Farm to Faut

ET4 5.58 10 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered, a week here, a week there, and a fortnight on the next farm...

ET4 5.58 14 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.

ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.

ET13 5.217 8 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.

F 6.31 22 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.

Wth 6.109 1 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...

Wth 6.118 15 A farm is a good thing when it begins and ends with itself...

Wth 6.118 23 When men now alive were born, the farm yielded everything that was consumed on it.

Wth 6.118 25 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it.

Ctr 6.146 17 The boy grown up on a farm...is said in the country to have had no chance...

Ctr 6.155 17 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm...

CbW 6.247 7 [Fine society] renders the service of a perfumery or a laundry, not of a farm or factory.

CbW 6.268 6 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...they look at the farms;--good farms, high mountain-sides; but where is the seclusion? The farm is near this, 't is near that;...

CbW 6.268 9 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small...

CbW 6.278 18 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in the miscellany of metropolitan life...

Civ 7.25 8 The skill that pervades complex details;...the farm made to produce all that is consumed on it;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.

Farm 7.138 4 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...

Farm 7.140 21 ...the farm is the capital of wealth;...

Farm 7.152 21 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.

WD 7.158 27 ...our common and indispensable utensils of house and farm are new;...

OA 7.315 24 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm;...

Insp 8.288 24 At home, I remember in my library the wants of the farm...

Aris 10.38 10 ...in orchard and farm...they only prosper or they prosper best who have a military mind...

Supl 10.169 27 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.

Plu 10.298 27 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar...

LLNE 10.359 17 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...

LLNE 10.361 25 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of [Brook] farm...was a frequent visitor.

LLNE 10.362 4 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...

EzRy 10.381 9 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England...

EzRy 10.381 11 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town; which farm has been occupied by seven or eight generations.

EzRy 10.387 20 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son, who was now to succeed to the farm, was becoming intemperate.

MMEm 10.400 13 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband lived on a farm...

MMEm 10.401 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will.

MMEm 10.401 13 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine...

MMEm 10.401 21 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...

MMEm 10.414 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude, sixty years afterward, on her own farm in Maine...

MMEm 10.417 14 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...

SlHr 10.446 28 No art or practice of the farm was unknown to [Samuel Hoar]...

Thor 10.473 7 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm;...

HDC 11.27 4 Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm/ Saying, 't is mine, my children's and my name's./

HDC 11.54 16 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided; highways were cut from farm to farm...

FSLC 11.204 5 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large farm...

FSLN 11.220 21 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses; that is their quarry and farm...

ALin 11.330 14 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...Kentuckian born, working on a farm...

SMC 11.357 20 One of our later volunteers...in reply to my question, How can you be spared from your farm...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.

CPL 11.499 9 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson]...who removed into Maine, where she possessed a farm and a modest income.

FRep 11.520 12 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.

FRep 11.534 22 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where a man is made a hero by the varied emergencies of his lonely farm...

PLT 12.19 17 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.

Mem 12.105 19 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.

CInt 12.129 25 It was in a beggarly heath farm...that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.

CL 12.135 18 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.

CL 12.139 18 ...in choosing a farm, we like a southern exposure...

CW 12.171 1 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...

ACri 12.302 2 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

AgMs 12.359 10 [Edmund Hosmer] borrowed the money with which he bought his farm...

AgMs 12.360 27 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too...

AgMs 12.361 12 ...our [New England] people...will remove from town to town as...a better farm is to be had...

AgMs 12.361 23 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

AgMs 12.362 13 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...

AgMs 12.362 15 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources; otherwise his farm had ruined him long since;...

AgMs 12.362 18 The truth is, a farm will not make an honest man rich in money.

AgMs 12.363 10 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

AgMs 12.363 21 ...the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.

Let 12.403 4 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.

Farm, n. (1)

MR 1.240 26 ...the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...

Farm School, n. (1)

CbW 6.258 26 A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.

farm-book, n. (1)

Mem 12.96 14 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary.

farmer, n. (99)

Nat 1.29 20 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer...

Nat 1.38 26 The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...

AmS 1.82 27 Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all.

AmS 1.83 24 [The planter]...sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

AmS 1.105 24 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...

MR 1.240 20 I do not wish to...insist that every man should be a farmer...

MR 1.241 25 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.

MR 1.256 22 ...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...

Con 1.312 11 The king on the throne governs for thee...the farmer tills...

YA 1.366 18 ...the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread...

YA 1.368 5 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...

YA 1.381 9 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.

YA 1.381 19 ...the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.

YA 1.381 26 On one side is agricultural chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of it.

SR 2.77 26 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...

Comp 2.99 10 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things.

Cir 2.303 14 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Exp 3.47 3 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.

Mrs1 3.134 16 I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he is the man I have come to see...

Gts 3.161 14 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the farmer, corn;...

Pol1 3.205 6 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.

NR 3.237 23 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...

MoS 4.153 22 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.

ShP 4.201 7 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us.

ShP 4.205 12 It appears...that [Shakespeare] was a veritable farmer.

ET4 5.59 6 If a [Norse] farmer has so much as a hay-fork, he sticks it into a King Dag.

ET5 5.96 2 ...now [Steam] must pump, grind, dig and plough for the farmer.

ET8 5.129 22 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]. So is the burly farmer;...

ET11 5.177 10 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...

Wth 6.101 21 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason.

Wth 6.102 5 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...

Wth 6.118 20 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.

Wth 6.118 25 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it.

Wth 6.119 5 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.

Wth 6.119 7 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes...

Wth 6.119 17 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...

Wth 6.120 10 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen? The farmer fats his after the spring work is done, and kills them in the fall.

Wth 6.123 6 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...

Wth 6.123 11 Use has made the farmer wise...

Wth 6.123 14 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.

Bhr 6.178 6 A farmer looks out at you as strong as the horse;...

Bty 6.291 9 ...a farmer sowing seed...is becoming to the wise eye.

Ill 6.311 21 ...the farmer in the field, the negro in the rice-swamp...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.

Civ 7.27 18 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...

DL 7.110 17 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses. Another is a farmer...and the same rule holds for all.

Farm 7.137 1 The glory of the farmer is that...it is his part to create.

Farm 7.137 6 The first farmer was the first man...

Farm 7.137 15 If [a man] have not some skill which recommends him to the farmer...he must himself return into his due place among the planters.

Farm 7.137 15 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.

Farm 7.139 10 The farmer times himself to Nature...

Farm 7.140 6 The farmer has a great health...

Farm 7.140 13 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...

Farm 7.140 20 The farmer is a hoarded capital of health...

Farm 7.141 20 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.

Farm 7.142 13 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...the farmer is the minder.

Farm 7.146 16 ...we must not paint the farmer in rose-color.

Farm 7.146 26 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 7.148 25 The chemist...now affirms that this dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...

Farm 7.149 15 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles...

Farm 7.152 22 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.

Farm 7.153 4 We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.

Farm 7.153 10 The farmer stands well on the world.

WD 7.167 25 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own.

Cour 7.260 16 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...

Cour 7.264 2 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor a farmer by a fire in the woods.

Cour 7.264 4 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen: the farmer is skilful to fight it.

PC 8.224 18 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences,-as the farmer finds his cattle by a footprint.

Insp 8.288 15 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...

Imtl 8.341 4 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night;...

Imtl 8.341 6 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.

PerF 10.80 24 I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his gains...

Supl 10.169 26 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.

Supl 10.171 6 ...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner, which followed an agricultural discourse delivered by a farmer...

Supl 10.171 10 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.

LLNE 10.346 4 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep, on cold nights, when the farmer at whose door he knocked declined to give him a bed, on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...

LLNE 10.346 7 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed,-or under the stars, when the farmer denied the shed and the buffalo-robe.

LLNE 10.360 1 William Allen was at first and for some time the head farmer [at Brook Farm]...

EzRy 10.387 26 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...

EzRy 10.390 18 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.

EzRy 10.393 4 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...all the common objects that engage the thought of the farmer.

Thor 10.473 6 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm;...

HDC 11.54 19 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637.

AKan 11.261 7 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.

JBB 11.266 2 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./

JBB 11.267 18 Captain John Brown is a farmer...

JBS 11.280 7 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure...an honest reward, first to the farmer, and afterwards to the dealer.

FRep 11.527 8 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.

FRep 11.527 19 The legislature, to which every good farmer goes once on trial, is a superior academy.

PLT 12.43 14 There are times when...a farmer planting in his field is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

CInt 12.118 12 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

CInt 12.118 14 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

CL 12.145 14 Look over the fence at the farmer who stands there.

CL 12.162 16 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose;...

CL 12.162 17 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises.

CW 12.178 21 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to the farmer, the hunter, the sailor, the man who lives in the presence of Nature.

ACri 12.295 26 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words of the boatman, the farmer and the lord;...

AgMs 12.362 12 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood on each of which now a farmer manages to get a good living.

PPr 12.380 21 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.

Let 12.403 9 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer...

Farmer, n. (2)

AgMs 12.358 3 In an afternoon in April...I...found the Farmer in his cornfield.

AgMs 12.363 22 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded...

Farmer's Almanac, n. (1)

PLT 12.11 16 I write...a sort of Farmer's Almanac of mental moods.

farmers, n. (59)

Tran 1.358 13 ...in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...

YA 1.382 26 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence;...

YA 1.386 4 If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...

SL 2.136 13 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...

Pt1 3.15 18 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers...

Exp 3.66 9 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find their life no more excellent than that of mechanics or farmers...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.

NR 3.244 24 It is commonly said by farmers that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...

NMW 4.229 7 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things, as farmers...

ET4 5.57 22 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are substantial farmers whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties.

ET4 5.58 5 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power...

ET10 5.169 11 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.

Pow 6.62 13 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.

Ctr 6.146 9 Some men are made for...missionaries, bearers of despatches, as others are for farmers and workingmen.

Bhr 6.175 10 English grandees affect to be farmers.

CbW 6.261 18 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants.

Farm 7.139 17 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.

Farm 7.141 1 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers...

PC 8.232 6 In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the farmers to carry the Reform Bill.

Supl 10.170 6 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises...

LLNE 10.358 8 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence...

SlHr 10.439 23 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate with farmers...

SlHr 10.446 29 ...the farmers greeted [Samuel Hoar] as one of themselves...

SlHr 10.448 8 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./

Thor 10.468 15 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...

Thor 10.473 2 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...

HDC 11.43 17 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.

HDC 11.60 3 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.

HDC 11.62 27 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...

HDC 11.73 3 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls...

HDC 11.75 18 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.

EWI 11.131 24 ...the farmers may brag their democracy in the country, but they are disgraced men.

FSLC 11.180 25 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow, when the farmers also may be corrupted.

AKan 11.258 3 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

AKan 11.259 4 The government armed and led the ruffians against the poor farmers [in Kansas].

JBB 11.267 21 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620. All the six have been farmers.

JBS 11.279 7 Our farmers were Orthodox Calvinists...

EPro 11.320 22 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the strong arms of the mechanic, the endurance of farmers... all rally to its support.

ALin 11.331 22 ...[Lincoln] had what farmers call a long head;...

SMC 11.355 24 The invasion of Northern farmers, mechanics, engineers... did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.

SMC 11.356 6 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men as the members of our school committee here.

SMC 11.357 4 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...manly farmers, skilful mechanics, young tradesmen...

Koss 11.397 18 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.

Scot 11.466 6 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen, shepherds, fishermen, gypsies...

CPL 11.500 11 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as the most skilful of surveyors...

FRep 11.526 19 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a shoemaker, and the rest, millers, farmers, sailors, fishermen.

CInt 12.122 11 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.

CL 12.135 6 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors.

CL 12.147 7 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....

CL 12.162 21 My naturalist knew what was on [the sparrows' and tortoises'] land, and the farmers did not...

CW 12.172 4 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers...

CW 12.177 11 ...the farmers seldom walk for pleasure.

Bost 12.196 5 ...the young farmers and mechanics...often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.

Bost 12.204 15 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.

Bost 12.209 24 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...

AgMs 12.360 15 ...who is this book [the Agricultural Survey] written for? Not for farmers;...

AgMs 12.361 14 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...

AgMs 12.361 16 ...we farmers always know what our interest dictates...

AgMs 12.362 3 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.

AgMs 12.363 5 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

farmer's, n. [farmers',] (16)

YA 1.366 23 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...

Hist 2.41 3 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Wth 6.87 9 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.

Wth 6.102 8 The farmer's dollar is heavy and the clerk's is light and nimble;...

Farm 7.138 16 The farmer's office is precise and important...

Farm 7.139 15 [The farmer's] entertainments, his liberties and his spending must be on a farmer's scale, and not on a merchant's.

Farm 7.142 22 Who are the farmer's servants?

OA 7.313 9 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./

PC 8.212 3 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb, to the farmer's house...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.

Dem1 10.21 5 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on the lonely farmer's house...can well be spared.

PerF 10.75 2 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid in that stone wall...

LLNE 10.369 5 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...

SlHr 10.442 1 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase...

Thor 10.455 21 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses...

CL 12.164 15 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.

AgMs 12.360 26 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too...

farm-house, n. [farmhouse,] (5)

HDC 11.59 10 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village;...

LVB 11.94 3 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...

War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...

RBur 11.441 16 ...[Burns] has endeared the farmhouse and cottage...

CW 12.173 23 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.

farming, n. (7)

NER 3.252 23 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming...

MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...

NMW 4.247 23 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...or in farming...

Wth 6.115 2 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming...could be united.

EzRy 10.381 13 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age...

PLT 12.12 25 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects, as architecture, or farming...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...

AgMs 12.362 21 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.

farming, v. (4)

NER 3.252 8 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...

Wth 6.114 25 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits.

Wsp 6.225 20 In every variety of human employment...in navigation, in farming, in legislating...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...

Elo1 7.96 13 ...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.

Farms, Blood's, Concord, M (1)

HDC 11.48 5 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

Farms, Brook, n. (2)

PLT 12.48 15 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice, for example, the failure of monasteries and Brook Farms.

Bost 12.198 27 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the Zoars, New Harmonies and Brook Farms...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

farms, n. (34)

Nat 1.8 16 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms.

Nat 1.8 21 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms...

Nat 1.18 19 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.

YA 1.369 5 ...these [European estates] make model farms, and model architecture...

Pt1 3.34 18 ...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good...for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Exp 3.66 4 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery.

Exp 3.84 25 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think.

MoS 4.164 11 [Montaigne] took up his economy in good earnest, and made his farms yield the most.

ET1 5.4 26 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...in the farms... when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.

ET4 5.58 10 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...on all the farms in rotation.

ET6 5.110 3 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English]. Offices, farms, trades and traditions descend so.

Pow 6.58 25 A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled...

Pow 6.59 1 The strong man sees the possible houses and farms.

Wth 6.113 17 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage, but afterward his chateau and farms might answer for him.

CbW 6.268 4 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...they look at the farms;--good farms, high mountain-sides;...

CbW 6.268 27 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods, then farms...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...

CbW 6.275 27 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.

Farm 7.139 21 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...

Farm 7.139 24 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.

SlHr 10.439 25 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in farms...

SlHr 10.440 3 [Samuel Hoar] was fond of farms and trees...

War 11.162 9 You forget that the quiet which now sleeps in cities and in farms...rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...

FSLC 11.187 26 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...

SMC 11.348 2 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/

SMC 11.360 8 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms, shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of...

CL 12.137 10 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...

CL 12.146 11 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms...

CL 12.151 8 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...and the first northward flight of the geese...who...fly low over the farms.

Bost 12.182 2 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./

AgMs 12.362 2 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.

AgMs 12.362 11 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...

AgMs 12.362 23 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources, or by trade...

AgMs 12.363 2 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms.

AgMs 12.363 17 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows.

farms, v. (2)

SR 2.76 8 A sturdy lad...who...farms it...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

AgMs 12.361 25 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring. And thus Necessity farms it;...

farm-stock, n. (1)

HDC 11.55 10 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased, and the country produce and farm-stock depreciated.

farm-work, n. (1)

RBur 11.442 7 ...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are still [Burns's] debtors to-day.

farmyard, n. (1)

ET14 5.232 22 The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market.

Farnese, Alessandro, n. (1)

MAng1 12.220 20 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...

far-off, adj. (5)

SR 2.68 18 ...all that we say is the far-off remembering of the intuition.

Nat2 3.192 22 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by...

FRep 11.534 3 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.

PLT 12.64 6 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness...

CInt 12.113 7 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity. Yet it is but...a far-off means and servant;...

faro-tables, n. (1)

Wth 6.102 10 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble; leaps out of his pocket; jumps on to cards and faro-tables...

farrago, n. (1)

Insp 8.280 10 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

far-reaching, adj. (1)

CW 12.170 10 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/...

far-related, adj. (1)

F 6.36 20 Our life is consentaneous and far-related.

farriers, n. (1)

PPh 4.72 2 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers...

far-seeing, adj. (1)

JBS 11.280 4 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct...

far-sighted, adj. (2)

SL 2.134 8 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon;...

MoS 4.182 24 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...

farther, adj. (3)

Nat 1.14 17 ...this mercenary benefit is one which has respect to a farther good.

GoW 4.273 5 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.

SMC 11.373 7 After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...

farther, adv. (26)

Hsm1 2.251 16 ...every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else.

Cir 2.308 15 By going one step farther back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled...

Art1 2.367 6 Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin farther back in man.

Pt1 3.10 24 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before, or was much farther than that.

Nat2 3.180 13 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.

NER 3.269 8 ...even one step farther our infidelity has gone.

PPh 4.42 22 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East...

PPh 4.44 9 It is said [Plato] went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain.

NMW 4.254 17 A great reputation is a great noise [said Napoleon]: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.

ET1 5.21 21 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister];...

Ctr 6.155 27 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

Bty 6.295 18 ...the flute is heard farther than the cart...

Art2 7.55 2 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills...

Elo1 7.81 10 ...what if one should come of the same turn of mind as [a man' s] own, and who sees much farther on his own way than he?

WD 7.171 17 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit. Nature could no farther go.

Cour 7.264 15 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he... cheerily proceeds a step farther.

PI 8.48 10 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.

PI 8.68 17 The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved us as...to open the eye of the intellect to see farther and better.

Dem1 10.18 14 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual. In the course of my life I have been able to observe several such, some near, some farther off.

LLNE 10.334 5 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice. This influence went much farther...

LLNE 10.349 4 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance. The force of arrangement could no farther go.

HDC 11.85 14 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].

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...

FRep 11.537 20 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms; farther pierce his eyes;...than the Englishman's...

MLit 12.315 7 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are...

EurB 12.370 12 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

farthest, adj. (15)

Nat 1.1 2 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest brings;/...

Nat 1.68 22 Each part may call the farthest, brother;/...

AmS 1.112 3 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.

LE 1.178 21 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.

Pt1 3.33 17 The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in, is wonderful. What if you come near to it; you are as remote when you are nearest as when you are farthest.

Nat2 3.183 23 A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature...

ShP 4.212 4 [Shakespeare] was the farthest reach of subtlety compatible with an individual self...

ET3 5.37 2 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...

ET18 5.302 7 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.

Bty 6.282 9 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star.

Boks 7.210 22 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell. The stroke of its fall sounded on the farthest shores of Italy.

Imtl 8.349 7 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.

FSLC 11.211 20 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean...Massachusetts...as she sees her progeny scattered over the face of the land, in the farthest South, and the uttermost West.

PLT 12.53 24 Don't fear to push these individualities to their farthest divergence.

Bost 12.187 11 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...

farthest, adv. (1)

Nat 1.52 20 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together...

farthest-off, adj. (1)

Supl 10.172 18 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.

farthing, adj. (1)

MMEm 10.419 15 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends...

far-transplanted, adj. (1)

NR 3.223 3 In thousand far-transplanted grafts/ The parent fruit survives;/...

fasces, n. (2)

Chr1 3.109 27 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...

SlHr 10.441 12 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he was a consul from whom the fasces did not depart with the year...

fascinate, v. (4)

MN 1.212 18 Every man who comes into the world [the stars] seek to fascinate and possess...

UGM 4.11 3 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.

NMW 4.252 8 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.

Ill 6.315 26 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

fascinated, adj. (1)

PI 8.19 3 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.

fascinated, v. (2)

Art1 2.356 11 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...

Ill 6.315 26 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

fascinates, v. (2)

Pt1 3.20 3 ...life is great, and fascinates and absorbs;...

Elo2 8.118 15 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.

fascinating, adj. (1)

Elo1 7.70 17 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are, in our translations of the Arabian Nights.

fascination, n. (9)

SR 2.80 24 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.

Pt1 3.15 14 I find that the fascination resides in the symbol.

UGM 4.23 9 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power.

Bty 6.286 5 ...though we are aware of a perfect law in nature, it has fascination for us only through its relation to [man]...

Ill 6.324 18 ...the beatitude of man [the Hindoos] hold to lie in being freed from fascination.

Elo1 7.69 25 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...

Elo1 7.73 20 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated, as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle...

PI 8.43 5 ...the fascination of genius for us is this awful nearness to Nature' s creations.

Elo2 8.121 27 ...there are persons of natural fascination...

fascinations, n. (1)

Ill 6.313 3 The chapter of fascinations is very long.

fashion, n. (64)

DSA 1.135 11 ...the man who aims to speak...as the fashion guides... babbles.

DSA 1.146 8 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you...

LT 1.265 6 Let us paint...the fair aspirant for fashion and opportunities...

Con 1.314 3 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.

SL 2.153 12 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.

Prd1 2.235 9 Iron cannot rust...nor calicoes go out of fashion...in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.

Prd1 2.240 10 We are too old to regard fashion...

Pt1 3.29 24 If thou fill thy brain...with fashion and covetousness...thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.

Mrs1 3.122 12 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.

Mrs1 3.122 18 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.

Mrs1 3.123 13 ...personal force never goes out of fashion.

Mrs1 3.125 24 If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...

Mrs1 3.127 22 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion...

Mrs1 3.127 26 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a homage to men of his stamp.

Mrs1 3.127 27 Fashion...represents all manly virtue.

Mrs1 3.128 8 Fashion is made up of [great men's] children;...

Mrs1 3.128 18 ...fashion is funded talent;...

Mrs1 3.128 21 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own...

Mrs1 3.129 7 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results.

Mrs1 3.130 2 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive, this of caste or fashion for example;...

Mrs1 3.130 17 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.

Mrs1 3.130 18 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.

Mrs1 3.130 27 Fashion understands itself;...

Mrs1 3.131 6 To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality...

Mrs1 3.131 16 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.

Mrs1 3.132 10 ...strong will is always in fashion...

Mrs1 3.132 11 All that fashion demands is composure and self-content.

Mrs1 3.133 7 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...

Mrs1 3.139 21 ...fashion is not good sense absolute, but relative;...

Mrs1 3.143 5 Fashion...is often...only a ballroom code.

Mrs1 3.143 21 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission...

Mrs1 3.153 3 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...

Mrs1 3.153 13 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love.

Mrs1 3.155 4 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...

NER 3.259 24 Conjuring is gone out of fashion...

ET5 5.87 10 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him, until you or he go to the bottom. This is the old fashion...

ET5 5.87 11 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him, until you or he go to the bottom. This is the old fashion, which never goes out of fashion...

ET5 5.100 24 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion.

ET6 5.104 27 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...

ET6 5.112 6 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs, bound in gold vellum...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.

ET10 5.167 14 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when the fashion of shoe-strings supersedes buckles...

ET11 5.194 13 A man of wit [in England], who is also one of the celebrities of wealth and fashion, confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.

Ctr 6.163 2 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come...in the shape of fashion, ease, and city drawing-rooms.

Bhr 6.171 4 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...

Bhr 6.186 1 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...

Wsp 6.223 18 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.

Wsp 6.234 24 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion, in all men's sight...

CbW 6.266 12 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.

Bty 6.286 15 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.

Bty 6.293 4 ...a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

WD 7.170 22 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat;...

Boks 7.214 21 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee, which represent the fashion of the month, are to portraits.

SA 8.95 13 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.

Comc 8.171 13 No fashion is the best fashion for those matters which will take care of themselves.

Imtl 8.344 10 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, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.

Aris 10.61 25 Effectual service in his own legitimate fashion distinguishes the true man.

HDC 11.52 13 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?

FSLC 11.183 8 A man of a greedy and unscrupulous selfishness may maintain morals when they are in fashion...

EPro 11.319 19 [The Emancipation Proclamation] draws the fashion to this side.

Wom 11.409 9 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though unpolished by fashion...he had found much observation and much intelligence;...

FRep 11.528 25 We have eight or ten religions in every large town, and the most that comes of it is a degree or two on the thermometer of fashion;...

EurB 12.368 18 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt to reconcile these with the spirit of fashion and selfishness...

PPr 12.382 8 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped, nor by helping the depraved after their own foolish fashion...

Trag 12.409 6 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side, casting the fashion of uncertain evils...

Fashion, n. (9)

Mrs1 3.127 14 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions. Thus grows up Fashion...

Mrs1 3.142 24 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.

Mrs1 3.142 27 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.

Mrs1 3.143 27 ...Fashion loves lions...

Mrs1 3.146 14 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion...

Mrs1 3.152 11 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.

DL 7.133 18 He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion...will restore the life of man to splendor...

Aris 10.36 17 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman, and all the whimsical tyranny of Fashion which has continued to engraft itself on this reverence, is a secret homage to reality and love...

EurB 12.377 8 The novels of Fashion...belong to the class of novels of costume...

fashion, v. (4)

Int 2.335 15 [The thought]...goes to fashion every institution.

Chr1 3.107 18 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.

Nat2 3.183 1 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns, as if that terrific or benefic force did not find us there also, and fashion cities.

MoL 10.248 24 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.

fashionable, adj. (6)

LE 1.176 17 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons.

Comp 2.110 21 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.

Mrs1 3.125 22 If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...

Elo2 8.130 24 If the cause be unfashionable, [the eloquent man] will make it fashionable.

Carl 10.493 20 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.

EurB 12.377 11 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.

fashionably, adv. (1)

LLNE 10.335 11 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...

fashioned, v. (7)

Pt1 3.24 18 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth...

UGM 4.9 27 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.

PerF 10.87 2 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.

SovE 10.194 18 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.

Wom 11.419 13 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us to be polished and fashioned into beauty, but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.

II 12.81 22 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...

II 12.81 25 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them....

fashioning, v. (1)

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

fashionist, n. (2)

Mrs1 3.132 15 All that fashion demands is composure and self-content. ... If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing.

EurB 12.378 6 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures, as, for example, in the following account of the English fashionist.

fashionists, n. (1)

Comc 8.170 11 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...

fashions, n. (8)

AmS 1.101 13 For the ease and pleasure of...accepting the fashions...of society, [the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...

Mrs1 3.136 11 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.

UGM 4.26 17 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...

GoW 4.282 24 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he...undervalues the fashions of his town.

Bty 6.292 27 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...

PI 8.13 21 ...if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions say what I say, it must be true.

MMEm 10.398 14 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends...

II 12.88 20 ...there is a religion which survives immutably all persons and fashions...

Fashion's, n. (1)

Mrs1 3.145 18 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.

fashions, v. (1)

F 6.22 20 ...the lightning which explodes and fashions planets...is in [man].

fast, adj. (9)

Nat 1.52 7 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast;...

LE 1.170 26 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...

Cir 2.299 3 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...

NMW 4.225 21 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...fast travelling...

ET13 5.230 24 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended...

Ctr 6.129 9 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./

Wsp 6.221 23 ...the colors are fast, because they are the native colors of the fleece;...

PI 8.5 17 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...

Mem 12.95 8 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves,-flies on wing as fast as that mysterious whirlwind...

fast, adv. (125)

Nat 1.76 18 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

Nat 1.76 21 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...vanish;...

LE 1.179 13 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class fast growing in the world...

LE 1.186 3 ...see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect.

MN 1.199 23 ...insane persons are those who hold fast to one thought...

MN 1.202 2 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments...as fast as the madrepores make coral...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.

MR 1.238 19 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants for his own ends, does not embarrass him...

MR 1.254 12 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].

LT 1.260 15 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet, and says, I will hold fast;...

Tran 1.346 27 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...

YA 1.364 4 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment, and bind them fast in one web...

YA 1.393 4 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky, and that fast contracting to be no future?

Hist 2.33 9 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...

SR 2.80 27 They who made...Greece, venerable in the imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were...

SR 2.84 12 [Society] recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.

Comp 2.113 26 Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms.

Prd1 2.238 25 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast...

Hsm1 2.263 6 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty...

Art1 2.361 25 What, old mole! workest thou in the earth so fast?

Pt1 3.19 8 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles...

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...

Exp 3.57 20 The party-colored wheel must revolve very fast to appear white.

Mrs1 3.155 13 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse, as fast as the days succeeded each other.

Nat2 3.170 23 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape, absorbed by new pictures and by thoughts fast succeeding each other, until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...

Nat2 3.185 20 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...

Pol1 3.200 27 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.

NR 3.235 25 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that they are like grass and trees...

UGM 4.13 17 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...

UGM 4.31 16 We pass very fast, in our personal moods, from dignity to dependence.

PPh 4.48 27 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not.

PPh 4.77 24 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth.

SwM 4.118 9 ...Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief, in this centre?

SwM 4.118 23 In his fifty-fourth year these thoughts [about Correspondence] held [Swedenborg] fast...

SwM 4.123 11 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated. Men take truths of this nature very fast.

MoS 4.150 11 Each of these riders [men of Sensation and men of Morals] drives too fast.

MoS 4.158 10 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?

MoS 4.185 19 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.

GoW 4.273 16 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.

ET1 5.5 4 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...

ET4 5.60 8 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.

ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can...

ET6 5.107 22 ...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 heirlooms...

ET8 5.134 17 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...

ET10 5.157 11 [The Englishman] works fast.

ET15 5.264 22 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...

F 6.26 23 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says...

Pow 6.59 1 [The strong man's] eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Ctr 6.165 12 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...

Bhr 6.170 9 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast...

Wsp 6.241 16 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.

CbW 6.265 19 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.

Bty 6.289 4 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

Civ 7.21 6 The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast...

Civ 7.27 26 We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough;...

Elo1 7.68 17 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... gets as fast as he can to the result...

Elo1 7.70 4 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast;...

DL 7.105 10 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.

DL 7.125 24 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith in a better life...

Farm 7.141 18 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.

Farm 7.150 24 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...

WD 7.163 3 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we ride four times as fast as our fathers did;...

Clbs 7.225 5 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen...

Cour 7.262 23 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril...

Cour 7.263 16 The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails and spars and steam;...

OA 7.325 3 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.

PI 8.46 7 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...

PI 8.68 7 How fast we outgrow the books of the nursery...

SA 8.89 11 Welfare requires...persons...who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue;...

SA 8.96 13 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse...

SA 8.104 19 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast the country...

PC 8.216 5 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...

Insp 8.269 21 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar, and you cannot get tubs fast enough;...

Grts 8.312 9 The day will come...when the eye...will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.

Imtl 8.329 13 The experiences of the soul will fast outgrow this alarm [of death].

Dem1 10.16 3 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.

Aris 10.34 26 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end. Alas! no; tyranny, inequality, poverty, stood as fast and fierce as ever.

Chr2 10.100 9 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each;...

Edc1 10.127 17 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact that they have worse than no values...

Edc1 10.152 20 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast...

Supl 10.167 20 ...long nights and frost hold us pretty fast to realities.

SovE 10.207 3 ...we are fast losing or have already lost our old reverence;...

SovE 10.207 24 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.

SovE 10.211 25 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...

Schr 10.268 8 Nature will fast enough instruct you in the occasion and the need...

Schr 10.282 2 We will hold fast our opinion and die in silence.

EzRy 10.387 2 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He raked very fast...

MMEm 10.398 6 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./

Thor 10.461 25 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.

Thor 10.480 24 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...

HDC 11.45 15 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...

HDC 11.58 8 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.

HDC 11.74 5 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.

LVB 11.95 6 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other so fast...that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no place to interpose...

War 11.160 9 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this degradation as their worst enemy could desire;...

FSLC 11.197 1 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.

FSLN 11.228 23 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...

FSLN 11.232 5 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground; to hold fast and to advance.

FSLN 11.241 4 ...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...

ACiv 11.308 9 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken...

ALin 11.335 27 ...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?

EdAd 11.383 1 The American people are fast opening their own destiny.

Wom 11.406 14 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...

Wom 11.406 15 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...

Wom 11.420 27 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves considered...

CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

FRep 11.523 27 ...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...

FRep 11.527 17 ...responsibility educates fast.

FRep 11.532 5 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...

PLT 12.4 27 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...

PLT 12.10 22 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to hold them fast...

PLT 12.30 12 Echo the leaders and they will fast enough see that you have nothing for them.

PLT 12.54 10 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense...

Mem 12.103 4 I value the praise of Memory. And how does memory praise? By holding fast the best.

CInt 12.117 7 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school; power oozes out of it just as fast as truth does;...

CInt 12.123 15 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...

Bost 12.199 7 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England], sitting down hard and fast where they came...

Bost 12.211 13 Let [Boston] stand fast by herself!

Milt1 12.251 25 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.

Milt1 12.268 25 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.

MLit 12.316 21 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.

PPr 12.390 11 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature;...

Let 12.392 21 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.

Let 12.402 16 The balance of mind and body will redress itself fast enough.

Let 12.404 13 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.

Trag 12.414 23 How fast we forget the blow that threatened to cripple us.

fasten, v. (7)

Nat 1.30 22 ...wise men...fasten words again to visible things;...

Hist 2.5 7 We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience...

Int 2.339 4 ...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 distorted...

Dem1 10.23 16 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...

Prch 10.226 25 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...

LS 11.8 10 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet have been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all countries.

FRO2 11.490 14 Zealots eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...

fastened, v. (5)

Hist 2.12 22 To the poet...all men [are] divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance.

Prd1 2.238 27 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.

PI 8.55 13 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh that piercing mortifies,/ A look that 's fastened to the ground/...

Dem1 10.10 10 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate, if only eyes of sufficient heed and illumination were fastened on the sign.

AsSu 11.250 8 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...

fastening, v. (1)

Prd1 2.229 18 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...and fastening the eyes on the spot where they should look.

fastens, v. (6)

Nat 1.56 15 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures...

Comp 2.109 25 If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Lov1 2.172 9 ...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?

Chr1 3.110 19 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and the graves of the memory render up their dead;...

SwM 4.121 2 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...

Plu 10.308 7 [Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure which fastens the body to the mind.

faster, adj. (1)

UGM 4.32 6 The heroes of the hour are relatively great; of a faster growth;...

faster, adv. (17)

Fdsp 2.212 11 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike, his soul only flees the faster from you...

Cir 2.303 3 The hand that built [the wall] can topple it down much faster.

ET10 5.155 26 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.

Pow 6.64 12 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.

Wth 6.117 10 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster...

Wsp 6.211 26 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons;...

Farm 7.150 27 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...

Farm 7.152 2 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth works faster for him than he can work for himself...

Boks 7.219 25 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them journeys faster than he...

Suc 7.288 24 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people, whose watches go faster than their neighbors'...

Grts 8.305 24 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims slower or faster to dedicate himself to that.

Imtl 8.332 23 ...the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.

Aris 10.58 10 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day, and the more falls he gets, moves faster on;...

Edc1 10.123 1 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./

II 12.84 17 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.

CL 12.151 12 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster...

MAng1 12.226 15 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us; let us ride faster lest it fall whilst we are upon it.

fastest, adj. (1)

UGM 4.24 25 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong. Was it not a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of cements?

fastidious, adj. (3)

Tran 1.347 22 ...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the world;...

Mrs1 3.148 6 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.

LLNE 10.364 10 All comers, even the most fastidious, found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of residences.

fastidiousness, n. (1)

MoS 4.166 3 Here is [in Montaigne] an impatience and fastidiousness at color or pretence of any kind.

fasting, adj. (1)

Pray 12.350 6 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..

fastness, n. (1)

FSLC 11.213 15 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error. In this one fastness let truth be spoken and right done.

fasts, n. (1)

ET13 5.217 3 [The English Church] moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts...

fasts, v. (1)

DL 7.104 5 ...when [the nestler] fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him.

fat, adj. (6)

AmS 1.114 14 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.

ET11 5.191 7 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.

Pow 6.67 17 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and precisely the most public-spirited citizen.

Schr 10.286 19 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress... is of the same chemistry as praise and fat living;...

ACiv 11.301 23 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...

II 12.84 1 We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is a kind of hibernation, and 't is to be hoped they will be very fat and energetic in the spring.

fat, n. (1)

Supl 10.164 6 ...the positive is the sinew of speech, the superlative the fat.

fatal, adj. (47)

AmS 1.91 4 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done.

DSA 1.141 26 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...

LE 1.176 23 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is the lust of display...

SR 2.43 6 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still./

SR 2.65 18 ...perception is not whimsical, but fatal.

Comp 2.102 8 That soul which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; but there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Comp 2.107 14 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance... certifying that the law is fatal;...

Prd1 2.230 17 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...

Exp 3.78 5 The soul...is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.

PNR 4.81 12 ...the succession of individual men is fatal and beautiful...

PNR 4.87 2 The names of things, too, [to Plato] are fatal, following the nature of things.

MoS 4.174 1 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect; as if it were fatal to earnestness to know much.

NMW 4.251 12 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte], the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

NMW 4.253 9 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it is treacherous...

ET13 5.230 6 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.

F 6.23 21 Look not on Nature, for her name is fatal, said the oracle.

F 6.24 17 'T is the best use of Fate to teach a fatal courage.

Bhr 6.188 24 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration;...

Wsp 6.207 23 The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.

Wsp 6.221 9 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out there in nature we see its fatal strength.

CbW 6.261 11 'T is a fatal disadvantage to be cockered and to eat too much cake.

SS 7.15 15 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal.

Elo1 7.92 8 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.

OA 7.325 8 We learn the fatal compensations that wait on every act.

PI 8.31 1 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is...

Insp 8.283 12 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...

Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.

Dem1 10.22 27 Every fact in which the moral elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law.

Aris 10.63 3 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion and never look back to the fatal question,-where had you the money that you paid?

SovE 10.200 15 A fatal disservice does this Swedenborg or other who offers to do my thinking for me.

Prch 10.219 5 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.

MoL 10.246 25 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent;...

Plu 10.306 23 It is fatal to spiritual health to lose your admiration.

HDC 11.36 20 [The Indians'] physical powers...before yet the English alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English sword, astonished the white men.

HDC 11.48 4 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

EWI 11.108 27 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment...that it was found peculiarly fatal to those employed in it.

EWI 11.127 4 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity, and the hostility to such as resisted it would be fatal.

FSLC 11.203 13 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...

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 11.290 13 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...

ACiv 11.309 9 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...

SMC 11.348 14 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

EdAd 11.385 17 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.

PLT 12.33 10 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into its mould;...

II 12.65 2 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into mould...

Mem 12.98 14 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory...

CL 12.138 19 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...

fatalists, n. (2)

F 6.29 14 Does the reading of history make us fatalists?

Clbs 7.241 9 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them at last fatalists...whom we now consider.

fatalities, n. (1)

Chr2 10.109 17 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...and they finding no magic, no mystic numbers, no fatalities...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?

fatality, n. (1)

EWI 11.137 15 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies]...

fatally, adv. (3)

SwM 4.121 21 [Swedenborg's] theological bias thus fatally narrowed his interpretation of nature...

LVB 11.95 7 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no place to interpose...

SMC 11.368 26 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.

fate, n. (94)

LE 1.177 16 How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets...of fate?

Con 1.299 10 Conservatism...believes in a negative fate;...

Con 1.302 13 Here is the fact which men call Fate, and fate in dread degrees, fate behind fate...

Con 1.314 9 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate...

Tran 1.345 23 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods,-as ancient wisdom foretold their fate?

SR 2.43 3 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate;/...

SR 2.75 24 We shun the rugged battle of fate...

SL 2.154 15 [A book] must go with all Walpole's Noble and Royal Authors to its fate.

Fdsp 2.189 15 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The mill-round of our fate appears/ A sun-path in thy worth./

Prd1 2.235 26 Let [a man's words] be words of fate.

Hsm1 2.257 23 ...hope and fate...shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Art1 2.349 22 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate/...

Art1 2.353 27 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?

Art1 2.360 15 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.

Pt1 3.33 9 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

Exp 3.67 1 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these beautiful limits...

Exp 3.80 17 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate...

Gts 3.165 9 The best of hospitality and of generosity is also not in the will, but in fate.

NR 3.233 15 'T is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore.

UGM 4.30 16 ...great men:--the word is injurious. Is there caste? is there fate?

PPh 4.45 19 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.

PPh 4.52 15 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...

SwM 4.145 8 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude only...

MoS 4.176 4 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...fate is for imbeciles;...

MoS 4.176 12 Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?

ShP 4.208 16 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which not your experience but the man within the breast has accepted as words of fate, and tell me if they match;...

ShP 4.211 15 ...[Shakespeare] could...draw the fine demarcations of freedom and of fate...

ShP 4.218 17 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...

NMW 4.238 11 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.

NMW 4.256 24 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party, its youth and its age; yes, and with poetic justice its fate, in his own.

ET8 5.136 15 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...

ET10 5.170 9 [England] too is in the stream of fate...

ET14 5.250 11 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory, in the unequal combat of will against fate.

ET14 5.255 12 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.

F 6.5 14 The Turk, the Arab, the Persian, accepts the foreordained fate...

F 6.8 26 An expense of ends to means is fate;...

F 6.9 1 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate;...

F 6.20 6 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes a brute and dreadful shape.

F 6.24 25 ...if Fate is so prevailing, man also is part of it, and can confront fate with fate.

F 6.31 1 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?

F 6.36 4 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

F 6.36 16 ...to see how fate slides into freedom and freedom into fate, observe how far the roots of every creature run...

F 6.36 17 ...to see how fate slides into freedom and freedom into fate, observe how far the roots of every creature run...

F 6.40 1 [Man] thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.

F 6.47 7 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...

F 6.47 14 ...when a man is the victim of his fate...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...

Pow 6.59 14 Each reads his fate in the other's eyes.

Wth 6.123 27 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in vain that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it. This is fate.

Ctr 6.145 19 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen? One sees very well what their fate must be.

Bhr 6.181 5 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate...

Wsp 6.202 16 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...

Wsp 6.221 7 ...in the human mind, this tie of fate is made alive.

CbW 6.245 4 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

CbW 6.247 24 The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.

CbW 6.251 20 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.

Bty 6.289 6 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty.

Ill 6.317 11 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.

Ill 6.317 27 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as...fools of fate...

Ill 6.323 11 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.

Art2 7.50 19 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...

Elo1 7.85 26 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...

Farm 7.138 18 ...you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and gravitation, whose minister [the farmer] is.

Boks 7.216 1 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...

Cour 7.277 4 If you...see only an adamantine fate coiling its folds about Nature and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...

Cour 7.277 5 ...the best use of fate is to teach us courage...

OA 7.317 18 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days...presently foretells the fate of the by-standers.

PI 8.20 24 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image. The selection must follow fate.

PPo 8.246 3 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./

Grts 8.299 1 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./

Grts 8.320 24 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek...

Dem1 10.9 23 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.

Dem1 10.10 8 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate...

Dem1 10.22 12 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.

Aris 10.63 20 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate...

Supl 10.177 10 The religion [of the Arab] runs into asceticism and fate.

Plu 10.301 13 [Plutarch] gossips...of love and fate and empires.

Plu 10.317 9 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance...

LLNE 10.355 1 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.

AKan 11.256 19 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned? Rev. Mr. Nute of Springfield seized, and up to this time we have no tidings of his fate?

AKan 11.263 7 ...in these times full of the fate of the Republic, I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...

JBB 11.273 7 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...

ACiv 11.303 21 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands...

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;...

ALin 11.337 17 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations...

FRep 11.530 5 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...

FRep 11.530 6 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...

FRep 11.530 7 ...if there is fate in corn and cotton, so is there fate in thought...

PLT 12.10 16 What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer.

PLT 12.41 9 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.

CW 12.172 27 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...

Bost 12.210 5 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and her historians record the fate of nations.

MLit 12.331 21 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...the mitigation of his fate;...

EurB 12.368 23 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...

EurB 12.377 19 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.

Fate, n. (71)

MN 1.208 22 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...

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...

Con 1.297 3 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred. I appeal to Fate, must there not be rest?

Con 1.297 4 I appeal to Fate also, said Uranus, must there not be motion?

Con 1.302 12 Here is the fact which men call Fate...

Con 1.304 23 We may be partial, but Fate is not.

MoS 4.177 3 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.

MoS 4.177 6 Fate...grows over us like grass.

ET13 5.214 23 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?

ET14 5.249 22 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.

F 6.4 3 ...there is Fate, or laws of the world.

F 6.4 6 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty...

F 6.12 23 It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate...which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

F 6.12 24 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

F 6.15 13 The book of Nature is the book of Fate.

F 6.19 21 ...[the drowning men] had a right to their eye-beams, and all the rest was Fate.

F 6.20 4 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.

F 6.20 5 Whatever limits us we call Fate.

F 6.20 25 So soft and so stanch is the ring of Fate.

F 6.21 3 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate;...

F 6.21 7 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...

F 6.21 24 Thus we trace Fate in matter, mind, and morals;...

F 6.22 1 ...Fate has its lord;...

F 6.22 4 ...though Fate is immense, so is Power...immense.

F 6.22 6 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes Fate.

F 6.22 7 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes Fate.

F 6.22 7 We must respect Fate as natural history...

F 6.23 5 If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate...then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man.

F 6.23 6 If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate, and say, Fate is all; then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man.

F 6.23 7 ...a part of Fate is the freedom of man.

F 6.23 9 Intellect annuls Fate.

F 6.23 17 ...it is wholesome to man to look not at Fate, but the other way...

F 6.24 4 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.

F 6.24 5 The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

F 6.24 17 'T is the best use of Fate to teach a fatal courage.

F 6.24 22 If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it at least for your good.

F 6.24 24 ...if Fate is so prevailing, man also is part of it...

F 6.25 6 ...Fate against Fate is only parrying and defence...

F 6.29 13 ...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers himself to be betrayed by Fate!

F 6.30 15 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation, and the rest of Fate.

F 6.30 18 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house...

F 6.31 24 Fate then is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought;...

F 6.32 3 Fate is unpenetrated causes.

F 6.34 23 Very odious...are the lessons of Fate.

F 6.35 15 If Fate is ore and quarry...we are reconciled.

F 6.35 19 Fate involves the melioration.

F 6.40 9 We learn that the soul of Fate is the soul of us...

F 6.41 27 We go to Herodotus and Plutarch for examples of Fate;...

Wsp 6.199 11 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...

Wsp 6.201 3 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...

Art2 7.37 8 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...

PPo 8.238 12 Favor of the Sultan, or his displeasure, is [in the East] a question of Fate.

PPo 8.245 27 'T is writ on Paradise's gate,/ Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!/

PPo 8.250 20 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate...

Grts 8.303 16 They may well fear Fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim;...

PerF 10.73 11 Whilst these [natural] forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.

SovE 10.197 11 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...

SovE 10.206 16 The Orientals believe in Fate.

Plu 10.303 8 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate...

FSLC 11.201 4 [John Randolph's] words...come down now like the cry of Fate...

FSLN 11.231 19 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...the material necessities, on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.

FSLN 11.244 13 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.

Koss 11.399 5 The man of Freedom, you [Kossuth] are also the man of Fate.

Shak1 11.448 17 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!

Scot 11.465 14 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...

PLT 12.38 6 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we are no longer brute lumps whirled by Fate...

II 12.76 21 The inexorable Laws...the private Fate...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

Mem 12.95 10 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...and the envious Fate is baffled.

Mem 12.107 16 ...Fate also is an artist.

MLit 12.331 9 [Goethe] accepts the base doctrine of Fate...

Trag 12.406 23 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...

fated, v. (2)

Mrs1 3.147 10 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty, born of us/ And fated to excel us.../

F 6.6 11 Whatever is fated that will take place.

fates, n. (3)

Ctr 6.129 11 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./

Imtl 8.321 4 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/...

EdAd 11.386 11 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.

Fates, n. (4)

PPh 4.58 20 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates, with the rock and shears...

PNR 4.83 10 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the visions of Hades and the Fates...

OA 7.318 4 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!

Scot 11.467 5 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...

fate's, n. (1)

MoS 4.167 25 [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.

Fate's, n. (1)

FSLC 11.178 11 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

fate-words, n. (1)

Clbs 7.238 8 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...

Father, Eternal, n. (1)

Hist 2.30 23 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals...

Father, God the, n. (2)

FRO1 11.479 7 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.

Milt1 12.252 9 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.

Father, Holy, n. (2)

Wsp 6.227 26 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.

Wsp 6.228 18 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy Father, any longer...

father, n. (77)

DSA 1.136 23 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow, - father and mother...

DSA 1.138 20 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon... whether he had a father or a child;...

MR 1.239 16 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...

Con 1.297 13 ...to save the world, Jupiter slew his father Saturn.

SR 2.51 25 I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.

SR 2.71 25 Why should we assume the faults of our friend...or father... because they sit around our hearth...

SR 2.72 24 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.

SR 2.74 15 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father...

Comp 2.99 27 [The man of genius] must hate father and mother, wife and child.

OS 2.291 18 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves...and the father of the gods.

Int 2.343 16 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.

PPh 4.54 19 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed that the infant man-child was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.

MoS 4.164 3 ...on the death of his father, Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...

MoS 4.167 5 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my father, my wife and my tenants;...

ShP 4.204 5 ...[Shakespeare] is the father of German literature...

ShP 4.211 6 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man of England and Europe; the father of the man in America;...

ET1 5.19 5 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father...

ET4 5.61 20 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...

ET4 5.73 8 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.

ET5 5.91 2 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father... expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...

ET6 5.110 17 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.

F 6.10 7 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his father...comes to the windows of his eyes...

F 6.10 25 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son...

Pow 6.64 18 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.

Wth 6.117 26 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.

Ctr 6.143 3 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.

Wsp 6.220 11 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed;...

Wsp 6.220 12 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed;...

Wsp 6.239 3 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle.

SS 7.10 12 A man is born by the side of his father, and there he remains.

DL 7.120 4 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...

DL 7.122 20 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend.

Boks 7.210 12 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight.

Boks 7.210 13 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together...

OA 7.317 11 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.

OA 7.318 18 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age, and presently find it was his father and not his brother whom they knew!

SA 8.101 16 ...the heroic father did not surely have heroic sons...

QO 8.190 10 The child quotes his father, and the man quotes his friend.

PPo 8.244 19 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat;...

Insp 8.283 14 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...

Imtl 8.349 14 Nachiketas, knowing that his father Gautama was offended with him, said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...

Chr2 10.120 6 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.

Supl 10.171 11 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father.

Schr 10.275 2 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.

Plu 10.298 24 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...

Plu 10.307 26 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.

LLNE 10.363 13 [Charles Newcomb] was the Abbe or spiritual father [of Brook Farm], from his religious bias.

LLNE 10.367 24 In every family is the father; in every factory, a foreman;...

EzRy 10.381 8 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut]...

EzRy 10.381 14 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age, when his father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school...

EzRy 10.381 18 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...

EzRy 10.384 9 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...

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 2 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues.

EzRy 10.393 26 Was a man a sot...or had he quarrelled with his wife, or collared his father...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...

MMEm 10.400 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga...

MMEm 10.419 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned...

MMEm 10.420 13 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city, where she had lived for a while with her brother [Mr. Emerson's father] and afterwards with his widow.

SlHr 10.448 19 Perfect in his private life, husband, father, friend, [Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.

Thor 10.451 16 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils...

Thor 10.462 9 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father...

Carl 10.493 7 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.

GSt 10.501 13 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen, the neighbor, the friend, the father and the husband, whom this assembly mourns.

FSLC 11.209 6 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...

JBB 11.267 23 [John Brown's] father...became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...

JBB 11.268 3 ...our Captain John Brown...with his father was present and witnessed the surrender of General Hull.

JBB 11.268 5 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father...

JBS 11.277 18 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio...

JBS 11.278 5 ...it chanced that in Pennsylvania, where he was sent by his father to collect cattle, [John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...

ACiv 11.298 16 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...

ALin 11.335 18 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...father of his country...

SMC 11.357 20 One of our later volunteers...in reply to my question, How can you be spared from your farm, now that your father is so ill? said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.

SMC 11.357 23 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...

Shak1 11.449 13 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition, or say, who was his father and his brethren;...

CInt 12.121 19 ...he who discriminates is the father of his father.

AgMs 12.359 7 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.

EurB 12.377 17 [The Vivian Greys] would quiz their father and mother and lover and friend.

Father, n. (14)

Nat 1.27 18 ...man in all ages and countries embodies [Spirit] in his language as the FATHER.

Con 1.315 20 ...we will tell you, good Father, how we spent the last evening.

Pt1 3.6 24 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect;...or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit and the Son;...

SwM 4.122 3 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church...

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

PI 8.19 19 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...

Dem1 10.19 20 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.

HCom 11.341 14 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.

FRO2 11.486 15 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in the Church...

Pray 12.352 10 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...

Pray 12.352 20 ...O my Father, thou visitest me in my work...

Pray 12.353 1 My Father, when I cannot be cheerful or happy, I can be true and obedient...

Pray 12.354 23 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...

Pray 12.355 11 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee...

Father of the Gods, n. (1)

PLT 12.41 17 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than...the Father of the Gods.

father-in-law, n. (1)

AgMs 12.359 8 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.

fatherless, adj. (1)

Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

fathers, n. (39)

Nat 1.3 2 [Our age] builds the sepulchres of the fathers.

Nat 1.74 11 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers...

AmS 1.110 2 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...

YA 1.375 16 Fathers wish to be fathers of the minds of their children...

YA 1.375 17 Fathers wish to be fathers of the minds of their children...

Art1 2.349 17 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./

Pol1 3.204 25 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Pol1 3.207 25 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right.

ET10 5.163 24 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.

ET11 5.180 11 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.

Wth 6.88 5 If happily [a man's] fathers have left him no inheritance, he must go to work...

Ill 6.319 2 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

WD 7.158 5 ...we pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism...

WD 7.163 3 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we ride four times as fast as our fathers did;...

Aris 10.66 6 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...

Edc1 10.139 21 If I can pass with [boys], I can manage well enough with their fathers.

Supl 10.171 8 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.

Prch 10.222 20 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...

Plu 10.314 17 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.

LLNE 10.329 27 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...

EzRy 10.379 2 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...

EzRy 10.390 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.

EzRy 10.395 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...

LS 11.9 19 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.

HDC 11.29 11 We will review the deeds of our fathers...

HDC 11.30 27 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.

HDC 11.36 18 [The Indians'] physical powers, as our fathers found them... astonished the white men.

HDC 11.42 12 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...

HDC 11.65 17 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.

HDC 11.76 17 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.

HDC 11.80 16 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...

HDC 11.84 10 Frugal our fathers were,-very frugal...

HDC 11.86 23 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither.

FSLC 11.185 3 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...husbands, fathers, trustees, friends...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...

HCom 11.344 11 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.

Wom 11.426 5 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.

CW 12.173 2 You know [said Linnaeus], fathers and citizens, that I live entirely in the Academy Garden;...

Bost 12.210 19 Let us shame the fathers, by superior virtue in the sons.

EurB 12.370 20 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...

Fathers, n. (2)

Bost 12.182 19 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/

Bost 12.211 21 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!

father's, n. [fathers',] (14)

Int 2.342 3 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first political party he meets,--most likely his father's.

MoS 4.162 16 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.

ShP 4.211 13 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...

F 6.9 25 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?

F 6.30 19 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house...

DL 7.103 5 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.

Farm 7.141 2 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...

Suc 7.282 9 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...

PPo 8.238 20 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.

Grts 8.305 18 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle;...

MMEm 10.400 11 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister...

HDC 11.83 3 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.

SMC 11.348 6 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/

Milt1 12.259 7 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...

Fathers, Pilgrim, n. (1)

FSLC 11.209 8 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...the Pilgrim Fathers for theirs...

fathom, v. (2)

PI 8.22 21 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom, so also are these.

Chr2 10.98 10 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous, who dare not fathom their consciousness, as profane.

fathomed, v. (1)

AmS 1.106 5 For this self-trust, the reason is deeper than can be fathomed...

fathomless, adj. (1)

Nat2 3.194 20 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.

fathoms, n. (2)

Res 8.139 20 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.

HDC 11.37 26 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English, receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag, hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts.

fatigue, adj. (1)

GoW 4.273 27 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he had put off a gay uniform for a fatigue dress...

fatigue, n. (8)

Nat2 3.186 5 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.

Ill 6.318 7 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...

DL 7.120 13 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home, sometimes to the fatigue, sometimes to the admiration of sisters;...

MMEm 10.413 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles, lost to mental or heart existence, through fatigue...

FSLN 11.217 12 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.

Koss 11.397 1 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.

CPL 11.507 8 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire, and shuts at your first fatigue...

PLT 12.31 4 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the imbecility and fatigue of their society...

fatigue, v. (3)

OS 2.296 8 ...pressed on our attention...[the saints and demigods] fatigue and invade.

Bty 6.298 7 ...we fear to fatigue [women]...

MMEm 10.420 15 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint;...

fatigued, v. (2)

Thor 10.459 21 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him.

Milt1 12.249 23 The reader [of a tract by Milton] is fatigued with admiration...

fatigues, n. (1)

MAng1 12.227 25 [Michelangelo's] diligence was so great that it is wonderful how he endured its fatigues.

fats, v. (1)

Wth 6.120 10 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen? The farmer fats his after the spring work is done, and kills them in the fall.

fatten, v. (4)

Hsm1 2.243 2 ...Sugar spends to fatten slaves/...

Pow 6.62 4 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.

Wsp 6.237 7 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street. The milk and meal you give the beggar will fatten Jenny.

SovE 10.189 24 No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

fattened, v. (1)

EdAd 11.390 4 Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that man exists only to be fattened with bread...

fatting, v. (1)

Wth 6.120 14 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures...be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?

fatty, adj. (1)

F 6.11 4 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in that little fatty face...

fatuus, adj. (1)

NR 3.229 4 A personal influence is an ignis fatuus.

Faubourg St. Antoine, Pari (1)

NMW 4.245 12 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...

Faubourg St. Germain, Pari (1)

Mrs1 3.127 25 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...

Faubourgs, n. (1)

NMW 4.243 6 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.

fault, n. (47)

LT 1.286 18 [The spiritualists'] fault is that they have stopped at the intellectual perception;...

LT 1.286 21 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that their will is not yet inspired from the Fountain of Love. But whose fault is this? and what a fault, and to what inquiry does it lead!

Tran 1.344 20 [The Transcendentalists'] quarrel with every man they meet is not with his kind, but with his degree. There is not enough of him,-that is the only fault.

YA 1.395 3 ...youth is a fault of which we shall daily mend.

Hist 2.39 18 ...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

SR 2.65 2 ...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.

Comp 2.123 16 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Mrs1 3.119 7 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault.

Nat2 3.178 22 By fault of our dulness and selfishness we are looking up to nature...

NER 3.263 16 If partiality was one fault of the movement party, the other defect was their reliance on Association.

PPh 4.46 14 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone,--fault of power to express their precise meaning.

PPh 4.76 18 The dearest defenders and disciples [of Plato] are at fault.

SwM 4.134 5 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull; fault of want of individualism.

NMW 4.258 11 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte. It was not Bonaparte's fault.

GoW 4.269 7 ...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground. I think this to be his own fault.

ET1 5.18 7 It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic [the immortality of the soul]...

ET4 5.65 25 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...

ET10 5.170 11 ...being in the fault, [England] has the misfortune of greatness to be held as the chief offender.

ET14 5.253 3 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science...

Wsp 6.206 23 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ... In sooth, my standards will in future be despised, not through my fault, but through thine...

Wsp 6.223 6 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men; and the reaction of his fault on himself...

SS 7.3 24 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke...from the point, like a flighty girl. His consciousness of the fault made it worse.

Elo1 7.97 15 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them.

Cour 7.259 25 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault...

PI 8.30 1 ...the fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere.

Elo2 8.127 6 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study...

QO 8.182 3 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer, everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the form...

Grts 8.299 1 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./

Dem1 10.23 20 The fault of most men is that they are busybodies;...

SovE 10.196 6 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?

MoL 10.249 9 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy... and thus the separation was a mutual fault.

MoL 10.252 2 Where there is no vision, the people perish. The fault lies with the educated class...

Plu 10.312 15 [Seneca] called pity, that fault of narrow souls.

MMEm 10.414 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault.

Thor 10.480 18 ...I cannot help counting it a fault in [Thoreau] that he had no ambition.

Carl 10.493 14 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.

FSLN 11.220 13 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with him.

TPar 11.289 11 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he overestimated his friends...

ACiv 11.300 13 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower...

ALin 11.332 7 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...each has some disqualifying fault that throws him out of the career.

SMC 11.365 12 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.

Shak1 11.447 1 'T is not our fault if we have not made this evening's circle still richer than it is.

CPL 11.508 11 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it?

FRep 11.531 23 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has no depth...

PLT 12.3 11 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts, sure of their sufficiency. They ought to interest you; if they do not, the fault lies with you.

PLT 12.46 21 When [will] appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

PPr 12.385 18 We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...

faulted, v. (1)

Wsp 6.236 20 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.

faults, n. (24)

MR 1.242 9 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.

Tran 1.337 11 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...

YA 1.377 21 ...as they say of dying people, all [Feudalism's] faults came out.

SR 2.71 24 Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife... because they sit around our hearth...

Comp 2.117 10 Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Prd1 2.240 15 Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in our company...

Cir 2.317 6 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller faults, half converts to the right./

Chr1 3.97 16 Men of character like to hear of their faults;...

Chr1 3.97 17 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults;...

NR 3.239 23 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.

GoW 4.286 4 An intellectual man can see himself as a third person; therefore his faults and delusions interest him equally with his successes.

Bhr 6.182 6 Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you show all your faults.

CbW 6.258 21 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...

Plu 10.320 25 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...

LLNE 10.359 5 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.

MMEm 10.398 18 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse, listen to all its faults amd mark its power...

Thor 10.464 16 ...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

AsSu 11.250 5 ...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are the faults which his enemies lay to his charge.

AsSu 11.251 9 ...when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.

Wom 11.415 6 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.

Scot 11.467 1 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and foibles incident to poets...

FRep 11.525 4 Faults in the working appear in our system, as in all...

Milt1 12.249 26 Two of [Milton's] pieces may be excepted from this description, one for its faults, the other for its excellence.

WSL 12.346 16 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age, yet he discriminates his faults with the greater freedom.

faulty, adj. (3)

Nat2 3.174 5 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.

MoS 4.151 2 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes, so that the works appear heavy and faulty.

Suc 7.296 3 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...

Fauna, n. (2)

Nat2 3.180 8 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.

F 6.37 16 Every zone has its own Fauna.

Faust [Johann Wolfgang von (9)

GoW 4.271 27 [Goethe's] Helena, or the second part of Faust, is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...

GoW 4.287 14 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not...

GoW 4.287 16 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and Faust.

PI 8.69 5 To know the merit of Shakspeare, read Faust.

PI 8.69 5 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible.

PI 8.69 8 Faust abounds in the disagreeable.

MoL 10.245 2 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust...

LLNE 10.328 23 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.

II 12.74 9 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this?

Faust-like, adj. (1)

EurB 12.377 24 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm,-Festus-like, Faust-like, Jove-like...

faut, v. (1)

Mrs1 3.121 19 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be.

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