...
    Supl 10.178 22 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson, in order to the construction of locomotives.
    LLNE 10.347 8 [Robert Owen's] charitable construction of men and their actions was invariable.
    LVB 11.89 18 ...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.
    EPro 11.317 19 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction.
    MLit 12.310 7 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light. That is not in their grammatical construction which they give me.

constructionist, n. (1)

    JBB 11.268 26 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country. There is a Unionist, there is a strict constructionist for you.

constructions, n. (1)

    ET4 5.44 3 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are pliant political constructions...

constructive, adj. (15)

    Hist 2.37 18 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    Int 2.325 9 Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect constructive.
    Int 2.334 24 In the intellect constructive...we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    Int 2.334 27 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    Int 2.338 5 The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Int 2.341 13 ...the constructive powers are rare...
    UGM 4.7 15 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic...
    MoS 4.171 1 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive;...
    ET13 5.226 3 ...[the religious element] is in its nature constructive...
    ET14 5.259 22 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone...
    F 6.17 26 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...
    Comc 8.161 25 Wherever the intellect is constructive, [a perception of the Comic] will be found.
    Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    PLT 12.47 4 There is a meter which determines the constructive power of man...
    PLT 12.49 11 I have spoken of Intellect constructive.

constructor, n. (1)

    PC 8.219 26 McKay, the shipbuilder, thinks of George Steers; and Steers, of Pook, the naval constructor.

constructs, v. (2)

    ShP 4.195 27 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    Farm 7.141 6 He who...constructs a stone fountain...makes a fortune... which is useful to his country long afterwards.

construed, v. (1)

    Res 8.142 16 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.

construing, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.211 12 It is said that in our license of construing the Constitution... we have no anchor;...

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