Fox, Charles James to Frequents

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

Fox, Charles James, n. (18)

    Mrs1 3.141 23 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    Mrs1 3.141 27 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    Mrs1 3.142 1 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Mrs1 3.142 8 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor;...
    Mrs1 3.142 13 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him...
    Mrs1 3.142 20 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    NER 3.274 10 ...Rousseau...Charles Fox...they would know the worst...
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    ET18 5.306 25 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...were by this means sent to Parliament...
    CbW 6.260 6 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Elo1 7.85 4 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Fox, of Pitt...deserve a special enumeration.
    PI 8.22 9 Charles James Fox thought Poetry the great refreshment of the human mind...
    Grts 8.318 20 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...in England, Charles James Fox;...
    Aris 10.51 22 To a right aristocracy...to Sir Robert Walpole, to Fox, Chatham...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    EWI 11.109 3 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].
    EWI 11.109 8 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate, Fox, Pitt, Burke... ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    ACri 12.286 11 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity,-Mirabeau, Chatham, Fox...

Fox, Cock and the [Geoffrey (1)

    ShP 4.198 4 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The Cock and the Fox, from the Lais of Marie...

Fox, George, n. (14)

    LT 1.269 13 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther...Fox...
    SR 2.61 18 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as... Quakerism, of Fox;...
    OS 2.282 6 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the convulsions of George Fox and his Quakers...are of this kind.
    Nat2 3.187 27 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    NER 3.279 26 A religious man, like...Fox...is not irritated by wanting the sanction of the Church...
    SwM 4.97 10 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Fox...will readily come to mind.
    MoS 4.183 1 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death;...
    ET13 5.216 21 ...George Fox, Penn, Bunyan are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
    Elo2 8.122 8 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like...Barclay, Fox...
    Chr2 10.111 22 ...Behmen, George Fox,-these speak originally;...
    SovE 10.203 23 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the Quakers, Fox and James Naylor.
    Prch 10.234 23 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of... George Fox...
    FRO2 11.488 22 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    FRep 11.539 12 It is not by heads reverted...to George Fox...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

Fox, Henry Richard Vassall (1)

    Chr1 3.101 10 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.

fox, n. (11)

    Nat 1.26 19 ...a cunning man is a fox...
    Nat 1.65 11 The fox and the deer run away from us;...
    SR 2.44 3 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./
    Comp 2.116 7 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every...fox...
    Exp 3.63 23 Fox and woodchuck...have no more root in the deep world than man...
    WD 7.164 25 I saw a brave man...hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    WD 7.178 7 A snake converts whatever prey the meadow yields him into snake; a fox, into fox;...
    SovE 10.188 2 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
    Thor 10.467 2 ...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck and fox, on the banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.469 15 [Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or a bird...
    PLT 12.31 27 ...a dog has a sense that you have not, to find the track of his master or of a fox...

Fox, Renard the, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 15 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...

foxes, n. (4)

    F 6.31 12 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    Elo2 8.114 7 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was the companion...of jays and foxes...
    LLNE 10.356 5 Since the foxes and the birds have the right of it, with a warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    Thor 10.472 8 ...[Thoreau]...took the foxes under his protection from the hunters.

fox-grapes, n. (1)

    Bost 12.192 14 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays or by the sweetfern or by the fox-grapes;...

Fox's, George, n. (1)

    DSA 1.145 12 Once...take secondary knowledge, as...George Fox's...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...

Fox's, John, n. (1)

    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at Fox's Lives of the Martyrs...

fracas, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.153 13 Life [in the city] is dragged down to a fracas of pitiful cares and disasters.
    CbW 6.275 17 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    CInt 12.113 2 I cannot consent to wander from the duties of this day into the fracas of politics.

fraction, n. (6)

    MR 1.233 11 That is the vice,-that no one feels himself called to act for man, but only as a fraction of man.
    ET14 5.255 7 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims, and the smallest fraction of power remains for heroism and poetry.
    Wsp 6.219 1 ...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.
    SS 7.9 3 ...the moment we meet with anybody, each becomes a fraction.
    Cour 7.273 5 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.
    EdAd 11.383 5 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet...

fractions, n. (3)

    NER 3.264 23 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men...
    Comc 8.157 9 The Reason...meddles never with degrees or fractions;...
    Comc 8.157 9 ...it is in comparing fractions with essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.

fracture, n. (2)

    ACiv 11.303 5 Better the war...should threaten fracture in what is still whole...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    MLit 12.324 26 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

fragment, n. (8)

    LE 1.182 8 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then he is a whole, and not a fragment;...
    Con 1.296 3 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention...
    Cir 2.302 11 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining...
    Exp 3.83 5 I know better than to claim any completeness for my picture. I am a fragment, and this is a fragment of me.
    NR 3.225 24 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    ET3 5.41 14 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France, and gave to this fragment of Europe [England] its impregnable sea-wall...
    ET12 5.203 16 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts,--every scrap and fragment...
    Art2 7.54 19 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.

Fragment of Races [Robert (1)

    F 6.16 17 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox, in his Fragment of Races...

Fragment on Mummies [Thomas (1)

    PI 8.51 7 It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment on Mummies the claim of poetry...

fragmentarily, adv. (2)

    Pt1 3.39 2 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.
    ET12 5.211 23 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write...must read meanly and fragmentarily.

fragmentary, adj. (5)

    DSA 1.151 14 ...[the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures]...are fragmentary;...
    SwM 4.103 12 Our books are false by being fragmentary...
    GoW 4.287 20 [Goethe] is fragmentary;...
    PLT 12.11 24 ...he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
    ACri 12.303 16 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer, an infirm, capricious, fragmentary soul, is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

fragments, n. (15)

    LT 1.265 27 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough...
    Comp 2.124 14 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul...
    Cir 2.309 21 ...we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that...[idealism] is true in gleams and fragments.
    NER 3.277 11 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like fragments of ice...
    GoW 4.264 14 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see connection where the multitude see fragments...
    Elo1 7.66 5 ...in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure [of the orator] in fragments...
    PI 8.57 22 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    QO 8.181 17 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.
    PPo 8.261 15 We add to these fragments of Hafiz a few specimens from other poets.
    Edc1 10.146 1 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this.
    Plu 10.302 22 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
    Plu 10.303 1 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages,-not only Thespis, Polemos...but fragments of Menander and Pindar.
    Plu 10.303 2 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    Thor 10.473 13 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...
    Mem 12.110 13 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us, not as now in fragments and detached thoughts...

fragrance, n. (2)

    SwM 4.143 27 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends; but the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him that the skirt dropped from his hands?...
    Thor 10.481 13 [Thoreau] liked the pure fragrance of melilot.

fragrancy, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 9 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...but the goddess of grace had breathed on the work a last fragrancy and glitter.

fragrant, adj. (7)

    DSA 1.126 12 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    LE 1.158 24 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor: its fragrant midsummer breath...
    Nat2 3.188 14 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...
    CbW 6.247 17 I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
    Art2 7.52 8 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition, as they...remind you of the fragrant thoughts and the purest resolutions of your youth.
    PerF 10.75 12 [Labor] is twisted and screwed into fragrant hay which fills the barn.
    EWI 11.124 13 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant; the tobacco was incense;...

frail, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.58 24 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into time.
    Comp 2.92 3 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:/ Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,/ None from its stock that vine can reave./
    ET4 5.49 19 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...
    ET12 5.203 27 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    Imtl 8.330 22 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    MMEm 10.414 16 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine...anxious, and wrapped in others, frail and feverish as myself.
    MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.

frailest, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.188 19 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...
    Trag 12.411 16 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

frailty, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.426 26 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    LVB 11.88 3 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...

frame, n. (34)

    Nat 1.22 1 Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
    Nat 1.66 2 In inquiries respecting...the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.
    MN 1.223 15 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    MN 1.223 16 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    Con 1.298 17 ...[conservatism] goes to make an adroit member of the social frame...
    Con 1.319 10 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital...
    Hist 2.37 4 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    Art1 2.356 23 When [dancing] has educated the frame to self-possession... the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    Exp 3.59 14 The whole frame of things preaches indifferency.
    Nat2 3.186 9 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
    Nat2 3.187 1 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    PPh 4.57 21 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    SwM 4.98 24 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size.
    SwM 4.118 19 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ShP 4.194 18 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building, which serves also as a frame to hold the figures;...
    GoW 4.264 16 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order, and so to supply the axis on which the frame of things turns.
    ET11 5.172 17 The frame of [English] society is aristocratic...
    ET14 5.234 27 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words...
    F 6.12 2 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... an athletic frame for wide journeying...
    Bty 6.305 13 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.
    WD 7.169 22 ...a thousand spectacles [the variable wind] brings, and each is the frame or dwelling of a new spirit.
    Boks 7.213 24 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance...
    PI 8.18 24 [The act of imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance.
    PI 8.52 26 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
    Aris 10.43 3 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...
    PerF 10.74 4 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world...
    Thor 10.461 13 [Thoreau's] senses were acute, his frame well-knit and hardy...
    FSLC 11.200 3 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare, which cast light on the whole frame of society.
    FRO2 11.489 24 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    PLT 12.20 12 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.31 20 [A man's aptitude] is...an organic sympathy with the whole frame of things.
    II 12.67 14 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    MAng1 12.222 17 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    PPr 12.391 15 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.

frame, v. (4)

    NER 3.282 18 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
    PI 8.43 1 None any work can frame,/ Unless himself become the same./
    LLNE 10.323 3 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LVB 11.88 2 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame/...

framed, adj. (2)

    Civ 7.21 11 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Thor 10.457 26 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...

framed, v. (16)

    Nat 1.26 4 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed;...
    Pol1 3.202 8 Personal rights...demand a government framed on the ratio of the census;...
    Pol1 3.202 9 ...property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.
    PPh 4.46 7 If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    SwM 4.103 19 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise...
    ET10 5.164 10 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...
    ET17 5.294 23 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    Pow 6.51 1 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/...
    Ctr 6.146 12 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Bty 6.295 13 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...is framed and glazed...
    Ill 6.319 3 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
    Art2 7.35 1 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    PI 8.9 13 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them. His words and his thoughts are framed by their help.
    QO 8.184 5 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...
    RBur 11.443 16 ...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to play [Burns's songs];...
    Milt1 12.245 1 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./

frames, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.128 26 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors with keener eyes and stronger frames.
    ET4 5.65 15 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome;...and there is a tendency to stout and powerful frames.
    Insp 8.296 15 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.

frames, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.140 3 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...

framework, n. (1)

    ET18 5.299 2 [England] is no ideal framework...

France, Campaign in [Goethe (1)

    GoW 4.287 2 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...his Campaign in France...have the same interest.

France, Marie de, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 5 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The Cock and the Fox, from the Lais of Marie...

France, n. (90)

    LE 1.159 9 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. What else is Greece, Rome, England, France, St. Helena?
    MN 1.206 22 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...
    LT 1.284 14 This Ennui...this word of France has got a terrific significance.
    Con 1.323 5 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
    YA 1.380 11 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the Communism of France, Germany, and Switzerland;...
    Mrs1 3.136 13 [Montaigne's] arrival in each place, the arrival of a gentleman of France, is an event of some consequence.
    UGM 4.23 5 I like...Bonaparte, in France.
    SwM 4.99 16 ...[Swedenborg]...visited the universities of England, Holland, France and Germany.
    MoS 4.164 22 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    NMW 4.223 15 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.224 14 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men...in France...
    NMW 4.226 9 ...Mirabeau plagiarized every good thought, every good word that was spoken in France.
    NMW 4.227 4 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity and to much more than his predominance in France.
    NMW 4.227 19 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    NMW 4.235 13 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...until Italy was as open to Paris as any town in France.
    NMW 4.240 11 [Napoleon] interests us as he stands for France and for Europe;...
    NMW 4.241 24 [Napoleon] knew, as well as any Jacobin in France, how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    NMW 4.242 18 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    NMW 4.257 13 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it;...
    NMW 4.257 16 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    NMW 4.258 9 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
    GoW 4.280 25 In France there is even a greater delight in intellectual brilliancy for its own sake.
    GoW 4.283 9 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    ET1 5.3 3 In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy and France, I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET3 5.36 8 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility...
    ET3 5.41 13 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET4 5.57 20 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe. No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
    ET4 5.60 15 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET5 5.74 5 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET5 5.82 17 ...in France, fraternity, equality, and indivisible unity are names for assassination.
    ET7 5.120 10 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it; much less a nation decimated for conscripts and out of pocket, like France.
    ET8 5.141 13 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France, of Turkey...
    ET9 5.145 24 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
    ET10 5.155 25 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.161 24 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET11 5.175 18 Our success in France, says the historian [Thomas Fuller], lived and died with [Richard Beauchamp].
    ET11 5.175 23 In France and in England, the nobles were, down to a late day, born and bred to war...
    ET11 5.180 23 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
    ET11 5.193 12 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
    ET12 5.201 10 Isaac Casaubon, coming from Henri Quatre of France...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
    ET16 5.275 5 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France and go with their countrymen and are amused...
    ET18 5.303 16 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect...like that which intoxicated France in 1789.
    ET18 5.307 19 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.
    Wth 6.96 9 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...magnificent Kings of France...or whatever great proprietors.
    Wth 6.110 4 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Bhr 6.178 15 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries, as France, Germany, Spain, Turkey, the eyes wink at each new name.
    Elo1 7.82 17 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...
    Boks 7.206 13 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    Clbs 7.238 21 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when France, in the person of Madame de Stael, visited Goethe and Schiller;...
    Clbs 7.242 21 There was a time when in France a revolution occurred in domestic architecture;...
    OA 7.322 27 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France...
    PI 8.60 1 The Crusades brought out the genius of France...
    SA 8.94 4 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy, as well as in France;...
    SA 8.94 6 ...[Madame de Stael] said...Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
    SA 8.104 12 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes are withdrawn from England, withdrawn from France, and look homeward.
    Elo2 8.122 4 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...
    Res 8.150 13 In England men of letters drink wine;...in France, light wines;...
    Res 8.150 15 ...in France the theatre and the ball occupy the night.
    Res 8.151 2 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame. I know its repute, and I have heard it called the France of France.
    PC 8.213 26 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    PC 8.233 17 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society...
    Grts 8.308 10 Montluc, the great marshal of France, says of...Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Grts 8.315 22 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France...
    Grts 8.318 21 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...in France...Voltaire.
    Aris 10.40 17 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Chr2 10.116 22 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel in France...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    MoL 10.242 23 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...
    MoL 10.248 9 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over...
    Plu 10.295 4 In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
    Plu 10.296 8 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].
    Plu 10.296 17 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch...
    LLNE 10.328 14 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France.
    LLNE 10.347 26 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    LLNE 10.363 22 Rev. William Henry Channing...was from the first a student of Socialism in France and England...
    War 11.159 10 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit] to France, where he was introduced to the king.
    War 11.163 14 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system...of Russia, Austria and France;...
    FSLC 11.186 10 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...France its love of gunpowder;...
    EPro 11.324 14 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
    EPro 11.324 21 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of France, French Algiers...
    ALin 11.336 16 [Lincoln] had conquered the public opinion of Canada, England and France.
    SMC 11.361 15 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.
    Wom 11.415 18 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;...
    ChiE 11.473 22 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us, as well as England and France...
    CPL 11.504 18 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    CPL 11.504 26 Montesquieu, one of the greatest minds that France has produced, writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    MAng1 12.224 1 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
    Milt1 12.254 24 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
    Milt1 12.255 20 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
    MLit 12.318 23 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany, was imported into France by De Stael...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    PPr 12.379 3 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France...

franchise, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.203 22 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    ET13 5.227 5 Brougham, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Irish elective franchise, said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET18 5.305 14 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic emancipation...
    ET18 5.306 13 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the limited franchise...

Francis, Convers, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.341 13 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...

Francis I, of France, n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 12 Ximenes...Francis I...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.

Francis, Philip, n. (1)

    QO 8.197 17 Dumont was exalted by being used by Mirabeau, by Bentham and by Sir Philip Francis...

Franconia Flume, New Hamps (1)

    MMEm 10.401 20 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...

francs, n. (1)

    II 12.83 7 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...

franc's, n. (1)

    WD 7.159 5 ...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for twenty days.

frank, adj. (12)

    AmS 1.98 4 Years are well spent...in frank intercourse with many men and women;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    AmS 1.103 18 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    SL 2.142 3 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man...should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.
    Art1 2.362 23 ...we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Chr1 3.92 2 Our frank countrymen of the west and south have a taste for character...
    NER 3.280 22 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing...
    ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    Pow 6.65 2 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage. Fierce and unscrupulous, they are usually frank and direct and above falsehood.
    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...
    LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...in frank and affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
    TPar 11.291 1 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker [Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.

Frank, n. (1)

    Con 1.317 4 ...the vigor of Clovis the Frank...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

frankest, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.164 24 Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.

Frankfort, Germany, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.163 19 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.

Frankfort on the Main, Germ (1)

    YA 1.367 11 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as...the gardens at Munich and at Frankfort on the Main...

frankincense, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.216 24 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.

Franklin, Benjamin, n. (27)

    SR 2.83 16 Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin...
    Nat2 3.183 27 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    NR 3.229 11 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be?
    UGM 4.19 19 [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...
    ET11 5.187 3 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a baby?
    ET14 5.238 23 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    Wth 6.109 4 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
    Ctr 6.161 16 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
    CbW 6.248 22 Franklin said, Mankind are very superficial and dastardly...
    CbW 6.261 5 The first-class minds...Cervantes, Shakspeare, Franklin, had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
    Elo1 7.88 15 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Franklin.
    WD 7.183 11 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality...
    Clbs 7.240 22 Who can stop the mouth...of Franklin...
    Cour 7.254 19 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether, exploring the chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
    Cour 7.258 3 Mankind, said Franklin, are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
    OA 7.323 1 We still feel the force...of Franklin, Jefferson and Adams...
    PI 8.3 13 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Franklin, Napoleon.
    SA 8.85 1 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    Insp 8.274 6 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?...
    Insp 8.274 7 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself...
    Grts 8.302 27 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin?
    Imtl 8.339 5 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    MoL 10.248 21 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Franklin, with lightning;...
    EWI 11.137 3 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, in this country, all recorded their votes.
    FSLC 11.209 8 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument; Franklin for his......
    Shak1 11.453 10 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule;...
    Mem 12.97 25 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception, like Franklin or Swift...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

Franklin, John, n. (3)

    SR 2.86 16 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
    ET4 5.68 16 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...
    ET5 5.91 11 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...

Franklin-like, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.72 4 [Socrates] had a Franklin-like wisdom.

Franklin's, Benjamin, n. (2)

    Boks 7.208 11 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.
    Milt1 12.255 17 Franklin's man is a frugal, inoffensive, thrifty citizen...

Franklins, n. (2)

    F 6.18 1 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes were made of...Franklins...
    Wth 6.96 19 It is the interest of all that there should be...Rosses, Franklins, Richardsons and Kanes, to find the magnetic and the geographic poles.

frankly, adv. (15)

    LE 1.184 2 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means.
    Int 2.343 15 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new. Frankly let him accept it all.
    ET10 5.154 6 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment, if not so frankly put, yet deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET12 5.208 21 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
    ET17 5.293 13 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England]...
    F 6.4 12 By obeying each thought frankly...we learn at last its power.
    Bhr 6.197 14 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners? the golden mean is...say frankly, unattainable.
    Cour 7.275 10 Let us say then frankly that the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    OA 7.313 19 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    OA 7.319 1 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low, melancholy and skeptical. Frankly face the facts, and see the result.
    QO 8.200 17 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?
    Grts 8.317 8 William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
    Schr 10.268 27 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn that you have little to tell them;...
    FSLN 11.228 13 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said...Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    Trag 12.410 8 Frankly...it is necessary to say that all sorrow dwells in a low region.

frankness, n. (11)

    LE 1.184 5 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
    Prd1 2.237 3 ...frankness invites frankness...
    Prd1 2.240 24 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    MoS 4.165 18 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    Ctr 6.136 14 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    SA 8.81 20 Who teaches manners...of frankness...
    SA 8.92 25 If you rise to frankness and generosity, [people] will respect it now or later.
    Elo2 8.122 1 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with certain frankness...in their style;...
    PC 8.229 14 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    Thor 10.478 25 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau...
    MLit 12.326 14 [Goethe] differs from all the great in the total want of frankness.

Frankness, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 25 Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and Hope.

frantic, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.54 7 Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo...
    OS 2.289 1 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Plu 10.304 14 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...

Fraser's Magazine, n. (1)

    ET1 5.15 27 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine; Fraser's nearer approach to possibility of life was the mud magazine;...

fraternal, adj. (1)

    OS 2.291 19 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...

fraternities, n. (2)

    ET1 5.5 25 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities...
    SHC 11.433 13 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.

fraternity, n. (8)

    Mrs1 3.120 16 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society, running through all the countries of intelligent men, a...fraternity of the best...
    ET5 5.82 17 ...in France, fraternity, equality, and indivisible unity are names for assassination.
    ET19 5.311 18 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
    SS 7.8 20 ...all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruiting of the holy fraternity [friendships] shall combine for the salvation of men.
    SovE 10.200 12 Certainly it is human to value...a fraternity of believers...
    SovE 10.209 6 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity with assemblings and holy-days...
    Plu 10.300 15 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...make the best example of the universal citizenship and fraternity of the human mind.
    Let 12.397 4 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends, who will then show like a close fraternity held by some masonic tie.

fraternize, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.131 2 ...good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other.

fraternized, v. (1)

    EurB 12.377 5 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister]...

fraternizes, v. (1)

    PLT 12.30 10 Power fraternizes with power...

fraternizing, v. (1)

    NR 3.232 15 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.

fratricide, n. (1)

    War 11.157 10 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.

fraud, n. (17)

    Nat 1.30 11 In due time the fraud is manifest...
    MR 1.230 22 The ways of trade are grown...supple to the borders (if not beyond the borders) of fraud.
    MR 1.231 18 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities.
    Con 1.308 4 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess; it was not got by fraud, nor by luck, but by work...
    YA 1.389 16 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Comp 2.118 23 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    MoS 4.183 21 [The man of thought] is content...with triumph of folly and fraud.
    ET10 5.167 25 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...
    CbW 6.256 13 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry,--coarse selfishness, fraud and conspiracy;...
    Suc 7.290 17 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud.
    QO 8.193 5 ...the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed.
    Aris 10.41 26 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a new country; was at once made a chief. And no wrong was so keenly resented as any fraud in this transaction.
    LLNE 10.328 4 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    LVB 11.94 24 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    TPar 11.289 27 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...successful fraud...it is a hypocrisy...
    EPro 11.318 26 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by...the incessant resistance which fraud and violence encounter.
    PPr 12.381 11 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exposure of the progress of fraud into all parts and social activities;...

frauds, n. (3)

    SL 2.135 20 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
    ET15 5.264 16 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    Schr 10.267 15 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an acceptance of the method and frauds of other men;...

fraudulent, adj. (2)

    LT 1.279 16 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of... fraudulent persons.
    Pow 6.82 8 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...

fraudulently, adv. (1)

    MR 1.231 24 ...in the Spanish islands...no article passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened.

Frauenhofer, Joseph, n. (1)

    F 6.12 18 ...with high magnifiers, Mr. Frauenhofer...might come to distinguish in the embryo...this is a Whig...

fraught, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.391 21 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...

fraught, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.265 3 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...till...memory have its perfect fraught;...

fray, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 14 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords.

freak, n. (12)

    Pol1 3.206 15 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property;...
    ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline: freak, extravagance and exhibition took the place of the old temperance.
    ET1 5.9 17 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...
    ET9 5.144 13 There is no freak so ridiculous but some Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.
    ET10 5.165 9 [The English] delight in a freak as the proof of their sovereign freedom.
    Wsp 6.208 23 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of opinion, they run into freak and extravagance.
    Edc1 10.140 7 In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost sense of Horace.
    SovE 10.184 14 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does; and, if it be in smaller measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by freak and folly.
    Plu 10.320 22 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled, but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators, whether from negligence or freak.
    CSC 10.374 18 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    EWI 11.139 12 What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
    ACri 12.288 12 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.

freaks, n. (4)

    ET10 5.165 15 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...
    OA 7.316 24 Nature is full of freaks...
    Aris 10.46 12 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like the freaks of the wind...
    WSL 12.339 27 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands and the jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in water, he washes them in wine; but you are never secure from his freaks.

Frederic the Great, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.110 16 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity-say the sarcasms of...Frederic the Great...good-naturedly...

Frederick II, History of [ (1)

    ACri 12.298 10 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...

Frederick II, of Prussia, (2)

    Grts 8.318 2 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Grts 8.318 3 Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone.

Fredericksburg, Virginia, ad (1)

    SMC 11.371 21 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road.

Fredericksburg, Virginia, n. (2)

    SMC 11.367 25 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without moving...
    SMC 11.368 9 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...

Frederics, n. (1)

    SwM 4.98 17 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.

Frederikshald, Sweden, n. (1)

    SwM 4.99 18 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald...

free, adj. (151)

    Nat 1.34 2 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
    Nat 1.54 24 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the world...
    AmS 1.104 2 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave.
    AmS 1.104 3 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution.
    LE 1.165 3 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization...
    LE 1.166 7 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    LE 1.166 18 ...[the speaker] only adjusts himself to the free spirit which gladly utters itself through him;...
    MR 1.228 5 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place a free and helpful man...
    MR 1.246 1 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Con 1.318 12 ...beside that charity which should...engage [adult persons] to see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance into life, we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Con 1.326 5 ...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation...has so free a field before it.
    Tran 1.349 11 You make very free use of these words great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
    YA 1.371 11 ...new-born, free, healthful, strong...[America] should speak for the human race.
    Comp 2.100 26 Under the primeval despots of Egypt...man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    Comp 2.107 12 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted...to shake itself free of the old laws...
    Fdsp 2.189 9 ...My careful heart was free again,--/ O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
    Hsm1 2.247 18 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./
    Hsm1 2.262 16 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob, for the rights of free speech and opinion...
    OS 2.289 3 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
    Int 2.338 9 ...when we write with ease and come out into the free air of thought, we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Int 2.338 14 ...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures, but the Muse makes us free of her city.
    Art1 2.357 3 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
    Pt1 3.28 7 These [stimulants] are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space...
    Pt1 3.32 3 The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
    Pt1 3.32 4 [Poets] are free, and they make free.
    Exp 3.61 18 The fine young people despise life, but in me, and in such as with me are free from dyspepsia...it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Mrs1 3.149 21 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;...
    Mrs1 3.154 16 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    Nat2 3.196 13 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.
    NER 3.254 24 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act...to flow from the whole spirit and faith of him; for then that taking will have a giving as free and divine;...
    UGM 4.17 17 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy...
    PNR 4.89 17 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards. Let such be free of the city and above the law.
    MoS 4.177 26 There is a painful rumor in circulation that...free agency is the emptiest name.
    GoW 4.271 26 [Goethe]...was born with a free and controlling genius.
    ET4 5.45 14 [The English] are free forcible men...
    ET5 5.75 16 The island [England] is lucrative to free labor...
    ET5 5.97 17 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...
    ET6 5.103 16 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England], and hardly even thought is free.
    ET13 5.222 19 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET14 5.254 3 ...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.
    ET18 5.304 26 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    ET19 5.310 5 The arguments of the League and its leader are known to all the friends of free trade.
    F 6.23 10 So far as a man thinks, he is free.
    F 6.28 12 If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment.
    F 6.29 16 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
    F 6.48 25 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Wth 6.106 2 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
    Wth 6.116 2 Long free walks...free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
    Wth 6.117 3 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin, nor will bigger incomes make free spending safe.
    Ctr 6.135 1 [Our student] must have...a power to see with a free and disengaged look every object.
    Ctr 6.144 25 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Ctr 6.165 19 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    Ctr 6.166 2 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    Wsp 6.211 1 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
    SS 7.8 13 The determination of each is from all the others, like that of each tree up into free space.
    Civ 7.33 26 ...if there be...a country...where speech is not free;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Civ 7.34 10 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Civ 7.34 19 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free;...
    Art2 7.42 11 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers, and he is no longer free.
    Art2 7.50 1 In poetry, where every word is free, every word is necessary.
    Elo1 7.94 21 If you would liberate me you must be free.
    Farm 7.141 19 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.144 6 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    WD 7.164 22 A man has a reputation, and is no longer free, but must respect that.
    WD 7.164 25 I saw a brave man...hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    WD 7.182 18 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine.
    Clbs 7.244 8 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities, and are the compensation which these can make to their dwellers for depriving them of the free intercourse with Nature.
    Cour 7.266 5 ...there is no separate essence called courage...but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
    Cour 7.275 4 [The man with sacred courage] is free to speak truth; he is not free to lie.
    PI 8.2 6 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...
    PI 8.32 1 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle...
    PI 8.62 12 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free.
    PI 8.71 20 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
    PI 8.72 18 ...Dante was free imagination...yet he wrote like Euclid.
    Elo2 8.112 4 [Debate] is eminently the art which only flourishes in free countries.
    QO 8.204 13 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    PC 8.211 6 Here the tongue is free, and the hand;...
    PC 8.216 21 We grow free with [Michelangelo's] name, and find it ornamental now;...
    PC 8.231 6 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
    PC 8.231 7 We wish...to ordain free trade, and believe that it will not bankrupt us;...
    Grts 8.309 1 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    PerF 10.86 21 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us and we do not know enough to be free.
    Chr2 10.116 12 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Edc1 10.134 22 [Our culture] does not make us brave or free.
    SovE 10.187 17 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when...the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
    MoL 10.254 16 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    MoL 10.258 10 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain, to end once for all that pest of all our free institutions, one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    LLNE 10.355 14 In our free institutions, where every man is at liberty to choose his home and his trade...fortunes are easily made...
    CSC 10.374 1 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    MMEm 10.419 20 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation...
    SlHr 10.446 15 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Carl 10.491 12 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...
    Carl 10.492 5 [Young men] go for free institutions...[Carlyle] for stringent government...
    Carl 10.492 18 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.
    LS 11.20 3 I will love [Jesus] as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship...
    LS 11.23 25 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
    HDC 11.47 16 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...
    HDC 11.48 26 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...
    HDC 11.69 7 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    HDC 11.84 9 The old town clerks [of Concord]...contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of a free and just community.
    EWI 11.112 19 ...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, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons; and at the end of the term of years fixed, he should be free.
    EWI 11.112 27 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.113 4 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
    EWI 11.116 1 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
    EWI 11.121 6 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are as free...as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.121 15 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
    EWI 11.134 9 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    EWI 11.136 5 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    EWI 11.138 12 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    FSLC 11.182 13 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which extorts language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?
    FSLC 11.208 6 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    FSLC 11.208 17 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.231 13 I know...how idle are all attempts to shake ourselves free from [conservatism].
    FSLN 11.234 2 [Official papers] are no guaranty to the free states.
    FSLN 11.240 25 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    FSLN 11.244 20 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it.
    AsSu 11.247 9 Life has not parity of value in the free state and in the slave state.
    AsSu 11.250 23 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being were not...a believer that all men should be free.
    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...and we free statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.
    AKan 11.260 27 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery.
    JBB 11.270 27 We fancy, in Massachusetts, that we are free;...
    ACiv 11.301 20 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    ACiv 11.303 15 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
    ACiv 11.303 17 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded...
    ACiv 11.306 3 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    ACiv 11.309 17 It is not free institutions, it is not a republic, it is not a democracy, that is the end...
    EPro 11.321 19 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind. We shall cease to be hypocrites and pretenders, but what we have styled our free institutions will be such.
    EPro 11.321 26 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.
    EPro 11.323 26 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
    EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
    SMC 11.349 17 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    CPL 11.508 6 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves;...
    FRep 11.540 26 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation. 'T is not free institutions, 't is not a democracy that is the end,-no, but only the means.
    FRep 11.541 18 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses...
    FRep 11.543 4 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
    PLT 12.57 20 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    CInt 12.124 11 ...there is a certain shyness...of free thought...in colleges...
    CL 12.149 1 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.
    Bost 12.210 2 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    MAng1 12.235 20 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done.
    MAng1 12.236 1 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.
    Milt1 12.264 7 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
    Milt1 12.267 16 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    MLit 12.321 19 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
    MLit 12.331 26 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.
    WSL 12.338 1 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow;...
    WSL 12.340 16 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find free and sustained thought...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Pray 12.352 19 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them. I am tired to stay long, because my mind is not free...
    Trag 12.412 20 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands.

free, n. (1)

    EWI 11.134 5 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation of the slave-holder.

Free School, n. (1)

    ET13 5.224 1 ...[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 Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.

Free States, n. (2)

    SlHr 10.438 25 ...when the votes of the Free States, as shown in the recent election in the State of Pennsylvania, had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    FSLN 11.233 19 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens.

Free Trade, adj. (1)

    Res 8.148 9 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...

Free Trade, n. (1)

    NER 3.255 15 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade...

free, v. (2)

    LT 1.280 9 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look. Does he free me?
    Wth 6.116 3 Long free walks...free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.

free-booter, n. (1)

    Suc 7.287 8 The Norseman was a restless rider, fighter, free-booter.

freeborn, adj. (5)

    Mrs1 3.135 23 ...Napoleon...was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    HDC 11.69 26 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we...will... with the same resolution, as [George III's] freeborn subjects in this country, to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest posterity.
    EWI 11.121 18 It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
    EWI 11.130 5 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.130 18 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...

freed, v. (1)

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

Freedman's Bureau, n. (1)

    GSt 10.503 10 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...

freedmen, n. (1)

    GSt 10.507 12 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 Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...

Freedmen's, Bureau, n. (1)

    PC 8.208 24 The war gave us...the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau.

freedom, n. (190)

    AmS 1.104 3 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution.
    DSA 1.142 21 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety and their longings for civil freedom.
    DSA 1.148 14 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends, so that not the unjust wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom...
    LE 1.180 2 ...[Napoleon] believed...in the freedom...of the soul.
    MN 1.217 14 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love? his fancied freedom and self-rule-is it not so much death?
    MR 1.245 22 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is practised for freedom...
    LT 1.291 1 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we...disgraced the fair Day by a pusillanimous preference of our bread to our freedom.
    Con 1.311 12 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this towered and citied world?...
    Tran 1.356 25 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted; all freedom and flowing genius...are quite out of the question;...
    YA 1.370 19 We cannot look on the freedom of this country...without a presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    YA 1.380 24 These [Communities] proceeded...from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted...
    YA 1.381 10 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    Hist 2.7 5 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
    Hist 2.15 4 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
    Hist 2.34 2 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
    SL 2.132 23 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom.
    Fdsp 2.207 21 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Prd1 2.235 21 ...the best good of wealth is freedom.
    Hsm1 2.247 1 Kiss thy lord,/ And live with all the freedom you were wont./
    Hsm1 2.262 8 More freedom exists for culture.
    Pt1 3.28 16 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and, as it was a spurious mode of attaining freedom...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    Pt1 3.28 18 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...as it was an emancipation not into the heavens but into the freedom of baser places, they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    Pt1 3.30 22 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Mrs1 3.131 17 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.
    Pol1 3.205 26 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    Pol1 3.206 2 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    Pol1 3.211 11 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    Pol1 3.216 2 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
    Pol1 3.219 19 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom...
    PPh 4.51 17 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...necessity; the other, freedom...
    PPh 4.52 20 ...[Europe] is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom.
    SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
    MoS 4.164 25 [Montaigne's] French freedom runs into grossness;...
    ShP 4.194 19 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.211 15 ...[Shakespeare] could...draw the fine demarcations of freedom and of fate...
    NMW 4.237 20 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
    NMW 4.241 3 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops]...
    NMW 4.257 15 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be begun again.
    GoW 4.273 7 There is a heart-cheering freedom in [Goethe's] speculation.
    ET1 5.9 18 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge, as if to signalize their commanding freedom.
    ET4 5.51 2 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
    ET5 5.81 7 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.
    ET5 5.82 16 Life [in England] is safe, and personal rights; and what is freedom without security?...
    ET5 5.88 12 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home? The questions of freedom, of taxation, of privilege, are money questions.
    ET8 5.141 9 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe...
    ET9 5.144 18 The pursy man [in England] means by freedom the right to do as he pleases...
    ET9 5.144 19 The pursy man [in England]...does wrong in order to feel his freedom...
    ET9 5.150 22 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality and in the more important ones of freedom, virtue and science.
    ET10 5.165 9 [The English] delight in a freak as the proof of their sovereign freedom.
    ET14 5.236 13 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    ET15 5.269 14 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns...
    ET15 5.271 19 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET18 5.304 23 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom,--freedom which is double-edged and dangerous to any but the wise and robust.
    ET18 5.308 5 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    F 6.13 11 Now and then a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.
    F 6.21 19 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.
    F 6.23 4 To hazard the contradiction,-freedom is necessary.
    F 6.23 7 ...a part of Fate is the freedom of man.
    F 6.23 13 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    F 6.25 9 The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.
    F 6.29 10 A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of courage, are not arguments but sallies of freedom.
    F 6.36 4 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    F 6.36 16 ...to see how fate slides into freedom and freedom into fate, observe how far the roots of every creature run...
    F 6.36 17 ...to see how fate slides into freedom and freedom into fate, observe how far the roots of every creature run...
    F 6.38 19 Life is freedom...
    F 6.47 7 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...
    Pow 6.61 26 Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain every faculty of every citizen.
    Wth 6.89 2 Wealth requires...the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Wth 6.89 3 Wealth requires...the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Bhr 6.189 15 ...even the size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
    Wsp 6.219 13 ...though the new element of freedom and an individual has been admitted, yet the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
    Wsp 6.240 17 ...the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    Bty 6.288 11 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...they would regain their freedom.
    SS 7.14 10 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    Civ 7.26 1 Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom.
    Civ 7.30 22 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.
    Civ 7.33 13 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    Art2 7.57 6 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Elo1 7.84 8 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Elo1 7.95 15 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    DL 7.114 3 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
    DL 7.121 12 [The eager, blushing boys] pine for freedom from that mild parental yoke;...
    DL 7.121 14 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation...
    WD 7.185 21 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done... then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which...makes us great in all conditions, and as the only definition we have of freedom and power.
    Boks 7.214 5 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.214 8 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
    Clbs 7.241 17 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to share with him the sphere of freedom and the simplicity of truth.
    Clbs 7.248 4 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men meet with the freedom of boys...
    Cour 7.274 27 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal;...
    PI 8.53 26 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style...
    PI 8.72 14 The problem of the poet is to unite freedom with precision;...
    SA 8.90 17 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.104 17 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of freedom...
    Res 8.151 13 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk, so allowing the picnic-party the full freedom of the woods.
    PC 8.210 25 Take as a type the boundless freedom here in Massachusetts.
    PC 8.211 6 Here...the freedom of action goes to the brink, if not over the brink, of license.
    Insp 8.277 10 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Dem1 10.9 10 Sleep...arms us with terrible freedom...
    Aris 10.53 9 [The eloquent man] has the freedom of the city.
    Aris 10.59 27 The youth...falls abroad with too much freedom.
    PerF 10.86 15 ...a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Chr2 10.91 23 Morals implies freedom and will.
    Chr2 10.107 18 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.
    Chr2 10.115 17 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom;...
    Edc1 10.133 11 [If I have renounced the search of truth] I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom...
    Supl 10.176 24 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    SovE 10.205 14 ...freedom has its own guards...
    MoL 10.254 11 [Scholars]...should stand for freedom, justice, and public good.
    Plu 10.321 6 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language at a period of singular vigor and freedom of style.
    LLNE 10.326 20 It is the age...of freedom...
    LLNE 10.327 4 ...[the new race] are fanatics in freedom;...
    LLNE 10.364 11 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    SlHr 10.439 1 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    SlHr 10.448 18 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.452 16 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Carl 10.491 10 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt; they profess freedom and he stands for slavery;...
    Carl 10.491 22 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    GSt 10.501 24 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.504 1 [George Stearns's]...freedom from all by-ends...disarmed...all gainsayers.
    GSt 10.506 11 There [George Stearns] sat in the council...an enthusiast only in his love of freedom and the good of men;...
    LS 11.21 21 Freedom is the essence of this faith [Christianity].
    HDC 11.40 1 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had...but they had peace and freedom...
    HDC 11.49 1 ...freedom and virtue, if they triumphed [in Concord], triumphed in a fair field.
    EWI 11.100 17 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.126 17 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and European manners could get a foothold there.
    EWI 11.134 4 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation of the slave-holder.
    War 11.155 5 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to freedom...
    War 11.165 14 We surround ourselves always, according to our freedom and ability, with true images of ourselves in things...
    War 11.173 18 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be the servant of truth, of love and of freedom...
    War 11.174 1 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    FSLC 11.181 14 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.183 15 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    FSLC 11.183 19 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
    FSLC 11.188 4 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...
    FSLC 11.193 8 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.
    FSLC 11.195 21 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    FSLC 11.200 8 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired.
    FSLC 11.214 6 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.225 23 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.
    FSLN 11.227 26 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals.
    FSLN 11.230 17 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union.
    FSLN 11.240 16 ...freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
    FSLN 11.243 16 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    AsSu 11.247 8 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    AsSu 11.249 24 [Charles Sumner] has never faltered in his maintenance of justice and freedom.
    AsSu 11.252 1 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every friend of freedom thinks him the friend of freedom.
    AKan 11.263 21 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    JBB 11.271 4 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe.
    JBB 11.272 6 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state, and to protect the life and freedom of every inhabitant not a criminal, it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    JBB 11.273 9 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
    TPar 11.290 23 By the incessant power of his statement, [Theodore Parker] made and held a party. It was his great service to freedom.
    ACiv 11.308 24 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?
    ACiv 11.310 16 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.
    SMC 11.353 22 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...
    EdAd 11.387 17 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...in the freedom of thought...
    EdAd 11.387 21 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward...
    Koss 11.397 13 ...Concord is one of the monuments of freedom;...
    Koss 11.399 8 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...
    Koss 11.400 1 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment;...
    Koss 11.401 9 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary, and parties already to her freedom.
    Wom 11.425 26 Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom.
    RBur 11.440 25 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    ChiE 11.470 3 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
    FRep 11.516 25 ...while civil and social freedom exists [in America], nonsense even has a favorable effect.
    FRep 11.527 22 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears in...the freedom of thinking...
    FRep 11.528 27 We began with freedom, are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
    PLT 12.46 10 The revelation of thought takes us out of servitude into freedom.
    PLT 12.56 25 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...and we buy this freedom to glitter by the loss of general health.
    II 12.87 25 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    CInt 12.113 5 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...
    CL 12.153 4 What freedom of grace has the sea with all this might!
    CL 12.153 5 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave.
    CL 12.154 4 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life, and every sparkle is a fish. What freedom and grace with all this might!
    CW 12.172 16 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
    CW 12.172 18 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box. I much prefer to have the freedom of a garden presented me.
    Bost 12.186 12 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...
    Bost 12.200 21 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection...
    Bost 12.202 25 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Bost 12.209 11 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...
    Milt1 12.251 14 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica]...is still a magazine of reasons for the freedom of the press.
    Milt1 12.269 7 Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new illumination.
    Milt1 12.270 26 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    Milt1 12.271 8 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom; of freedom in the house, in the state, in the church;...
    Milt1 12.271 9 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom;...freedom of speech, freedom of the press;...
    Milt1 12.278 8 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce;...
    MLit 12.320 6 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    WSL 12.342 19 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.
    WSL 12.343 22 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    WSL 12.346 16 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age, yet he discriminates his faults with the greater freedom.

Freedom, n. (13)

    Nat 1.27 7 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein...the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
    OS 2.272 4 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power.
    EWI 11.147 23 The sentiment of Right...ever more articulate, because it is the voice of the universe, pronounces Freedom.
    FSLN 11.231 22 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    FSLN 11.234 27 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others.
    AKan 11.259 24 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
    AKan 11.259 25 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing.
    AKan 11.260 1 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
    JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
    JBB 11.266 14 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
    HCom 11.339 13 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    Koss 11.396 5 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
    Koss 11.399 4 The man of Freedom, you [Kossuth] are also the man of Fate.

freedom's, n. (1)

    EPro 11.314 12 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./

freeholder, n. (3)

    DSA 1.138 21 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon... whether he was a freeholder or a pauper;...
    ET10 5.164 21 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.
    HDC 11.48 3 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

freeholders, n. (1)

    ET6 5.110 10 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.

freeholds, n. (1)

    ET11 5.183 2 The great [English] estates are absorbing the small freeholds.

freely, adv. (29)

    Nat 1.65 18 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.
    DSA 1.119 15 The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures...
    LE 1.156 19 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and America have so freely commented.
    LE 1.165 4 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization, whereinto the universal spirit freely flows;...
    Hist 2.33 21 Much revolving [his figures Goethe] writes out freely his humor...
    Hsm1 2.263 4 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...
    Mrs1 3.149 2 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman...whose character emanates freely in their word and gesture.
    NER 3.277 19 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends!...
    MoS 4.164 18 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence. All parties freely came and went...
    ShP 4.193 23 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried.
    ET1 5.10 15 [Coleridge] took snuff freely...
    ET6 5.105 8 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England]...
    DL 7.112 25 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted;...
    DL 7.130 6 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be...yielded as freely as the sunlight to all.
    PI 8.1 18 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.15 8 ...these Orientals [the Hindoos] deal with worlds and pebbles freely.
    Elo2 8.116 8 ...[the people] have spent their money once or twice very freely.
    Schr 10.266 22 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us. Granted, freely granted.
    Schr 10.286 22 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career. Freely be that said.
    MMEm 10.398 17 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse...
    Thor 10.449 6 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    Thor 10.469 16 [Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
    HDC 11.82 18 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    SMC 11.350 7 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...
    EdAd 11.393 16 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is freely and solicitously open...
    Wom 11.424 6 ...let [women] enter a school as freely as a church...
    Bost 12.202 9 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
    Milt1 12.272 1 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man...
    Let 12.402 4 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

freeman, n. (4)

    AmS 1.114 11 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid...
    Hist 2.3 5 He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate.
    ET10 5.156 22 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    HDC 11.47 24 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man-freeman or not...might introduce any business into a public meeting.

freemason, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.132 12 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.

freemasonries, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.144 4 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.

free-masonry, n. (1)

    SL 2.145 25 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which in fact constitutes a sort of free-masonry.

freemasons, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.132 16 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.

freemason's, n. (1)

    SwM 4.142 21 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's procession.

freemen, n. (14)

    HDC 11.42 26 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
    HDC 11.43 3 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]...gave [the freemen] the power of prescribing the manner in which freemen should be elected;...
    HDC 11.43 5 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]... ordered that all fundamental laws should be enacted by the freemen of the colony.
    HDC 11.43 7 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year...
    HDC 11.43 15 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.43 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 11.44 20 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.46 3 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    EWI 11.112 10 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen...
    EWI 11.120 10 The accounts [of emancipation] which we have from all parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters...and from the new freemen, are of the most satisfactory kind.
    EWI 11.132 8 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts], containing a population of a million freemen, go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    FSLN 11.216 8 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    FSLN 11.243 17 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    FRep 11.531 6 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.

free-papers, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 16 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

freer, adj. (7)

    LT 1.261 15 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Pt1 3.24 5 So far the bard taught me, using his freer speech.
    Wth 6.115 5 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    Dem1 10.8 16 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams], and a freer utterance attained.
    Aris 10.41 10 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    PLT 12.56 24 We are continually tempted to sacrifice...the hope and promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts we have;...
    Milt1 12.263 9 [Milton] tells us...that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...

freer, adv. (1)

    FRep 11.537 19 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms; farther pierce his eyes;...than the Englishman's...

frees, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.20 19 All that frees talent without increasing self-command is noxious.

Free-soiler, n. (1)

    F 6.12 20 ...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might come to distinguish in the embryo, at the fourth day,-this is a Whig, and that a Free-soiler.

freest, adj. (7)

    DSA 1.148 15 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness...
    LE 1.184 4 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same.
    NER 3.284 27 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
    PPh 4.57 14 In [Plato] the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer.
    ET5 5.82 19 Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world.
    Chr2 10.115 24 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Edc1 10.125 8 ...I praise New England because it is the country in the world where is the freest expenditure for education.

free-state, adj. (2)

    GSt 10.502 7 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...
    SMC 11.353 9 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican, like the governors who...went to Kansas, and instantly took the free-state colors.

free-trade, adj. (1)

    PC 8.209 4 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the free-trade league;...

Free-Trade Hall, Mancheste (1)

    ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall.

free-trade, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.209 13 Parties of principle, as...the party of free-trade...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.210 2 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat, for free-trade...

free-will, n. [freewill,] (2)

    MoS 4.153 20 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
    F 6.23 3 Nor can [man] blink the freewill.

freeze, v. (3)

    Nat 1.74 13 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    SL 2.129 10 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    Pt1 3.34 8 ...the quality of the imagination is to flow, and not to freeze.

freezes, v. (4)

    LT 1.263 1 By tones of triumph...by pride that freezes, [persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...freezes a man like an apple.
    F 6.32 9 The cold...freezes a man like a dewdrop.
    Supl 10.175 8 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...

freezing, adj. (4)

    MoS 4.181 25 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy...to turn your sentence with something auspicious, and not freezing and sinister.
    Edc1 10.125 18 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take...a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Supl 10.163 13 There is a superlative temperament which...swiftly oscillates from the freezing to the boiling point...
    PLT 12.26 26 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull; there is no genius. Ask of your flowers to open when you have let in on them a freezing wind.

freezing, v. (2)

    PLT 12.41 12 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    Trag 12.411 4 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

freight, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.83 15 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the sea and the wind to bear their freight ships.

freight, n. (2)

    ET2 5.28 2 Our ship was registered 750 tons, and weighed perhaps, with all her freight, 1500 tons.
    OA 7.313 6 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./

freighted, v. (1)

    ShP 4.189 17 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions...which any man or class knows of in his times.

French Academy, n. (4)

    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.
    Grts 8.315 1 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
    Humb 11.457 13 ...a whole French Academy, travelled in [Humboldt's] shoes.
    CInt 12.124 13 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection of Moliere by the French Academy...

French, adj. (99)

    Nat 1.35 2 Material objects, said a French philosopher, are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    LE 1.179 1 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    LE 1.179 4 Napoleon...walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motion in the French mode.
    MN 1.201 25 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy, for example, with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.
    Con 1.323 6 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
    YA 1.376 1 I am the State, said the French Louis.
    YA 1.376 1 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
    YA 1.393 25 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador;...
    Hist 2.10 24 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a French Reign of Terror...
    Cir 2.312 8 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Pt1 3.29 25 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Mrs1 3.145 15 All generosity is not merely French and sentimental;...
    NR 3.230 15 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    SwM 4.109 21 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    SwM 4.142 10 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is...an evangelical picnic, or French distribution of prizes to virtuous peasants.
    MoS 4.164 25 [Montaigne's] French freedom runs into grossness;...
    MoS 4.176 17 I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once a week.
    NMW 4.244 24 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    NMW 4.254 13 [Napoleon's] star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French.
    GoW 4.271 22 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered a French, or English... genius.
    GoW 4.274 24 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...
    GoW 4.280 18 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...
    GoW 4.281 5 The German intellect wants the French sprightliness...
    ET5 5.87 18 [The English] have...no French taste for a badge or a proclamation.
    ET5 5.94 18 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...
    ET6 5.114 18 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French.
    ET7 5.118 14 Even Lord Chesterfield, with his French breeding, when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    ET7 5.118 19 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
    ET7 5.118 26 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak without lying.
    ET7 5.122 16 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
    ET7 5.123 23 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled...by the French popular legends on the subject of perfidious Albion.
    ET7 5.125 18 This English stolidity contrasts with French wit and tact.
    ET8 5.127 11 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers...
    ET8 5.136 14 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek.
    ET8 5.137 11 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race; in Canada, the old French law;...
    ET8 5.137 21 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press...
    ET8 5.137 24 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion...
    ET8 5.140 20 The wrath of London is not French wrath...
    ET8 5.141 6 If the English race were as mutable as the French, what reliance?
    ET9 5.146 4 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    ET9 5.146 7 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET13 5.225 10 The chatter of French politics, the steam-whistle...had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    ET16 5.285 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian garden and into a French pavilion garnished with French busts;...
    ET16 5.285 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian garden and into a French pavilion garnished with French busts;...
    ET17 5.294 18 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He...soon became full of talk on the French news.
    Pow 6.70 4 March without the people, said a French deputy from the tribune, and you march into night...
    Wth 6.96 14 It is the interest of all men that there should be...French Gardens of Plants...
    Ctr 6.139 23 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    Ctr 6.159 1 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of the French regicide Carnot, his sublime genius in mathematics;...
    Bhr 6.192 19 'T is a French definition of friendship, rien que s'entendre, good understanding.
    Wsp 6.209 21 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
    CbW 6.254 13 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the fanaticism of the French regicides of 1789.
    CbW 6.266 1 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    Bty 6.296 21 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier...
    WD 7.168 1 Bonaparte...endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
    WD 7.178 16 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    Boks 7.200 26 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as... entertaining as a French novel.
    Boks 7.204 11 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Boks 7.215 7 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    Boks 7.220 26 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
    Clbs 7.243 13 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.
    Clbs 7.243 17 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age, and thence down through French, English and German memoirs...would be an important chapter in history.
    Cour 7.261 16 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    SA 8.93 14 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
    Res 8.147 4 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Comc 8.171 18 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms...which are copiously recounted in the French Memoires.
    QO 8.190 20 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville, with French vivacity, If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    Insp 8.295 11 You shall not read...Montaigne, nor the newest French book.
    Aris 10.36 8 The English government and people, or the French government, may easily make mistakes [in bestowing titles];...
    Supl 10.167 7 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    Supl 10.167 14 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian...
    SovE 10.207 22 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...
    Prch 10.226 23 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization, whether French or German, that block and intersect our old parish highways.
    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.
    MoL 10.253 10 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    Plu 10.307 1 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists, whether Greek or French, fills us with disgust.
    LLNE 10.328 26 In science the French savant, exact, pitiless...travels into all nooks and islands...
    LLNE 10.338 9 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day, against French and English science...
    LLNE 10.344 21 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.
    LLNE 10.348 19 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It was the most entertaining of French romances...
    LLNE 10.354 7 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language.
    LLNE 10.354 11 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great sin. Fourier was very French indeed.
    LLNE 10.354 17 [The Fourier marriage] was...full of absurd French superstitions about women;...
    LLNE 10.358 26 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.
    Thor 10.451 2 Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.
    Carl 10.496 21 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...
    HDC 11.61 17 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    HDC 11.61 19 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    War 11.172 16 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the feudal baron, the French, the English nobility...
    ALin 11.330 10 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...had never been spoiled by English insularity or French dissipation;...
    EdAd 11.391 17 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    FRep 11.515 4 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors...
    FRep 11.529 22 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows the perception of English, French, German people at home.
    PLT 12.57 25 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
    II 12.83 4 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    CL 12.140 4 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    MAng1 12.219 7 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
    ACri 12.288 19 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of the Sacre! of the French postilion...
    ACri 12.295 5 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow...is because they do not read Shakspeare;...

French Algiers, n. (1)

    EPro 11.324 21 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of France, French Algiers...

French Alliance, n. (1)

    ET15 5.264 12 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire, and urged the French Alliance and its results.

French Chamber, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.90 12 A popular assembly, like...the French Chamber...is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.

French Eclecticism, n. (1)

    LE 1.171 7 Take for example the French Eclecticism...there is an optical illusion in it.

French Empire, n. (1)

    ET15 5.264 12 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire...

French History, n. (1)

    LE 1.170 16 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe...

French Institute, n. (1)

    Boks 7.220 17 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...

French, n. (32)

    DSA 1.150 5 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
    Pol1 3.206 6 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as...the French have done.
    ShP 4.198 5 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The House of Fame, from the French or Italian...
    ET4 5.48 4 The French in Canada...have held their national traits.
    ET4 5.66 1 The French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands.
    ET4 5.70 17 The French say that Englishmen in the street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.
    ET5 5.77 15 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane, and such of these French or Normans as could reach it were naturalized in every sense.
    ET5 5.82 10 This singular fairness [of the English] and its results strike the French with surprise.
    ET7 5.118 23 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French...
    ET7 5.119 20 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity.
    ET7 5.122 14 [Englishmen] hate the French, as frivolous;...
    ET7 5.124 2 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards,--which the French denote as esprit d' escalier.
    ET7 5.125 19 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    ET7 5.125 23 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power; that of the French by affinity and talent.
    ET8 5.127 15 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors. The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
    ET9 5.146 1 This [English] arrogance habitually exhibits itself in allusions to the French.
    ET11 5.181 1 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy.
    ET13 5.229 5 ...the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations. The French relinquish all that industry to them.
    ET17 5.294 19 [Wordsworth] was nationally bitter on the French;...
    ET17 5.295 27 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    F 6.16 8 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...
    SA 8.104 6 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as... the French, the English, at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
    Elo2 8.125 2 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
    Elo2 8.128 8 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
    PC 8.222 9 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    Insp 8.286 10 The French have a proverb to the effect that not the day only, but all things have their morning...
    Supl 10.163 24 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...
    Plu 10.294 22 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Humb 11.458 19 One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises them above the French.
    PLT 12.50 22 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea, or, as the French say, enfant perdu d'une conviction isolee...
    ACri 12.290 11 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all...
    WSL 12.344 8 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the Italians, the French, the Scotch and the Irish.

French Republic, n. (3)

    SL 2.145 18 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
    ET15 5.264 7 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848...
    FSLN 11.239 26 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece;...against the French Republic whilst it was a republic.

French Revolution, History. (1)

    PPr 12.379 3 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France, entitled the History of the French Revolution.

French Revolution, n. (11)

    LT 1.281 15 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Chr1 3.89 5 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    NMW 4.240 12 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    NMW 4.245 11 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    Clbs 7.240 21 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Aris 10.34 21 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    LLNE 10.348 13 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...
    LLNE 10.355 9 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    LLNE 10.364 26 [Brook Farm] was...a French Revolution in small...
    RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...
    Milt1 12.278 12 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time, overjoyed, as in the French Revolution, with the sudden victories it had gained...

French Rights of Man, n. (1)

    RBur 11.440 23 The Confession of Augsburg...the French Rights of Man... are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.

French-Dane, n. (1)

    ET5 5.75 5 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England]...

Frenchiest, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.233 12 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare...

Frenchman, n. (15)

    ET4 5.69 15 ...in their caricatures [the English] represent the Frenchman as a poor, starved body.
    ET5 5.84 14 The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
    ET5 5.89 25 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET6 5.107 7 A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
    ET7 5.119 23 The Frenchman is vain.
    ET9 5.149 12 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing, which a Frenchman or Belgian could not carry.
    ET9 5.149 20 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled.
    ET9 5.149 27 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.
    Suc 7.288 7 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
    Aris 10.48 1 Every Frenchman would have a career.
    SovE 10.188 1 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
    Prch 10.223 20 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy.
    Schr 10.279 2 It was said of an eminent Frenchman, that he was drowned in his talents.
    EPro 11.324 18 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    Trag 12.412 3 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...as they will still sit when the Turk, the Frenchman and the Englishman, who visit them now, shall have passed by...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

Frenchman's, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.121 19 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be.

Frenchmen, n. (1)

    NMW 4.254 8 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect.

Frenchwoman, n. (1)

    WD 7.182 15 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.

frenzy, n. (6)

    Fdsp 2.203 5 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery...
    UGM 4.26 6 We keep each other in countenance and exasperate by emulation the frenzy of the time.
    GoW 4.265 18 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.
    ET11 5.188 17 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...
    Ill 6.313 27 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy...
    Schr 10.280 2 ...society, in which we live, is subject to fits of frenzy;...

frequency, n. (1)

    Int 2.335 6 [The thought] is...always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize...

frequent, adj. (20)

    AmS 1.101 16 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
    MR 1.243 11 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against that frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury.
    Comp 2.125 1 In proportion to the vigor of the individual these revolutions are frequent...
    Int 2.331 3 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
    SwM 4.118 25 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion, too frequent in religious history, that he was an abnormal person...
    ET4 5.66 21 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
    ET16 5.284 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...
    Pow 6.79 24 I remarked in England, in confirmation of a frequent experience at home, that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Wth 6.122 8 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Ctr 6.134 3 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    Comc 8.165 12 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Dem1 10.16 24 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    SovE 10.205 1 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    Schr 10.264 18 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    LLNE 10.361 26 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of [Brook] farm...was a frequent visitor.
    LLNE 10.363 25 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.367 7 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition, signified by a frequent phrase, Before we came out of civilization.
    HDC 11.48 9 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings].
    War 11.157 26 ...the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
    SMC 11.368 3 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours, and the nights were broken by frequent alarms.

frequent, v. (3)

    SS 7.11 1 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.
    DL 7.128 14 The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    Thor 10.466 27 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...

frequented, v. (2)

    Thor 10.473 16 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.
    Milt1 12.273 10 The most devout man of his time, [Milton] frequented no church;...

frequenting, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 13 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...

frequently, adv. (10)

    Pol1 3.206 25 When the rich are outvoted, as frequently happens, it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    NER 3.255 21 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government...
    ET4 5.73 19 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    DL 7.122 8 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    PI 8.35 18 Every one delights in the felicity frequently shown in our drawing-rooms.
    Schr 10.267 22 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...
    EzRy 10.382 5 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    War 11.167 16 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...
    CL 12.144 22 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    Trag 12.411 1 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

frequents, v. (1)

    LT 1.274 1 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.

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