False to Far-Fetched

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

false, adj. (110)

    AmS 1.107 17 Wake [men] and they shall quit the false good and leap to the true...
    DSA 1.127 11 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become false...
    DSA 1.129 23 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...
    LE 1.159 19 A false humility...must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    MN 1.214 15 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.
    MN 1.221 17 [The intellect] will burn up...all the false powers of the world, as in a moment of time.
    LT 1.290 17 I wish to speak of the politics, education, business, and religion around us without ceremony or false deference.
    Con 1.313 5 Who put things on this false basis?
    Con 1.319 7 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction; and this omission makes his whole doctrine false.
    Tran 1.354 14 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence, nor once strove to repair it with hypocrisy or false heat of any kind.
    YA 1.363 3 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    YA 1.365 25 The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.
    SR 2.55 7 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars...but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.55 9 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars...but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.78 8 Another sort of false prayers are our regrets.
    SL 2.158 11 What has he done? is the divine question which...transpierces every false reputation.
    SL 2.162 9 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage that man we are...
    Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Fdsp 2.213 20 [By persisting in your path] You demonstrate yourself, so as to put yourself out of the reach of false relations...
    Prd1 2.222 14 Prudence is false when detached.
    Prd1 2.235 20 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations to other men;...
    Prd1 2.239 10 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
    Hsm1. 2.252 8 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    OS 2.280 2 ...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
    Cir 2.318 13 Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false.
    Art1 2.365 3 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
    Pt1 3.34 15 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Chr1 3.101 2 In nature there are no false valuations.
    Mrs1 3.145 9 What if the false gentleman almost bows the true out of the world?
    Mrs1 3.145 10 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
    Gts 3.161 25 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    Nat2 3.177 25 The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
    Nat2 3.178 19 ...our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    Pol1 3.214 9 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him.
    Pol1 3.217 23 We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of character, and are false to it.
    NR 3.227 1 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically; which is false, for the rest of his body is small or deformed.
    NER 3.256 13 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men;...
    NER 3.262 24 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    NER 3.262 26 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? the street is as false as the church...
    NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...in the aisles of false churches... wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.284 12 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    UGM 4.13 21 Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections. Other help I find a false appearance.
    UGM 4.22 5 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    PPh 4.67 18 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be; if not...you will only annoy me. I shall seem to you stupid, and the reputation I have, false.
    PPh 4.73 13 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false;...
    PPh 4.73 16 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    SwM 4.103 12 Our books are false by being fragmentary...
    SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth. It is false, if literally applied to marriage.
    SwM 4.132 7 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought. True in transition, they become false if fixed.
    ET7 5.119 7 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET9 5.152 27 ...[The Americans and the English] are equally badly off in our founders; and the false pickle-dealer is an offset to the false bacon-seller.
    ET10 5.168 3 In true England all is false and forged.
    ET10 5.168 21 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments and their whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET13 5.228 3 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    ET13 5.230 7 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    ET14 5.253 13 [English science] wants the connection which is the test of genius. The science is false by not being poetic.
    ET15 5.269 22 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title...into any county jail in England, he having been convicted of obtaining money under false pretences.
    F 6.37 7 ...hibernation then was a false name.
    Wth 6.113 9 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    Wth 6.121 18 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    Wsp 6.214 22 The cure for false theology is mother-wit.
    Wsp 6.223 5 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men;...
    Wsp 6.229 7 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...
    CbW 6.278 21 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;...
    Bty 6.304 16 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom?
    Ill 6.323 20 The permanent interest of every man is never to be in a false position...
    Elo1 7.94 21 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought...
    Elo1 7.99 15 If [eloquence]...aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
    Farm 7.139 16 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.
    Boks 7.192 16 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Suc 7.288 19 Cause and effect are a little tedious; how to leap to the result by short or by false means?
    PI 8.10 9 Science was false by being unpoetical.
    PI 8.66 21 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been famished and false...
    PI 8.70 17 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
    Comc 8.161 16 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.
    Comc 8.164 23 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
    QO 8.192 3 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
    QO 8.203 13 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with no false expectation...yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...
    Insp 8.295 19 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize...as antidote to verbiage and false poetry.
    Dem1 10.26 2 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    Chr2 10.103 27 The religions we call false were once true.
    Chr2 10.114 17 Men will learn...to make morals the absolute test, and so uncover and drive out the false religions.
    SovE 10.207 12 It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
    SovE 10.207 13 The human mind, when it is trusted, is never false to itself.
    Prch 10.226 4 As the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae, so is the universe an infinite series of planes, each of which is a false bottom;...
    MoL 10.254 23 ...the scholars, the seers, have been false to their trust.
    Plu 10.306 8 The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
    LLNE 10.354 16 [The Fourier marriage] was false and prurient...
    EWI 11.110 9 The [slave] trade, under false flags, went on as before.
    EWI 11.133 18 There is a scandalous rumor...perhaps wholly false,-that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    FSLN 11.244 9 Now at last we are disenchanted and shall have no more false hopes.
    AKan 11.259 11 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to demoralize legislation...
    TPar 11.291 10 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
    EPro 11.320 8 ...[the Emancipation Proclamation] relieves our race once for all of its crime and false position.
    EPro 11.320 11 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have recovered ourselves from our false position...
    EPro 11.325 7 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to break up the false combination of Southern society...
    RBur 11.440 21 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    FRep 11.527 24 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the...eagerness for novelty, even for all the follies of false science;...
    PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.
    PLT 12.60 20 The truest state of mind rested in becomes false.
    CInt 12.116 24 ...the college was false to its trust...
    CInt 12.121 27 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
    MLit 12.324 14 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being. What he could so reconcile was good; what he could not, was false.
    MLit 12.329 12 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
    WSL 12.347 21 [Landor] hates false words...
    EurB 12.368 25 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth] pitied and rebuked [the dukes' and earls'] false lives, and celebrated his own with the religion of a true priest.
    EurB 12.374 21 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's false key...
    PPr 12.381 1 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
    Let 12.402 15 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.

false, adv. (1)

    SR 2.62 23 In history our imagination plays us false.

false, n. (4)

    LE 1.175 13 [The ingenious soul] repudiates the false, out of love of the true.
    LT 1.282 10 Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false;...
    NER 3.266 9 What is the use of the concert of the false and the disunited?
    PPh 4.62 23 ...there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

falsehood, n. (24)

    Nat 1.30 5 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    DSA 1.135 18 [The office of priest] is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood.
    DSA 1.144 16 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    MR 1.229 6 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    Con 1.301 24 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.
    Con 1.321 25 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching...
    Comp 2.95 17 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 success and falsehood.
    Comp 2.96 1 ...all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate.
    Hsm1. 2.252 1 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    Int 2.339 7 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood;...
    Pt1 3.25 25 ...a tempest is a rough ode, without falsehood or rant;...
    Nat2 3.185 13 Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
    PNR 4.85 6 This eldest Goethe [Plato], hating varnish and falsehood, delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
    SwM 4.125 21 [To Swedenborg] They who are in evil and falsehood are afraid of all others.
    Pow 6.65 3 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage. Fierce and unscrupulous, they are usually frank and direct and above falsehood.
    Comc 8.168 21 The same falsehood...points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    Prch 10.217 1 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Schr 10.285 27 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom...
    FSLN 11.235 16 ...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
    CInt 12.123 18 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys...
    CL 12.161 3 ...in all works of human art there is deduction to be made for blunder and falsehood.
    MAng1 12.216 18 It is a happiness to find, amid the falsehood and griefs of the human race, a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    ACri 12.289 14 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation, falsehood...
    AgMs 12.359 26 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an erect good sense and independent spirit which can neither brook usurpation nor falsehood in any shape.

Falsehood, n. (1)

    Comp 2.121 8 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...

falsehoods, n. (4)

    Wth 6.106 26 ...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Comc 8.160 18 ...all falsehoods...seen at sufficient distance...become ludicrous.
    Carl 10.497 15 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society. This confusion is the inevitable end of such falsehoods and nonsense as they have been embroiled with.
    LS 11.21 13 ...it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to [Christianity],-let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods.

falsely, adv. (7)

    SL 2.156 25 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
    Fdsp 2.203 14 No man would think of speaking falsely with [a man I knew]...
    ShP 4.210 12 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher.
    ET1 5.11 17 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing, a man to whom he looked up,--no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely, but a man whom he looked at with so much interest,--should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    WD 7.177 25 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
    OA 7.322 1 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    FSLN 11.226 22 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.

falsetto, n. (1)

    Bty 6.285 1 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health. Macready thought it came of the falsetto of their voicing.

falsified, v. (1)

    Bty 6.282 10 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true...

falsify, v. (2)

    ET8 5.131 10 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    Prch 10.228 17 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train, and they used his name to falsify his history and undo his work.

falsifying, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.329 13 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.

falsifying, v. (1)

    NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...

Falstaff [Shakespeare, Henr (5)

    PI 8.44 11 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images...
    Comc 8.160 25 ...Falstaff, in Shakspeare, is a character of the broadest comedy...
    PPo 8.250 24 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff;...
    PPo 8.252 18 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes almost in the fun of Falstaff...
    ACri 12.293 27 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene, with Falstaff and Touchstone and Trinulo and the fools;...

falter, v. (2)

    CbW 6.243 14 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear,/ To falter ere thou thy task fulfil/...
    FRep 11.521 2 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise;...

faltered, v. (2)

    Thor 10.452 22 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence, and in holding every man to the like duty. But Thoreau never faltered.
    AsSu 11.249 23 [Charles Sumner] has never faltered in his maintenance of justice and freedom.

faltering, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.412 25 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet...by irregular, faltering, disturbed speech...

falters, v. (5)

    Prch 10.233 12 The author...falters never, but takes the victorious tone.
    MMEm 10.419 14 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    AKan 11.255 21 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
    FRO1 11.476 8 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./
    Milt1 12.255 5 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].

Fame, House of [Geoffrey C (2)

    ShP 4.198 5 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The House of Fame, from the French or Italian...
    PPo 8.252 11 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry: that of Chaucer, in the House of Fame...

Fame, House of, n. (1)

    WSL 12.341 26 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...

fame, n. (121)

    AmS 1.99 16 Those far from fame...will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    AmS 1.101 5 ...[the scholar]...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    DSA 1.147 20 There are...persons too great for fame...
    MN 1.212 26 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls, and fill that realm with their fame.
    MN 1.214 22 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    MR 1.256 18 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their power and their fame...
    MR 1.256 20 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice.
    LT 1.265 22 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...
    Tran 1.343 12 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude...
    Tran 1.344 24 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
    Comp 2.104 20 Men...would have offices, wealth, power, and fame.
    Comp 2.120 4 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;...
    SL 2.154 9 ...a public...not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    Fdsp 2.203 26 Almost every man we meet...has some fame...in his head... which spoils all conversation with him.
    Hsm1 2.248 24 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame.
    Hsm1 2.257 16 Where the heart is...there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame.
    OS 2.288 5 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    OS 2.293 24 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you, the love of men and the hope of fame.
    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.
    Int 2.344 10 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates] is to refuse himself to that which draws him not, whatsoever fame and authority may attend it...
    Int 2.344 21 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years. He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also. If he cannot do that, all his fame shall avail him nothing with me.
    Chr1 3.89 10 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
    Mrs1 3.146 9 ...there is still...some just man happy in an ill fame;...
    NR 3.229 13 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?
    NER 3.274 16 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    PPh 4.44 11 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy to those whom his fame drew thither;...
    PPh 4.75 1 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the fame of the discourses there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious passages in the history of the world.
    PPh 4.75 2 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the fame of the discourses there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious passages in the history of the world.
    PNR 4.81 15 Plato's fame does not stand on a syllogism...
    SwM 4.100 21 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame of second sight...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.144 21 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    MoS 4.175 1 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    MoS 4.176 8 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say, Well, the army, after all, is the gate to fame, manners and poetry...
    ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ShP 4.216 18 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude, shutting our ears to the reverberations of his fame, we seek to strike the balance?
    NMW 4.254 21 [Napoleon's] doctrine of immortality is simply fame.
    ET11 5.186 12 [English nobility's] good behavior deserves all its fame...
    ET11 5.192 20 ...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 which the ill fame of his queen and of his family did nothing to retrieve.
    ET12 5.205 21 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study...
    ET13 5.231 10 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred to those...of Florence Nightingale, and in thousands who have no fame.
    ET14 5.244 26 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...
    ET14 5.248 7 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    ET16 5.277 14 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont...the fame of Achilles.
    ET16 5.285 18 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry...
    ET17 5.291 6 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    F 6.40 15 All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury, power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.80 27 [Spirit] is...not the fame, but the exploit.
    Wth 6.83 22 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    Wth 6.92 25 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...gave fame by his sense and energy to the name and affairs of the Tittleton snuff-box factory.
    Wth 6.110 6 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Wth 6.124 12 The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit;...
    Wsp 6.224 13 The fame of Shakspeare or of Voltaire...characterizes those who give it.
    Wsp 6.231 11 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office, or fame, is almost equally low.
    Wsp 6.241 27 No good fame can help, no bad fame can hurt [man].
    Wsp 6.242 1 No good fame can help, no bad fame can hurt [man].
    Bty 6.297 4 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings...
    Civ 7.17 23 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters.../
    Elo1 7.94 4 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    Elo1 7.95 9 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains.
    Elo1 7.99 23 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    Boks 7.196 4 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. In contemporaries, it is not so easy to distinguish betwixt notoriety and fame.
    Suc 7.293 11 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
    Suc 7.308 10 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion; one fame, the other desert;...
    OA 7.327 14 [Man] wants...wife and children, honor and fame;...
    OA 7.332 8 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
    Res 8.150 27 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.
    QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have their best fame within [this century].
    QO 8.197 21 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson...
    QO 8.198 14 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame...
    PC 8.219 20 Tennyson would give his fame for a verdict in his favor from Wordsworth.
    Imtl 8.336 10 If not to be, how like the bells of a fool is the trump of fame!
    Aris 10.37 26 How is it that the sword runs away with all the fame from the spade and the wheel?
    LLNE 10.334 21 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.
    LLNE 10.339 13 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    MMEm 10.430 20 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say...that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame,-why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
    HDC 11.75 21 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts. They did not know it was a deed of fame they were doing.
    EWI 11.102 22 The prizes of society, the trumpet of fame...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.103 10 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow, no wind of good fame blew over him...
    EWI 11.115 13 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame.
    EWI 11.127 11 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action.
    EWI 11.141 13 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa,-a dream which forever elevates his fame.
    FSLC 11.180 10 Boston, of whose fame for spirit and character we have all been so proud;...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.185 12 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy, whom the fame of Boston had reached in the recesses of a vile swamp...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLC 11.201 14 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.201 17 [Webster] must learn that those who make fame accuse him with one voice;...
    FSLC 11.202 16 I need not say how much I have enjoyed [Webster's] fame.
    FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
    FSLN 11.225 2 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    FSLN 11.233 27 ...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.
    JBS 11.277 3 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    ALin 11.330 18 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad structure of his fame was laid.
    ALin 11.330 24 Mr. Seward, then in the culmination of his good fame, was the favorite of the Eastern States.
    ALin 11.333 25 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    SMC 11.351 13 ...the memories of these martyrs, the noble names which yet have gathered only their first fame...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    RBur 11.438 8 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    RBur 11.442 14 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame.
    RBur 11.443 8 Every name in broad Scotland keeps [Burns's] fame bright.
    Shak1 11.446 8 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    Shak1 11.448 2 [Shakespeare's] fame is settled on the foundations of the moral and intellectual world.
    ChiE 11.472 19 Confucius has not yet gathered all his fame.
    CPL 11.500 17 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country, and which, I am persuaded, have not yet gathered half their fame.
    PLT 12.7 10 Seek the literary circles, the stars of fame...will they afford me satisfaction?
    CInt 12.119 5 ...the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
    Bost 12.211 1 The elder President Adams has to divide voices of fame with the younger President Adams.
    MAng1 12.215 3 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
    MAng1 12.215 13 Especially we venerate [Michelangelo's] moral fame.
    MAng1 12.230 4 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
    MAng1 12.234 7 There is no spot upon [Michelangelo's] fame.
    MAng1 12.239 5 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works is to this day the stamp of fame.
    MAng1 12.242 26 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
    MAng1 12.243 10 The city of Florence...still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].
    Milt1 12.247 11 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame...
    Milt1 12.247 18 The fame of a great man is not rigid and stony like his bust.
    Milt1 12.248 8 ...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it...
    Milt1 12.250 1 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of his works.
    Milt1 12.254 8 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.
    Milt1 12.258 20 ...[Milton's] address and his conversation were worthy of his fame.
    ACri 12.297 3 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing. This flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of fame.
    MLit 12.320 11 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature...
    EurB 12.377 25 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore.

Fame, n. (4)

    Grts 8.313 4 ...do you know what the right meaning of Fame is?
    Schr 10.268 12 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places...
    MMEm 10.426 12 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life! Even Fame which lives in other states of Virtue, palls.
    EdAd 11.391 9 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...

Fame, Temple of, n. (1)

    Hist 2.38 26 A man shall be the Temple of Fame.

famed, adj. (9)

    SwM 4.126 7 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.
    ShP 4.206 25 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...
    ET14 5.243 11 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete.
    Boks 7.195 25 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books.
    Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Boks 7.196 23 ...Never read any but famed books.
    Boks 7.210 27 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    CL 12.141 26 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...or, taking their famed constitutionals...

fames, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.188 14 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors, or great lawyers, and impose on the frivolous...by these fames.
    Bty 6.297 20 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...
    Elo1 7.63 20 All other fames must hush before [the successful orator's].

familiar, adj. (59)

    Nat 1.26 23 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;...
    Nat 1.30 26 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
    Nat 1.51 4 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    LE 1.164 1 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    MN 1.218 15 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions, and yet each is natural and familiar as household words.
    Hist 2.19 3 ...[the cloud] was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament [the cherub].
    Hist 2.28 25 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact...
    SR 2.45 13 Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
    SL 2.131 6 Not only things familiar and stale...are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    Cir 2.315 20 ...your bravest sentiment is familiar to the humblest men.
    Int 2.338 16 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water...
    Art1 2.361 9 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was familiar and sincere;...
    Art1 2.362 14 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
    Chr1 3.93 7 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    NER 3.280 8 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    UGM 4.34 2 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow. No experience is more familiar.
    PPh 4.54 23 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.70 5 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension], familiar now to all the poetry and to all the sermons of the world, that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    SwM 4.124 21 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    GoW 4.285 23 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea,-- now familiar to the world through the German mind...that a man exists for culture;...
    ET1 5.15 17 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    ET1 5.15 26 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse.
    ET8 5.141 25 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET15 5.261 1 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America...
    Pow 6.71 11 Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior impressed on young people in their school-days.
    Bty 6.305 18 ...the fact is familiar that the fine touch of the eye...plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Boks 7.191 17 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    Suc 7.301 24 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    PI 8.12 27 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.22 23 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights.
    SA 8.102 7 I often hear the business of a little town (with which I am most familiar) discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    QO 8.196 4 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    Insp 8.275 27 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    Imtl 8.335 14 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    Dem1 10.5 22 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Dem1 10.5 23 In sleep one...shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows...
    Dem1 10.7 24 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.
    Dem1 10.15 24 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Aris 10.54 5 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;...
    PerF 10.77 14 Certain thoughts, certain observations, long familiar to me in night-watches and daylights, would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    Edc1 10.138 12 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    Edc1 10.154 26 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    Plu 10.293 1 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    LS 11.9 26 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?-I reply they are not extraordinary expressions from him. They were familiar in his mouth.
    LS 11.13 5 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts, who were familiar with religious feasts...
    ACiv 11.302 25 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar.
    SHC 11.431 26 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    Scot 11.465 6 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which, though until then unheard of, has become familiar to the present time.
    PLT 12.39 6 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PLT 12.50 8 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him...
    PLT 12.52 3 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    Mem 12.104 22 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.
    CL 12.150 17 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
    MAng1 12.222 5 ...behold the effect of this familiar object [the human form] every day!
    ACri 12.294 18 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him...
    ACri 12.300 18 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience...
    WSL 12.340 18 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Let 12.399 22 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were somewhat mortified to find that it was written in 1799.

familiar, n. (1)

    AmS 1.111 11 ...I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar...

Familiar, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.90 1 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a Familiar or Genius...

familiarite, n. (1)

    SS 7.4 3 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite...

familiarity, n. (11)

    LE 1.179 6 The English officers and men...inquired if such familiarity was usual with the Emperor.
    NMW 4.254 1 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of his manners offends the new pride of his throne.
    NMW 4.255 24 [Napoleon] treated women with low familiarity.
    ET9 5.145 5 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who are of that nation...
    Ctr 6.152 13 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses...personal familiarity with good men in all parts of the world...
    DL 7.122 1 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    Cour 7.263 11 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger.
    Insp 8.274 22 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
    SlHr 10.448 22 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him, nor did he think a lifelong familiarity could excuse any omission of courtesy from him.
    Mem 12.101 2 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
    ACri 12.286 10 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...

familiarize, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.261 26 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself with disgusting forms of disease...
    Int 2.335 7 [The thought] is...always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize...

familiarized, v. (1)

    ET15 5.261 21 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the reason of reform...

familiarly, adv. (2)

    ET11 5.191 17 No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.
    PC 8.211 19 We have been taught to tread familiarly on giddy heights of thought...

familiars, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.444 12 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone, as it were, unknown to those who were his contemporaries and familiars?

families, n. (48)

    DSA 1.146 13 Not too anxious to visit periodically all families...in your parish connection, - when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    Con 1.315 9 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    Con 1.315 21 These are stories of...holy families...
    SL 2.143 13 The parts of hospitality, the connection of families...royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    OS 2.281 25 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men...
    NER 3.264 11 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    ET7 5.118 1 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...
    ET10 5.156 12 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in America.
    ET11 5.174 19 The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
    ET11 5.178 3 ...some curious examples are cited to show the stability of English families.
    ET11 5.178 25 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
    ET11 5.181 11 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
    ET11 5.184 26 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET11 5.197 3 All the [noble English] families are new, but the name is old...
    ET11 5.197 7 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    ET18 5.305 2 [English] culture...is thorough and secular in families and the race.
    Wth 6.99 9 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.
    Civ 7.32 10 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are...I see what cubic values America has...
    DL 7.112 9 See, in families where there is both substance and taste, at what expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.
    Farm 7.139 22 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    Cour 7.257 23 A large majority of men being bred in families...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    SA 8.101 14 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured permanence of families...
    Insp 8.273 8 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    Aris 10.49 21 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction...
    Chr2 10.107 7 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
    CSC 10.375 3 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    CSC 10.375 5 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    EzRy 10.394 15 This intimate knowledge of families...made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    MMEm 10.402 2 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs.
    MMEm 10.402 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    HDC 11.30 13 In the country...the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
    HDC 11.32 11 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.35 20 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.55 8 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty families.
    HDC 11.57 4 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    HDC 11.62 7 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.
    HDC 11.69 17 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea...neither will we suffer any such tea to be used in our families.
    HDC 11.76 24 ...you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous families;...
    HDC 11.86 13 I have had much opportunity of access to anecdotes of families...
    LVB 11.90 21 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    War 11.154 5 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together...
    FSLC 11.189 3 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life, and not their ploughing, or sailing, their trade, or the breeding of families.
    AsSu 11.251 27 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every mother thinks of him as the protector of families;...
    ALin 11.337 13 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses, weeding out single offenders or offending families...
    SMC 11.360 6 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families and their business...
    SMC 11.362 2 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit their families...
    FRep 11.531 13 Nations were made to help each other as much as families were;...
    Bost 12.195 19 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

family, adj. (22)

    YA 1.376 14 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    Hist 2.15 26 Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works...
    NMW 4.245 7 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    ET10 5.155 2 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    ET16 5.284 22 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET18 5.299 18 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views, but by internal intrigues and personal and family interest.
    F 6.10 4 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.
    Wsp 6.203 12 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the door.
    CbW 6.266 25 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    Art2 7.55 18 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride...
    WD 7.165 18 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    QO 8.185 5 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since, taxing the eccentricities of a gifted family connection in New England, was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    Grts 8.306 24 ...every man, with whatever family resemblances, has a new countenance...
    Dem1 10.22 8 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he...obeys a high family destiny;...
    Supl 10.178 17 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of coarse and family cloths.
    EzRy 10.394 9 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    SlHr 10.444 7 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man...of large acquaintance and wide family connection!
    GSt 10.505 1 A man of the people, in strictly private life, girt with family ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    HDC 11.77 21 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
    AsSu 11.247 12 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with sacred family ties...
    AKan 11.263 3 ...now, vast property...family connections...cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    SMC 11.350 8 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...

family, n. (80)

    Nat 1.51 9 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
    DSA 1.146 13 Not too anxious to visit periodically...each family in your parish connection, - when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    MR 1.241 15 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    Con 1.315 24 ...last evening our family was collected...
    YA 1.375 16 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic, as each person may see in his own family.
    YA 1.384 4 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    SR 2.73 4 I shall endeavor...to support my family...
    Lov1 2.178 3 [The lover] does not longer appertain to his family and society;...
    Fdsp 2.191 4 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    NER 3.280 12 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    ET4 5.55 5 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family...
    ET5 5.93 20 [The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches...
    ET5 5.99 12 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family...
    ET6 5.107 25 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of...trophies of the adventures and exploits of the family.
    ET6 5.108 6 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    ET8 5.129 22 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET10 5.171 6 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England].
    ET11 5.176 14 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
    ET11 5.178 5 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...
    ET11 5.192 21 ...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 which the ill fame of his queen and of his family did nothing to retrieve.
    ET11 5.196 3 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
    ET11 5.196 10 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET12 5.208 26 [An English gentleman] must have average opulence, either of his own, or in his family.
    ET13 5.219 6 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family...
    ET17 5.296 3 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    F 6.9 26 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...
    F 6.16 12 We like the nervous and victorious habit of our own branch of the family.
    Wth 6.117 2 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin...
    Wth 6.118 4 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church and to settle him in the rectorship which was in the gift of the family;...
    Wth 6.118 9 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Ctr 6.135 16 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    CbW 6.269 25 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
    Bty 6.304 1 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is not of their person and family, but of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Ill 6.319 9 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
    Farm 7.152 6 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    Cour 7.259 1 ...the protection which a house, a family...gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    OA 7.332 10 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
    PI 8.5 20 ...we see that things wear different names and faces, but belong to one family;...
    Dem1 10.21 25 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing family, clan, country and each exclusive and local connection...
    Aris 10.37 15 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough...if their money or their family should be dispersed;...
    Aris 10.48 17 Ennobling of one family is good for one generation; not sure beyond.
    Chr2 10.121 4 In a sensible family, nobody ever hears the words shall and shan't;...
    MoL 10.247 12 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
    LLNE 10.358 15 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    LLNE 10.361 24 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother, of English Oxford, were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.
    LLNE 10.362 5 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm, and he, or members of his family, continued there to the end.
    LLNE 10.367 24 In every family is the father; in every factory, a foreman;...
    EzRy 10.384 15 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings. The Lord grant it may be a comfort and blessing to my family.
    EzRy 10.386 1 ...in passing each house [Ezra Ripley] told the story of the family that lived in it...
    EzRy 10.387 18 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
    EzRy 10.388 4 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you...
    MMEm 10.401 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again... and had now a young family growing up around her.
    MMEm 10.401 5 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter...
    Thor 10.452 18 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.471 2 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
    LS 11.9 5 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.
    HDC 11.30 19 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not.
    HDC 11.31 19 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley, descended from a noble family...
    EWI 11.109 14 During the next sixteen years, ten times...the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters. The king, and all the royal family but one, were against it.
    EWI 11.123 5 Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations...
    EWI 11.140 11 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro. A man is added to the human family.
    War 11.176 3 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...here, where not a family, not a few men, but mankind, shall say what shall be;...
    JBB 11.270 8 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown.
    JBB 11.270 8 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief.
    JBB 11.273 6 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
    JBS 11.278 13 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    SMC 11.353 21 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...
    SMC 11.373 17 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades... writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    SMC 11.375 24 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes. Three of the names are of sons of one family.
    EdAd 11.387 11 ...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
    SHC 11.431 4 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters; every family chooses its own clump of trees, and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    PLT 12.21 6 [A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
    II 12.73 14 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be done? How could I do it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,- yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.
    Mem 12.91 11 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends.
    CInt 12.115 18 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country...every family has a representative in their halls...
    CL 12.135 4 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America.
    ACri 12.292 15 Never use the word development, and be wary of the whole family of Fero.
    AgMs 12.359 11 [Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family...
    AgMs 12.363 8 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    Trag 12.411 6 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

family-hour, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 20 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London...

family-man, n. (1)

    ET6 5.109 11 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops, and fought battles, like a good family-man...

family-men, n. (1)

    ET5 5.99 24 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...

famine, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.169 6 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...

famine, n. (17)

    DSA 1.136 5 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches;...should be heard...
    LT 1.281 25 Other times have had war, or famine...as their antagonism.
    YA 1.374 13 ...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the preventive of famine;...
    Hsm1 2.249 12 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    MoS 4.184 9 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a cry of famine, as of devils for souls.
    ET1 5.13 24 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine.
    F 6.19 2 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    PI 8.3 7 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    SA 8.106 7 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds. Then poverty, famine, war, imprisonment, might be tried.
    PC 8.209 6 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
    SovE 10.206 18 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
    HDC 11.44 9 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    HDC 11.82 13 [Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence, nor famine...
    EWI 11.103 8 For the negro...toil, famine, insult and flogging;...
    FRep 11.522 7 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country reaching through so many latitudes...
    Bost 12.202 4 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the swamp.
    Trag 12.408 25 After we have enumerated famine, fever, inaptitude...we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

famines, n. (1)

    Prch 10.232 3 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to bankruptcies, famines and desolations.

famished, adj. (1)

    PI 8.66 21 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been famished and false...

famishing, adj. (1)

    Grts 8.316 2 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.

famous, adj. (37)

    SL 2.129 8 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    SL 2.150 11 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result.
    Mrs1 3.125 8 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type;...
    Nat2 3.174 27 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    Nat2 3.184 22 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system...
    NR 3.231 5 In the famous dispute with the Nominalists, the Realists had a good deal of reason.
    UGM 4.32 25 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for;...
    ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET15 5.263 24 [The London Times] has its own history and famous trophies.
    ET18 5.308 9 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous for immortal laws...
    Wth 6.117 19 In England...I was assured...that liberality with money is as rare and as immediately famous a virtue as it is here.
    Ctr 6.135 17 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with... perhaps with half a dozen personalities that are famous in his neighborhood.
    CbW 6.253 1 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    Elo1 7.76 4 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he at once becomes famous...
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Elo1 7.95 12 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.
    OA 7.315 20 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    PI 8.68 3 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...
    Supl 10.178 19 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron;...
    SovE 10.198 7 We go to famous books for our examples of character...
    LS 11.4 4 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
    HDC 11.31 5 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    EWI 11.136 4 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    FSLC 11.185 16 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him. The famous town of Boston is his master's hound.
    FSLC 11.192 2 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    SMC 11.368 20 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field...
    EdAd 11.384 21 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question,-the famous question of Cineas to Pyrrhus,-the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...
    RBur 11.439 21 ...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival] with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better singers than we...but they could not have better reason.
    Shak1 11.448 25 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    FRep 11.521 7 ...we...shrink from an act of our own. Every such act makes a man famous...
    II 12.73 26 Here is a famous Ode, which is the first performance of the British mind and lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    II 12.76 4 ...our famous orchardist once more: Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    CL 12.152 27 Its power on the mind in sharpening the perceptions has made the sea the famous educator of our race.
    Milt1 12.256 13 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
    Milt1 12.270 6 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.
    Milt1 12.273 17 [Milton] thought he could be famous only in proportion as he enjoyed the approbation of the good.
    ACri 12.297 24 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

famoused, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.200 9 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./

fan, n. (1)

    Supl 10.165 24 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...wants fan and parasol on the cold Friday;...

fan, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.254 8 These [magnanimous] men fan the flame of human love...
    ET14 5.246 25 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student. His romances tend to fan these low flames.
    Cour 7.255 9 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a pure flame...

fanatic, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.10 25 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a fanatic Revival...
    Milt1 12.269 11 Milton...was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.

fanatic, n. (5)

    LT 1.264 8 In the brain of a fanatic;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    Int 2.339 12 How wearisome...the political or religious fanatic...whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Mrs1 3.146 6 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the second and third generation...
    Nat2 3.185 11 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have, without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency.
    Elo1 7.81 2 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example, good sedate citizen as he is, to make a fanatic of him...

fanatical, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.39 2 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    CbW 6.262 5 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is a fanatical persecution...more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    EdAd 11.389 24 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...

fanaticism, n. (6)

    SL 2.141 20 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...is fanaticism...
    ET13 5.221 24 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror. In good company you expect them to laugh at the fanaticism of the vulgar; but they do not; they are the vulgar.
    ET13 5.229 11 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire.
    Wth 6.114 23 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    CbW 6.254 13 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the fanaticism of the French regicides of 1789.
    FSLC 11.185 6 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...

fanatics, n. (4)

    Exp 3.60 8 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    ET16 5.287 5 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    Suc 7.290 1 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...
    LLNE 10.327 3 ...[the new race] are fanatics in freedom;...

fancied, adj. (2)

    MN 1.217 14 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love? his fancied freedom and self-rule-is it not so much death?
    Bty 6.282 3 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.

fancied, v. (25)

    Nat 1.34 1 This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet...
    Fdsp 2.189 5 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    Int 2.333 8 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior;...
    Art1 2.360 25 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Art1 2.361 26 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...
    Pt1 3.11 4 I had fancied that the oracles were all silent...
    Exp 3.49 6 ...something which I fancied was a part of me...falls off from me and leaves no scar.
    Exp 3.53 20 I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities;...
    Exp 3.83 23 ...when I have fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
    NR 3.238 11 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.
    NR 3.242 4 ...whilst I fancied I was criticising [a man], I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.
    ET1 5.22 18 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
    ET3 5.40 17 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth...
    ET4 5.51 21 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    ET5 5.76 19 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls...
    ET16 5.280 6 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers;...
    ET16 5.287 20 I fancied that one or two of my anecdotes made some impression on Carlyle...
    Bhr 6.184 22 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    CbW 6.267 14 In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon...
    Ill 6.311 10 Once we fancied the earth a plane, and stationary.
    Clbs 7.247 10 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
    SA 8.96 25 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    LLNE 10.364 5 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    Carl 10.493 2 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    SMC 11.359 16 [George Prescott] was a man...who never fancied himself a philosopher or a saint;...

fancies, n. (15)

    Lov1 2.169 24 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy...
    Fdsp 2.195 16 I have often had fine fancies about persons...
    Int 2.327 8 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Exp 3.60 21 [Life] is a tempest of fancies...
    Wth 6.88 25 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    WD 7.168 19 How the day fits itself to the mind...clothing all its fancies!
    Clbs 7.229 17 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain: thoughts, fancies, humors flow;...
    QO 8.200 13 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited.
    Dem1 10.5 19 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated...
    Dem1 10.13 19 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Plu 10.304 13 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures, and how they delight and tickle the ears and fancies of the hearers?
    Carl 10.497 12 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
    Milt1 12.261 2 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...
    Milt1 12.275 8 L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are but a finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...
    PPr 12.386 1 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.

fancies, v. (6)

    UGM 4.4 26 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article.
    SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    ET1 5.4 17 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...
    Ctr 6.138 7 'T is incident to scholars that each of them fancies he is pointedly odious in his community.
    Ill 6.325 14 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that...
    Ill 6.325 17 ...[the young mortal] fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant.

fanciful, adj. (6)

    PNR 4.86 11 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication. Call that fanciful,--it matters not...
    Elo1 7.70 15 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
    PI 8.28 19 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    Plu 10.316 11 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb...
    CPL 11.501 14 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons...
    MAng1 12.216 26 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty; a name which, in our artificial state of society, sounds fanciful and impertinent.

fancy, adj. (5)

    Ctr 6.137 26 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    CbW 6.278 1 Fancy prices are paid for position and for the culture of talent...
    Ill 6.314 11 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...
    Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece?
    MAng1 12.230 11 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...and a series of greater and smaller fancy pieces in the lunettes.

fancy, n. (89)

    Nat 1.35 9 ...the images of garment, scoriae, mirror, etc., may stimulate the fancy...
    Nat 1.54 10 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
    AmS 1.99 3 ...when the fancy no longer paints...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
    DSA 1.133 18 ...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
    LE 1.162 22 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
    MR 1.230 8 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    LT 1.271 23 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
    Tran 1.347 19 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Hist 2.30 12 The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal verities.
    Hist 2.34 1 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
    Comp 2.93 7 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy...
    Comp 2.107 11 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
    Lov1 2.178 12 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
    Fdsp 2.192 23 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have the nimblest fancy...
    Fdsp 2.196 1 Every thing that is [our friend's]...fancy enhances.
    Prd1 2.240 16 Undoubtedly we...can easily whisper names prouder, and that tickle the fancy more.
    Hsm1 2.255 18 ...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
    Pt1 3.4 8 ...even the poets are contented...to write poems from the fancy...
    Exp 3.60 19 Men live in their fancy...
    Mrs1 3.149 18 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...
    Nat2 3.175 11 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich; they are rich for the sake of his imagination; how poor his fancy would be, if they were not rich!
    NR 3.233 11 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination.
    UGM 4.12 15 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places. Is this fancy?
    UGM 4.17 17 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy...
    ShP 4.194 2 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which [Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
    GoW 4.283 2 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
    ET11 5.172 19 The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles flatter the fancy of the people...
    ET14 5.232 6 [The English] have no fancy...
    ET14 5.236 2 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...their fancy and imagination and easy spanning of vast distances of thought...astonish...
    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.
    ET14 5.259 12 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
    ET16 5.273 5 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
    Wth 6.107 14 A pound of paper costs so much, and you may have it made up in any pattern you fancy.
    Wth 6.111 8 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    Bty 6.295 19 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes the fancy of men...
    Ill 6.312 7 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy!...
    Ill 6.312 15 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details...
    Ill 6.312 24 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
    Art2 7.50 20 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate: no room was there for choice, no play for fancy;...
    Art2 7.55 27 [The arts] come to serve [man's] actual wants, never to please his fancy.
    Elo1 7.71 3 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Elo1 7.73 18 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech, and addressing the fancy and imagination, often exists without higher merits.
    Elo1 7.91 5 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    DL 7.122 4 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland], so infinite a fancy...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    DL 7.126 16 There is no face, no form, which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul.
    Boks 7.216 17 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success...
    Suc 7.299 16 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    PI 8.28 23 Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.
    PI 8.28 24 Fancy relates to surface...
    PI 8.28 26 Fancy is a wilful, imagination a spontaneous act;...
    PI 8.29 1 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets...
    PI 8.29 5 Fancy amuses; imagination expands and exalts us.
    PI 8.29 7 Fancy joins by accidental resemblance...
    PI 8.29 10 Fancy aggregates; imagination animates.
    PI 8.29 11 Fancy is related to color; imagination, to form.
    PI 8.29 12 Fancy paints; imagination sculptures.
    PI 8.32 21 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color, which occupy the fancy and deceive the judgment.
    PI 8.35 21 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    PI 8.36 3 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table...than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.53 17 Poetry being an attempt to express...the beauty and soul in [the hero's] aspect as it shines to fancy and feeling;...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    SA 8.93 19 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
    Elo2 8.126 26 ...we have all of us known men who lose...their fancy, at any sudden call.
    PPo 8.260 27 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./
    Insp 8.276 13 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could... wake the fancy and the clear perception.
    Insp 8.278 22 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/ So the fancy cools,-till when/ That brave spirit comes again./
    Insp 8.283 2 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself, not only in his constitution, but in his fancy and his facility and grace in writing verse;...
    Dem1 10.8 5 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy...
    PerF 10.81 15 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her, willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and fancy and spirit of life.
    PerF 10.85 1 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Chr2 10.103 9 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight, as science, as fancy, as imagination is;...but it is a sovereign rule...
    Chr2 10.108 21 ...all the dogmas rest on morals, and...it is only a question of youth or maturity, of more or less fancy in the recipient;...
    Chr2 10.111 14 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.
    Edc1 10.157 18 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will. But smuggle in a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought.
    Supl 10.166 10 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
    Supl 10.172 1 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    Supl 10.176 24 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    Thor 10.468 23 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...
    War 11.164 18 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
    TPar 11.286 23 [Theodore Parker] had a sprightly fancy...
    Wom 11.410 13 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination...as in his perception of truth.
    Wom 11.412 12 ...[women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    ChiE 11.470 3 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
    CInt 12.129 27 ...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.
    MAng1 12.242 1 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that...no fancy arose in his mind but DEATH was sculptured on it.
    Milt1 12.260 11 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
    Milt1 12.274 23 [Milton's] fancy is never transcendent, extravagant;...
    Pray 12.350 3 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...
    EurB 12.370 4 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson], his rich fancy...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

Fancy, n. (6)

    WD 7.182 6 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
    PI 8.28 5 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.
    PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
    PerF 10.78 6 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy...
    LLNE 10.324 3 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
    II 12.76 23 ...Memory, Imagination, Fancy...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

fancy, v. (40)

    LT 1.279 18 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...
    LT 1.288 22 Faithless, faithless, we fancy that with the dust we depart and are not...
    SR 2.65 16 [Thoughtless people] fancy that I choose to see this or that thing.
    SR 2.70 5 We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue.
    Pt1 3.16 27 The people fancy they hate poetry...
    Pt1 3.19 2 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
    Exp 3.46 5 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream, when the factories above them have exhausted the water. We too fancy that the upper people must have raised their dams.
    Exp 3.63 18 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
    Chr1 3.94 27 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.
    Chr1 3.108 9 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person...
    Nat2 3.174 25 Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
    Pol1 3.215 15 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end,--not as I, but as he happens to fancy.
    NR 3.246 5 We fancy men are individuals;...
    NER 3.281 5 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    SwM 4.110 1 What we call gravitation, and fancy ultimate, is one fork of a mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
    MoS 4.157 11 [The skeptic says] Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping?
    ET10 5.162 3 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...
    Bty 6.288 7 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    Ill 6.311 27 We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come back to our primers.
    Ill 6.317 2 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
    Ill 6.319 14 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    Ill 6.321 2 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...
    Clbs 7.246 27 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable;...
    PI 8.28 25 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    PI 8.57 20 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    Insp 8.281 8 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses.
    Dem1 10.22 2 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    Aris 10.32 12 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    LLNE 10.327 19 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
    LLNE 10.345 3 ...[State Street] did not fancy brusque manners.
    LLNE 10.350 26 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
    MMEm 10.420 24 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...
    MMEm 10.427 3 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    JBB 11.270 26 We fancy, in Massachusetts, that we are free;...
    ACiv 11.306 1 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    EdAd 11.392 19 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
    CL 12.143 16 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    CW 12.174 4 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that the birds know him and trust him...
    MLit 12.329 6 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
    Trag 12.415 10 We fancy [suffering] is torture; the patient has his own compensations.

fancy-men, n. (1)

    Cour 7.267 2 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies, better or worse dressed, fancy-men...

Fancy's, n. (1)

    PI 8.2 1 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/...

fanes, n. (1)

    LS 11.2 3 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./

Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass (5)

    CbW 6.262 3 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Elo1 7.89 8 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall;...
    PI 8.25 26 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster...what great hearts they have...
    TPar 11.288 14 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...in Faneuil Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    FRep 11.520 24 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.

fangs, n. (2)

    War 11.155 18 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses...and, finally, takes out its fangs.
    PLT 12.29 13 [Man] has his own defences and his own fangs;...

fans, v. (1)

    ET5 5.96 1 [Steam] weaves, forges, saws, pounds, fans...

fantastic, adj. (23)

    MR 1.229 6 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    YA 1.365 25 The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.
    YA 1.387 24 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called...chimerical and fantastic.
    Hist 2.33 23 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    OS 2.294 6 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    Art1 2.353 5 Though he were...never so wilful and fantastic, [a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    Art1 2.353 23 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols]...were not fantastic, but sprung from a necessity as deep as the world.
    Mrs1 3.121 5 Frivolous and fantastic additions have got associated with the name [gentleman]...
    Mrs1 3.127 15 Thus grows up Fashion...the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous...
    Gts 3.160 8 ...[fruits]...admit of fantastic values being attached to them.
    Gts 3.160 27 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave to others the office of punishing him.
    MoS 4.181 18 Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic...
    ShP 4.189 16 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production...
    F 6.21 4 ...all that is wilful and fantastic in [Fate] is in opposition to its fundamental essence.
    DL 7.110 12 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars and their fantastic appropriation of them?
    Clbs 7.232 1 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks...
    Insp 8.278 15 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
    Dem1 10.3 14 There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/
    MMEm 10.408 13 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson] was fantastic enough, Heaven knows...
    MMEm 10.424 3 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
    Shak1 11.449 17 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
    Let 12.396 10 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.
    Trag 12.410 10 [Sorrow] is superficial; for the most part fantastic, or in the appearance and not in things.

fantastic, n. (2)

    YA 1.393 21 Something may be pardoned to the spirit of loyalty when it becomes fantastic;...
    Art1 2.361 7 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...

fantastical, adj. (2)

    ET6 5.108 15 Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical...than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    F 6.48 26 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.

far, adj. (11)

    AmS 1.110 27 That which had been negligently trodden under foot by those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    Chr1 3.115 2 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    ET3 5.41 20 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner...
    Wsp 6.227 23 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    Chr2 10.106 13 Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years...
    Prch 10.229 19 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Thor 10.450 4 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    EWI 11.115 5 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
    EdAd 11.384 8 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...
    RBur 11.438 6 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    CL 12.143 7 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea, a light radiating from some far spiritual world, than any that can be named.

far, adv. (310)

    Nat 1.3 22 We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.4 13 We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    Nat 1.16 26 We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
    Nat 1.24 5 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
    Nat 1.41 19 ...a thing is good only so far as it serves;...
    Nat 1.45 25 ...far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them, these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    Nat 1.53 7 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/...
    Nat 1.66 18 ...there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...
    Nat 1.68 25 Nothing hath got so far/ But man hath caught and kept it as his prey;/...
    Nat 1.71 25 ...[the structure] once fitted [man], now it corresponds to him from far and on high.
    AmS 1.81 9 Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    AmS 1.85 11 Far too as her splendors shine...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    AmS 1.88 5 ...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.
    AmS 1.93 22 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
    AmS 1.94 19 As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
    AmS 1.95 18 So much only of life as I know by experience...so far have I extended my being...
    AmS 1.99 16 Those far from fame...will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    DSA 1.122 17 If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God;...
    DSA 1.124 17 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...
    DSA 1.137 11 ...we can make...a far better, holier, sweeter [Sabbath], for ourselves.
    DSA 1.148 16 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness and appeal to sympathies far in advance;...
    DSA 1.151 16 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    MN 1.193 3 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    MN 1.197 25 Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to the literary life.
    MN 1.199 4 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MN 1.199 5 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MN 1.210 22 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    MN 1.215 12 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still...as far from happiness in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?
    LT 1.262 8 They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    LT 1.266 16 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
    LT 1.288 9 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far.
    LT 1.290 13 Only as far as [the Moral Sentiment] shines through them are these times or any times worth consideration.
    Con 1.313 14 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.319 8 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Con 1.323 2 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    Con 1.326 4 ...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Tran 1.333 23 ...[the idealist] does not respect government, except as far as it reiterates the law of his mind;...
    Tran 1.341 27 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not accidental and personal...
    Tran 1.346 14 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent he should never be out of my mind, his name never far from my lips;...
    YA 1.379 7 We design it thus and thus; it turns out otherwise and far better.
    YA 1.379 10 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    Hist 2.8 9 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Hist 2.13 8 Genius...far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
    Hist 2.25 1 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots...
    Hist 2.33 18 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 2.71 21 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look...
    Comp 2.94 13 As far as I could observe when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    Comp 2.111 16 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor... shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him;...
    Comp 2.121 22 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
    SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off.
    SL 2.140 1 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work...of men would go on far better than now...
    SL 2.156 12 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom. Far otherwise;...
    Fdsp 2.211 10 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    Prd1 2.238 14 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten;...
    Cir 2.301 19 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Cir 2.308 17 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
    Cir 2.320 6 ...only as far as [people] are unsettled is there any hope for them.
    Int 2.329 7 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
    Int 2.331 27 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought. But we come in, and are as far from it as at first.
    Int 2.339 17 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
    Art1 2.352 21 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Art1 2.352 23 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Pt1 3.1 8 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Pt1 3.11 17 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    Pt1 3.13 13 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object, far better than its old value;...
    Pt1 3.15 11 ...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature;...
    Pt1 3.18 10 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use.
    Pt1 3.23 20 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far...
    Pt1 3.23 25 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them;...
    Pt1 3.24 5 So far the bard taught me, using his freer speech.
    Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Exp 3.62 12 In the morning I awake and find the old world...not far off.
    Exp 3.70 18 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
    Exp 3.73 18 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being, and thereby confess that we have arrived as far as we can go.
    Exp 3.81 13 The life of truth is cold and so far mournful;...
    Exp 3.85 11 ...far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism;...
    Mrs1 3.121 23 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though far from pure...it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    Mrs1 3.121 23 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    Mrs1 3.124 19 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
    Mrs1 3.147 4 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.155 17 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
    Gts 3.161 18 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
    Nat2 3.173 27 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
    Nat2 3.176 2 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    Nat2 3.180 9 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man!
    NR 3.225 3 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    NR 3.229 9 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp...vanishes if you go too far...
    PPh 4.70 3 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful. But when he beholds that which is born and dies, it will be far from beautiful.
    SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.117 7 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence];...
    SwM 4.129 4 So far from there being anything divine in the low and proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    MoS 4.175 7 What flutters the Church...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    MoS 4.176 20 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    ShP 4.191 1 The world has brought [the great man] thus far on his way.
    ShP 4.209 22 So far from Shakspeare's being the least known, he is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    NMW 4.223 2 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.230 23 Nature must have far the greatest share in every success, and so in [Bonaparte's].
    NMW 4.240 12 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    GoW 4.273 3 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
    GoW 4.273 4 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far;...
    GoW 4.282 18 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.
    ET1 5.11 25 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone.
    ET1 5.21 8 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil;...
    ET1 5.23 5 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong...
    ET2 5.26 13 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles. A nimble Indian would have swum as far;...
    ET2 5.27 3 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown...
    ET2 5.27 4 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown, which were far east of us at morn...
    ET2 5.28 20 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks.
    ET4 5.44 23 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... So far have the British people predominated.
    ET4 5.47 2 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    ET4 5.61 6 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    ET5 5.94 16 [England] is too far north for the culture of the vine, but the wines of all countries are in its docks.
    ET5 5.95 20 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET9 5.150 20 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.167 8 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner,--far on the way to be spiders and needles.
    ET11 5.187 12 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    ET11 5.187 25 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions, so far as he is concerned.
    ET13 5.214 3 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them.
    ET13 5.221 2 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET13 5.222 3 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain...
    ET13 5.222 15 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET14 5.239 6 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    ET16 5.276 17 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    F 6.9 10 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure.
    F 6.17 19 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is.
    F 6.23 9 So far as a man thinks, he is free.
    F 6.32 23 The annual slaughter from typhus far exceeds that of war;...
    F 6.34 1 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more reluctant...
    F 6.36 17 ...observe how far the roots of every creature run...
    Pow 6.64 17 ...natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
    Pow 6.80 17 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.83 2 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Wth 6.90 6 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    Wth 6.90 27 A man in debt is so far a slave...
    Wth 6.105 4 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime...is so far stopped.
    Ctr 6.142 10 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them.
    Ctr 6.151 19 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing/...
    Ctr 6.163 20 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Bhr 6.177 22 Man cannot fix his eye on the sun, and so far seems imperfect.
    Bhr 6.178 26 Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping...far and near.
    Bhr 6.194 1 ...even good angels came from far to see [the monk Basle]...
    Wsp 6.210 15 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    Wsp 6.231 19 The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and in the dark brings them friends from far.
    Wsp 6.240 9 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.264 2 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest...
    CbW 6.265 11 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
    CbW 6.266 26 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    CbW 6.268 7 The farm is near this, 't is near that; [the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is near Albany...
    Bty 6.281 5 ...how far off and at arm's length [our science] is from its objects!
    Bty 6.288 12 The remedy seems never to be far off, since the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    Ill 6.312 1 We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come back to our primers.
    Ill 6.315 9 We must not carry comity too far...
    SS 7.9 11 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union...
    Civ 7.27 26 We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough;...
    Civ 7.32 20 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.40 3 The useful arts comprehend...the sciences, so far as they are made serviceable to political economy.
    Art2 7.41 20 The leaning tower can only lean so far.
    Art2 7.44 1 Eloquence, as far as it is a fine art, is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Art2 7.48 8 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
    Art2 7.53 6 The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful.
    Art2 7.57 5 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    DL 7.116 19 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor that may go far to aid our practical inquiry.
    DL 7.117 10 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity.
    Farm 7.141 10 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
    Farm 7.146 11 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
    Farm 7.146 27 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
    Farm 7.149 25 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country, far on now in its third century.
    Boks 7.205 18 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...
    Boks 7.214 15 ...how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is!
    Clbs 7.230 27 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Cour 7.269 16 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
    Cour 7.275 22 In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off.
    Suc 7.293 6 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    Suc 7.301 10 Our perception far outruns our talent.
    PI 8.25 5 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing. All men are so far poets.
    PI 8.29 22 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
    PI 8.31 8 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
    PI 8.35 26 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy...
    Elo2 8.125 12 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you, and has a right to supreme attention so far.
    Res 8.138 20 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am invigorated...
    Res 8.145 1 The old forester is never far from shelter;...
    QO 8.189 11 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    QO 8.189 19 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    QO 8.189 24 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    QO 8.192 19 In so far as the receiver's aim is on life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
    PC 8.215 1 ...looking over how many horizons as far as into Liverpool and New York, [Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    PPo 8.242 1 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids...
    PPo 8.265 18 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Insp 8.272 6 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion, nor how far off that is from my topic.
    Insp 8.277 11 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Grts 8.303 10 You say of some new person, That man will go far...
    Grts 8.306 17 I do not know how far [Faraday's] experiments and others have been pushed in this matter [of Diamagnetism]...
    Imtl 8.336 6 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.
    Imtl 8.339 12 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Imtl 8.341 6 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.
    Imtl 8.344 5 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality...
    Imtl 8.351 9 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
    Imtl 8.351 26 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    Dem1 10.18 20 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures, and even over the elements; who shall say how far such an influence may extend?
    Dem1 10.26 15 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    Dem1 10.27 7 ...far be from me the impatience which cannot brook the supernatural...
    Dem1 10.27 9 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away all which appeals to the imagination...
    Aris 10.33 11 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.33 15 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Chr2 10.106 21 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold. But why not? As far as they could see, through two or three horizons, nothing but ministers and ministers.
    Chr2 10.108 1 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor? So far the religion is now where it should be.
    Chr2 10.112 17 Our religion has got on as far as Unitarianism.
    Chr2 10.114 22 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient...
    Edc1 10.135 24 ...I am very far from wishing that [the moral nature of man] should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    Edc1 10.149 11 See how far a young doctor will ride or walk to witness a new surgical operation.
    SovE 10.203 14 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have fixed the hearts of men...
    Prch 10.220 14 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them...
    MoL 10.242 16 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind. This is the theory, but you know how far this is from the fact...
    MoL 10.252 21 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    Schr 10.268 3 ...I do not wish...that life should be to you, as it is to many, optical, not practical. Far otherwise...
    Schr 10.273 19 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence...
    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.
    Schr 10.283 6 Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts will find that our science of the mind has not got far.
    Plu 10.301 16 ...[Plutarch] is ever manly, far from fawning...
    Plu 10.304 24 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    Plu 10.312 6 [Seneca] ventured far-apparently too far-for so keen a conscience as he inly had.
    LLNE 10.326 14 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.336 16 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws, which were far grander than we knew;...
    LLNE 10.336 25 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    LLNE 10.349 15 Mechanics were pushed so far [by Brisbane] as fairly to meet spiritualism.
    LLNE 10.354 2 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    MMEm 10.401 18 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
    MMEm 10.425 23 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    Thor 10.459 23 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other, and on a small mould. Why can they not live as far apart as possible, and each be a man by himself?
    Carl 10.494 27 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...however extravagant, will keep its orbit and return from far.
    LS 11.4 21 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    LS 11.24 6 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
    HDC 11.32 16 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...
    HDC 11.32 21 ...[the pilgrims] could go up the [Charles] river as far as Watertown.
    HDC 11.53 5 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    HDC 11.55 20 New plantations and better land had been opened, far and near;...
    HDC 11.57 6 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    HDC 11.60 26 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning, not far from his own fort.
    HDC 11.67 4 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God...
    HDC 11.81 2 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    HDC 11.85 3 [Concord's] sons have settled the region around us, and far from us.
    EWI 11.99 9 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    War 11.151 19 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
    War 11.167 24 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else, if you pretend to set an arbitrary limit, a Thus far, no farther, then give up the principle...
    War 11.168 4 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence in the highway, in your own house. Will you push it thus far?
    War 11.169 19 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    FSLC 11.204 6 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large farm, and is excellent in the completeness of his defence of it so far.
    FSLC 11.207 19 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
    FSLC 11.212 4 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    FSLN 11.224 22 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right. Whether the defect be national or not...it is so far true of [Webster's] countrymen, namely, that the appeal is sure to be made to his physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
    FSLN 11.233 3 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    FSLN 11.241 8 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day, and accelerate so far the progress of civilization.
    AKan 11.261 22 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man, used long since, with far less occasion: If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...
    JBS 11.276 10 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
    JBS 11.280 17 It would be far safer and nearer the truth to say that all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    TPar 11.286 7 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    EPro 11.316 21 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;-the bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and overawed;...
    EPro 11.322 7 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    ALin 11.336 2 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than to have lived to be wished away;...
    EdAd 11.385 4 At least as far as the purpose and genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
    EdAd 11.389 20 ...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of men.
    EdAd 11.391 23 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.
    Koss 11.399 21 Far be from [the people of Concord], Sir [Kossuth], any tone of patronage;...
    Wom 11.403 3 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
    Wom 11.413 16 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./
    Wom 11.425 22 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear...
    SHC 11.429 4 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary, having proceeded so far as to enclose the ground, and cut the necessary roads...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    Shak1 11.453 8 I could name in this very company-or not going far out of it-very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society]...
    Scot 11.461 1 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    Scot 11.462 2 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    Scot 11.463 16 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
    Scot 11.467 12 What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer.
    FRO1 11.476 5 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    CPL 11.506 9 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    FRep 11.519 24 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
    FRep 11.526 27 ...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...an unbuttoned comfort...far from polished...
    FRep 11.544 8 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    PLT 12.4 25 No matter how far or how high science explores, it adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...
    PLT 12.21 13 To be isolated is to be sick, and in so far, dead.
    PLT 12.23 12 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
    PLT 12.38 7 In so far as we see [spiritual facts] we share their life and sovereignty.
    PLT 12.53 9 I must think we are entitled to powers far transcending any that we possess;...
    II 12.77 22 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...
    II 12.78 9 The ideal is as far ahead of the videttes of the van as it is of the rear.
    CInt 12.121 11 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CL 12.165 27 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half, and-enlarge it by astronomy never so far-remains a half.
    CW 12.173 7 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than Babylonian robes...
    Bost 12.195 21 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    Bost 12.207 10 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy; as they had come so far for the sweet satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the King.
    MAng1 12.218 2 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    Milt1 12.251 12 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is far the best known and the most read of all...
    Milt1 12.253 24 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
    Milt1 12.259 2 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.264 18 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.271 14 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
    Milt1 12.271 21 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant. He pushed as far his views of ecclesiastical liberty.
    ACri 12.283 3 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant.
    ACri 12.285 26 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany, but cannot be read aloud, and so far fall short.
    ACri 12.288 13 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
    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.
    MLit 12.317 3 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.330 13 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his experience.
    MLit 12.335 7 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.
    Pray 12.356 18 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space. Not such was this light, but other, yea, far other from all these.
    Pray 12.357 4 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself... and I found myself to be far off...
    EurB 12.367 24 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down, far from cities...to obey the heavenly vision.
    EurB 12.374 5 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.
    EurB 12.377 11 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
    PPr 12.388 1 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].
    Let 12.404 10 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

far, n. (1)

    AmS 1.112 13 The near explains the far.

Far West, n. (1)

    Wth 6.95 10 [The rich] include...the Far West and the old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.

Faraday, Michael, n. (6)

    ET17 5.293 1 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...Faraday, Buckland, Lyell...
    PI 8.4 17 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    Grts 8.306 6 ...Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Grts 8.306 7 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
    Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to...know Newton, Faraday...
    PerF 10.70 21 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.

Faraday's, Michael, n. (2)

    Grts 8.306 20 ...diamagnetism is a law of the mind, to the full extent of Faraday's idea;...
    PLT 12.3 5 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...

farce, n. (5)

    ShP 4.213 8 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs;...
    PI 8.35 25 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy...
    PI 8.35 27 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce...
    Comc 8.173 23 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...
    II 12.84 24 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...

farcical, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.167 24 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency. If there be anything farcical in such a life, the blame is not mine: let it lie at fate's and nature's door.

far-darting, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.272 13 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape...
    WD 7.184 23 Phoebus challenged the gods, and said, Who will outshoot the far-darting Apollo? Zeus said, I will.

fare, n. (9)

    DSA 1.140 11 ...[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 have at home...
    Fdsp 2.206 3 [Friendship] is fit for...country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare...
    ET4 5.70 3 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says...his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
    ET14 5.233 13 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare...
    ET17 5.296 19 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Wth 6.109 2 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm, with its hard fare still fresh in his remembrance, boards at a first-class hotel...
    CL 12.142 4 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    EurB 12.367 25 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
    Let 12.402 15 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.

fare, v. (2)

    PPh 4.77 27 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him. So it fares with all: so must it fare with Plato.
    ET7 5.118 2 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...

fared, v. (2)

    ET14 5.243 12 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete. So it fared with English genius.
    F 6.34 6 It has not fared much otherwise with higher kinds of steam.

fares, v. (3)

    PPh 4.77 26 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him. So it fares with all...
    ShP 4.211 2 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare and his book of life.
    ET15 5.269 10 One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his rapacity...

farewell, v. (2)

    PPo 8.262 10 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
    PPo 8.265 23 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/

farewells, n. (1)

    MoL 10.241 2 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of your are to-day saying your farewells to each other...

far-extending, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.350 14 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.

far-fetched, adj. (3)

    MR 1.237 13 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar, hominy...by simply signing my name...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me in making all these far-fetched matters important to my comfort?
    QO 8.203 23 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...
    Wom 11.411 24 The far-fetched diamond finds its home/ Flashing and smouldering in [woman's] hair./

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