Desirable to Devotions

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

desirable, adj. (13)

    Nat 1.59 25 ...[the ideal theory] presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
    Comp 2.123 9 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure.
    SL 2.140 14 ...that which I call heaven...is the state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
    ET14 5.249 24 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
    Wth 6.112 22 ...nothing is great or desirable if it is off from [the direction of your life].
    Farm 7.141 10 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
    Res 8.138 17 ...if you tell me...that there is always a way to everything desirable;...I am invigorated...
    Dem1 10.15 15 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    MMEm 10.432 27 Is it the less desirable to have the lofty abstractions because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable?
    HDC 11.43 16 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    PLT 12.56 13 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural, easy and pleasant to us and desirable to others will surely lead us out safely;...
    II 12.83 22 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend, and when this happens, we feel life to be some failure. Life is not quite desirable to themselves.
    CW 12.176 1 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp.

desire, n. (88)

    Nat 1.24 15 The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty.
    Nat 1.29 25 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends...upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss.
    Nat 1.30 3 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of...the desire of riches...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.46 9 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
    AmS 1.98 20 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...in desire and satiety;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    AmS 1.107 4 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.
    DSA 1.134 15 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    DSA 1.135 16 I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope.
    MN 1.210 19 ...this desire to be loved...is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    MN 1.218 2 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same?
    MN 1.219 14 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty; another, the desire of founding a church;...
    LT 1.262 20 How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!
    LT 1.290 19 You will absolve me from the charge of...the desire to say smart things at the expense of whomsoever, when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Con 1.314 8 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate...
    Hist 2.11 8 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    Hist 2.33 14 See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing.
    SR 2.72 13 What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
    SR 2.78 22 ...[the self-helping man]...all eyes follow with desire.
    Cir 2.321 22 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves...
    Int 2.338 1 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us...with desire and with grief.
    Int 2.341 5 We are stung by the desire for new thought;...
    Pt1 3.38 27 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    Pt1 3.39 8 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Chr1 3.93 12 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off.
    Mrs1 3.151 23 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    Gts 3.160 27 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave to others the office of punishing him.
    NER 3.272 3 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat.
    UGM 4.21 24 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
    PPh 4.69 14 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    SwM 4.137 22 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity.
    MoS 4.184 1 ...every desire predicts its own satisfaction.
    MoS 4.184 7 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...
    MoS 4.184 8 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole; a desire raging, infinite;...
    ShP 4.189 9 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
    NMW 4.228 6 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    NMW 4.243 12 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...
    ET1 5.23 9 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    F 6.28 15 ...we can see that with the perception of truth is joined the desire that it shall prevail;...
    Wth 6.114 24 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to go upon the land...
    Ctr 6.164 27 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found...to feel a habitual desire that the estate shall suffer no harm by his administration...
    Bty 6.299 27 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but when the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
    SS 7.11 3 A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
    DL 7.113 27 The desire of gold is not for gold.
    DL 7.128 9 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    PI 8.36 14 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    PI 8.42 16 ...as every faculty and every desire is procreant...there is no limit to [the poet's] hope.
    SA 8.105 7 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    Elo2 8.110 3 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    PPo 8.245 8 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    PPo 8.252 22 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    Imtl 8.336 27 The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...
    Imtl 8.337 1 The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...
    Imtl 8.337 7 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    Imtl 8.340 26 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
    Imtl 8.344 19 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    Imtl 8.344 27 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Imtl 8.345 4 We live by desire to live;...
    Imtl 8.351 5 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man. But thou, considering the objects of desire, hast abandoned them.
    PerF 10.78 15 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    Edc1 10.128 9 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the desire of external good...
    Edc1 10.129 3 ...what activity the desire of power inspires!
    Edc1 10.137 2 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
    Schr 10.269 21 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    Plu 10.310 23 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    Plu 10.322 12 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    EzRy 10.382 3 [Ezra Ripley] had early manifested a desire for learning...
    EzRy 10.382 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    MMEm 10.420 18 ...the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine] to find myself in my [Mary Moody Emerson's] old haunts.
    MMEm 10.426 15 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
    LS 11.24 8 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
    HDC 11.51 15 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.52 24 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.
    HDC 11.54 1 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    War 11.163 4 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.
    War 11.174 25 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    Wom 11.426 3 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course. It could not be otherwise, and hence the new desire of better laws.
    FRO1 11.480 16 The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...
    FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    PLT 12.32 10 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only...what comports with my experience and my desire.
    Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one to wrath and animal desire.
    CInt 12.128 5 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul, filled with the desire, with the living teacher...
    Bost 12.185 26 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
    MAng1 12.236 11 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
    MAng1 12.241 3 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous, and having for its object to extinguish in youth every improper desire...
    MAng1 12.241 18 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.
    Milt1 12.262 6 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Pray 12.354 23 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...
    PPr 12.379 21 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire to give some timely counsels...

desire, v. (31)

    AmS 1.110 5 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
    MN 1.212 19 ...[the stars] desire to republish themselves in a more delicate world than that they occupy.
    LT 1.278 27 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    Comp 2.99 17 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?
    SL 2.163 1 I desire not to disgrace the soul.
    Fdsp 2.212 18 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...
    Fdsp 2.213 4 Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables.
    OS 2.268 15 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see...that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of reception...
    OS 2.270 3 ...I desire...to indicate the heaven of this deity...
    Chr1 3.99 6 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    Nat2 3.169 7 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    NER 3.278 1 We desire to be made great;...
    NER 3.278 1 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
    Bty 6.292 18 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...
    DL 7.114 4 ...we desire the elegance of munificence;...
    DL 7.114 4 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    DL 7.114 6 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our townsmen...
    QO 8.177 20 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
    Imtl 8.345 25 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;...
    Edc1 10.139 18 ...I desire to be saved from [boys'] contempt.
    EzRy 10.384 26 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
    Carl 10.495 5 [Carlyle] is eaten up with indignation against such as desire to make a fair show in the flesh.
    War 11.160 11 [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;...
    AsSu 11.248 13 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill.
    Wom 11.426 18 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
    CPL 11.507 8 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire...
    CW 12.173 5 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden] all that I desire...
    MLit 12.318 12 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    Pray 12.352 8 ...soon...I desire to leave [my long-attached friend]...because I wwished to be engaged in my business.

desired, adj. (4)

    ShP 4.189 11 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm, to come at the desired point.
    NMW 4.235 3 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
    Dem1 10.21 1 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind.
    WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.

desired, v. (19)

    AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    DSA 1.133 19 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
    Chr1 3.90 19 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle...
    ShP 4.193 17 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way.
    NMW 4.240 21 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
    ET4 5.63 6 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
    Wsp 6.228 12 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
    Suc 7.284 27 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    PI 8.58 17 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    Imtl 8.352 5 [The soul] can be obtained by the soul by which it is desired.
    HDC 11.48 10 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.
    HDC 11.53 3 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?
    HDC 11.56 15 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people. Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement [Concord].
    SMC 11.354 13 ...justice is really desired by all intelligent beings;...
    Mem 12.99 15 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
    Bost 12.206 7 When men saw that these people [of Boston]...would stand by each other at all hazards, they desired to come and live here.
    MAng1 12.234 9 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    Milt1 12.271 12 ...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise man...
    Milt1 12.273 16 [Milton] wished that his writings should be communicated only to those who desired to see them.

desires, n. (18)

    Nat 1.30 3 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Hist 2.34 24 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    Comp 2.94 3 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    Comp 2.106 6 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
    PPh 4.45 22 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    ET13 5.225 8 The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new charities...
    ET14 5.241 26 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    CbW 6.264 18 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things...is animated to great desires and endeavors.
    OA 7.326 22 The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried...
    PI 8.20 3 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
    Imtl 8.350 17 [Yama said] Be a king, O Nachiketas! On the wide earth I will make thee the enjoyer of all desires.
    Imtl 8.350 17 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
    Chr2 10.120 18 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Wom 11.422 27 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons.
    CPL 11.495 16 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
    Milt1 12.278 4 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    MLit 12.335 2 ...he that loves must utter his desires.
    Pray 12.352 21 ...O my Father...I can lift up my desires to thee...

desires, v. (7)

    NMW 4.224 11 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all...
    Wth 6.98 12 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    Edc1 10.137 18 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    Edc1 10.140 20 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Edc1 10.146 25 Always genius...desires nothing so much as to be a pupil...
    LLNE 10.342 11 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
    Let 12.395 2 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

desiring, v. (2)

    HDC 11.81 2 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    Pray 12.352 13 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...I am always desiring thee.

desirous, adj. (3)

    Supl 10.177 19 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
    LS 11.7 18 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    MAng1 12.234 27 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...

desist, v. (3)

    PPh 4.46 4 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    SovE 10.194 10 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and grandeur...
    II 12.84 23 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt...

desk, n. (10)

    YA 1.369 21 ...he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger... values [the land] less.
    ET10 5.162 21 Scandinavian Thor...in England...sits down at a desk in the India House...
    ET12 5.204 3 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.
    Pow 6.68 18 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    Wth 6.115 5 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    PI 8.44 15 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported the men, instead of inventing them at his desk.
    Insp 8.291 18 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
    Edc1 10.158 4 Nobody [in the school] shall...leave his desk without permission...
    Edc1 10.158 7 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    PLT 12.62 23 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I have an office...

desks, n. (2)

    AmS 1.107 19 Wake [men] and they shall...leave governments to clerks and desks.
    EWI 11.133 14 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...

desolate, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.128 19 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate...
    ET1 5.15 4 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills...
    Supl 10.164 1 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...

desolated, v. (1)

    SovE 10.207 2 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.

desolation, n. (1)

    Trag 12.409 27 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

desolations, n. (2)

    ET11 5.172 8 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations.
    Prch 10.232 3 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to bankruptcies, famines and desolations.

despair, n. (30)

    Con 1.318 20 ...[the conservative party] sacrifices to despair;...
    Con 1.319 25 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    Fdsp 2.189 18 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ Me too thy nobleness has taught/ To master my despair;/...
    Exp 3.85 12 ...far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism;...
    NER 3.267 27 ...[our system of education] is a system of despair.
    NMW 4.252 26 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in their despair took hold of any thing...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    Pow 6.74 20 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
    Wsp 6.208 5 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    CbW 6.265 21 ...despair is no muse...
    Bty 6.284 25 Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
    SS 7.5 12 [My friend] had a remorse running to despair of his social gaucheries...
    DL 7.117 10 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    Cour 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that action with a certain despair.
    Aris 10.43 18 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;-the resources of weakness and despair.
    PerF 10.85 20 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us out of that despair into which Saxon men are prone to fall...
    Edc1 10.136 23 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    Edc1 10.136 24 I call our system [of education] a system of despair...
    Edc1 10.152 15 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
    Carl 10.493 24 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed, sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    FSLN 11.231 5 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair;...
    ALin 11.329 24 ...that first despair [at Lincoln's death] was brief...
    FRep 11.536 22 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.
    PLT 12.55 11 Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the realization of ideas in their own time.
    PLT 12.55 18 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism...
    II 12.65 12 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience; and which, in the despair of language, is commonly called Instinct.
    II 12.78 26 ...despair is no muse...
    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!
    Let 12.399 21 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...
    Let 12.404 24 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
    Trag 12.408 10 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind...

despair, v. (5)

    Pol1 3.211 1 I do not for these defects despair of our republic.
    ET14 5.246 26 [English] novelists despair of the heart.
    ET15 5.264 5 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
    SA 8.77 5 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
    Grts 8.301 21 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all,-to which we are all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite despair...

despairing, adj. (2)

    ET1 5.17 11 [Carlyle] took despairing or satirical views of literature at this moment;...
    EWI 11.146 8 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has believed there was no vindication of right;...

despairs, n. (1)

    SL 2.135 9 ...there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs...

despairs, v. (1)

    MN 1.217 25 ...the reason why all men honor love is because it...aspires and not despairs.

despatch, n. (3)

    PC 8.228 6 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has...a private despatch...
    MoL 10.242 10 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    HDC 11.79 12 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...with the utmost alacrity and despatch, fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.

despatch, v. (1)

    Art1 2.367 12 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.

despatched, v. (2)

    SL 2.137 12 When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls.
    Elo1 7.79 13 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander; and...Brasidas, or Agis, was despatched by the Ephors.

despatches, n. (4)

    LE 1.162 27 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...the foreign despatches...
    ET15 5.266 23 ...[the London Times's] expresses outrun the despatches of the government.
    Ctr 6.146 8 Some men are made for...missionaries, bearers of despatches...
    EdAd 11.383 22 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.

desperadoes, n. (1)

    War 11.168 10 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would soon butcher the good.

desperate, adj. (5)

    NMW 4.236 20 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops...and he was brought off with desperate efforts.
    ET6 5.106 21 [The English] will not break up, or arrive at any desperate revolution...
    ET8 5.131 21 [The English] are good...at...any desperate service which has daylight and honor in it;...
    Pow 6.61 17 A timid man...observing...sectional interests...with a mind made up to desperate extremities...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    SovE 10.211 19 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure, and then it would not be safe from desperate individuals.

desperately, adv. (1)

    NMW 4.257 21 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward...they deserted [Napoleon].

desperates, n. (1)

    SA 8.80 11 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates, quite sure and compact...

desperation, n. (4)

    Hist 2.23 7 The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation;...
    PPh 4.45 27 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women...blunder and quarrel: their manners are full of desperation;...
    Supl 10.163 15 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
    Let 12.402 8 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe. But we cannot share the desperation of our contemporaries;...

despicable, adj. (3)

    Elo1 7.64 11 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    HDC 11.40 14 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
    CPL 11.498 15 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.

despise, v. (12)

    OS 2.289 10 [The poet's] best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
    Exp 3.61 17 The fine young people despise life...
    Nat2 3.171 6 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise.
    ET7 5.121 20 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot;...
    SS 7.13 7 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them...
    Elo1 7.76 9 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.
    PI 8.68 15 The poet should rejoice if he has taught us to despise his song;...
    PPo 8.241 18 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass: Solomon did not despise the gift of the ant.
    Edc1 10.132 17 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise...
    Wom 11.409 22 No woman can despise [ceremonies] with impunity.
    PLT 12.52 12 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you.
    Let 12.401 11 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...

despised, adj. (6)

    Comp 2.94 21 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised;...
    Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
    Edc1 10.132 16 Day creeps after day, each full of facts, dull, strange, despised things, that we cannot enough despise...
    Schr 10.282 6 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth.
    JBB 11.269 14 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
    EdAd 11.388 24 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... constituting a snivelling and despised opposition...and persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

despised, v. (10)

    ET1 5.9 3 Landor despised entomology...
    ET12 5.208 9 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised...
    Wsp 6.206 23 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ... In sooth, my standards will in future be despised, not through my fault, but through thine...
    Suc 7.288 3 These [boasted arts] are local conveniences, but how easy to go now to parts of the world where not only all these arts are wanting, but where they are despised.
    PC 8.231 23 The great are not tender at being...despised...
    MMEm 10.404 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
    MMEm 10.420 16 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means...
    TPar 11.291 17 ...[Theodore Parker's] manly enemies, who despised the fops, honored him;...
    Wom 11.409 19 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to be despised...
    Let 12.396 16 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...

despises, v. (5)

    Wth 6.124 16 Hotspur lives for the moment...and despises Furlong, that he does not.
    Ctr 6.143 11 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    PPo 8.253 13 Only he despises the verse of Hafiz who is not himself by nature noble.
    Chr2 10.121 15 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    Plu 10.309 16 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations...

despiseth, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.232 11 He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

despising, v. (1)

    CInt 12.114 11 Michael Angelo gave himself to art, despising all meaner pursuits.

despite, n. (5)

    YA 1.379 6 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power which works for us in our own despite.
    SwM 4.131 7 [Swedenborg] is wise, but wise in his own despite.
    Wsp 6.201 9 I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
    Prch 10.226 21 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...
    HCom 11.343 6 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.

despoils, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.420 7 Better anything than dishonest dependence, which... despoils friendship of equal connection.

despond, v. (3)

    CbW 6.264 17 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not despond...
    DL 7.132 21 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond.
    FRep 11.532 21 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this levity makes them as easily despond.

despondency, n. (9)

    Hsm1 2.248 20 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    MoS 4.185 12 Things seem...to justify despondency...
    Suc 7.310 13 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
    MoL 10.247 1 I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
    LLNE 10.364 16 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LVB 11.94 22 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    EWI 11.146 16 ...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;...
    FRep 11.532 23 It seems as if history gave no account of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    Trag 12.406 7 ...one would say that history gave no record of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.

desponding, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.144 1 ...What in these desponding days can be done by us?
    MN 1.193 11 ...the multitude of men...give currency to desponding doctrines...
    SR 2.75 11 ...we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
    Elo2 8.113 6 ...[the eloquent man]...fills desponding men with hope and joy.

desponding, v. (1)

    SA 8.83 2 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced.

desponds, v. (1)

    CbW 6.264 19 He who desponds betrays that he has not seen [the law which distributes things].

despot, n. (1)

    DL 7.103 20 The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side.

despotic, adj. (7)

    Tran 1.339 15 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...
    YA 1.375 15 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic...
    Mrs1 3.139 1 ...at short distances the senses are despotic.
    Pol1 3.200 25 Nature is...despotic...
    ET1 5.9 19 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible...
    LLNE 10.365 3 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
    SlHr 10.442 9 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was reckoned despotic...

despotically, adv. (1)

    Milt1 12.253 5 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages... despotically fashioning the public ear.

despotism, n. (14)

    Nat 1.49 21 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    LE 1.157 19 ...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable, the despotism of the senses insane.
    Pol1 3.211 13 It is said that...in the despotism of public opinion, we have no anchor;...
    ET8 5.140 25 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making itself a war of opinions also (a question of despotism and liberty coming from Eastern Europe), should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET10 5.170 13 England must be held responsible for the despotism of expense.
    F 6.12 23 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    CbW 6.253 17 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
    Bty 6.302 1 The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Elo1 7.65 21 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
    PC 8.217 27 If [a man] has wit, he tempers the despotism by epigrams...
    Aris 10.46 13 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...
    MMEm 10.422 23 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    EWI 11.117 15 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before.

despots, n. (4)

    Comp 2.100 24 Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    NR 3.238 15 Solitude would ripen a plentiful crop of despots.
    ET15 5.272 21 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being...the defender of the exile and patriot against despots, would be more effectually discharged;...
    CbW 6.254 9 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...

Dessaix, Joseph Marie, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 10 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to... Kleber, Dassaix...

dessert, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.250 16 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...

destination, n. (2)

    F 6.12 17 People are born...uterine brothers with this diverging destination;...
    Aris 10.45 5 If we see tools in a magazine...we can predict well enough their destination;...

destined, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.9 23 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer.
    ET5 5.88 22 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    Civ 7.26 25 The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral;...

destined, v. (12)

    SwM 4.108 12 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses.
    ET10 5.159 12 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, and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious classes;...
    ET18 5.303 9 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men.
    Pow 6.69 1 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Bty 6.293 10 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    LLNE 10.354 2 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    MMEm 10.404 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
    HDC 11.32 12 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    EWI 11.110 18 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.
    ALin 11.333 24 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    ACri 12.301 6 I passed at one time through a place called New City, then supposed...to be destined to greatness.
    EurB 12.372 18 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined to be the highest...

Destinee [Chaucer, Knight's (1)

    F 6.5 26 The Destinee, ministre general,/ That executeth in the world over al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...

destinies, n. (7)

    MoS 4.183 27 Charles Fourier announced that the attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies;...
    MoS 4.184 25 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...and still the sirens sang, The attractions are proportioned to the destinies.
    Bty 6.301 1 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    PI 8.42 1 The attractions are proportional to the destinies.
    ACiv 11.300 2 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
    PLT 12.41 18 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than...the Father of the Gods. It is there with all its destinies.
    Let 12.394 2 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

Destiny, Child of, the, n. (1)

    NMW 4.231 17 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when he styled himself the Child of Destiny.

Destiny, Manifest, n. (1)

    AKan 11.259 25 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing.

destiny, n. (46)

    LE 1.180 7 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage, and the faith in his destiny...
    SR 2.47 22 ...we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny;...
    Comp 2.101 18 ...each [occupation, trade, art, transaction] must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all his destiny.
    Fdsp 2.201 17 Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny.
    Int 2.327 6 ...a truth, separated by the intellect, is no longer a subject of destiny.
    Exp 3.82 24 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity. The god is surcharged with his divine destiny.
    Mrs1 3.138 8 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall, however remotely, the grandeur of our destiny.
    Nat2 3.194 16 If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
    UGM 4.15 1 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can...
    UGM 4.35 6 The destiny of organized nature is amelioration...
    GoW 4.286 7 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    ET5 5.93 20 [The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches...
    ET9 5.151 23 Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.
    ET16 5.279 16 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    F 6.16 25 The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in their destiny.
    F 6.23 23 They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
    F 6.42 4 ...the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Pow 6.73 24 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle...
    Ctr 6.138 22 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds...
    Wsp 6.240 19 Man is made of the same atoms as the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions and destiny.
    Ill 6.321 22 ...we cannot even see what or where our stars of destiny are.
    Elo1 7.92 12 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required, namely a reinforcing of man from events, so as to give the double force of reason and destiny.
    PI 8.42 17 ...as...every perception is a destiny, there is no limit to [the poet' s] hope.
    PPo 8.244 25 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    Grts 8.303 18 ...he who rests on what he is, has a destiny above destiny...
    Grts 8.303 19 ...he who rests on what he is, has a destiny above destiny...
    Imtl 8.327 8 ...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form...
    Imtl 8.336 19 We must infer our destiny from the preparation.
    Dem1 10.22 8 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he...obeys a high family destiny;...
    Edc1 10.125 14 We have already taken...the initial step...thus deciding at the start the destiny of this country,-this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.142 10 Let [the solitary man]...yield as gracefully as he can to his destiny.
    Supl 10.177 7 ...the religion [of the Arab] teaches an inexorable destiny;...
    Prch 10.237 20 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see...the great lines of our destiny...
    Schr 10.288 25 [The scholar] shall think very highly of his destiny.
    Plu 10.311 6 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence...his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul.
    MMEm 10.415 27 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor, or to learn my own unpopular destiny...
    FSLC 11.205 15 The destiny of this country is great and liberal...
    EdAd 11.383 2 The American people are fast opening their own destiny.
    RBur 11.440 12 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in education and social order, has changed the face of the world. In order for this destiny, his birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
    FRep 11.536 5 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance. They have no perception of its destiny.
    PLT 12.39 23 ...[the intellectual man] wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...
    II 12.76 20 We cannot even see what or where our stars of destiny are.
    Bost 12.188 24 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Milt1 12.251 22 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    Trag 12.408 6 ...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular will.
    Trag 12.408 8 Destiny properly is not a will at all...

Destiny, n. (19)

    YA 1.371 21 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    YA 1.371 24 ...the Genius or Destiny is not narrow, but beneficent.
    YA 1.373 4 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration...
    SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
    MoS 4.175 26 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
    MoS 4.177 3 The word Fate, or Destiny, expresses the sense of mankind... that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
    MoS 4.177 9 We paint...Destiny, deaf.
    F 6.23 27 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    F 6.24 22 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    Bhr 6.175 13 ...Nature and Destiny are honest...
    PPo 8.238 27 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny.
    Aris 10.41 3 Do not hearken to the men, but to the Destiny in the institutions.
    EdAd 11.386 23 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    EdAd 11.389 16 Men reason badly, but Nature and Destiny are logical.
    FRep 11.537 10 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is no log or sluggard...
    II 12.88 12 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Bost 12.200 17 This thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;...
    Let 12.397 6 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny...
    Trag 12.406 23 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...

destitute, adj. (5)

    MoS 4.156 2 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    NMW 4.232 19 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.253 18 Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
    Prch 10.219 17 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment...
    Trag 12.411 13 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

destitution, n. (8)

    NER 3.270 7 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened...
    Bhr 6.187 20 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures...
    Wsp 6.234 9 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    Aris 10.46 11 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks; such excess here and such destitution there;...
    MMEm 10.415 23 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
    MMEm 10.416 22 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel.
    MMEm 10.419 12 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in...complete destitution of society.
    ACiv 11.297 8 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it an institution, I call it a destitution...

Destitution, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.404 20 Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's] genius,-Destitution and Death.
    MMEm 10.404 21 Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's] genius,-Destitution and Death.

destroy, v. (31)

    AmS 1.99 26 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new...
    LT 1.285 27 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall destroy the value of many kinds of property and replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
    Con 1.316 5 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
    OS 2.292 10 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope of trifling with you.
    Cir 2.302 21 New arts destroy the old.
    Art1 2.365 23 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature, and destroy its separate and contrasted existence.
    Mrs1 3.129 14 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    Nat2 3.181 11 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.
    NER 3.283 6 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall destroy distrust by his trust...
    SwM 4.139 17 [Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their credit by running into detail.
    NMW 4.230 4 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle, and destroy his forces in detail.
    Ctr 6.134 21 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid!...
    Suc 7.310 9 'T is cheap and easy to destroy.
    Elo2 8.121 26 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    Insp 8.290 2 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Dem1 10.14 11 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Aris 10.35 12 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Chr2 10.120 12 What would it avail me, if I could destroy my enemies?
    Plu 10.320 7 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play, and by that external noise destroy all the sweetness that was proper and his own.
    LLNE 10.327 24 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    MMEm 10.424 5 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy.
    HDC 11.59 8 The red man may destroy here and there a straggler, as a wild beast may;...
    HDC 11.72 23 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    EWI 11.127 5 The House of Commons would destroy the protection of [West Indian] island produce...
    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.
    FSLC 11.178 4 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
    ACiv 11.309 25 ...the government of the world is moral, and does forever destroy what is not.
    EPro 11.325 7 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race...
    CL 12.140 5 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Trag 12.410 18 [Grief] is so distributed as not to destroy.
    Trag 12.411 10 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy, any more than seasickness, which may also destroy life.

destroyed, v. (26)

    Tran 1.359 16 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day, forever renewed to be forever destroyed.
    YA 1.378 21 ...the historian will see that...trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism;...
    YA 1.378 26 We complain...of [trade's] building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed.
    YA 1.390 26 ...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
    Comp 2.117 8 ...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
    Lov1 2.179 9 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.
    Prd1 2.223 19 [Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed.
    Pt1 3.23 7 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place, not subject to the accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off.
    PPh 4.50 18 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form...is destroyed, there is no distinction.
    ET4 5.44 4 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are...easily changed or destroyed.
    ET5 5.85 26 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    ET10 5.159 15 As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.
    ET10 5.159 16 As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner.
    ET11 5.181 9 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets; yet will not the Duke, who is sovereign here, permit them to be destroyed.
    ET16 5.290 11 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation...
    SA 8.96 27 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    Res 8.144 4 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Edc1 10.146 17 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes...
    SovE 10.192 20 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed.
    MoL 10.254 6 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
    LLNE 10.336 1 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church...
    Thor 10.458 27 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    EWI 11.117 9 ...the habit of oppression was not destroyed [in the West Indies] by a law and a day of jubilee.
    War 11.157 4 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread; but trade is instantly endangered and destroyed.
    FSLN 11.237 24 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed.
    PPr 12.387 20 The ancients are only venerable to us because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...

destroyer, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.127 24 Napoleon...destroyer of the old noblesse, never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    NMW 4.252 16 [Napoleon] was...the destroyer of prescription...
    SovE 10.213 18 destroying, adj. (1) Farm 7.148 1 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home, where every year, in the destroying wind, his forlorn trees pined like suffering virtue.

destroying, v. (9)

    LT 1.275 6 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes, destroying privacy and making thorough-lights.
    Mrs1 3.155 10 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...
    UGM 4.23 16 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism;...
    CbW 6.254 16 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
    Res 8.144 18 It is out of the obstacles to be encountered that [the Indian, the sailor, the hunter] make the means of destroying them.
    SovE 10.188 18 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers, destroying what is more destructive than they...
    SovE 10.190 18 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
    Thor 10.482 2 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest.
    War 11.151 7 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing laws and institutions...

destroys, v. (13)

    DSA 1.141 19 ...thus historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching...
    YA 1.376 18 ...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally destroys.
    Fdsp 2.207 21 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Int 2.343 10 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality...
    Chr1 3.100 14 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
    SwM 4.131 6 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire and destroys the judgment.
    F 6.32 24 ...right drainage destroys typhus.
    Ill 6.313 6 ...we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.
    PI 8.37 17 The critic destroys...
    SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit, which destroys almost all the fine wits.
    Comc 8.169 5 The poorest man who stands on his manhood destroys the jest.
    Insp 8.273 3 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity.
    MLit 12.330 12 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his experience.

destruction, n. (9)

    NMW 4.237 3 We are always...just on the edge of destruction...
    NMW 4.250 5 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe...
    NMW 4.257 20 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions;...they deserted [Napoleon].
    ET11 5.188 18 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...
    Wth 6.115 20 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    SA 8.96 1 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning.
    MoL 10.247 25 Nature...mocks at the puny forces of destruction.
    Plu 10.317 26 If I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be ascribed to him, I regret that he should have suffered such destruction of his own.
    JBS 11.281 15 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.

destructive, adj. (11)

    MR 1.255 27 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion] from falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
    Prd1 2.237 2 On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays a destructive tax;...
    Exp 3.78 26 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view, but when acted are found destructive of society.
    Pol1 3.210 12 The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless...
    Pol1 3.210 13 ...[the spirit of our American radicalism]...is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    NER 3.257 5 I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.
    ET1 5.4 22 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
    F 6.8 23 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    Pow 6.71 26 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    SovE 10.188 18 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers, destroying what is more destructive than they...
    EdAd 11.388 9 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...

desultory, adj. (4)

    LE 1.157 9 I will not lose myself in the desultory questions, what are the limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
    ET1 5.4 2 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    Boks 7.194 8 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim, instead of a desultory miscellany.
    PLT 12.55 2 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...

detach, v. (16)

    Nat 1.74 19 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    SR 2.76 19 Let a Stoic...tell men they...can and must detach themselves;...
    Comp 2.103 24 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair;...
    OS 2.274 3 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience...
    Cir 2.316 15 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty...from all other duties...
    Art1 2.354 26 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    Art1 2.366 18 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely to detach the beautiful from the useful...
    NR 3.225 11 ...how few particulars of [the genius of the Platonists] can I detach from all their books.
    F 6.16 21 Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.
    Ill 6.317 25 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...
    Elo1 7.90 8 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach...
    Farm 7.143 14 You cannot detach an atom from its holdings...
    Imtl 8.324 25 ...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the soul from the body, he took great care for his body.
    SovE 10.185 15 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
    Thor 10.471 10 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
    FSLN 11.235 25 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...

detached, adj. (9)

    Art1 2.365 14 All works of art should not be detached, but extempore performances.
    SwM 4.117 10 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement...
    GoW 4.273 19 [Goethe] had a power to unite the detached atoms again by their own law.
    GoW 4.288 5 ...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's] works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.
    Boks 7.217 24 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they...are not detached and critical, have the imaginative element.
    LLNE 10.344 16 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you, so bald and detached;...
    Mem 12.110 13 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us, not as now in fragments and detached thoughts...
    Milt1 12.276 27 ...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. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.
    Let 12.396 22 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

detached, v. (8)

    Nat 1.50 27 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least, wholly detached from all relation to the observer...
    MN 1.211 26 There is...nothing that is not noxious to [man] if detached from [this divine method's] universal relations.
    Prd1 2.222 14 Prudence is false when detached.
    Int 2.336 15 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired, but...they are not detached...
    PPh 4.39 15 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
    Thor 10.477 21 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    PLT 12.18 19 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent...
    II 12.66 6 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be. All that we know is flakes and grains detached from this mountain.

detaches, v. (7)

    AmS 1.96 16 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit...
    Pt1 3.23 10 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age...she detaches from him a new self...
    Pt1 3.23 14 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
    Insp 8.292 19 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...detaches itself...
    LLNE 10.326 17 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body...
    PLT 12.18 2 ...as the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons, by a higher force of the same law the mind detaches minds, and a mind detaches thoughts or intellections.
    PLT 12.38 25 This is the first property of the Intellect I am to point out; the mind detaches.

detaching, v. (6)

    Comp 2.104 23 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted.
    Art1 2.354 27 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    GoW 4.265 13 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and, by detaching the object from its relations, easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    Clbs 7.228 6 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    EPro 11.324 2 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion, detaching that force and reducing it to handfuls...
    Trag 12.416 21 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune...

detachment, n. (18)

    MN 1.201 10 There is...no detachment of an individual.
    Tran 1.350 20 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    Int 2.340 9 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works...
    Art1 2.354 10 The virtue of art lies in detachment...
    Pt1 3.18 22 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    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.
    NER 3.251 21 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    UGM 4.30 8 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals. The ever-proceeding detachment appears not less in all thought and in society.
    UGM 4.30 12 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place.
    ShP 4.201 18 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...and the final detachment from the church...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    LLNE 10.326 20 It is the age...of detachment.
    LLNE 10.327 12 The association of the time is accidental and momentary and hypocritical, the detachment intrinsic and progressive.
    HDC 11.75 10 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
    PLT 12.39 9 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact] under a new order...
    PLT 12.39 15 ...this is the measure of all intellectual power among men, the power to complete this detachment...
    Bost 12.196 10 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.
    Bost 12.201 3 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy;...
    Bost 12.201 8 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...

detail, n. (23)

    Nat 1.46 3 It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human forms'] ministry to our education...
    Con 1.302 7 That which is best about conservatism, that which, though it cannot be expressed in detail, inspires reverence in all, is the Inevitable.
    Hist 2.11 15 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself, in general and in detail, that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...the problem is solved;...
    PPh 4.46 6 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.53 26 The unity of Asia and the detail of Europe;...Plato came to join...
    PNR 4.86 19 [Plato]...descended into detail with a courage like that he witnessed in nature.
    SwM 4.139 18 [Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their credit by running into detail.
    NMW 4.230 4 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle, and destroy his forces in detail.
    GoW 4.273 21 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life...nestling close beside us...
    ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail...
    ET10 5.164 27 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England], into silver and gold, with costly deliberation and detail.
    ET17 5.293 20 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    PPo 8.238 2 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    Aris 10.64 17 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering...things in masses, and not too much in detail.
    Supl 10.179 5 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking, which go to check...the excess of our detail.
    LLNE 10.359 11 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    War 11.156 17 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
    FSLC 11.186 15 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLN 11.223 4 ...[Webster's] beauties of detail are endless.
    Scot 11.464 15 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
    PLT 12.4 20 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working, in wholes and in every detail, after the laws of the human mind.
    Bost 12.197 4 ...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 is not grand and enlarging...
    ACri 12.294 7 ...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's] portraits is his own universality...

detailed, v. (5)

    NR 3.231 27 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...
    ET16 5.285 24 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.
    ET17 5.294 21 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    SMC 11.374 16 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.
    AgMs 12.363 14 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed;...

detailing, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 24 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.

details, n. (73)

    Nat 1.67 16 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details...
    DSA 1.121 15 ...this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.
    LE 1.163 19 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell,-the details of that nature...called Byron, or Burke;...
    LE 1.163 22 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its wonderful details...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.177 18 [Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily action.
    LT 1.281 6 ...in its management and details, [the reforming movement is] timid and profane.
    LT 1.289 16 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality...
    Tran 1.333 22 [The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of being;...
    Hist 2.31 10 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism. Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
    Comp 2.101 10 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part all the details...
    SL 2.142 6 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    Lov1 2.171 20 Details are melancholy;...
    Int 2.340 16 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
    Art1 2.351 10 The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit...
    Mrs1 3.143 14 ...the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    NR 3.231 9 Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life...
    NR 3.234 4 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
    NR 3.234 14 Beautiful details we must have, or no artist;...
    NR 3.237 12 We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details;...
    NER 3.267 25 In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
    NER 3.279 15 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    ShP 4.213 22 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute details...
    GoW 4.286 17 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...no details of offices or employments...
    GoW 4.286 23 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance: he crowds us with details...
    ET3 5.37 19 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET4 5.64 16 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    ET5 5.85 12 The spirit of system, attention to details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.85 13 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET10 5.166 9 Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty mass, and made good in whatever details we care to explore.
    ET11 5.190 3 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques... record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET14 5.246 19 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth;...
    ET16 5.289 3 ...I put off my [English] friends with very inadequate details [about America], as best I could.
    Pow 6.77 4 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Bhr 6.169 24 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Bty 6.285 24 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details...
    Bty 6.306 14 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through fair outlines and details of the landscape...
    Ill 6.312 16 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details...
    Civ 7.25 6 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    WD 7.165 15 What sickening details in the daily journals!
    Boks 7.203 14 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details...
    Boks 7.210 6 ...to pass over some details,--the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded...
    Clbs 7.243 25 Anthony Wood has many details of Harrington's Club.
    Suc 7.284 20 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons] in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
    Suc 7.293 13 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
    PPo 8.239 14 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
    Imtl 8.324 4 The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an established civilization...
    Dem1 10.9 12 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
    Edc1 10.153 2 ...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.
    Prch 10.224 3 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from occupation with details to knowledge of the design;...
    GSt 10.504 14 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
    GSt 10.506 2 [George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
    HDC 11.30 26 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    EWI 11.108 23 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.
    FSLN 11.223 2 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    AKan 11.255 18 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    AKan 11.256 6 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all exaggeration...
    JBB 11.267 11 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    ACiv 11.300 15 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    ACiv 11.304 10 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation.
    SMC 11.371 11 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.
    SMC 11.376 10 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have used.
    Wom 11.408 17 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    Scot 11.464 16 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required, so much suppression of details and leaping to the event, [Scott] would keep and use...
    CPL 11.495 21 In the details of this munificence, we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library..
    II 12.68 10 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences. The marble imposes on us; the exquisite details, we cannot tell if they be good or not;...
    Bost 12.197 15 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    MAng1 12.223 26 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture], with all the details of economy and strength.
    Milt1 12.265 26 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.
    EurB 12.373 27 Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a poetic truth.
    PPr 12.380 6 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
    PPr 12.380 7 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
    PPr 12.390 10 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.
    Let 12.393 17 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

detain, v. (7)

    ET6 5.113 27 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
    SS 7.4 23 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Comc 8.167 3 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison, in which the man sits down immovably, and wishes to detain others.
    SMC 11.348 14 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    Koss 11.397 4 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.
    Humb 11.458 5 [Humboldt] was properly a man of the world; you could not lose him; you could not detain him;...
    PLT 12.16 16 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass...

detained, v. (2)

    MR 1.237 21 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent, being detained by work of my own...
    CInt 12.131 23 I have detained you too long;...

detaining, v. (3)

    Elo1 7.73 17 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    JBB 11.273 3 ...I am detaining the meeting on matters which others understand better.
    RBur 11.442 27 ...I am detaining you too long.

detains, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.412 26 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not one wish of others detains her, not one care.

detect, v. (36)

    Nat 1.43 17 ...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus...
    Con 1.321 25 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching...
    SR 2.45 18 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...
    SR 2.54 13 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    Fdsp 2.202 12 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either...
    Cir 2.314 1 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    Exp 3.63 10 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
    Chr1 3.115 18 There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues;...
    Mrs1 3.148 4 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.
    SwM 4.114 19 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates;...
    MoS 4.178 9 ...through all the offices, learned, civil and social, can detect the child.
    ET15 5.270 19 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    F 6.40 22 At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his puppet...
    Bhr 6.186 1 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    Bty 6.288 6 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency. They know it too, and peep with their eyes to see if you detect their sad plight.
    Art2 7.47 9 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    Farm 7.136 3 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    Boks 7.210 26 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    Boks 7.219 19 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women.
    Cour 7.276 16 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...detect what scullion function is assigned [beast-like men]...
    Suc 7.288 25 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.
    Suc 7.303 4 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will, for the secret of it is hard to detect...
    PI 8.21 6 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
    PI 8.33 9 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought...
    PI 8.48 22 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.
    QO 8.198 11 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian? Yes, he could detect in the style that fine Roman hand.
    Insp 8.296 13 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
    Chr2 10.105 27 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What...Diderots, Fichtes, Heines, and many another heretic, one can detect therein!
    Edc1 10.139 10 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
    MMEm 10.406 4 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    MMEm 10.427 3 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    Carl 10.493 14 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
    PLT 12.50 27 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it...
    PLT 12.53 16 When [a man] speaks out of another's mind, we detect it.
    II 12.67 23 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...
    CL 12.161 17 How startling are the hints of wit we detect in the horse and dog...

detected, adj. (2)

    Comc 8.160 6 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    Trag 12.409 12 The whisper overheard, the detected glance...darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

detected, v. (13)

    NMW 4.240 6 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself, detected overcharges and errors...
    GoW 4.273 21 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life...nestling close beside us...
    ET14 5.244 27 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or in thought;...
    DL 7.102 5 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    OA 7.316 8 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the cloth shoe...of Age.
    PI 8.49 25 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes.
    SA 8.103 13 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts (and one detected continually that he had a hand in everything that has been done)...
    Comc 8.159 16 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect...
    Thor 10.470 3 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool...
    Thor 10.475 4 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry]...
    Thor 10.478 23 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
    Thor 10.481 22 By [scent] [Thoreau] detected earthiness.
    CInt 12.125 5 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.

detecting, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.358 16 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct...

detecting, v. (4)

    SL 2.162 5 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled, detecting many unlike tendencies...
    Nat2 3.178 21 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    NR 3.229 21 We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we have no place in our theory, and no name.
    Civ 7.29 7 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt, as, for example, in detecting the parallax of a star.

detection, n. (2)

    MoS 4.174 16 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
    Prch 10.221 2 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...

detective, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.223 18 ...things themselves are detective.

detective, n. (2)

    SA 8.86 26 ...what a seneschal and detective is laughter!
    PLT 12.14 10 ...this watching of the mind...to see the mechanics of the thing, is a little of the detective.

Detector, Bank-Note, n. (1)

    Wth 6.103 19 The Bank-Note Detector is a useful publication.

detector, n. (1)

    Wth 6.103 21 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.

detectors, n. (1)

    Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...detectors and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...

detects, v. (10)

    Hist 2.13 13 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
    Lov1 2.186 5 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
    Int 2.326 19 The intellect...detects intrinsic likeness between remote things...
    Int 2.341 3 [The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's] changes.
    Mrs1 3.150 1 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
    SA 8.84 9 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...
    Insp 8.283 1 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
    Dem1 10.26 23 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
    Carl 10.493 17 [Carlyle] detects weakness on the instant, and touches it.
    Carl 10.494 4 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically committed.

deteriorate, v. (2)

    Con 1.298 7 ...conservatism...is always...pleading that to change would be to deteriorate...
    Let 12.401 24 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...

deteriorated, v. (3)

    ET12 5.209 6 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons. No other nation produces the stock. And in England, it has deteriorated.
    ET18 5.300 23 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...
    F 6.12 13 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...

deteriorates, v. (1)

    F 6.16 22 Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.

deteriorating, adj. (1)

    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;...

deterioration, n. (4)

    Hist 2.23 13 The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and deterioration...
    Pt1 3.28 20 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    ET10 5.154 4 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET10 5.168 8 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling, and that again a perpetual deterioration of the fabric.

determinate, adj. (3)

    Elo1 7.99 10 Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact and determinate.
    LLNE 10.339 7 There was...a consciousness of power not yet finding its determinate aim.
    PLT 12.27 5 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.

determination, n. (28)

    Nat2 3.187 13 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head...
    PPh 4.72 12 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.119 7 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw, through some excessive determination to form in his constitution, he saw not abstractly, but in pictures...
    SwM 4.134 22 The vice of Swedenborg's mind is its theologic determination.
    ET4 5.68 15 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most terrible determination.
    Wth 6.112 7 ...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his spending.
    Ctr 6.134 20 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
    Ctr 6.134 24 Our student must have a style and determination...
    SS 7.8 11 The determination of each is from all the others...
    Elo1 7.80 27 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
    WD 7.158 2 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
    OA 7.320 10 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury, and the lip made up with a heroic determination not to mind it.
    SA 8.80 6 He...who draws his determination from within, and draws it instantly,--that man rules.
    SA 8.104 18 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture, and their determination to hold these fast...
    Chr2 10.93 1 ...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see this good of the whole enacted;...
    Chr2 10.108 22 ...the stern determination to do justly, to speak the truth... was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    Edc1 10.150 4 ...every young man is born with some determination in his nature...
    SovE 10.204 8 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world.
    Thor 10.471 23 [Thoreau's] determination on Natural History was organic.
    LS 11.24 7 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
    II 12.76 17 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us,-I know not; but there seems a settled determination to break our spirit.
    II 12.82 19 If [a man] is wrong, increase his determination to his aim, and he is right again.
    II 12.83 14 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    II 12.84 2 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life.
    II 12.84 6 This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.
    Mem 12.95 24 ...the power [of memory] exists in some marked and eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
    MAng1 12.231 11 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward, with the heat and determination of manhood, his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MLit 12.323 10 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have...seconded [Goethe's] sturdy determination to see things for what they are.

determinations, n. (2)

    Tran 1.336 23 Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and wrong except the determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    Prch 10.219 15 Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations before any clear vision.

determine, v. (13)

    Int 2.328 22 We do not determine what we will think.
    Mrs1 3.133 11 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
    ET4 5.49 10 'T is said that the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions.
    Elo1 7.86 1 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties, and stick there, and determine the cause.
    PI 8.67 14 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    PI 8.70 24 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought. The success with which this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration.
    Aris 10.48 10 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet;...
    Aris 10.54 25 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine.
    HDC 11.46 14 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own, which, what they were, time alone could fully determine;...
    AKan 11.261 19 A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and determine.
    Wom 11.424 2 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs. But it is they and not we that are to determine it.
    MAng1 12.217 23 There is no standard whereby the understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
    MAng1 12.219 1 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.

determined, adj. (14)

    Cir 2.321 4 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour...
    UGM 4.14 19 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent, and the wavering, determined.
    ShP 4.189 19 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
    GoW 4.282 15 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
    ET4 5.57 24 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner...
    ET15 5.269 4 [The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and petulant, but considerate and determined.
    Wth 6.92 22 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    Cour 7.259 20 ...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men who are really angry and determined.
    Res 8.146 20 A determined man...puts a stop to defeat...
    Supl 10.175 25 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined purpose presently.
    SMC 11.356 15 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    SMC 11.358 16 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward, but was determined that no one should ever find it out;...
    FRep 11.530 14 ...we say that revolutions beat all the insurgents, be they never so determined and politic;...
    WSL 12.339 18 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies, and he is determined they shall for the future put them out of sight.

determined, v. (19)

    YA 1.384 6 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    Hist 2.19 24 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SL 2.141 13 The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
    Wsp 6.219 1 ...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.
    SS 7.6 7 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
    Art2 7.41 23 The slope of your roof is determined by the weight of snow.
    PI 8.46 17 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
    PPo 8.249 20 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz. Hafiz himself is determined to defy all such hypocritical interpretation...
    Imtl 8.325 1 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...
    Aris 10.48 6 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    Aris 10.49 26 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the health he restores to body and mind;...
    SovE 10.184 16 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    LS 11.3 23 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year...
    HDC 11.50 16 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    FSLN 11.224 9 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history when great issues are determined...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    EdAd 11.391 13 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...
    FRep 11.516 12 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which, as they shall be determined in one way or the other, will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
    MAng1 12.216 13 This idea [of Beauty] possessed [Michelangelo] and determined all his activity.
    MAng1 12.225 5 [Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of themselves...

determines, v. (15)

    Nat 1.55 11 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena...
    SL 2.144 2 A man's genius...determines for him the character of the universe.
    Fdsp 2.207 26 ...it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
    Exp 3.72 17 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. The sentiment from which it sprung determines the dignity of any deed...
    Pol1 3.207 6 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    UGM 4.11 16 ...the constituency determines the vote of the representative.
    ET10 5.162 26 The wealth of London determines prices all over the globe.
    F 6.9 2 ...the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
    F 6.10 17 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger...in the depth of his eye. His parentage determines it.
    WD 7.176 11 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
    EWI 11.122 7 ...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
    EWI 11.123 4 Our civility, England determines the style of...
    PLT 12.33 14 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
    PLT 12.47 4 There is a meter which determines the constructive power of man...
    II 12.65 6 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.

determining, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 12 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.

determining, v. (3)

    SwM 4.107 17 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
    HDC 11.45 5 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were...determining the power of the magistrate, were united by personal affection.
    Wom 11.421 22 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.

deterred, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.279 1 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.

detest, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 16 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...

detestation, n. (1)

    HDC 11.70 9 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them......with contempt and detestation.

detested, v. (1)

    Grts 8.315 15 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.

dethroned, v. (2)

    Nat 1.71 1 We are like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned...
    ET10 5.161 14 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...kings are dethroned.

detraction, n. (1)

    NMW 4.244 6 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...

detriment, n. (3)

    PPh 4.53 1 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    Imtl 8.333 14 I know against all appearances that the universe can receive no detriment;...
    SlHr 10.448 11 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...

deus ex machina, n. (1)

    PPr 12.386 13 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A crisis has always arrived which requires a deus ex machina.

Deus, n. (2)

    WD 7.167 2 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God,--Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater, Jupiter...
    Bost 12.211 22 Sicut patribus, sit Deus nobis!

Deux Mondes, Revue des, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 26 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes;...

devastate, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.382 16 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./

devastates, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.214 19 We say...that a skepticism devastates the community.
    MMEm 10.423 11 War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace does not less.

devastation, n. (2)

    ET11 5.172 22 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    Wsp 6.223 7 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men; and the reaction of his fault on himself, in the solitude and devastation of his mind.

develop, v. (7)

    NMW 4.230 11 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
    ET4 5.51 27 ...certain temperaments...by well-managed contrarieties, develop as drastic a character as the English.
    Imtl 8.331 4 ...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    MoL 10.258 2 The times develop the strength they need.
    Humb 11.456 5 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 see great advances in knowledge develop themselves...
    Mem 12.104 24 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.
    CL 12.135 13 ...[the land] will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.

developed, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.203 27 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.

developed, v. (5)

    NER 3.269 22 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed...
    Imtl 8.332 23 ...the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.
    Dem1 10.24 25 ...this is not the least remarkable fact which the adepts have developed.
    Schr 10.279 5 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
    War 11.156 1 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

developing, v. (1)

    OA 7.324 3 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them;...

development, n. (15)

    LT 1.261 14 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    YA 1.391 16 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Lov1 2.172 16 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We...take the warmest interest in the development of the romance.
    SwM 4.127 15 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage;...
    ET18 5.304 11 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development...
    Farm 7.144 13 In the stomach of the plant development begins.
    PI 8.7 14 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    Insp 8.270 21 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
    SovE 10.186 24 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
    Schr 10.280 15 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the development of that mind is arrested.
    War 11.155 22 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of way, only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts, and remains in that form only until their development.
    Wom 11.414 9 ...in every remarkable religious development in the world, women have taken a leading part.
    PLT 12.21 23 ...there is development from less to more...
    ACri 12.292 14 Never use the word development...
    EurB 12.376 9 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.

developments, n. (1)

    Exp 3.81 1 ...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual] developments...

develops, v. (6)

    Pol1 3.212 6 The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and centrifugal, is universal, and each force by its own activity develops the other.
    Pol1 3.212 7 Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
    NER 3.252 17 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain...
    Wsp 6.214 3 The energetic action of the times develops individualism...
    CbW 6.265 3 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    Grts 8.307 15 ...it is only as [a man] feels and obeys [his bias] that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world.

DeVere, n. (1)

    ET11 5.177 9 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years. But the fact is otherwise. Where is Bohun? where is De Vere?

DeVeres, n. (2)

    ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.
    ET11 5.175 9 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.

Devereux, Robert [Earl of (3)

    Chr1 3.89 10 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    ShP 4.203 12 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex...
    FSLN 11.243 19 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.

deviates, v. (1)

    PPr 12.388 9 [Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who...never deviates from his sphere;...

deviation, n. (1)

    SR 2.85 25 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.

deviations, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.234 4 Let [a man] esteem...[Nature's] perfections the exact measure of our deviations.
    Nat2 3.182 18 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.

device, n. (1)

    QO 8.196 5 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...

devil, n. (17)

    Tran 1.336 18 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
    Fdsp 2.192 24 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have...a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.
    Exp 3.62 12 In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old spiritual world and even the dear old devil not far off.
    NMW 4.250 14 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    F 6.22 26 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...
    F 6.33 16 Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded.
    F 6.33 22 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil...
    Pow 6.66 13 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.
    Bhr 6.179 19 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes]...
    CbW 6.252 26 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil.
    DL 7.123 9 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle...
    Suc 7.290 20 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that;...
    Comc 8.168 11 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is that W?
    Aris 10.62 17 In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will find the laughing devil...
    MoL 10.257 12 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen devil, as by immemorial right.
    FSLC 11.186 1 You borrow the succour of the devil and he must have his fee.
    RBur 11.442 22 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes;...

Devil, n. (11)

    SR 2.50 23 ...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
    Comp 2.109 27 The Devil is an ass.
    GoW 4.276 12 The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.
    Grts 8.313 16 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Plu 10.299 11 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due...
    FSLN 11.234 19 These things show that no forms...are of any use in themselves. The Devil nestles comfortably into them all.
    CInt 12.121 27 ...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than the uninstructed. They use their wit and learning in the service of the Devil.
    ACri 12.289 13 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...
    ACri 12.289 15 ...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person.
    ACri 12.289 17 The Devil a monk was he, means, he was no monk...
    ACri 12.289 19 ...The Devil you did! means you did not.

devilish, adj. (2)

    Cour 7.276 5 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives...
    Dem1 10.17 15 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not devilish, since it was beneficent;...

devils, n. (11)

    SL 2.134 4 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.
    SL 2.158 23 All the devils respect virtue.
    Pt1 3.32 20 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as angels, devils...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    SwM 4.137 6 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    SwM 4.138 10 Swedenborg has devils.
    MoS 4.184 10 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a cry of famine, as of devils for souls.
    F 6.34 1 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more reluctant...
    PC 8.233 6 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils;...
    EWI 11.146 9 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro, when jumping over the ship's sides to escape from the white devils who surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    War 11.171 9 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him...
    MAng1 12.220 17 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

devil's, n. (3)

    MoS 4.173 7 [The wise skeptic] does not wish...to play the part of devil's attorney...
    Wsp 6.201 10 I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
    FRep 11.520 5 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party.

Devil's, n. (2)

    SR 2.50 22 ...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
    Pt1 3.29 5 ...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.

devil's-needles, n. (1)

    Thor 10.482 20 Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook.

devise, v. (2)

    YA 1.374 6 We devise sumptuary and relief laws...
    Pol1 3.220 4 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless? could not a nation of friends even devise better ways?

devised, v. (2)

    WD 7.161 18 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    SA 8.105 27 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

Devizes, Richard of, n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 2 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories, the chronicle of Richard of Devizes.

Devizes', Richard of, n. (2)

    ET13 5.224 16 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard, in Richard of Devizes' Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    Wsp 6.206 16 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.

devoid, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.143 20 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    Elo1 7.74 13 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive to him who is devoid of that talent...

Devon, Earl of [William Ca (1)

    ET11 5.190 8 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

Devon, England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.180 7 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the downs of Devon...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
    Bost 12.189 9 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

Devon's, Earl of [William (1)

    Ctr 6.148 26 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...

Devonshire, Duke of [Spence (2)

    ET11 5.182 15 The Duke of Devonshire...owns 96,000 acres in the County of Derby.
    ET11 5.193 15 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.

Devonshire, Duke of [Willia (1)

    Boks 7.209 25 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...

Devonshire, Earl of [Willia (1)

    Boks 7.207 15 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...all the Letters (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire, explaining the Essex business)...

Devonshire, England, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 10 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Dukes of Devonshire...or whatever great proprietors.

Devonshire House, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 12 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly, Burlington House, Devonshire House...

devote, v. (3)

    DSA 1.135 14 To this holy office [of priest] you propose to devote yourselves.
    ET10 5.156 24 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    LLNE 10.356 13 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.

devoted, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.51 1 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... world-wide enterprise and devoted use and wont;...
    ET13 5.220 1 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
    SMC 11.361 10 Always devoted...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    Milt1 12.261 24 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.

devoted, v. (15)

    Fdsp 2.205 2 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am, and tender myself least to him to whom I am the most devoted.
    NER 3.253 14 [Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of churches and meetings for public worship;...
    SwM 4.100 5 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works...
    MoS 4.150 3 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals]; and it will easily happen that men will be found devoted to one or the other.
    MoS 4.150 15 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    ET14 5.240 3 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    Wsp 6.210 25 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Suc 7.294 11 ...the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    MMEm 10.412 11 The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.
    MMEm 10.416 15 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.
    GSt 10.506 1 [George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
    MAng1 12.221 3 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years;...
    MAng1 12.240 7 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters...
    Milt1 12.267 1 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.
    Milt1 12.268 5 ...[Milton]...devoted much of his time to the preparing of a Latin dictionary.

devotee, n. (2)

    Nat 1.58 17 The devotee flouts nature.
    SovE 10.200 4 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...

devotes, v. (2)

    Cir 2.315 2 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...
    Farm 7.141 15 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.

devotion, n. (54)

    Nat 1.74 7 ...thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
    LE 1.176 2 ...we have need of...such an asceticism...as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.
    MR 1.242 21 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry, to art... drawing him to these things with a devotion incompatible with good husbandry, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    MR 1.245 23 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is practised for...devotion.
    MR 1.252 16 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears, with the devotion of his faculties to our service.
    Prd1 2.223 11 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter...
    Prd1 2.232 5 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art.
    OS 2.294 25 [Man] must greatly listen to himself, withdrawing himself from all the accents of other men's devotion.
    Int 2.338 27 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    Art1 2.364 5 [Sculpture] was originally...a savage's record of gratitude or devotion...
    Chr1 3.106 16 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...
    Mrs1 3.126 16 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    NER 3.258 11 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
    UGM 4.29 22 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
    PPh 4.49 9 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    NMW 4.241 15 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    GoW 4.284 9 [Goethe's] is not even the devotion to pure truth;...
    ET11 5.175 13 The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and devotion.
    ET13 5.218 18 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride.
    ET14 5.252 27 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET19 5.311 4 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that...
    Pow 6.64 5 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...the ecstasies of devotion with the exasperations of debauchery.
    Wth 6.116 1 The devotion to these vines and trees [the land-owner] finds poisonous.
    Ctr 6.132 12 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    Ctr 6.148 24 In the country [a man] can find...groves for devotion.
    Ctr 6.159 3 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a partisan journalist, his devotion to ornithology.
    Elo1 7.63 20 [The successful orator] has his audience at his devotion.
    PI 8.11 18 ...the saint [sees] an argument for devotion in every natural process;...
    QO 8.182 11 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.
    QO 8.188 17 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    PC 8.220 26 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    Aris 10.46 2 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
    Edc1 10.153 2 ...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.
    Prch 10.229 5 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
    Plu 10.298 13 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education...by devotion to affairs private and public;...
    LLNE 10.347 23 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    MMEm 10.430 2 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?
    Thor 10.478 12 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
    GSt 10.501 15 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
    LS 11.19 9 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion...
    EWI 11.147 6 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    SMC 11.359 24 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
    Wom 11.418 9 [Women] have tears, and gayeties, and faintings, and glooms and devotion to trifles.
    Shak1 11.447 16 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    FRep 11.531 18 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion to trade...
    II 12.87 2 [The probity of the Intellect] consists in an absolute devotion to truth...
    Bost 12.195 1 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion.
    MAng1 12.229 23 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.
    MAng1 12.233 11 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...because he abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty. Such was his devotion to art.
    MAng1 12.234 19 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    MAng1 12.242 20 Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
    Milt1 12.264 26 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
    Milt1 12.279 6 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton]...
    Pray 12.351 4 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...

devotions, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 3 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.

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