Feet to Ficino

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

feet, n. (129)

    AmS 1.96 12 We no more feel or know [our recent actions] than we feel the feet...
    AmS 1.109 19 ...we see with our feet;...
    AmS 1.111 7 It is a sign...of new vigor...when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.
    AmS 1.111 11 ...I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar...
    AmS 1.115 19 We will walk on our own feet;...
    LE 1.155 20 ...feet is [the scholar] to the lame.
    LE 1.169 10 ...the pines, bearded with savage moss, yet touched with grace by the violets at their feet;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.196 9 ...behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...as if some strong wind took everything off its feet...
    MR 1.237 24 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent...then should I be sure of my hands and feet;...
    MR 1.238 3 ...I...have not earned by use a right to my arms and feet.
    YA 1.391 3 ...the wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet;...
    Hist 2.18 17 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
    SR 2.44 4 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./
    SR 2.61 24 Let a man then...keep things under his feet.
    SR 2.71 10 Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet...
    SR 2.76 12 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SR 2.85 6 The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
    SR 2.89 16 ...a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
    Comp 2.92 9 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power to him who power exerts;/ Hast not thy share? On winged feet,/ Lo! it rushes thee to meet;/...
    Comp 2.117 6 The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet...
    Comp 2.117 7 ...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him...
    SL 2.153 8 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    Fdsp 2.205 3 I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence.
    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...
    Prd1 2.230 8 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life. Let them stand on their feet...
    Prd1 2.240 14 These old shoes are easy to the feet.
    Hsm1 2.258 3 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread, and London streets for the feet of Milton.
    OS 2.270 20 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a function...of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet;...
    OS 2.293 16 You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
    Cir 2.315 7 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes;...
    Art1 2.368 8 [Beauty] will...spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
    Pt1 3.33 11 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 3.48 7 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
    Exp 3.53 25 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord...
    Exp 3.67 15 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;...
    Exp 3.82 20 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth...
    Mrs1 3.150 23 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    Nat2 3.171 9 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.191 11 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue sometimes had...wet feet...
    Pol1 3.211 23 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that...a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
    NER 3.283 10 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful which works over our heads and under our feet.
    UGM 4.17 18 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.
    PPh 4.46 27 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    SwM 4.108 5 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands; at the other end, she repeats the process, as legs and feet.
    SwM 4.108 10 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again: the hands being now the upper jaw, the feet the lower jaw...
    MoS 4.155 4 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.
    MoS 4.155 22 The studious class are their own victims;...their feet are cold...
    MoS 4.167 12 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.
    MoS 4.184 20 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    ET2 5.28 4 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet;...
    ET3 5.43 11 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars... seafaring...
    ET6 5.108 8 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    ET8 5.133 26 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
    ET16 5.276 25 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet...
    ET16 5.284 18 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    ET16 5.284 20 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube, of 30 feet every way.
    ET16 5.285 19 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground...
    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
    F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...benumbs your feet...
    F 6.11 1 Let [a man] value his hands and feet...
    F 6.37 14 Eyes are found in light;...feet on land;...
    F 6.46 23 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    F 6.48 5 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will bud and shoot out winged feet...
    Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood...
    Wth 6.93 13 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to give legs and feet...to their thought;...
    Wth 6.123 2 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    Ctr 6.154 7 What is odious but...people...who toast their feet on the register...
    Bhr 6.169 15 What are [manners] but thought entering the hands and feet...
    Wsp 6.199 8 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
    Wsp 6.221 14 Law it is, which is without name, or color, or hands, or feet;...
    Wsp 6.221 17 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Wsp 6.236 3 If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said Benedict]. It should, as it ought, go into my hands and feet;...
    Ill 6.316 7 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
    Civ 7.25 19 In the snake, all the organs are sheathed; no hands, no feet, no fins, no wings.
    Elo1 7.63 18 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
    Elo1 7.70 5 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away his feet, that he shall not depart;...
    Elo1 7.93 27 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact.
    Elo1 7.98 16 In this tossing sea of delusion we feel with our feet the adamant;...
    Elo1 7.99 6 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes...
    DL 7.133 1 Let the man stand on his feet.
    Farm 7.139 8 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience with the slowness of our feet...
    Farm 7.147 14 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high...
    Boks 7.214 9 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
    Clbs 7.234 10 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails?
    Cour 7.257 19 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    PI 8.47 17 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    PI 8.47 18 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    PI 8.53 9 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
    PI 8.53 15 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches,--but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    PI 8.58 7 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    Res 8.144 16 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    PC 8.214 16 [The Middle Ages] are seen to be the feet on which we walk...
    Insp 8.274 10 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men, take them off their feet...
    Insp 8.291 19 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of the house, and from all knowledge of the feet that come and go therein.
    Grts 8.314 18 [Napoleon] was a man who always fell on his feet.
    Aris 10.53 13 ...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows, and his hat on his feet, if he will.
    Edc1 10.125 18 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take...a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Prch 10.220 24 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
    Prch 10.226 5 ...when we think our feet are planted now at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us.
    Prch 10.236 7 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst our feet walk in the streets of a little town...
    Schr 10.274 23 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.
    Schr 10.276 24 ...I love talents and accomplishments; the feet and hands of genius.
    MMEm 10.430 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong...for that kind of obscure virtue which is so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality.
    Thor 10.461 20 [Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes.
    Thor 10.469 4 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    LS 11.10 9 [Jesus] washed the feet of his disciples.
    LS 11.11 9 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples...
    LS 11.11 11 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, and told them that, as he had washed their feet, they ought to wash one another's feet;...
    LS 11.11 22 [Christ's washing the disiciples' feet] only differs in this, that we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing of the feet not.
    HDC 11.33 5 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees...
    AKan 11.262 2 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy. Every man stood on his own feet...
    AKan 11.262 10 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    EPro 11.314 15 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    SMC 11.348 5 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?/
    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;/...
    SMC 11.367 20 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
    SHC 11.435 10 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    PLT 12.9 22 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.36 1 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...had emblematic horns and feet?
    PLT 12.37 9 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    PLT 12.37 11 ...the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue;...
    PLT 12.49 4 As a talent Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.
    CInt 12.119 21 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people, and drive their hands and feet in the way he wishes them to go...
    CL 12.144 19 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    Milt1 12.251 8 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
    ACri 12.296 12 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood, between his feet, in his house...
    Trag 12.409 11 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...see these marks of stamping feet, of hidden riot.

feign, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...feign to confess here, only that they may brag and conquer there...
    NR 3.244 6 ...men feign themselves dead...
    Suc 7.282 4 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...

feigned, v. (2)

    SL 2.158 17 Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness.
    PPr 12.380 14 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten, or be feigned to be forgotten.

feigning, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 9 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...

feigning, v. (1)

    PPh 4.58 1 [Plato] has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of the death of Socrates.

feigns, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.181 6 Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws.
    PI 8.31 10 The poet writes from a real experience, the amateur feigns one.

Feisi, n. (1)

    PPo 8.263 8 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?

felicities, n. (5)

    Comp 2.100 19 The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
    Bhr 6.197 26 ...we are continually surprised [in the young girl] with graces and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.
    Bty 6.296 3 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Plu 10.300 8 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
    MLit 12.327 1 ...the great felicities, the miracles of poetry, [Goethe] has never.

felicitously, adv. (1)

    ET1 5.13 21 ...[Coleridge] compared one island [Malta] with the other [Sicily]...Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to anything good and wise.

felicity, n. (19)

    Lov1 2.169 7 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one...
    Mrs1 3.150 7 ...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it excels in women.
    Nat2 3.187 6 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection...
    PPh 4.63 26 ...all virtue and all felicity depend on this science of the real...
    WD 7.169 5 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...and not spread itself abroad an equable felicity?
    OA 7.318 23 ...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    OA 7.326 20 A third felicity of age is that it has found expression.
    PI 8.35 18 Every one delights in the felicity frequently shown in our drawing-rooms.
    QO 8.193 20 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it...
    Chr2 10.122 12 [Character] makes no stipulations for earthly felicity...
    LLNE 10.331 19 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the moment.
    EzRy 10.394 21 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer...
    HDC 11.68 13 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    EPro 11.318 13 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and such the felicity attending the action [Emancipation Proclamation], that he has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
    FRep 11.544 7 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    CL 12.144 10 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts...
    Milt1 12.268 20 Thus chosen, by the felicity of his nature and of his breeding, for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    Trag 12.405 5 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.
    Trag 12.411 16 The spirit...learns to live in what is called calamity as easily as in what is called felicity;...

fell, adj. (2)

    Cour 7.278 18 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
    Thor 10.471 26 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter.

fell, v. (61)

    DSA 1.138 19 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
    Con 1.306 18 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me my wood-lot, where I may fell my wood...
    YA 1.383 17 In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as it fell, and in another hand a copper cent.
    Hist 2.25 5 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow...
    Comp 2.107 5 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...
    Comp 2.107 27 ...the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.
    Comp 2.116 5 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    SL 2.158 27 Never a magnanimity fell to the ground, but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly.
    Hsm1 2.255 7 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    OS 2.289 22 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from the tongue?
    Chr1 3.90 18 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.
    SwM 4.122 16 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    SwM 4.130 20 ...this man [Swedenborg]...early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    ShP 4.191 15 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments.
    ShP 4.219 5 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...an obligation, a sadness, as of piled mountains, fell on them...
    ET7 5.122 17 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
    ET8 5.137 8 The English did not calculate the conquest of the Indies. It fell to their character.
    ET14 5.243 23 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so beloved; the powers of thought fell into neglect.
    ET14 5.249 7 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too strong for the philosopher, and he fell into accommodations;...
    ET17 5.292 9 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London...
    Wth 6.118 26 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...
    Wsp 6.233 17 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners... In a few minutes a cannon-ball fell on the spot, and the gentleman was killed.
    SS 7.3 1 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...
    Elo1 7.68 25 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech, all warm and colored and alive, as it fell out.
    Elo1 7.72 24 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Farm 7.151 16 [The first planter] cannot plough, or fell trees, or drain the rich swamp.
    Farm 7.152 7 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    WD 7.160 21 Egypt, where no rain fell for three thousand years, now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    Boks 7.210 21 ...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.
    Boks 7.216 25 Great is the poverty of [novelists'] inventions. She was beautiful and he fell in love.
    Cour 7.266 20 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    Cour 7.278 10 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
    PI 8.47 17 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    PI 8.47 18 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    Elo2 8.129 9 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    Insp 8.282 24 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says...I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing:/ O my only light,/ It cannot be/ That I am he/ On whom thy tempests fell all night./
    Grts 8.314 18 [Napoleon] was a man who always fell on his feet.
    PerF 10.70 24 ...the lightning fell and the storm raged...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    Chr2 10.108 18 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that, in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and rested in morals.
    Supl 10.161 2 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    MoL 10.249 5 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions, of which the first was when the clergy fell from the Church.
    LLNE 10.366 10 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it not, and it of course fell to be done by the few religious workers.
    EzRy 10.392 3 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable; so neat, so natural, so terse, his words fell like stones;...
    Thor 10.454 16 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much...
    Carl 10.496 27 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when all thrones fell like card-houses...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.40 17 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and tender hearts;...
    HDC 11.53 26 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    HDC 11.61 13 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen.
    HDC 11.74 4 ...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.
    HDC 11.80 7 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    EWI 11.108 16 [Thomas Clarkson] left Cambridge; he fell in with the six [English] Quakers.
    EWI 11.120 5 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will; and the other [West Indian] islands fell into the measure;...
    JBS 11.278 6 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    TPar 11.290 9 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell on a political crisis also;...
    EdAd 11.382 6 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/ And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of the Same./
    Bost 12.205 20 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
    MAng1 12.226 16 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built...
    Milt1 12.248 19 [Milton's] poem fell unregarded among his countrymen.
    Milt1 12.268 24 [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.
    ACri 12.301 6 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...

felled, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.199 1 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
    HDC 11.43 22 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...the forest to be felled;...

fellers, n. (1)

    Bost 12.204 13 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...fellers of the forest...

felling, v. (1)

    TPar 11.284 9 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak/...

fellow, adj. (31)

    Con 1.316 27 ...the gravity and sense of some slave Moses who leads away his fellow slaves from their masters;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Farm 7.146 7 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants aid, knows where to find his fellow laborers.
    Boks 7.203 1 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he... will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
    Cour 7.275 13 ...the rack, the fire, the hatred and execrations of our fellow men, appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    Comc 8.162 6 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow men can do little for him.
    Grts 8.320 13 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    MMEm 10.407 25 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    MMEm 10.410 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    Thor 10.467 5 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures;...
    Thor 10.477 24 ...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    HDC 11.29 1 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    HDC 11.42 11 Fellow citizens, 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 11.83 5 Such, fellow citizens, is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord.
    HDC 11.85 9 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    LVB 11.96 14 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe. With great respect, sir, I am your fellow citizen, RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
    EWI 11.99 1 Friends and Fellow Citizens: We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    EWI 11.129 9 Forgive me, fellow citizens, if I own to you, that in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    EWI 11.130 15 ...if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens [free negroes] are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law to save them. Fellow citizens, this crime will not be hushed up any longer.
    FSLC 11.179 1 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    AKan 11.261 16 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about. A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens...
    AKan 11.263 7 Fellow citizens, 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 11.267 1 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    JBB 11.270 10 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...
    JBB 11.273 1 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself, and the natural assistance of his friends and fellow citizens...
    ALin 11.336 9 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    SMC 11.349 1 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day...
    SMC 11.374 22 Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the names of the dead.
    SMC 11.375 10 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War].
    FRO2 11.490 13 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight, as showing the riches of my brother, my fellow soul...
    Milt1 12.260 5 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    WSL 12.345 25 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.

fellow, n. (23)

    Con 1.322 2 Every honest fellow must keep up the hoax the best he can;...
    Hist 2.11 4 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
    Hist 2.29 27 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    SL 2.149 15 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow.
    Prd1 2.226 9 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Mrs1 3.124 22 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    Mrs1 3.124 24 ...the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through;...
    Mrs1 3.135 5 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
    NR 3.238 26 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he...accounts himself already the fellow of the great.
    NER 3.282 3 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him.
    PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow...
    NMW 4.255 3 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me...I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
    ET1 5.16 11 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet...
    ET10 5.159 8 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow, instead of the quarrelsome fellow God had made.
    ET18 5.308 2 Magna Charta, said Rushworth, is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
    F 6.38 25 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin,- this reaching, radiating, jaculating fellow?
    Wth 6.86 15 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam;...
    Bhr 6.192 21 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    WD 7.159 14 Steam is an apt scholar and a strong-shouldered fellow...
    OA 7.316 16 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
    PI 8.25 15 ...read to [people] from Chaucer, and they reckon him an honest fellow.
    Insp 8.281 2 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    CPL 11.498 3 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley, sometime fellow of Saint John's College in Cambridge, England, testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

Fellow, n. (2)

    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity, as well as to a valued friend [Arthur Hugh Clough], a Fellow of Oriel...
    ET12 5.206 11 [The young men at Oxford] shuddered at the prospect of dying a Fellow...

Fellow, Oxford, n. (1)

    SovE 10.186 10 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).

fellow-beings, n. (1)

    Hist 2.26 22 The Greek had, it seems, the same fellow-beings as I.

fellow-creature, n. (2)

    DSA 1.140 15 ...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to Sabbath meetings...
    Hsm1 2.261 4 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is...part of my relation and office to my fellow-creature.

fellow-creatures, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.235 24 ...let [a man] not make his fellow-creatures wait.

Fellowes, Charles, n. (5)

    ET5 5.91 25 In the same [English] spirit, were the excavation and research by Sir Charles Followes for the Xanthian monument...
    ET16 5.278 26 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
    ET17 5.293 20 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    Edc1 10.145 21 In London...I became acquainted with a gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
    Edc1 10.145 25 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes scraped away the dirt...

fellow-feeling, n. (2)

    Wth 6.91 8 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals...the absence of bonds, clanship, fellow-feeling of any kind,--he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Wsp 6.208 8 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm.

fellow-man, n. (2)

    Comp 2.111 9 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him.
    Fdsp 2.203 1 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments...

fellow-men, n. (4)

    LE 1.174 9 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...you will have results, which, when you meet your fellow-men, you can communicate...
    SL 2.156 14 ...your fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them;...
    Art1 2.352 17 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow-men.
    NER 3.258 2 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow-men.

fellows, n. (21)

    DSA 1.143 13 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    MR 1.253 22 Let our affection flow out to our fellows;...
    LT 1.262 1 We do not think the sky will be bluer...but only that our relation to our fellows will be simpler and happier.
    SR 2.53 18 ...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
    OS 2.291 26 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk. For they are, in their own elevation, the fellows of kings...
    Pol1 3.214 1 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
    MoS 4.174 15 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
    GoW 4.261 19 Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows and in his own manners and face.
    ET5 5.88 13 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
    ET7 5.117 12 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    F 6.36 3 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    Bhr 6.188 17 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance...
    CbW 6.265 15 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    Ill 6.317 25 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...
    SS 7.6 13 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows...we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.
    Aris 10.39 20 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.
    Aris 10.51 18 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...
    LLNE 10.328 16 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    MMEm 10.407 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    Thor 10.480 7 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but, poor fellows, they did what they could...
    EWI 11.124 4 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows...

fellowship, n. (15)

    Tran 1.343 27 [Transcendentalists] wish a just and even fellowship, or none.
    Fdsp 2.206 22 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms, perhaps because I have never known so high a fellowship as others.
    Fdsp 2.211 10 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    Mrs1 3.126 13 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds...
    Mrs1 3.136 26 I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
    Mrs1 3.139 21 That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
    Mrs1 3.140 2 ...[society] values all peculiarities as in the highest degree refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
    MoS 4.161 20 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which...entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    ET12 5.202 14 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    ET12 5.206 16 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    PerF 10.81 19 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity; there in the centre of fellowship and joy is Scheherazade again.
    Edc1 10.156 1 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
    HDC 11.46 15 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston...
    ChiE 11.471 8 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    Milt1 12.269 12 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.

fellowships, n. (5)

    SwM 4.129 4 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought, and part, as though we parted not, to join another thought in other fellowships of joy.
    ET12 5.205 26 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    ET12 5.206 10 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks, and many of them preparing to resign their fellowships.
    ET12 5.209 25 ...many chairs and many fellowships [at Oxford] are made beds of ease;...
    ET12 5.210 11 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...

fellow-workers, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.240 7 Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

felon, n. (6)

    MR 1.252 15 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    Prd1 2.233 7 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the gallows' foot is not more miserable.
    Exp 3.79 1 No man at last believes...that the crime in him is as black as in the felon.
    ET5 5.97 18 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...and the transported felon better than the one under imprisonment.
    WD 7.166 2 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
    FRep 11.536 6 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb.

felonies, n. (1)

    MoS 4.185 20 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.

felons, n. (3)

    ET4 5.62 17 ...the children of felons have a healthy conscience.
    ET5 5.101 14 The very felons [in England] have their pride in each other's English stanchness.
    EdAd 11.389 13 ...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and signal than those which come to private felons.

felony, n. (2)

    ET10 5.164 15 The rights of property [in England] nothing but felony and treason can override.
    ET13 5.227 3 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a premium on felony.

felspar, n. (1)

    Comp 2.99 8 Thus [Nature] contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar...

felt, v. (131)

    Nat 1.11 15 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    Nat 1.19 9 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.
    Nat 1.51 18 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    AmS 1.88 23 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man...
    DSA 1.129 19 [Jesus]...felt that man's life was a miracle...
    DSA 1.129 26 [Jesus] felt respect for Moses and the prophets...
    DSA 1.137 25 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    MN 1.198 23 Statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the finite...
    MN 1.199 5 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
    Tran 1.355 26 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.375 3 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country, but that will be felt not until we are no longer countrymen.
    YA 1.384 1 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.387 7 If society were transparent, the noble...would be felt as benefit, inasmuch as he was noble.
    Hist 2.3 6 What Plato has thought, he [that is once admitted to the right of reason] may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel;...
    Hist 2.27 23 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
    SR 2.46 8 ...to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time...
    SL 2.138 3 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    SL 2.141 23 By doing his work [a man] makes the need felt which he can supply...
    Fdsp 2.191 15 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    OS 2.275 18 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    OS 2.278 13 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
    Pt1 3.30 17 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition;...
    Exp 3.56 1 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    Exp 3.71 21 ...every insight from this realm of thought is felt as initial...
    Exp 3.74 13 ...I am felt without acting...
    Exp 3.77 13 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt;...
    Chr1 3.89 2 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
    Mrs1 3.121 12 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.125 21 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which...makes itself felt by men of all classes.
    Mrs1 3.143 17 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Nat2 3.192 10 This disappointment is felt in every landscape.
    NR 3.248 25 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.269 9 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NER 3.275 18 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    PPh 4.41 4 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
    SwM 4.145 25 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    ShP 4.197 8 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps; of Chaucer, of Saadi. They felt that all wit was their wit.
    NMW 4.226 25 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    NMW 4.236 27 [Napoleon] felt, with every wise man, that as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
    NMW 4.242 2 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...
    NMW 4.243 12 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...
    NMW 4.244 11 If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET2 5.33 7 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt.
    ET3 5.40 4 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    ET9 5.151 11 ...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.
    ET10 5.158 26 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these interruptions [of labor]...
    ET10 5.164 9 [English property] is felt and treated as the national life-blood.
    ET13 5.215 15 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe...
    ET15 5.263 9 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper. No power in England is more felt, more feared, or more obeyed.
    ET19 5.310 21 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    F 6.5 21 [The Calvinists] felt that the weight of the Universe held them down to their place.
    F 6.45 1 [The great man's] mind is righter than others because he yields to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised.
    Wth 6.105 10 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
    Bhr 6.189 7 ...what is done for love is felt to be done for love.
    Wsp 6.226 4 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
    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.
    Bty 6.283 9 ...a right and perfect man would be felt to the centre of the Copernican system.
    Ill 6.316 10 ...the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
    Ill 6.317 10 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
    Civ 7.29 7 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
    Art2 7.46 18 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    Elo1 7.73 13 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.79 18 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go...
    Elo1 7.81 21 [Personal ascendency] is as surely felt as a mountain or a planet;...
    Elo1 7.98 4 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments; their majesty is felt by the most obdurate.
    Clbs 7.237 4 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is felt by the frivolous.
    Cour 7.265 16 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt...
    Cour 7.265 19 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
    PI 8.22 27 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    Elo2 8.124 21 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy.
    Elo2 8.132 8 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    PC 8.221 2 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt in navigation, in agriculture...
    PPo 8.242 17 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
    Imtl 8.347 24 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.
    Chr2 10.106 5 In Holland, in England, in Scotland, [Christianity] felt the national narrowness.
    Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.
    Prch 10.233 16 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    LLNE 10.332 18 All [Everett's] auditors felt the extreme beauty and dignity of the manner...
    LLNE 10.337 16 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...felt connection where the professors denied it...
    LLNE 10.351 23 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...the indignation they felt and uttered in the presence of so much social misery, commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.361 21 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm], which, I was assured, were always felt.
    CSC 10.373 23 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    MMEm 10.405 2 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.
    MMEm 10.412 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt.
    MMEm 10.414 3 ...[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...
    MMEm 10.414 22 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...
    MMEm 10.416 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;...
    MMEm 10.428 6 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
    MMEm 10.432 8 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of...
    Thor 10.467 5 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart...
    Thor 10.471 24 [Thoreau] confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther...
    Thor 10.473 9 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority.
    LS 11.19 15 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty, wherever it is felt, to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    HDC 11.39 7 As the season grew later, [the settlers of Concord] felt its inconveniences.
    HDC 11.48 5 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
    LVB 11.90 1 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].
    EWI 11.110 5 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EWI 11.139 17 A man is to make himself felt by his proper force.
    EWI 11.146 14 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    War 11.169 6 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose influence is felt to the end of the earth;...
    FSLC 11.203 4 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
    FSLC 11.214 4 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.229 25 ...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice, and, with every degree of civility, it will be more truly felt and defined.
    SMC 11.348 1 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/
    SMC 11.348 9 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/
    FRO1 11.477 1 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this morning, that I had come into the right hall.
    FRO1 11.477 14 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    CPL 11.499 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    II 12.87 24 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    Mem 12.102 17 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    CInt 12.128 23 If your college and your literature are not felt, it is because the truth is not in them.
    CL 12.155 6 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden.
    CL 12.155 22 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    CW 12.170 11 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/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/...
    Bost 12.200 23 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side, which is most felt by the drilled and scholastic...
    MAng1 12.218 6 Beauty may be felt. It may be produced. But it cannot be defined.
    Milt1 12.267 24 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school. Milton, wiser, felt no absurdity in this conduct.
    Milt1 12.268 3 [Milton] felt the heats of that love which esteems no office mean.
    Milt1 12.269 22 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language.
    MLit 12.320 22 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine, we felt the awe of mountains...
    MLit 12.323 24 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.
    MLit 12.333 2 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    AgMs 12.360 6 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...
    EurB 12.368 27 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age...
    EurB 12.369 21 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation.
    EurB 12.370 9 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth;...
    PPr 12.383 23 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts. Hence that necessity of isolation which genius has always felt.
    PPr 12.386 4 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of the picture.
    Let 12.396 15 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...

female, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.45 20 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female;...
    Lov1 2.181 15 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    SwM 4.108 26 In the brain are male and female faculties;...
    ET14 5.235 9 Mixture is a secret of the English island; in their dialect, the male principle is the Saxon, the female, the Latin;...
    Pow 6.67 10 [Boniface] introduced all the fiends, male and female, into the town...
    Chr2 10.114 14 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no female slaves...
    Edc1 10.157 10 Sympathy, the female force, which they must use who have not the first [will, the male power]...is more subtle and lasting and creative.
    CSC 10.375 19 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    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...
    Wom 11.410 7 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...

female, n. (2)

    Comp 2.96 19 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in male and female;...
    Chr1 3.97 5 Everything in nature...has a positive and a negative pole. There is a male and a female...

females, n. (1)

    EWI 11.111 13 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the eyes of the females;...

feminine, adj. (4)

    SR 2.56 16 ...when to [the cultivated classes'] feminine rage the indignation of the people is added...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SwM 4.127 18 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal, and not local; virility in the male qualifying every organ, act, and thought; and the feminine in woman.
    PPo 8.252 19 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes with feminine delicacy.
    Chr2 10.121 23 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.

fen, n. (1)

    ET11 5.180 12 ...[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.

fence, n. (15)

    Hist 2.39 22 ...see the lizard on the fence...
    UGM 4.33 7 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region...wherein all touch by their summits. Thought and feeling that break out there cannot be impounded by any fence of personality.
    ET9 5.151 17 There is no fence in metaphysics discriminating Greek, or English, or Spanish science.
    Farm 7.146 22 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements; for instance, the powers of a fence.
    Farm 7.147 5 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
    Cour 7.260 16 An old farmer, my neighbor across the fence, when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
    SA 8.101 22 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    PPo 8.248 26 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.
    SovE 10.197 21 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?
    Thor 10.453 5 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as building a boat or a fence...
    HDC 11.49 14 ...in every stone fence...[the people of Concord] read their own power...
    SMC 11.357 13 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...
    EdAd 11.387 10 ...the grape on two sides of the same fence has new flavors;...
    CL 12.145 13 Look over the fence at the farmer who stands there.
    CL 12.146 22 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide distance from any population is fence enough: the fence is a mile wide.

fence, v. (2)

    LT 1.275 3 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men, to use and not to fence in and monopolize.
    SovE 10.190 12 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.

fenced, v. (7)

    Prd1 2.225 9 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties...
    Mrs1 3.135 24 ...Napoleon...fenced himself with etiquette and within triple barriers of reserve;...
    Pow 6.58 26 A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled...
    SS 7.1 10 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony/...
    Boks 7.190 19 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were...fenced by etiquette;...
    Edc1 10.128 5 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties...
    Let 12.403 11 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over...

fences, n. (9)

    Hist 2.9 7 No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to keep a fact a fact.
    Mrs1 3.127 1 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences disappear...
    NMW 4.258 21 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences...it will be mocked by delusions.
    ET10 5.164 22 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.
    SS 7.15 4 What to do with these brisk young men who break through all fences...
    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...
    DL 7.112 20 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.
    QO 8.187 24 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    Schr 10.271 4 Will [wealth] build its fences very high...

fencing, v. (2)

    ET8 5.132 11 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
    Ctr 6.143 24 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power...

fend, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.203 1 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments...
    LLNE 10.356 7 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    Koss 11.396 8 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./

fended, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.197 20 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./

Fenelon, Francois de La Mo [Fenelon,] (3)

    MoS 4.150 12 Plotinus believes only in philosophers; Fenelon, in saints;...
    Milt1 12.255 22 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head-not in Rousseau, not in Pascal, not in Fenelon-into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
    Milt1 12.257 4 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal, like...the Telemachus of Fenelon...

Fenelon, Francois de Salign (1)

    Bost 12.195 1 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion.

Fenelon, Francois de Salign (2)

    SovE 10.203 20 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe-St. Augustine, and Thomas a Kempis, and Fenelon;...
    Prch 10.227 19 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you.

Fenelon, Francois...de La (2)

    Wsp 6.204 9 The decline of the influence...of Fenelon...need give us no uneasiness.
    Imtl 8.346 27 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon?

Fenris Wolf, n. (1)

    F 6.20 19 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf...

Fenris-wolf, n. (1)

    ET10 5.161 22 The telegraph is a limp band that will hold the Fenris-wolf of war.

fens, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 12 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.

Fenton, Geoffrey, n. (1)

    WSL 12.342 1 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame... to Creech and Fenton...

Ferdinand V, of Castile, n. (1)

    Suc 7.285 14 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.

fere, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 11 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...

Ferguson, Adam, n. (1)

    Boks 7.204 24 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.

Ferguson, James, n. (1)

    Hist 2.10 12 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.

Ferideddin Attar, n. (1)

    PPo 8.263 15 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale...

ferment, n. (3)

    OA 7.328 2 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
    PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...
    ALin 11.334 27 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets; the nation has been in such ferment, such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept.

ferment, v. (1)

    NER 3.252 20 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment.

fermentation, n. (5)

    NER 3.252 13 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These... were foes to the death to fermentation.
    NER 3.252 15 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation;...
    NER 3.252 16 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain...
    Pow 6.60 19 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
    Elo2 8.131 19 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other, by what he calls zymosis, i.e. fermentation;...

fermentations, n. (1)

    Wth 6.126 12 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations...

fermented, v. (1)

    ET13 5.215 16 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe...

fern, n. (3)

    GoW 4.261 13 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
    HDC 11.33 16 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.
    CL 12.149 21 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...hemlock bark for his roof, hair-moss or fern for his bed.

ferne, adj. (1)

    CL 12.136 11 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

ferns, n. (6)

    Hist 2.20 27 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns...
    Nat2 3.182 1 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated: the maples and ferns are still uncorrupt;...
    Wth 6.83 26 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
    Res 8.152 24 Among fossil remains, the willow and the pine appear with the ferns.
    Thor 10.483 10 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
    EurB 12.371 25 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck...with ferns and pond-lilies which the children have gathered.

Fero, v. (1)

    ACri 12.292 15 Never use the word development, and be wary of the whole family of Fero.

ferocious, adj. (2)

    Pol1 3.211 3 In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds itself cherished;...
    ET4 5.60 25 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates.

ferocity, n. (14)

    Hsm1 2.249 13 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    SwM 4.145 16 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    MoS 4.177 10 We have too little power of resistance against this ferocity which champs us up.
    ET4 5.63 25 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET4 5.69 1 ...the animal ferocity of the quays and cockpits...[the English] know how to wake up.
    ET8 5.134 25 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET8 5.136 24 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement.
    F 6.8 9 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Pow 6.65 26 In trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity.
    Bhr 6.181 7 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
    CbW 6.254 12 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the ferocity of the Russian czars;...
    SovE 10.188 14 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus raises virtue piecemeal. When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;...
    LLNE 10.363 11 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life;...hating intellect with the ferocity of a Swedenborg.
    War 11.159 8 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...

Ferrara, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.225 7 ...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately from the city [Florence] to Ferrara...

ferret, v. (1)

    MoS 4.173 13 I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of their holes and sun them a little.

Ferrex and Porrex [Thomas (1)

    ShP 4.201 19 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...from Ferrex and Porrex, and Gammer Gurton's Needle, down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

ferried, v. (1)

    F 6.16 25 [The Germans and Irish] are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America...

ferries, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.34 17 ...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance...

ferries, v. (1)

    SwM 4.133 20 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...

Ferry, Harper's, Invasion, (1)

    GSt 10.504 5 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

Ferry, Harper's, West Virg (1)

    JBB 11.267 9 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.

ferry, n. (1)

    HDC 11.32 20 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...

ferry, v. (1)

    PPo 8.247 1 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./

fertile, adj. (20)

    LT 1.289 22 The granite is curiously concealed...under fertile soils, and grasses, and flowers....
    Exp 3.47 2 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    NER 3.253 16 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    UGM 4.7 15 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic...
    SwM 4.105 14 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty, even in a highly fertile genius, of proving originality...
    ET10 5.166 20 The English are so rich...because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    Civ 7.34 18 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free;...
    Farm 7.135 11 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime/...
    Boks 7.198 24 Every new crop in the fertile harvest of reform...is there [in Plato].
    Cour 7.255 12 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then it is serene and fertile...
    SA 8.96 7 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.
    QO 8.202 5 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    QO 8.204 14 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    Insp 8.280 17 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes...with hope, courage, fertile in resources...
    Edc1 10.138 11 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still; such are able and fertile for heroic action;...
    LLNE 10.358 16 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    MMEm 10.403 17 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display...
    ALin 11.335 12 There, by...his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, [Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    PLT 12.24 27 Increase [the plant's] food and it becomes fertile.
    Milt1 12.269 3 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].

fertility, n. (9)

    MR 1.239 12 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    SL 2.138 3 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    NER 3.252 6 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert unprofitable. What a fertility of projects for the salvation of the world!
    ET14 5.243 10 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    PI 8.65 10 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    Res 8.143 27 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    Res 8.148 26 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect...that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times...
    ALin 11.335 9 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
    SMC 11.359 22 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...great fertility of resource...

fertilizers, n. (1)

    SovE 10.188 18 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers...

fertilizing, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.288 26 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they took notes...

ferules, n. (1)

    AmS 1.97 4 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...

fervent, adj. (4)

    OS 2.287 11 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Elo2 8.110 3 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    QO 8.194 15 We read the quotation with [the writer's] eyes, and find a new and fervent sense;...
    Milt1 12.262 6 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...

fervid, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.189 3 Days and nights of fervid life...have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    ET8 5.129 19 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].

fervor, n. (1)

    Hist 2.29 22 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?

festal, adj. (8)

    Hist 2.20 11 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade;...
    Fdsp 2.201 23 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day.
    ShP 4.216 15 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
    GoW 4.273 11 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity, as to solemn and festal performances.
    Bty 6.291 21 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    WD 7.179 15 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    Insp 8.287 21 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has...festal notes ringing out all measures of loftiness.
    Schr 10.262 17 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...the cheerful festal principle...comes in and puts a new face on the world.

festival, n. (19)

    Nat 1.9 27 Within these plantations of God...a perennial festival is dressed...
    LE 1.155 5 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    MN 1.195 9 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
    Hsm1 2.248 27 Life is a festival only to the wise.
    Art1 2.349 10 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Chr1 3.111 19 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    Mrs1 3.140 8 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival...
    Nat2 3.173 9 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    ET7 5.120 15 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal...I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET7 5.120 21 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET11 5.178 17 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    DL 7.129 9 ...when men shall meet as they should...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    OA 7.315 16 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    Res 8.148 10 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...
    LS 11.7 14 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    LS 11.7 23 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation, beyond the abolition of the festival he was celebrating...
    LS 11.8 20 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    EWI 11.120 12 The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
    RBur 11.439 18 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.

festivals, n. (4)

    ET13 5.216 13 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    DL 7.124 19 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    LS 11.13 8 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals...
    War 11.152 11 Not only every tribe has war-gods, religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.

festive, adj. (5)

    Mrs1 3.124 8 The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage...
    NER 3.256 4 The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
    ET11 5.186 24 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    WD 7.169 8 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    CL 12.137 4 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...

festivities, n. (1)

    Art1 2.365 6 Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

festivity, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.128 17 The class of power, the working heroes...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    Nat2 3.192 17 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.
    DL 7.117 18 [A house] is not for festivity, it is not for sleep...

festoons, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.196 25 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science, though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short.
    Hsm1 2.243 4 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons/...

festoons, v. (1)

    MN 1.201 16 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life, which...festoons the globe with a garland of grasses and vines.

Festus [Philip James Baile (1)

    MoL 10.245 3 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust,-of which the Festus of Bailey and the Paracelsus of Browning are English variations.

Festus-like, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.377 23 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm,-Festus-like, Faust-like, Jove-like...

fetch, n. (1)

    MN 1.202 9 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.

fetch, v. (7)

    Nat2 3.177 4 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes...to fetch a plant or a mineral from a remote locality...
    NR 3.237 9 We fetch fire and water...
    F 6.48 16 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...
    Pow 6.60 16 We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.
    CbW 6.244 2 Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and virtues here/...
    PLT 12.48 2 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it...
    CInt 12.112 11 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

fetched, v. (1)

    Boks 7.198 17 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it, and with some harp-strings fetched from a higher heaven.

fetches, v. (1)

    MoL 10.251 15 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do.

fetching, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.131 21 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away moon, and planet...by comprehending their relation and law.

fete, n. (1)

    SwM 4.142 9 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is a fete champetre...

fetish, n. (1)

    AmS 1.102 17 ...some fetish of a government...is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...

fetishes, n. (1)

    WD 7.169 17 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth, whilst the savage scrawls it with fetishes,--the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.

fetter, v. (1)

    Wth 6.114 20 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days...

fettering, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.6 26 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog]...should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization.

fetters, n. (3)

    F 6.15 12 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like...skates, which are wings on the ice but fetters on the ground.
    Dem1 10.8 15 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams]...
    MMEm 10.415 2 Oh, if there be a power superior to me,-and that there is, my own dread fetters proclaim,-when will He let my lights go out...

feud, n. (1)

    Comp 2.91 6 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have./

feudal, adj. (26)

    LE 1.156 21 Men looked, when all feudal straps and bandages were snapped asunder, that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    YA 1.385 25 We have feudal governments in a commercial age.
    YA 1.395 1 ...Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.
    Mrs1 3.123 11 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
    Mrs1 3.134 19 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Pol1 3.211 7 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
    NMW 4.242 18 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    ET4 5.55 13 [The Celts] had no violent feudal tenure...
    ET5 5.75 18 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual, that a feudal or military tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war.
    ET11 5.172 1 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET11 5.175 6 ...I make no doubt that feudal tenure was no sinecure...
    ET15 5.261 4 In England, [the power of the newspaper] stands in antagonism with the feudal institutions...
    ET18 5.306 11 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...
    ET18 5.306 22 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.
    Wth 6.99 8 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Bhr 6.176 13 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of the Old World, has some reason in common experience.
    Clbs 7.242 24 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.
    PI 8.34 19 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the feudal castle...
    Dem1 10.22 1 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    LLNE 10.328 7 The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have power of life and death over the churls...
    War 11.161 20 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence...of liberal governments over feudal forms.
    War 11.172 16 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the feudal baron, the French, the English nobility...
    War 11.175 22 ...not in feudal Europe...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    Scot 11.462 6 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so reanimated the well-nigh obsolete feudal history...of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    FRep 11.528 18 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent...
    CInt 12.128 25 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic, where is the feudal, or the Saracenic, or Egyptian architecture?...you expose your atheism.

Feudal Institution, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 5 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.

feudalism, n. (1)

    FRep 11.514 26 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society.

Feudalism, n. (6)

    LE 1.179 10 Feudalism and Orientalism had long enough thought it majestic to do nothing;...
    YA 1.376 17 ...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally destroys.
    YA 1.377 4 Feudalism grew to be a bandit and brigand.
    YA 1.377 17 Feudalism had been good...
    YA 1.378 4 Feudalism is not ended yet.
    YA 1.378 21 ...the historian will see that...trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism;...

feuds, n. (1)

    GoW 4.285 18 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.

feuilletons, n. (1)

    ET8 5.127 14 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who, from Froissart, Voltaire, Le Sage, Mirabeau, down to the lively journalists of the feuilletons, have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.

fever, n. (14)

    Comp 2.126 9 A fever...seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    Lov1 2.176 10 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the moonlight was a pleasing fever...
    Cir 2.319 6 ...old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. We call it by many names,--fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime;...
    Int 2.339 10 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    ET8 5.127 20 [The Englishman's] hilarity is like an attack of fever.
    F 6.7 24 Our western prairie shakes with fever and ague.
    F 6.41 22 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...fever...
    Farm 7.151 23 ...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills;...
    Suc 7.286 4 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
    Aris 10.38 5 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them.
    AsSu 11.247 13 In [the slave state], life is a fever;...
    ACiv 11.305 9 Then comes the summer, and the fever will drive the soldiers home;...
    II 12.85 10 A new constitution, a new fever, say the physicians.
    Trag 12.408 25 After we have enumerated famine, fever, inaptitude...we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

fever-glow, n. (1)

    Tran 1.353 2 I wish to exchange...this fever-glow for a benign climate.

feverish, adj. (3)

    MMEm 10.413 21 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    MMEm 10.414 16 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine...anxious, and wrapped in others, frail and feverish as myself.
    SHC 11.428 9 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...

feverishness, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.414 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.

fevers, n. (4)

    Comp 2.98 5 The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.
    Wsp 6.208 9 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.
    CbW 6.254 25 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes...the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting.
    DL 7.107 26 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain your misfortunes, your fevers... and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?

few, adj. (423)

    Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.
    Nat 1.17 11 How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!
    Nat 1.27 22 These [analogies] are not the dreams of a few poets...
    Nat 1.51 23 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Nat 1.54 2 I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.
    Nat 1.57 5 As objects of science [ideas] are accessible to few men.
    Nat 1.65 13 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants...
    AmS 1.101 3 ...[the scholar]...watching days and months sometimes for a few facts;...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    DSA 1.141 11 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers...
    DSA 1.146 25 ...all men value the few real hours of life;...
    DSA 1.147 1 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    LE 1.156 2 The few scholars in each country...seem to me not individuals but societies;...
    LE 1.168 1 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets, and repeated idly these few glimpses in their song.
    LE 1.170 25 As in poetry and history, so in the other departments. There are few masters or none.
    LE 1.175 18 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of... theatres, can teach you no more than a few can.
    MN 1.196 20 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months.
    MR 1.231 14 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
    MR 1.247 2 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...
    MR 1.247 7 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few...
    MR 1.251 6 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who, in a few years...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
    MR 1.255 22 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person,-such as we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world;...
    LT 1.260 19 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth, and all, or all but a few, bow before it when they are old.
    LT 1.261 20 We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women.
    LT 1.267 7 ...only a few are the fixed stars which have no parallax, or none for us.
    LT 1.287 3 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
    Con 1.308 8 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, before I suffer you, on the faith of a few fine words, to ride into my estate, and claim to scatter it as your own.
    Con 1.315 6 ...the cabins of the peasants and the castles of the lords supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.
    Tran 1.345 15 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?
    Tran 1.349 12 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
    Tran 1.349 12 Few persons have any magnificence of nature to inspire enthusiasm...
    Tran 1.354 12 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    Tran 1.358 11 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments...
    Tran 1.358 14 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    Tran 1.359 17 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    YA 1.368 6 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;...
    Hist 2.13 3 ...why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Hist 2.15 23 Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
    SR 2.53 15 Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am...
    SR 2.55 8 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.61 21 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    SR 2.67 25 We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts...
    SR 2.67 26 We shall not always set so great a price...on a few lives.
    SR 2.86 24 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    SL 2.132 26 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
    SL 2.144 22 A few anecdotes...have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    SL 2.144 23 ...a few traits of character, manners, face...have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    SL 2.144 24 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    SL 2.154 22 There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato,--never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons...
    SL 2.155 16 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature;...
    SL 2.158 3 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Prd1 2.235 10 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Hsm1 2.247 22 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    OS 2.291 6 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    OS 2.295 26 We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
    Int 2.326 21 The intellect...reduces all things into a few principles.
    Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
    Int 2.340 2 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
    Int 2.341 14 ...it is given to few men to be poets...
    Int 2.346 2 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers]...
    Art1 2.356 18 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Pt1 3.18 11 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use.
    Pt1 3.19 15 The spiritual fact remains unalterable, by many or by few particulars;...
    Pt1 3.28 15 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence; all but the few who received the true nectar;...
    Pt1 3.33 11 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.
    Pt1 3.34 6 The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
    Pt1 3.38 23 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them;...
    Exp 3.47 17 ...the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    Exp 3.47 20 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas and of very few original tales;...
    Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
    Exp 3.47 25 There are even few opinions...
    Exp 3.50 15 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism.
    Exp 3.59 6 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
    Chr1 3.89 12 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    Chr1 3.100 23 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few.
    Chr1 3.108 17 Character...must not...be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
    Chr1 3.109 1 How easily we read in old books, when men were few, of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
    Chr1 3.112 4 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes...
    Mrs1 3.121 2 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.136 18 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Mrs1 3.141 26 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    Mrs1 3.153 4 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely.
    Mrs1 3.153 27 Are you...rich enough to make...the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Nat2 3.181 13 ...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature] gives him a petty omnipresence.
    Pol1 3.216 22 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    NR 3.225 11 ...how few particulars of [the genius of the Platonists] can I detach from all their books.
    NR 3.240 6 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    NR 3.241 14 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    NR 3.247 14 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.260 3 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    NER 3.271 27 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look...
    NER 3.279 21 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    NER 3.284 16 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter...
    UGM 4.9 19 ...how few materials are yet used by our arts!
    UGM 4.20 5 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    UGM 4.25 10 We are all wise in capacity, though so few in energy.
    UGM 4.30 24 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;...
    UGM 4.34 14 Happy, if a few names remain so high that we have not been able to read them nearer...
    PPh 4.72 19 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live on a few olives;...
    PNR 4.80 5 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    SwM 4.112 22 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg]...
    SwM 4.133 17 All [Swedenborg's] types mean the same few things.
    ShP 4.193 18 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers.
    ShP 4.202 26 Ben Jonson, though we have strained his few words of regard and panegyric, had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ShP 4.205 2 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    ShP 4.212 12 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    NMW 4.233 6 Few men have any next;...
    NMW 4.237 24 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage, and that he had met with few persons equal to himself in this respect.
    GoW 4.279 19 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn, and with such few strokes..that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    GoW 4.286 16 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;--few dates...
    GoW 4.290 3 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by a few elements, but by the highest complexity.
    ET1 5.3 5 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; there were few people in the streets...
    ET1 5.5 11 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons...
    ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET1 5.15 20 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle];...
    ET1 5.22 15 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET1 5.23 8 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    ET2 5.29 22 ...the registered observations of a few hundred years find [the land] in a perpetual tilt...
    ET2 5.32 9 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few...
    ET3 5.37 11 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years;...
    ET4 5.65 27 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky... few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
    ET5 5.90 6 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons...
    ET5 5.100 27 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability, not amassed on a few giants, but poured into the general mind...
    ET6 5.108 6 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    ET6 5.108 8 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    ET8 5.128 6 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of demeanor and their few words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
    ET8 5.133 26 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
    ET10 5.159 9 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
    ET11 5.173 10 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET11 5.176 9 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
    ET11 5.181 14 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand...the encroachment of streets.
    ET11 5.181 22 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.
    ET11 5.184 19 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET11 5.184 20 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET11 5.184 26 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET12 5.199 8 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see...the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges [at Cambridge], and a few of its gownsmen.
    ET12 5.206 9 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    ET14 5.241 14 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...
    ET14 5.243 27 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
    ET14 5.250 5 The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few categories;...
    ET14 5.256 15 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET15 5.264 23 ...a daily paper can only be new and seasonable for a few hours.
    ET16 5.273 12 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    ET16 5.276 15 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows...and a few hayricks.
    ET16 5.276 17 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    ET17 5.291 8 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
    ET17 5.297 21 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    ET18 5.301 1 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    ET18 5.303 1 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what clerks and scholars! No one man and no few men can represent them.
    ET19 5.309 1 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
    F 6.3 1 It chanced during one winter a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
    F 6.7 20 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    F 6.39 20 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
    F 6.44 20 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first, but all will announce it a few minutes later.
    F 6.46 23 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    Pow 6.73 19 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is...concentrating our force on one or a few points;....
    Wth 6.88 21 ...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making his wants few...
    Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford...
    Wth 6.93 20 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it.
    Wth 6.94 5 Is party the madness of many for the gain of a few?
    Wth 6.94 6 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world.
    Wth 6.97 27 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.
    Wth 6.98 3 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Wth 6.99 13 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wth 6.100 2 Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well.
    Wth 6.102 17 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    Wth 6.111 10 There are few measures of economy which will bear to be named without disgust;...
    Wth 6.116 6 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and drivelling.
    Ctr 6.135 16 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Ctr 6.135 27 Have you seen a few lawyers, merchants and brokers...
    Ctr 6.165 14 Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men.
    Bhr 6.181 22 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
    Wsp 6.221 21 ...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Wsp 6.233 16 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners... In a few minutes a cannon-ball fell on the spot, and the gentleman was killed.
    CbW 6.245 14 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    CbW 6.247 8 Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or dissolve friendship.
    CbW 6.251 16 All the feats which make our civility were the thoughts of a few good heads.
    CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    CbW 6.272 26 What questions we ask of [a friend]! what an understanding we have! how few words are needed!
    CbW 6.273 5 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...
    CbW 6.274 14 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few people at convenient distance...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    CbW 6.275 27 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
    CbW 6.278 16 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...
    CbW 6.278 19 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...
    Bty 6.289 8 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities.
    Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    Bty 6.302 19 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Ill 6.313 17 Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret.
    SS 7.5 27 Few substances are found pure in nature.
    Art2 7.42 20 ...in our handiwork, we do few things by muscular force...
    Elo1 7.72 15 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly,--few but very sweet words...
    Elo1 7.75 21 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    DL 7.111 24 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women...
    DL 7.114 17 Few have wealth, but all must have a home.
    DL 7.116 22 Another age may...make the labors of a few hours avail to the wants and add to the vigor of the man.
    DL 7.117 8 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    Farm 7.146 21 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements;...
    WD 7.155 9 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven...
    Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after...alighting upon a few true [books] which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Boks 7.193 4 There are books; and it is practicable to read them, because they are so few.
    Boks 7.193 26 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    Boks 7.194 4 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Boks 7.198 1 ...in these days, when it is found that what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
    Boks 7.203 3 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists].
    Boks 7.211 19 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
    Boks 7.211 27 ...one cannot afford to read for a few sentences;...
    Boks 7.212 24 The man asks for a novel,--that is, asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
    Boks 7.220 7 ...these ejaculations of the soul are uttered one or a few at a time...
    Boks 7.220 10 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us...
    Clbs 7.224 1 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    Clbs 7.246 12 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Clbs 7.249 8 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Cour 7.269 11 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...
    Suc 7.295 1 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    Suc 7.296 6 We assume that there are few great men, all the rest are little;...
    OA 7.317 16 ...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, speaks articulately to those who discover him...
    OA 7.318 2 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.
    OA 7.318 3 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!
    OA 7.320 10 Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
    OA 7.329 13 The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells.
    OA 7.329 14 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty.
    PI 8.18 6 The thoughts are few, the forms many;...
    PI 8.38 17 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    PI 8.53 4 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    PI 8.65 17 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles!
    PI 8.73 2 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words...
    PI 8.74 22 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought, as easily as men did when arts were few;...
    SA 8.79 21 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    SA 8.80 3 ...a few natures are central and forever unfold...
    SA 8.89 9 Welfare requires...persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day...
    SA 8.89 20 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    Elo2 8.119 3 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do.
    Elo2 8.128 24 A few bruises and scratches will do [a boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.
    Res 8.143 22 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their few masters bought...
    Res 8.151 3 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars...cannot satisfy.
    Comc 8.158 4 With the trifling exception of the stratagems of a few beasts and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.
    QO 8.179 23 How few thoughts!
    QO 8.185 4 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    PC 8.216 23 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few;...
    PC 8.219 14 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    PC 8.226 3 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.
    PPo 8.238 5 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...
    PPo 8.239 12 The Persians and the Arabs, with great leisure and few books, are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
    PPo 8.240 9 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    PPo 8.248 8 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    PPo 8.261 15 We add to these fragments of Hafiz a few specimens from other poets.
    Insp 8.269 22 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar...but it is only for a few days.
    Insp 8.279 24 How many sources of inspiration can we count? As many as our affinities. But to a practical purpose we may reckon a few of these.
    Insp 8.284 16 The fine influences of the morning few can explain, but all will admit.
    Insp 8.294 2 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Insp 8.294 4 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is not at last a few individuals, or any scared heroes...
    Grts 8.308 18 This necessity...of speaking your private thought and experience, few young men apprehend.
    Grts 8.311 11 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous.
    Imtl 8.333 24 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Imtl 8.335 1 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias, a few of which will span the whole history of mankind;...
    Imtl 8.346 22 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime. And hence the fact that in the minds of men the testimony of a few inspired souls has had such weight and penetration.
    Dem1 10.10 2 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints...
    Aris 10.32 20 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few, so heedless of badges... that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Aris 10.35 25 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Aris 10.58 3 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure; in these few words is the definition of pleasure and pain.
    PerF 10.71 11 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...
    PerF 10.77 6 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    Chr2 10.99 16 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man. It is partial at first, and honors only some one or some few truths.
    Chr2 10.116 18 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    Edc1 10.126 22 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
    Edc1 10.150 11 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses...
    Edc1 10.150 13 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses: and the teaching comes to be arranged for these many, and not for those few.
    Supl 10.173 25 Gardens of roses must be stripped to make a few drops of otto.
    MoL 10.248 11 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over: a few summers, and they smile with plenty...
    MoL 10.255 6 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    Schr 10.277 16 I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.
    Schr 10.282 20 ...it is the end of eloquence...perhaps in a few sentences,- to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Schr 10.287 26 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave a few flowers...
    Plu 10.305 1 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons.
    Plu 10.322 9 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    Plu 10.322 14 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome, and not a few leaders only, we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    LLNE 10.327 23 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    LLNE 10.361 1 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main of young people-few of middle age, and none old.
    LLNE 10.361 19 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.366 10 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it not, and it of course fell to be done by the few religious workers.
    LLNE 10.368 12 Few people can live together on their merits.
    LLNE 10.369 17 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest...
    CSC 10.373 5 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers, signed by a few individuals...
    EzRy 10.383 10 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
    MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
    MMEm 10.417 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
    MMEm 10.418 23 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars?
    MMEm 10.421 22 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means; a few pulsations of created beings...
    MMEm 10.421 23 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...a few successions of acts...
    MMEm 10.421 23 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time...
    MMEm 10.423 15 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    SlHr 10.443 1 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    SlHr 10.447 16 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is always a few more of the class remaining...
    SlHr 10.447 17 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is...always a few young men to whom these manners are native.
    Thor 10.453 7 With his hardy habits and few wants...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations.
    Thor 10.455 16 [Thoreau] chose to be rich by making his wants few...
    Thor 10.457 7 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons.
    Thor 10.472 20 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
    Thor 10.474 2 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
    Thor 10.478 8 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    Thor 10.482 6 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts...
    Carl 10.498 2 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society,-a very few houses only in the high circles being ever opened to them,-[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    GSt 10.503 18 ...there are few men with real or supposed influence, North or South, with whom [George Stearns] has not at some time communicated.
    LS 11.13 26 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.
    LS 11.16 22 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    LS 11.23 16 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    HDC 11.29 4 ...the people of New England, for a few years past, as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.29 23 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.41 14 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges, and they seem to have fallen heavily on the few wealthy planters.
    HDC 11.48 13 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    HDC 11.58 5 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.
    HDC 11.59 16 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    HDC 11.62 7 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.
    HDC 11.68 5 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord]. I must content myself with a few brief extracts.
    HDC 11.72 12 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the people. Sixty men enlisted and, in a few days, many more.
    HDC 11.77 21 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
    HDC 11.78 2 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga, and died, after a few months, of the distemper that prevailed in the camp.
    LVB 11.89 13 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    EWI 11.115 14 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
    EWI 11.116 21 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.
    EWI 11.122 15 [Our] well-being consists in having...the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
    EWI 11.124 1 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
    EWI 11.129 10 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    War 11.151 4 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind, the communication of it to a few...
    War 11.168 9 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would soon butcher the good.
    War 11.172 24 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    War 11.176 3 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...here, where not a family, not a few men, but mankind, shall say what shall be;...
    FSLC 11.186 18 ...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.
    FSLC 11.187 8 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching. The precedents are few.
    FSLC 11.190 6 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    FSLC 11.190 8 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    FSLC 11.196 15 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.
    FSLC 11.206 22 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do?
    FSLN 11.241 22 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    AsSu 11.247 3 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    AKan 11.258 26 In this country for the last few years the government has been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
    AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago...had the best government that ever existed.
    AKan 11.262 9 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    AKan 11.263 1 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were united...
    JBS 11.277 12 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let [John Brown] speak for himself.
    TPar 11.286 8 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    TPar 11.288 6 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.
    TPar 11.289 9 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth, when that was peremptory and when there were few to say it.
    TPar 11.292 24 We have few such men [as Theodore Parker] to lose;...
    ACiv 11.299 3 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.301 24 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.
    ALin 11.333 19 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
    SMC 11.350 15 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    SMC 11.350 16 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite...
    SMC 11.357 12 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...
    SMC 11.365 20 The three months of the enlistment expired a few days after the battle [of Bull Run].
    SMC 11.371 6 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    SMC 11.373 18 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    EdAd 11.393 3 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    Wom 11.424 8 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    SHC 11.429 14 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words...
    SHC 11.430 16 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles...
    SHC 11.434 7 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    RBur 11.441 20 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...knowing so few and finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
    Shak1 11.447 7 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    Shak1 11.449 25 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    Shak1 11.452 12 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...
    Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
    FRO2 11.485 8 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...
    CPL 11.501 14 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons...
    CPL 11.503 17 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    CPL 11.506 3 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me.
    FRep 11.512 17 Our modern wealth stands on a few staples...
    FRep 11.521 8 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
    PLT 12.7 5 ...these questions which really interest men, how few can answer.
    PLT 12.20 27 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...
    PLT 12.32 11 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
    PLT 12.32 20 The air rings with sounds, but only a few vibrations can reach our tympanum.
    PLT 12.15 26 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock, and raises a few individuals, or only a pair.
    II 12.67 11 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    II 12.80 21 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains.
    Mem 12.100 1 An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a few facts;...
    Mem 12.104 13 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
    CInt 12.117 11 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands...
    CInt 12.121 15 The whole battle is fought in a few heads.
    CInt 12.125 11 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
    CInt 12.125 17 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CInt 12.130 1 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CL 12.142 8 Few men know how to take a walk.
    CL 12.143 16 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    CL 12.145 17 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
    CL 12.155 7 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned.
    CL 12.158 19 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk...
    CL 12.158 21 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk, and it is certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of the few.
    CL 12.163 7 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    CL 12.164 19 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
    CL 12.166 9 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one.
    Bost 12.190 13 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.
    Bost 12.199 3 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    MAng1 12.215 1 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious;...
    MAng1 12.215 2 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
    Milt1 12.250 4 Only its general aim, and a few elevated passages, can save [Milton's Defence of the English People].
    Milt1 12.254 14 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.255 9 Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak few and faint words.
    Milt1 12.266 5 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...
    ACri 12.283 8 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.321 4 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    MLit 12.327 12 In these days and in this country, where the scholars are few and idle...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    WSL 12.343 20 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
    WSL 12.345 6 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt.
    WSL 12.345 7 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt.
    WSL 12.345 11 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
    WSL 12.348 8 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.350 18 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer]...
    Pray 12.355 24 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    Pray 12.356 5 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
    AgMs 12.360 17 ...it was by accident that this volume [the Agricultural Survey] came into [Edmund Hosmer's] hands for a few days.
    PPr 12.379 14 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...
    PPr 12.389 26 We have in literature few specimens of magnificence.
    Let 12.398 5 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides...
    Trag 12.410 23 Few are capable of love.
    Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few;...
    Trag 12.412 17 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few;...

fewer, adj. (3)

    Pol1 3.215 21 ...the less government we have the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
    ShP 4.214 1 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that...more or fewer pictures, is a thing indifferent.
    SS 7.15 27 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...

fewest, adj. (6)

    Ctr 6.135 5 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    MMEm 10.411 8 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    HDC 11.40 8 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...
    FSLC 11.181 17 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals, with the fewest exceptions...
    Wom 11.408 4 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    CPL 11.498 9 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...

fibre, n. (10)

    AmS 1.86 13 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...
    Fdsp 2.199 3 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
    MoS 4.179 10 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out of snow.
    ET19 5.312 17 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a...country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women, and these of a wonderful fibre and endurance;...
    F 6.44 24 ...the great man...is...of a fibre irritable and delicate...
    Pow 6.61 10 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.
    Dem1 10.5 2 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream]...
    PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    MoL 10.247 20 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
    CL 12.149 16 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed, or withe-bush...for strings;...

fibrine, n. (1)

    ET13 5.226 2 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail, any more than the supply of fibrine and chyle;...

fibrous, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.482 5 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot cut down the clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this fibrous white paint.

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, n. (3)

    LE 1.160 24 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    Tran 1.336 21 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist, makes use, with other parallel instances, in his reply to Fichte.
    Edc1 10.149 26 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Germany around Fichte, or Niebuhr, or Goethe;...

Fichtes, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.105 26 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What...Diderots, Fichtes, Heines, and many another heretic, one can detect therein!

Ficino, Marsilio, n. (1)

    PPh 4.40 20 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Marcilius Ficinus and Picus Mirandola.

Content (Text): Copyright © 2005 by Charlotte York Irey
Coding (HTML): Copyright © 2005 by Bradley P. Dean
All Rights Reserved

Back to Emerson Concordance home
Special Collections home
Library home