Incantation to Indian-Rubber

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

incantation, n. (1)

    DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house? Let us read the incantation backward.

incantations, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.31 1 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    PI 8.59 24 Odin taught these arts in runes or songs, which are called incantations.
    Dem1 10.16 25 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.

incapable, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.62 24 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being. The one is perfect; the other, incapable of any assurance;...
    Chr1 3.115 21 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable;...
    UGM 4.24 3 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life, ignorant of the ruin and incapable of seeing it...
    MoS 4.180 21 Some minds are incapable of skepticism.
    GoW 4.284 4 ...[Goethe] is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment.
    ET14 5.251 20 [Englishmen] are incapable of an inutility...
    Suc 7.310 23 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study...
    SA 8.107 2 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit...
    QO 8.196 26 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
    Plu 10.314 3 The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
    Thor 10.477 18 ...[Thoreau] was...a person incapable of any profanation, by act or by thought.
    Wom 11.414 27 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she is incapable of evil or of good.
    Wom 11.417 25 There are plenty of people who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook...
    Wom 11.417 26 There are plenty of people who believe women to be... incapable of interest in affairs.
    PLT 12.26 5 ...not less in human history aboriginal races are incapable of improvement;...
    PLT 12.32 26 What can Plato or Newton teach, if you are deaf or incapable?
    Mem 12.92 19 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion].
    CL 12.154 21 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...

incapableness, n. (2)

    NR 3.233 20 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
    Ctr 6.160 27 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have...an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted...

incapacitates, v. (1)

    Wth 6.107 18 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent, but so he incapacitates himself from making proper repairs...

incapacity, n. (11)

    Comp 2.96 10 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Int 2.333 21 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    NR 3.228 3 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association...
    NR 3.248 1 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid, from the incapacity of the parties to know each other...
    Ctr 6.133 15 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...
    Ctr 6.140 9 Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper.
    Ctr 6.157 22 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
    SS 7.7 9 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can...his incapacity for strict association.
    AKan 11.256 3 ...all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts;...
    FRO1 11.478 8 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...but the incapacity for confining themselves there.
    II 12.88 23 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men, with their weak incapacity for principles...have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.

incarcerated, v. (1)

    EWI 11.132 24 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be. That first; then, let order be taken to indemnify all such as have been incarcerated.

incarnate, adj. (5)

    Hist 2.38 21 [History] shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man.
    Prd1 2.222 15 [Prudence] is legitimate when it is the Natural History of the soul incarnate...
    UGM 4.11 22 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc.
    NMW 4.224 18 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    DL 7.101 2 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb/...

incarnate, v. (2)

    ET18 5.304 17 ...[the English] read with good intent, and what they learn they incarnate.
    PLT 12.18 21 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action...

incarnated, v. (9)

    Tran 1.340 23 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times, though...as yet not incarnated in any powerful individual, will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    SL 2.165 27 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    Chr2 10.119 26 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    Edc1 10.137 5 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do. Let us wait and see...of what new organ the great Spirit had need when it incarnated this new Will.
    Schr 10.263 23 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man...
    FRO2 11.489 9 It is the praise of our New Testament...that no better lesson has been taught or incarnated.
    ACri 12.302 9 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking...
    MLit 12.333 9 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    MLit 12.334 22 Are we not evermore whipped by thoughts? In sorrow steeped, and steeped in love/ Of thoughts not yet incarnated./

incarnates, v. (4)

    DSA 1.128 26 [Jesus Christ] saw that God incarnates himself in man...
    SL 2.141 5 This talent and this call depend on...the mode in which the general soul incarnates itself in [a man].
    NR 3.236 22 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
    F 6.13 27 The strongest idea incarnates itself in majorities and nations...

incarnation, n. (11)

    Nat 1.64 27 [The world] is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God...
    LE 1.165 9 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    MN 1.207 24 The thoughts [a man] delights to utter are the reason of his incarnation.
    Hist 2.4 20 Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.
    OS 2.276 17 One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the spirit in a form...
    Nat2 3.196 9 Nature is the incarnation of a thought...
    NR 3.238 9 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    Wth 6.93 10 Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
    PI 8.26 24 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn, and it is part of religion to believe its possible incarnation.
    SovE 10.190 15 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    Schr 10.275 26 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world. The incarnation must be.

incarnations, n. (1)

    PLT 12.19 8 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope, whilst the old instrumentalities and incarnations are decomposed and recomposed into new.

incendiary, adj. (3)

    Hsm1 2.263 10 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    MoS 4.152 17 After dinner...ideas are disturbing, incendiary...
    MoS 4.153 9 [The men of the senses] believe...that pepper is hot, friction-matches incendiary...

incendiary, n. (2)

    MR 1.252 12 We make, by our distrust, the...incendiary...
    Pow 6.67 12 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.

incense, n. (5)

    MN 1.200 13 Like an odor of incense...[the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.
    SwM 4.144 19 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    Wsp 6.232 1 ...when flowers reach their ripeness, incense exhales from them...
    Suc 7.298 18 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with incense and music...
    EWI 11.124 13 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant; the tobacco was incense;...

incensed, v. (1)

    HDC 11.71 7 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...

incentives, n. (2)

    Wth 6.109 8 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] has lost what guards! what incentives!
    Grts 8.316 16 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand.

inception, n. (1)

    NR 3.226 5 ...that which we inferred from [men's] nature and inception, they will not do.

inceptions, n. (1)

    II 12.70 8 The human faculty only warrants inceptions.

incertainties, n. (1)

    EPro 11.326 8 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./

incessant, adj. (40)

    MN 1.191 19 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    Comp 2.99 26 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul.
    Comp 2.125 2 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant...
    Cir 2.318 17 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    Int 2.335 7 [The thought] is...always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize...
    Chr1 3.102 14 These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of incessant growth.
    NER 3.252 21 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine;...
    SwM 4.127 20 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
    ShP 4.213 9 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.
    GoW 4.262 1 In nature, this self-registration is incessant...
    ET2 5.27 13 Our good master...by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
    ET2 5.30 25 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay.
    ET10 5.167 9 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...
    Wth 6.119 24 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
    Bhr 6.170 12 The power of manners is incessant...
    Ill 6.320 14 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also...
    Farm 7.143 10 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb. These activities are incessant.
    Cour 7.263 23 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    Suc 7.309 13 Nerve us with incessant affirmatives.
    PI 8.11 26 Note our incessant use of the word like...
    PI 8.15 17 The endless passing of one element into new forms, the incessant metamorphosis, explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    SovE 10.189 9 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Plu 10.306 14 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.
    Thor 10.480 25 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
    GSt 10.503 15 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach...
    GSt 10.505 10 When one remembers [George Stearns's] incessant service;... I think this this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    EWI 11.101 23 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    War 11.163 17 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    TPar 11.290 21 By the incessant power of his statement, [Theodore Parker] made and held a party.
    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.
    EPro 11.323 13 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border...were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.
    SMC 11.372 23 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    SHC 11.428 21 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    FRep 11.525 20 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    PLT 12.18 6 Life is incessant parturition.
    II 12.78 1 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
    Mem 12.91 22 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind, through the incessant purification and better method of its memory.
    MAng1 12.242 5 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    ACri 12.296 2 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite, like the pebbles which the incessant attrition of the sea has rounded.
    MLit 12.327 16 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...

incessantly, adv. (16)

    Nat 1.13 9 All the parts [of nature] incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man.
    MR 1.246 7 Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them.
    Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the wave which lashes incessantly the rock...
    PPh 4.40 14 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.56 11 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.
    SwM 4.130 4 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
    Bty 6.283 20 From a great heart secret magnetisms flow incessantly to draw great events.
    Bty 6.285 18 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death;...
    Ill 6.325 13 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they...beckoning him up to their thrones. On the instant, and incessantly, fall snow-storms of illusions.
    Farm 7.145 14 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Comc 8.164 15 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
    PC 8.213 11 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...
    Imtl 8.342 7 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    MMEm 10.427 11 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes...
    ALin 11.334 20 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
    FRep 11.537 11 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing...

inch, n. (19)

    Nat 1.72 22 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
    Nat 1.72 23 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
    MN 1.196 11 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
    LT 1.269 23 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of his bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    Chr1 3.95 9 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    NMW 4.236 16 [Napoleon] came, several times, within an inch of ruin;...
    ET2 5.29 27 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET10 5.155 23 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they were taxed within an inch of their lives...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.161 1 Whitworth divides a bar to a millionth of an inch.
    ET10 5.165 8 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.
    ET12 5.201 16 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes, and every inch of ground has its lustre.
    Cour 7.279 20 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    PC 8.224 27 Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions...
    Aris 10.56 11 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed.
    Chr2 10.122 4 [A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
    Mem 12.102 26 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    Mem 12.102 27 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    AgMs 12.359 14 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year, and this without prejudice to himself the landlord, for here he is, a man every inch of him...
    AgMs 12.359 18 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/ But it was worth a groom./

inches, n. (5)

    Bhr 6.181 22 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
    Bty 6.281 21 The bird is not in its ounces and inches...
    PI 8.53 15 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches,--but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    EWI 11.111 12 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...
    WSL 12.348 9 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.

inchoation, n. (1)

    MN 1.199 16 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution. Its smoothness is the smoothness of the pitch of the cataract. Its permanence is a perpetual inchoation.

inch-rule, n. (1)

    Thor 10.467 8 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of its dimensions on an inch-rule...

incident, adj. (10)

    LE 1.176 26 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
    MN 1.215 1 To every reform, in proportion to its energy, early disgusts are incident...
    Lov1 2.173 25 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
    UGM 4.25 16 ...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations and ages.
    PPh 4.76 6 ...[Plato's] writings have not,--what is no doubt incident to this regnancy of intellect in his work,--the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
    ET5 5.81 1 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
    Ctr 6.138 7 'T is incident to scholars that each of them fancies he is pointedly odious in his community.
    Elo2 8.127 7 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study...
    Supl 10.169 10 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words...
    Scot 11.467 1 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and foibles incident to poets...

incident, n. (10)

    Tran 1.336 19 Of this fine incident, Jacobi...makes use...
    SL 2.160 5 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a better proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
    Hsm1 2.245 17 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    NMW 4.240 17 I like an incident mentioned by one of [Napoleon's] biographers at St. Helena.
    QO 8.186 26 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    Plu 10.301 4 [Plutarch's] vivacity and abundance never leave him to loiter or pound on an incident.
    HDC 11.62 1 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    EWI 11.127 21 It is a creditable incident in the history that when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    SMC 11.369 13 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
    MAng1 12.230 23 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa.

incidental, adj. (5)

    Gts 3.164 16 ...our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    ET4 5.46 9 ...slavery does not exist under [the English]. What oppression exists is incidental and temporary;...
    EWI 11.146 21 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    EWI 11.147 5 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    Milt1 12.247 12 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius...

incidentally, adv. (2)

    ET17 5.294 26 Incidentally [Wordsworth] added, Gibbon cannot write English.
    Insp 8.280 9 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by dreams...

incidents, n. (11)

    SL 2.144 24 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    NMW 4.233 18 Incidents ought not to govern policy, [Napoleon] said, but policy, incidents.
    NMW 4.233 19 Incidents ought not to govern policy, [Napoleon] said, but policy, incidents.
    GoW 4.286 11 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents;...
    Civ 7.34 15 Morality and all the incidents of morality are essential;...
    Farm 7.152 20 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.
    PI 8.36 3 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    Insp 8.297 8 Aubrey and Burton and Wood tell me incidents which I find not insignificant.
    PerF 10.87 14 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    SlHr 10.439 26 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life.
    Milt1 12.275 5 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...

incipient, adj. (4)

    Int 2.339 15 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic. It is incipient insanity.
    Exp 3.66 19 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors?
    PC 8.209 7 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 incipient series of international congresses;...
    PLT 12.21 20 ...the lowest only means incipient form...

incisive, adj. (1)

    PI 8.53 7 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...

incitements, n. (1)

    GoW 4.265 5 If [the writer] have his incitements, there is, on the other side, invitation...

incites, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.102 11 We shall still postpone our existence...whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.

inclination, n. (8)

    YA 1.366 12 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared in the most unlooked-for quarters...
    Int 2.343 7 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect.
    Pt1 3.3 4 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who... have an inclination for whatever is elegant;...
    PPh 4.43 26 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war...
    ET8 5.142 26 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    ET8 5.143 2 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    Plu 10.310 24 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    ACri 12.304 1 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.

inclinations, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.180 12 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!
    Plu 10.305 5 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.

incline, v. (10)

    MN 1.213 24 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]...
    LT 1.283 4 The genius of the day does not incline to a deed, but to a beholding.
    Tran 1.342 13 ...[Transcendentalists] incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house...
    Cir 2.312 20 In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps...
    PPh 4.49 6 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    ET4 5.51 24 I incline to the belief that, as water, lime and sand make mortar, so certain temperaments marry well...
    ET19 5.309 7 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it...
    Schr 10.271 6 I incline to concede the isolation which [wealth] asks...
    JBS 11.278 25 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    ACri 12.304 23 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.

inclined, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.280 27 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.

inclined, v. (10)

    Hist 2.16 15 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    NMW 4.249 2 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run.
    ET4 5.72 21 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service...
    ET11 5.192 18 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    Wsp 6.203 11 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    EzRy 10.382 5 Always inclined to notice ministers...[Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    Thor 10.479 6 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    HDC 11.50 15 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    EWI 11.113 25 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged on his colleagues, who, it is said, were inclined to the policy of immediate emancipation.
    FSLN 11.242 24 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.

inclines, v. (6)

    Con 1.299 16 Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance...
    Tran 1.334 2 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    SL 2.141 6 [A man] inclines to do something which is easy to him and good when it is done, but which no other man can do.
    MoS 4.180 4 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts...
    Comc 8.164 25 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...
    Chr2 10.115 13 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament...

inclosing, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.304 23 There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.

inclosures, n. (1)

    Int 2.338 13 ...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures...

include, v. (8)

    Nat 1.62 13 ...we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
    Con 1.299 15 ...[conservatism] thinks there is a general law without a particular application,-law for all that does not include any one.
    Exp 3.75 18 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs.
    Wth 6.95 8 [The rich] include the country as well as the town...in their notion of available material.
    Chr2 10.114 26 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment], of course, the history of Jesus...
    LLNE 10.353 15 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law...
    FRep 11.515 21 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity-and which did virtually include the extinction of slavery-is the planting of America.
    MLit 12.311 9 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.

included, v. (8)

    Cir 2.305 9 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    ET11 5.181 17 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London...
    PI 8.63 17 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    HDC 11.55 6 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    HDC 11.62 20 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
    HDC 11.74 3 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle, all once included in Concord...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    SMC 11.367 2 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord]...
    Trag 12.408 27 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

includes, v. (4)

    Nat 1.36 3 This use of the world [as a discipline] includes the preceding uses...
    Nat 1.58 4 Religion includes the personality of God;...
    Fdsp 2.197 16 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    ET11 5.181 17 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London...

including, v. (12)

    Tran 1.354 20 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, each in its perfection including the three, [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    SR 2.87 18 ...the reliance on Property, including the reliance on the governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
    MoS 4.151 19 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world, including the animal in the philosopher and poet also, and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.151 21 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.177 22 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds, and one including all others, is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
    ET11 5.194 16 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    PI 8.55 26 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly The Faery beam upon you...
    MoL 10.253 19 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon...
    SMC 11.366 19 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    SMC 11.371 18 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded, including five officers.
    CL 12.145 4 The Rosaceous tribe in botany, including the apple, pear, peach and cherry, are coeval with man.
    EurB 12.375 10 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels...

incognito, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.255 22 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street, incognito.

incognito, adv. (1)

    Ctr 6.151 1 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito...

income, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.122 4 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax...

income, n. (11)

    MR 1.256 11 ...the merchant gladly takes money from his income to add to his capital...
    Chr1 3.104 16 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    ET10 5.156 25 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET12 5.206 16 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    Wth 6.117 5 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo;...
    Wth 6.117 7 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Wth 6.125 23 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals;...
    Wth 6.126 6 Will [the man] spend his income, or will he invest?
    Farm 7.142 2 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure...
    Farm 7.142 3 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say...solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.
    CPL 11.499 9 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson]...who removed into Maine, where she possessed a farm and a modest income.

incomes, n. (5)

    MR 1.244 3 We spend our incomes for paint and paper...and not for the things of a man.
    GoW 4.286 13 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise... the bulk of incomes.
    Wth 6.117 3 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin, nor will bigger incomes make free spending safe.
    Wth 6.117 10 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster, so that large incomes...are found not to help matters;...
    Wth 6.118 6 It is a general rule in that country [England] that bigger incomes do not help anybody.

incoming, adj. (2)

    Chr2 10.92 10 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he dams the incoming ocean with his cane.
    RBur 11.443 4 ...hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of [the memory of Burns].

incoming, n. (1)

    Comp 2.122 21 There is no tax on the good of virtue, for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence...

incoming, v. (1)

    MN 1.204 20 There is the incoming or the receding of God: that is all we can affirm;...

incommensurate, adj. (1)

    AsSu 11.248 6 Life and life are incommensurate.

incommunicable, adj. (9)

    LE 1.156 7 ...even if his results were incommunicable;...the intellect hath somewhat so sacred in its possessions that the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    Mrs1 3.121 4 The word gentleman...is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.136 26 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    Nat2 3.170 17 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them...
    NR 3.228 24 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine! how constitutional to thee, and incommunicable!
    ET6 5.105 16 ...every one of these islanders [the English] is an island himself, safe, tranquil, incommunicable.
    Schr 10.289 4 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
    Plu 10.304 24 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    PLT 12.32 4 ...individual men have secret senses, each some incommunicable sagacity.

incommunicableness, n. (1)

    SwM 4.143 3 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise, notwithstanding the mystical narrowness and incommunicableness.

incomparable, adj. (11)

    SL 2.165 23 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...
    Pt1 3.37 16 We have yet had no genius in America...which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
    Chr1 3.91 7 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Mrs1 3.124 3 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.
    ShP 4.214 18 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
    ET10 5.165 11 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    SA 8.90 14 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society in which everything can be safely said...doubles the value of life.
    QO 8.203 20 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
    SovE 10.199 1 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    EzRy 10.394 17 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    II 12.71 14 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem...

incomparably, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.45 20 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    NER 3.281 18 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty.
    SwM 4.127 26 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
    Aris 10.51 24 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...

incompatibility, n. (3)

    FSLN 11.230 4 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    PLT 12.48 13 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice...
    Mem 12.94 15 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.

incompatible, adj. (7)

    MR 1.242 21 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry, to art... drawing him to these things with a devotion incompatible with good husbandry, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    PPh 4.57 10 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man, but in description appear incompatible.
    ET9 5.147 9 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
    ET18 5.302 11 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English.
    Edc1 10.147 2 Nor are the two elements, enthusiasm and drill, incompatible.
    EWI 11.106 5 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    Bost 12.185 9 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...

incompetence, n. (2)

    PPo 8.247 16 An air...of incompetence to their proper aims, belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
    Imtl 8.341 10 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has learned is that there is much more to be learned. The wiser he is, he feels only the more his incompetence.

incompetency, n. (1)

    MoS 4.184 3 ...the incompetency of power is the universal grief of young and ardent minds.

incompetent, adj. (1)

    F 6.3 12 We are incompetent to solve the times.

incomplete, adj. (3)

    LE 1.177 8 ...the world revenges itself by exposing, at every turn, the folly of these incomplete...creatures.
    Wsp 6.230 27 ...none is accomplished so long as any are incomplete;...
    FRep 11.537 24 ...our civilization is yet incomplete...

incomprehensible, adj. (3)

    Lov1 2.179 27 The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible...
    Grts 8.303 20 If a man's centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as well snub the sun.
    LLNE 10.342 4 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company...

incomputable, adj. (2)

    MN 1.219 8 What is all history but...a record of the incomputable energy which his infinite aspirations infuse into man?
    Chr1 3.93 27 In all cases [character] is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.

inconceivable, adj. (8)

    Ctr 6.163 21 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    SS 7.4 20 ...[my new friend] consoled himself with the delicious thought of the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
    Elo1 7.91 21 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.
    PC 8.224 25 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
    Insp 8.276 2 The result of the [literary] hack is inconceivable to the type-setter who waits for it.
    Insp 8.289 25 ...the machine with which we are dealing is of such an inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be respected.
    Chr2 10.94 19 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own, but an inconceivable nobleness attaches to it, because it is a dictate of the general mind.
    Mem 12.95 7 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...

inconceivably, adv. (6)

    MR 1.254 23 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Nat2 3.180 10 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man!
    PPh 4.67 14 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be;...
    ShP 4.211 26 [Shakespeare] is inconceivably wise;...
    Pow 6.78 23 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    WD 7.170 14 Yesterday...the world was barren, peaked and pining: to-day ' t is in conceivably populous;...

incongruities, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.186 5 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
    SwM 4.123 7 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.

incongruous, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.135 16 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.
    F 6.43 22 What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
    SMC 11.356 4 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.

incongruously, adv. (1)

    MLit 12.319 12 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems-one would say most incongruously united by some bookseller-of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.

inconoclasts, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.338 7 Unexpected aid from high quarters came to inconoclasts.

inconsecutiveness, n. (1)

    PPo 8.243 12 [The Persian poets] use an inconsecutiveness quite alarming to Western logic...

inconsequence, n. (2)

    Nat 1.48 16 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    Supl 10.167 15 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of character in speakers who use it.

inconsiderate, adj. (4)

    F 6.6 27 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood...
    F 6.32 8 The cold is inconsiderate of persons...
    DL 7.124 6 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    Wom 11.405 17 I think [women's] words are to be weighed; but it is their inconsiderate word...

inconsistency, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.240 26 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...

inconsistent, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.134 13 This individuality is not only not inconsistent with culture, but is the basis of it.
    EWI 11.147 17 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.

inconsolable, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.128 2 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...

inconspicuous, adj. (2)

    Bhr 6.188 21 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders...make themselves as inconspicuous as they can...
    AgMs 12.363 15 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners.

inconstant, n. (1)

    Hist 2.34 27 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful, and fade on the brow of the inconstant.

inconsumable, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.52 15 ...temper...is inconsumable in the flames of religion.

incontestable, adj. (2)

    NER 3.255 17 ...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, and the willingness to try that experiment, in the face of what appear incontestable facts.
    Clbs 7.246 5 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.

incontinences, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 18 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.

incontinently, adv. (1)

    YA 1.373 25 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.

inconvenience, n. (18)

    MR 1.235 26 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? It is easy to see that the inconvenience would last but a short time.
    YA 1.363 20 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    SL 2.152 19 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
    Hsm1 2.253 8 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside...
    Int 2.342 10 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion...
    Exp 3.49 2 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Gts 3.160 26 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
    PPh 4.74 24 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice.
    MoS 4.153 27 The inconvenience of this [sensual] way of thinking is that it runs into indifferentism and then into disgust.
    Ctr 6.149 3 ...the want of good conversation [at the Earl of Devon's] was a very great inconvenience...
    OA 7.320 13 The vast inconvenience of animal immortality was told in the fable of Tithonus.
    SA 8.91 13 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit. There is inconvenience in such strictness, but vast inconvenience in the want of it.
    SA 8.91 14 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit. There is inconvenience in such strictness, but vast inconvenience in the want of it.
    FSLC 11.179 17 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLN 11.219 2 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.
    ACiv 11.301 16 ...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...
    PLT 12.7 1 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.52 8 [Imbalance of faculties] makes inconvenience in society...

inconveniences, n. (13)

    Nat 1.37 9 ...what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas;...
    MR 1.248 20 If there are inconveniences and what is called ruin in the way...yet it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy...recesses of life.
    Mrs1 3.140 22 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.
    Nat2 3.191 14 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    ET2 5.31 4 ...the inconveniences and terrors of the sea are not of any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
    ET10 5.166 1 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET11 5.198 14 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    HDC 11.39 7 As the season grew later, [the settlers of Concord] felt its inconveniences.
    HDC 11.57 24 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    Wom 11.416 27 Of course, this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences.
    Humb 11.456 2 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    CL 12.155 22 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    Let 12.393 11 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

inconveniency, n. (2)

    CL 12.144 12 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating...but without this alpine inconveniency.
    CL 12.144 17 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.

inconvenient, adj. (4)

    LE 1.183 3 There is somewhat inconvenient and injurious in [the student's] position.
    SL 2.136 10 Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk...
    SL 2.146 5 ...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of ties,--that he has been understood; and he who has received an opinion may come to find it the most inconvenient of bonds.
    HDC 11.43 8 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year, and it was found inconvenient to assemble them all.

inconvertible, adj. (2)

    Art1 2.367 9 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible...
    AgMs 12.364 2 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...

inconvertibleness, n. (1)

    ET4 5.49 18 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...

incorporate, v. (3)

    Comp 2.124 15 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain.
    NMW 4.226 17 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly.
    GoW 4.287 26 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate...

incorporated, adj. (1)

    Let 12.394 17 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...

incorporated, v. (3)

    YA 1.393 10 The aristocracy, incorporated by law and education, degrades life for the unprivileged classes.
    NER 3.253 6 ...a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs and mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.
    Bost 12.189 7 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

incorporeal, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 1 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal...

incorrigible, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.363 25 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.

incorrigibly, adv. (1)

    Bhr 6.194 12 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him; for that in whatever condition, Basle remained incorrigibly Basle.

incorrupt, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.24 13 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features...

incorruptible, adj. (5)

    UGM 4.22 12 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods.
    Imtl 8.340 22 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not of the affections; so immortal and incorruptible a thing did knowledge seem to them to be.
    PerF 10.85 16 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the world alive, guided, incorruptible;...
    Chr2 10.113 3 Morals is the incorruptible essence...
    SMC 11.360 1 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown,-an integrity incorruptible, and an ability that always rose to the need.

incorruption, n. (1)

    AmS 1.96 19 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured; the corruptible has put on incorruption.

increase, n. (16)

    SwM 4.97 21 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental power.
    Wth 6.103 23 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity?
    Bty 6.290 12 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    WD 7.183 21 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.
    Boks 7.193 10 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes, with an annual increase of twelve thousand volumes;...
    HDC 11.68 2 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit, so bold from the first as hardly to admit of increase.
    HDC 11.84 27 ...the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    War 11.157 22 The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and of torture...
    FSLN 11.226 12 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that...when [the aspect of the institution] was strong, aggressive, and threatening an illimitable increase.
    FRep 11.543 20 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...mutual increase of good will in the great interests.
    Mem 12.109 26 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CW 12.177 15 ...there is a manifest increase in the taste for [walking].
    Milt1 12.247 11 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius...
    Milt1 12.247 17 ...it is...true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    Let 12.403 15 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...

increase, v. (20)

    LE 1.160 16 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust...
    Con 1.298 27 ...reform [is] more disposed to maintain and increase its own [worth].
    Comp 2.98 16 If riches increase, they are increased that use them.
    Fdsp 2.191 22 Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection.
    SwM 4.131 22 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations; he saw their tormentors, who increase and strain pangs to infinity;...
    ET8 5.127 21 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
    Wth 6.105 5 In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the price of bread.
    Wth 6.110 9 Britain, France and Germany...send out...their millions of poor people, to share the crop. At first we employ them, and increase our prosperity;...
    Wth 6.117 9 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster...
    Wth 6.126 4 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense...
    SS 7.5 21 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It would perhaps increase my acquaintance...
    WD 7.163 13 Man flatters himself that his command over Nature must increase.
    Imtl 8.328 14 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
    HDC 11.56 3 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing, and admonished them to increase their faith with their griefs.
    HDC 11.57 3 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    EWI 11.126 1 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population;...
    Wom 11.410 27 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of society.
    PLT 12.24 27 Increase [the plant's] food and it becomes fertile.
    II 12.82 18 If [a man] is wrong, increase his determination to his aim, and he is right again.
    Bost 12.195 19 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

increased, adj. (11)

    YA 1.364 10 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.372 20 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male, as if to counterbalance the necessarily increased exposure of male life in war, navigation, and other accidents.
    YA 1.385 14 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at elections...
    Hist 2.23 3 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys. Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation...
    Wsp 6.218 19 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent, though they clap you on the back and congratulate you on your increased common-sense.
    Elo1 7.61 22 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return to the fireside.
    DL 7.109 2 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period.
    PC 8.208 20 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    HDC 11.62 25 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated, as is manifest from its increasing polls and increased rates.
    War 11.171 3 ...the only hope of this cause [of peace] is in the increased insight...
    Bost 12.199 5 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

increased, v. (20)

    Nat 1.46 14 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Hist 2.12 4 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples, the adherence to the first type, and the decoration of it as the wealth of the nation increased;...
    Comp 2.98 16 If riches increase, they are increased that use them.
    NER 3.269 11 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NMW 4.243 20 ...with larger experience, [Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.
    ET15 5.265 26 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us...that, since February, the daily circulation [of the London Times] had increased by 8000 copies.
    Ctr 6.164 19 ...the chance for appreciation is much increased by being the son of an appreciator...
    Bhr 6.185 10 Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming into the world and has always increased it since.
    Insp 8.291 14 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    LLNE 10.365 22 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased...
    MMEm 10.409 3 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none. The fact has generally increased piety and self-love.
    HDC 11.35 8 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    HDC 11.54 14 ...Concord increased in territory and population.
    HDC 11.56 27 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    CPL 11.499 4 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century, and its representation there increased with its gross population.
    PLT 12.50 14 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost.
    II 12.72 10 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    Bost 12.195 16 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    ACri 12.291 3 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished;...
    EurB 12.372 27 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

increases, v. (12)

    MN 1.209 4 The ends...are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.
    YA 1.374 16 ...it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
    SR 2.85 17 ...the insurance-office increases the number of accidents;...
    Wth 6.117 9 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster...
    CbW 6.275 24 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    Farm 7.152 18 Population increases in the ratio of morality;...
    PerF 10.79 2 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
    PerF 10.79 4 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He...increases his skill and strength...
    CPL 11.501 23 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    PLT 12.23 6 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.
    PLT 12.23 7 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.
    Let 12.401 25 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate, folly increases...

increasing, adj. (11)

    YA 1.370 11 ...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    YA 1.385 17 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
    Wsp 6.227 9 In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment...
    PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges with increasing emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
    LLNE 10.369 26 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    HDC 11.62 24 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated, as is manifest from its increasing polls and increased rates.
    EWI 11.142 9 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides...a magistrate, an editor, and a valued and increasing political power.
    AsSu 11.249 25 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone.
    ALin 11.332 20 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.
    CL 12.136 2 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    PPr 12.387 25 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

increasing, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.188 8 Thus are we put in training for a love...which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.
    SwM 4.127 27 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful, and went on increasing in beauty evermore.
    Wth 6.103 12 ...a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world.
    Dem1 10.20 19 All that frees talent without increasing self-command is noxious.
    Let 12.399 5 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing...

incredibility, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.12 19 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the agents.

incredible, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.9 17 In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
    SR 2.51 17 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
    Nat2 3.173 5 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...
    PPh 4.54 14 In actual life, [admirable souls] are so rare as to be incredible;...
    ET1 5.17 12 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
    ET6 5.108 2 Incredible amounts of plate are found in good houses [in England]...
    ET10 5.157 26 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed...
    Wsp 6.232 27 It is incredible what force the will has in such cases;...
    SS 7.12 20 [Animal spirits] seem a power incredible...
    PC 8.215 6 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
    Insp 8.272 23 ...not the immortality of the private soul is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...
    Dem1 10.18 18 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures...
    Chr2 10.106 18 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold.
    II 12.66 16 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness]... equal in original science, though against appearance; and 't is incredible to them.
    II 12.71 22 The poet is incredible, inexplicable.

incredulity, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.12 18 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    CSC 10.376 23 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit, in spite of the incredulity and derision with which he is at first received...

incredulous, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.213 9 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.
    Cour 7.253 10 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...

incrust, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.102 3 The world would run into endless routine, and forms incrust forms, till the life was gone.

incrustations, n. (1)

    ET15 5.261 17 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states.

incrusts, v. (1)

    ET18 5.300 15 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state...

incubation, n. (1)

    ET14 5.235 20 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.

inculcate, v. (1)

    Aris 10.40 24 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.

inculcated, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.113 12 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries,--the daily inculcated necessity of pleasing all...

inculcates, v. (2)

    Supl 10.176 26 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    ChiE 11.470 5 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...

inculpate, v. (1)

    Grts 8.303 26 ...don't inculpate yourself in the local, social or national crime...

incumbents, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.198 13 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...

incumbent's, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 11 Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.

incumbrance, n. (1)

    FRep 11.542 8 Whilst every man can say I serve...he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world and is not a moth or incumbrance in it.

incur, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.170 3 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    F 6.49 18 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed, nor incur one that is not;...
    Edc1 10.148 10 It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.

incurable, adj. (5)

    NR 3.248 9 Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable partialist, and himself a universalist?
    Ctr 6.140 8 ...poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable.
    CbW 6.269 19 What is incurable but a frivolous habit?
    Clbs 7.249 16 If [l'homme de lettres's] discretion is incurable...he will yet tell what new books he has found...
    Prch 10.232 22 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...

incurables, n. (1)

    NER 3.268 8 We believe that...society is a hospital of incurables.

incuriosity, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.178 1 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature], concerning which no sane man can affect an indifference or incuriosity.
    ET6 5.104 23 This vigor [of the Englishman] appears in the incuriosity and stony neglect, each of the other.
    Ctr 6.135 7 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    EdAd 11.385 17 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.

incurious, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.60 16 ...very incurious concerning persons or miracles...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    ET9 5.145 1 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    Wsp 6.239 1 Of immortality, the soul when well employed is incurious.
    Thor 10.452 9 ...though very studious of natural facts, [Thoreau] was incurious of technical and textual science.

incurred, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.186 6 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Aris 10.34 18 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred.
    HDC 11.57 21 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major [Simon] Willard did the least he could, and incurred the censure of the Commissioners...

incurring, v. (3)

    AmS 1.101 7 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...
    FSLN 11.237 10 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...
    CInt 12.117 4 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear;...

incurs, v. (2)

    Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    Dem1 10.16 13 [The young man] observes, with pain, not that he incurs mishaps here and there, but that his genius...is no longer present and active.

incursions, n. (1)

    AmS 1.89 3 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason...having once received this book, stands upon it...

indebted, adj. (14)

    SL 2.147 13 The world...is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.
    Hsm1 2.248 18 ...I must think we are more deeply indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
    ShP 4.189 12 The greatest genius is the most indebted man.
    ET1 5.3 20 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET1 5.8 7 [Landor] thought Degerando indebted to Lucas on Happiness...
    ET14 5.248 15 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him...
    CbW 6.258 13 ...there is no man who is not indebted to his foibles;...
    CbW 6.259 18 ...there is no man who is not at some time indebted to his vices...
    Art2 7.47 8 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    QO 8.200 2 It is inevitable that you are indebted to the past.
    Supl 10.166 18 I am very much indebted to my eyes...
    HDC 11.83 7 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    EWI 11.138 5 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    Milt1 12.254 22 Human nature in these ages is indebted to [Milton] for its best portrait.

indebtedness, n. (2)

    ShP 4.195 8 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    QO 8.189 12 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has...

indecent, adj. (2)

    Schr 10.275 6 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    EWI 11.140 13 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.

indecision, n. (1)

    NMW 4.246 26 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...

indecorous, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.234 11 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.

indecorum, n. (3)

    ET6 5.112 17 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and all England shuddered from sea to sea. The indecorum was never repeated.
    LVB 11.93 3 ...would it not be a higher indecorum coldly to argue a matter like [the relocation of the Cherokees]?
    MAng1 12.234 16 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.

indefatigable, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.348 24 We had an opportunity of learning something of these Socialists and their theory, from the indefatigable apostle of the sect in New York, Albert Brisbane.

indefeasible, adj. (1)

    QO 8.200 27 ...there remains the indefeasible persistency of the individual to be himself.

indefinite, adj. (8)

    DSA 1.134 23 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in anthems of indefinite music;...
    LE 1.175 16 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of balls...can teach you no more than a few can.
    LE 1.182 23 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will...appear too vague and indefinite for the uses of life.
    MR 1.237 6 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    Wsp 6.239 9 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
    LS 11.20 15 [The Lord's Supper] has been, and is, I doubt not, the occasion of indefinite good;...
    MLit 12.318 13 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    Trag 12.409 2 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror, and which does not respect definite evils but indefinite;...

indefinitely, adv. (4)

    NR 3.239 16 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute person, and then that particular style continued indefinitely.
    UGM 4.21 16 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation.
    Bhr 6.189 25 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting...
    Insp 8.281 23 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort, and it seems to us that this facility may be indefinitely applied and resumed.

indelible, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.116 22 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets, and is indelible as Domesday Book.

indelibly, adv. (1)

    PPo 8.242 27 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

indemnification, n. (1)

    UGM 4.26 26 What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies!

indemnified, v. (2)

    Wth 6.109 21 Of course the loss [of an American ship] was serious to the owner, but the country was indemnified;...
    ACiv 11.308 18 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little (the parties being injured by it being such a handful that they can very easily be indemnified) rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...

indemnifies, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.178 19 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...

indemnify, v. (4)

    YA 1.394 13 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    PNR 4.80 10 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    EWI 11.132 24 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be. That first; then, let order be taken to indemnify all such as have been incarcerated.
    WSL 12.341 20 Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

indemnifying, v. (1)

    PI 8.70 17 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.

indemnities, n. (1)

    MN 1.217 6 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...whereof all [other advantages] are only secondaries and indemnities...

indemnity, n. (6)

    Con 1.311 9 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    Tran 1.355 22 [Transcendentalists]...find an indemnity in the inviolable order of the world for the violated order and grace of man.
    Ill 6.316 10 ...the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
    Boks 7.213 12 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
    Imtl 8.343 4 We have our indemnity only in the moral and intellectual reality to which we aspire.
    FSLC 11.189 12 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it.

Independence, American, Dec (2)

    ET12 5.202 7 I do not know whether this learned body [at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American Independence...
    EPro 11.315 20 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Declaration of American Independence in 1776...

Independence, Declaration of (7)

    F 6.23 14 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Chr2 10.92 2 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...here is the Declaration of Independence, the July Fourth of zoology and astronomy.
    JBB 11.268 20 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    JBB 11.270 15 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man who loves the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
    JBB 11.272 13 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    RBur 11.440 23 The Confession of Augsburg, the Declaration of Independence...are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    Bost 12.201 18 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.

independence, n. (64)

    DSA 1.148 12 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends...
    LE 1.159 15 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew...
    LE 1.174 20 Not insulation of place, but independence of spirit is essential...
    Tran 1.354 2 What am I? What but a thought of serenity and independence...
    SR 2.54 3 ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.
    Pt1 3.20 16 [The poet] perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol...
    Mrs1 3.137 1 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    Mrs1 3.138 19 It is not quite sufficient to good-breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
    Gts 3.162 24 I am sorry when my independence is invaded...
    NER 3.252 1 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare...their independence of their colleagues...
    UGM 4.22 7 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.30 13 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place. Any accident will now reveal to them their independence.
    MoS 4.164 9 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.
    GoW 4.283 19 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives...
    ET3 5.41 18 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...cutting off...a territory large enough for independence...
    ET5 5.81 4 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    ET6 5.109 6 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    ET8 5.142 13 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade, which secures an independence through the creation of real values.
    ET8 5.142 25 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET9 5.147 6 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.
    ET10 5.155 11 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth. It is at once the pride of art of the Saxon...and his passion for independence.
    ET10 5.164 8 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    ET11 5.177 18 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier, but to secure the comfort and independence of their homes.
    ET15 5.268 23 [the English] like [the London Times's] independence;...
    ET18 5.304 4 Canada and Australia have been contented with substantial independence.
    Wth 6.90 13 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence...
    Wth 6.90 14 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence, and in its special modification, pecuniary independence.
    Wth 6.90 26 ...it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence be secured.
    Wth 6.113 7 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    CbW 6.278 22 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;... independence and cheerful relation...
    SS 7.15 17 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
    Farm 7.137 21 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts...all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.141 25 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;...
    SA 8.100 12 Every one must seek to secure his independence;...
    PC 8.217 17 [Culture] creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down...
    PPo 8.250 16 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
    Dem1 10.7 25 [Dreams] pique us by independence of us...
    Aris 10.65 23 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles;...
    Edc1 10.139 26 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...the good-natured yet defiant independence of a leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.
    MoL 10.251 20 ...it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    Schr 10.278 27 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents assume an independence...they cannot serve him.
    LLNE 10.344 24 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. His vast lungs breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
    LLNE 10.356 27 ...[Thoreau's] independence made all others look like slaves.
    LLNE 10.368 8 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed;...
    Thor 10.452 20 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence...
    EWI 11.129 1 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies. From these reasons, the question [of slavery] was discussed with a rare independence and magnanimity.
    FSLC 11.204 8 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    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 11.286 4 Theodore Parker was...upright, of a haughty independence...
    TPar 11.293 3 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
    EPro 11.326 18 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
    SMC 11.352 7 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
    RBur 11.440 14 [Robert Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence...
    FRep 11.521 12 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence...
    FRep 11.534 18 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    II 12.77 4 We call genius...divine; to signify its independence of our will.
    Bost 12.201 26 What is very conspicuous is the saucy independence which shines in all [the Massachusetts colonists'] eyes.
    Bost 12.208 19 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
    MAng1 12.237 17 Traits of an almost savage independence mark all [Michelangelo's] history.
    MAng1 12.242 19 Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
    Milt1 12.279 6 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the independence...of this man [Milton]...
    WSL 12.346 11 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
    EurB 12.370 5 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his independence of any living masters...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

Independence, n. (2)

    MoL 10.248 22 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Adams, with Independence;...
    FSLN 11.235 3 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...declarations of Independence...

independency, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.216 25 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it...feels rid of so much earth and feels its independency the surer.
    OS 2.272 9 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
    LLNE 10.327 15 The association [of the time] is for power, merely,-for means; the end being the enlargement and independency of the individual.

independent, adj. (33)

    Tran 1.331 2 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.334 22 All that you call the world is...the perpetual creation of the powers of thought, of those that are dependent and of those that are independent of your will.
    Hist 2.31 7 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous. It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator, and live apart from him and independent of him.
    SR 2.48 27 ...independent...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    SR 2.49 7 ...[the boy] gives an independent, genuine verdict.
    Pol1 3.213 24 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers...
    NER 3.278 26 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    UGM 4.24 15 Altogether independent of the intellectual force in each is the pride of opinion...
    PPh 4.50 6 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...independent...
    ET3 5.37 6 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard; if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds.
    ET12 5.208 23 A gentleman [in England] must possess...an independent and public position...
    ET15 5.272 6 [The English press] has an imperial tone, as of a powerful and independent nation.
    F 6.40 21 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are...independent of actions.
    Bty 6.291 19 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    SS 7.7 13 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    Art2 7.44 12 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    PI 8.6 15 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
    MoL 10.247 10 The worst times only show [the scholar] how independent he is of times;...
    Schr 10.271 6 Will [wealth] be independent?
    Schr 10.271 8 I incline to concede the isolation which [wealth] asks, that it may learn that it is not independent but parasitical.
    LLNE 10.369 18 I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much independent interest...
    MMEm 10.420 22 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious. And, at moments, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am tired out. Yet how independent, how better than to hang on friends!
    HDC 11.46 12 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...
    LVB 11.90 21 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    EWI 11.121 6 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as independent in their conduct...as any that we know of in any country.
    FSLC 11.188 26 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances...
    CPL 11.495 3 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each independent in its local government...
    PLT 12.6 10 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is. The thought which was...part and parcel of the world, has...taken an independent existence.
    PLT 12.63 3 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is...the continuation of the divine effort. Alas! it seems...to be quite independent of us.
    II 12.77 2 ...our thoughts have a life of their own, independent of our will.
    Milt1 12.247 13 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary challenge of universal attention to his claims.
    MLit 12.315 7 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are...
    AgMs 12.359 25 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an erect good sense and independent spirit...

independently, adv. (5)

    NER 3.269 22 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed...
    Suc 7.304 2 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    PI 8.43 20 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
    Imtl 8.329 5 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down, existing quite independently of the present illusions.
    Imtl 8.330 12 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.

Independents, A Protest of (1)

    ET1 5.12 25 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.

Independent's, n. (1)

    ET1 5.12 21 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.

indescribable, adj. (4)

    MMEm 10.412 18 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable lustre...then, however awed, who can fear?
    CL 12.156 13 Of the finer influences [of nature], I shall say that they are not less positive, if they are indescribable.
    CW 12.171 8 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
    MAng1 12.216 21 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not the indescribable charm of the natural world...want observers.

indescribably, adv. (1)

    PLT 12.44 15 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval is as good as a thousand miles...

indestructible, adj. (5)

    AmS 1.81 13 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct.
    Mrs1 3.129 8 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results. These mutual selections are indestructible.
    UGM 4.11 10 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.
    QO 8.179 10 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    PC 8.221 16 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...which remains pure and indestructible in each mote as in masses and planets...

indeterminate, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.155 16 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
    UGM 4.17 13 [The imagination] opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size...
    PI 8.18 25 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us.

index, n. (16)

    Nat 1.37 27 ...Property...is the surface action of internal machinery, like the index on the face of a clock.
    OS 2.286 17 The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
    Int 2.340 21 ...an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity.
    Pt1 3.15 2 ...the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
    Gts 3.161 20 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift, and every man's wealth is an index of his merit.
    NR 3.244 19 What is best in each kind is an index of what should be the average of that thing.
    ET15 5.271 22 [The London Times] is a living index of the colossal British power.
    F 6.44 21 ...women, as the most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
    Civ 7.23 26 Right position of woman in the State is another index [of civilization].
    Civ 7.25 15 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms and utilize evil which is the index of high civilization.
    Elo2 8.120 23 The voice...is a delicate index of the state of mind.
    War 11.165 18 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...
    FSLN 11.229 18 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    Wom 11.405 15 [Women] are the best index of the coming hour.
    Mem 12.93 11 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index...
    MLit 12.321 6 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.

indexes, n. (2)

    ET14 5.237 26 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin...without dictionaries, grammars, or indexes...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    FSLC 11.179 22 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...

index-making, n. (1)

    Insp 8.275 27 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.

India, British, n. (1)

    EPro 11.324 22 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of British Ireland, and British India.

India, East, Company, n. (2)

    HDC 11.69 9 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...
    HDC 11.70 6 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...

India, East, Company's, n. (1)

    HDC 11.69 14 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...

India, East, House, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 16 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.

India House, n. (3)

    ET10 5.162 21 Scandinavian Thor...in England...sits down at a desk in the India House...
    ET15 5.266 25 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
    HDC 11.70 5 ...if any person or persons...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...

India, n. (25)

    DSA 1.126 16 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...but...in India...
    YA 1.393 8 The English, the most conservative people this side of India, are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy]...
    Mrs1 3.130 7 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
    ShP 4.207 25 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art,--in the Cyclopaean architecture of Egypt and India...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ET4 5.47 22 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET5 5.94 24 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    ET6 5.109 10 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops...
    ET9 5.146 24 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    ET11 5.183 20 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...in India...
    ET18 5.304 5 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;...
    Civ 7.26 9 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions,--as the genius of Egypt, of India and of Arabia.
    Suc 7.303 19 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...
    PI 8.36 10 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable.
    QO 8.180 14 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    QO 8.187 12 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales] came from India...
    Insp 8.275 15 The legends of Arabia, Persia and India are of the same complexion as the Christian.
    Grts 8.304 23 Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go...to India...
    Aris 10.33 1 The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India...is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
    Aris 10.48 16 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed. Caste in India has no good result.
    PerF 10.71 16 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    Chr2 10.109 4 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    War 11.153 23 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
    FSLC 11.213 1 Every Englishman in Australia, in South Africa, in India... represents London...
    FRO2 11.487 9 ...the knowledge of Europe looks out into Persia and India...
    PPr 12.390 12 We have been civilizing very fast...planting New England and India, New Holland and Oregon,-and it has not appeared in literature;...

India, Twelve Years...in [ (1)

    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life...

Indian, adj. (64)

    Con 1.304 14 The Indian and barbarous name can never be supplanted without loss.
    Hist 2.19 19 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    Comp 2.106 23 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics;...
    Hsm1 2.254 26 John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water...
    Art1 2.353 20 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols...
    Nat2 3.169 15 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    NR 3.232 10 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Indian astronomy...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    PPh 4.53 7 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste...
    SwM 4.124 23 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks, collected in Ovid and in the Indian Transmigration...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.139 5 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind.
    SwM 4.145 13 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend...
    GoW 4.272 7 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    ET5 5.87 17 [The English] have no Indian taste for a tomahawk-dance...
    ET14 5.258 27 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings, who had been struck with the grand style of thinking in the Indian writings, deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    ET19 5.314 4 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    Bty 6.285 1 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.
    Civ 7.17 11 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Civ 7.22 4 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
    Civ 7.33 1 The appearance of the Hebrew Moses, of the Indian Buddh...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    WD 7.178 9 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Cour 7.278 5 A little Indian boy/ Followed [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    OA 7.328 14 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.
    PI 8.38 10 Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles...these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    QO 8.182 21 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    QO 8.203 10 The earliest describers of savage life, as...Alexander Henry's travels among our Indian tribes, have a charm of truth...
    PC 8.214 11 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of the Indian Vedas...
    Dem1 10.22 1 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    Aris 10.40 23 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators, Indian Brahmins... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.57 27 The great Indian sages had a lesson for the Brahmin, which every day returns to mind, All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    Chr2 10.114 4 The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends...
    SovE 10.190 8 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...
    EzRy 10.392 26 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was an external experience, an Indian wisdom...
    SlHr 10.448 6 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
    Thor 10.463 25 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere...
    Thor 10.473 5 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge...of trees, of birds, of Indian remains and the like...
    Thor 10.473 12 Indian relics abound in Concord...
    Carl 10.492 16 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    HDC 11.32 22 ...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a foot broad.
    HDC 11.33 22 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither...for...the Indian paths, once lost, they did not easily find.
    HDC 11.35 2 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
    HDC 11.35 22 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...to an Indian town in the wilderness that had nothing, must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.36 13 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...
    HDC 11.37 12 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our best meat. Never went white man cold and hungry from Indian wigwam.
    HDC 11.51 19 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...
    HDC 11.51 27 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language?
    HDC 11.52 13 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?
    HDC 11.54 4 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    HDC 11.54 6 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town, where a Christian worship was established under an Indian ruler and teacher.
    HDC 11.54 8 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    HDC 11.54 13 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers, and eighteen assemblies.
    HDC 11.59 17 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    HDC 11.60 8 [Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into the Indian country...
    HDC 11.60 25 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...
    HDC 11.85 27 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of John Eliot, the Indian apostle...
    LVB 11.95 3 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    LVB 11.96 8 I write thus, sir [Van Buren], to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have awakened here...
    War 11.170 21 The next season, an Indian war...or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    CL 12.157 9 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
    CW 12.171 8 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
    Bost 12.183 24 Such is the assimilating force of the Indian climate that Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    Bost 12.184 8 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.
    Let 12.395 3 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

Indian Archipelago, n. (1)

    Nat 1.21 4 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture?

Indian, Choctaw, n. (1)

    SA 8.87 3 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.

Indian, East, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.281 16 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    Trag 12.407 11 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.

Indian, Flathead, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.7 10 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man, in Kalmuck or Malay or Flathead Indian, we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...

Indian, n. (38)

    YA 1.383 20 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;...
    Hist 2.41 2 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    Exp 3.49 11 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Pol1 3.210 24 ...[the conservative party] does not...befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.
    NR 3.242 8 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
    ET2 5.26 12 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles. A nimble Indian would have swum as far;...
    ET5 5.96 18 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...beads for the Indian...
    F 6.16 13 We follow the step of the Jew, of the Indian...
    Civ 7.20 16 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    Farm 7.153 19 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world,--as Adam did, as an Indian does...
    WD 7.157 20 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    Cour 7.257 26 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    PI 8.10 16 The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
    PI 8.17 27 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.
    PI 8.57 12 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian...
    Res 8.144 15 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Comc 8.165 17 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    Comc 8.166 6 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    Comc 8.166 22 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./
    Comc 8.169 7 The poverty...of the naked Indian, is not comic.
    Thor 10.454 26 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He much preferred a good Indian...
    Thor 10.468 10 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants, as of the Indian to the civilized man...
    Thor 10.473 17 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These, and every circumstance touching the Indian, were important in [Thoreau's] eyes.
    Thor 10.473 19 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian.
    Thor 10.473 25 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...
    Thor 10.474 8 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown...
    HDC 11.43 20 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed; the Indian to be watched and resisted;...
    HDC 11.61 11 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
    HDC 11.61 16 The worst feature in the history of those years [of King Philip's War], is, that no man spake for the Indian.
    HDC 11.61 21 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.
    War 11.156 14 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy, as an Indian in church.
    SHC 11.431 18 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking...
    FRO2 11.489 26 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men, whether Jew or Indian, or Greek or Persian, only for friendship...
    FRep 11.540 12 We...shall proceed like William Penn, or whatever other Christian or humane person who treats with the Indian or the foreigner, on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    CL 12.149 16 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed, or withe-bush...for strings;...
    CL 12.152 23 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at midsummer, and send him, like an Indian, to the sea.
    CL 12.161 11 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop, nor the quarter-deck as the forecastle. Witness the insatiable interest of the white man about the Indian...
    Let 12.404 3 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

Indian, Pawnee, n. (2)

    Pow 6.68 17 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a countin-room desk.
    SA 8.105 26 ...civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

Indian Scriptures, n. (2)

    PPh 4.49 12 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly in the Indian Scriptures...
    ACiv 11.309 5 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.

Indian, Sioux, n. (1)

    Civ 7.17 7 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment,/ Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?/

Indian Vedas, n. (1)

    OA 7.317 10 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.

Indian, Wampanoag, n. (2)

    HDC 11.59 2 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag...
    HDC 11.59 17 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.

Indian, West, adj. (6)

    EWI 11.103 25 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest.
    EWI 11.105 10 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.109 10 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, with the utmost ability and faithfulness; resisted by the planters and the whole West Indian interest, and lost.
    EWI 11.126 20 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    EWI 11.126 26 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England...
    FSLC 11.208 20 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves.

Indiana, n. (1)

    FRep 11.538 6 The beautiful is never plentiful. Then Illinois and Indiana... must needs be ordinary.

Indians, Anagunticook, adj. (1)

    War 11.159 7 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anaguntocook tribe, was remarkable for his terpitude and ferocity...

Indians, Black, Hawk, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

Indians, Cherokee, adj. (3)

    LVB 11.89 21 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
    LVB 11.91 1 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.96 13 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.

Indians, Cherokee, n. (3)

    LVB 11.91 4 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 11 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
    LVB 11.93 8 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...

Indians, Illinois, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 26 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him.

Indians, Keokuk, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, Hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

Indians, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    HDC 11.36 6 [Musketaquid] was an old village of the Massachusetts Indians.

Indians, Mohican, n. (1)

    HDC 11.59 18 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the was?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.

Indians, n. (44)

    LT 1.270 14 The political questions touching...the treatment of the Indians;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Pt1 3.37 26 Our log-rolling...our Negroes and Indians...are yet unsung.
    Exp 3.63 17 The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers and bee-hunters.
    Nat2 3.177 12 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
    Wth 6.122 11 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail...
    Wsp 6.205 13 The interior tribes of our Indians and some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    CbW 6.250 17 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    CbW 6.261 19 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants.
    Ill 6.323 15 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...has any advantage of them.
    Civ 7.20 4 The Indians of this country have not learned the white man's work;...
    WD 7.170 23 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians...
    Res 8.145 24 M. Tissenet had learned among the Indians to understand their language...
    Comc 8.165 14 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    PPo 8.258 4 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Thor 10.471 25 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter.
    Thor 10.474 5 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
    HDC 11.35 1 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.
    HDC 11.37 21 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.38 4 ...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.
    HDC 11.38 13 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance...of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.
    HDC 11.43 13 ...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 11.50 11 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
    HDC 11.51 25 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance.
    HDC 11.52 10 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.53 5 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    HDC 11.53 8 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...but would be...Indians still;...
    HDC 11.53 25 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    HDC 11.54 7 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    HDC 11.54 12 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.60 6 The Indians stole upon [Mary Shepherd] before she was aware, and her brothers were slain.
    HDC 11.61 25 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    HDC 11.62 2 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...
    LVB 11.90 16 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...
    LVB 11.92 9 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped the Indians were misinformed...
    LVB 11.93 10 ...how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor [Cherokee] Indians our government...
    War 11.159 9 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity above all other known Indians;...
    FSLN 11.227 13 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be, as the Indians were in Spanish America, a piece of money?
    TPar 11.290 1 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...the cheating of Indians...it is a hypocrisy...
    FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
    FRep 11.534 23 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...
    CInt 12.118 20 We should not think it much to beat Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
    CL 12.135 22 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing;...
    Bost 12.192 18 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.

Indians, Niantic, n. (1)

    HDC 11.57 16 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...

Indians, Penobscot, n. (1)

    Thor 10.474 1 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord...

Indians, Pequot, n. (4)

    HDC 11.35 14 The great cost of cattle...and the fear of the Pequots; are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.44 9 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    HDC 11.54 18 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637.
    CL 12.147 4 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground, of the whites against the Pequots...

Indians, Praying, n. (1)

    HDC 11.61 12 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians...

Indians, Roaring Thunder, n (1)

    Comc 8.165 10 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees...converted to church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

Indians, Tustanuggee, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 10 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees...converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations... touching the conversion of the Indians...

Indians, Wampanoag, n. (1)

    HDC 11.57 27 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind their hatchets...

Indian's, Wampanoag, n. (1)

    HDC 11.59 3 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag, nor the paring of a Wampanoag's nail...

india-rubber, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.178 19 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of india-rubber shoes;...

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