Cuba to Czars

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

Cuba, n. (11)

    MR 1.232 3 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
    Chr1 3.95 2 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
    Nat2 3.169 9 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
    UGM 4.22 3 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little...of Carolina or Cuba, but who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    Civ 7.31 25 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
    Farm 7.148 20 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...and makes a little Cuba within it...
    FSLC 11.207 13 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba...
    FSLN 11.230 27 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had...
    AKan 11.259 23 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.

cube, n. (4)

    Tran 1.331 24 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last, not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    ET16 5.284 18 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube...
    ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube...
    Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as large as Italy.

cube, v. (1)

    PC 8.225 26 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...and you have organized victory.

cubes, n. (5)

    PI 8.4 20 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.4 21 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should not find cubes, or prisms, or atoms, at all, but spherules of force.
    CPL 11.505 27 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun, that the squares of the times vary as the cubes of the distances.
    WSL 12.349 6 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
    EurB 12.366 15 ...[the poet's] verses must be spheres and cubes...

cubic, adj. (8)

    Tran 1.332 6 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space...
    ET8 5.133 26 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
    F 6.34 2 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely, cubic miles of earth...
    Civ 7.32 23 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue and in the symmetry and force of their qualities,--I see what cubic values America has...
    Cour 7.254 15 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician, penetrating the cubic weights of stars, predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Suc 7.299 26 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water?...
    Edc1 10.130 22 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    LLNE 10.366 1 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.

cubit, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.

cubits, n. (1)

    ET9 5.150 19 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...

cuckoo, n. (1)

    OS 2.265 4 ...Yonder masterful cuckoo/ Crowds every egg out of the nest,/ Quick or dead, except its own;/...

cuckoo-clock, n. (1)

    Res 8.148 22 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the cuckoo-clock, the stereoscope...

cucumbers, n. (2)

    Wth 6.108 2 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him.
    MoL 10.246 16 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers...

Cudworth, Ralph, n. (6)

    PPh 4.40 19 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More...Ralph Cudworth...
    ET14 5.238 18 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Norris, Cudworth, Berkeley...
    Dem1 10.24 8 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are exhilarated...
    Prch 10.227 20 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan.
    Plu 10.296 14 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be...read by Bacon, Dryden and Cudworth.
    LS 11.4 12 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God; Cudworth and Warburton, that this was not a sacrifice but a sacrificial feast;...

Cudworths, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 18 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of...the Cudworths...who give us the story of men or of opinions.

Cudworth's, Ralph, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.201 6 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.

culinary, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.118 22 ...Swedenborg was not content with the culinary use of the world.
    LLNE 10.329 17 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...

cull, v. (2)

    OS 2.290 13 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    Plu 10.310 7 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.

Culloden Moor, Scotland, B (1)

    ET11 5.189 4 Scotland was a camp until the day of Culloden.

culminated, v. (6)

    ET3 5.37 12 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years; and hence the impression that the British power has culminated...
    ET5 5.74 18 The Roman came [to England], but in the very day when his fortune culminated.
    Pow 6.71 15 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Elo2 8.131 22 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis, when all the genius ran in that direction, until it culminated in Shakspeare;...
    QO 8.177 16 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    Milt1 12.255 20 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].

culminates, v. (3)

    DL 7.123 24 [Every man] observes the swiftness with which life culminates...
    WD 7.178 23 Life culminates and concentrates;...
    II 12.70 6 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith; it culminates low...

culminating, adj. (1)

    SS 7.6 8 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...

culminating, v. (3)

    DL 7.126 22 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment...
    Elo2 8.131 24 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending.
    Chr2 10.111 5 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is not culminating...

culmination, n. (6)

    YA 1.370 15 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    PPh 4.47 3 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health, the culmination of power.
    ET10 5.169 1 In the culmination of national prosperity...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET16 5.285 22 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England...
    ALin 11.330 24 Mr. Seward, then in the culmination of his good fame, was the favorite of the Eastern States.
    FRep 11.515 20 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity...is the planting of America.

culpable, adj. (3)

    ET4 5.49 14 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...and make the national life a culpable compromise.
    Elo1 7.73 14 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    WSL 12.338 24 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes are by no means culpable...

culprit, n. (5)

    Grts 8.315 9 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    SovE 10.187 21 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 23 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.187 24 Every judge is a culprit, every law an abuse.
    FSLN 11.241 19 We should not forgive...the Bench, if it put itself on the side of the culprit;...

cultivable, adj. (1)

    PNR 4.81 11 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass...before the map of the instincts and cultivable powers can be drawn.

cultivate, v. (8)

    YA 1.366 12 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.367 21 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts...
    ET1 5.20 26 [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....
    ET8 5.129 8 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits...
    ET10 5.155 1 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    ET16 5.283 27 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain]...
    Farm 7.152 14 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
    SovE 10.190 12 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.

cultivated, adj. (56)

    LE 1.166 6 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits...admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    LT 1.282 12 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...
    SR 2.56 13 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    SR 2.88 1 ...a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...
    Comp 2.112 1 ...our cultivated classes are timid.
    Prd1 2.223 26 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants. Cultivated men always feel and speak so...
    Prd1 2.224 7 If a man...immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
    OS 2.290 12 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    Mrs1 3.143 15 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Pol1 3.210 16 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
    PPh 4.73 1 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    ShP 4.204 20 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
    ShP 4.215 8 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses;...
    NMW 4.223 6 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    NMW 4.253 20 The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    ET11 5.194 8 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen]...
    ET11 5.198 8 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence. That cultivated class is large and ever enlarging.
    ET12 5.205 23 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
    ET12 5.212 8 ...the great number of cultivated men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
    ET17 5.291 15 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    Pow 6.53 24 A cultivated man...is the end to which nature works...
    Wth 6.99 21 Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
    Ctr 6.149 21 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.158 6 As soon as [the poet] sides with his critic against himself, with joy, he is a cultivated man.
    Wsp 6.213 5 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Bty 6.293 3 ...a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.
    SS 7.11 9 Society cannot do without cultivated men.
    Clbs 7.242 17 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    PI 8.57 9 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    SA 8.79 20 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.93 21 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...
    PC 8.219 3 ...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
    PC 8.220 27 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    PC 8.234 5 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.255 2 ...the cultivated Persians know [Hafiz's] poems by heart.
    Grts 8.314 6 Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
    Imtl 8.324 2 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Aris 10.65 22 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses only the outsides of cultivated men...
    SovE 10.209 2 ...Stoicism, always attractive to the intellectual and cultivated, has now no temples...
    Prch 10.217 21 ...it appears...as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    LLNE 10.340 13 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    CSC 10.375 10 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated persons attended its councils.
    Thor 10.454 25 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    War 11.156 11 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    War 11.171 5 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    FSLN 11.229 14 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away with our brains...
    FSLN 11.230 5 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    Wom 11.408 22 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization...
    Wom 11.419 25 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    SHC 11.431 24 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    SHC 11.432 18 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    Shak1 11.448 20 He is a cultivated man-who can tell us something new of Shakspeare.
    Mem 12.102 1 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...
    Milt1 12.253 20 ...no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    EurB 12.376 14 [Wilhelm Meister] gave the hint of a cultivated society which we found nowhere else.
    Let 12.394 2 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

cultivated, v. (10)

    YA 1.368 23 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.
    Mrs1 3.127 12 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
    SwM 4.93 4 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not cultivated corn, nor made bread;...
    Ctr 6.157 23 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies...
    Ill 6.314 14 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear, and only cultivated such as had that perfume;...
    Civ 7.34 18 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free;...
    Clbs 7.245 7 There are people who cannot well be cultivated;...
    SA 8.97 4 ...there are people who cannot be cultivated...
    LLNE 10.364 23 The art of letter-writing, it is said, was immensely cultivated [at Brook Farm].
    EurB 12.372 19 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation.

cultivation, n. (14)

    SR 2.83 8 Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;...
    Hsm1 2.259 11 ...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
    Pt1 3.3 8 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local...
    Pt1 3.15 17 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]?
    Mrs1 3.122 6 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
    Mrs1 3.128 11 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...means of cultivation and generosity...
    Pol1 3.200 14 ...the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
    Pol1 3.216 2 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
    ET17 5.296 7 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    LLNE 10.360 20 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
    War 11.166 25 War and peace thus resolve themselves into a mercury of the state of cultivation.
    War 11.168 25 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    ACiv 11.304 22 We are advanced some ages on the war-state,-to trade, art and general cultivation.
    Let 12.403 13 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;...

cultivator, n. (1)

    CL 12.135 13 ...[the land] will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.

culture, n. (204)

    Nat 1.38 7 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
    Nat 1.49 7 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Nat 1.50 10 Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture.
    Nat 1.57 27 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.59 5 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    Nat 1.59 15 Culture inverts the vulgar view of nature...
    Nat 1.59 21 ...with culture this faith [that the external world is appearance] will as surely arise on the mind as did the first.
    AmS 1.99 25 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
    DSA 1.136 8 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
    DSA 1.142 5 ...for want of this culture the soul of the community is sick and faithless.
    LE 1.156 17 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect.
    LE 1.160 22 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    MR 1.236 18 A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture.
    Con 1.313 7 Who put things on this false basis? ... No man voluntarily and knowingly; but it is the result of that degree of culture there is in the planet.
    Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...up to the present high culture of the best nations, has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.317 18 All this costly culture of yours is not necessary.
    Tran 1.330 2 ...the idealist [insists]...on individual culture.
    YA 1.363 2 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another.
    YA 1.365 25 The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.
    YA 1.368 15 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...
    YA 1.369 1 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock and the best culture...
    YA 1.369 27 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have...imbibed easily an European culture.
    YA 1.381 7 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
    SR 2.50 3 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    Comp 2.100 26 Under the primeval despots of Egypt...man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    Prd1 2.223 19 ...culture...degrades every thing else...into means.
    Hsm1 2.249 19 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation. Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man.
    Hsm1 2.262 8 More freedom exists for culture.
    Cir 2.302 5 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions.
    Cir 2.310 11 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.
    Int 2.330 23 Every man, in the degree in which he has wit and culture, finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Int 2.331 4 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
    Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Art1 2.360 13 [The artist] need not cumber himself with a conventional nature and culture...
    Exp 3.59 4 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree. So does culture with us; it ends in headache.
    Pol1 3.201 16 The history of the State...follows at a distance the delicacy of culture and of aspiration.
    Pol1 3.204 12 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the highest end of government is the culture of men;...
    NR 3.225 15 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    NR 3.232 16 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.
    NER 3.256 25 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    NER 3.258 20 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.264 7 [The new communities] aim...to unite a liberal culture with an education to labor.
    NER 3.269 11 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    UGM 4.34 12 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky. Then we drew near, saw their means, culture and limits;...
    PPh 4.39 5 [Plato's] sentences contain the culture of nations;...
    PPh 4.44 17 ...in proportion to the culture of men they become [Plato's] scholars;...
    PPh 4.46 2 As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.51 23 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...caste; the other, culture...
    PPh 4.52 18 ...[Europe] resists caste by culture;...
    PPh 4.62 13 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe, namely, culture, returns;...
    SwM 4.142 8 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    MoS 4.158 22 Culture, how indispensable!...
    MoS 4.158 24 ...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness.
    MoS 4.158 26 Excellent is culture for a savage;...
    MoS 4.179 19 ...all the ways of culture and greatness lead to solitary imprisonment.
    GoW 4.270 16 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture has spread itself...
    GoW 4.284 10 [Goethe's] is not even the devotion to pure truth; but to truth for the sake of culture.
    GoW 4.284 19 [Goethe] is the type of culture, the amateur of all arts and sciences and events;...
    GoW 4.285 7 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
    GoW 4.285 26 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea... that a man exists for culture;...
    GoW 4.288 26 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
    ET1 5.19 18 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET3 5.35 22 The culture of the day, the thoughts and aims of men, are English thoughts and aims.
    ET4 5.55 15 [The Celts] had...priestly culture and a sublime creed.
    ET5 5.94 16 [England] is too far north for the culture of the vine, but the wines of all countries are in its docks.
    ET6 5.108 12 England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world.
    ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...
    ET9 5.149 2 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...
    ET10 5.162 8 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of [the duke's] children.
    ET10 5.167 20 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy is care and culture of men;...
    ET12 5.207 7 The English nature takes culture kindly.
    ET12 5.208 2 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET13 5.215 18 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
    ET13 5.217 27 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
    ET14 5.251 5 ...if, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture, there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    ET16 5.275 8 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of...confronting Englishmen and acquiring their culture...
    ET17 5.296 15 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
    ET18 5.304 27 [English] culture is not an outside varnish...
    F 6.20 9 If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
    Wth 6.89 5 Wealth requires...the best culture and the best company.
    Wth 6.96 7 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of Roman Caesars...or whatever great proprietors.
    Wth 6.99 15 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Ctr 6.131 4 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.131 8 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent...
    Ctr 6.134 14 This individuality is not only not inconsistent with culture, but is the basis of it.
    Ctr 6.134 17 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit invincible by his culture...
    Ctr 6.134 21 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid!...
    Ctr 6.136 27 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    Ctr 6.137 5 Culture redresses [a man's] balance...
    Ctr 6.137 19 Culture kills [man's] exaggeration...
    Ctr 6.141 8 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Ctr 6.141 22 Books...must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Ctr 6.150 5 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.
    Ctr 6.155 3 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    Ctr 6.157 12 ...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his public than in his private quality.
    Ctr 6.159 10 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Ctr 6.159 25 A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture...
    Ctr 6.160 16 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence, or of politics...
    Ctr 6.161 20 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients.
    Ctr 6.164 13 ...culture cannot begin too early.
    Ctr 6.166 7 Man's culture can spare nothing...
    Ctr 6.166 17 ...at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna.
    Bhr 6.171 13 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    Bhr 6.176 10 ...there must be capacity for culture in the blood.
    Bhr 6.176 11 ...there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain.
    Bhr 6.176 24 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    Bhr 6.190 27 In this country...we have a superficial culture...
    Bhr 6.197 4 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Bhr 6.197 8 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down.
    Wsp 6.204 21 In the last chapters we treated some particulars of the question of culture.
    Wsp 6.204 22 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture;...
    Wsp 6.206 2 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture...
    Wsp 6.210 10 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.218 21 Our recent culture has been in natural science.
    CbW 6.260 4 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
    CbW 6.262 14 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use...
    CbW 6.266 21 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    CbW 6.278 2 Fancy prices are paid for position and for the culture of talent...
    CbW 6.278 16 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...
    Bty 6.294 23 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Bty 6.306 11 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...
    SS 7.6 11 To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is indispensable;...
    Civ 7.17 22 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill/...
    Civ 7.24 9 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...
    Civ 7.34 20 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
    Art2 7.48 20 The artist who is to produce a work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself...
    DL 7.113 15 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded...of genial culture and the inmost presence of beauty.
    DL 7.117 14 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    DL 7.118 20 Let a man...say, My house is here in the county, for the culture of the county;...
    WD 7.164 1 No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    Boks 7.191 7 [Books] become the organic culture of the time.
    Boks 7.194 12 ...whole nations have derived their culture from a single book...
    Clbs 7.244 25 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Clbs 7.249 24 Every man brings into society some partial thought and local culture.
    SA 8.81 13 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    SA 8.97 10 ...there are people...who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishness is the only culture;...
    SA 8.101 15 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...a certain external culture and good taste;...
    SA 8.104 18 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture...
    QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    PC 8.215 19 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    PC 8.217 8 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...and under this view the problem of culture assumes wonderful interest.
    PC 8.217 9 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers;...
    PC 8.217 11 Culture alters the political status of an individual.
    PC 8.220 7 All [the true student's] own work and culture form the eye to see the master.
    PC 8.228 9 The foundation of culture...is at last the moral sentiment.
    PC 8.234 9 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Aris 10.32 3 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture;...
    Aris 10.34 14 ...if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.38 8 From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.
    Aris 10.53 15 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
    Aris 10.56 23 It is a measure of culture, the number of things taken for granted.
    Aris 10.59 20 A grand style of culture...does not exist...
    Chr2 10.112 21 ...the mind of our culture has already left our liturgies behind.
    Edc1 10.134 19 Our culture has truckled to the times...
    Edc1 10.142 23 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him...
    Edc1 10.154 8 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    SovE 10.207 27 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    MoL 10.242 27 ...the bribe came to men of intellectual culture,-Come, drudge in our mill.
    Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
    LLNE 10.350 15 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture...
    LLNE 10.360 11 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    LLNE 10.369 1 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    LLNE 10.369 7 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters, with men and women of rare opportunities and delicate culture...
    LLNE 10.370 3 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal, and with broad foundation of culture...
    Thor 10.464 27 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and, though insensible to some fine traits of culture, could very well report his weight and calibre.
    Thor 10.471 27 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
    EWI 11.102 23 The prizes of society...the privileges...of culture, of religion...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.122 9 Our culture is very cheap and intelligible.
    EWI 11.141 2 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    War 11.152 16 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it...does actively forward the culture of man.
    War 11.156 3 In some parts of this country, where the intellectual and moral faculties have as yet scarcely any culture, the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
    FSLC 11.180 14 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.185 17 The learning of the universities, the culture of elegant society...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy.]
    FSLN 11.229 16 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation...the principles of culture and progress did not exist.
    FSLN 11.236 3 ...we are in this world for culture...
    EPro 11.315 15 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in rare conditions, as if awaiting a culture of the race which shall make it organic and permanent.
    HCom 11.343 4 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    Shak1 11.448 20 [Shakespeare] is our metre of culture.
    Scot 11.464 12 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
    FRO1 11.479 20 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the wealth of culture...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    CPL 11.495 17 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture...
    CPL 11.496 8 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now; and whilst it secures a new and needed culture to our citizens...
    CPL 11.497 24 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.
    CPL 11.507 14 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that it may take the place in your culture it does in theirs...
    CPL 11.507 18 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it more or less emphasis than they do. Yet the strong character does not need this sameness of culture.
    PLT 12.37 14 'T is the barbarian instinct within us which culture deadens.
    PLT 12.62 17 The height of culture, the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
    II 12.71 20 [Our companion] exhibits an exotic culture, as if he had his education in another planet.
    CL 12.145 1 The privilege of the countryman is the culture of the land...
    CL 12.166 16 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found, with beauty, culture and sensibility, answers our purpose still better.
    Bost 12.193 15 [The Massachusetts colonists] had a culture of their own.
    Bost 12.194 6 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.194 6 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture- not so much a culture as a higher life-they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.195 7 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...
    Bost 12.195 8 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England; first, namely, the culture of the intellect...
    Bost 12.197 11 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    Bost 12.198 10 ...no culture of the taste...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    ACri 12.295 11 Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation for vast periods.
    MLit 12.309 2 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    MLit 12.330 21 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat.
    EurB 12.365 18 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe...
    EurB 12.373 6 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    EurB 12.374 3 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Let 12.402 7 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.

Culture, n. (6)

    AmS 1.107 21 This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
    PPh 4.64 17 ...full of the genius of Europe, [Plato] said, Culture.
    PPh 4.65 25 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    PPh 4.67 23 [Plato] said, Culture; he said, Nature; and he failed not to add, There is also the divine.
    Pow 6.80 14 I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and Worship.
    Ctr 6.131 2 The word of ambition at the present day is Culture.

Culture, Prospects of, n. (1)

    Let 12.394 1 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

cultures, n. (1)

    Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.

cultus, n. (3)

    ET13 5.214 17 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported;...
    SovE 10.209 6 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus...
    EdAd 11.392 7 The Jewish cultus is declining;...

Cultus, n. (2)

    DSA 1.128 10 As the Cultus...of the civilized world, [the Christian church] has great historical interest for us.
    DSA 1.150 1 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.

Cuma, Italy, n. (1)

    ET10 5.165 6 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry, solid as the walls of Cuma...

cumber, v. (8)

    Tran 1.334 23 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    Fdsp 2.216 10 Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver [of friendship] is not capacious?
    Art1 2.360 12 [The artist] need not cumber himself with a conventional nature and culture...
    MoS 4.151 14 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    DL 7.118 23 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    PI 8.34 27 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity...
    PPo 8.256 19 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./
    II 12.75 19 ...your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip...and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality. You will do as you can. Why then cumber yourself about it...

cumbered, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.256 19 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
    Thor 10.462 25 [Thoreau] lived for the day, not cumbered and mortified by his memory.

Cumberland, England, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 17 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland...

cumbers, v. (1)

    SR 2.49 5 [The boy] cumbers himself never about consequences...

cumbersome, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.197 24 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome.

cumbrous, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.55 27 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...
    YA 1.380 3 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.

Cumings, n. (1)

    HDC 11.85 23 Why need I remind you of our own...Cumings, Barretts, Beattons, the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon, n (1)

    ET4 5.71 4 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as...Herbert, Maxwell, Cumming...

cumulative, adj. (10)

    LE 1.160 22 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    Con 1.301 7 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Hist 2.22 18 ...the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the present day.
    SR 2.59 18 The force of character is cumulative.
    SR 2.83 8 Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;...
    Civ 7.20 13 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret of cumulative power...
    Farm 7.152 22 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect.
    OA 7.320 25 Life and art are cumulative;...
    OA 7.326 14 Every one is sensible of this cumulative advantage in living.
    PI 8.54 22 [Poetry] is cumulative also;...

Cunedda [Taleissin], n. (1)

    PI 8.58 26 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.

cunning, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.26 19 ...a cunning man is a fox...
    LT 1.262 11 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    Con 1.315 16 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with cunning sculpture...about you?
    Con 1.316 12 ...there is a cunning juggle in riches.
    Con 1.319 19 ...leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box;...
    Int 2.337 18 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    Art1 2.352 13 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
    GoW 4.273 22 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life, the old cunning Proteus, nestling close beside us...
    ET18 5.302 25 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what cunning workmen...
    F 6.36 21 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    F 6.47 26 ...by the cunning co-presence of two elements...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    Pow 6.82 2 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
    Wsp 6.225 4 Here is a low political economy...by cunning tariffs giving preference to worse wares of ours.
    Clbs 7.246 23 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning artisans of his craft;...
    Cour 7.254 14 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Elo2 8.120 20 Every one of us has at some time been the victim of a well-toned and cunning voice...
    PPo 8.236 9 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and ages overheard/...
    Edc1 10.134 10 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a cunning artificer...society has need of all these.
    EdAd 11.384 27 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery...
    Wom 11.425 13 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write...the cunning clauses of provision...
    PPr 12.385 5 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...these cunning thrusts, this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

cunning, n. (12)

    MR 1.241 9 ...he only can become a master, who...by real cunning extorts from nature its sceptre.
    Comp 2.112 20 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares...
    Pol1 3.208 7 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    GoW 4.267 18 ...in actions of cunning...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    ET7 5.117 3 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...
    DL 7.104 20 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.
    PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Daedalus, cunning;...
    SovE 10.188 2 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
    Schr 10.279 26 What is the use of strength or cunning or beauty...to a maniac?
    Schr 10.280 4 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and money.
    FRep 11.531 5 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus; not union or justice, but selfishness and cunning.
    Milt1 12.261 13 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...

cunninger, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.82 7 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger...

cunningest, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.124 22 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    ET10 5.164 12 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    Elo1 7.86 25 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the commonwealth.

cunningly, adv. (8)

    Lov1 2.186 22 All that is in the world, which is or ought to be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man, of woman...
    Pol1 3.205 11 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...
    NER 3.269 3 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners. So have we cunningly hid the tragedy of limitation and inner death we cannot avert.
    Wth 6.86 17 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then he cunningly screws on the steam-pipe to the wheat-crop.
    Bty 6.296 17 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm...
    PC 8.224 24 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
    Imtl 8.345 14 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly.
    PerF 10.74 15 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...

cup, n. (30)

    Nat 1.33 20 ...'T is hard to carry a full cup even;...
    MN 1.213 6 ...man must be on his guard against this cup of enchantments...
    SR 2.71 18 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
    Cir 2.311 11 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning...of cup and saucer...is manifest.
    Exp 3.45 10 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Nat2 3.180 23 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    Nat2 3.181 27 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
    NR 3.238 14 ...[Nature] has hellebore at the bottom of the cup.
    SwM 4.128 12 I know how delicious is this cup of love...
    SwM 4.130 19 It is hard to carry a full cup;...
    MoS 4.184 12 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it.
    ET16 5.280 17 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea.
    ET16 5.282 11 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
    ET16 5.282 13 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    F 6.41 14 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Art2 7.55 3 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
    Art2 7.55 6 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
    WD 7.172 11 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    Cour 7.266 2 ...there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain...that make or give this virtue;...
    OA 7.319 4 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue...
    Res 8.146 13 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
    PPo 8.256 8 Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven/ Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?/
    Schr 10.264 15 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered...by the depth of his draughts of the cup of immortality.
    MMEm 10.426 20 Number the waste places of the journey...the bitter dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    LS 11.3 19 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.
    LS 11.9 14 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all.
    JBS 11.281 3 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.
    Wom 11.408 24 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us,-a cup for gods, which has no repentance.
    CPL 11.502 14 [Thought] cannot be contained in any cup...
    MLit 12.325 6 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...

cupbearer, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 14 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.

cupboard, n. (1)

    Nat 1.69 8 The whole is either our cupboard of food,/ Or cabinet of pleasure./

Cupid, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.18 21 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as...blindness to Cupid, and the like,--to signify exuberances.
    Bty 6.289 14 ...the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes.
    Bty 6.289 20 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    Suc 7.303 20 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as...Eros in the Greek, or Cupid in the Latin heaven.

cupidity, n. (2)

    ET16 5.282 23 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    Pow 6.63 6 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...to represent its wrath and cupidity at Washington,--let these drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.

Cupids, n. (1)

    Art1 2.366 4 The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

cupola, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.231 5 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
    MAng1 12.232 1 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.

cups, n. (3)

    SS 7.1 1 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl/...
    Boks 7.200 19 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
    Aris 10.43 21 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture...

curable, adj. (1)

    PI 8.33 6 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/ and again,--They heal their griefs, for curable are the hearts of the noble./

curates, n. (2)

    ET13 5.217 13 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England],--prelates for the rich and curates for the poor,--with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.226 23 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid.

curative, adj. (3)

    ET14 5.258 14 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action...
    Wsp 6.232 23 A high aim is curative, as well as arnica.
    CL 12.159 19 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse...

curbstone, n. (2)

    F 6.43 7 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought; two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.
    Insp 8.288 26 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.

curculios, n. (1)

    F 6.45 22 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms;...

curdling, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.190 25 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men...

cure, n. (11)

    SL 2.132 19 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
    MoS 4.182 5 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad. You must begin your cure lower down.
    ET10 5.170 4 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires a deeper cure...
    Wsp 6.214 22 The cure for false theology is mother-wit.
    Wsp 6.218 2 ...the cure of blindness...is love.
    Wsp 6.218 3 ...the cure of crime, is love.
    SA 8.106 8 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist.
    Prch 10.232 15 ...there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Prch 10.235 17 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is not so much the enjoining of this or that cure...
    AKan 11.261 25 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;-and if that be Government, extirpation is the only cure.
    Mem 12.106 23 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory.

cure, v. (13)

    Nat 1.54 10 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
    Nat 1.69 2 Herbs gladly cure our flesh.../
    Nat2 3.195 11 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied, a present sanity to expose and cure the insanity of men.
    Bhr 6.173 18 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions which the magistrate cannot cure or defend you from...
    CbW 6.243 23 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    Elo1 7.63 26 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
    SA 8.105 25 Cure the drunkard...but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
    PPo 8.257 10 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    Insp 8.280 3 Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    EdAd 11.389 18 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
    II 12.66 17 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of...
    CL 12.142 3 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    Let 12.404 8 ...every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.

cured, v. (10)

    Comp 2.118 3 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...is cured of the insanity of conceit;...
    Pt1 3.30 27 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    Nat2 3.191 5 ...wealth was good as it...cured the smoky chimney...
    GoW 4.265 17 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.
    Wth 6.115 1 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming...could be united.
    Ctr 6.165 6 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Wsp 6.214 20 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds...
    CbW 6.266 3 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    Farm 7.138 14 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land, to be recruited and cured by that which should have been my nursury...
    CL 12.138 10 [Linnaeus] found that the gout...was cured by wood-strawberries.

cures, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.340 10 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of mortality better...

Curfew, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.157 25 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock...
    Ctr 6.158 3 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.

Curfew, Mr., n. (1)

    Ctr 6.157 25 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock...

Curfew, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.157 27 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    Ctr 6.158 2 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.

curing, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.182 22 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to...give to each all help and comfort in curing [blemishes and hindrances].
    Farm 7.142 12 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe... bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.

curings, n. (1)

    Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.

curiosities, n. (5)

    Art1 2.357 20 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye, its training to the niceties and curiosities of its function.
    ShP 4.212 26 ...no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is [Shakespeare]...
    ET11 5.195 14 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
    Boks 7.209 20 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
    Plu 10.309 22 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.

curiosity, n. (60)

    Nat 1.3 23 ...whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.8 3 Neither does the wisest man...lose his curiosity by finding out all [nature's] perfection.
    DSA 1.120 12 What am I? and What is? asks the human spirit with a curiosity new-kindled...
    Tran 1.344 3 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    Hist 2.11 5 ...all curiosity respecting the Pyramids...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    Hist 2.22 12 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity;...
    SR 2.65 12 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.
    SR 2.72 11 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
    SL 2.153 20 That statement only is fit to be made public which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.
    SL 2.156 11 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.157 19 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us...
    Fdsp 2.198 24 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are for curiosity...
    Fdsp 2.204 10 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form;...
    OS 2.283 8 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places. But we must pick no locks. We must check this low curiosity.
    OS 2.284 24 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
    Int 2.330 23 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Mrs1 3.143 13 ...the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    SwM 4.103 17 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...
    GoW 4.278 9 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius...
    GoW 4.283 18 However excellent [Goethe's] sentence is, he has somewhat better in view. It awakens my curiosity.
    ET1 5.14 19 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather a spectacle than a conversation, of no use beyond the satisfaction of my curiosity.
    ET6 5.105 19 [The Englishman] is never betrayed into any curiosity or unbecoming emotion.
    ET6 5.111 3 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
    ET9 5.150 1 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners...
    ET15 5.266 9 ...the editor's room [of the London Times], I did not see, though I shared the curiosity of mankind respecting it.
    Wsp 6.238 22 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the insatiable curiosity and appetite for its continuation.
    Elo1 7.62 22 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine, and the curiosity men feel to touch the springs.
    DL 7.105 10 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
    Clbs 7.229 5 In youth, in the fury of curiosity and acquisition, the day is too short for books...
    Clbs 7.230 19 There is plenty of intelligence, reading, curiosity;...
    Clbs 7.235 5 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit.
    Cour 7.261 3 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    Suc 7.302 17 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    PC 8.226 13 Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
    Dem1 10.24 18 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical, related to the machinery of man, opening to our curiosity how we live...
    Dem1 10.25 27 [Mesmerism] is a low curiosity or lust of structure...
    Chr2 10.119 27 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    Edc1 10.135 9 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to inspire the youthful man...with a curiosity touching his own nature;...
    Edc1 10.155 21 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon. They lose their fear. They have curiosity too about him.
    Edc1 10.155 22 By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the naturalist];...
    Edc1 10.156 7 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
    Schr 10.285 20 ...what [Genius] says and does is not...visited only by curiosity...
    Plu 10.302 14 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians. Yet he inspires a curiosity...to read them.
    LLNE 10.343 20 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results.
    MMEm 10.398 11 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition both for power and employment,-not with any design towards her own particular, either of advantage or curiosity...
    MMEm 10.405 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    MMEm 10.412 20 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with...a lustre which penetrates the spirit with wonder and curiosity,-then, however awed, who can fear?
    Thor 10.469 12 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits, nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him.
    Thor 10.476 1 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of his mind.
    Thor 10.481 2 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes...
    HDC 11.38 22 ...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
    HDC 11.76 10 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
    JBB 11.267 9 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    FRO2 11.485 20 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.
    FRep 11.521 12 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do.
    PLT 12.14 3 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and its settings...that I may learn to live with it wisely...
    CL 12.138 13 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly...
    CL 12.142 11 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...an eye for Nature, good humor, vast curiosity...
    Milt1 12.247 9 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...
    Let 12.392 10 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion.

curious, adj. (48)

    LE 1.162 25 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day.
    LE 1.180 13 ...it is curious to remark, Bonaparte's army partook of this double strength of the captain;...
    MN 1.194 4 ...come forth, thou curious child!...
    LT 1.270 4 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics of the Pledge...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    SR 2.86 22 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    Hsm1 2.264 2 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    PPh 4.73 11 Nobody can refuse to talk with [Socrates], he is so honest and really curious to know;...
    ET1 5.9 12 I was more curious to see [Landor's] library...
    ET4 5.69 16 It is curious that Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans...
    ET9 5.151 26 Nature trips us up when we strut; and there are curious examples in history on this very point of national pride.
    ET10 5.157 15 It is a curious chapter in modern history, the growth of the machine-shop.
    ET11 5.178 2 ...some curious examples are cited to show the stability of English families.
    ET12 5.200 11 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    ET14 5.247 23 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    ET16 5.282 27 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.
    F 6.44 16 Certain ideas are in the air. ... This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries.
    Wth 6.102 11 ...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to metaphysical changes.
    Bty 6.283 11 'T is curious that we only believe as deep as we live.
    Art2 7.46 21 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work...that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    DL 7.118 27 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things, if they are curious in them, they can get for a dollar at any village.
    DL 7.132 18 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    WD 7.180 5 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...
    Suc 7.297 5 'T is curious, but our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of impressionability...
    QO 8.195 15 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.
    QO 8.196 13 It is a curious reflex effect of this enhancement of our thought by citing it from another, that many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...
    PC 8.215 19 It is a curious fact that a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    Insp 8.292 15 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation]...at least as curious to know what can be drawn from himself as what can be drawn from [others].
    Grts 8.318 4 ...it is curious that Byron writes down to Scott; Scott writes up to him.
    Imtl 8.349 3 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is not immortality, but eternity...appearing in the farthest east and west.
    Dem1 10.20 16 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of...
    Aris 10.41 21 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    Aris 10.50 12 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives.
    PerF 10.73 23 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Edc1 10.148 8 It is curious how perverse and intermeddling we are...
    Supl 10.166 3 It is curious that a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.
    Schr 10.278 3 I think there is no more intellectual people than ours. They are very apprehensive and curious.
    Plu 10.294 21 ...it is curious that [Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Plu 10.310 27 ...though curious in the questions of the schools on the nature and genesis of things, [Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    LLNE 10.340 2 ...it is curious that [Channing's] printed writings are almost a history of the times;...
    LLNE 10.345 25 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor...
    LLNE 10.365 13 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm]...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    FSLN 11.224 1 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source of inspiration. Hence... the curious fact that...there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from his writings.
    Wom 11.414 11 It is very curious that in the East...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    CPL 11.505 16 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    PLT 12.24 18 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function...all the accidents of the plant.
    II 12.78 2 ...it is the curious property of truth to be uncontainable and ever enlarging.
    ACri 12.289 12 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious...
    EurB 12.375 13 It is curious how sleepy and foolish we are, that these tales [novels of costume or of circumstance] will so take us.

curious, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.133 12 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
    Bhr 6.177 12 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles and announcing to the curious how it is with them.
    War 11.166 22 ...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of the curious...
    War 11.167 17 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...

curiously, adv. (9)

    Nat 1.59 4 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    LT 1.289 21 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Ill 6.311 2 ...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously analyzing the occasions.
    DL 7.111 26 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous.
    DL 7.118 4 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    PI 8.9 10 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    PC 8.223 25 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    II 12.86 6 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither.
    Let 12.395 15 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life,-which is better accepted than calculated? Perhaps so; but let us not be too curiously good.

curl, v. (1)

    EurB 12.365 13 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at such slipshod newspaper style.

curled, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.182 20 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...
    Suc 7.303 9 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    ACri 12.286 8 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together, and then we make it so curled and finical that God himself wondereth at us.

curled, v. (1)

    PPo 8.253 12 No one has unvailed thoughts like Hafiz, since the locks of the World-bride were first curled.

curling, adj. (1)

    SS 7.1 4 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke/...

curls, n. (2)

    DL 7.105 12 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents, studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words--the little talker grows to a boy.
    OA 7.317 20 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls.

curly, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.186 7 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.

currency, n. (14)

    Nat 1.30 9 ...a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
    MN 1.193 11 ...the multitude of men...give currency to desponding doctrines...
    YA 1.374 17 We inflate our paper currency...and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    YA 1.385 21 The currency threatens to fall entirely into private hands.
    Comp 2.106 26 ...it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral.
    Prd1 2.228 16 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception, which is shown by the currency of the byword, No mistake.
    Pt1 3.22 2 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    Pol1 3.200 21 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait...
    Ctr 6.146 14 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency...
    Ctr 6.158 2 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    Boks 7.199 16 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations?
    Schr 10.272 7 We have...a real relation to markets and brokers and currency and coin.
    LVB 11.93 27 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year, touching the prostration of the currency and of trade, seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    Wom 11.424 17 ...this appearance of new opinions, their currency and force in many minds, is itself the wonderful fact.

current, adj. (21)

    MN 1.221 17 [The intellect] will burn up...all base current opinions...as in a moment of time.
    LT 1.283 11 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    Con 1.296 4 There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to have been dropped from the current mythologies...
    Chr1 3.98 26 The capitalist does not run every hour to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the realm;...
    GoW 4.283 6 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    ET4 5.45 17 [The English] give the bias to the current age;...
    ET11 5.173 22 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    Wth 6.103 20 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.
    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.
    Boks 7.201 8 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    PI 8.65 15 ...in current literature I do not find [Nature].
    QO 8.194 5 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    PPo 8.243 10 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East;...
    Dem1 10.16 22 This faith in a doting power, so easily sliding into the current belief everywhere...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Edc1 10.135 18 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries;...
    Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    MoL 10.246 22 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide.
    Plu 10.295 1 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    LLNE 10.330 2 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians, which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism...
    LLNE 10.331 16 The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
    EdAd 11.391 6 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.

current, n. (10)

    MN 1.209 3 The ends...are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.
    F 6.27 22 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current...
    F 6.45 1 [The great man's] mind is righter than others because he yields to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised.
    Pow 6.56 12 The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events and strong with their strength.
    PI 8.6 26 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against, any more than against the current of Niagara.
    PC 8.212 2 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.
    Aris 10.64 2 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit...to hide from him the current of Tendency;...
    SovE 10.196 13 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not.
    SovE 10.210 15 ...to draw [the moral principle] out of its natural current is to lose at once all its power.
    MAng1 12.226 12 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...

currently, adv. (1)

    Elo1 7.74 21 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.

currents, n. (20)

    Nat 1.10 9 ...the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;...
    Nat 1.44 8 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
    Nat 1.71 15 [Man] filled nature with his overflowing currents.
    AmS 1.111 6 It is a sign...of new vigor...when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.
    MN 1.222 26 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix...
    Int 2.328 10 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind...
    Chr1 3.97 10 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north. It shares the magnetic currents of the system.
    SwM 4.140 25 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...
    ET4 5.50 25 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...
    Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction...
    PI 8.6 22 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.6 26 Such currents...exist in thoughts...that as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.21 2 ...shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing the ethereal currents?
    PI 8.68 20 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    PerF 10.74 9 No force but is [man's] force. He does not possess them, he is a pipe through which their currents flow.
    Edc1 10.130 27 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching winds, clouds, ocean currents...possess for Humboldt?
    SovE 10.210 8 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.
    PLT 12.27 24 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
    PLT 12.33 16 The healthy mind lies parallel to the currents of Nature...

curricle, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 23 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter...by rides in a curricle...

curse, n. (8)

    Exp 3.49 12 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    ShP 4.219 8 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
    ET2 5.33 18 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests; but the curse of eight hundred years we could not discern.
    Bty 6.279 19 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
    Elo1 7.75 13 One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
    EWI 11.137 14 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.
    JBB 11.266 18 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    Let 12.402 2 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...

curse, v. (2)

    DSA 1.144 10 All men bless and curse.
    Nat2 3.182 3 ...no doubt when [the maples and ferns] come to consciousness they too will curse and swear.

cursed, v. (3)

    F 6.46 27 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age, too often cursed with the granting of our prayer...
    Wsp 6.206 12 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...
    LVB 11.93 11 ...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?

curses, n. (2)

    Comp 2.109 23 Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them.
    PLT 12.55 17 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism...

curses, v. (3)

    MN 1.197 16 When man curses, nature still testifies to truth and love.
    LT 1.280 16 I am not mortified by our vice;...it curses and swears, and I can see to the end of it;...
    EWI 11.104 18 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...the stomach rises with disgust, and curses slavery.

cursing, n. (1)

    MoS 4.166 7 ...[Montaigne] will indulge himself with a little cursing and swearing;...

cursorily, adv. (1)

    NR 3.225 14 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...

cursus, n. (2)

    ET16 5.281 25 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    ET16 5.282 1 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.

curtailed, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.31 14 These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses...over the artificial and curtailed life of cities.

curtain, n. (10)

    Nat 1.69 11 The stars have us to bed:/ Night draws the curtain;.../
    Mrs1 3.135 15 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    NR 3.225 22 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    ET8 5.138 21 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception, as the curtain of the eagle's eye.
    Wsp 6.238 16 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night...
    Ill 6.317 14 ...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...
    WD 7.176 18 We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    PLT 12.43 5 I owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    PLT 12.48 23 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain...
    PLT 12.48 24 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain, but are made to sell, and will not hold any curtain but cobwebs.

curtained, v. (1)

    ET6 5.107 18 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is wainscoted, carved, curtained...

curtains, n. (3)

    MR 1.239 20 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...
    Wom 11.410 25 ...[man] invented...architecture, curtains, dress...
    PPr 12.384 21 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating than the lightning of the night-storm, which no curtains or shutters will keep out.

curtains, v. (1)

    OS 2.284 21 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

curtesie, n. (1)

    ET11 5.175 17 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood, and caused him to be named, Father of curtesie.

Curtis, George W., n. (1)

    LLNE 10.361 22 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother...were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.

Curtius, Quintus, n. (1)

    Cour 7.253 20 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...of Quintus Curtius, Cato and Regulus;...

curule, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.340 25 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we feel how dignified is this perpetual Censor in his curule chair...

curve, n. (20)

    MN 1.203 3 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute...the return of [Nature's] curve, we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    SR 2.58 8 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
    SL 2.146 15 Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure.
    Int 2.340 7 ...at last we discover that our curve is a parabola...
    Pt1 3.19 16 ...no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
    Chr1 3.96 9 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last.
    Nat2 3.194 7 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    NR 3.225 21 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve...
    PPh 4.59 4 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve...
    F 6.48 13 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
    Pow 6.81 8 The world...has no casualty in all its vast and flowing curve.
    Wsp 6.220 16 The curve of the flight of the moth is preordained...
    PI 8.7 24 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    PI 8.71 7 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related. Wait a little and we see the return of the remote hyperbolic curve.
    PPo 8.259 24 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough; but when she saw the curve on Zuleika's cheek, she was at a loss...
    PPo 8.260 3 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    MoL 10.250 2 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the curve and the errors of planets, the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    PLT 12.11 25 ...he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
    PLT 12.12 5 ...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, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit...
    CL 12.160 12 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.

curve, v. (1)

    Art2 7.41 21 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.

curves, n. (3)

    Bty 6.291 25 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    PLT 12.12 2 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he does not interfere with its vast curves...
    ACri 12.305 6 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.

curving, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.292 25 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium, not by abrupt and angular but by gradual and curving movements.

cushion, n. (1)

    Comp 2.117 25 Whilst [a great man] sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.

cushioned, v. (1)

    ET3 5.34 22 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...

cushions, n. (1)

    MR 1.245 1 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves.

custard, n. (1)

    Hsm1. 2.252 14 What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?

custodian, n. (1)

    Thor 10.459 8 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these.

custody, n. (2)

    LT 1.273 21 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion...into his custody;...
    Pt1 3.28 8 ...[these stimulants] help [a man] to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up...

Custom House, n. (1)

    PLT 12.8 8 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?

Custom House Returns, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 22 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...

custom, n. (56)

    AmS 1.90 24 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority...
    AmS 1.104 26 ...what stone-blind custom...you behold is there only by sufferance...
    DSA 1.146 8 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you...
    MR 1.234 3 ...the evil custom [of trade] reaches into the whole institution of property...
    MR 1.243 27 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things. Custom does it for me...
    MR 1.250 7 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is...not yet harnessed in the team of society to drag with us all in the ruts of custom, I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    Con 1.314 1 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
    Con 1.314 24 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his...compliance with custom.
    YA 1.388 7 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    Hist 2.19 21 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SR 2.60 21 Let us...hurl in the face of custom and trade and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history...
    SR 2.87 7 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until, in imitation of the Roman custom, the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    SL 2.140 20 It is not an excuse any longer for [a man's] deeds that they are the custom of his trade.
    Exp 3.47 24 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
    Mrs1 3.136 20 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign to the house, as was the custom of gentlemen.
    Nat2 3.169 23 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].
    NER 3.277 11 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like fragments of ice...
    NER 3.285 11 ...what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of custom...
    MoS 4.169 20 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so.
    MoS 4.169 23 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice. In the hour of death, he gave the same weight to custom.
    MoS 4.172 7 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...
    MoS 4.172 25 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
    ET6 5.110 27 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
    ET6 5.111 11 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom...
    ET8 5.140 7 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them, nor ate nor drank but according to his custom.
    F 6.26 14 [The mind] dates from itself; not from...custom.
    Pow 6.54 25 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...victims of gravity, custom and fear.
    Wth 6.120 21 Help comes in the custom of the country...
    Wth 6.121 2 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law. Nobody need stir hand or foot. The custom of the country will do it all.
    Wth 6.121 7 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...
    Bhr 6.173 19 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of custom and proverbs...
    Ill 6.315 24 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown. Well, this thatching of hovels is the custom of the country.
    Art2 7.45 22 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical costume.
    Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction...
    PI 8.21 19 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs matter, custom, and all but itself.
    SA 8.86 1 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals.
    QO 8.188 3 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom...
    Edc1 10.128 22 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt: the opium of custom, whereof all drink and many go mad.
    SovE 10.205 7 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance unprecedented.
    MoL 10.257 11 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom stifles this discussion as sentimental...
    Schr 10.272 18 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society?
    Schr 10.286 1 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom...
    Plu 10.319 26 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation, since it is hard to break the custom of the place, I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    Thor 10.454 3 [Thoreau] interrogated every custom...
    LS 11.9 9 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...
    LS 11.12 2 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons: (1) because it was a local custom, and unsuitable in western countries;...
    HDC 11.41 4 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...
    FSLC 11.196 25 I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    EdAd 11.393 6 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...
    ChiE 11.472 9 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
    CPL 11.502 4 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    FRep 11.521 5 We are all living according to custom;...
    PLT 12.59 20 ...wit...puts together what belongs together, custom or no custom;...
    PLT 12.59 21 ...wit...puts together what belongs together, custom or no custom;...
    MLit 12.324 22 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed.
    Trag 12.413 23 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society, any revolution of custom, of law, of opinion, and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

customary, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.33 27 ...[Goethe's Helena] operates a wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images...
    SL 2.142 6 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    Nat2 3.182 17 That identity [in nature]...reduces to nothing great intervals on our customary scale.
    PPh 4.59 23 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony, down to the customary and polite.
    Clbs 7.236 16 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense which impatiently overleaped his customary bounds, [Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    SA 8.96 8 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.
    Supl 10.167 17 Our customary and mechanical existence is not favorable to flights;...
    Shak1 11.453 6 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity...
    MLit 12.317 15 ...these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.
    MLit 12.336 2 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...

customary, n. (1)

    OS 2.296 8 ...pressed on our attention, as they are by the thoughtless and customary, [the saints and demigods] fatigue and invade.

customer, n. (3)

    EWI 11.123 18 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls.
    EWI 11.126 14 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women. In every naked negro of those thousands, they saw a future customer.
    FRep 11.523 23 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.

customers, n. (7)

    Wth 6.110 26 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
    Boks 7.189 15 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    Suc 7.294 16 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
    Res 8.143 13 See how nations of customers are formed.
    Res 8.143 21 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers...
    EWI 11.126 4 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. For these reasons the islands [of the West Indies] proved bad customers to England.
    EWI 11.126 17 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...

custom-house, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.227 15 The modes of initiation [in the English Church] are more damaging than custom-house oaths.

Custom-house, adj. (1)

    LT 1.269 9 The leaders of the crusades against War...Court and Custom-house Oaths...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...

custom-house, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 3 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

custom-houses, n. (3)

    MR 1.232 9 I leave for those who have the knowledge the part of sifting the oaths of our custom-houses;...
    NR 3.232 3 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into the markets and the custom-houses...it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    FRep 11.541 19 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses...

Customs, Collector of the, n (1)

    OA 7.333 26 [Mr. Lechmere] was Collector of the Customs for many years under the Royal Government.

customs, n. (47)

    MR 1.228 4 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
    MR 1.233 27 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...an acceptance of customs...
    Con 1.304 17 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
    Hist 2.22 16 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    SR 2.50 6 [Society] loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    SR 2.73 7 I appeal from your customs.
    SR 2.76 25 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself, tossing...customs out of the window, we pity him no more...
    SL 2.150 25 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    SL 2.151 6 The scholar...apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
    Hsm1 2.256 21 Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them...
    Pt1 3.41 11 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Mrs1 3.138 17 Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs.
    NER 3.262 6 Our marriage is no worse than...our social customs.
    SwM 4.127 10 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls, as it would lay open the genesis of all institutions, customs and manners.
    NMW 4.247 14 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each emergency, instead of abiding by rules and customs.
    NMW 4.247 23 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...or in our social manners and customs;...
    ET5 5.98 7 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;...
    ET6 5.109 22 [The English] keep their old customs, costumes, and pomps...
    ET11 5.172 15 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners...affirm it.
    ET18 5.301 26 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs...
    ET19 5.313 8 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
    Wth 6.85 8 Society is barbarous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
    SS 7.15 1 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.
    Art2 7.55 8 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world,--in the customs of nations...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Boks 7.214 4 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    PI 8.5 27 ...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 our politics, trade, customs, marriage...
    SA 8.101 14 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...firmness of customs...
    QO 8.178 26 We quote...arts, sciences, religion, customs and laws;...
    QO 8.200 14 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made...
    Imtl 8.324 17 The credence of men...makes their manners and customs;...
    Aris 10.61 6 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    Aris 10.62 26 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...
    Chr2 10.104 2 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
    MoL 10.255 2 Neither...the laws, the customs or dogmas of nations...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    LLNE 10.325 16 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
    EzRy 10.395 17 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart...
    HDC 11.52 25 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.
    HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
    HDC 11.83 20 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information respecting your character and customs.
    LVB 11.90 14 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
    War 11.154 2 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...sowed the Greek customs and humane laws over Asia...
    FSLC 11.189 25 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
    Wom 11.419 2 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    Wom 11.420 23 If new power is here, of a character...which...tries and condemns our religion, customs, laws...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Wom 11.424 27 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness, and not according to...their fitness to shock our customs.
    Bost 12.186 12 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...
    WSL 12.337 12 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him,-persons, manners, customs, politics, geography.

cut, adj. (4)

    Bty 6.300 4 ...petulant old gentlemen...who have seen cut flowers to some profusion...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    SovE 10.185 16 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
    SMC 11.356 11 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people, who turned pale at home if called to dress a cut finger...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    CL 12.137 24 [Linneaus] found the plant [water-hemlock] also dried in [the people of Tornea's] cut hay.

cut, n. (5)

    MN 1.196 17 ...the thunder...makes a skin-deep cut...
    SR 2.55 16 We come to wear one cut of face and figure...
    ET17 5.296 27 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter;...
    SS 7.4 23 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Boks 7.192 7 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

cut, v. (73)

    Nat 1.14 11 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    MR 1.228 10 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth...
    Con 1.311 22 ...for thee roads have been cut in every direction across the land...
    Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your roads are well cut and well paved;...
    Hist 2.20 14 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove...
    Comp 2.97 24 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
    Comp 2.104 1 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Comp 2.106 1 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail, and thinks he can cut off that which he would have from that which he would not have.
    Comp 2.110 16 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    SL 2.162 25 One piece of the tree is cut for a weathercock and one for the sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
    Lov1 2.184 26 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
    Fdsp 2.196 25 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science, though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short.
    Art1 2.359 14 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Mrs1 3.154 19 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool who had cut off his beard...but fled at once to him;...
    Nat2 3.188 21 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.
    Pol1 3.205 7 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.
    PPh 4.53 11 [The Greeks] cut the Pentelican marble as if it were snow...
    PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    PPh 4.68 20 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world...
    SwM 4.126 1 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood.
    MoS 4.168 11 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would bleed;...
    MoS 4.182 3 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad.
    ShP 4.210 25 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be...cut up into proverbs;...
    ET4 5.48 5 The French in Canada, cut off from all intercourse with the parent people, have held their national traits.
    ET4 5.54 16 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with faces cut like a die...
    ET5 5.78 3 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them.
    ET8 5.132 16 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases;...
    ET10 5.161 5 [Steam] can...make sword-blades that will cut gun-barrels in two.
    ET10 5.161 27 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET11 5.180 5 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that the tie is not cut...
    ET16 5.278 18 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how to cut a well-wrought tenon and mortise...
    F 6.7 23 ...the sword of the climate...at New Orleans, cut off men like a massacre.
    Pow 6.67 13 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the temperance people, in the night.
    Pow 6.69 26 Cut off the connection between any of our works and this aboriginal source, and the work is shallow.
    Wsp 6.205 20 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo...does not hesitate to menace them that he will cut their ears off.
    Wsp 6.225 1 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    CbW 6.270 19 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation; as seamen say, you shall cut and run.
    Bty 6.302 5 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Cour 7.257 1 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth. Cut off his head, and the teeth will not let go the stick.
    Suc 7.284 12 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.298 26 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says...they should be cut and corded before spring.
    PI 8.59 22 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf, and their weapons so blunt that they could no more cut than a willow-twig.
    Res 8.145 15 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo, not having had time to cut down the bridge...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    Comc 8.166 3 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    PC 8.209 26 The fop is unable to cut the patriot in the street;...
    PC 8.227 5 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things...
    PPo 8.244 9 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    Insp 8.270 10 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end... before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Insp 8.288 19 At home, the day is cut into short strips.
    Imtl 8.326 5 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
    Aris 10.35 11 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    SovE 10.201 9 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it. You say: Cut away; my tree is Ygdrasil-the tree of life.
    SovE 10.204 16 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    MoL 10.257 19 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
    Schr 10.274 22 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.
    Plu 10.315 26 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    Thor 10.464 21 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;... my jack-knife will cut nothing else;...
    Thor 10.482 3 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest. Thank God, he said, they cannot cut down the clouds!
    Carl 10.492 23 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    HDC 11.32 24 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...
    HDC 11.34 21 ...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.
    HDC 11.35 11 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.43 23 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...roads to be cut;...
    HDC 11.54 16 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided; highways were cut from farm to farm...
    HDC 11.60 17 ...his corn cut down...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    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.
    Koss 11.396 7 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
    SHC 11.429 5 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary, having proceeded so far as to enclose the ground, and cut the necessary roads...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    PLT 12.44 10 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    Mem 12.96 16 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...on the next I cut my finger;...
    Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.
    Milt1 12.265 25 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.
    Pray 12.354 2 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

cutaneous, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.334 8 The very depth of the sentiment, which is the author of all the cutaneous life we see, is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.

cutlery, n. (1)

    ET5 5.84 26 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.

cuts, v. (7)

    SL 2.159 11 [A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
    ET4 5.59 18 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...
    Civ 7.20 9 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth...is made by tribes.
    Res 8.152 27 ...every boy cuts [the willows] for a whistle;...
    Comc 8.158 27 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...
    Chr2 10.99 19 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it cuts the cord...
    FSLN 11.237 22 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes...

cutting, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.268 25 [Courage] gives the cutting edge to every profession.

cutting, v. (7)

    UGM 4.31 12 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    MoS 4.158 9 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    NMW 4.255 20 ...[Napoleon]...interfered with the cutting the dresses of the women;...
    ET3 5.41 15 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island of eight hundred miles in length...
    Wth 6.121 24 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...cutting ducal estates in two...
    Wth 6.122 9 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Supl 10.177 22 ...the Orientals excel...in the cutting of precious stones...

cuttle-fish, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.87 12 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.

Cuvier, Georges Leopold, n. (2)

    AmS 1.105 25 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...and Cuvier, fossils.
    Grts 8.311 9 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley...Cuvier...

Cuvier, Georges, n. (2)

    EdAd 11.391 17 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    Humb 11.458 19 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants;

cyclamen, n. (1)

    ET1 5.7 14 [Landor] praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence;...

cycle, n. (5)

    Nat 1.70 21 In the cycle of the universal man...centuries are points...
    Hist 2.38 18 [Each man] too shall pass through the whole cycle of experience.
    Boks 7.204 25 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.
    LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
    HDC 11.29 16 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear! The imagination is impatient of a cycle so short.

cycles, n. (2)

    Insp 8.280 11 Life is in short cycles or periods;...
    Plu 10.322 17 Plutarch's popularity will return in rapid cycles.

Cyclop, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.278 9 We have general intelligence, but no Cyclop arms.

Cyclopaean, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.207 24 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art,--in the Cyclopaean architecture of Egypt and India...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...

cyclopaedia, n. (1)

    QO 8.183 6 ...the whole cyclopaedia of [a great man's] table-talk is presently believed to be his own.

Cyclopean, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.272 7 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...

cyclopedias, n. (1)

    Wth 6.98 9 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...

cylindrical, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.95 14 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...

Cymbeline [William Shakespe (1)

    ET6 5.108 20 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature;...

Cyndyllan's, n. (1)

    CbW 6.243 12 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear/...

cynic, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.309 11 Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher.

cynic, n. (3)

    MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans;...
    Suc 7.310 12 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Suc 7.310 15 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...

cynical, adj. (3)

    Bhr 6.172 26 Society is infested with rude, cynical, restless and frivolous persons...
    CbW 6.248 11 In the streets we grow cynical.
    OA 7.321 13 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...

cynically, adv. (1)

    Bhr 6.185 26 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.

cypress, n. (3)

    SwM 4.144 18 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    PPo 8.256 30 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree...are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    CPL 11.499 23 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night, covered with the dark foliage of the willow and cypress, less gratified than the gay lark...

cypresses, n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 17 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.

Cypripedium, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 10 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due. The Cypripedium not due till to-morrow.

Cyrus, n. (2)

    PPo 8.238 21 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.
    Milt1 12.257 3 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal, like the Cyrus of Xenophon...

czar, n. (1)

    ET8 5.131 25 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar.

Czar, n. (2)

    YA 1.376 4 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...
    Carl 10.491 12 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise republics and he likes the Russian Czar;...

czars, n. (2)

    CbW 6.254 13 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the ferocity of the Russian czars;...
    PPo 8.260 15 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./

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