Findeth to Finest

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

findeth, v. (1)

    ET5 5.79 21 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.

finding, v. (50)

    Nat 1.8 3 Neither does the wisest man...lose his curiosity by finding out all [nature's] perfection.
    AmS 1.86 7 ...science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
    DSA 1.131 14 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    LE 1.175 12 The reason why an ingenious soul shuns society, is to the end of finding society.
    SR 2.62 1 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    SR 2.81 15 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
    UGM 4.13 4 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
    PPh 4.42 17 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he traveled into Italy...
    PPh 4.59 26 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
    ShP 4.189 4 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ShP 4.209 10 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ET4 5.58 27 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET8 5.127 6 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations: not sadder, but slow and staid, as finding their joys at home.
    ET10 5.167 27 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish, nor sugar sweeten...
    ET14 5.248 15 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him...
    ET14 5.250 1 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    ET15 5.266 26 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself, on one occasion, where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET15 5.270 14 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies...
    Ctr 6.133 10 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.
    Bhr 6.183 16 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    Bty 6.289 18 ...the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love, for finding what he seeks, and only that;...
    Clbs 7.234 22 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    Suc 7.302 9 The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects, but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we have.
    PI 8.47 14 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are immense against our finding it...
    PI 8.73 11 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was...the finding of steam or of the galvanic battery.
    Res 8.149 1 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, when the necessity came of finding for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.
    QO 8.193 27 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular;...
    Insp 8.286 28 ...we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Grts 8.303 7 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    Chr2 10.109 16 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...and they finding no magic, no mystic numbers, no fatalities...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Edc1 10.130 12 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    Prch 10.227 1 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
    Schr 10.279 14 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    LLNE 10.339 7 There was...a consciousness of power not yet finding its determinate aim.
    LLNE 10.363 1 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;... finding his delight in the petulant heroism of boys;...
    MMEm 10.406 26 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist no companion...
    Thor 10.462 17 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;...
    Thor 10.470 26 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
    RBur 11.441 20 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
    Scot 11.464 11 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
    FRO1 11.477 1 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this morning, that I had come into the right hall.
    FRO2 11.490 17 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.
    CPL 11.503 26 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    II 12.83 18 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation.
    II 12.84 24 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
    CInt 12.117 17 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    MAng1 12.220 22 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins;...
    Milt1 12.278 1 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry, not finding the actual world exactly conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    ACri 12.284 15 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...
    EurB 12.376 16 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something useful...

finds, v. (219)

    Nat 1.16 23 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
    Nat 1.36 13 The understanding...finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene.
    Nat 1.52 26 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
    Nat 1.60 19 ...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    Nat 1.65 20 The poet finds something ridiculous in his delight until he is out of the sight of men.
    Nat 1.68 10 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself in every great and small thing...
    AmS 1.85 17 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature;...
    AmS 1.86 5 The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter;...
    AmS 1.103 20 ...[the orator] finds that he is the complement of his hearers;...
    AmS 1.103 24 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
    LE 1.166 14 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.167 17 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing...of an of these fine things;...
    MN 1.218 5 Talent finds its models, methods, and ends, in society...
    MR 1.230 19 The young man...finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.
    MR 1.233 23 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success.
    MR 1.234 10 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world; he finds himself excluded from all lucrative works;...
    MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    MR 1.239 2 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.241 19 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    MR 1.253 7 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds [laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
    LT 1.271 23 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
    LT 1.273 8 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    Hist 2.7 12 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    Hist 2.23 11 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    Hist 2.29 7 [The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door...
    Hist 2.29 12 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to virtue.
    Hist 2.29 26 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    Hist 2.30 3 [The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
    SR 2.62 21 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then...finds himself a true prince.
    Comp 2.106 9 [The human soul] finds a tongue in literature unawares.
    Comp 2.115 27 [The traitor] finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit...
    Lov1 2.176 25 In the green solitude [the lover] finds a dearer home than with men...
    Lov1 2.181 16 ...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...
    Prd1 2.227 12 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...
    Hsm1 2.251 5 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent of expense...
    Hsm1 2.251 24 ...[every heroic act] finds its own success at last...
    OS 2.276 8 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works...
    OS 2.295 4 He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company.
    Int 2.330 23 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Art1 2.352 23 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Pt1 3.19 22 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway.
    Pt1 3.22 4 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
    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, and the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere...
    Mrs1 3.129 12 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Mrs1 3.130 25 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    Mrs1 3.141 12 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Nat2 3.192 18 ...the poet finds himself not near enough to his object.
    Pol1 3.211 4 In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds itself cherished;...
    Pol1 3.212 25 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
    NR 3.234 18 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it.
    NR 3.236 2 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    NR 3.243 24 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist...
    NER 3.263 11 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.264 24 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds that he cannot enter it without some compromise.
    NER 3.275 21 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    UGM 4.5 7 ...our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed.
    PPh 4.40 25 Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts.
    PPh 4.49 10 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    SwM 4.128 3 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    MoS 4.155 2 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.
    MoS 4.170 21 Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius finds the real ones.
    MoS 4.174 8 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    MoS 4.175 13 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    MoS 4.177 22 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
    MoS 4.181 19 The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
    ShP 4.190 8 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events...
    ShP 4.190 17 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
    ShP 4.190 19 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ShP 4.197 6 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it.
    ShP 4.198 9 [Chaucer] steals by this apology,--that what he takes has no worth where he finds it and the greatest where he leaves it.
    ShP 4.216 22 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    NMW 4.225 14 The man in the street finds in [Napoleon] the qualities and powers of other men in the street.
    NMW 4.225 16 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen...
    NMW 4.230 15 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    GoW 4.263 7 In conversation, in calamity, [the writer] finds new materials;...
    ET3 5.36 21 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET3 5.36 23 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party.
    ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET4 5.65 20 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house, and finds himself among uncles, aunts and grandsires.
    ET4 5.71 19 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. The horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
    ET5 5.93 1 [The English] have made...London...such a city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to visit it.
    ET8 5.127 17 The Englishman finds no relief from reflection, except in reflection.
    ET10 5.154 19 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.
    ET11 5.188 19 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...
    ET13 5.229 12 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. Punch finds an inexhaustible material.
    ET14 5.236 17 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it in the citation of wills, letters and public documents;...
    ET14 5.240 23 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient...
    ET14 5.242 18 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...
    ET14 5.246 6 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius.
    ET14 5.246 27 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
    ET14 5.253 18 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    ET14 5.253 19 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    ET16 5.279 25 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum; the fifty-three volumes of which are in the London Library. He finds all English history therein.
    ET16 5.281 24 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    ET19 5.310 17 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it, and, if he cannot, he finds some charitable pair of eyes that can, and hears it.
    F 6.14 15 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    F 6.46 20 We wonder how the fly finds its mate...
    Pow 6.59 15 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion.
    Pow 6.59 17 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion. He thought he knew this or that; he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it.
    Wth 6.88 26 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Wth 6.115 8 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
    Wth 6.116 2 The devotion to these vines and trees [the land-owner] finds poisonous.
    Wth 6.116 9 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and robbed him of energy. He finds a catalepsy in his bones.
    Wth 6.124 10 Good husbandry finds wife, children and household.
    Ctr 6.142 17 ...[your boy] finds his best leading in a by-way of his own...
    Ctr 6.153 7 The countryman finds the town a chop-house, a barber's shop.
    Bhr 6.181 21 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
    Bhr 6.183 19 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions, it is then the enthusiast's turn...
    Wsp 6.211 8 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
    Wsp 6.211 11 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have, and he finds himself uncomfortable and glad to get away.
    Wsp 6.222 4 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    Wsp 6.237 25 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    CbW 6.267 8 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
    CbW 6.269 5 ...the best fruit [travel] finds, when it finds it, is conversation.
    SS 7.9 22 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    SS 7.11 27 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
    Elo1 7.99 6 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes...
    WD 7.164 2 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    Boks 7.198 22 The well-informed man finds himself anticipated [by Plato].
    Boks 7.213 13 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds.
    Clbs 7.241 23 ...the simple lover of truth...finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Clbs 7.246 10 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.
    Cour 7.272 2 Everywhere [courage] finds its own with magnetic affinity.
    Suc 7.296 18 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
    Suc 7.298 8 We bask in the day, and the mind finds somewhat as great as itself.
    Suc 7.298 24 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees...
    Suc 7.309 26 Good will makes insight, as one finds his way to the sea by embarking on a river.
    OA 7.327 9 Every faculty new to each man thus...drives him out into doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.
    OA 7.329 8 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    OA 7.329 17 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    OA 7.330 12 The day comes...when the admirable verse finds the poet to whom it belongs;...
    PI 8.13 6 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...
    PI 8.22 19 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.
    PI 8.64 14 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes and cadences in the rhymes and iterations of Nature...
    Elo2 8.113 21 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.120 3 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    QO 8.194 22 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    QO 8.202 21 When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses.
    PC 8.224 9 [Man] finds that the universe, as Newton said, was made at one cast;...
    PC 8.224 16 The good wit finds the law from a single observation...
    PC 8.224 18 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences,-as the farmer finds his cattle by a footprint.
    PC 8.232 16 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly departs to his own gang.
    Insp 8.272 10 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern...
    Insp 8.281 4 The perfection of writing is...when the mind finds perfect obedience in the body.
    Grts 8.307 20 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he finds [his bias], keeps it;...
    Grts 8.320 11 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Dem1 10.3 20 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Aris 10.35 3 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society...irk and sting him...
    Aris 10.40 4 In every company one finds the best man;...
    PerF 10.76 3 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    PerF 10.82 18 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle of celestial thoughts...
    Chr2 10.99 18 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself.
    Chr2 10.114 8 The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...
    Chr2 10.119 9 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul] of all support drives him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
    Chr2 10.119 10 ...[the infant soul] finds himself face to face with the majestic Presence...
    Edc1 10.132 21 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts...
    Edc1 10.132 22 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts,-then finds that the day of facts is a rock of diamonds;...
    Edc1 10.149 20 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend,-who finds equal joy in dealing out his treasures.
    Edc1 10.153 10 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...
    Edc1 10.155 11 When [the naturalist] goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none;...
    Supl 10.165 26 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...finds the rainbow a discoloration;...
    Supl 10.179 1 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    SovE 10.184 7 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals; but a better discernment finds that the difference is only of less and more.
    Prch 10.220 18 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism.
    MoL 10.245 17 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...
    Schr 10.268 21 ...the scholar finds in [the practical men] unlooked-for acceptance of his most paradoxical experience.
    Plu 10.298 19 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    Plu 10.299 9 ...[Plutarch] is tolerant even of vice, if he finds it genial;...
    Plu 10.300 4 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    Plu 10.302 17 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one...
    LLNE 10.353 19 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    LLNE 10.359 9 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    MMEm 10.409 4 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
    Carl 10.492 26 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    HDC 11.61 5 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of many noted soldiers. Tradition finds another cause in the sanctity of its minister.
    War 11.152 24 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight...
    FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.185 14 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLC 11.204 10 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend.
    AKan 11.261 8 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    JBB 11.267 14 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the church...
    SMC 11.362 6 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
    EdAd 11.388 16 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    Wom 11.411 24 The far-fetched diamond finds its home/ Flashing and smouldering in [woman's] hair./
    Wom 11.419 22 It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote.
    Wom 11.426 10 Woman should find in man her guardian. Silently she looks for that, and when she finds that he is not, as she instantly does, she betakes her to her own defences...
    Shak1 11.450 7 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...
    FRO1 11.478 15 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    FRO1 11.478 17 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    FRO1 11.478 18 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he...finds himself continually instructed.
    FRO1 11.478 20 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less;...
    FRO1 11.480 7 ...it is only on the basis of active duty, that worship finds expression.
    CPL 11.503 24 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    PLT 12.6 22 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.7 20 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive...that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    PLT 12.20 6 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    PLT 12.32 12 A hunter finds plenty of game on the ground you have sauntered over with idle gun.
    PLT 12.42 24 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    PLT 12.62 21 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    II 12.68 1 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    II 12.82 26 His workbench [a man] finds everywhere...
    II 12.88 6 The Buddhist who finds gods masked in all his friends and enemies...is calm.
    II 12.89 5 [A man] finds that events spring from the same root as persons;...
    Mem 12.102 27 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CInt 12.125 8 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.125 16 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but inspired with an enthusiasm which finds nothing there to feed it, it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CL 12.136 3 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    CL 12.150 18 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
    CL 12.164 16 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
    CW 12.179 6 The man finds himself expressed in Nature.
    Milt1 12.262 19 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast...
    Milt1 12.272 19 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition;...
    ACri 12.289 8 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...
    MLit 12.318 26 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    AgMs 12.361 7 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    AgMs 12.361 25 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.
    PPr 12.380 26 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...
    Trag 12.408 4 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of which he is a part.
    Trag 12.411 14 The spirit...finds its own support in any condition...

fine, adj. (306)

    Nat 1.34 13 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
    Nat 1.76 16 ...your dominion is as great as [Adam's and Caesar's], though without fine names.
    LE 1.167 18 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things;...
    MN 1.203 21 The gardener aims to produce a fine peach or pear...
    MN 1.207 9 ...what strikes us in the fine genius is that which belongs of right to every one.
    MR 1.241 18 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    MR 1.244 9 Why must [any man] have...fine garments...
    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 1.317 10 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...
    Tran 1.336 19 Of this fine incident, Jacobi...makes use...
    Tran 1.358 16 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct...
    YA 1.367 14 [Gardening] is the fine art which is left for us...
    YA 1.387 12 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach...
    Hist 2.18 4 A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
    Hist 2.26 18 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep...I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    Hist 2.35 14 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...
    SR 2.85 8 [The civilized man] has a fine Geneva watch...
    Comp 2.99 10 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things.
    Lov1 2.177 7 Behold there in the wood the fine madman [the lover]!
    Lov1 2.184 27 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
    Fdsp 2.191 5 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Fdsp 2.191 18 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; so swift, or much more swift...are these fine inward irradiations.
    Fdsp 2.195 16 I have often had fine fancies about persons...
    Fdsp 2.198 23 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are for curiosity...
    Fdsp 2.205 15 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine...
    Prd1 2.221 21 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
    Prd1 2.231 27 We have found out fine names to cover our sensuality withal...
    Hsm1 2.257 1 The interest these fine stories have for us...our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    OS 2.267 17 What is the universal sense of want and ignorance, but the fine innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim?
    OS 2.288 22 ...the fine gentleman, does not take place of the man.
    OS 2.290 21 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...has...no fine friends...
    Cir 2.303 6 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause...
    Cir 2.317 20 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
    Art1 2.351 5 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts...
    Art1 2.351 7 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but creation is the aim.
    Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies...
    Art1 2.357 15 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Art1 2.362 22 ...when we have said all our fine things about the arts, we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Art1 2.366 9 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which... vented itself in these fine extravagances,--no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Art1 2.367 25 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten.
    Pt1 3.3 11 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars...
    Pt1 3.11 6 ...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have been streaming.
    Pt1 3.19 20 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...
    Pt1 3.25 14 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.
    Exp 3.50 13 It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.
    Exp 3.61 17 The fine young people despise life...
    Exp 3.72 26 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...
    Chr1 3.114 26 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character...
    Mrs1 3.126 23 Fine manners show themselves formidable to the uncultivated man.
    Mrs1 3.127 11 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
    Mrs1 3.134 27 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books...
    Mrs1 3.137 18 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
    Mrs1 3.138 15 Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions.
    Mrs1 3.140 5 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    Mrs1 3.149 6 ...[a beautiful behavior] is the finest of the fine arts.
    Gts 3.160 11 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    Pol1 3.218 9 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation, as somewhat too fine...
    NR 3.226 27 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature...
    NR 3.227 12 Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul.
    NR 3.227 25 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    NR 3.227 27 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude, or by courtesy...
    NR 3.233 13 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
    NR 3.241 22 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning...
    NER 3.264 26 Friendship and association are very fine things...
    NER 3.272 27 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley...
    NER 3.275 27 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him...
    NER 3.283 20 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
    PPh 4.39 18 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PPh 4.73 7 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
    PPh 4.73 7 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine philosophers of Athens...
    PPh 4.78 26 When we say [of Plato], Here is a fine collection of fables;... we speak as boys...
    SwM 4.106 17 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large, and large, little;...
    SwM 4.120 6 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
    SwM 4.127 15 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage;...
    MoS 4.149 23 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy...Apparent and Real; and many fine names beside.
    MoS 4.167 9 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...than I will write, with a fine crow-quill, a fine romance.
    ShP 4.190 3 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ShP 4.196 20 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel... it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
    ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of something of their impressiveness.
    ShP 4.211 14 ...[Shakespeare] could...draw the fine demarcations of freedom and of fate...
    NMW 4.248 24 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December...
    NMW 4.250 19 One fine night, on deck, amid a clatter of materialism, Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    GoW 4.263 15 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    GoW 4.281 5 The German intellect wants...the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...
    GoW 4.285 8 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
    ET1 5.7 5 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.
    ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
    ET3 5.39 18 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks darken the day...
    ET3 5.39 25 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.
    ET4 5.54 3 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions...
    ET4 5.67 7 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine perception and poetic construction.
    ET4 5.70 20 ...hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
    ET4 5.71 11 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
    ET5 5.83 21 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts, but adroit at the coarse;...
    ET6 5.106 14 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET6 5.111 12 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    ET8 5.134 21 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET8 5.135 20 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...catching from their savage climate every fine hint...
    ET11 5.176 20 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
    ET11 5.190 23 ...often [English nobles] have been the friends and patrons of genius and learning, and especially of the fine arts;...
    ET14 5.248 2 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground.
    ET16 5.273 19 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    ET16 5.286 10 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is...somewhat as if a monk were panting to some fine Queen of Heaven.
    ET17 5.292 6 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and action with fine jets of mead.
    F 6.3 16 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course...
    F 6.10 23 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...
    F 6.15 24 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
    Pow 6.53 18 A man should prize events and possessions as the ore in which this fine mineral [power] is found;...
    Pow 6.69 7 The young English are fine animals...
    Pow 6.74 2 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine;...
    Pow 6.78 23 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Wth 6.86 3 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values by fine art...
    Wth 6.89 5 Wealth requires...the benefits of science, music and fine arts...
    Wth 6.107 6 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough...
    Wth 6.108 13 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much.
    Wth 6.114 6 Pride can go without...fine clothes...
    Wth 6.114 10 Pride...can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons.
    Wth 6.122 16 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Ctr 6.132 22 There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists.
    Ctr 6.137 26 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    Ctr 6.141 8 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Ctr 6.144 24 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
    Ctr 6.147 12 ...knowledge and fine moral quality [nature] lodges in distant men.
    Ctr 6.148 19 In town [a man] can find...the gallery of fine arts;...
    Ctr 6.152 9 ...among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no distinction...
    Ctr 6.160 7 The influence of fine scenery...appeases our irritations...
    Ctr 6.161 18 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
    Bhr 6.170 7 Genius invents fine manners...
    Bhr 6.172 10 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey, and what divination is required in us for the reading of this fine telegraph,--we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.174 10 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...
    Bhr 6.180 11 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    Bhr 6.183 12 Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
    Bhr 6.187 6 Euripides, says Aspasia, has not the fine manners of Sophocles;...
    Bhr 6.195 25 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception...
    Wsp 6.206 10 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;/...
    Wsp 6.210 16 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    Wsp 6.225 20 In every variety of human employment, in the mechanical and in the fine arts...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    CbW 6.246 24 We have a debt...to every fine genius;...
    CbW 6.247 1 'T is the fine souls who serve us...
    CbW 6.247 2 'T is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society.
    CbW 6.247 2 Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
    CbW 6.247 4 Fine society...has neither ideas nor aims.
    CbW 6.259 24 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.
    CbW 6.260 24 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    CbW 6.264 7 ...the best part of health is fine disposition.
    CbW 6.273 14 There is a pudency about friendship as about love, and though fine souls never lose sight of it, yet they do not name it.
    CbW 6.274 20 You cannot deal systematically with this fine element of society...
    CbW 6.277 8 Youthful aspirations are fine things...but will you stick?
    Bty 6.283 26 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
    Bty 6.295 2 The fine arts have nothing casual...
    Bty 6.301 15 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
    Bty 6.302 9 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Bty 6.305 18 ...the fact is familiar that the fine touch of the eye...plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Ill 6.310 3 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and which shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them.
    Ill 6.313 26 The intellectual man requires a fine bait;...
    Ill 6.316 21 'T is fine for us to point at one or another fine madman, as if there were any exempts.
    Ill 6.318 17 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
    SS 7.3 4 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...
    SS 7.6 27 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful...
    SS 7.7 4 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    SS 7.8 27 'T is fine for us to talk;...
    SS 7.9 18 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    SS 7.10 27 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.
    SS 7.15 19 These wonderful horses [independence and sympathy] need to be driven by fine hands.
    Civ 7.21 19 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather; and fine faculties begin to yield their fine harvest.
    Civ 7.21 20 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather; and fine faculties begin to yield their fine harvest.
    Civ 7.22 1 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Civ 7.23 2 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Art2 7.44 1 Eloquence, as far as it is a fine art, is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Art2 7.45 6 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured, who do not ask a fine spiritual delight, almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 11 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these...are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a higher delight...
    Art2 7.47 21 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Art2 7.49 7 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
    Art2 7.51 27 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Art2 7.55 7 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.81 25 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials.
    Elo1 7.90 25 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts are not eloquence...
    DL 7.106 9 What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!
    DL 7.112 19 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.
    DL 7.121 13 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh for fine clothes...
    DL 7.130 16 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
    DL 7.130 25 I do not undervalue the fine instruction which statues and pictures give.
    WD 7.164 18 A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master...
    WD 7.168 18 How the day fits itself to the mind, winds itself round it like a fine drapery, clothing all its fancies!
    WD 7.172 2 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    WD 7.178 21 Moments...of fine personal relation...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
    WD 7.182 13 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers;...
    WD 7.182 14 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers;...
    WD 7.182 19 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine.
    WD 7.184 20 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    Boks 7.207 20 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    Boks 7.211 24 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...
    Boks 7.215 3 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Boks 7.215 12 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Suc 7.306 14 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    Suc 7.310 11 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    PI 8.13 2 When some familiar truth or fact appears...mounted as on a fine horse...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.36 6 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PI 8.40 15 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of feats and fine arts...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    PI 8.41 5 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PI 8.71 3 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable...
    SA 8.79 8 Who does not delight in fine manners?
    SA 8.79 22 '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 21 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
    SA 8.80 27 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress...
    SA 8.81 13 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    SA 8.88 2 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat...
    SA 8.102 21 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;...
    SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit, which destroys almost all the fine wits.
    Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
    Comc 8.161 24 [A perception of the Comic] appears to be an essential element in a fine character.
    Comc 8.162 3 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    Comc 8.170 21 In fine pictures the head sheds on the limbs the expression of the face.
    QO 8.186 2 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    QO 8.189 26 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.
    QO 8.195 8 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg, and wonders at the wisdom...
    QO 8.195 10 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing.
    QO 8.195 13 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity, such tricks do fine words play with us.
    QO 8.198 11 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian? Yes, he could detect in the style that fine Roman hand.
    PPo 8.253 27 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    Insp 8.272 17 Fine clothes, equipages...cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...
    Insp 8.281 5 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Insp 8.281 13 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    Insp 8.284 16 The fine influences of the morning few can explain, but all will admit.
    Insp 8.286 14 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...and with fine foresight to relieve it from any jangle of affairs...
    Insp 8.291 4 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
    Insp 8.296 14 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
    Grts 8.313 5 [Fame] is...that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
    Grts 8.319 18 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town.
    Dem1 10.20 3 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism;...
    Aris 10.43 10 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
    Aris 10.43 22 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements.
    Aris 10.51 17 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...
    Aris 10.54 14 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age who have any popular power...
    Aris 10.65 13 ...it suffices...that [the man of generous spirit] comes into what is called fine society from higher ground...
    Chr2 10.111 14 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.
    Edc1 10.141 21 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.142 15 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he...make wry faces to keep up a freshman's seat in the fine world?
    Edc1 10.149 17 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for fine images...is insatiable for this nourishment...
    SovE 10.198 23 ...it is...our negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    Schr 10.265 3 [Poets] have no toleration for literature; art is only a fine word for appearance in default of matter.
    Schr 10.273 17 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped.
    Schr 10.279 4 The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride.
    LLNE 10.342 3 These fine conversations, of course, were incomprehensible to some in the company...
    LLNE 10.355 2 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    LLNE 10.355 22 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.
    LLNE 10.356 3 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    LLNE 10.362 26 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    LLNE 10.363 6 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius...
    EzRy 10.389 6 [Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and ran fine to the last.
    MMEm 10.409 4 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
    MMEm 10.416 22 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now.
    MMEm 10.418 20 The evening is fine, but I [Mary Moody Emerson] dare not enjoy it.
    MMEm 10.428 4 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine;...
    Thor 10.454 23 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    Thor 10.464 27 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and, though insensible to some fine traits of culture, could very well report his weight and calibre.
    Thor 10.470 14 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...
    Thor 10.470 16 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.
    Carl 10.497 12 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
    EWI 11.124 18 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
    EWI 11.126 11 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women.
    FSLC 11.183 27 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility...
    FSLC 11.213 18 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal, and let us not call stealing by any fine name, as Union or Patriotism.
    AKan 11.259 15 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...one crime...always to be varnished over, to find fine names for;...
    AKan 11.259 25 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing.
    AKan 11.260 7 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    JBS 11.278 2 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal; not one in fine clothes and the other in buckskin;...
    TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
    EdAd 11.385 17 Our books and fine arts are imitations;...
    Wom 11.408 7 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    Wom 11.408 16 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    Wom 11.410 2 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;...
    Wom 11.419 9 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women's rights] have been deprived of...fine companions...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Shak1 11.448 15 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is born!
    Shak1 11.450 26 'T is fine for Englishmen to say, they only know history by Shakspeare.
    Scot 11.462 1 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    FRO2 11.487 10 ...every fine text...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.
    FRep 11.513 26 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    PLT 12.25 9 The fine tree continues to grow.
    PLT 12.42 4 ...this one thread [perception], fine as gassamer, is yet real;...
    PLT 12.57 17 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never enters it again.
    II 12.67 1 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct), and fine application of it.
    II 12.68 7 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
    II 12.72 20 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious in all the fine arts;...
    II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts.
    Mem 12.104 11 The memory has a fine art of sifting out the pain and keeping all the joy.
    Mem 12.104 14 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
    Mem 12.106 4 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
    CL 12.140 14 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
    CL 12.152 14 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color...
    CL 12.156 23 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape?
    CL 12.158 21 [Taking a walk] is a fine art...
    CL 12.166 16 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.
    CW 12.177 12 [Walking] is a fine art;...
    Bost 12.208 27 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what fine artists...
    MAng1 12.216 9 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts...
    MAng1 12.223 11 There is a closer relation than is commonly thought between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
    MAng1 12.241 21 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
    MAng1 12.243 15 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
    Milt1 12.258 6 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.
    ACri 12.296 27 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
    MLit 12.314 10 ...this habit of intellectual selfishness has acquired in our day the fine name of subjectiveness.
    MLit 12.333 6 ...every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself.
    EurB 12.370 11 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth; he is too fine.
    EurB 12.371 17 Tennyson is always fine...

Fine Art, n. (1)

    PerF 10.81 8 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day; he was no peasant after all. So near to us is the flowering of Fine Art in the rudest population.

Fine Arts, n. (4)

    Art2 7.39 23 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty, and hence Art divides itself into the Useful and the Fine Arts.
    Art2 7.43 2 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end, that is, the productions of the Fine Arts.
    Art2 7.43 9 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    MAng1 12.222 14 Our knowledge of [the human form's] highest expression we owe to the Fine Arts.

fine, n. (16)

    AmS 1.87 8 ...in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    SR 2.52 26 Men do what is called a good action...much as they would pay a fine...
    Exp 3.57 22 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect. In fine, whoever loses, we are always of the gaining party.
    PNR 4.84 16 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man;...
    ShP 4.207 23 In fine, in [Shakespeare's] drama...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ShP 4.213 19 ...[Shakespeare] could paint the fine with precision...
    Farm 7.150 8 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...in fine, that Massachusetts has a basement story more valuable...than all the superstructure.
    PerF 10.80 11 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court who was told he might be released if he would pay his fine.
    PerF 10.80 23 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time, and consent that he should go without his fine.
    Chr2 10.118 25 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no fagot, no penance, no fine, no rebuke.
    Prch 10.238 1 We [in the Church] come...in fine, to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    EWI 11.111 15 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager, without fine or inquiry.
    FSLC 11.195 10 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLC 11.195 14 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
    SMC 11.362 17 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk.
    Let 12.397 23 Whilst [a man] dwells in the old sin, he will pay the old fine.

finely, adv. (10)

    Pt1 3.8 6 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Exp 3.51 7 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is too finely woven...
    UGM 4.32 10 Some rays...want a finely adapted eye.
    ET5 5.85 14 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details, or the not driving things too finely...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET14 5.235 17 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain...were finely sensible to the double glory.
    DL 7.124 19 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    DL 7.128 17 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    SA 8.81 14 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    SlHr 10.448 23 [Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.
    FSLC 11.203 27 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.

fineness, n. (3)

    MR 1.242 10 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy, their too great fineness...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    Thor 10.475 20 ...if [Thoreau] want lyric fineness and technical merits [in his poetry]...he never lacks the causal thought...
    MLit 12.326 10 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through, although without any boasting and with an infinite fineness.

finer, adj. (66)

    MN 1.212 25 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...
    MN 1.217 27 ...what is Genius but finer love...
    Tran 1.358 11 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments...
    Fdsp 2.195 26 [Our friend's] goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer...
    Fdsp 2.196 23 Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs finer organs for its apprehension.
    Prd1 2.231 24 Appetite shows to the finer souls as a disease...
    Cir 2.303 8 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause, which, being narrowly seen, is itself the effect of a finer cause.
    Art1 2.352 6 What is a man but nature's finer success in self-explication?
    Art1 2.352 7 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...
    Art1 2.352 10 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of nature, but a still finer success...
    Art1 2.358 23 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces... can ever teach...
    Pt1 3.28 3 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar...
    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.
    NR 3.236 27 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff.
    UGM 4.19 24 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters; but against the best there is a finer remedy.
    SwM 4.108 19 The mind is a finer body...
    ShP 4.195 20 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    ShP 4.210 5 What maiden has not found [Shakespeare] finer than her delicacy?
    ShP 4.217 3 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
    GoW 4.262 6 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and finer form of the original.
    ET4 5.66 26 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET13 5.222 10 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.
    ET14 5.257 14 There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language [than Tennyson's].
    ET17 5.293 5 A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London] not less known and dear.
    F 6.20 8 As we refine, our checks become finer.
    F 6.38 6 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    F 6.39 15 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will work into finer particulars, and from finer to finest.
    Wth 6.86 3 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values by fine art...
    Wsp 6.216 25 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own,--a finer conscience...
    CbW 6.264 22 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment.
    Bty 6.290 24 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Bty 6.302 4 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Ill 6.318 13 You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
    Art2 7.42 2 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...and, in the finer fluid above, the form and tackle of the sails.
    DL 7.129 22 Whatever brings the dweller into a finer life...may well find place [in the household].
    Farm 7.145 19 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection, which wastes while it works. We shall find finer combustion and finer fuel.
    Farm 7.145 20 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection, which wastes while it works. We shall find finer combustion and finer fuel.
    WD 7.157 13 The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose.
    WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether, like a finer sleep;...
    WD 7.185 12 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Suc 7.298 23 All this happiness [the city boy in the October woods] owes only to his finer perception.
    Suc 7.303 23 ...the lover has more senses and finer senses than others;...
    PI 8.45 19 Shadows please us as still finer rhymes.
    SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
    QO 8.197 9 We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer purpose than they knew.
    Insp 8.269 5 ...we want a finer kind [of power] than that of commerce;...
    Aris 10.33 23 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual...
    PerF 10.72 9 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements...
    Chr2 10.119 19 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is... simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
    Edc1 10.157 9 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it and precludes him from finer means.
    SovE 10.185 20 The finer the sense of justice, the better poet.
    SovE 10.189 16 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
    SovE 10.189 20 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.
    Thor 10.462 2 ...the relation of body to mind [in Thoreau] was still finer than we have indicated.
    EWI 11.102 25 The prizes of society...a perpetual melioration into a finer civility,-these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    Wom 11.409 1 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.
    Wom 11.418 7 [Women] are victims of the finer temperament.
    FRep 11.522 16 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts...
    FRep 11.525 21 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization...
    CInt 12.121 16 A little finer order...commands centuries of facts...
    CL 12.156 12 Of the finer influences [of nature], I shall say that they are not less positive, if they are indescribable.
    CL 12.156 17 There is somewhat finer in the sky than we have senses to appreciate.
    CL 12.156 25 The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations to our friends than any we sustain.
    CL 12.166 21 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form;...
    Milt1 12.252 17 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was finer and closer appreciation;...
    Milt1 12.275 7 L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are but a finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...

finer, adv. (1)

    Grts 8.319 5 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...

fineries, n. (2)

    Exp 3.58 8 ...what help from these fineries or pedantries?
    Mrs1 3.145 1 ...these fineries [of fashion] may have grace and wit.

fines, n. (2)

    ET4 5.73 5 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
    Civ 7.31 1 ...a wise government puts fines and penalties on pleasant vices.

fines, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 23 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity?

fine-spun, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.331 12 The materialist...mocks at fine-spun theories...

finest, adj. (25)

    MR 1.256 23 ...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...
    Hist 2.25 27 The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical organization in the world.
    SR 2.75 27 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    Mrs1 3.149 6 ...[a beautiful behavior] is the finest of the fine arts.
    ShP 4.215 6 The finest poetry was first experience;...
    ET6 5.108 12 England produces...the finest women in the world.
    ET8 5.138 26 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET11 5.186 14 ...[English nobles] have that simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of greatness.
    ET16 5.285 1 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows, to a magnificent lawn, on which grew the finest cedars in England.
    F 6.39 16 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will work into finer particulars, and from finer to finest.
    Pow 6.71 16 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    Wth 6.102 12 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of social storms, and announces revolutions.
    Ctr 6.141 20 Books, as containing the finest records of human wit, must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Bhr 6.197 14 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
    CbW 6.248 12 The finest wits have their sediment.
    WD 7.163 10 ...we have language,--the finest tool of all...
    PI 8.6 27 Such currents...exist in thoughts, those finest and subtilest of all waters, that as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
    MMEm 10.402 25 What a subject is [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind and life for the finest novel!
    LVB 11.88 1 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame/...
    EWI 11.102 17 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.125 13 It was shown to the planters...that their estates were ruining them, under the finest climate;...
    FSLN 11.229 24 ...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice...
    PLT 12.26 19 In unfit company the finest powers are paralyzed.
    CL 12.139 11 We have the finest climate in the world, for this purpose [listening to Nature], in Massachusetts.

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