Escalier to Europes

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

escalier, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 3 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards,--which the French denote as esprit d' escalier.

escapade, n. (1)

    SL 2.152 22 ...a public oration is an escapade...

escape, n. (16)

    Exp 3.54 16 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    PPh 4.51 27 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.73 26 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas...
    ET7 5.121 12 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris...
    Wsp 6.240 6 The only path of escape known in all the worlds of God is performance.
    CbW 6.257 14 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top. This is bold practice, and there are many failures to a good escape.
    CbW 6.278 20 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;--the escape from all false ties;...
    WD 7.182 20 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    PI 8.36 26 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from the gossip and routine of society...
    PerF 10.86 6 Things are saturated with the moral law. There is no escape from it.
    Edc1 10.141 23 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Supl 10.176 27 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    EWI 11.110 22 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    FSLC 11.193 5 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    ChiE 11.470 5 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    PLT 12.22 27 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest,-the escape from the quadruped type not yet perfectly accomplished.

escape, v. (28)

    DSA 1.140 13 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they...would do well to go the hundred or thousand miles to escape.
    MN 1.216 20 Be you only whole and sufficient...and I can as easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your influence.
    Tran 1.337 24 The Buddhist...who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    Tran 1.355 17 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty, to escape the rapacity of the Pacha...
    OS 2.293 13 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He believes that he cannot escape from his good.
    Pt1 3.28 8 ...[these stimulants] help [a man] to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up...
    Nat2 3.170 9 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent...
    Nat2 3.170 10 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would...escape the sophistication and second thought...
    NER 3.283 19 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work, and thou canst not escape the reward...
    NER 3.284 22 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority...
    UGM 4.32 9 Some rays escape the common observer...
    GoW 4.280 4 No generous youth can escape this charm of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    ET1 5.19 25 Sin is what [Wordsworth] fears,--and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source.
    F 6.9 23 How shall a man escape from his ancestors...
    F 6.42 4 ...the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Wsp 6.214 10 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training...
    Wsp 6.231 5 Where is the service which can escape its remuneration?
    Elo2 8.115 15 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions; but you cannot escape the demand for courage in these...
    Insp 8.280 25 A man must be able to escape from his cares and fears...
    Supl 10.176 22 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    SovE 10.193 2 If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
    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;...
    FSLN 11.231 16 We are all conservatives...in our essences: and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery.
    TPar 11.289 5 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge!...
    EdAd 11.388 1 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.
    ChiE 11.470 2 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
    PLT 12.8 26 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...

escaped, adj. (1)

    SHC 11.436 5 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?

escaped, v. (11)

    Comp 2.105 14 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life...
    Cir 2.305 7 The result of to-day, which...cannot be escaped, will presently be abridged into a word...
    MoS 4.162 18 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book...
    F 6.22 17 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...quadruped ill-disguised, hardly escaped into biped...
    Wsp 6.231 13 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
    Boks 7.198 24 Nothing has escaped [Plato].
    OA 7.323 16 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    Imtl 8.323 18 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    LS 11.14 27 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    Scot 11.465 23 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor escaped its harm.
    CInt 12.131 7 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...

escapes, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.31 26 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Chr1 3.99 20 Society...shreds...its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
    UGM 4.19 5 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their escapes and their resources.

escapes, v. (7)

    Comp 2.105 12 If [the unwise man] escapes [the conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital part.
    Prd1 2.240 22 If not the Deity but our ambition hews and shapes the new relations, their virtue escapes...
    Chr1 3.97 24 ...the soul of goodness escapes from any set of circumstances;...
    Bhr 6.191 8 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...
    QO 8.180 6 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought. None escapes it.
    FRep 11.529 5 A congress...escapes the violence of accumulated grievance.
    CL 12.156 18 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate. It escapes us, yet is only just beyond our reach.

escaping, v. (6)

    MR 1.228 7 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world...escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can...
    Tran 1.355 20 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
    Nat2 3.196 12 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.
    SwM 4.122 8 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper, escaping from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.
    Bty 6.303 2 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis.
    CPL 11.500 26 ...[Thoreau writes] the elegy itself is some victorious melody in you, escaping from the wreck.

escort, n. (1)

    SR 2.59 25 [The hero] is attended as by a visible escort of angels.

escort, v. (1)

    Bty 6.287 5 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.

escorted, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.194 10 We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual agents...

escorting, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.194 8 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...

Escurial, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.134 23 No house, though it were the Tuileries or the Escurial, is good for anything without a master.

esoteric, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.66 16 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...

especial, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.316 7 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
    FRep 11.542 5 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...

especially, adv. (81)

    Nat 1.10 18 ...especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.43 3 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature...
    Nat 1.75 20 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...especially at remarkable crises in life, our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    AmS 1.101 20 ...[the scholar] takes...the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand...especially to educated society.
    AmS 1.113 5 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...
    DSA 1.128 6 These general views...find abundant illustration...especially in the history of the Christian church.
    LE 1.171 4 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    Con 1.305 26 Especially before this personal appeal, the innovator must confess his weakness...
    YA 1.388 9 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling...
    YA 1.392 10 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.
    Hist 2.20 16 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons.
    SR 2.88 2 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it is accidental...
    Prd1 2.229 12 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art, and just now especially in Dresden, how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    OS 2.277 13 ...in groups where debate is earnest, and especially on high questions, the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    Int 2.330 25 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes whose minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
    Int 2.344 24 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to abstract truth...
    Art1 2.364 14 ...in the works of our plastic arts and especially of sculpture, creation is driven into a corner.
    Exp 3.78 23 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
    Chr1 3.106 20 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    Mrs1 3.120 14 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... especially, establishes a select society...
    NR 3.241 26 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man, especially in every genius...
    UGM 4.17 26 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought.
    UGM 4.18 10 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression.
    PPh 4.43 17 Plato especially has no external biography.
    PPh 4.72 3 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers and unnamable offices,--especially if he talked with any superfine person.
    GoW 4.286 25 ...especially his relations to remarkable minds and to critical epochs of thought:--these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET1 5.9 9 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece...
    ET1 5.18 27 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals, especially one man of letters...whom London had well served.
    ET1 5.22 21 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said, especially the ox-eye daisy, are very abundant on the top of the rock.
    ET4 5.61 24 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country, nor especially such a leader as King Harold was for wisdom and bravery.
    ET11 5.177 12 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers...
    ET11 5.190 23 ...often [English nobles] have been the friends and patrons of genius and learning, and especially of the fine arts;...
    ET17 5.296 10 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten face, his face corrugated, especially the large nose.
    F 6.46 1 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them. Especially when a soul is quick and docile...
    Pow 6.68 6 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force.
    Ctr 6.149 20 You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;...
    Ctr 6.150 15 It is the foible especially of American youth,--pretension.
    CbW 6.258 22 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this stuff...
    Ill 6.310 5 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    Art2 7.47 10 Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius.
    Art2 7.50 16 The whole language of men, especially of artists...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Elo1 7.84 18 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    DL 7.112 2 ...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us, especially in northern climates.
    DL 7.127 23 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Boks 7.202 9 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes, especially from the business orations; and from the comic poets.
    Boks 7.207 14 [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)...
    Clbs 7.225 12 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Clbs 7.226 14 Especially women use words that are not words...
    Clbs 7.241 22 ...the simple lover of truth, especially on very high grounds... finds himself a stranger and alien.
    OA 7.319 9 ...especially, [the cup of time] creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.
    OA 7.330 3 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
    Elo2 8.120 13 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...and indicates a rare sensibility, especially when trained to wield all its powers.
    PPo 8.237 24 Oriental life and society, especially in the Southern nations, stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    PPo 8.243 8 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    Insp 8.295 26 Books of natural science, especially those written by the ancients...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Supl 10.164 11 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers.
    Supl 10.171 1 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    MoL 10.243 15 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination...
    LLNE 10.328 26 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind. Hegel also, especially.
    LLNE 10.333 18 Especially beautiful were [Everett's] poetic quotations.
    CSC 10.376 4 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of character.
    EzRy 10.386 2 ...especially [Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    MMEm 10.417 22 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.
    Carl 10.491 4 Young men, especially those holding liberal opinions, press to see [Carlyle]...
    LS 11.5 27 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice.
    HDC 11.34 24 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time, and especially, alewives...
    EWI 11.146 15 Especially, it seems to me, some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    War 11.157 9 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
    FSLC 11.190 2 The laws especially draw their obligation only from their concurrence with [the spiritual element].
    TPar 11.289 17 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed, especially if he had any jealousy that they did not stand with the Boston public as highly as they ought.
    EPro 11.324 10 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.
    SMC 11.363 4 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language, especially from an officer...
    CL 12.159 12 ...it was the practice of the Orientals, especially of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    CL 12.159 16 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...
    Bost 12.197 10 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    MAng1 12.215 12 Especially we venerate [Michelangelo's] moral fame.
    Milt1 12.248 20 [Milton's] prose writings, especially the Defence of the English People, seem to have been read with avidity.
    Pray 12.355 18 I thank thee...especially for him who brought me so perfect a type of thy goodness and love to men.
    AgMs 12.362 1 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.
    Let 12.397 12 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.
    Trag 12.415 26 This self-adapting strength [of our human being] is especially seen in disease.

Esperanca, Buena, Cape of, (1)

    War 11.158 15 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world, entering in at the Strait of Magellan, and returning by the Cape of Buena Esperanca;...

espionage, n. (1)

    WD 7.181 11 ...here your very astronomy is an espionage.

espouse, v. (3)

    GoW 4.283 13 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
    Pow 6.70 8 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Comc 8.173 11 ...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a principle against all opposition?

espouses, v. (1)

    Con 1.314 20 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man;...

esprit de corps, n. (1)

    Civ 7.26 22 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.

esprit de [du] corps, n. (1)

    ET2 5.28 10 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.

esprit, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 3 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards,--which the French denote as esprit d' escalier.

espy, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.231 8 ...when by chance we espy a coincidence between reason and the phenomena, we are surprised.
    HDC 11.70 18 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.

Esquimau, n. (1)

    FRep 11.532 9 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.

Esquimaux, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.40 17 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates] for the Esquimaux seal-hunter...

Esquimaux, n. (1)

    Res 8.141 20 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.

Esquire, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 13 [Wilton Hall] is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and the residence of his brother, Sidney Herbert Esq....

esquires, n. (1)

    Aris 10.42 12 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights, or the most worthy esquires...to be returned.

essay, n. (10)

    Nat 1.70 11 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...
    ET9 5.150 13 ...in a philosophical essay...one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
    OA 7.315 20 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].
    Plu 10.305 26 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...
    EWI 11.108 12 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will? He wrote an essay, and won the prize;...
    War 11.153 12 Plutarch, in his essay On the Fortune of Alexander, considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    Milt1 12.258 5 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
    Milt1 12.278 8 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce; an essay, which, from the first, until now, has brought a degree of obloquy on his name.

essay, v. (1)

    LE 1.161 18 I console myself...by...seeing that Plato was, and Shakspeare, and Milton,-three irrefragable facts. Then I dare; I also will essay to be.

essayed, v. (1)

    Exp 3.72 26 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...

essayist, n. (1)

    Hist 2.7 8 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...

Essays [Francis Bacon], n. (2)

    Boks 7.207 12 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...the Essays...
    Milt1 12.255 6 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of an ambitious and profound calculator...

Essays [Michel de Montaigne (4)

    MoS 4.162 16 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    MoS 4.163 2 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to do right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.163 14 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].
    MoS 4.167 27 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...

Essays [Michel Eyquem de M (2)

    Boks 7.208 8 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Montaigne's Essays;...
    WSL 12.339 17 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...

Essays [Michel Eyquem Mont (1)

    ACri 12.296 6 We can't afford to take the horse out of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.

essays, n. (7)

    MoS 4.180 11 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in...essays and catechism...
    ET11 5.189 27 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the letters and essays of Sir Philip Sidney;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET14 5.246 13 The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in England] have the like municipal limits.
    ET15 5.262 23 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...
    Boks 7.200 5 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates, On Isis and Osiris...
    Carl 10.494 13 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    WSL 12.347 11 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.

essence, n. (77)

    Nat 1.61 21 Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
    Nat 1.62 5 That essence [God] refuses to be recorded in propositions...
    Nat 1.63 24 We learn...that the dread universal essence...is that for which all things exist...
    AmS 1.90 11 In its essence [genius] is progressive.
    DSA 1.122 3 ...as this sentiment [of virtue] is the essence of all religion, let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment...
    LE 1.167 21 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...and of their essence...knowing nothing.
    MN 1.204 15 What account can [man] give of his essence more than so it was to be?
    MN 1.223 25 ...[these qualities]...form an essence...
    Con 1.321 18 ...religion in such hands loses its essence.
    Hist 2.6 3 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    SR 2.64 5 The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we call...Instinct.
    Fdsp 2.196 21 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance...
    Fdsp 2.200 23 Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity...
    Fdsp 2.217 2 The essence of friendship is entireness...
    Hsm1 2.251 26 Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
    Hsm1 2.255 14 The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    OS 2.283 26 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    Int 2.325 14 ...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence [Intellect]?
    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.
    Art1 2.363 16 ...in its essence...[art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Pt1 3.21 20 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence...
    Pt1 3.25 4 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Pt1 3.31 25 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Pt1 3.42 10 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain, copious, but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence.
    Exp 3.79 18 The intellect names [sin]...no essence.
    Exp 3.79 19 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil.
    Nat2 3.196 12 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.
    Nat2 3.196 21 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    Nat2 3.196 27 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after a long time.
    UGM 4.5 7 ...our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed.
    UGM 4.32 26 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for;...
    PPh 4.63 8 The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.63 23 The misery of man is to be baulked of the sight of essence...
    PPh 4.64 3 This also is the essence of justice,--to attend every one his own...
    PPh 4.64 6 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
    PNR 4.81 24 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms and so disclosing in every fact a germ of expansion. These expansions are in the essence of thought.
    SwM 4.94 12 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    SwM 4.104 7 The robust Aristotelian method...skilful to discriminate power from form, essence from accident...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.134 27 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations. The mode, as well as the essence, was sacred.
    ShP 4.206 11 It is the essence of poetry to spring...from the invisible...
    GoW 4.277 5 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...
    ET14 5.258 7 That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element, [modern English poets] have not.
    F 6.21 5 ...all that is wilful and fantastic in [Fate] is in opposition to its fundamental essence.
    Wsp 6.214 26 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence...
    Wsp 6.218 7 ...the redeemer and instructor of souls, as it is their primal essence, is love.
    Wsp 6.231 6 What is vulgar, and the essence of all vulgarity, but the avarice of reward?
    Farm 7.144 19 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...
    Cour 7.266 1 ...there is no separate essence called courage...
    OA 7.317 1 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
    OA 7.317 3 ...the essence of age is intellect.
    PI 8.24 11 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports, and obtains from them results which are the essence or intellectual form of the experiences.
    Comc 8.157 18 The essence of all jokes...seems to be an honest or well-intended halfness;...
    Comc 8.161 15 If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
    PC 8.221 19 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth...
    PC 8.223 3 Shall we study the mathematics of the sphere, and not its causal essence also?
    Chr2 10.93 27 [The moral intuition]...looks to no superior essence.
    Chr2 10.110 21 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...
    Chr2 10.113 3 Morals is the incorruptible essence...
    Edc1 10.142 2 The solitary knows the essence of the thought...
    Schr 10.272 13 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also.
    LS 11.21 21 Freedom is the essence of this faith [Christianity].
    FSLC 11.188 22 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certaan experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see...what makes the essence of rational beings...
    FSLC 11.189 6 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
    FSLN 11.230 6 ...it is...the essence of courtesy...to prefer another...
    TPar 11.289 22 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    ACiv 11.309 6 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
    FRO1 11.479 21 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the perfection of taste...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO2 11.484 6 ...Thou ask'st in fountains and in fires,/ He is the essence that inquires./
    PLT 12.17 9 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence.
    PLT 12.17 22 It is a steep stair down from the essence of Intellect pure to thoughts and intellections.
    PLT 12.38 1 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a thousand faces of one essence.
    PLT 12.38 1 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a thousand faces of one essence. We call the essence Truth;...
    PLT 12.38 3 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new;...
    CL 12.141 3 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
    Bost 12.201 16 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.
    MLit 12.315 19 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river, or a coal-mine,- nay, they are far more Nature,-but its essence and soul.
    Trag 12.408 23 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.

Essence, n. (1)

    Comp 2.121 1 Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.

essences, n. (6)

    Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...
    Nat2 3.182 23 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related, there amid essences and billets-doux, to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.
    NR 3.231 7 General ideas are essences.
    SwM 4.140 17 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...
    Wsp 6.213 27 ...we are never without a hint...that we are one day to deal with real being,--essences with essences.
    FSLN 11.231 15 We are all conservatives...in our essences...

Essenes, n. (2)

    Tran 1.341 23 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know... what the Essenes...believed...
    NR 3.240 16 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and effete name?

essential, adj. (68)

    Nat 1.19 22 The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.41 21 ...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end is essential to any being.
    Nat 1.43 26 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
    Nat 1.61 1 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    AmS 1.94 21 Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential.
    LE 1.174 21 Not insulation of place, but independence of spirit is essential...
    YA 1.375 2 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country...
    Hist 2.16 6 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    SR 2.70 24 Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right.
    SR 2.86 26 The great genius returns to essential man.
    Int 2.338 5 The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Pt1 3.4 1 ...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Exp 3.79 19 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil.
    Mrs1 3.125 19 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is...
    Mrs1 3.140 9 Accuracy is essential to beauty...
    NR 3.240 1 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
    SwM 4.120 25 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world, in which all history and science would play an essential part, was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    SwM 4.123 14 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances...
    MoS 4.180 8 ...is not the satisfaction of the doubts essential to all manliness?
    ET1 5.12 6 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...
    ET4 5.46 22 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET5 5.75 13 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    ET14 5.240 9 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential...
    F 6.21 22 ...we must...show the natural bounds or essential distinctions...
    F 6.28 16 ...we can see...that affection is essential to will.
    Bhr 6.182 22 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier;...
    CbW 6.249 21 When [the population] reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    CbW 6.264 7 [Health] is more essential than talent...
    Bty 6.296 15 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
    Ill 6.324 10 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    Civ 7.24 3 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Civ 7.26 14 ...one condition is essential to the social education of man, namely, morality.
    Civ 7.34 16 Morality and all the incidents of morality are essential;...
    Boks 7.202 4 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
    Suc 7.291 25 ...whilst this self-truth is essential to the exhibition of the world and to the growth and glory of each mind, it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
    PI 8.17 9 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind...
    PI 8.21 6 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
    PI 8.39 16 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all. But with that, he is the lawgiver, as being an exact reporter of the essential law.
    SA 8.93 10 ...[women's] presence and inspiration are essential to [conversation's] success.
    Elo2 8.129 27 ...the essential thing [in eloquence] is heat...
    Comc 8.157 10 ...it is in comparing fractions with essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.
    Comc 8.161 23 [A perception of the Comic] appears to be an essential element in a fine character.
    PC 8.228 26 It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential condition of science...
    PPo 8.237 19 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock...
    Insp 8.288 9 ...the solitude of Nature is not so essential as solitude of habit.
    Grts 8.308 24 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Aris 10.34 13 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish of character,-certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.41 1 ...the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.50 13 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives.
    PerF 10.86 14 ...a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Edc1 10.147 2 Accuracy is essential to beauty.
    Prch 10.227 2 What is essential to the theologian is...not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Prch 10.233 9 The essential ground of a new book or a new sermon is a new spirit.
    LLNE 10.327 2 There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once supposed essential to civil society.
    MMEm 10.433 6 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...
    SlHr 10.445 3 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not...
    LS 11.20 22 Forms are as essential as bodies;...
    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].
    War 11.173 14 ...this self-subsistency is essential to our idea of man.
    Wom 11.410 1 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...
    ChiE 11.473 22 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...in this essential correction of a reckless usage;...
    FRep 11.517 15 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    PLT 12.11 21 I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in treating the science of the mind.
    PLT 12.39 27 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
    Mem 12.90 22 It is essential to a locomotive that it can reverse its movement...
    CInt 12.128 14 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher, but colleges and teachers are no wise essential to him;...
    MAng1 12.223 12 ...it is an essential fact in the history of Michael Angelo that his love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
    ACri 12.305 16 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind.

essential, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.222 6 ...[Webster] went to the principle or essential...

essentially, adv. (12)

    DSA 1.148 20 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that... nobody thinks of commending it.
    DSA 1.150 25 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...essentially the most flexible of all organs...
    Con 1.302 19 ...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary.
    OS 2.283 22 To truth, justice, love...the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
    Pt1 3.7 2 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. ... Each is that which he is, essentially, so that he cannot be surmounted or analyzed...
    PPh 4.50 9 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    NMW 4.258 20 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions.
    ET14 5.256 20 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    Aris 10.41 7 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects. It is essentially real.
    Thor 10.454 21 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
    HDC 11.46 9 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    CInt 12.115 24 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies...

essentials, n. (4)

    ET5 5.84 24 [The English] secure the essentials in their diet, in their arts and manufactures.
    Ctr 6.155 13 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that saves on superfluities, and spends on essentials;...
    CbW 6.278 23 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the essentials...
    Edc1 10.148 8 You must not neglect the form [in education], but you must secure the essentials.

Essex, adj. (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)...

Essex, Earl of [Robert Dev (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.

Essex, n. (1)

    SR 2.88 21 ...with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex!...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.

Essexes, n. (1)

    ShP 4.202 11 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching...the Essexes, Leicesters, Burleighs and Buckinghams;...

establish, v. (35)

    Nat 1.59 12 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man, wherein to establish man all right education tends;...
    DSA 1.149 27 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
    MR 1.227 21 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    MR 1.229 9 Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society...and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.234 5 ...our laws which establish and protect [property] seem not to be the issue of love and reason...
    LT 1.280 2 If, [the man of ideas] says, I am selfish, then is there slavery, or the effort to establish it, wherever I go.
    Con 1.325 2 ...these dispositions establish their relations to me.
    Comp 2.100 20 The true life and satisfactions of man seem...to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances.
    Lov1 2.173 14 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
    Fdsp 2.212 17 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 2 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
    Pol1 3.210 21 ...[the conservative party] does not...establish schools...
    UGM 4.18 27 ...[a wise man] would establish [in our village] a sense of immovable equality...
    SwM 4.101 21 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    ET10 5.165 2 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET11 5.187 19 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
    Wsp 6.211 1 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Wsp 6.225 2 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    Elo1 7.87 16 The superior court must establish the law for this...
    Elo2 8.131 13 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
    Aris 10.54 6 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Chr2 10.103 16 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some reform or charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Chr2 10.103 20 ...the private or social practices we establish in [the moral sentiment's] honor we call religion.
    Schr 10.281 2 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts, but do not prevail so far as to establish the new kingdom which shall supersede contracts, oaths and property.
    LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
    LLNE 10.342 15 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    LS 11.4 26 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    ACiv 11.309 16 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    EPro 11.325 14 ...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, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    SHC 11.433 14 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...
    FRep 11.540 6 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
    FRep 11.540 24 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    Bost 12.203 9 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire who makes an unnecessary ado to establish his dogma;...
    Milt1 12.271 16 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which the federal power was weak and loosely defined...
    ACri 12.304 14 [The classic] does not make a novel to establish a principle of political economy.

established, adj. (7)

    DSA 1.128 11 As the...established worship of the civilized world, [the Christian church] has great historical interest for us.
    DSA 1.134 7 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...into the open soul, is not explored as the fountain of the established teaching in society.
    Con 1.312 3 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    CbW 6.249 24 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    Imtl 8.324 5 The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an established civilization...
    LS 11.11 23 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.
    ACri 12.284 14 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...

Established Church, n. (3)

    ET13 5.228 21 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects...
    ET13 5.230 15 But the religion of England,--is it the Established Church? no;...
    ET13 5.230 18 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a coach...

established, v. (34)

    Nat 1.56 26 ...[Ideas] were there; when [the Supreme Being] established the clouds above...
    MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
    Con 1.295 6 The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.
    NER 3.275 19 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    PPh 4.46 18 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    PPh 4.70 18 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
    SwM 4.104 17 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SwM 4.107 2 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor...
    GoW 4.267 10 The Quaker has established Quakerism...
    GoW 4.267 11 ...the Shaker has established his monastery and his dance;...
    ET8 5.129 8 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits...
    ET10 5.166 18 The English...seem to have established a tap-root in the bowels of the planet, because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    ET12 5.200 26 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students; and nineteen most noble foundations were then established.
    ET15 5.270 24 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch...
    Wth 6.107 21 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
    Bhr 6.179 9 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    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.
    Elo1 7.78 15 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship, established the most extraordinary intimacies...
    Aris 10.53 13 [The eloquent man] has established relation, representativeness.
    Supl 10.178 13 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...
    Plu 10.310 9 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    LLNE 10.351 9 There, in the Golden Horn, will the Arch-Phalanx be established;...
    GSt 10.505 14 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.6 18 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.15 6 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire, and a new government established...
    LS 11.15 19 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    HDC 11.54 5 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, where a Christian worship was established under an Indian ruler and teacher.
    EWI 11.107 8 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
    AKan 11.258 16 I esteem [governments] only good in the moment when they are established.
    Wom 11.415 13 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Scot 11.466 6 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation...
    Bost 12.189 8 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.
    MLit 12.320 16 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.
    MLit 12.333 26 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.

establishes, v. (8)

    MN 1.191 8 The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the foundations of the earth.
    Lov1 2.169 17 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... establishes marriage...
    Mrs1 3.120 14 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...
    Nat2 3.173 11 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    NR 3.238 4 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    Aris 10.40 21 Every survey of the dignified classes...establishes a nobility of a prouder creation.
    LLNE 10.357 24 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...one which always establishes itself for the sane soul...
    Trag 12.408 19 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...

establishing, v. (3)

    Comp 2.95 15 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing...the omnipotence of the will; and so establishing the standard of good and ill...
    PPo 8.252 1 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    ChiE 11.474 9 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China... new tools, machinery, new foods, etc., and are thus establishing a commerce without limit.

establishment, n. (15)

    MN 1.215 23 Tell me not how great your project is...the establishment of public education...
    Con 1.299 8 Conservatism never puts the foot forward; in the hour when it does that, it is not establishment, but reform.
    Con 1.307 23 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment...
    Con 1.316 9 The reformer concedes...that if he proposed comfort, he should take sides with the establishment.
    Con 1.322 11 ...not to balance reasons for and against the establishment any longer, and if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Tran 1.333 3 The materialist respects sensible masses...every establishment...
    Chr1 3.100 17 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...
    Pol1 3.201 12 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years...
    NER 3.261 20 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment...than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    NER 3.261 21 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment...than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    GoW 4.268 18 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not...is he of the establishment?--but...does he stand for something?
    ET15 5.266 4 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
    Chr2 10.105 15 The establishment of Christianity in the world does not rest on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane doctrine.
    SovE 10.190 10 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property...is best for all.
    CPL 11.495 12 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.

Establishment, n. (2)

    ET13 5.228 23 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check.
    LLNE 10.325 12 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement.

establishments, n. (1)

    SR 2.85 21 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost...by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue.

Estabrook Farm, n. (1)

    CL 12.146 14 I know a whole district, Estabrook Farm, made up of wide, straggling orchards...

Estabrook, Rev. Mr., n. (1)

    HDC 11.64 21 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

estate, n. (52)

    Nat 1.20 5 Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate.
    AmS 1.90 10 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is...the sound estate of every man.
    MR 1.238 23 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full...
    LT 1.274 14 Religion was not invited...to make or divide an estate...
    Con 1.308 8 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you...to ride into my estate, and claim to scatter it as your own.
    Tran 1.359 6 ...when every voice is raised...for a political party, or the division of an estate,-will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    Hist 2.3 5 He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate.
    SR 2.62 24 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    Comp 2.98 19 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature...swells the estate, but kills the owner.
    Comp 2.114 12 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate.
    Comp 2.124 11 ...the estate I so admired and envied is my own.
    Comp 2.125 14 ...to us, in our lapsed estate...this growth comes by shocks.
    SL 2.145 8 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...
    SL 2.147 5 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser,--the secrets he would not utter to a chemist for an estate.
    Cir 2.303 9 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact;...
    Art1 2.363 6 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...tokens of the everlasting effort to produce, which even in its worst estate the soul betrays.
    Exp 3.48 25 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.80 5 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Chr1 3.103 9 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches...
    PPh 4.46 17 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    MoS 4.164 6 In 1571...Montaigne...settled himself on his estate.
    ShP 4.205 7 It appears...that [Shakespeare] bought an estate in his native village with his earnings as writer and shareholder;...
    NMW 4.257 17 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    ET5 5.84 9 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    ET11 5.182 9 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
    ET16 5.285 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out, and walked over the estate [at Wilton Hall].
    F 6.13 8 ...[the individual] knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
    Wth 6.99 12 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wth 6.125 11 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body...
    Ctr 6.165 1 ...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 6.302 15 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Civ 7.21 15 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
    DL 7.109 12 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    DL 7.126 26 Every face, every figure, suggests its own right and sound estate.
    Farm 7.143 20 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...
    WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate.
    Suc 7.299 20 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    SA 8.100 23 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
    Aris 10.44 14 ...when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    PerF 10.77 2 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had...
    Supl 10.177 18 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
    HDC 11.31 21 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.
    HDC 11.31 23 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.41 15 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate...
    EWI 11.98 4 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed/...
    EWI 11.101 18 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.126 26 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England...
    FSLC 11.182 5 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLC 11.204 5 [Webster] looks at the Union as an estate...
    EdAd 11.384 2 ...the train...drops every man at his estate as it whirls along...
    CL 12.135 15 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...
    CL 12.135 19 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.

Estate, Third, n. (2)

    AmS 1.89 21 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul.
    ACri 12.283 22 The decline of the privileged orders, all over the world; the advance of the Third Estate; the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.

estates, n. (31)

    YA 1.369 3 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is to remain half the year on their estates...
    YA 1.386 5 If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    Mrs1 3.129 20 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it...is one of the estates of the realm.
    Nat2 3.175 18 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    Pol1 3.206 24 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it. Of course I speak of all the property, not merely of the great estates.
    GoW 4.264 21 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm...
    ET3 5.37 21 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET11 5.172 18 The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles flatter the fancy of the people...
    ET11 5.176 4 Great estates are not sinecures, if they are to be kept great.
    ET11 5.176 25 How came the Duke of Bedford by his great landed estates?
    ET11 5.180 27 The English go to their estates for grandeur.
    ET11 5.181 2 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy.
    ET11 5.182 5 In the country, the size of private [English] estates is more impressive.
    ET11 5.182 15 The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96, 000 acres in the County of Derby.
    ET11 5.183 2 The great [English] estates are absorbing the small freeholds.
    ET11 5.183 5 These broad [English] estates find room in this narrow island.
    ET11 5.183 17 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates, devoured by ennui...
    ET12 5.205 20 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm;...
    Pow 6.59 1 [The strong man's] eye makes estates...
    Wth 6.121 25 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...cutting ducal estates in two...
    Ill 6.318 12 You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
    OA 7.331 17 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...rounding their estates...
    SA 8.101 10 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility, with estates transmitted by primogeniture and entail.
    Insp 8.297 3 Large estates...would have been impediments to [scholars].
    Aris 10.45 1 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    Aris 10.45 2 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    Schr 10.265 21 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months, and estates and credit, in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    EWI 11.125 13 It was shown to the planters...that their estates were ruining them, under the finest climate;...
    EWI 11.125 24 Many planters have said, since the emancipation [in the West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on the estates.
    ACiv 11.305 24 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates...
    FRep 11.535 8 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... as the English Church, and entailed estates...we should feel this...absurdly out of place.

Este, Villa d', Tivoli, It (2)

    YA 1.367 10 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the Villa d'Este in Tivoli...
    CW 12.173 16 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as...the Villa d'Este at Tivoli;...

esteem, n. (15)

    SR 2.87 26 [Men] measure their esteem of each other by what each has...
    SwM 4.102 1 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
    ET8 5.142 8 ...[the English] hold in esteem the barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
    Ctr 6.158 24 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;...
    Ctr 6.164 18 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bty 6.300 15 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease...raise esteem and wonder higher.
    Cour 7.255 20 ...the immense esteem in which [courage] is held proves it to be rare.
    OA 7.334 21 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but a greater esteem...
    Plu 10.293 13 [Plutarch] has been represented...as living long in Rome in great esteem...
    Thor 10.451 12 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem...
    Thor 10.475 8 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    HDC 11.77 2 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart...for the esteem and gratitude of the human race.
    AKan 11.258 14 I own I have little esteem for governments.
    ChiE 11.473 23 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...
    WSL 12.337 7 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal...his very slight esteem for the persons and the country that surround him.

esteem, v. (26)

    Nat 1.49 12 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to esteem nature as an accident and an effect.
    LE 1.172 8 ...a wise man will never esteem [the book of philosophy] anything final and transcending.
    Hist 2.8 2 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history]...
    Hist 2.14 3 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    SR 2.87 22 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    Prd1 2.234 3 Let [a man] esteem Nature a perpetual counsellor...
    OS 2.274 3 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience...
    Art1 2.351 22 In a portrait [the painter]...must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.
    Exp 3.53 3 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another...
    Mrs1 3.150 7 ...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it excels in women.
    Nat2 3.188 5 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred.
    Nat2 3.189 23 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
    Pol1 3.200 16 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat...
    PNR 4.80 3 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...we esteem one of the chief benefits the cheap press has yielded...
    Wth 6.93 7 Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves...
    Wsp 6.214 4 ...the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.
    CbW 6.258 24 ...great educators and lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best timber.
    Elo1 7.98 21 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    Suc 7.286 22 For success, to be sure we esteem it a test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
    Insp 8.294 1 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Schr 10.261 3 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    Schr 10.274 25 It is the corruption of our generation that men...do not esteem life simply as a means of expressing a sentiment.
    LS 11.12 10 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    HDC 11.45 3 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
    EWI 11.145 2 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    AKan 11.258 14 I esteem [governments] only good in the moment when they are established.

esteemed, v. (29)

    Nat 1.4 16 ...speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous.
    Comp 2.94 5 The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    Cir 2.317 3 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such...
    Pt1 3.3 1 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    PNR 4.89 5 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical...
    MoS 4.164 13 ...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.
    MoS 4.164 19 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence. All parties freely came and went, his courage and honor being universally esteemed.
    ShP 4.193 22 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    ShP 4.203 3 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous, and esteemed himself...the better poet of the two.
    NMW 4.251 1 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed...
    ET11 5.176 9 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
    ET16 5.284 14 [Wilton Hall]...is esteemed a noble specimen of the English manor-hall.
    ET16 5.285 22 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England...
    Elo1 7.100 3 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    DL 7.132 6 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    Cour 7.256 1 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed...
    Cour 7.256 7 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
    Imtl 8.348 1 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.
    Chr2 10.107 23 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Supl 10.172 18 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    Supl 10.174 17 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature, or real being. Nothing is for the most part less esteemed.
    LS 11.16 5 If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us.
    FSLN 11.238 5 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
    JBB 11.268 10 [John Brown] is a man to make friends wherever on earth courage and integrity are esteemed...
    TPar 11.289 16 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed...
    Wom 11.407 20 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    FRep 11.519 10 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading. The precious metals are not so precious as they are esteemed.
    PLT 12.19 15 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.
    MAng1 12.244 13 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo], esteemed a faithful likeness, is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.

esteeming, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.222 21 One class live to the utility of the symbol, esteeming health and wealth a final good.
    Bost 12.188 9 Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg, called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.

esteems, v. (9)

    Nat 1.52 7 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast;...
    LE 1.171 8 Take for example the French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive; there is an optical illusion in it.
    LT 1.273 22 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
    Tran 1.332 25 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world, and esteems a man as one product of that.
    ET1 5.21 8 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil;...
    ET10 5.153 6 ...the Englishman...esteems [wealth] a final certificate.
    ET13 5.222 2 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain...
    SA 8.93 20 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...
    Milt1 12.268 4 [Milton] felt the heats of that love which esteems no office mean.

estimable, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.357 13 [Thoreau said] I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world...

estimate, n. (20)

    LE 1.156 12 ...a very different estimate of the scholar's profession prevails in this country...
    LE 1.173 23 [The scholar's] own estimate must be measure enough...for him.
    LE 1.186 7 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science; and it is the office and right of the intellect to make and not take its estimate.
    SR 2.52 22 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.
    Comp 2.95 11 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    SL 2.143 15 The parts of hospitality...and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    SL 2.143 16 To make habitually a new estimate,--that is elevation.
    SL 2.157 19 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us...
    Chr1 3.89 7 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    Pol1 3.203 13 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    ET3 5.36 20 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET10 5.160 21 ...a better measure than these sounding figures is the estimate that there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET11 5.189 16 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great, after the estimate and opinion of their times.
    Boks 7.203 2 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he... will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men, and a new estimate of their nobility.
    OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
    Aris 10.57 25 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who does not go abroad for an estimate...
    CPL 11.502 24 ...it is our own state of mind at any time that makes our estimate of life and the world.
    CPL 11.504 9 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
    PLT 12.9 1 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
    CL 12.147 7 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....

estimate, v. (12)

    Nat 1.42 20 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him. Who can estimate this?
    YA 1.365 20 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    SR 2.56 2 ...a man must know how to estimate a sour face.
    ET10 5.169 19 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    CbW 6.249 1 'T is pedantry to estimate nations by the census...
    Boks 7.189 21 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
    Cour 7.263 12 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger.
    Thor 10.461 21 [Thoreau] could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye;...
    Thor 10.461 22 ...[Thoreau] could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.
    CPL 11.508 15 ...there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population...
    Mem 12.95 17 We estimate a man by how much he remembers.
    Milt1 12.273 25 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.

estimated, v. (8)

    AmS 1.112 21 There is one man of genius...whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    DSA 1.128 23 Alone in all history [Jesus Christ] estimated the greatness of man.
    F 6.38 23 Do you suppose [the new-born man] can be estimated by his weight in pounds...
    Ctr 6.154 17 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Elo1 7.99 17 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power,--who has sounded, who has estimated it?...
    Boks 7.193 8 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    EWI 11.113 10 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 13 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...

estimates, n. (13)

    AmS 1.105 27 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth...
    SL 2.143 11 In our estimates let us take a lesson from kings.
    SL 2.150 27 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society, to...its estimates.
    Chr1 3.114 24 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages. It requires the more wariness in our private estimates.
    Nat2 3.169 21 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    ShP 4.199 1 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    NMW 4.239 23 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
    ET5 5.81 12 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates.
    Ill 6.320 18 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    Grts 8.315 18 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    AgMs 12.363 3 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms. He cannot go behind the estimates to know how the contracts were made...

estimating, v. (1)

    ET14 5.259 5 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude, in estimating the merit of such a production, all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...

estimation, n. (5)

    LT 1.273 18 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be.
    NR 3.229 7 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers...
    SwM 4.93 7 A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets...
    Civ 7.32 5 ...it is not New York streets...that make the real estimation.
    PPo 8.237 12 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names; and others...promise to rise in Western estimation.

estranged, v. (1)

    SwM 4.111 27 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written...to put science and the soul, long estranged from each other, at one again.

estrangement, n. (1)

    CbW 6.273 18 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...

etat, coups d', n. (1)

    FRep 11.540 8 We shall not make coups d'etat and afterwards explain and pay...

etat, n. (2)

    Ill 6.313 8 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
    Ill 6.313 9 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.

etch, v. (2)

    ShP 4.214 4 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...
    ShP 4.214 5 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine, and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million.

eternal, adj. (126)

    Nat 1.16 23 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
    Nat 1.24 23 [Beauty in nature] is the herald of inward and eternal beauty...
    Nat 1.27 12 ...the sky with its eternal calm...is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.58 9 ...the things that are unseen, are eternal.
    Nat 1.63 17 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize us of the eternal distinction between the soul and the world.
    Nat 1.66 6 That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
    Nat 1.73 22 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
    AmS 1.111 23 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
    DSA 1.130 2 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations...to the eternal revelation in the heart.
    DSA 1.141 18 ...[preaching in this country] aims at what is usual, and not at what is necessary and eternal;...
    LE 1.160 1 ...we have been born out of the eternal silence;...
    LE 1.182 5 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet and make him the utterer of melodies that pierce the ear of eternal time.
    MN 1.200 2 The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.
    MN 1.216 4 The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
    Tran 1.354 18 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    Hist 2.13 19 Genius detects...through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity.
    Hist 2.21 6 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower...
    Hist 2.33 19 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind. So far then are they eternal entities...
    SR 2.69 6 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation...
    SR 2.73 1 ...henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.
    Comp 2.91 10 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Comp 2.93 18 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love...
    Comp 2.121 26 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
    Comp 2.123 11 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure. Herein I rejoice with a serene eternal peace.
    SL 2.129 4 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...
    SL 2.149 19 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind...
    SL 2.153 18 He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
    Fdsp 2.199 4 The laws of friendship are austere and eternal...
    OS 2.269 10 ...within man is...the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
    OS 2.272 27 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
    OS 2.282 14 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    OS 2.295 17 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.
    Cir 2.308 26 ...there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned.
    Cir 2.314 21 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart, but...these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul.
    Cir 2.314 23 The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues...
    Cir 2.318 21 Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides.
    Int 2.335 11 [The thought] is...a child of the old eternal soul...
    Art1 2.357 5 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Art1 2.358 5 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.
    Art1 2.361 10 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms...
    Art1 2.364 12 ...under a sky full of eternal eyes, I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Pt1 3.9 11 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    Pt1 3.38 22 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal...
    Exp 3.71 18 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
    Exp 3.83 10 I gossip for my hour concerning the eternal politics.
    Mrs1 3.147 12 ...'t is the eternal law/ That first in beauty shall be first in might./
    NR 3.243 23 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist...
    UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
    PPh 4.78 1 In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical exercitations.
    SwM 4.139 12 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he soon becometh of a virtuous spirit and obtaineth eternal happiness.
    NMW 4.258 13 It was...the eternal law of man and of the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
    GoW 4.289 1 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth...is higher.
    ET2 5.29 15 Is this sad-colored circle [of the sea] an eternal cemetery?
    ET14 5.249 11 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    F 6.21 3 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate; that too must act according to eternal laws...
    Bty 6.304 13 All the facts in nature...make the grammar of the eternal language.
    Art2 7.52 23 Arising out of eternal Reason...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
    Art2 7.57 10 ...beauty, truth and goodness...spring eternal in the breast of man;...
    Elo1 7.96 20 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions, but he has the eternal reason in his head.
    Elo1 7.98 13 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    Elo1 7.98 22 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    Farm 7.141 17 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.143 24 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...
    PI 8.32 6 Eternal laws are very well, which admit no violation...
    PI 8.35 13 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.
    PI 8.41 4 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted.
    SA 8.106 27 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those who delight in each other only because both delight in the eternal laws;...
    Comc 8.158 25 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...comparing it with eternal Whole;...
    PC 8.228 11 [The moral sentiment] is the fountain of power, preserves its eternal newness...
    PPo 8.250 19 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate...
    PPo 8.263 11 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./
    PPo 8.264 14 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    Imtl 8.330 14 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.
    Imtl 8.341 17 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    Imtl 8.342 5 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
    Imtl 8.344 24 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Imtl 8.347 24 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.
    Imtl 8.351 23 Unborn, eternal, [the soul] is not slain, though the body is slain;...
    Dem1 10.19 16 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    PerF 10.82 24 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
    Chr2 10.91 10 There is this eternal advantage to morals, that...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
    Chr2 10.92 24 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.
    Chr2 10.95 8 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Chr2 10.116 7 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Chr2 10.121 24 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    SovE 10.185 24 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
    SovE 10.189 3 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.195 22 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem; so neither do we doubt or fail to love the eternal law, of which we are such shabby practisers.
    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.
    Prch 10.235 11 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject; seeing that opinions are temporary, but convictions uniform and eternal...
    MoL 10.247 19 [The scholar] knows...that the forces which uphold and pervade [the world] are eternal.
    Schr 10.264 1 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    MMEm 10.403 14 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
    MMEm 10.415 4 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let...my tides cease to an eternal ebb?
    MMEm 10.415 18 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause (any more than if it had been dead eternal matter) to that Cause;...
    MMEm 10.425 4 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down...
    SlHr 10.446 24 ...let the cloud rest where it might, [Samuel Hoar] dwelt in eternal sunshine.
    LVB 11.90 12 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    EWI 11.104 6 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.146 7 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    War 11.157 19 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes, to their eternal honor, declared religious jubilees...
    War 11.160 12 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers...
    FSLN 11.233 26 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled. This eternal monument of his fame and of the Union is rotten in four years.
    AsSu 11.246 5 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
    SMC 11.354 9 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;-the strength is now to be tested by the eternal facts.
    SHC 11.428 21 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    ChiE 11.472 2 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation,- or, rather, truly seen, is eternal youth.
    FRO1 11.476 11 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
    FRO1 11.478 27 ...the Church should always be new and extemporized, because it is eternal and springs from the sentiment of men, or it does not exist.
    FRO1 11.481 3 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.
    CPL 11.505 1 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    FRep 11.525 14 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    FRep 11.530 12 The revolution [in America] is...the eternal effervescence of Nature.
    PLT 12.28 5 In this eternal resurrection and rehabilitation of transitory persons, who and what are they?
    PLT 12.28 8 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind...
    PLT 12.38 4 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal...
    PLT 12.43 2 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    MAng1 12.233 17 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines...
    Milt1 12.262 18 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast...
    ACri 12.303 12 [Writing] brings man into alliance with what is great and eternal.
    MLit 12.324 16 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats; for to him it has a soul, an eternal reason why it was so, and not otherwise.
    MLit 12.332 18 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...
    MLit 12.333 10 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    Pray 12.356 24 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...
    EurB 12.375 21 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance]......[the reader] too had been an invited and eternal guest;...
    PPr 12.384 7 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.

Eternal, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.50 5 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds...as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind...

Eternal Cause, n. (1)

    MoS 4.186 11 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...

Eternal Father, n. (1)

    Hist 2.30 22 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals...

Eternal Genius, n. (1)

    GoW 4.283 25 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.

eternal, n. (6)

    Fdsp 2.209 12 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.
    Fdsp 2.216 23 True love...dwells and broods on the eternal...
    Exp 3.82 19 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres. He is born...into the eternal and beautiful.
    NR 3.229 14 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame? And they too loom and fade before the eternal.
    Wsp 6.218 9 If your eye is on the eternal, your intellect will grow...
    MAng1 12.233 23 As from the fire, heat cannot be divided, no more can beauty from the eternal.

Eternal, n. (6)

    Exp 3.69 18 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    PPo 8.254 21 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./
    Imtl 8.334 1 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence, as the type of the Eternal.
    Chr2 10.97 26 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command; that it is the presence of the Eternal in each perishing man;...
    Chr2 10.98 23 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
    MMEm 10.419 6 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.

Eternal Nemesis, n. (1)

    ALin 11.337 16 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven. It was too narrow a view of the Eternal Nemesis.

Eternal Power, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.185 19 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.

Eternal Providence, n. (1)

    DL 7.132 19 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?

Eternal Rights, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 1 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...

Eternal Source, n. (1)

    Grts 8.312 22 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men, but with man enamoured with the law and the Eternal Source.

Eternal Spirit, n. (3)

    Art2 7.57 12 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Schr 10.288 23 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person, out of his piety to that Eternal Spirit which dwells unexpressed with him.
    Milt1 12.268 14 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...

eternally, adv. (5)

    Nat 1.23 6 All good is eternally reproductive.
    ET15 5.270 15 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies, which is eternally shifting its banks.
    F 6.27 27 A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
    Ctr 6.151 7 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Epaminondas, who never says anything, but will listen eternally;...
    PLT 12.36 7 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres,, which, because it sounds eternally, is not heard at all by the dull, but only by the mind.

eternities, n. (2)

    SS 7.10 2 [The ends of thought]...belong to the immensities and eternities.
    Prch 10.229 24 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.

Eternities, n. (1)

    LT 1.259 11 The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities;...

Eternity, Genius of, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 2 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms be lost in the Genius of Eternity?

eternity, n. (46)

    Nat 1.60 9 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity...
    Nat 1.64 21 This [spiritual] view, which...points to virtue as to The golden key/ Which opes the palace of eternity,/ carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    Nat 1.70 18 ...the element of spirit is eternity.
    DSA 1.125 9 ...the worlds, time, space, eternity, do seem to break out into joy.
    MN 1.208 12 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity...
    Con 1.321 19 Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Hist 2.26 20 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep...I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea. I feel the eternity of man, the identity of his thought.
    Comp 2.101 23 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Comp 2.125 21 We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence.
    Fdsp 2.193 22 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    OS 2.272 21 The spirit sports with time,--Can crowd eternity into an hour,/ Or stretch an hour to eternity./
    OS 2.272 22 The spirit sports with time,--Can crowd eternity into an hour,/ Or stretch an hour to eternity./
    OS 2.275 4 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity...
    OS 2.278 4 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's name, for it is theirs long beforehand, and from eternity.
    Pt1 3.24 16 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break, grand as the eternity out of which it came...
    Pol1 3.200 12 ...they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity;...
    PNR 4.86 9 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity;...
    ET4 5.49 19 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...
    F 6.13 3 ...There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity...
    Elo1 7.97 25 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity...
    WD 7.178 23 Moments of insight...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
    WD 7.179 25 These passing fifteen minutes, men think, are time, not eternity;...
    WD 7.183 19 We pierce to the eternity, of which time is the flitting surface;...
    WD 7.185 17 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time.
    Elo2 8.128 10 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
    Imtl 8.326 27 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity...
    Imtl 8.335 25 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession...
    Imtl 8.349 4 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is not immortality, but eternity...appearing in the farthest east and west.
    PerF 10.83 7 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    Chr2 10.93 16 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all. Its attributes are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.
    Edc1 10.142 12 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he blush so...
    Supl 10.165 12 ...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious when recurring as minute-guns.
    Prch 10.222 22 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history, to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...
    Prch 10.236 2 ...we should astonish every day by a beam out of eternity;...
    Schr 10.266 2 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
    MMEm 10.422 1 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out some of the moments of eternity...
    MMEm 10.422 7 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery. Yet it is nothing. We exist in eternity.
    HDC 11.29 14 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear!
    FSLC 11.189 17 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
    SHC 11.436 12 ...all great men find eternity affirmed in the promise of their faculties.
    PLT 12.16 7 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not approach a solution.
    PLT 12.56 17 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...consent to be nothing for eternity...
    CInt 12.131 18 Study for eternity smiled on me, says Van Helmont.
    CInt 12.131 22 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task, but of study for eternity.
    Pray 12.352 1 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment...
    Pray 12.356 24 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity...

Eternity, n. (5)

    LT 1.287 22 ...the Time is the child of the Eternity.
    LT 1.290 24 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any fact...
    Hist 2.9 22 I believe in Eternity.
    MMEm 10.424 2 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
    Pray 12.356 25 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...

eternize, v. (1)

    SwM 4.128 14 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize the fireside and nuptial chamber;...

Ethelwald, of England, n. (1)

    ET5 5.78 12 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.

ether, n. (12)

    Hist 2.9 6 Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
    Fdsp 2.191 5 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    F 6.20 26 Neither brandy...nor sulphuric ether...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    Ctr 6.147 23 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    WD 7.158 7 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs...
    WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether...
    Suc 7.287 26 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain;...
    Insp 8.279 7 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception, as in the use of ether or alcohol...
    Aris 10.40 12 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage, the finder of sulphuric ether and the electric telegraph...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    PerF 10.88 17 ...the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements is moral force.
    EdAd 11.383 13 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from ice, ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.
    PLT 12.17 26 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...

ethereal, adj. (9)

    MN 1.222 26 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    Tran 1.349 8 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop, where the article, let it have been at first never so subtle and ethereal, is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
    OS 2.268 14 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...not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water;...
    Pt1 3.26 25 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;...
    Exp 3.68 10 ...the chemical and ethereal agents are undulatory and alternate;...
    NER 3.266 23 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern, as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    SwM 4.108 21 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.
    PI 8.21 2 ...shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing the ethereal currents?
    PLT 12.15 14 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...

ethers, n. (1)

    Wth 6.89 27 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...

ethical, adj. (24)

    Nat 1.33 9 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense.
    Nat 1.41 6 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    LT 1.270 15 The political questions touching...the Congress of nations; are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Hist 2.40 21 Broader and deeper we must write our annals,--from an ethical reformation...
    Cir 2.309 23 [Idealism] now shows itself ethical and practical.
    PNR 4.85 12 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    SwM 4.122 5 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    SwM 4.124 6 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    SwM 4.126 6 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
    Wsp 6.241 13 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the algebra and mathematics of ethical law...
    Bty 6.306 2 ...I find the antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antoninus;...
    QO 8.182 22 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    PC 8.208 15 Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted [in America].
    PPo 8.239 11 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...whom no people have surpassed in the grandeur of their ethical statement.
    Chr2 10.112 2 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    Chr2 10.113 19 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    SovE 10.212 20 ...what deeps of grandeur and beauty are known to us in ethical truth...
    Prch 10.222 26 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
    Plu 10.300 18 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch], and this in chapters chiefly ethical...
    Thor 10.478 2 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.
    EWI 11.99 8 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.
    FSLC 11.202 10 ...passing from the ethical to the political view, I wish to place this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FRep 11.523 18 The people are right-minded enough on ethical questions...
    FRep 11.540 15 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles...

ethico-intellectual, adj. (1)

    PNR 4.88 3 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth... are said to Platonize.

Ethics, Literary, n. (1)

    LE 1.158 3 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.

ethics, n. (37)

    Nat 1.33 4 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.
    Nat 1.57 24 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.58 1 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    LT 1.269 21 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    LT 1.270 4 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics of the Pledge...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    Tran 1.334 12 From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    SR 2.75 9 If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.
    Comp 2.106 24 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics;...
    Comp 2.115 17 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge...do recommend to him his trade...
    Int 2.325 19 How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as...of its ethics...
    Chr1 3.108 21 ...we should not require rash explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of [character's] action.
    UGM 4.8 11 Right ethics are central...
    PPh 4.47 13 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    SwM 4.127 13 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...as ethics...
    F 6.6 15 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies...
    Pow 6.71 9 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    DL 7.129 17 ...he will have learned the lesson of life who is skilful in the ethics of friendship.
    WD 7.167 21 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is adapted to all meridians by adding the ethics of works and of days.
    Insp 8.295 12 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Dem1 10.11 23 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Aris 10.41 5 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    Aris 10.62 27 In America [the gentleman] shall find...the narrowest contraction of ethics to the one duty of paying money.
    Chr2 10.109 21 ...we paint over the bareness of ethics with the quaint grotesques of theology.
    Chr2 10.113 18 ...the science of ethics has no mutation;...
    Edc1 10.131 26 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Newton, of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    SovE 10.186 15 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity). This, in the language of our time, would be ethics.
    SovE 10.198 23 ...it is not any sterility or defect in ethics, but our negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    SovE 10.209 5 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus...
    SovE 10.212 13 Ethics are thought not to satisfy affection.
    SovE 10.212 15 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person;...
    LLNE 10.356 15 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.
    EWI 11.138 8 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    War 11.173 16 ...another age comes, a truer religion and ethics open...
    EdAd 11.389 2 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    PLT 12.27 13 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics...
    II 12.79 1 The whole ethics of thought is of this kind, flowing out of reverence of the source...
    Milt1 12.266 7 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...

Ethics, n. (3)

    Nat 1.58 5 Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
    AmS 1.112 25 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    Con 1.301 3 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.

Ethiopian, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.101 11 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

Ethiopians, n. (3)

    Con 1.304 17 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
    WD 7.176 5 In the Greek legend...Jove liked to rusticate among the poor Ethiopians.
    EWI 11.102 4 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.

Ethiopians, Researches... [ (1)

    Hist 2.19 23 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren in his Researches on the Ethiopians, determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.

ethnical, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.147 14 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...

ethnologist, n. (1)

    ET4 5.54 12 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

etiquette, n. (17)

    LE 1.163 1 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...the Castilian etiquette?
    Tran 1.356 13 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or etiquette...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    Chr1 3.99 23 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    Mrs1 3.134 19 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.135 24 ...Napoleon...fenced himself with etiquette and within triple barriers of reserve;...
    Mrs1 3.137 17 It is easy to push this deference to a Chinese etiquette;...
    Mrs1 3.149 20 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing...
    SS 7.1 12 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony,/ Decked by courtly rites and dress/ And etiquette of gentilesse./
    Art2 7.55 9 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world,--in... the etiquette of courts...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Boks 7.190 19 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were...fenced by etiquette;...
    Boks 7.215 3 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Clbs 7.243 7 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
    SA 8.91 10 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    LLNE 10.345 10 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...quite scornful of the etiquette of cities.
    EWI 11.123 3 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay] in the last exaggeration of decorum and etiquette.
    Wom 11.410 24 ...[man] invented majesty and the etiquette of courts and drawing-rooms;...
    Wom 11.411 13 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...

Etna, Mount, Sicily, n. (1)

    AmS 1.108 18 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...

Etna, Mt., Sicily, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 6 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.

Eton College, England, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.206 23 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...

Eton College, England, n. (2)

    ET9 5.150 12 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]... through Wordsworth, Carlyle, Mill and Sydney Smith, down to the boys of Eton.
    ET12 5.208 5 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...

Etruria, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 22 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds. They built great works, and called their manufacturing village Etruria.

Etrurian, adj. (2)

    LE 1.170 22 The moment a man of genius pronounces the name...of the Etrurian...people, we see their state under a new aspect.
    PPh 4.78 21 A chief structure of human wit, like...the Etrurian remains, it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].

Etrurians, n. (1)

    ET4 5.55 3 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory. Where are the Greeks? Where the Etrurians?

Etruscan, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.272 7 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    FRep 11.511 19 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...

etymologist, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.22 4 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

etymology, n. (1)

    WSL 12.348 18 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...

Etzlers, n. (2)

    YA 1.382 1 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
    CL 12.153 24 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...

eu, adv. (1)

    Comp 2.102 12 Aei gar eu piptousin oi Dios kuboi...

Eucharist, n. (2)

    ET13 5.214 8 ...English life...does not grow out of the Athanasian creed...or the Eucharist.
    LS 11.4 11 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...

euchre, n. (1)

    SMC 11.363 15 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre...

Euclid, n. (6)

    UGM 4.9 8 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Euclid, of lines;...
    PNR 4.87 14 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer... gathers them all up into rank and gradation, the Euclid of holiness...
    ET12 5.212 27 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    Boks 7.191 12 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...
    PI 8.72 19 ...Dante was free imagination,--all wings,--yet he wrote like Euclid.
    PPo 8.246 4 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./

Eulenstein, Charles, n. (1)

    SL 2.143 2 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut, and Eulenstein from a jews-harp...

Euler, Leonhard, n. (2)

    Nat 1.56 7 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
    ET14 5.252 25 ...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind repudiates.

eulogies, n. (3)

    Boks 7.202 19 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus...
    FSLC 11.204 21 So with the eulogies of liberty in [Webster's] writings,- they are sentimentalism and youthful rhetoric.
    TPar 11.289 16 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed...

eulogy, n. (7)

    Mrs1 3.142 22 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy...
    UGM 4.10 14 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good.
    Boks 7.201 7 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    Thor 10.460 27 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    JBB 11.269 4 The governor of Virginia has pronounced [John Brown's] eulogy in a manner that discredits the moderation of our timid parties.
    Wom 11.417 20 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect.
    CInt 12.119 1 The emigration into America of British...people is the eulogy of America...

Eumenides [Aeschylus], n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 13 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.

eumenides, n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 22 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.

Eumenides, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.98 7 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before the Eumenides...
    ET8 5.132 12 [Young Englishmen]...run into absurd frolics with the gravity of the Eumenides.
    Suc 7.281 4 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./

eundem, n. (1)

    Koss 11.400 8 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College).

eupeptic, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.207 22 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...

Euphorion, n. (1)

    Plu 10.302 27 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages,-not only Thespis, Polemos, Euphorion......

euphuism, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.177 18 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    ShP 4.214 23 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...

Euripides, n. (13)

    Hsm1 2.255 9 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    SwM 4.138 15 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
    Bhr 6.187 6 Euripides, says Aspasia, has not the fine manners of Sophocles;...
    Suc 7.312 5 ...Euripides says that Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
    Comc 8.163 24 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    QO 8.202 14 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    Dem1 10.13 25 Euripides said, He is not the best prophet who guesses well...
    MoL 10.243 27 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems, from Homer to Euripides, so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    Plu 10.313 6 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
    Plu 10.318 27 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth, and made them acquainted also with the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles.
    WSL 12.346 17 [Landor] loves Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides...
    WSL 12.347 15 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.
    Pray 12.351 7 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...

Europe, Central, n. (1)

    FRep 11.516 3 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the fact of the vast immigration into this country from all the nations of Western and Central Europe.

Europe, Eastern, n. (1)

    ET8 5.140 26 ...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...

Europe, History of [Archiba (1)

    ET19 5.310 9 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...

Europe, n. (163)

    AmS 1.97 19 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...for all Europe, went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    AmS 1.114 10 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
    DSA 1.126 16 Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses.
    DSA 1.131 2 ...the language that describes Christ to Europe and America is not the style of friendship...
    LE 1.156 18 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and America have so freely commented.
    LE 1.159 13 ...the new man must feel that he...has not come into the world mortgaged to the opinions and usages of Europe...
    LT 1.281 14 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Tran 1.340 12 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature, in Europe and America...
    YA 1.363 6 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree.
    YA 1.367 5 Public gardens, on the scale of such plantations in Europe and Asia, are now unknown to us.
    YA 1.367 9 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
    YA 1.368 26 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock...
    Hist 2.22 11 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity;...
    Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    SR 2.87 1 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac...
    SL 2.145 23 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe, or we pursue persons...in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
    Fdsp 2.214 10 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons;...
    Int 2.344 19 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
    Exp 3.62 24 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a landscape of Poussin...
    Chr1 3.100 13 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man] puts America and Europe in the wrong...
    Mrs1 3.125 9 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type;...
    Mrs1 3.129 2 In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.
    Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NER 3.258 21 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    PPh 4.42 23 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East, to import the other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind.
    PPh 4.45 4 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well...
    PPh 4.45 13 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
    PPh 4.47 4 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health, the culmination of power. Such is the history of Europe...
    PPh 4.52 17 ...the genius of Europe is active and creative...
    PPh 4.53 8 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste, superinduced by the efforts of Europe to throw it off.
    PPh 4.53 26 The unity of Asia and the detail of Europe;...Plato came to join...
    PPh 4.54 3 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...
    PPh 4.54 5 The excellence of Europe and Asia are in [Plato's] brain.
    PPh 4.54 7 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe;...
    PPh 4.62 13 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe... returns;...
    PPh 4.64 16 ...full of the genius of Europe, [Plato] said, Culture.
    SwM 4.99 21 In 1721 [Swedenborg] journeyed over Europe to examine mines and smelting works.
    SwM 4.104 14 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    MoS 4.167 2 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    MoS 4.169 27 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;
    ShP 4.211 6 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man of England and Europe;...
    NMW 4.223 15 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.224 14 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men...throughout Europe;...
    NMW 4.240 11 [Napoleon] interests us as he stands for France and for Europe;...
    NMW 4.246 6 ...[Napoleon's] eye, which looked through Europe;...
    NMW 4.257 11 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe?
    NMW 4.258 9 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
    ET1 5.4 8 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET2 5.30 10 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET3 5.41 5 ...England is anchored at the side of Europe...
    ET3 5.41 14 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France, and gave to this fragment of Europe [England] its impregnable sea-wall...
    ET3 5.41 22 As America, Europe and Asia lie, these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET3 5.42 12 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe...
    ET3 5.43 16 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets and depress one another, but proportioned to the size of Europe and the continents.
    ET4 5.47 23 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET4 5.55 12 [The Celts] are favorably remembered in the oldest records of Europe.
    ET5 5.83 24 [The English] are...the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.
    ET5 5.84 21 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    ET5 5.90 24 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET5 5.97 12 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and Manchester, whose mills paid for the wars of Europe, had no representative.
    ET7 5.120 14 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the rhodomontade of Europe.
    ET7 5.125 10 Any number of delightful examples of this English stolidity are the anecdotes of Europe.
    ET7 5.125 20 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    ET9 5.144 8 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.
    ET9 5.146 2 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    ET10 5.161 24 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET10 5.165 7 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.
    ET10 5.166 4 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET11 5.173 8 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the written and oral history of Europe...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET11 5.184 19 This monopoly of political power has given [the English peers] their intellectual and social eminence in Europe.
    ET11 5.192 19 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    ET12 5.201 3 ...[Oxford] is, in British story...the link of England to the learned of Europe.
    ET13 5.215 17 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe...
    ET13 5.216 19 The church was the mediator, check and democratic principle, in Europe.
    ET14 5.235 14 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    ET14 5.254 7 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who...by means of their height of view, preserve their enthusiasm and think for Europe.
    ET14 5.254 19 As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    ET14 5.259 7 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    ET15 5.267 5 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe...
    ET15 5.272 20 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being the voice of Europe...would be more effectually discharged;...
    ET16 5.287 2 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself...neither of presidents nor of cabinet-ministers, nor of such as would make of America another Europe.
    Wth 6.99 7 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.105 4 In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the price of bread.
    Ctr 6.145 12 All educated Americans...go to Europe;...
    Ctr 6.145 16 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Ctr 6.145 17 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?
    Ctr 6.147 9 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home,--we go to Europe to be Americanized;...
    Ctr 6.153 1 Mr. Pitt, like Mr. Pym, thought the title of Mister good against any king in Europe.
    CbW 6.266 17 All America seems on the point of embarking for Europe.
    CbW 6.266 20 One day we shall cast out the passion for Europe by the passion for America.
    Elo1 7.69 5 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    Elo1 7.70 20 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life, and the delight of young Europe and young America in them proves that she fairly earned it.
    Elo1 7.78 1 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might...abrogate any constitution in Europe and America.
    Elo1 7.82 22 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    WD 7.160 20 The soil of Holland, once the most populous in Europe, is below the level of the sea.
    WD 7.161 23 When Europe is over-populated, America and Australia crave to be peopled;...
    Boks 7.194 14 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...
    Boks 7.198 6 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.
    Boks 7.198 19 In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
    Boks 7.198 21 In Plato you explore...all that in thought, which the history of Europe embodies or has yet to embody.
    Boks 7.201 9 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    Boks 7.214 7 ...books that...distribute things, not after the usages of America and Europe but after the laws of right reason...put us on our feet again...
    Cour 7.272 22 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its antiquities and organic slavery...
    Suc 7.292 19 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
    PI 8.34 21 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe;...
    SA 8.101 7 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    Res 8.145 23 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg. I slept, and dreamed peaceably of the pleasures of Europe.
    PC 8.212 15 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
    PC 8.214 14 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages.
    PPo 8.238 13 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
    Imtl 8.326 19 ...the churches of Europe are really sepulchres.
    Aris 10.34 23 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    PerF 10.80 5 Bonaparte...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    Chr2 10.111 10 Duty grows everywhere...and we need not go to Europe or to Asia to learn it.
    Chr2 10.112 9 Romanism in Europe does not represent the real opinion of enlightened men.
    SovE 10.203 18 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...
    MoL 10.245 17 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...
    MoL 10.252 5 ...the noble in England and Europe stands by his order...
    Schr 10.277 16 I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.
    Plu 10.303 17 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
    LLNE 10.328 1 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week.
    LLNE 10.330 16 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett returned from his five years in Europe...
    Carl 10.496 26 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.39 17 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.49 27 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    EWI 11.128 25 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature, and the relation of its leaders to the country and to Europe, which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    War 11.175 22 ...not in feudal Europe...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    FSLC 11.211 1 Europe is little compared with Asia and Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
    FSLC 11.211 3 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
    FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    FSLC 11.213 4 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe.
    TPar 11.290 3 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    EPro 11.324 19 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    ALin 11.328 22 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    ALin 11.328 23 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    Koss 11.401 5 ...as the shores of Europe and America approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    Shak1 11.451 7 There are...no Bolingbrokes, no Cardinals, no Harry Fifth, in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].
    Shak1 11.452 9 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.
    Humb 11.458 11 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system, explaining the past history of the continent of Europe.
    Scot 11.463 5 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.
    Scot 11.463 9 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday, which we gladly join with Scotland, and indeed with Europe, to keep, [Scott] is not less entitled...
    ChiE 11.472 4 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
    FRO1 11.479 6 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    FRO2 11.487 8 ...the knowledge of Europe looks out into Persia and India...
    FRep 11.512 3 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe...
    FRep 11.533 13 We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men;...
    FRep 11.535 12 Let the passion for America cast out the passion for Europe.
    CL 12.138 19 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    CL 12.139 2 ...if, instead of running about in the hotels and theatres of Europe, we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.152 15 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color, whilst, in Europe, the damper climate decomposes it too soon.
    CL 12.155 13 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
    CW 12.173 13 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    ACri 12.285 20 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries where they wander, in Europe, Asia, Africa.
    ACri 12.286 15 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...
    ACri 12.292 25 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...I have been to Europe;...
    ACri 12.295 18 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
    MLit 12.333 12 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    EurB 12.368 2 We have poets who write the poetry...of the patrician and conventional Europe...
    PPr 12.390 18 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.
    Let 12.392 23 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...
    Let 12.398 22 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...
    Let 12.402 7 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.

Europe, South, n. (1)

    ET4 5.57 20 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe.

Europe, Western, n. (2)

    ET4 5.64 2 Flogging, banished from the armies of Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke of Wellington.
    FRep 11.516 3 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the fact of the vast immigration into this country from all the nations of Western and Central Europe.

European, adj. (38)

    AmS 1.81 9 We do not meet...for the advancement of science, like our contemporaries in the British and European capitals.
    Con 1.314 5 ...in the darlings of the selectest circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
    YA 1.369 26 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have...imbibed easily an European culture.
    PPh 4.42 23 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East, to import the other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind.
    PPh 4.44 21 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    PPh 4.52 22 European civility is the triumph of talent...
    GoW 4.276 19 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall be European;...
    GoW 4.287 8 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET12 5.209 19 Oxford, which equals in wealth several of the smaller European states, shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET14 5.245 9 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    Wth 6.95 10 [The rich] include...the Far West and the old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.
    Wth 6.109 17 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.
    Wsp 6.206 2 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture...
    Wsp 6.211 5 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    Boks 7.205 21 The cardinal facts of European history are soon learned.
    Boks 7.206 17 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Suc 7.283 24 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art; and not only we, but all men of European stock, value these certificates.
    PI 8.15 5 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
    SA 8.87 20 When the young European emigrant...puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    Res 8.142 18 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...
    PC 8.213 20 ...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...
    PPo 8.238 7 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple, not exhibiting the long range and undulation of European existence...
    Aris 10.32 27 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
    Aris 10.40 24 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...European Nobles... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Supl 10.178 2 ...the European nations...understand the manufacture of iron.
    Supl 10.178 12 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...
    Thor 10.459 17 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
    EWI 11.126 18 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and European manners could get a foothold there.
    War 11.158 4 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal.
    FSLC 11.194 22 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
    EPro 11.318 6 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.322 6 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    SHC 11.432 6 I do not wonder that [parks] are the chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.
    FRep 11.526 21 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.533 11 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    CW 12.173 20 ...without going into the proud niceties of an European garden, there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    Bost 12.201 3 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy;...
    PPr 12.380 12 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...firmly holds up to daylight the absurdities still tolerated in the English and European system.

European, n. (2)

    ET10 5.157 9 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    Bost 12.200 26 European and American are each ridiculous out of his sphere.

Europeans, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.211 10 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    SA 8.100 1 In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.

Europes, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.82 25 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.

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