Foundation to Fowls
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
foundation, n. (45)
DSA 1.126 1 This [religious] sentiment lies at the
foundation of society...
MR 1.252 25 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble
and king from the
foundation of the world.
LT 1.259 6 To appear in these aspects, [the present
aspects of our social
state] must first...have some necessary foundation.
LT 1.260 22 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by
his condition, a
deficiency in [man's] force, is the foundation on which [Conservatism]
rests.
LT 1.289 25 The granite is curiously concealed a
thousand formations and
surfaces...but it makes the foundation of these...
Con 1.304 21 ...so deep is the foundation of the
existing social system, that
it leaves no one out of it.
Hist 2.6 10 Property also holds of the soul... The
obscure consciousness of
this fact is...the foundation of friendship and love...
Hist 2.23 26 What is the foundation of that interest
all men feel in Greek
history...
Fdsp 2.196 18 Shall we fear to cool our love by mining
for the
metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple?
Mrs1 3.131 14 ...the habit even in little and the least
matters of not
appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the
foundation
of all chivalry.
Mrs1 3.142 24 We may easily seem ridiculous in our
eulogy of courtesy, whenever we insist on benevolence as its
foundation.
PPh 4.57 1 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer]
wished that all
things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by
wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and
foundation
of the world, will be in the truth.
ShP 4.194 6 [Popular tradition]...supplies a foundation
for [the poet's] edifice...
ShP 4.195 14 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771
were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the
foundation laid by his predecessors...
ET4 5.70 7 [The English] think...that manly exercises
are the foundation of
that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over
another;...
ET7 5.117 8 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where
strength could be
afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth, as truth is the
foundation of the
social state.
ET19 5.311 6 It is this [sense of right and wrong]
which lies at the
foundation of that aristocratic character...which, if it should lose
this, would
find itself paralyzed;...
Ill 6.309 5 We traversed, through spacious galleries
affording a solid
masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight
black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the
innermost recess which tourists visit...
Ill 6.323 5 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or
dissipated, or
undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the
foundation of
friendship, religion, poetry and art.
Art2 7.52 24 ...whatever is beautiful rests on the
foundation of the
necessary.
Elo1 7.69 16 ...in every constitution some large degree
of animal vigor is
necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art
[of
eloquence].
DL 7.110 3 ...a scholar is a literary foundation.
DL 7.110 15 Another man is...a builder of ships,--a
ship-building
foundation, and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on
books...
DL 7.110 18 Another man is...a builder of ships...and
could achieve
nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses. Another
is a
farmer, an agricultural foundation...and the same rule holds for all.
DL 7.117 2 ...[the reform that applies itself to the
household] must...put
domestic service on another foundation.
Farm 7.143 13 Nature works on a method of all for each
and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every
arch and foundation of
the structure.
PC 8.228 9 The foundation of culture...is at last the
moral sentiment.
PerF 10.83 26 ...[the world's energies] work together
on a system of
mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every arch and
foundation of the structure.
PerF 10.86 13 All our political disasters grow as
logically out of our
attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part
of
your house comes of defect in the foundation.
Chr2 10.99 18 In its companions [the soul] sees other
truths honored, and
successively finds their foundation also in itself.
SovE 10.196 5 Shall we attach ourselves violently to
our teachers and
historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault
is
shown in their record?
MoL 10.253 22 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian
campaign] is the
researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the
great
work of Denon, which led the way to all the subsequent studies of the
English and German scholars on that foundation.
LLNE 10.370 3 ...I am not less aware of that excellent
and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius
is...normal, and
with broad foundation of culture...
Thor 10.454 4 [Thoreau]...wished to settle all his
practice on an ideal
foundation.
LS 11.12 12 These views of the original account of the
Lord's Supper lead
me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest, but
never
intended by Jesus to be the foundation of a perpetual institution.
FSLN 11.227 7 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all
affirm [that an immoral
law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and
practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from
them that
this truth was the foundation of States.
AKan 11.261 3 In the free states, we give a snivelling
support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the
law, in direct opposition to
the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
Koss 11.398 25 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win
[from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through;
its foundation
searched;...
FRO2 11.486 3 ...I am ready to give...the first simple
foundation of my
belief...
CPL 11.497 22 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's
trustees has told
you how old is the foundation of our village library...
Bost 12.190 8 In sixty-eight years after the foundation
of Boston, Dr. Mather writes of it, The town hath indeed three elder
Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
Bost 12.205 17 ...good men are as the green plain of
the earth is...the
foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
Bost 12.209 22 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her
liberty, her education
and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material
accumulations], she
will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
MAng1 12.220 7 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended
through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the
hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be
searched...
Trag 12.407 4 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies
at the foundation of
the old Greek tragedy...
foundational, adj. (1)
ET12 5.210 8 ...whether by cramming tutor or by
examiners with prizes
and foundational scholarships, education, according to the English
notion of
it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
foundations, n. (41)
Nat 1.70 17 The foundations of man are not in matter,
but in spirit.
AmS 1.93 27 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never
countervail the
least sentence or syllable of wit.
LE 1.170 26 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast
foundations in the
breast of man;...
MN 1.191 8 The scholars are the priests of that thought
which establishes
the foundations of the earth.
MR 1.229 16 It will afford no security from the new
ideas, that...the
property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other
foundations.
MR 1.248 4 We are to revise the whole of our social
structure, the State, the school...and explore their foundations in our
own nature;...
LT 1.268 1 Let us not see the foundations of
nations...with...an attention
preoccupied with trifles.
Tran 1.331 23 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep
and square on
blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house
or
Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
Tran 1.332 22 ...[the materialist] will perceive that
his mental fabric is built
up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of
stone.
Fdsp 2.201 2 ...let us approach our friend with an
audacious trust...in the
breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.
Cir 2.311 18 ...literatures, cities, climates,
religions, leave their
foundations...
Int 2.346 17 With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays
the foundations of
nature.
Pt1 3.13 27 The beautiful rests on the foundations of
the necessary.
Pt1 3.37 23 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same
foundations of wonder as
the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing
away.
Pol1 3.199 22 ...politics rest on necessary
foundations...
ET4 5.60 12 ...the foundations of the new civility were
to be laid by the
most savage men.
ET5 5.94 8 The foundations of [England's] greatness are
the rolling
waves;...
ET11 5.174 19 The foundations of these [noble English]
families lie deep
in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
ET12 5.200 21 [Oxford's] foundations date from
Alfred...
ET12 5.200 25 In the reign of Edward I., it is
pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students; and nineteen
most noble foundations were
then established.
ET12 5.205 11 The number of students and of residents
[at English
universities]...the value of the foundations...justify a dedication to
study in
the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
ET12 5.209 17 No doubt, the foundations have been
perverted [in English
universities].
ET13 5.214 5 [People's] loyalty to truth and their
labor and expenditure
rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
Ctr 6.157 2 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred
friends, will enjoy at
Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei, whose foundations are
forever friendship.
Bty 6.288 19 The question of Beauty takes us out of
surfaces to thinking of
the foundations of things.
Ill 6.322 19 In this kingdom of illusions we grope
eagerly for stays and
foundations.
DL 7.108 16 The physiognomy and phrenology of
to-day...rest on
everlasting foundations.
DL 7.126 14 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for
each the foundations
of a divine building...
WD 7.179 14 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the
geometric
foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is
exact and
his arithmetic musical.
Grts 8.309 17 [Self-respect] has its deep foundations
in religion.
Thor 10.460 4 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau]
wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their
dwellings. But New England, at
least, is not based on any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the
foundations
of our houses on the ashes of a former civilization.
LS 11.21 13 ...it is not usage, it is not what I do not
understand, that binds
me to [Christianity],-let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods.
FSLC 11.189 16 I thought it was this fair mystery,
whose foundations are
hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of
law;...
FSLC 11.199 1 [Webster's] final settlement has
dislocated the foundations.
FSLC 11.206 19 ...he who writes a crime into the
statute-book digs under
the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...
AKan 11.261 24 ...I borrow the language of an eminent
man...If that be
law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the
Capitol;...
ALin 11.330 17 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a
flatboatman, a
captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in
the
rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad
structure of his fame was laid.
Shak1 11.448 3 [Shakespeare's] fame is settled on the
foundations of the
moral and intellectual world.
FRep 11.543 18 ...north and south, east and west will
be present to our
minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that
our
vote secures the foundations of the state...
Milt1 12.250 12 The lover of [Milton's] genius will
always regret that he
should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have
written
from the deep convictions of love and right, which are the foundations
of
civil liberty.
ACri 12.294 11 [Shakespeare's] fun is as wise as his
earnest, its
foundations are below the frost.
foundation-stone, n. (1)
EurB 12.371 6 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds
the homestead
after his own necessity, from foundation-stone to chimney-top and
turret...
founded, v. (28)
YA 1.382 12 [The Associations] were founded in love and
in labor.
SL 2.161 9 We...do not see that [an institution] is
founded on a thought
which we have.
Pol1 3.208 13 Parties are also founded on instincts...
Pol1 3.220 19 We...pay unwilling tribute to governments
founded on force.
MoS 4.160 26 ...a shell must dictate the architecture
of a house founded on
the sea.
MoS 4.161 5 We are...houses founded on the sea.
ET4 5.49 5 Trades and professions carve their own lines
on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less
effective; as...sense of
superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
ET6 5.112 5 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England],
mediocrity gets... founded in adamant.
ET8 5.142 12 ...the calm, sound and most British
Briton...respects an
economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
ET13 5.215 23 The power of the religious sentiment [in
England]...founded
liberty...
ET16 5.290 7 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at
Winchester, in the
Abbey he had founded there...
Pow 6.66 2 The communities hitherto founded by
socialists...are only
possible by installing Judas as steward.
Wsp 6.241 10 There will be a new church founded on
moral science;...
PI 8.6 2 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show
their well-known
virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually
transferred from
the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense
side
of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature...
PI 8.38 19 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving
men that are the texts
on which religions and states are founded.
Edc1 10.139 16 [Boys'] elections at baseball or cricket
are founded on
merit...
Prch 10.230 4 [The clergy's] first duty is
self-possession founded on
knowledge.
EWI 11.118 2 ...[slavery] is not founded solely on the
avarice of the planter.
FSLN 11.231 12 I know how deeply founded [conservatism]
is in our
nature...
Wom 11.418 7 ...for the general charge [that women are
temperamental]: no doubt it is well founded.
II 12.87 2 [The probity of the Intellect] consists in
an absolute devotion to
truth, founded in a faith in truth.
Bost 12.195 12 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted
in 1620; in 1638
Harvard College was founded.
MAng1 12.240 14 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on
the thought
that beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the beauty of the
soul;...
Milt1 12.250 2 The Defence of the People of England, on
which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of
[Milton's] works.
ACri 12.304 18 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
deprecates an
observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
MLit 12.313 7 [Subjectiveness] is founded on that
insatiable demand for
unity...
EurB 12.376 15 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was
founded on power
to do what was necessary...
Trag 12.408 12 ...the antique tragedy, which was
founded on this faith [in
destiny], can never be reproduced.
founder, n. (14)
SR 2.86 11 He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's]
class...will be...in
his turn the founder of a sect.
Exp 3.43 21 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I
saw them pass,/ In their
own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling,
never
mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these
are
thy race!/
UGM 4.18 16 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed
men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in
religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which
have taken
the name of each founder, are in point.
ShP 4.202 13 There is somewhat touching in the madness
with which the
passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and
lets pass
without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which
alone
will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
NMW 4.244 12 If he felt himself their patron and the
founder of their
fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon]
could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and
support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
ET13 5.223 27 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is
hostile to all change in
politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the
founder of the
London University...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.
ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we stopped
at the Church of
Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer,
which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given
to
every one who should ask it at the gate.
Boks 7.203 21 ...Pythagoras was...the founder of a
school of ascetics and
socialists...
Aris 10.44 8 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me
see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be poet, king, founder of cities...
Plu 10.297 21 [Plutarch] is...not the founder of any
sect or community, like
Pythagoras or Zeno;...
GSt 10.507 11 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there
is
not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at
the
loss of its founder;...
JBS 11.277 15 John Brown, the founder of liberty in
Kansas, was born in
Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.
CPL 11.496 14 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has
found the many
admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
ACri 12.301 12 After Chicago had secured the confluence
of the railroads
to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...
Founder, n. (1)
CPL 11.508 26 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak
entirely sympathize
in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library, and
its
honored Founder [William Munroe].
foundered, v. (1)
Civ 7.27 27 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered
their horses;...
founders, n. (9)
ET4 5.60 24 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
These founders
of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons...
ET4 5.72 7 [The English] come honestly by their
horsemanship, with
Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders.
ET9 5.152 26 ...[The Americans and the English] are
equally badly off in
our founders;...
ET12 5.200 5 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken
wainscoting and
ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls;...
PC 8.215 27 The founders of nations...were probably
martyrs in their own
time.
CSC 10.375 4 The still-living merit of the oldest New
England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the
founders of families, fresh merit...
CPL 11.498 18 The religious bias of our founders had
its usual effect to
secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
CInt 12.115 5 ...either science and literature is a
hypocrisy, or it is not. If it
be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert
the
funds of your founders into the stock of a rope-walk or a
candle-factory...
ACri 12.301 7 I fell in with one of the founders [of
New City] who showed
its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...
Founders, n. (2)
LLNE 10.364 7 The Founders of Brook Farm should have
this praise, that
they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
Bost 12.204 19 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want
epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.
Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best
thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on
our Founders
and people;...
Founder's, n. (1)
Imtl 8.322 5 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And
send conviction
without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our
days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal
youth./ Monadnoc.
founding, n. (1)
Clbs 7.243 10 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first...piqued the
emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies, and so to the
founding
of the French Academy.
founding, v. (3)
MN 1.219 14 What brought the pilgrims here? One man
says, civil liberty; another, the desire of founding a church;...
Tran 1.329 15 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided
into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on
experience, the second
on consciousness;...
PerF 10.77 19 Every valuable person who joins in an
enterprise,-is it a
piece of industry, or the founding of a colony or a college...what he
chiefly
brings...is...his thoughts...
foundlings, n. (1)
Chr2 10.118 2 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the
perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as
in...appointing... guardians of foundlings and orphans.
foundries, n. (1)
ET5 5.97 2 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find
new forms, to add a
grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their
foundries.
founds, v. (1)
Tran 1.332 19 ...ask [the materialist]...on what grounds
he founds his faith
in his figures...
fountain, n. (30)
AmS 1.83 10 ...this fountain of power, has been so
distributed to
multitudes...that it is spilled into drops...
DSA 1.125 17 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the
capital mistake of the
infant man...by showing the fountain of all good to be in himself...
DSA 1.134 6 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose
revelations
introduce greatness...into the open soul, is not explored as the
fountain of
the established teaching in society.
LT 1.272 12 ...the origin of all reform is in that
mysterious fountain of the
moral sentiment in man...
YA 1.389 18 The more need of...a resort to the fountain
of right, by the
brave.
SR 2.64 19 Here is the fountain of action and of
thought.
Int 2.337 16 We may owe to dreams some light on the
fountain of this skill [of drawing];...
Mrs1 3.153 14 Everything that is called fashion and
courtesy humbles itself
before the cause and fountain of honor...namely the heart of love.
NER 3.253 14 [Other reformers] attacked the institution
of marriage as the
fountain of social evils.
GoW 4.279 6 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo],
who is the centre and
fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to
the
human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
ET10 5.163 12 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in
fountain, garden, or
grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at
home.
ET14 5.244 13 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at
the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
Ctr 6.138 1 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get
a drink of Mimir's
spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
Wsp 6.213 1 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with
the same morning
newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
DL 7.130 10 The fountain of beauty is the heart...
Farm 7.141 6 He who...constructs a stone
fountain...makes a fortune... which is useful to his country long
afterwards.
PC 8.228 10 [The moral sentiment] is the fountain of
power...
PPo 8.242 21 These legends [of Persian kings], with
Chiser, the fountain of
life, Tuba, the tree of life;...make the staple imagery of Persian
odes.
Aris 10.66 7 ...the American who would serve his
country must...revisit the
margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and
enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments...
Aris 10.66 8 ...the American who would serve his
country must...revisit the
margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and
enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments, the parent
fountain from which this goodly Universe flows as a wave.
Chr2 10.95 25 This wonderful [moral] sentiment...seems
to be the fountain
of the intellect;...
Edc1 10.159 9 Consent yourself to be an organ of your
highest thought, and
lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on
with
waves of benefit to the borders of society...
Schr 10.289 1 [The scholar] is here to know the secret
of Genius; to
become, not a reader of poetry, but...Shakspeare, Swedenborg, in the
fountain, through that.
Plu 10.306 18 The central fact is the superhuman
intelligence, pouring into
us from its unknown fountain...
Shak1 11.449 4 ...[Shakespeare] is...the fountain of
joy which honors him
who tastes it;...
CPL 11.497 19 ...I always remember with satisfaction
that I saw that
venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833, growing wild at Syracuse, in Sicily,
near
the fountain of Arethusa.
PLT 12.16 26 Who has found the boundaries of human
intelligence? Who
has made a chart of its channel, or approached the fountain of this
wonderful Nile?
II 12.76 3 ...the moral sense reappears forever with
the same angelic
newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and
strength.
CInt 12.126 12 ...that which [Harvard College] exists
for, to be a fountain
of novelties out of heaven...that it shall not be permitted to do or to
think of.
Milt1 12.262 13 ...as basis or fountain of his rare
physical and intellectual
accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
Fountain of Love, n. (1)
LT 1.286 20 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that their
will is not yet inspired
from the Fountain of Love.
fountain-head, n. (2)
Int 2.337 2 Not by any conscious imitation of particular
forms are the
grand strokes of the painter executed, but by repairing to the
fountain-head
of all forms in his mind.
PPh 4.39 6 ...[Plato's sentences] are the fountain-head
of literatures.
fountain-heads, n. (2)
Lov1 2.177 1 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places
which pale
passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed,
save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the
sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
PI 8.55 15 Welcome, folded arms and fixed
eyes,/...Fountain-heads and
pathless groves/...
fountain-light, n. (1)
Chr2 10.95 4 High instincts, before which our mortal
nature/ Doth tremble
like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet
the
fountain-light of all our day/...
fountain-pipes, n. (1)
Nat 1.45 27 ...these [human forms] all rest like
fountain-pipes on the
unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
Fountains Abbey, England, n (1)
ET13 5.215 24 The power of the religious sentiment [in
England]...created
the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and
Dundee...
fountains, n. (23)
Nat 1.56 27 ...[Ideas] were there;...when [the Supreme
Being] strengthened
the fountains of the deep.
Nat 1.64 11 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...is
nourished by unfailing
fountains...
Nat 1.69 5 For us, the winds do blow,/ The earth does
rest, heaven move, and fountains flow;/...
Con 1.324 15 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity
flow to me, shall...become fountains of safety.
Fdsp 2.189 19 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The
fountains of my hidden
life/ Are through thy friendship fair./
Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/
Singing in the sun-baked
square./
Art1 2.365 24 The fountains of invention and beauty in
modern society are
all but dried up.
Pt1 3.4 22 ...the fountains whence all this river of
Time and its creatures
floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful...
Pt1 3.9 17 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics]
is the landscape-garden of
a modern house, adorned with fountains and statues...
Chr1 3.100 23 The wise man not only leaves out of his
thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved,
the absorbed, the
commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are
good;...
NER 3.274 23 Caesar, just before the battle of
Pharsalia, discourses with
the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
NER 3.276 17 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper
makes the sweetness
and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no
longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the
empire and
Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me
the
fountains of the Nile.
ShP 4.199 6 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu,
Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...
Pow 6.67 20 ...[Boniface] subscribed for the fountains,
the gas, and the
telegraph;...
Suc 7.301 7 If we follow this hint [of correspondence]
into our intellectual
education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our
first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and
moral sensibilities, those fountains of right thought...
Aris 10.65 23 To many the word [Gentleman]
expresses...only graceful
manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought
are
in the deeps of man...
HDC 11.83 19 ...I have read with care the [Concord]
Town Records
themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information
respecting your character and customs.
War 11.166 15 ...the least change in the man will
change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every
man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works
with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the
most
striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a
caravan of emigrants, peaceful pioneers at the fountains of the Wabash
and
the Missouri.
FRO2 11.484 5 ...Thou ask'st in fountains and in
fires,/ He is the essence
that inquires./
PLT 12.15 10 Thirdly I proceed to the fountains of
thought in Instinct and
Inspiration...
PLT 12.33 13 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge
have
their fountains...
II 12.65 5 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power, it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge
have
their fountains...
EurB 12.374 19 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses
our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy,
inasmuch as the
power does not flow from its legitimate fountains in the mind...
founts, n. (1)
Insp 8.280 23 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The
world seems new
begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the
sun;/ Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision
mounts./
four, adj. (83)
Tran 1.350 7 Once possessed of the principle, it is
equally easy to make
four or forty thousand applications of it.
Hist 2.24 3 What is the foundation of that interest all
men feel in Greek
history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the
domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries
later?
SR 2.48 11 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out
of the adults who
prattle and play to it.
SR 2.86 5 ...nor can all the science, art, religion,
and philosophy of the
nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes,
three or four and twenty centuries ago.
Prd1 2.226 7 The hard soil and four months of snow make
the inhabitant of
the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys
the
fixed smile of the tropics.
Art1 2.361 18 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou
foolish child, hast thou
come out hither, over four thousand miles of salt water, to find that
which
was perfect to thee there at home?
Mrs1 3.153 1 For the present distress...of those who
are predisposed to
suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy
remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four,
will
commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
NER 3.259 5 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is
parsing Greek and
Latin...
NER 3.259 13 Four or five persons I have seen who read
Plato.
NER 3.266 26 ...in a celebrated experiment, by
expiration and respiration
exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the
little
finger only...
PPh 4.66 14 Of the five orders of things [said Plato],
only four can be
taught to the generality of men.
PPh 4.69 5 To these four sections [images, objects,
opinions, truths], the
four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith,
understanding, reason.
SwM 4.98 23 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a
composition of several
persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the
union of
four or five single blossoms.
SwM 4.99 15 In 1716, [Swedenborg] left home for four
years...
SwM 4.122 15 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching
which accompanied
him all day...
ShP 4.203 8 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after
Shakspeare...
NMW 4.249 24 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked,
after dinner, to
fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to
oppose
it.
ET1 5.4 3 ...my narrow and desultory reading had
inspired the wish to see
the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor,
DeQuincey...
ET2 5.26 20 At last, on Sunday night, after doing one
day's work in four, the storm came...
ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] had made 1467
miles...
ET3 5.35 3 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the
traveller [in
England] rides as on a cannon-ball...through mountains in tunnels of
three
or four miles...
ET4 5.50 24 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different
nations,--three languages, three or four nations;...
ET5 5.99 2 ...three or four days' rain will reduce
hundreds to starving in
London.
ET7 5.122 4 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one
hundred and twenty-seven
all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax...
ET10 5.160 11 The steam-pipe has added to [England's]
population and
wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.
ET10 5.160 20 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
ET11 5.178 12 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke
of Buckingham, He
was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly
continued about the space of four hundred years...
ET11 5.193 23 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses]
empty, aired, and
the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds
a
year.
ET12 5.203 5 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for
three thousand, and
wrote four thousand pounds.
ET12 5.203 17 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr.
Bandinel] bought a room
full of books and manuscripts...for four thousand louis d'ors...
ET12 5.204 24 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the
theoretic period
for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years'
residence, and four years more of standing.
ET12 5.210 23 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty
very able men, and
three or four hundred well-educated men.
ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend
bishops...solemnly declare
in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a
living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are
moved by the
Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no
other
reason whatever?
F 6.3 3 ...four or five noted men were each reading a
discourse...on the
Spirit of the Times.
F 6.9 19 Read the description in medical books of the
four temperaments...
Wth 6.115 11 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a
purslain or a dock that
is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the
last is a
third; he reaches out his hand to a fourth, behind that are four
thousand and
one.
Ctr 6.132 9 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the
Canon Yeman's
Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
Ctr 6.156 26 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred
friends, will enjoy at
Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
Bhr 6.182 12 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the
respiration, and the
attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man
the
power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous
expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth,
and
you will know the whole man.
Ill 6.309 23 We...examined all the masterpieces which
the four combined
engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the
dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
Civ 7.17 21 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What
in the desert was
impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
Elo1 7.85 25 ...in the examination of witnesses there
usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the
business...
Elo1 7.86 4 ...the court and the county have really
come together to arrive
at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind
and
meaning of somebody.
DL 7.104 2 All day, between his three or four sleeps,
[the nestler] coos like
a pigeon-house...
Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa,
and it...grows three
or four hundred feet high...
WD 7.163 2 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now
in our social
arrangements: we ride four times as fast as our fathers did;...
Boks 7.193 24 ...I can seldom go there [to the
Cambridge Library] without
renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the
four
walls of my study at home.
Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four
books, containing the wisdom of
Confucius and Mencius.
OA 7.322 16 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo,
wearing the four
crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
PI 8.72 4 One would say of the force in the works of
Nature, all depends on
the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and
stop;...if
four, to the man.
Res 8.141 16 Life is always rapid here [in America],
but what acceleration
to its pulse in ten years,--what in the four years of the war!
QO 8.179 13 ...the invention of yesterday of making
wood indestructible by
means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian
method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
PerF 10.81 1 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years
dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
PerF 10.82 6 ...when the soldier comes home from the
fight, he fills all
eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great
parliamentary
debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims
beside
their own. Like the boy who thought in turn each one of the four
seasons
the best...
LLNE 10.343 26 ...The Dial...enjoyed its obscurity for
four years.
EzRy 10.383 23 I am sure all who remember both will
associate [Ezra
Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the
old...meeting-house, with its four iron-gray deacons in their little
box under the pulpit...
SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall
could afford to
lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common
men would find it out.
Carl 10.493 1 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three
or four miles of
human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and
these
were mites.
LS 11.5 7 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with
his disciples is
given by the four Evangelists...
HDC 11.38 8 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was
concluded, Mr. Simon
Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they
had
bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
HDC 11.43 18 What could the body of freemen, meeting
four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at
Musketaquid?
HDC 11.55 6 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it
became
expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in
Middlesex.
HDC 11.57 14 In 1654, the four united New England
Colonies agreed to
raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the
Niantics...
HDC 11.65 21 It is an article in the selectmen's
warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in
for a representative not
exceeding four pounds.
HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the
last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
EWI 11.112 15 ...the praedials [in the West Indies]
should owe three
fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years,
and the
non-praedials for four years.
War 11.165 3 This happens daily, yearly about us, with
half thoughts, often
with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing
they
will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
FSLN 11.224 7 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster,
most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
FSLN 11.234 1 ...now you relied on these dismal
guaranties infamously
made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is
found
that they have crumbled. This eternal monument of his fame and of the
Union is rotten in four years.
JBB 11.266 3 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a
steadfast Yankee
farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
ALin 11.335 7 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance,
his fertility of
resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
ALin 11.335 8 In four years,-four years of
battle-days,-[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his
magnanimity, were sorely tried...
SMC 11.362 23 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant
seems to think that
these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been
at
West Point four years.
Wom 11.415 7 With the advancements of society, the
position and
influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In
modern
times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
CPL 11.497 14 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance
to history than
cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three
and four
thousand years old...
CL 12.144 4 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable
like a park, and not
like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on
three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
Bost 12.189 18 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the
four parts of the world
that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to
transplant a
colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
MAng1 12.216 9 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in
the four fine arts...
MAng1 12.229 2 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo]
began in marble a
group of four figures for a dead Christ...
MAng1 12.238 3 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did
not use wax
candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore
sent him
four bundles of them...
MAng1 12.244 11 Three significant garlands are
sculptured on [Michelangelo's] tomb; they should be four, but that his
countrmen feared
their own partiality.
Pray 12.354 20 The last of the four orisons is written
in a singularly calm
and healthful spirit...
Let 12.394 20 By the slightest possible concert,
persevered in through four
or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be
formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
four, n. (1)
SR 2.55 11 [Conformists'] two is not the real two, their
four not the real
four;...
fourfold, adj. (2)
Nat 1.13 1 What angels invented...this fourfold year?
Hist 2.15 10 ...of the genius of one remarkable people
we have a fourfold
representation...
four-footed, adj. (1)
Exp 3.63 22 ...the exclusion...reaches the climbing,
flying, gliding, feathered and four-footed man.
four-horse, adj. (1)
EWI 11.102 4 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates
that the
Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.
Fourier, Francois Marie Ch (23)
YA 1.382 17 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to
distinguish in his
Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
SR 2.79 14 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and
power...a Fourier, it imposes its classification on other men...
NER 3.264 1 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of
St. Simon, of
Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in
Massachusetts on kindred plans...
MoS 4.183 26 Charles Fourier announced that the
attractions of man are
proportioned to his destinies;...
NMW 4.258 19 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient
as the pernicious
Napoleon.
ET14 5.250 13 Wilkinson...the annotator of
Fourier...has brought to
metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says
Fourier.
MoL 10.245 20 A French prophet of our age, Fourier,
predicted that one
day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's
excellence
in the manufacture of little cakes.
LLNE 10.346 16 These [19th Century] reformers were a
new class. Instead
of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...casting
sheep's-eyes
even on Fourier and his houris.
LLNE 10.347 2 Robert Owen knew Fourier in his old age.
LLNE 10.347 3 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned
of him all the truth
he had;...
LLNE 10.347 24 Fourier...turned a truly vast arithmetic
to the question of
social misery...
LLNE 10.348 12 Fourier carried a whole French
Revolution in his head...
LLNE 10.349 17 One could not but be struck with strange
coincidences
betwixt Fourier and Swedenborg.
LLNE 10.350 10 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the
bug, the flea, were
all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those
creatures should have been...
LLNE 10.352 8 Our feeling was that Fourier had skipped
no fact but one, namely Life.
LLNE 10.354 8 The Stoic said, Forbear, Fourier said,
Indulge.
LLNE 10.354 8 Fourier was of the opinion of
Saint-Evremond; abstinence
from pleasure appeared to him a great sin.
LLNE 10.354 11 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to
[Fourier] a great
sin. Fourier was very French indeed.
LLNE 10.354 13 The Fourier marriage was a calculation
how to secure the
greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution
admitted.
LLNE 10.358 5 One merchant to whom I described the
Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that
agricultural association must
presently fix the price of bread...
LLNE 10.367 10 The question which occurs to you had
occurred much
earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to
be
done?
LLNE 10.367 12 The question which occurs to you had
occurred much
earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to
be
done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have it, and jumped
with
joy.
Fourier, Francois Marie, n. (2)
EdAd 11.390 22 Can [a journal] front this matter of
Socialism, to which the
names of Owen and Fourier have attached, and dispose of that question?
II 12.70 12 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge,
they all begin...
Fourierism, n. (1)
NR 3.235 3 So with Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism,
and the
Millennial Church; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism
on
the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
Fourierists, n. (2)
YA 1.382 2 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors,
who, with the
Fourierists, undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make
every
man rich;...
LLNE 10.356 12 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists
had a sense of duty
which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
Fourierized, adj. (1)
LLNE 10.353 17 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ]
the whole world
becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized...
Fourier's, Francois Marie (2)
LLNE 10.352 24 There is an order in which in a sound
mind the faculties
always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual,
they
seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system
is
that it is a statement of such an order externized...
LLNE 10.354 5 It argued singular courage, the adoption
of Fourier's
system, to even a limited extent...
Fournier, Bishop, n. (1)
NMW 4.250 9 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier,
bishop of
Montpellier, on matters of theology.
four-petalled, adj. (1)
CL 12.150 11 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled
flower, which has one
gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
fours, n. (1)
FSLC 11.185 1 I thought none, that was not ready to go
on all fours, would
back this [Fugitive Slave] law.
fourscore, adj. (2)
OA 7.316 26 Nature...now puts an old head on young
shoulders, and then a
young heart beating under fourscore winters.
OA 7.335 24 ...the central wisdom, which was old in
infancy, is young in
fourscore years...
fourscore, n. (1)
OA 7.331 10 Bentley thought himself likely to live till
fourscore...
foursquare, adv. (1)
ET18 5.299 8 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the
English] stand
in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
fourteen, adj. (12)
Exp 3.83 13 I am not the novice I was fourteen, nor yet
seven years ago.
SwM 4.99 19 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of
engineering in
1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats
and a
sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
ET13 5.216 24 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system...
ET16 5.290 4 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part
of the crypt...was
built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
Wth 6.117 24 I remember in Warwickshire to have been
shown a fair
manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I
was
told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year;...
Boks 7.205 7 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the
student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down...through fourteen
hundred years of time.
SA 8.84 19 As long as men are born babes they will live
on credit for the
first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
Res 8.152 11 If I go into the woods in winter, and am
shown the thirteen or
fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that
they
quietly expand in the warmer days...
Plu 10.300 9 It is one of the felicities of literary
history, the tie which
inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across
fourteen centuries.
FRO1 11.479 7 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen
centuries, God the
Father had no temple and no altar.
CPL 11.499 2 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of
Harvard in its first
century...
CL 12.144 19 One more inconveniency [to walking], I
remember, they
showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was
fourteen feet
high.
fourteenth, adj. (4)
ET7 5.122 27 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal
for victory on
14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June,
1794;...
Cour 7.262 4 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an
officer in the
British Navy who told him that when he...a midshipman in his fourteenth
year, accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the
vessel
we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
EWI 11.112 1 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley,
Minister of the
Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the
Emancipation.
CW 12.175 2 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when
the meteors
come...
fourth, adj. (19)
ET1 5.22 11 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit
to Staffa, and
within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave, and was
composing a fourth when he was called in to see me.
F 6.12 20 ...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might
come to distinguish
in the embryo, at the fourth day,-this is a Whig...
Wth 6.115 10 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a
purslain or a dock that
is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the
last is a
third; he reaches out his hand to a fourth...
Ctr 6.139 20 The city breeds one kind of speech and
manners; the back
country a different style; the sea another; the army a fourth.
Elo1 7.61 12 One man is brought to the boiling-point by
the excitement of
conversation in the parlor. ... ...a fourth needs a revolution;...
DL 7.125 7 In each the circumstance signalized differs,
but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to
sea;... in a fourth, his coming out of the Quaker Society;...
Farm 7.143 22 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and
equal regard to
the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
Boks 7.221 10 Another member [of the literary club]
meantime shall as
honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the
histories
of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early
Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.
OA 7.328 17 For a fourth benefit, age sets its house in
order...
Aris 10.50 21 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth
question...
EzRy 10.385 15 And at last we have this record [from
Joseph Emerson], June 4th [1735]: Disposed of my shay to Rev. Mr.
White.
HDC 11.77 12 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord],
had a hereditary
claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth
generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.
EWI 11.117 14 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian]
islands that the
planters were disposed...to take from [the apprentices], under various
pretences, their fourth part of their time;...
EWI 11.131 10 ...the fourth article of the Constitution
of the United States
ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
FSLC 11.182 19 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]
ended a good
deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat, on the 19th of
April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.
ALin 11.334 8 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other
American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a
part of Kossuth's
speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other, and with no
fourth.
SMC 11.372 16 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
SMC 11.373 26 On the first of January, 1865, the
Thirty-second Regiment
made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of
works
before Petersburg. On the fourth of February, sudden orders came to
move
next morning at daylight.
PLT 12.25 23 All great masters are chiefly
distinguished by the power of
adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous
line.
Fourth, July, n. (1)
Chr2 10.92 3 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a
beast: but choice is
born in him;...here is the Declaration of Independence, the July Fourth
of
zoology and astronomy.
Fourth Lateran Council, n. (1)
LS 11.3 20 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed
that any believer
should communicate at least once in a year...
fourth, n. (3)
ET4 5.65 10 I suppose a hundred English taken at random
out of the street
weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
ET14 5.252 22 A good Englishman shuts himself out of
three fourths of his
mind and confines himself to one fourth.
EWI 11.112 16 ...the praedials [in the West Indies]
should owe three
fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years,
and the
non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time
was
to be his own...
Fourth of July, n. (2)
SL 2.152 14 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will
deliver an oration on
the Fourth of July...
WD 7.168 22 Remember what boys think in the
morning...of the Fourth of
July...
fourths, n. (2)
ET14 5.252 21 A good Englishman shuts himself out of
three fourths of his
mind...
EWI 11.112 13 ...the praedials [in the West Indies]
should owe three
fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
fowl, n. (6)
MR 1.245 26 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have
roast fowl to my
dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in
perceiving that [the
poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a
fowl or a
flying fish...
Nat2 3.195 17 They say that by electro-magnetism your
salad shall be
grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...
PPo 8.240 19 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the
all-wise fowl who
had lived ever since the beginning of the world...
Dem1 10.7 16 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see
not only a
glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen, but also in other faces the
features of
the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl.
Dem1 10.15 4 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so
foolish as to take care
of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise
directions
respecting our journey...
fowler, n. (1)
PPo 8.240 22 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the
all-wise fowl who
had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on
the
highest summit of Mount Kaf. No fowler has taken him...
fowling-piece, n. (2)
Nat2 3.177 5 A susceptible person does not like to
indulge his tastes in this
kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial
necessity:...he
carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod.
FRep 11.515 15 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when
men die for
what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with
the voice
of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the
rifle... and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
fowls, n. (2)
Lov1 2.177 3 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places
which pale
passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed,
save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the
sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
PI 8.55 17 Welcome, folded arms and fixed
eyes,/...Midnight walks, when
all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;/...
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