Degenerate to Demonstrator
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
degenerate, adj. (2)
AmS 1.84 6 In the degenerate state...[the scholar] tends
to become a mere
thinker...
QO 8.188 1 ...shall we say that...the existing
generation is invalided and
degenerate?
degenerate, v. (3)
Nat 1.65 7 As we degenerate, the contrast between us and
our house is
more evident.
Pol1 3.209 15 Parties of principle...degenerate into
personalities, or would
inspire enthusiasm.
LLNE 10.355 21 ...the men of science, art, intellect,
are pretty sure to
degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
degenerates, v. (3)
UGM 4.18 9 Our delight in reason degenerates into
idolatry of the herald.
ET10 5.167 6 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the
mills to the
Leicester stockinger...
ET18 5.299 21 The history of Rome and Greece, when
written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party
pamphlets.
degradation, n. (13)
Nat 1.70 24 In the cycle of the universal man...all
history is but the epoch
of one degradation.
DSA 1.127 8 ...the absence of this primary faith is the
presence of
degradation.
MN 1.200 28 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends
without the least
emphasis or preference to any, but the steady degradation of each to
the
success of all, allows the understanding no place to work.
LT 1.278 18 [the youth] must resist the degradation of
a man to a measure.
Tran 1.339 9 ...[man] is balked when he tries to fling
himself into this
enchanted circle, where all is done without degradation.
Tran 1.341 9 ...[many intelligent and religious
persons] prefer to ramble in
the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities
and
such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
Hist 2.11 3 ...we aim to master intellectually the
steps and reach the same
height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
OS 2.279 11 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will
against mine...and
leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my
superiority of
strength.
Gts 3.162 22 Some violence I think is done, some
degradation borne, when
I rejoice or grieve at a gift.
Schr 10.287 11 [The scholar] shall not submit to
degradation...
Plu 10.299 3 Thought defends [Plutarch] from any
degradation.
War 11.160 10 [The human race] have nearly exhausted
all the good and
all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to
this
degradation as their worst enemy could desire;...
Milt1 12.264 5 ...[Milton] declares that a certain
niceness of nature, an
honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above
those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge
himself that can agree to such degradation.
degradations, n. (2)
Nat 1.45 12 [Words and actions] introduce us to the
human form, of which
all other organizations appear to be degradations.
Bty 6.286 21 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes
degradations than
angels or redeemers...
degrade, v. (13)
DSA 1.133 22 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues
of Christ out of
the circle of this charm...
MN 1.193 10 ...the multitude of men degrade each
other...
Tran 1.333 18 ...[the idealist] is constrained to
degrade persons into
representatives of truths.
Cir 2.306 5 Does the fact look crass and material,
threatening to degrade
thy theory of spirit?
Exp 3.47 6 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade
to-day;...
NR 3.231 10 Our proclivity to details cannot quite
degrade our life...
Ctr 6.153 6 ...cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
Wsp 6.235 26 [Benedict said] I would not degrade myself
by casting about
in my memory for a thought...
Comc 8.171 3 In poor pictures the limbs and trunk
degrade the face.
Prch 10.220 5 Ignorance and passion alloy and degrade.
FRO2 11.490 24 I am glad to believe society contains a
class of humble
souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
PLT 12.8 20 Was it better when we came to the
philosophers, who found
everybody wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon and degrade mankind?
Bost 12.197 6 ...the necessity, which always presses
the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against
the
long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which...goes
rather to
pinch the features and degrade the character.
degraded, v. (10)
Nat 1.56 3 Thus even in physics, the material is
degraded before the
spiritual;...
UGM 4.16 12 The indicators of the values of matter are
degraded to a sort
of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of
ideas.
ET14 5.255 24 ...poetry [in England] is degraded and
made ornamental.
SS 7.13 17 So many men whom I know are degraded by
their sympathies;...
OA 7.326 13 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark
with impunity, and
people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of
appearance...that once degraded him he is thus rid of!
Grts 8.302 2 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to
hear or read? Only
the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of
dulness or vice...
Grts 8.320 19 The man...in whom no regard of self
degraded the adorer of
the laws...he it is whom we seek...
Chr2 10.104 10 Every nation is degraded by the goblins
it worships instead
of this Deity.
EWI 11.145 21 ...the civility of no race can be perfect
whilst another race
is degraded.
Let 12.400 14 There is nothing holy...which is not
degraded to a mean end
among this people [the Germans].
degrades, v. (9)
Con 1.320 15 [Conservatism's] social and political
action has no better
aim;...a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades whatever it touches.
YA 1.393 11 The aristocracy...degrades life for the
unprivileged classes.
SR 2.69 20 This one fact the world hates; that the soul
becomes; for that
forever degrades the past...
Prd1 2.223 22 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of
the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
Art1 2.366 24 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the
seeker.
NER 3.271 19 What is it men love in Genius, but its
infinite hope, which
degrades all it has done?
SA 8.106 14 Would we codify the laws that should reign
in households, and
whose daily transgression...degrades our household life, we must learn
to
adorn every day with sacrifices.
Aris 10.32 7 A reference to society is part of the idea
of culture; science of
a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually
held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy, which degrades
them...
Chr2 10.97 27 We affirm that in all men is this
majestic [moral] perception
and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of
whatever
saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its
silent
revelation.
degrading, adj. (10)
YA 1.377 4 ...[the nobles'] frolics turn out to be
insulting and degrading to
the commoner.
Chr1 3.112 25 Society is spoiled...if the associates
are brought a mile to
meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading
jangle...
Gts 3.162 11 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat,
because there
seems something of degrading dependence in living by it...
Pol1 3.204 8 ...there is an instinctive sense...that
the whole constitution of
property, on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on
persons
deteriorating and degrading;...
EWI 11.144 23 ...a compassion for that which is not and
cannot be useful
or lovely, is degrading and futile.
ACiv 11.308 19 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the
world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
FRep 11.519 9 The spirit of our political economy is
low and degrading.
II 12.67 16 ...we can only judge safely of a
discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of
mind it induces, as whether that be large
and serene, or dispiriting and degrading.
MAng1 12.222 7 ...no degrading views of human
nature...can avail to
hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty
or
surpassing beauty in human clay.
Let 12.395 27 But to be...prudent to secure to
ourselves an injurious
society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and
enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves
with guides, examples, lovers!
degrading, v. (6)
Nat 1.57 27 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous
effect with all lower
culture, in degrading nature...
DSA 1.144 14 The stationariness of religion;...the fear
of degrading the
character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the
falsehood
of our theology.
Tran 1.330 15 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts
which in their first
appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts,
degrading
these into a language by which the first are to be spoken;...
Hist 2.20 4 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already
prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and
masses, so that when
art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale
without degrading itself.
Bty 6.301 14 This is the triumph of expression,
degrading beauty...
II 12.73 7 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us
how the young may
be taught without degrading the old;...
degree, n. (121)
Nat 1.23 9 All men are in some degree impressed by the
face of the world;...
Nat 1.25 4 Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a
simple, double, and
threefold degree.
Nat 1.30 7 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of
simplicity and
truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a
degree lost;...
Nat 1.51 18 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt,
from the fact...that man is
hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
Nat 1.57 9 ...no man touches these divine natures
[ideas], without
becoming, in some degree, himself divine.
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 1.321 1 The contractors who were building a road
out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree
that embarrassed the agents...
Tran 1.344 19 [The Transcendentalists'] quarrel with
every man they meet
is not with his kind, but with his degree.
YA 1.363 7 America is beginning to assert herself to
the senses and to the
imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree.
SR 2.70 16 Self-existence...constitutes the measure of
good by the degree
in which it enters into all lower forms.
Fdsp 2.191 19 From the highest degree of passionate
love to the lowest
degree of good-will, [the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make
the sweetness of life.
Fdsp 2.191 20 From the highest degree of passionate
love to the lowest
degree of good-will, [the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make
the sweetness of life.
Fdsp 2.212 19 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no
consuetudes or habits
of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with
[the
noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same
degree
it is in them;...
Prd1 2.224 17 ...the order of the world and the
distribution of affairs and
times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place,
will
reward any degree of attention.
Prd1 2.230 5 ...beside all the resistless beauty of
form, [the Raphael in the
Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the
perpendicularity of all the figures.
OS 2.272 15 The influence of the senses has in most men
overpowered the
mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look
real
and insurmountable;...
OS 2.273 4 The least activity of the intellectual
powers redeems us in a
degree from the conditions of time.
OS 2.278 7 The learned and the studious of thought have
no monopoly of
wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to
think truly.
OS 2.287 20 Jesus speaks always from within, and in a
degree that
transcends all others.
OS 2.288 26 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare,
Milton] use the
positive degree.
Cir 2.310 10 A new degree of culture would instantly
revolutionize the
entire system of human pursuits.
Int 2.327 2 Every man beholds his human condition with
a degree of
melancholy.
Int 2.328 12 I have been floated into hour...by secret
currents of might and
mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided
to
an appreciable degree.
Int 2.330 22 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...
Pt1 3.32 11 If a man is inflamed and carried away by
his thought, to that
degree that he forgets the authors and the public...let me read his
paper, and
you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
Exp 3.73 11 This vigor is...in the highest degree
unbending.
Mrs1 3.130 15 Each [member of an assembly] returns to
his degree in the
scale of good society...
Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking
from peak to peak all
round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.
Mrs1 3.138 22 ...a certain degree of taste is not to be
spared in those we sit
with.
Mrs1 3.139 10 The person who...uses the superlative
degree...puts whole
drawing-rooms to flight.
Mrs1 3.140 1 ...[society] values all peculiarities as
in the highest degree
refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
Pol1 3.202 5 One man owns his clothes, and another owns
a county. This
accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties,
of which
there is every degree...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
PPh 4.69 16 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things,
exciting hilarity and
shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters,
and
it enters in some degree into all things...
SwM 4.104 5 The robust Aristotelian method...conversant
with series and
degree...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
MoS 4.168 24 Montaigne...uses the positive degree;...
ShP 4.215 9 Cultivated men often attain a good degree
of skill in writing
verses;...
NMW 4.227 21 Bonaparte was the idol of common men
because he had in
transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
ET4 5.72 2 Add a certain degree of refinement to the
vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality
which makes the men
and women of polite society formidable.
ET11 5.180 19 The predilection of the patricians for
residence in the
country, combined with the degree of liberty possessed by the peasant,
makes the safety of the English hall.
ET11 5.195 20 In the university, the [English] noblemen
are exempted
from the public exercises for the degree...
ET11 5.195 21 In the university, the [English] noblemen
are exempted
from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a
degree
called honorary.
ET12 5.204 23 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the
theoretic period
for a master's degree.
ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of
the year 1848, for
the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed
they
would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree
in
Yale or Harvard.
ET14 5.236 9 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental
soaring, of which
Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the
writers of
two centuries.
F 6.18 14 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure
of a degree of the
meridian.
Pow 6.55 4 Courage, the old physicians
taught...courage, or the degree of
life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Pow 6.55 5 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as
the degree of
circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Pow 6.61 1 We watch in children with pathetic interest
the degree in which
they possess recuperative force.
Wth 6.90 7 ...[the human being] is successful, or his
education is carried on
just so far, as...the degree in which he takes up things into himself.
Wth 6.96 22 We are all richer for the measurement of a
degree of latitude
on the earth's surface.
Wth 6.105 2 If a talent is anywhere born into the
world, the community of
nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity.
Ctr 6.147 11 ...nature has put fruits apart in
latitudes, a new fruit in every
degree...
Bhr 6.175 3 A keen eye...will...see in the manners the
degree of homage the
party is wont to receive.
Wsp 6.216 21 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in
man or woman
involves a moral charm.
Wsp 6.216 24 ...we very slowly admit in another man a
higher degree of
moral sentiment than our own...
CbW 6.274 14 ...it is who lives near us of equal social
degree...these, and
these only, shall be your life's companions;...
Civ 7.19 1 A certain degree of progress from the rudest
state in which man
is found...is called Civilization.
Civ 7.19 5 A certain degree of progress from the rudest
state in which man
is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal,--a
certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.
Art2 7.43 16 ...in each [of the fine arts] the creating
intellect is crippled in
some degree by the stuff on which it works.
Elo1 7.61 19 The eloquence of one [man]
stimulates...all others to a degree
that makes them good receivers and conductors...
Elo1 7.63 4 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a
certain social
organism, which fills each member, in his own degree...
Elo1 7.66 17 If anything comic and coarse is spoken,
you shall see the
emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and
vivacious
that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are
started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and
wise
attention takes place. You would think the boys slept, and that the men
have
any degree of profoundness.
Elo1 7.69 15 ...in every constitution some large degree
of animal vigor is
necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art
[of
eloquence].
Elo1 7.75 5 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of
the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the
auctioneer...
DL 7.133 9 These are the consolations,--these are the
ends to which the
household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought
and in
any good degree attained, can the state...yield anything better, or
half as
good"
Clbs 7.237 1 ...though they know that there is in the
speaker a degree of
shortcoming...yet the existence of character...is felt by the
frivolous.
OA 7.323 27 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows
raged, the butchers
said that though the acute degree was novel, there never was a time
when
this disease did not occur among cattle.
PI 8.30 26 All writings must be in a degree exoteric...
PI 8.73 14 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every
degree of skill...
Elo2 8.132 17 If there ever was a country where
eloquence was a power, it
is the United States. Here is room for every degree of it...
Comc 8.161 12 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees
the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels
also the
full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy
the
joke. At the same time he is to that degree under the Reason that it
does not
amuse him as much as it amuses another spectator.
Comc 8.163 20 ...it is the highest degree of injustice
not to be just and yet
seem so...
PC 8.209 8 The war gave us the abolition of slavery,
the success...of the
Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all,
one
may say, in a high degree revolutionary...
PC 8.222 10 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had
measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that
his
theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand
shook...
Insp 8.274 5 In June the morning is noisy with birds;
in August they are
already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these
moods
in any degree within control?
Grts 8.313 1 All greatness is in degree...
Imtl 8.324 1 In the first records of a nation in any
degree thoughtful and
cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
Aris 10.64 14 There are certain conditions in the
highest degree favorable
to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
Chr2 10.100 3 ...there is degree and gradation
throughout Nature;...
Edc1 10.125 1 A new degree of intellectual power seems
cheap at any price.
Edc1 10.156 1 ...as [the naturalist] is still
immovable, [the creatures of
nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good
understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
Supl 10.167 17 [The English mind] does not love the
superlative but the
positive degree.
Supl 10.168 8 I judge by every man's truth of his
degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
Supl 10.171 16 ...whilst thus everything recommends
simplicity and
temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we
mean
thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
Supl 10.176 12 ...the expression of character...is, in
great degree, a matter
of climate.
Supl 10.178 13 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is
established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every
skill...
Schr 10.277 19 It is excellent when the individual is
ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference...
Schr 10.281 19 Body and its properties belong to the
region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where
a defect of being
happens in a greater degree.
LLNE 10.335 2 ...[works of talent] are more or less
matured in every
degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them...
LLNE 10.349 9 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that
it...was coherent
and comprehensive of facts to a wonderful degree.
SlHr 10.443 5 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's]
conscience was a kind of
meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
SlHr 10.445 18 The useful and practical super-abounded
in [Samuel Hoar'
s] mind, and to a degree which might be even comic to young and
poetical
persons.
LS 11.18 1 ...our opinions differ much respecting the
nature and offices of
Christ, and the degree of veneration to which he is entitled.
HDC 11.70 8 ...if any person or persons...shall...be
factors for the East
India Company, we will treat them, in an eminent degree, as enemies to
their country...
EWI 11.118 19 We sometimes observe that spoiled
children...seem to
measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the
degree of reaction they can cause.
EWI 11.136 23 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation
in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind
there...infinitely
attractive to every person according to the degree of reason in his own
mind...
EWI 11.138 25 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats
of power are filled
by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish to a degree to destroy all
claim, excepting that on compassion, to the society of the just and
generous.
EWI 11.146 15 ...some degree of despondency is
pardonable, when [the
negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly
offended
by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet
defenders of
the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the
human race;...
War 11.166 8 ...the least change in the man will change
his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every
man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works
with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the
most
striking changes of external things...
FSLN 11.229 24 ...there are rights which rest on the
finest sense of justice, and, with every degree of civility, it will be
more truly felt and defined.
FSLN 11.230 2 ...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.
SMC 11.349 8 ...the facts which make to us the interest
of this day are in a
great degree personal and local here;...
Koss 11.400 10 You [Kossuth] have earned your own
nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at
College). We admit you
to the same degree, without new trial.
Wom 11.406 24 Plato said, Women are the same as men in
faculty, only
less in degree.
Wom 11.418 16 Men are not to the same degree
temperamented [as
women]...
Shak1 11.448 5 Wherever there are men, and in the
degree in which they
are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of
the world.
FRep 11.528 24 We have eight or ten religions in every
large town, and the
most that comes of it is a degree or two on the thermometer of
fashion;...
PLT 12.9 6 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must
exist only for the
entertainment of all. We are not in the smallest degree helped.
PLT 12.17 14 ...as man is conscious of the law of
vegetable and animal
nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his
consciousness
like a sky, of degree above degree...
PLT 12.44 1 We believe that certain persons add to the
common vision a
certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
PLT 12.50 15 When pace is increased it will happen that
the control is in a
degree lost.
Mem 12.95 24 ...the power [of memory] exists in some
marked and
eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
Bost 12.189 16 The [Massachusetts Bay]
territory...extended from the 40th
to the 48th degree of north latitude...
Bost 12.192 26 ...in that time [of the settlement of
Massachusetts]...a
certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of
the
purest.
Bost 12.196 18 New England lies in the cold and hostile
latitude, which by
shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of
the
year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to
external
nature;...
Milt1 12.278 10 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition
of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the
world of experience. Such
certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to
be
entered for the plea for freedom of divorce; an essay, which, from the
first, until now, has brought a degree of obloquy on his name.
ACri 12.291 4 In architecture the beauty is increased
in the degree in which
the material is safely diminished;...
MLit 12.322 11 ...of all men he who has united in
himself, and that in the
most extraordinary degree, the tendencies of the era, is the German
poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
MLit 12.330 10 The least inequality of mixture [of
Truth, Beauty and
Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree
diminishes the transparency of things...
EurB 12.373 22 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked...with a
courage of
experiment which in each instance had its degree of success.
Let 12.403 21 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce
have not yet been
pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.
degrees, n. (76)
Nat 1.35 15 By degrees we may come to know the primitive
sense of the
permanent objects of nature...
AmS 1.89 23 Hence the restorers of readings...the
bibliomaniacs of all
degrees.
DSA 1.147 10 ...let us not aim at common degrees of
merit.
Con 1.302 13 Here is the fact which men call Fate, and
fate in dread
degrees, fate behind fate...
Tran 1.343 23 ...to behold in another the expression of
a love so high that it
assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible
casualty
except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human
happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
YA 1.367 18 We have twenty degrees of latitude wherein
to choose a seat...
Hist 2.27 6 ...when a truth that fired the soul of
Pindar fires mine, time is no
more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I
measure
degrees of latitude...
SR 2.55 16 We...acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine
expression.
Lov1 2.184 3 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits,
persons, lose by
degrees their power over us.
Fdsp 2.212 3 There are innumerable degrees of folly and
wisdom...
Prd1 2.222 18 There are all degrees of proficiency in
knowledge of the
world.
OS 2.290 2 When we see those whom [the soul] inhabits,
we are apprised
of new degrees of greatness.
Cir 2.302 3 Permanence is but a word of degrees.
Cir 2.303 20 Permanence is a word of degrees.
Cir 2.309 17 There are degrees in idealism.
Int 2.325 11 Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a
natural history of the
intellect...
Exp 3.72 16 The consciousness in each man is a sliding
scale, which
identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his
body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
Mrs1 3.141 1 ...society demands in its patrician class
another element... which it significantly terms
good-nature,--expressing all degrees of
generosity...
Mrs1 3.144 22 Another mode [of winning a place in
fashion] is to pass
through all the degrees...
Mrs1 3.145 6 The forms of politeness universally
express benevolence in
superlative degrees.
Nat2 3.170 24 How easily we might walk onward into the
opening
landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out
of
the mind...
Nat2 3.171 18 There are all degrees of natural
influence...
NR 3.238 17 The recluse thinks of men as having his
manner, or as not
having his manner; and as having degrees of it, more and less.
UGM 4.20 2 Life is a scale of degrees.
SwM 4.106 15 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived
were, the
universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale
or
degrees;...
SwM 4.132 10 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the
stereotyped
language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity,
they
are perverted.
SwM 4.145 24 ...ascending by just degrees from events
to their summits
and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he
felt...
NMW 4.239 21 Bonaparte had passed through all the
degrees of military
service...
NMW 4.247 5 We can not...sufficiently congratulate
ourselves on this
strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be
accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in
less
degrees;...
GoW 4.264 10 This striving after imitative
expression...is significant of the
aim of nature, but is mere stenography. There are higher degrees...
ET2 5.29 3 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at
an angle of twenty
or thirty degrees...
ET3 5.38 14 The climate [in England] is warmer by many
degrees than it is
entitled to by latitude.
ET3 5.40 14 The old Venetians pleased themselves with
the flattery that
Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
ET5 5.81 3 There is room in [the English people's]
minds for this and that,-- a science of degrees.
ET14 5.257 27 There are all degrees in poetry...
Wth 6.124 25 It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is
a being of degrees;...
Wsp 6.216 26 ...we very slowly admit in another man a
higher degree of
moral sentiment than our own,--a finer conscience...which marks minuter
degrees;...
CbW 6.261 16 ...perhaps [the rich man] could pass a
college examination, and take his degrees;...
Bty 6.288 4 ...everybody knows people...who, with all
degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Bty 6.293 24 ...the circumstances may be easily
imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it
come
by degrees.
Civ 7.19 7 [Civilization] is a vague, complex name, of
many degrees.
Civ 7.26 4 High degrees of moral sentiment control the
unfavorable
influences of climate;...
Elo1 7.61 5 ...we boil at different degrees.
Elo1 7.66 1 [Eloquence] is a power of many degrees...
Elo1 7.74 6 There are all degrees of power [in
eloquence]...
Clbs 7.226 2 ...the staple of conversation is widely
unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...and has all degrees of
importance;...
Cour 7.275 8 There are degrees of courage...
Suc 7.287 1 Here are already quite different degrees of
moral merit in these
examples.
PI 8.47 5 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant
power of music upon our
temperaments to change our mood...
Comc 8.157 9 The Reason...meddles never with degrees or
fractions;...
PPo 8.260 23 ...we have [in Hafiz's poetry] all degrees
of passionate
abandonment...
Grts 8.301 6 ...[greatness] has a long scale of
degrees...
Grts 8.312 11 ...the stratification of crusts in
geology is not more precise
than the degrees of rank in minds.
Grts 8.318 8 ...degrees of intellect interest only
classes of men who pursue
the same studies...
Aris 10.33 2 The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy
of India with its
impassable degrees, is each a transcript of the decigrade or
centigraded
Man.
Aris 10.57 21 There are all degrees of nobility...
Supl 10.163 2 The doctrine of temperance is one of many
degrees.
Supl 10.175 8 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32
degrees, boils punctually
at 212 degrees;...
Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32
degrees, boils punctually
at 212 degrees;...
Prch 10.215 1 Ascending through just degrees/ To a
consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching
all souls like the sun./
Carl 10.496 8 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge
education
indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they
say... we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened
against the
veracities of the Universe;...
EWI 11.114 1 The colonial legislatures [in the West
Indies] received the
act of Parliament with various degrees of displeasure...
War 11.161 2 [The idea that there can be peace as well
as war] is
expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of
clearness;...
AsSu 11.249 1 [Charles Sumner] had not taken his
degrees in the caucus
and in hack politics.
Wom 11.410 22 ...man invents and adorns all he does
with delays and
degrees...
PLT 12.10 3 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which
all men are entitled, tasted by them in different degrees...
PLT 12.17 10 ...I see that Intellect is a science of
degrees...
PLT 12.17 17 Every just thinker has attempted to
indicate these degrees [of
Intellect]...
PLT 12.40 6 The animal, the low degrees of intellect,
know only
individuals.
PLT 12.41 13 The first fact is the fate in every mental
perception,-that my
seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in
the natural
history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees
of
Fahrenheit.
PLT 12.49 12 I have spoken of Intellect constructive.
But it is in degrees.
CInt 12.117 2 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and
literary and social honors
to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed...
CInt 12.131 1 ...the examination for admission and the
examination for
degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but
't is
very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
CL 12.144 5 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable
like a park, and not
like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on
three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
CW 12.177 12 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are degrees
of proficiency...
Bost 12.199 8 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the
heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid,
well-calculated
scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...building their empire by
due
degrees.
Degrees, n. (1)
SwM 4.105 18 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the
doctrine of
Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the
doctrine of Correspondence.
Dei, civitas, n. (1)
Ctr 6.157 1 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred
friends, will enjoy at
Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
deification, n. (5)
Lov1 2.184 9 ...even love, which is the deification of
persons, must become
more impersonal every day.
NR 3.234 1 This preference of the genius to the parts
is the secret of that
deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
PI 8.19 4 In the presence and conversation of a true
poet, teeming with
images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows
larger
to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all
nations
have made of their heroes in every kind...
Wom 11.415 8 After the deification of Woman in the
Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of
having
first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
Mem 12.103 12 Have you not found memory an apotheosis
or deification?
deified, v. (1)
Bost 12.195 2 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton,
Fenelon, to our
devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will
say with
Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the
evening die, I can be happy.
deify, v. (2)
Nat 1.17 11 How does Nature deify us with a few and
cheap elements!
Fdsp 2.217 5 [Friendship] treats its object as a god,
that it may deify both.
deifying, adj. (2)
DSA 1.125 11 This sentiment [of virtue] is divine and
deifying.
Dem1 10.3 24 ...the astonishment remains that one
should dream; that we
should resign so quietly this deifying Reason...
deign, v. (2)
SR 2.84 1 Not possibly will the soul...with
thousand-cloven tongue, deign
to repeat itself;...
SR 2.88 27 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to
enter and inhabit you...
deigns, v. (2)
Bty 6.305 22 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of
poetry, plants wings at
our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a
truer
line, which the mind knows and owns.
Milt1 12.249 4 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the
obstacles that are to be
overcome before that which he proposes can be done.
deities, n. (3)
Mrs1 3.133 15 There will always be in society certain
persons...whose
glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the
world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their
coldness
as an omen of grace with the loftier deities...
Wsp 6.205 16 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let
loose their petulant
wit on their deities also.
CW 12.170 6 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of
color and of
sounds,/...
deity, n. (10)
Tran 1.334 14 ...the deity of man is to be
self-sustained...
Comp 2.116 27 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to
the brave and
power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
OS 2.270 5 ...I desire...to indicate the heaven of this
deity...
Exp 3.77 15 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and
at every
comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though
not
in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be
otherwise
than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the
proper
deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
Exp 3.78 7 Every day, every act betrays the
ill-concealed deity.
PPh 4.52 2 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of
both [unity and
diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from
organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is...executive
deity.
MoS 4.183 19 This faith avails to the whole emergency
of life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
Chr2 10.119 15 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel
expands to the blue
cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/
Where
he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
LLNE 10.329 23 Instead of the social existence which
all shared, was now
separation. Every one...driven to find all his resources, hopes,
rewards, society and deity within himself.
Milt1 12.260 14 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind
may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and
see each blissful deity,/ How he before
the thunderous throne doth lie./
Deity, n. (29)
AmS 1.90 20 Whatever talents may be, if the man create
not, the pure
efflux of the Deity is not his;...
DSA 1.146 7 ...acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
LE 1.173 9 ...by virtue of the Deity, thought renews
itself inexhaustibly
every day...
Tran 1.334 19 Everything divine shares the
self-existence of Deity.
SR 2.57 11 In your metaphysics you have denied
personality to the Deity...
Lov1 2.181 11 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth
before the soul...
Fdsp 2.194 20 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with
itself, I find [my
friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and
cancels
the thick walls of individual character...
Prd1 2.240 20 If not the Deity but our ambition hews
and shapes the new
relations, their virtue escapes...
OS 2.286 27 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity
will shine through
him...
Pt1 3.17 7 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this
superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are
covered with... commandments of the Deity,--in this, that there is no
fact in nature which
does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
UGM 4.28 4 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul
which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
PPh 4.53 24 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern
pilgrimages, imbibed the idea
of one Deity...
PPh 4.66 4 Such as were fit to govern, into their
composition the informing
Deity mingled gold;...
SwM 4.106 26 ...[Swedenborg] held...that the wiser a
man is, the more will
he be a worshipper of the Deity.
SwM 4.137 23 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the
desire to insert the
element of personality of Deity.
ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of
men...builds altars to the
negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
ET16 5.281 23 The heroic antiquary [William
Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and
religion of the world, and... does not stick to say, the Deity who made
the world by the scheme of
Stonehenge.
F 6.21 13 ...you would soothe a Deity not to be
soothed.
F 6.47 22 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who
secures universal
benefit by his pain.
Pow 6.66 14 ...in representations of the Deity,
painting, poetry, and popular
religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
Insp 8.284 15 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock
itself to be deluged with
Deity...
Grts 8.309 17 If we should ask ourselves what is this
self-respect, it would
carry us to the highest problems. It is our practical perception of the
Deity
in man.
Chr2 10.100 4 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws
in respect to
imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
Chr2 10.104 11 Every nation is degraded by the goblins
it worships instead
of this Deity.
Chr2 10.109 13 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay
bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim,
with disappointment, Is that all?
Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of
goodness...the Deity
becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
LLNE 10.336 18 Astronomy...compelled a certain
extension and uplifting
of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
MAng1 12.222 3 There needs no better proof of our
instinctive feeling of
the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the
uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed
towards
Anthropomorphism, or attributing to the Deity the human form.
Milt1 12.263 18 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the
Deity may have
bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if
any
ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.
deject, v. (1)
Milt1 12.264 4 ...[Milton] declares that a certain
niceness of nature, an
honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above
those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge
himself that can agree to such degradation.
dejected, adj. (1)
Prch 10.232 10 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or
indifference on
Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected
Saturday or Monday.
dejection, n. (2)
OA 7.320 7 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you
look into the faces
of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
EPro 11.326 12 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection
sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
delay, n. (7)
NER 3.253 6 ...a society for the protection of
ground-worms, slugs and
mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.
ET5 5.81 1 All the steps [the English] orderly
take;...keeping their eye on
their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several
series of
means they employ.
Wsp 6.228 9 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the
wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay.
PI 8.70 16 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this
multitude of
vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying
themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
QO 8.180 1 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must
make the best
amends we can...
FSLN 11.239 2 The delay of the Divine Justice-this was
the meaning and
soul of the Greek Tragedy;...
EPro 11.317 21 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most
indulgent
construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay.
delay, v. (3)
AmS 1.108 24 I ought not to delay longer to add what I
have to say of
nearer reference to the time and to this country.
Prch 10.217 15 The old [religious] forms rattle, and
the new delay to
appear;...
EPro 11.325 23 It was well to delay the steamers at the
wharves until this
edict [the Emancipation Proclamation] could be put on board.
delayed, v. (4)
Edc1 10.150 6 ...though every young man is born with
some determination
in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed...
MMEm 10.427 22 ...if it were in the nature of things
possible He could
withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith...
that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was
decreed, was fixed.
EWI 11.106 20 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned
again and again, and judgment delayed.
ACiv 11.309 8 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh
up the essence of
every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is
delayed in the execution.
delays, n. (8)
Farm 7.139 5 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting,
hunting or
planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and
sun...
Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing,
yachting, hunting or
planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...delays of the
seasons...
Suc 7.304 5 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and
his beloved] might
somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief
that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and
delays...
FSLN 11.238 27 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but
comes surely. The
proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival.
FSLN 11.239 16 These delays [of Retribution], you see
them now in the
temper of the times.
Wom 11.410 18 The horse and ox use no delays;...
Wom 11.410 22 ...man invents and adorns all he does
with delays and
degrees...
II 12.67 6 All true wisdom of thought and of action
comes of deference to
this instinct, patience with its delays.
delegate, n. (3)
AmS 1.108 4 ...each bard, each actor has only done for
me, as by a
delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
Aris 10.52 23 Genius...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by
all men as their delegate.
HDC 11.82 4 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its
delegate, accepted the
new Constitution of the United States...
delegate, v. (2)
Wth 6.113 23 Let [the realist] delegate to others the
costly courtesies and
decorations of social life.
Farm 7.137 13 ...every man has an exceptional respect
for tillage, and a
feeling...that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstance
which made him delegate it for a time to other hands.
delegated, adj. (3)
AmS 1.84 5 In this distribution of functions the scholar
is the delegated
intellect.
UGM 4.34 19 ...at last we shall cease to look in men
for completeness, and
shall content ourselves with their social and delegated quality.
LVB 11.96 10 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray
with one voice more
that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen
millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which
threatens the Cherokee tribe.
delegated, v. (4)
Exp 3.61 3 ...we should...do broad justice where we
are...accepting our
actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom
the
universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
Wsp 6.223 1 God has delegated himself to a million
deputies.
LVB 11.90 24 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the
good pleasure and the
understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the
Indians] shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have
delegated the office
of dealing with them.
EWI 11.132 1 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its own
shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
delegates, v. (2)
Nat2 3.196 20 That power...which makes the whole and the
particle its
equal channel, delegates its smile to the morning...
ET18 5.302 16 We cannot go deep enough into the
biography of the spirit
who...delegates his energy in parts or spasms to vicious and defective
individuals.
delegating, v. (1)
Wsp 6.221 27 ...the police and sincerity of the universe
are secured by God'
s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
delegation, n. (1)
SR 2.88 21 ...with each new uproar of announcement, The
delegation from
Essex!...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new
thousand of eyes and arms.
deleterious, adj. (2)
Pow 6.65 6 Politics is a deleterious profession...
EWI 11.138 18 [Virtuous men] have found out the
deleterious effect of
political association.
Delhi, India, n. (1)
Edc1 10.143 8 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at
Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the
king of Delhi.
deliberate, adj. (2)
ET8 5.136 19 On deliberate choice and from grounds of
character, [the
English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
ET19 5.309 10 In looking over recently a
newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I
incline to reprint it, as fitly
expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees
well
enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded
in
the foregoing pages.
deliberate, v. (1)
HDC 11.71 5 In August [1774], a County Convention met in
this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public
affairs...
deliberately, adv. (1)
Milt1 12.265 21 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the
defence of the
English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the
cost of
sight.
deliberating, v. (2)
Boks 7.194 24 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand
deliberating which book
your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
Imtl 8.323 2 ...when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was
deliberating on
receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him:
The
present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...
reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
deliberation, n. (5)
Int 2.328 14 You cannot with your best deliberation and
heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Mrs1 3.138 5 Every natural function can be dignified by
deliberation and
privacy.
ET10 5.164 26 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put
into stone and
iron [in England], into silver and gold, with costly deliberation and
detail.
CbW 6.275 4 ...life would be twice or ten times life if
spent with wise and
fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful
deliberation
and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
EPro 11.318 10 ...when it became every day more
apparent what gigantic
and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the
President [Lincoln],-one can hardly say the deliberation [on
Emancipation] was too long.
deliberations, n. (1)
CSC 10.373 19 This [Chardon Street] Convention never
printed any report
of its deliberations,
delicacies, n. (2)
Fdsp 2.205 11 We chide the citizen because he makes love
a commodity. It...quite loses sight of the delicacies and nobility of
the relation.
EurB 12.371 11 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who
collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such
superfineness. We
must not make our bread of pure sugar. These delicacies and splendors
are
then legitimate when they are the excess of substantial and necessary
expenditure.
delicacy, n. (21)
Tran 1.345 6 ...this masterpiece is the result of such
an extreme delicacy
that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most
aspiring
genius, and spoil the work.
Lov1 2.179 14 Who can analyze the nameless charm which
glances from
one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination
by any
attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations
of
friendship or love known and described in society, but...to relations
of
transcendent delicacy and sweetness...
Fdsp 2.202 6 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough
in his constitution
to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time,
Want, Danger].
Mrs1 3.138 17 Men are too coarsely made for the
delicacy of beautiful
carriage and customs.
Pol1 3.201 16 The history of the State...follows at a
distance the delicacy of
culture and of aspiration.
ShP 4.210 5 What maiden has not found [Shakespeare]
finer than her
delicacy?
ET4 5.47 7 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or
litheness, or stature that
give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then
the
miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the
training...which resulted in this...delicacy of thought...
ET4 5.68 7 Admiral Rodney's figure approached to
delicacy and
effeminacy...
ET9 5.145 19 A much older traveller...says... ...
...whenever [the English] partake of any delicacy with a foreigner,
they ask him whether such a thing
is made in his country.
Wth 6.116 17 An engraver, whose hands must be of an
exquisite delicacy
of stroke, should not lay stone walls.
Bhr 6.187 18 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy
of sentiment
leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
Civ 7.19 11 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a
highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment...
PPo 8.252 19 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the
opportunity of the
most playful self-assertion...sometimes with feminine delicacy.
Insp 8.289 25 ...the machine with which we are dealing
is of such an
inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be respected.
Insp 8.290 4 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his
robust will, yet found
certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which
composition
exacted...
SovE 10.189 14 The excellence of men consists in the
completeness with
which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process of much
time
and delicacy...
Plu 10.306 8 The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our
new tendencies of
civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
Bost 12.198 13 No external advantages...can bestow that
delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
ACri 12.296 27 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a
perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy,
or descend to coarsest
sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
WSL 12.338 20 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic
man...capable of the utmost
delicacy of sentiment...
WSL 12.345 27 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme
delicacy of this
element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama
and
in novels.
delicate, adj. (58)
Nat 1.26 22 ...flowers express to us the delicate
affections.
Nat 1.40 10 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air
into wise and
melodious words...
MN 1.212 20 ...[the stars] desire to republish
themselves in a more delicate
world than that they occupy.
MR 1.236 19 We must have a basis for...our delicate
entertainments of
poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
Tran 1.345 1 ...the delicate [nature] will be shallow,
or the victim of
sensibility;...
Hist 2.21 6 The mountain of granite [the Gothic
cathedral] blooms into an
eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the
aerial
proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
Fdsp 2.200 15 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk
in which a delicate
organization is protected from premature ripening.
Hsm1 2.258 6 A great man makes his climate genial in
the imagination of
men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
Pt1 3.8 12 ...we hear those primal warblings and
attempt to write them
down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute
something
of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear
write
down these cadences more faithfully...
Pt1 3.9 5 I took part in a conversation the other day
concerning a recent
writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate
tunes
and rhythms...
Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the
aspiration of the whole
universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on
his mind.
Gts 3.159 23 ...these delicate flowers look like the
frolic and interference of
love and beauty.
Nat2 3.173 2 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our
little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight...
ShP 4.207 16 Did Shakspeare confide to any...sacristan,
or surrogate in
Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's
Dream]?
ET1 5.14 10 ...Montague, still talking with his back to
the canvas, put up
his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not
ten
years old:--so delicate and skilful was that man's touch.
ET4 5.47 13 How came such men as...Francis Bacon,
George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these
delicate
natures?...
ET6 5.108 15 Nothing can be more delicate without being
fantastical...than
the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
ET6 5.112 8 An Englishman of fashion is like one of
those souvenirs... enriched with delicate engravings on thick
hot-pressed paper...but with
nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
F 6.1 1 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard
true witness bare;/...
F 6.44 25 ...the great man...is...of a fibre irritable
and delicate...
Wth 6.101 20 The coin is a delicate meter of civil,
social and moral
changes.
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.
Bhr 6.197 13 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid,
to perfect
manners? the golden mean is so delicate, difficult...
Civ 7.24 4 ...a severe morality gives that essential
charm to woman which
educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
Art2 7.40 1 The useful arts comprehend...navigation,
practical chemistry
and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and
instruments by
which man serves himself;...
Elo1 7.67 2 There is a tablet [in the audience] for
every line [the orator] can
inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons
are
conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their
own
native language for the first time...
Farm 7.147 6 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and
their fruit will never be
allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years
they
mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
Farm 7.149 13 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your
table whence they
drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
WD 7.159 9 Why need I speak of steam...with its
enormous strength and
delicate applicability...
WD 7.172 3 Kinde was the old English term,
which...filled only half the
range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura,
about to
be born...
Clbs 7.225 1 We are delicate machines...
Clbs 7.233 9 The greatest sufferers are often...men of
a delicate sympathy, who are dumb in mixed company.
PI 8.72 17 Music seems to you sufficient, or the subtle
and delicate scent of
lavender;...
SA 8.81 12 In the most delicate natures, fine
temperament and culture build
this impassable wall [of manners].
Elo2 8.120 23 The voice...is a delicate index of the
state of mind.
Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate
and protected child
from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public
schools.
PC 8.225 5 Look out into the July night and see the
broad belt of silver
flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the
bonfires
of the meadow-flies.
PPo 8.248 8 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who
are sufficient to see that
the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it
entangles...
Insp 8.281 6 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as
of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
Insp 8.291 22 ...the delicate muses lose their head if
their attention is once
diverted.
Grts 8.307 22 [A man] is never happy nor strong until
he...learns to watch
the delicate hints and insights that come to him...
Imtl 8.334 7 After science begins, belief of permanence
must follow in a
healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so
transcendently
skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find
out...the
delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it
all
forever hidden!
Dem1 10.4 3 ...the astonishment remains that one should
dream; that we
should...become the theatre of delirious shows...a delicate creation
outdoing
the prime and flower of actual Nature...
SovE 10.210 11 I know how delicate this [moral]
principle is...
LLNE 10.369 6 [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...
MMEm 10.418 9 O the power of vision, then the delicate
power of the
nerve which receives impressions from sounds!
Thor 10.475 3 [Thoreau] would pass by many delicate
rhythms [in poetry]...
EWI 11.133 21 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even
to be absent when
delicate things are to be handled.
FSLN 11.229 22 The theory of personal liberty must
always appeal...to the
men...of delicate moral sense.
FSLN 11.238 5 The habit of mind of traders in power
would not be
esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
Wom 11.405 13 [Women] are more delicate than
men,-delicate as iodine
to light...
Wom 11.405 24 ...as more delicate mercuries of the
imponderable and
immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of
coming events.
PLT 12.42 18 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the
laws of the world...
CInt 12.128 9 Now if there be genius in the scholar, a
delicate sensibility to
the laws of the world...he is made to find his own way.
CL 12.158 17 The effect [of viewing the landscape
upside down] is
remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine
suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...returns more
delicate impressions.
Milt1 12.261 1 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of
prolonged and delicate
melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...
Milt1 12.263 14 [Milton] is innocent and exact, because
his taste was so
pure and delicate.
Pray 12.350 6 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up
at heaven and enter
there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids,
whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..
delicately, adv. (8)
Nat2 3.173 12 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our
little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These
sunset
clouds, these delicately emerging stars...signify it and proffer it.
ET8 5.131 15 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of
the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
F 6.45 2 [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.
Imtl 8.325 25 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs
at Pompeii. The poet
Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem
not
so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers
for immortal spirits.
Schr 10.270 23 Genius is a poor man and has no house,
but see, this proud
landlord who has built the palace and furnished it so delicately, opens
it to
him...
SMC 11.357 3 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...young men...of
excellent education and polished manners, delicately brought up;...
Milt1 12.257 21 ...[Milton's] voice, we are told, was
delicately sweet and
harmonious.
Milt1 12.269 9 Milton...delicately bred in all the
elegancy of art and
learning, was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society
of the
Puritans.
delicious, adj. (32)
Nat 1.50 7 The best moments of life are these delicious
awakenings of the
higher powers...
Lov1 2.169 24 The delicious fancies of youth reject the
least savor of a
mature philosophy...
Lov1 2.171 12 Let any man go back to those delicious
relations which
make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
Lov1 2.174 20 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in
their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein
affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental
and trivial
circumstances.
Fdsp 2.193 15 What [is] so delicious as a just and firm
encounter of two, in
a thought...
Fdsp 2.195 17 I have often had fine fancies about
persons which have
given me delicious hours;...
Fdsp 2.198 21 ...thou art to me a delicious torment.
UGM 4.4 2 You say...in Valencia the climate is
delicious;...
UGM 4.17 13 [The imagination] opens the delicious sense
of indeterminate
size...
PPh 4.67 14 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there
is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our
intercourse be;...
SwM 4.128 11 I know how delicious is this cup of
love...
GoW 4.278 3 I suppose no book of this century can
compare with [Goethe'
s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
ET3 5.42 14 In the variety of surface, Britain is a
miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale,
delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...
ET3 5.42 15 In the variety of surface, Britain is a
miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale,
delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...
ET4 5.55 19 ...[The Celts] made the best popular
literature of the Middle
Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of
Arthur.
Ctr 6.137 7 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and
superiors, revives
the delicious sense of sympathy...
Bty 6.286 27 The delicious faces of children...we know
how these forms
thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
Bty 6.301 21 When the delicious beauty of lineaments
loses its power, it is
because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
Bty 6.301 23 When the delicious beauty of lineaments
loses its power, it is
because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
SS 7.4 20 ...[my new friend] consoled himself with the
delicious thought of
the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
DL 7.128 24 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains,
which runs in
translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of
delicious
meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual
treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the
shadow of a Friend./
WD 7.181 7 The savages in the islands...delight to play
with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out
again, and repeat the
delicious manoeuvre for hours.
Clbs 7.228 19 How sweet those hours when the day was
not long enough to
communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses
we
had hoarded!
Suc 7.304 3 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and
his beloved] might
somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief
that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and
delays...
PI 8.18 25 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret
which [the act of
imagination] reveals to us.
SA 8.83 10 When a man meets his accurate mate, society
begins, and life is
delicious.
Insp 8.287 7 ...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and
dreadful words never
uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the
October
woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
Aris 10.53 2 ...Genius...gives [men] a sense of
delicious liberty and power.
Supl 10.164 13 Especially we note this tendency to
extremes in the pleasant
excitement of horror-mongers. Is there something so delicious in
disasters
and pain?
MMEm 10.409 21 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to
give pain
rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like
necessity
of my being on earth...
CL 12.140 12 In summer, we have...scores of days when
the heat is so rich, and yet so tempered, that it is delicious to live.
MLit 12.310 12 Over every true poem lingers a certain
wild beauty, immeasurable; a happiness lightsome and delicious fills
the heart and
brain...
deliciously, adv. (1)
UGM 4.3 8 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men
ate the earth and
found it deliciously sweet.
delight, n. (117)
Nat 1.9 6 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs
through the man...
Nat 1.9 11 ...every hour and season yields its tribute
of delight;...
Nat 1.10 21 The greatest delight which the fields and
woods minister is the
suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
Nat 1.11 5 ...it is certain that the power to produce
this delight does not
reside in nature...
Nat 1.12 16 The misery of man appears like childish
petulance, when we
explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his
support and delight...
Nat 1.15 7 ...the primary forms...give us delight in
and for themselves;...
Nat 1.16 14 ...the simple perception of natural forms
is a delight.
Nat 1.23 10 All men are in some degree impressed by the
face of the world; some men even to delight.
Nat 1.65 20 The poet finds something ridiculous in his
delight until he is
out of the sight of men.
Nat 1.69 7 Nothing we see, but means our good,/ As our
delight, or as our
treasure;/...
DSA 1.121 13 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and
delight in the
presence of certain divine laws.
SR 2.79 24 The pupil takes the same delight in
subordinating every thing to
the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a
new
earth and new seasons thereby.
SL 2.149 10 If any ingenious reader would have a
monopoly of the wisdom
or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it
were
imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a
more than average
delight in accurate perception...
Hsm1 2.245 11 In harmony with this delight in personal
advantages [in the
elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast
of
character and dialogue...
Hsm1 2.257 4 ...the power of a romance over the boy who
grasps the
forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is
the
main fact to our purpose.
OS 2.281 8 Every distinct apprehension of this central
commandment [of
the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
OS 2.282 18 The rapture of the Moravian and
Quietist;...the experiences of
the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight
with
which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
Int 2.344 20 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office
when he has
educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years. He is now to
approve
himself a master of delight to me also.
Exp 3.55 17 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that
I thought I should
not need any other book;...
Mrs1 3.131 10 ...to exclude and mystify pretenders and
send them into
everlasting Coventry, is [fashion's] delight.
Mrs1 3.147 22 ...within the ethnical circle of good
society there is a
narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of
pride
and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom
heroic
dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in
society and
the power to embellish the passing day.
UGM 4.18 8 Our delight in reason degenerates into
idolatry of the herald.
UGM 4.18 19 It is the delight of vulgar talent to
dazzle and to blind the
beholder.
PPh 4.52 24 European civility is...delight in forms,
delight in
manifestation...
SwM 4.136 4 My learning is such as God gave me...in the
delight and study
of my eyes...
SwM 4.146 2 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the
trance of delight, the
more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
MoS 4.162 20 I remember the delight and wonder in which
I lived with [Montaigne's Essays].
ShP 4.209 19 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample
pictures of the
gentleman and the king...his delight in troops of friends...
NMW 4.230 15 That common-sense which no sooner respects
any end than
it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of
means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may
almost call, from its
extent, the modern party.
GoW 4.277 27 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very
intelligent
persons with wonder and delight.
GoW 4.280 26 In France there is even a greater delight
in intellectual
brilliancy for its own sake.
ET10 5.159 11 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts]
succeeded, and in 1830
procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of
mill-owners...
ET11 5.187 17 Every one who has tasted the delight of
friendship will
respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
ET12 5.201 3 Hither [to Oxford] came Erasmus, with
delight, in 1497.
ET15 5.271 12 [Punch's] sketches are...the delight of
every class...
Pow 6.82 2 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a
shred...is traced back
to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on
being
shown this, rubs his hands with delight.
CbW 6.243 24 ...Mask thy wisdom with delight,/ Toy with
the bow, yet hit
the white./
Bty 6.289 27 Beyond their sensuous delight, the forms
and colors of nature
have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was
added
for ornament...
Ill 6.316 13 We find a delight in the beauty and
happiness of children that
makes the heart too big for the body.
Civ 7.21 21 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the
horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his
chief
enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and art are born, manners and
social
beauty and delight.
Art2 7.45 6 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured, who do not ask a
fine
spiritual delight, almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a
picture
of Titian.
Art2 7.45 11 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much
pleasure
as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of
Canova or
the picture of Titian, these...are the basis on which the fine spirit
rears a
higher delight...
Art2 7.46 19 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be
felt in the greater
delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
Art2 7.51 4 ...the delight which a work of art affords,
seems to arise from
our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
Elo1 7.70 20 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the
Arabian Nights] to
save her life, and the delight of young Europe and young America in
them
proves that she fairly earned it.
DL 7.120 21 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate
delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each
one after the early
separations which school or business require;...
WD 7.185 7 ...this is the progress of every earnest
mind; from the works of
man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which
rule
them;...
Boks 7.209 12 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the
delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate
delight
in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
Clbs 7.244 12 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men
than he--if they
cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their
mutual
benefit and delight?
Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a
delight only to hear a child'
s voice fully addressed to him...
OA 7.329 8 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with
delight the little white
Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven
stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his
system.
OA 7.329 17 An old scholar finds keen delight in
verifying the impressive
anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and
hearing, in all the years of youth.
PI 8.12 26 Mark the delight of an audience in an image.
PI 8.18 22 The act of imagination is ever attended by
pure delight.
PI 8.22 2 This union of first and second sight reads
Nature to the end of
delight and of moral use.
SA 8.90 13 The delight in good company...doubles the
value of life.
SA 8.95 2 ...[the party in the second coach]
had...breathed a purer air: such
a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and
Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight.
SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of
life...is...a flame of
affection or delight in the heart...
Elo2 8.113 11 ...recall the delight that sudden
eloquence gives...
Elo2 8.123 3 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first
lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
Comc 8.167 27 ...[the physician] rubbed his hands with
delight...
QO 8.177 11 In the highest civilization the book is
still the highest delight.
QO 8.178 24 By necessity, by proclivity and by delight,
we all quote.
PC 8.214 24 ...[the Middle Ages'] Gothic architecture,
their painting, are
the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.222 19 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an
apple to the ground, the
fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was
accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a
fact
more immense still...
Insp 8.283 3 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes
his delight in this
skill [of writing verse]...
Insp 8.286 28 ...we take as much delight in finding the
right place for an
old observation, as in a new thought.
Insp 8.288 2 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the
swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye...
Imtl 8.333 26 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the
few simple elements
of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in
permanence.
Aris 10.59 5 ...difficulty is [a grand interest's]
delight...
PerF 10.75 23 [Labor] is...in works of safety, of
delight, of wrath, of
science.
PerF 10.76 11 ...[man] draws on all knowledge as his
province, on all
beauty for his innocent delight...
PerF 10.80 15 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to
play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the
company;...
Chr2 10.93 2 ...love is delight in the preference of
that benefit redounding
to another over the securing of our own share;...
Edc1 10.148 22 The child is as hot to learn as the
mother is to impart. There is mutual delight.
SovE 10.209 15 ...the inspirations we catch of this
[moral] law are... recorded for their beauty, for the delight they
give...
SovE 10.212 18 ...all the religion we have is the
ethics of one or another
holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will...and
delight of
good men and women in him.
MoL 10.252 18 Thought...is the prolific source of all
arts, of all wealth, of
all delight, of all grandeur.
Schr 10.279 4 The peril of every fine faculty is the
delight of playing with
it for pride.
Schr 10.284 24 Happy for more than yourself, a
benefactor of men, if you
can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;
bestowing
on the general mind of men organic creations, to be the guidance and
delight of all who know them.
Plu 10.303 18 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him
cite with joy the
speech of Gorgias...
Plu 10.314 18 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty
lead him to his stern
delight in heroism;...
Plu 10.318 3 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and
self-sacrifice has
made his books...a bible for heroes;...
Plu 10.318 25 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's
poems not only for
himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight
of the
Persian youth...
LLNE 10.363 2 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and
philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact
contemporaries
so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or
bird-hunting;... finding his delight in the petulant heroism of
boys;...
EzRy 10.392 9 We remember the remark of a gentleman who
listened with
much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could
tell a
story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
MMEm 10.397 9 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If
He should
make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's
content
would find it right./
MMEm 10.409 12 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson]
wandered from the
cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses
of
ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the
initiated
by birth, wealth, talents and patronage. I submit with delight...
MMEm 10.430 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest
place of
acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy
would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I
crave;...
MMEm 10.431 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid
her
passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the
delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original...
LS 11.25 1 [The pastoral office] has some [duties]
which it will always be
my delight to discharge according to my ability...
HDC 11.66 10 Mr. Bliss heard that great orator [George
Whitefield] with
delight...
EWI 11.129 3 ...a delight in justice...combined with
the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil
or the protection of the
English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the
West
Indies].
War 11.154 15 ...[war] is at this moment the delight of
half the world...
EdAd 11.387 6 ...the right patriotism consists in the
delight which springs
from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit
of
humanity.
Humb 11.456 3 If a life prolonged to an advanced period
bring with it
several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in
the
delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that
which
now exists...
Scot 11.461 1 Scott, the delight of generous boys.
Scot 11.463 22 ...we still claim that [Scott's] poetry
is the delight of boys.
FRO2 11.490 12 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating
an insight from
the Jews. I hail every one with delight...
CPL 11.499 27 ...in reference to her favorite authors,
[Mary Moody
Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from
God.
CPL 11.507 21 The imagination...if it has not
had...Homer or Scott, has
drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will
hear of with envy.
PLT 12.4 25 Every creation...is on the method and by
the means which our
mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;
hence
the delight.
PLT 12.47 13 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a
certain feeling
and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
PLT 12.48 7 Each of these talents is born to be
unfolded and set at work for
the use and delight of men...
II 12.82 24 The secret of power is delight in one's
work.
II 12.82 25 [A man] takes delight in working, not in
having wrought.
CL 12.164 16 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading
the verses under the
Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
Bost 12.193 18 [The Massachusetts colonists] read
Milton, Thomas a
Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...
MAng1 12.226 20 ...we observe with delight that,
besides the sublimity and
even extravagance of Michael Angelo, he possessed an unexpected
dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
Milt1 12.252 18 We think we have seen and heard
criticism upon [Milton'
s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the
recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...the
praise of intimate knowledge and delight;...
Milt1 12.255 1 ...we think it impossible to recall one
in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same
vibration of
hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name
of
Milton awakens.
Milt1 12.268 17 ...the invocations of the Eternal
Spirit in the
commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are
thoughts, and so are still read with delight.
ACri 12.293 19 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find
best examples in the
great masters, and are main sources of the delight they give.
ACri 12.298 19 ...one would think...a sympathizing and
much-reading
America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to
offer
congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of
such
a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...
WSL 12.344 1 ...beyond his delight in genius and his
love of individual and
civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the
appreciation of character.
PPr 12.384 13 It is plain that whether by hope or by
fear, or were it only by
delight in this panorama of brilliant images, all the great classes of
English
society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
delight, v. (43)
AmS 1.103 26 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his
privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally
true. The
people delight in it;...
Lov1 2.185 5 The lovers delight in endearments...
Pt1 3.29 14 ...the poet's habit of living should be set
on a key so low that
the common influences should delight him.
Gts 3.165 17 ...love [men], and they feel you and
delight in you all the time.
UGM 4.15 14 The people cannot see [the hero] enough.
They delight in a
man.
PPh 4.73 4 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown
to delight in nothing
else than this conversation;...
PNR 4.88 2 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely
those who delight
in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to
every truth... are said to Platonize.
ET1 5.9 17 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of
freak which the
English delight to indulge...
ET4 5.67 26 The English delight in the antagonism which
combines in one
person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
ET5 5.87 2 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and
difficult tactics, but
delight to bring the affair hand to hand;...
ET10 5.165 8 [The English] delight in a freak as the
proof of their
sovereign freedom.
ET14 5.232 9 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy
expression...
Wsp 6.226 14 There was never a man born so wise or good
but one or more
companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty and
report it.
Civ 7.23 19 The skilful combinations of civil
government...in their result
delight the imagination.
WD 7.181 5 The savages in the islands...delight to play
with the surf...
Clbs 7.241 12 We consider those who are interested in
thoughts...and who
delight in comparing them;...
Cour 7.256 9 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a
cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books, the
ballads which delight boys...may testify.
Cour 7.256 10 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
romances which delight men...may testify.
SA 8.79 8 Who does not delight in fine manners?
SA 8.91 26 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a
friend we...surround it
with illustrations that help and delight us.
SA 8.106 26 They only can give the key and leading to
better society: those
who delight in each other only because both delight in the eternal
laws;...
SA 8.106 27 They only can give the key and leading to
better society: those
who delight in each other only because both delight in the eternal
laws;...
Insp 8.293 5 If the tone of the companion is higher
than ours, we delight in
rising to it.
Imtl 8.330 11 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I
delight in believing
myself as immortal as God himself.
Imtl 8.335 10 We delight in stability...
Dem1 10.17 23 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be
grasped
by a conception, much less by a word. ... Only in the impossible it
seemed
to delight...
PerF 10.78 24 I delight in tracing these wonderful
[mental] powers...
Chr2 10.99 25 There are men who astonish and delight...
Chr2 10.101 9 The Arabians delight in expressing the
sympathy of the
unseen world with holy men.
Edc1 10.153 4 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in
personal relations with
young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
SovE 10.205 26 We delight in children because of that
religious eye which
belongs to them;...
Schr 10.276 27 ...I delight to see the Godhead in
distribution;...
Schr 10.277 14 I delight in men adorned and weaponed
with manlike arts...
Plu 10.304 13 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe,
some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures, and how
they delight and tickle
the ears and fancies of the hearers?
MMEm 10.412 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight
to return to
God.
SMC 11.349 12 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy
for the names and
anecdotes which we delight to record.
SHC 11.428 3 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen
droops/ Along the
modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their
plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
SHC 11.436 11 All great natures delight in
stability;...
PLT 12.58 24 No wonder the children...delight in
theatricals.
CInt 12.119 9 I delight in people who can do things.
Milt1 12.277 7 The creations of Shakspeare are cast
into the world of
thought to no further end than to delight.
Pray 12.352 10 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always
delight to commune
with thee in my lone and silent heart;...
EurB 12.374 11 For this reason, children delight in
fairy tales. Nature is
described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be
true.
delighted, adj. (2)
PI 8.53 2 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you
heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
Imtl 8.323 13 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little
sparrow enters at one
door, and flies delighted around us till it departs through the other.
delighted, v. (35)
Nat 1.8 7 The flowers, the animals, the mountains,
reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour, as much as they
had delighted the simplicity of
his childhood.
Lov1 2.181 4 [What we love] is that which you know not
in yourself and
can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty
which the ancient writers delighted in;...
Nat2 3.186 3 The child...delighted with every new
thing, lies down at night
overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness
has
incurred.
NR 3.238 25 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to
unfold [his
endowment] in propitious circumstance...he is delighted with his
success...
PPh 4.52 21 If the East loved infinity, the West
delighted in boundaries.
PPh 4.64 19 [Plato] delighted in every
accomplishment...
PPh 4.71 12 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his
humor a perfect
temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to
certain defeat in any debate,--and in debate he immoderately delighted.
PNR 4.85 7 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in
revealing the real at
the base of the accidental;...
SwM 4.110 17 These grand rhymes or returns in
nature...delighted the
prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
NMW 4.249 20 [Napoleon] delighted in running through
the range of
practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
NMW 4.250 22 [Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation
of men of
science...
NMW 4.252 7 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her
ladies...by the
terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every
addition.
NMW 4.255 15 ...[Napoleon]...delighted in his infamous
police...
Elo1 7.71 13 Homer specially delighted in drawing the
same figure [of the
orator].
OA 7.334 17 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George
Whitefield] with
Jonathan Sewall.--And you were pleased with him, sir?--Pleased! I was
delighted beyond measure.
Elo2 8.117 26 A worthy gentleman...listening to the
debates of the General
Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...delighted with the talent
shown by Dr. Hugh Blair, went to him and offered him one thousand
pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in
public.
Res 8.148 1 ...we have noted examples among our
orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a
malignant mob...by a wit which
disconcerted and at last delighted the ring-leaders.
PPo 8.262 20 A painter in China once painted a hall;/
Such a web never
hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors
did
run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/ So that all which
delighted the eye in one side,/ The same, point for point, in the other
replied./
Imtl 8.325 14 [The Greek] loved life and delighted in
beauty.
Prch 10.220 19 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly
in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of
the intellect...we are like
hunters on the scent...
Schr 10.263 9 A celebrated musician was wont to say,
that men knew not
how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did
others;...
Plu 10.319 10 If Plutarch delighted in heroes...his
humanity shines not less
in his intercourse with his personal friends.
Plu 10.319 14 [Plutarch]...delighted in bringing chosen
companions to the
supper-table.
LLNE 10.333 19 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton...
MMEm 10.405 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] delighted in
success, in youth, in beauty...
MMEm 10.418 1 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been
the means
of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was
honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is
closed, and I am delighted with myself...
MMEm 10.428 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted
herself with the
discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their
sidewalk, by
the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
Thor 10.456 21 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily
and childlike into the
company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...
Thor 10.481 22 [Thoreau] delighted in echoes...
FSLC 11.202 19 We delighted in [Webster's] form and
face...
JBS 11.279 21 Walter Scott would have delighted to draw
[John Brown's] picture...
ALin 11.332 25 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor, running
easily into
jocular talk, in which he delighted and in which he excelled, was a
rich gift
to this wise man.
Scot 11.466 2 ...[Scott's] eminent humanity delighted
in the sense and
virtue and wit of the common people.
CPL 11.503 22 'T is a tie between men to have been
delighted with the
same book.
MAng1 12.236 3 When the Pope, delighted with one of his
chapels, sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's
wages, Michael sent them back.
delighteth, v. (1)
Schr 10.287 25 Give me bareness and poverty so that I
know them as the
sure heralds of the Muse. Not in plenty...she delighteth.
delightful, adj. (13)
UGM 4.8 9 The aid we have from others is mechanical
compared with the
discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the
doing, and the effect remains.
ET4 5.63 11 The brutality of the manners in the lower
class appears in the
boxing, bear-baiting...and in the readiness for a set-to in the
streets, delightful to the English of all classes.
ET7 5.125 9 Any number of delightful examples of this
English stolidity
are the anecdotes of Europe.
Clbs 7.233 15 How delightful after these disturbers is
the radiant, playful
wit of--one whom I need not name...
Res 8.140 10 The marked events in history, as the
emigration of a colony to
a new and more delightful coast; the building of a large ship;...each
of these
events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
PC 8.223 19 ...[Nature] is hostile to
ignorance,-plastic, transparent, delightful, to knowledge.
Insp 8.294 20 Words used in a new sense and
figuratively, dart a delightful
lustre;...
Edc1 10.149 2 Not less delightful is the mutual
pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret of algebra...
Prch 10.226 12 ...when [the railroads] came into his
poetic Westmoreland, bisecting every delightful valley...[Wordsworth]
yet manned himself to
say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features,
Nature
doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
Plu 10.316 2 [Plutarch] thought, with Epicurus, that it
is more delightful to
do than to receive a kindness.
Plu 10.316 5 This courteous, gentle and benign
disposition and behavior is
not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom
we
converse, as it is to those who have it.
CInt 12.124 8 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy;
here is...the hope and
impulse imparted. And education is what it should be, a delightful
unfolding of the faculties in right order.
Let 12.395 8 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be
understood...to
propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all
uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...
delighting, v. (3)
PPh 4.52 12 ...the seat of a philosophy delighting in
abstractions...is Asia;...
SovE 10.205 3 To a self-denying, ardent church,
delighting in rites and
ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
PLT 12.36 16 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward
image; a terror
sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek-
delighting in accurate form...pay to the unscrutable force we call
Instinct...
delights, n. (6)
ET1 5.13 24 [Coleridge said] There were only three
things which the
government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely,
itch, pox and famine.
Suc 7.299 1 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the
boy in Nature...
OA 7.313 18 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me
with a shining
cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by
old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the
best./
PI 8.55 4 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are
the nights/ In which
you spend your folly!/
Imtl 8.335 27 ...what are these delights in the vast
and permanent and
strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and
sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
Bost 12.187 24 Each great city gathers these values and
delights for
mankind...
delights, v. (48)
DSA 1.120 6 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities,
and the captains, history delights to honor.
MN 1.207 23 The thoughts [a man] delights to utter are
the reason of his
incarnation.
MR 1.232 22 [The general system of our trade] is not
that which a man
delights to unlock to a noble friend;...
Hist 2.15 27 [Nature]...delights in startling us with
resemblances in the
most unexpected quarters.
Lov1 2.173 11 In the village [girls and boys] are on a
perfect equality, which love delights in...
Lov1 2.185 10 Does that other [lover]...feel the same
emotion, that now
delights me?
Int 2.330 12 What you have aggregated in a natural
manner surprises and
delights when it is produced.
Int 2.332 18 Inspect what delights you in Plutarch...
Int 2.332 26 Every trivial fact in [the writer's]
private biography...delights
all men by its piquancy and new charm.
Pt1 3.21 23 ...the poet is the Namer or
Language-maker...giving to every [thing] its own name and not
another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in
detachment or boundary.
Exp 3.63 16 The imagination delights in the woodcraft
of Indians, trappers
and bee-hunters.
Exp 3.67 25 God delights to isolate us every day...
Mrs1 3.139 7 [The spirit of the energetic class]
delights in measure.
ShP 4.215 25 ...[the poet] delights in the world, in
man, in woman, for the
lovely light that sparkles from them.
NMW 4.225 8 Every one of the million readers of
anecdotes or memoirs or
lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his
own
history.
ET9 5.147 19 ...[the English] have...a petty courage,
through which every
man delights in showing himself for what he is and in doing what he
can;...
SS 7.15 11 ...nature delights to put us between extreme
antagonisms...
DL 7.104 7 By lamplight [the nestler] delights in
shadows on the wall;...
Suc 7.306 20 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil,
wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights
in, God delights in too./
Suc 7.306 24 What delights, what emancipates...is wise
and good in speech
and in the arts.
OA 7.316 6 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions
which cling to the
element of time, and in which Nature delights.
PI 8.21 16 The mind delights in measuring itself thus
with matter, with
history, and flouting both.
PI 8.35 17 Every one delights in the felicity
frequently shown in our
drawing-rooms.
PI 8.37 24 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft
have I heard, and
now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
PI 8.48 1 Milton delights in these iterations...
PC 8.208 2 The temper of our people delights in this
whirl of life.
Imtl 8.334 24 The mind delights in immense time;
delights in rocks, in
metals, in mountain chains...
Imtl 8.335 4 The mind delights in immense
time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...
PerF 10.75 18 ...[labor] delights us in the
flower-bed;...
Edc1 10.139 22 Everybody delights in the energy with
which boys deal and
talk with each other;...
Supl 10.176 17 ...Nature delights in showing us that in
the East [the
superlative] is animated...
Supl 10.178 26 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies
[of the East and the
West] necessary each to the other, and delights to reinforce each
peculiarity
by imparting the other.
Schr 10.263 6 ...a true talent delights the possessor
first.
Schr 10.285 23 Genius delights only in statements which
are themselves
true...
Plu 10.295 13 [Henry IV wrote] Plutarch always delights
me with a fresh
novelty.
Plu 10.307 22 ...[Plutarch] delights in memory...
LLNE 10.367 14 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that
nothing so delights
the young Caucasian child as dirt?
MMEm 10.411 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights.
Thor 10.457 5 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see
with regret that his
page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights
everybody?
Wom 11.409 22 [Women's] genius delights in
ceremonies...
PLT 12.25 2 Surcharge [the mind] with thoughts in which
it delights and it
becomes active.
PLT 12.31 23 There is no property or relation in that
immense arsenal of
forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who...delights
to
unfold and work it...
CInt 12.126 27 ...here [in the college] Imagination
should be greeted with
the problems in which it delights;...
ACri 12.293 24 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]
delights in comedy...
MLit 12.311 26 If we should designate favorite studies
in which the age
delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent
literature
of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
WSL 12.339 1 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of
dirt on the table, and
cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
Trag 12.416 20 The intellect is a consoler, which
delights in detaching or
putting an interval between a man and his fortune...
delineated, v. (2)
Nat2 3.175 18 That [the rich] have some high-fenced
grove which they call
a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant
cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet]
has
delineated estates of romance...
MAng1 12.219 23 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by
an understanding
of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.
delineates, v. (1)
Nat 1.51 23 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the
sun...lifted from the
ground and afloat before the eye.
delineating, v. (1)
WSL 12.344 19 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor]
which instructs
him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and,
leaving to
others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of
delineating
character.
delineation, n. (5)
GoW 4.277 22 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every
sense...called by its
admirers the only delineation of modern society...
Boks 7.200 27 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian
manners is an
accessory to Plato...
MAng1 12.232 15 A man of such habits and such deeds [as
Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to
delineation of external
beauty.
Milt1 12.256 23 For the delineation of this heroic
image of man, Milton
enjoyed singular advantages.
Milt1 12.276 24 ...the genius and office of Milton
were...to ascend by the
aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more
lively
delineation of the heroic life of man.
delineators, n. (1)
Schr 10.262 25 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...detectors
and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...
delinquencies, n. (1)
Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and of
truth in all action
makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the
conscience...
deliration, n. (2)
SwM 4.123 8 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense
and sandy
diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities
are like
the last deliration.
Wsp 6.209 1 In creeds never was such levity;
witness...the deliration of
rappings...
delirious, adj. (3)
Elo1 7.62 9 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in
turn exhibits similar
symptoms...delirious attitudes...
Boks 7.209 11 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the
delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
Dem1 10.4 1 ...the astonishment remains that one should
dream; that we
should...become the theatre of delirious shows...
delirium, n. (3)
UGM 4.20 26 These [great] men correct the delirium of
the animal spirits...
OA 7.319 12 ...they who take the larger draughts [of
the cup of time]...lose
their stature, strength, beauty and senses, and end in folly and
delirium.
EdAd 11.389 10 We have a bad war, many victories, each
of which
converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere
political opposition. The country needs to be extricated from its
delirium at
once.
delirium tremens, n. (1)
II 12.75 16 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and
were you never so
vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly
give your
vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the
children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
deliver, v. (14)
MN 1.208 8 Hereto was [a man] born, to deliver the
thought of his heart
from the universe to the universe;...
SR 2.47 9 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his
heart into his
work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall
give
him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver.
SL 2.152 13 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will
deliver an oration on
the Fourth of July...
Pol1 3.216 3 That which...which freedom, cultivation,
intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
Wth 6.91 24 The world is full of fops...and these will
deliver the fop
opinion...
CbW 6.259 11 Any absorbing passion has the effect to
deliver from the
little coils and cares of every day...
PI 8.30 15 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver
his thought, and the
words and images fly to him to express it;...
PI 8.62 4 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain,
are you restrained
so strongly that you cannot deliver yourself...
Grts 8.306 7 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing
Professor Faraday
deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
MoL 10.246 9 Dickens complained that in America, as
soon as he arrived
in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him
to
deliver a temperance lecture.
Schr 10.274 19 [The thoughtful man] is not there to
defend himself, but to
deliver his message;...
HDC 11.59 1 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the
Commissioners that he
would not deliver up a Wampanoag...
HDC 11.64 14 The public charity seems to have been
bestowed in a
manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the
great
present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver
a
town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
PLT 12.6 1 [When I look at the tree or the river] I
feel as if I stood by an
ambassador charged with the message of his king which he does not
deliver
because the hour when he should say it is not yet arrived.
deliverance, n. (3)
SR 2.47 9 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his
heart into his
work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall
give
him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver.
Prd1 2.239 18 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out
your paradoxes, in
solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt. So at least shall you
get an
adequate deliverance.
LS 11.9 18 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. Among the
modern
Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve
great
works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.
delivered, v. (11)
MoS 4.185 16 ...although society seems to be delivered
over from the hands
of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as
fast as
the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
ShP 4.205 15 About the time when [Shakespeare] was
writing Macbeth, he
sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn
delivered to
him at different times;...
GoW 4.262 17 ...that which is for [a man] to say lies
as a load on his heart
until it is delivered.
ET4 5.64 24 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime;...
Ctr 6.165 2 ...in an old community a well-born
proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the
estate...shall be delivered down to the next
heir in as good condition as he received it;...
PerF 10.84 11 ...this child of the dust throws himself
by obedience into the
circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is
the
world delivered into your hand...
Chr2 10.115 1 ...I include in [revelations of the moral
sentiment]...the
history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any
place or
time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
Supl 10.171 6 ...I had been present...in the country at
a cattle-show dinner, which followed an agricultural discourse
delivered by a farmer...
LS 11.14 12 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul]
says, that which I
delivered to you.
HDC 11.86 23 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being
exalts the
history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In
a war of
principle, it delivered their sons.
MLit 12.314 1 ...in all ages, and now more, the
narrow-minded have no
interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will
help them
to be delivered from some burden...
deliverer, n. (2)
UGM 4.9 23 It would seem as if each [creature and
quality] waited...for a
destined human deliverer.
ALin 11.336 20 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web... that this heroic deliverer [Lincoln] could no
longer serve us;...
delivering, v. (2)
ET1 5.14 24 ...being intent on delivering a letter which
I had brought from
Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock.
EzRy 10.393 19 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in
delivering to a man
or a woman that which all their other friends had abstained from
saying...
deliverly, adv. (1)
Clbs 7.228 7 Every time we say a thing in conversation,
we get a
mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
delivers, v. (3)
Pt1 3.33 4 ...dream delivers us to dream...
Exp 3.50 3 Dream delivers us to dream...
SwM 4.126 5 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which
express with
singular beauty the ethical laws;...
delivery, n. (2)
SwM 4.123 18 There is an invariable method and order in
[Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth...
CbW 6.255 20 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western
country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
dell, n. (1)
Cour 7.278 20 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger
fierce and fell/
Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
dells, n. (1)
Cir 2.302 12 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as
if it had been
statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining,
as we
see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in
June
and July.
DeLolme, John Louis, n. (1)
ET1 5.21 3 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished
to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the
physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England
in the
Reform Bill,--a thing prophesied by Delolme.
Delphi, Greece, n. (6)
Pt1 3.37 24 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same
foundations of wonder as
the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing
away.
ET3 5.40 17 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of
the earth...
Boks 7.203 11 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has
mounted the tripod over
the cave at Delphi;...
Cour 7.266 18 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who
tried to prophesy
without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and
died.
QO 8.185 15 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the
IF inscribed on the
portal of the temple at Delphi.
II 12.69 15 We believe...that the rudest mind has a
Delphi and Dodona...in
itself...
Delphi, n. (2)
ShP 4.199 13 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a
Delphi whereof to ask
concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or
nay?...
Shak1 11.451 15 The unaffected joy of the
comedy...contrasted with the
grandeur of the tragedy...where [Shakespeare's] speech is a Delphi...
Delphian, adj. (1)
PLT 12.50 16 The Delphian prophetess, when the spirit
possesses her, is
herself a victim.
Delphian, n. (1)
MMEm 10.408 13 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson] was
fantastic
enough, Heaven knows...
Delphic, adj. (1)
Plu 10.313 16 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the
Delphic oracles have
given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to
Corax
the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er
die./
Delphic Sibyls, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.150 25 ...besides those who make good in our
imagination the place
of muses and of Delphic Sibyls, are there not women who fill our vase
with
wine and roses to the brim...
Delphos, n. (1)
CInt 12.126 13 ...that which [Harvard College] exists
for, to be...a Delphos
uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that
it
shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
deluge, n. (5)
MN 1.223 8 I praise with wonder this great reality,
which seems to drown
all things in the deluge of its light.
ET5 5.92 13 ...if all the wealth in the planet should
perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to
replace it.
F 6.37 23 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...the
mud of the deluge
dried;...
Farm 7.136 1 [The farmer] planted where the deluge
ploughed,/ His hired
hands were wind and cloud;/...
Res 8.140 26 By his machines man...can recover the
history of his race by
the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily
dropped
of its existence;...
deluged, v. (1)
Insp 8.284 14 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock
itself to be deluged with
Deity...
deluges, n. (3)
Exp 3.47 11 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it
is lifted; then we
find...deluges of lethe...
Farm 7.145 26 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a
perpetual tempering... deluges of water, to check the fury of the
conflagration;...
SovE 10.190 24 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious
elements, her deluges miasma, disease, poison;...
delusion, n. (4)
ET16 5.274 9 Art and high art is a favorite target for
[Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and
Schiller wasted a great deal of
good time on it...
Pow 6.74 5 Everything is good which takes away one
plaything and
delusion more...
Elo1 7.98 16 In this tossing sea of delusion we feel
with our feet the
adamant;...
WD 7.164 8 Tantalus begins to think steam a delusion...
delusions, n. (9)
UGM 4.20 11 We swim, day by day, on a river of
delusions...
MoS 4.155 19 ...if we uncover the last facts of our
knowledge...you are
bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions.
NMW 4.258 22 As long as our civilization is essentially
one of property...it
will be mocked by delusions.
GoW 4.286 4 An intellectual man can see himself as a
third person; therefore his faults and delusions interest him equally
with his successes.
ET7 5.123 15 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary
delusions;...
Ill 6.324 14 The notions, I am, and This is mine, which
influence mankind, are but delusions of the mother of the world...
Supl 10.169 15 The citizen dwells in delusions.
SMC 11.354 7 ...the moment you cry Every man to his
tent, O Israel! the
delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
PLT 12.39 20 ...[an intellectual man's] defects and
delusions interest him
as much as his successes.
delusive, adj. (2)
OS 2.283 9 An answer in words is delusive; it is really
no answer to the
questions you ask.
PLT 12.11 10 Let me have your attention to this
dangerous subject [the
laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on
different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so
delusive.
delves, v. (1)
Wom 11.412 4 The worm its golden woof presents./
Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their
ornaments,/ Which suit her
better than themselves./
delving, v. (1)
Schr 10.273 20 Other men are...heaving and carrying,
each that he may
peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped.
Shall [the
scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence,
attributing to him the delving in great fields of thought...
Demades, n. (1)
Elo1 7.85 4 ...the splendid weapons which went to the
equipment...of
Demades the natural orator...deserve a special enumeration.
demagogues, n. (1)
Tran 1.348 23 ...the good and wise must...carry
salvation to the combatants
and demagogues in the dusty arena below.
demand, n. (33)
Nat 1.74 4 Love is as much [the spirit's] demand as
perception.
Tran 1.344 14 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and
not this love, would
prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances, because of the
extravagant demand they make on human nature.
YA 1.386 12 How can our young men complain of the
poverty of things in
New England, and not feel that poverty as a demand on their charity to
make New England rich?
Hist 2.21 4 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in
stone subdued by the
insatiable demand of harmony in man.
Comp 2.113 8 A wise man will...know that it is the part
of prudence to... pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or
your heart.
SwM 4.112 24 [Swedenborg] thought as large a demand is
made on our
faith by nature, as by miracles.
MoS 4.183 23 [The man of thought] can behold with
serenity the yawning
gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance, between
the demand and supply of power...
ShP 4.196 13 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of
design, he augmented his
resources; and, at that day, our petulant demand for originality was
not so
much pressed.
NMW 4.242 14 ...a day of expansion and demand was come
[in France].
ET3 5.38 19 Here [in England] is...a temperature which
makes no
exhausting demand on human strength...
ET16 5.289 12 Just before entering Winchester we
stopped at the Church
of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of
beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be
given to
every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old
couple
who take care of the church. Some twenty people every day, they said,
make the same demand.
Wth 6.85 14 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius
without making some
larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.
Wth 6.95 23 Is not then the demand to be rich
legitimate?
Wth 6.105 22 The basis of political economy is
noninterference. The only
safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.
Wth 6.106 9 The level of the sea is not more surely
kept than is the
equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
CbW 6.275 17 Our domestic service is usually a foolish
fracas of
unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
Bty 6.294 3 ...this demand in our thought for an ever
onward action is the
argument for the immortality.
Civ 7.23 8 The division of labor...fills the State with
useful and happy
laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their
productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
Suc 7.307 19 What is this immortal demand for more,
which belongs to our
constitution?...
Elo2 8.115 15 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism
and the pulpit, peaceful professions; but you cannot escape the demand
for courage in
these...
Dem1 10.12 9 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as
much demand on
our faith as miracles do.
MoL 10.242 26 Every kind of skill was in demand...
Thor 10.478 18 It was easy to trace to the inexorable
demand on all for
exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau]
more
solitary even than he wished.
EWI 11.124 27 ...you could not get any poetry, any
wisdom, and beauty in
woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these
absurdities
would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for
justice, a
generosity for the weak and oppressed.
EWI 11.132 10 Let the senators and representatives of
the State [of
Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they
have a
demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government
must stop until it is satisfied.
ACiv 11.304 4 Emancipation is the demand of
civilization.
FRO1 11.477 14 ...it does great honor to the
sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that
they have felt the universal demand
in the community for just the movement they have begun.
PLT 12.9 23 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern
terms of
admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or
feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
Bost 12.187 21 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into
every invisible and
unnamed province of whim and passion.
MLit 12.313 8 [Subjectiveness] is founded on that
insatiable demand for
unity...
WSL 12.338 3 Here [in America] is very good earth and
water and plenty
of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of
Nature or man
his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise
conveniences
to which he is accustomed in England.
Pray 12.353 8 At whatever price, I must be alone with
thee [My Father]; this must be the demand I make.
Trag 12.416 19 Napoleon said to one of his friends at
St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of
marble. Thunder cannot move
it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have
slipped
over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.
demand, v. (20)
Nat 1.3 18 Let us demand our own works and laws and
worship.
Nat 1.16 24 The health of the eye seems to demand a
horizon.
MN 1.195 15 We demand of men a richness and
universality we do not find.
Hist 2.10 11 What the former age has epitomized into a
formula or rule for
manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying
for
itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will
demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself.
Fdsp 2.213 1 The higher the style we demand of
friendship, of course the
less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
Prd1 2.230 7 This perpendicularity we demand of all the
figures in this
picture of life.
Exp 3.83 18 I should feel it pitiful to demand a result
on this town and
county...
Pol1 3.202 7 Personal rights...demand a government
framed on the ratio of
the census;...
UGM 4.32 8 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in
whom, at the moment of
success, a quality is ripe which is then in request. Other days will
demand
other qualities.
SwM 4.129 10 ...I am repelled if you fix your eye on me
and demand love.
Bhr 6.171 12 The mediocre circle learns to demand that
which belongs to a
high state of nature or of culture.
Bty 6.285 27 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant
dedicate themselves
to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have
they... the equality to any event which we demand in man...
PI 8.39 13 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands
of himself,-- veracity, first of all.
Grts 8.304 25 When [young men] have learned that the
parlor and the
college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the
camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education
in
their choice of place.
Schr 10.263 11 A celebrated musician was wont to say,
that men knew not
how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;
for if they knew, his hearers would rather demand of him than give him
a
reward.
EWI 11.125 4 ...that which the head and the heart
demand is found to be, in
the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
FSLC 11.208 8 ...the manifest interest of the slave
states; the religious
effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to
demand [emancipation].
FSLN 11.241 3 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with
the principles on
which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the
patience it
requires...seems to demand of us more than mere hoping.
FSLN 11.241 5 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of
slavery] spreads...I
think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the
mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
Wom 11.419 18 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and
political equality
with men...it must not be refused.
demanded, v. (16)
LE 1.174 18 It is the noble, manlike, just thought,
which is the superiority
demanded of you...
Int 2.341 19 A self-denial no less austere than the
saint's is demanded of
the scholar.
Mrs1 3.142 7 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles
James Fox] for a
note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and
demanded payment.
NR 3.247 17 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few
weeks be coldly set aside...and the same immeasurable credulity
demanded
for new audacities.
ET15 5.265 3 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small
share in the
proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you
please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office
when you
will;...
ET16 5.289 6 Just before entering Winchester we stopped
at the Church of
Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we
demanded a
piece of bread and a draught of beer...
Bhr 6.185 18 Here are the sweet following eyes of
Cecile; it seemed always
that she demanded the heart.
Wsp 6.205 18 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and
Apollo, who had
built Troy for him and demanded their price, does not hesitate to
menace
them...
SlHr 10.440 17 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day
of some
inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay
whatever
was demanded;...
EWI 11.106 21 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned
again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded...
EWI 11.119 20 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton...demanded
that the
emancipation [in the West Indies] should be hastened...
EWI 11.121 22 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the
erection of
numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of
Jamaica] required, and adds that more are still demanded.
EPro 11.323 15 Give the Confederacy New Orleans,
Charleston, and
Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
HCom 11.345 7 We see...a new era...worth to the world
the lives of all this
generation of American men, if they had been demanded.
MAng1 12.226 27 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo,
the pope!s
architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be
repaired
in the picture.
MAng1 12.235 27 When importuned to claim some
compensation of the
empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient
Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but
should be
free.
demanding, v. (7)
DSA 1.149 8 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding
not the faculties
of prudence and thrift...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
Tran 1.347 1 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in
this watch-tower, and
persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they
terrible
friends...
SwM 4.94 7 The human mind stands ever in perplexity,
demanding
intellect, demanding sanctity...
SwM 4.94 8 The human mind stands ever in perplexity,
demanding
intellect, demanding sanctity...
Clbs 7.239 24 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress
against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If
this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of
one of
the contending parties.
HDC 11.48 15 In 1795, several town-meetings are called
[in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for
land taken in
making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many
offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...
Let 12.396 9 It is not for nothing, we assure
ourselves...that sincere persons
of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant
society.
demands, n. (13)
Nat 1.63 4 ...if it only deny the existence of matter,
[Idealism] does not
satisfy the demands of the spirit.
Nat 1.74 3 [Man] cannot be a naturalist until he
satisfies all the demands of
the spirit.
AmS 1.106 23 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full
of pity, is borne to
the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in
the
glory of his chief.
Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their
privilege of childhood in
this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the
gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
CbW 6.249 7 Masses are...pernicious in their demands
and influence...
Elo1 7.83 3 There is always a rivalry between the
orator and the occasion, between the demands of the hour and the
prepossession of the individual.
PI 8.68 7 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall
unsay when we
make larger demands.
Elo2 8.132 25 ...here [in the United States] are the
service of science, the
demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the
instant
practice of thirty millions of people.
Imtl 8.341 13 The demands of [the thinker's] task are
such that it becomes
omnipresent.
LLNE 10.348 4 Fourier...has put men under the
obligation...of conceiving
magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
EWI 11.132 25 As for dangers to the Union, from such
demands [on the
South]!-the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of
Massachusetts is thus outraged.
ACiv 11.303 19 ...there have been days in American
history, when, if the
free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our
recent
calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded, and every
compromise...invited new demands.
FRO2 11.485 5 ...it is not in my power to-day to meet
the natural demands
of the occasion [meeting of the Free Religious Association]...
demands, v. (20)
SR 2.74 26 ...it demands something godlike in him who
has cast off the
common motives of humanity...
Lov1 2.180 3 The statue is then beautiful...when
it...demands an active
imagination to go with it and say what it is in the act of doing.
Fdsp 2.206 16 Friendship may be said to require
natures...each so well
tempered and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced (for even
in
that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be
altogether
paired), that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
Fdsp 2.207 20 In good company the individuals merge
their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys
the
high freedom of great conversation...
Fdsp 2.208 25 The condition which high friendship
demands is ability to
do without it.
Fdsp 2.209 12 Friendship demands a religious treatment.
Hsm1 2.262 12 Human virtue demands her champions and
martyrs...
Int 2.338 26 The intellect...demands integrity in every
work.
Mrs1 3.132 11 All that fashion demands is composure and
self-content.
Mrs1 3.140 26 ...society demands in its patrician class
another element... which it significantly terms good-nature...
Pol1 3.201 25 Of persons, all have equal rights, in
virtue of being identical
in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a
democracy.
Pol1 3.202 9 ...property demands a government framed on
the ratio of
owners and of owning.
PI 8.39 13 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands
of himself,-- veracity, first of all.
II 12.86 25 There is a probity of the Intellect, which
demands, if possible, virtues more costly than any Bible has
consecrated.
MAng1 12.243 6 ...are we not authorized to say
that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to
the human faculties, on
every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and
enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical,
intellectual and
moral faculties of the individual?
Milt1 12.249 8 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an
ideal justice.
EurB 12.366 6 The poet demands all gifts...
Trag 12.412 18 All that life demands of us through the
greater part of the
day is an equilibrium...
Trag 12.412 23 There is a fire in some men which
demands an outlet in
some rude action;...
Trag 12.413 4 When two strangers meet in the highway,
what each
demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...
demarcations, n. (1)
ShP 4.211 15 ...[Shakespeare] could...draw the fine
demarcations of
freedom and of fate...
demarche, Theorie de la [Hon (1)
Bhr 6.182 8 Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he
called Theorie de
la demarche...
demeanor, n. (9)
SL 2.147 24 There are graces in the demeanor of a
polished and noble
person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
Chr1 3.102 5 Had there been something latent in the
man, a terrible
undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had
watched for its advent.
Mrs1 3.148 11 Scott is praised for the fidelity with
which he painted the
demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
Mrs1 3.151 26 ...no princess could surpass [Lilla's]
clear and erect
demeanor on each occasion.
NER 3.275 4 All that [a man] has will he give for an
erect demeanor in
every company and on each occasion.
ET8 5.128 5 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of
demeanor and their few
words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
Bhr 6.197 16 What finest hands would not be clumsy to
sketch the genial
precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
DL 7.117 24 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly
descend from the
mountains...to be...a hall which shines with...a demeanor impossible to
disconcert;...
EWI 11.121 24 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The
peaceful demeanor
of the emancipated population redounds to their own credit...
demerit, n. (1)
PNR 4.89 13 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege
for the best...as
the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts
of two kinds: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below
protection,--outlaws;...
demerits, n. (1)
SS 7.13 22 ...[men] adjust themselves by their
demerits...
demesne, n. (1)
ET6 5.107 14 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
If he is rich, he
buys a demesne and builds a hall;...
demi-asses, n. (1)
ACri 12.300 25 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules
offered him a
trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on
demi-asses.
demigod, n. [demi-god,] (2)
DSA 1.131 5 ...the language that describes
Christ...paints a demigod...
Art2 7.43 18 The basis of poetry is language, which is
material only on one
side. It is a demi-god.
demigods, n. [demi-gods,] (4)
OS 2.296 3 The saints and demigods whom history worships
we are
constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
UGM 4.3 5 All mythology opens with demigods...
Boks 7.191 3 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud
place, peopled...with
heroes and demigods standing around us...
FRep 11.513 1 ...as Arkwright and Whitney were the
demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to
every plant.
democracy, n. (15)
Hist 2.4 4 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely
the application of [the
first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
Comp 2.100 15 If the government is a terrific
democracy, the pressure is
resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen...
Pol1 3.201 25 Of persons, all have equal rights, in
virtue of being identical
in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a
democracy.
Pol1 3.207 21 Democracy is better for us, because the
religious sentiment
of the present time accords better with it.
Pol1 3.210 10 [Party representatives] have not at heart
the ends which give
to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it.
NR 3.240 3 Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy...
PPh 4.51 23 These two principles [unity and diversity]
reappear and
interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One
is...king; the
other, democracy...
Bhr 6.170 15 The nobility cannot in any country be
disguised, and no more
in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom.
HDC 11.47 11 In this open democracy [in New England],
every opinion
had utterance;...
EWI 11.131 25 ...the farmers may brag their democracy
in the country, but
they are disgraced men.
ACiv 11.309 18 It is not free institutions, it is not a
republic, it is not a
democracy, that is the end...
SHC 11.430 10 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the
mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
FRep 11.526 7 Here is practical democracy;...
FRep 11.537 26 [Our civilization] is a wild
democracy;...
FRep 11.540 26 The end of all political struggle is to
establish morality as
the basis of all legislation. 'T is not free institutions, 't is not a
democracy
that is the end,-no, but only the means.
Democracy, n. (5)
Ctr 6.136 16 The causes to which we have sacrificed,
Tariff or
Democracy...would show like roots of bitterness...
Aris 10.34 27 We likewise put faith in Democracy;...
FSLC 11.185 20 The learning of the universities...the
stoutness of
Democracy...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
AKan 11.259 25 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for
an ugly thing.
AKan 11.260 6 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for an
ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the
stealing all the
earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from
him, his children's children forever. But this is Union, and this is
Democracy;...
democrat, n. (13)
YA 1.371 13 ...the land...of the democrat...[America]
should speak for the
human race.
Pol1 3.210 2 The philosopher, the poet, or the
religious man, will of course
wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
NR 3.246 8 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator
and rich man, has
ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
NMW 4.230 12 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and
his early
circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
NMW 4.256 10 In describing the two parties into which
modern society
divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte
represents the democrat...
NMW 4.256 12 In describing the two parties into which
modern society
divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte
represents the democrat...
NMW 4.256 16 The democrat is a young conservative;...
NMW 4.256 18 The democrat is a young conservative; the
conservative is
an old democrat.
NMW 4.256 18 The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and
gone to seed;...
GoW 4.279 25 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
is the passage
of a democrat to the aristocracy...
ET11 5.192 26 ...gaming, racing, drinking and
mistresses bring [the
English aristocracy] down, and the democrat can still gather scandals,
if he
will.
Ctr 6.144 13 Each class fixes its eyes on the
advantages it has not;...the
democrat, on birth and breeding.
Aris 10.63 8 By tendency, like all magnanimous men,
[the man of honor] is
a democrat.
Democrat, n. (5)
NMW 4.224 18 The instinct of active, brave, able men,
throughout the
middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate
Democrat.
Aris 10.50 14 It is curious how negligent the public is
of the essential
qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a
Republican, a
Democrat?
FSLC 11.193 2 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly
Democrat, of whom
if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should
not
ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he
would
lend it.
FSLN 11.231 15 We are all conservatives, half Whig ,
half Democrat, in
our essences...
SMC 11.353 6 Every Democrat who went South came back a
Republican...
democratic, adj. (22)
Exp 3.85 5 ...I have not found that much was gained by
manipular attempts
to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make
an
experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire
democratic manners...they hate and deny.
Chr1 3.106 6 ...nature advertises me in such
[nonconforming] persons that
in democratic America she will not be democratized.
Pol1 3.200 24 Nature is not democratic...
Pol1 3.207 18 We may be wise in asserting the advantage
in modern times
of the democratic form...
Pol1 3.211 8 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at
our democratic
institutions lapsing into anarchy...
MoS 4.172 18 ...neither is [the wise skeptic] fit to
work with any
democratic party that ever was constituted;...
NMW 4.223 19 In our society there is a standing
antagonism between the
conservative and the democratic classes;...
ET5 5.74 9 ...the Norman has come popularly to
represent in England the
aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
ET7 5.123 19 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary
delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was
urged
or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the
democratic
whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the
agitation
of slavery...
ET11 5.172 3 The feudal character of the English
state...glares a little, in
contrast with the democratic tendencies.
ET13 5.216 19 The church was the mediator, check and
democratic
principle, in Europe.
ET18 5.307 14 The American system is more democratic
[than the
English]...
Wth 6.99 11 ...in America, where democratic
institutions divide every
estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step
into the
place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and
inspiration for the citizen.
Aris 10.46 22 I only point in passing to the order of
the universe, which
makes a rotation,-not...like our democratic politics, my turn now, your
turn next...
LLNE 10.362 3 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain
man...of a very
democratic religion, came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
ACiv 11.301 5 A democratic statesman said to me, long
since, that, if he
owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a
gainer by the transaction.
EPro 11.324 27 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of
land and the local
laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an
aristocratic complexion;...
Wom 11.420 10 On the questions that are
important,-whether the
government shall be in one person, or whether representative, or
whether
democratic;...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as
the
voters of Boston or New York.
FRep 11.527 25 Our institutions, of which the town is
the unit, are
educational... ... The result appears...in the predominance of the
democratic
party in the politics of the Union...
FRep 11.541 8 Humanity asks...that democratic
institutions shall be more
thoughtful for the interests of women...
Milt1 12.271 14 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in that
democratic age, his
ideas of civil liberty.
ACri 12.304 7 The democratic, when the power proceeds
organically from
the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
Democratic, adj. (4)
F 6.14 4 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any
hundred of the
Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you
could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
FSLN 11.230 22 [Reasonably men] answered that they had
no confidence
in their strength to resist the Democratic party;...
AKan 11.261 16 The President told the Kansas Committee
that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people
respecting
institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about. A
very
remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens...
EPro 11.324 6 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity,
through the affection of trade and
the traditions of the Democratic party, to follow Southern leading.
democratical, adj. (2)
NER 3.260 8 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation
and in the rudest democratical movements...
ACiv 11.298 27 We have attempted to hold together two
states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and
the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old
military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands,
makes
an oligarchy...
democratized, v. (1)
Chr1 3.106 7 ...nature advertises me in such
[nonconforming] persons that
in democratic America she will not be democratized.
democrats, n. (4)
Pol1 3.207 23 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to
judge of
monarchy...
ET13 5.216 22 ...George Fox, Penn, Bunyan are the
democrats, as well as
the saints of their times.
ET18 5.307 13 ...retrospectively, we may strike the
balance and prefer one
Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one
Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
Pow 6.64 17 In politics, the sons of democrats will be
whigs;...
Democrats, n. (2)
SR 2.88 22 ...with each new uproar of announcement...The
Democrats from
New Hampshire!...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before
by a
new thousand of eyes and arms.
FSLN 11.244 19 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many
members this
year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it.
Democritus, n. (1)
Pow 6.79 4 More are made good by exercitation than by
nature, said
Democritus.
demolish, v. (1)
MAng1 12.224 16 Michael [Angelo] made such good
resistance that the
Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San
Miniato].
demolished, v. (2)
LE 1.180 9 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in
the sallies of
courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry,
king, and kaisar...
PI 8.61 27 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir
Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out
from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this
wherein I
am confined; and it is...made by enchantment so strong that it can
never be
demolished while the world lasts;...
demon, n. (4)
MN 1.206 5 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into
a particular
chaos...
MR 1.229 16 The demon of reform has a secret door into
the heart of every
lawmaker...
Bty 6.287 14 The ancients believed that a genius or
demon took possession
at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
WD 7.168 8 He only is rich who owns the day. There is
no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
demoniacal, adj. (4)
ShP 4.209 6 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions
on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious
and
demoniacal powers which defy our science...
Elo1 7.93 15 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the
orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
Dem1 10.17 28 ...every demoniacal property can manifest
itself in the
corporeal and incorporeal...
Dem1 10.21 18 The best are never demoniacal or
magnetic;...
Demoniacal, n. (1)
Dem1 10.17 25 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be
grasped
by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert
itself
between all other things, to sever them, to bind them, I named the
Demoniacal...
demonic, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.18 11 ...this demonic element appears most
fruitful when it shows
itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
demonologic, n. (1)
Dem1 10.20 3 The demonologic is only a fine name for
egotism;...
demonological, n. (1)
Dem1 10.19 15 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff,
when men as wise
as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
demonology, n. (4)
NR 3.234 24 Anomalous facts, as the never quite obsolete
rumors of magic
and demonology...are of ideal use.
Dem1 10.24 10 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report,
and we are
bewildered...
LLNE 10.327 26 Demonology is on its last legs.
EdAd 11.391 22 Will [a journal] venture into the thin
and difficult air of
that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the
topics of
mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
Demonology, n. (2)
Dem1 10.3 1 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens,
coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun
rather than court
inquiry...
Dem1 10.28 3 Demonology is the shadow of Theology.
demons, n. (5)
DL 7.115 12 [Man] should be visited in this his prison
with rebuke to the
evil demons...
PPo 8.242 2 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the
annals...of
Jamschid, the binder of demons...
PPo 8.242 4 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the
annals...of Kai
Kaus, in whose palace, built by demons on Alburz, gold and silver and
precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced
by
their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
Plu 10.300 27 [Plutarch] believes...in demons and
ghosts...
II 12.86 3 There is but one only liberator in this life
from the demons that
invade us, and that is Endeavor...
demonstrate, v. (13)
LT 1.286 10 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the
spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
Con 1.304 4 We hold to this [existing world], until you
can demonstrate
something better.
Con 1.324 24 I am primarily engaged to myself...to
demonstrate to all men
that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things...
Tran 1.335 27 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the
spiritual principle
should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
SR 2.71 12 Let...our docility to our own law
demonstrate the poverty of
nature and fortune beside our native riches.
Comp 2.96 1 ...all men feel sometimes the falsehood
which they cannot
demonstrate.
Fdsp 2.213 19 [By persisting in your path] You
demonstrate yourself...
PPh 4.62 1 [Plato] even stood ready, as in the
Parmenides, to demonstrate
that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
ET14 5.237 21 The unique fact in literary history, the
unsurprised reception
of Shakspeare;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the
people.
Boks 7.193 16 It is easy...to demonstrate that though
[a man] should read
from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves
[of the
libraries].
Edc1 10.134 3 Whatever elements are in [man]
[education] should foster
and demonstrate.
MAng1 12.243 2 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who
lived to
demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of
grandeur
and grace are opened...
EurB 12.366 13 The poet must not only converse with
pure thought, but he
must demonstrate it almost to the senses.
demonstrated, v. (4)
NER 3.284 18 Suppress for a few days your criticism on
the insufficiency
of this or that teacher or experimenter, and he will have demonstrated
his
insufficiency to all men's eyes.
SwM 4.102 12 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated
much science of the
nineteenth century;...and first demonstrated the office of the lungs.
ShP 4.214 12 No recipe can be given for the making of a
Shakspeare; but
the possibility of the translation of things into song is demonstrated.
FSLC 11.207 3 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the
necessity of common
sense and justice entering into the laws.
demonstrates, v. (2)
LT 1.271 8 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself
in this effort to
raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the
Beautiful
and the Just.
Con 1.322 27 ...[war] demonstrates the personal merits
of all men.
demonstrating, v. (4)
LE 1.160 16 The whole value...of biography, is to
increase my self-trust, by
demonstrating what man can be and do.
Mrs1 3.143 25 There is not only the right of conquest,
which genius
pretends,--the individual demonstrating his natural aristocracy best of
the
best;--but less claims will pass for the time;...
SwM 4.129 23 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit
that he grew into
from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable,
[Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that
particular form of
moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
PI 8.27 8 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic
tenaciousness of an image, and
by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as
palpable
and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
demonstration, n. (12)
LT 1.284 6 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be
not...a paper
blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his
spirit
and belief, and no conflict occur, but the world shall take that course
which
the demonstration of the truth shall indicate.
Con 1.310 18 [Existing institutions] really have so
much flexibility as to
afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and
success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
Comp 2.121 24 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the
malignity and the lie
with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a
demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also;...
Chr1 3.90 13 [The man of character's] victories are by
demonstration of
superiority...
ET11 5.184 2 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848
(the day of the
Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for
the
first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
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.
Bhr 6.190 25 Self-reliance...is the guaranty that the
powers are not
squandered in too much demonstration.
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?
Imtl 8.346 13 You cannot make a written theory or
demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican
astronomy.
War 11.167 1 At a certain stage of his progress, the
man fights, if he be of
sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive
demonstration...
PLT 12.56 9 There are two theories of life; one for the
demonstration of
our talent, the other for the education of the man.
PLT 12.56 24 We are continually tempted to
sacrifice...the hope and
promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts
we
have;...
demonstrations, n. (7)
SR 2.71 3 ...the vital resources of every animal and
vegetable, are
demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
SL 2.155 16 [The things the great man did] are the
demonstrations in a few
particulars of the genius of nature;...
Lov1 2.172 18 The earliest demonstrations of
complacency and kindness
are nature's most winning pictures.
ET14 5.242 20 ...the very announcement...even of
Dalton's doctrine of
definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind, which
remains a
superior evidence to empirical demonstrations.
OA 7.315 6 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society at
Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the
dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
Schr 10.270 14 Even the demonstrations of Nature for
millenniums seem
not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet]
arrives.
FRep 11.524 19 Whilst each cabal...at last brings, with
cheers and street
demonstrations, men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress,
the
good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
demonstrative, adj. (1)
Supl 10.173 4 We are a garrulous, demonstrative kind of
creatures...
demonstrator, n. (1)
PLT 12.31 24 There is no property or relation in that
immense arsenal of
forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who...delights
to
unfold and work it, as if he were the born publisher and demonstrator
of it.
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