Irresponsible to Ivory
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
irresponsible, adj. (5)
SR 2.49 1 ...irresponsible, looking out from his corner
on such people and
facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
Mrs1 3.126 11 ...the politics of this country, and the
trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible
doers...
GoW 4.282 9 In the learned journal, in the influential
newspaper, I discern
no form; only some irresponsible shadow;...
CbW 6.277 15 The individuals are...in the act of
becoming something else, and irresponsible.
PLT 12.3 8 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's
explanation of magnetic
powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the
irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the
naturalist;...
irresponsibly, adv. (1)
WD 7.182 5 Poems have been written between sleeping and
waking, irresponsibly.
irretrievably, adv. (3)
ET19 5.313 7 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients
did not praise the ship
parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor
which
came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And
so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed
as she now is
to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
MoL 10.258 8 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our
advantage, irretrievably.
FSLC 11.180 19 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must
bow its ancient
honor in the dust, and make us irretrievably ashamed.
irreverence, n. (1)
Chr2 10.104 7 Chateaubriand said, with some irreverence
of phrase, If God
made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
irreversible, adj. (1)
MLit 12.332 7 That Goethe had not a moral perception
proportionate to his
other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since,
lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree
into the common
history of genius.
irrigate, v. (1)
Bty 6.301 4 If a man...can irrigate deserts...'t is no
matter whether his nose
is parallel to his spine...
irrigates, v. (1)
WD 7.159 17 [Steam] irrigates crops...
irrigation, n. (4)
ET18 5.304 6 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of
India by benefits; first, in works for the irrigation of the
peninsula...
Pow 6.56 24 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which
easily rears a crop
which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere
rival.
Supl 10.178 14 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is
established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every
skill...
FRep 11.542 22 ...man seems to play...a certain part
that even tells on the
general face of the planet...leads rivers into dry countries for their
irrigation...
irrigations, n. (1)
WD 7.160 22 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet
Ali's irrigations and
planted forests for late-returning showers.
irritability, n. (6)
Lov1 2.184 17 The work of vegetation begins first in the
irritability of the
bark and leaf-buds.
ShP 4.194 27 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic
materials to which the people were already wonted...
Ctr 6.138 9 Draw [the scholar] out of this limbo of
irritability.
Bhr 6.175 24 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman
who had sat all his
life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of
face, voice and bearing;...
Bhr 6.176 4 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts
statesman's] irritability was a puissant will...
Trag 12.413 2 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic
air. This is not
beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone wall, and work off
this
superabundant irritability?
irritable, adj. (12)
SL 2.166 12 We are the photometers, we the irritable
gold-leaf and tinfoil
that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.
Exp 3.51 7 Of what use [is genius]...if the web
is...too irritable by pleasure
and pain...
Nat2 3.183 6 The cool disengaged air of natural objects
makes them
enviable to us, chafed and irritable creatures with red faces...
NER 3.262 22 I cannot afford to be irritable and
captious...
F 6.44 25 ...the great man...is...of a fibre irritable
and delicate...
Bhr 6.185 2 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do
not wish to deal with
him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard.
Boks 7.209 5 Many men are as tender and irritable as
lovers in reference to
these predilections [toward favorite books].
OA 7.325 6 We live in youth amidst this rabble of
passions, quite too
tender, quite too hungry and irritable.
Edc1 10.127 27 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related
texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
Edc1 10.150 17 ...the youth of genius...are irritable,
uncertain, explosive, solitary...
MMEm 10.433 2 Is it the less desirable to have the
lofty abstractions
because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable?
AsSu 11.247 14 In [the slave state]...man is an animal,
given to pleasure, frivolous, irritable...
irritate, v. (1)
OA 7.327 10 All the functions of human duty irritate and
lash [man] forward...
irritated, v. (2)
NER 3.279 26 A religious man...is not irritated by
wanting the sanction of
the Church...
ET7 5.119 24 Madame de Stael says that the English
irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite
success with honesty.
irritates, v. (1)
CbW 6.270 1 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one
perverse person
irritates the best;...
irritating, v. (1)
EWI 11.119 3 The planter...has contracted in his
indolent and luxurious
climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
irritation, n. (2)
SA 8.93 16 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in
his description of the French woman: There is a quality in which no
woman
in the world can compete with her,--it is the power of intellectual
irritation.
Comc 8.159 17 We have a primary association between
perfectness and
this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do
not
make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by
the
intellect, and the outward sign is the muscular irritation of laughter.
irritations, n. (1)
Ctr 6.160 8 ...the presence of mountains, appeases our
irritations...
Irving, Washington [ship], n (1)
ET2 5.26 9 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship
Washington Irving and
sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
Isaac, n. (2)
Pol1 3.202 22 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better
of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
ET13 5.218 13 It was strange to hear the pretty
pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with
circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
Isabella, of Castile and Le (1)
Suc 7 7.285 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the
King and Queen
that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua.
Isabellas, n. (1)
II 12.84 4 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen
too slowly than that
the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our
Catawbas and
Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for
them.
Isaiah, n. (2)
Nat 1.41 5 Prophet and priest, David, Isaiah, Jesus,
have drawn deeply
from this source [of nature].
Wsp 6.203 22 No Isaiah or Jeremy has arrived.
Isfahan [Ispahan], Persia, (1)
Elo1 7.70 12 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers
of Espahan and other
cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
Isis and Osiris, On [Pluta (2)
Boks 7.200 6 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's
Morals] the essays On
the Daemon of Socrates, On Isis and Osiris...
Boks 7.202 23 If any one who had read with interest the
Isis and Osiris of
Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he
will
find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
Isis, n. (1)
Hist 2.14 7 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow,
offends the
imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets
Osiris-Jove...
Isis River, England, n. (1)
ET12 5.207 1 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and
Cam...
Islamism, n. (1)
Elo2 8.121 26 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a
disagreeable voice was
reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was
his
monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take
so
much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other
rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in
this manner you
will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
island, adj. (11)
Hist 2.36 19 Put Napoleon in an island prison...and he
would beat the air, and appear stupid.
ET4 5.49 1 Trades and professions carve their own lines
on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less
effective; as...the island
life...
ET4 5.54 17 I found plenty of well-marked English
types...robust men, with...a strong island speech and accent;...
ET9 5.146 22 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will
force his island by-laws
down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada,
Australia...
EWI 11.107 17 [The Quakers] were rich: they owned, for
debt or by
inheritance, [West Indian] island property;...
EWI 11.109 24 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons
in Britain pledged
themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island
produce.
EWI 11.111 6 Looking in the face of his master by the
negro was held to
be violence by the [West Indian] island courts.
EWI 11.117 7 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord
Aberdeen and Sir George
Grey, declared to the Parliament...that the new crop of [West Indian]
island
produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
EWI 11.117 24 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at
constant quarrel with
the angry and bilious island legislature.
EWI 11.127 5 The House of Commons would destroy the
protection of [West Indian] island produce...
EWI 11.127 7 The House of Commons would...interfere in
English politics
in the [West Indian] island legislation...
island, n. (53)
MR 1.232 3 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men
are bought for the
plantations...
LT 1.279 21 If every island and every house had a
Bible...would the
wounds of the world heal...
Con 1.311 27 Every island for thee has a town; every
town a hotel.
Mrs1 3.120 19 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where
man... establishes a select society...which...colonizes every
new-planted island...
Mrs1 3.137 9 In all things I would have the island of a
man inviolate.
NR 3.230 3 England, strong, punctual, practical,
well-spoken England I
should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.
PNR 4.86 22 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out
each a farm or a
district or an island, in intellectual geography...
NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island,
coldly falsifying facts
and dates and characters...
ET1 5.13 14 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and
Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other...
ET3 5.38 12 In the history of art it is a long way from
a cromlech to York
minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced in this
all-preserving
island [England].
ET3 5.38 27 The constant rain--a rain with every tide,
in some parts of the
island--keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
ET3 5.40 4 It is...pretended that the enormous
consumption of coal in the
island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
ET3 5.41 15 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 an island of eight hundred miles in length...
ET3 5.43 13 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large,
the people [of
England] not so many as to glut the great markets...
ET4 5.47 23 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?
ET4 5.64 25 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime;...
ET4 5.69 9 A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and
good teeth are
found all over the island [England].
ET4 5.70 25 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island to
America, to Asia...to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
ET5 5.74 14 The island [England] was a prize for the
best race.
ET5 5.75 16 The island [England] is lucrative to free
labor...
ET5 5.77 6 Nobody landed on this spellbound island
[England] with
impunity.
ET5 5.78 1 The island [England] was renowned in
antiquity for its breed of
mastiffs...
ET5 5.78 24 ...no breach of truth and plain
dealing,--not so much as secret
ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
ET5 5.92 23 [The English] have made the island a
thoroughfare...
ET5 5.95 1 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but
the island is full of
artificial breeds.
ET5 5.100 16 The island [England] has produced two or
three of the
greatest men that ever existed...
ET6 5.105 16 ...every one of these islanders [the
English] is an island
himself...
ET8 5.127 16 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the
English] by French
travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their
neighbors. The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
ET8 5.134 24 ...here [in England] exists the best stock
in the world...as if
the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and
sharp-tongued
dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had
bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
ET9 5.147 13 ...it must be admitted, the island
[England] offers a daily
worship to the old Norse god Brage...
ET10 5.163 5 A hundred thousand palaces adorn the
island [England].
ET11 5.182 20 An agriculturist bought lately the island
of Lewes, in
Hebrides...
ET11 5.183 6 These broad [English] estates find room in
this narrow island.
ET11 5.193 17 The respectable Duke of Devonshire,
willing to be the
Maecenas and Lucullus of his island, is reported to have said that he
cannot
live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
ET12 5.201 2 ...[Oxford] is, in British story...the
school of the island...
ET13 5.215 13 ...plainly there has been great power of
sentiment at work in
this island [England]...
ET14 5.235 7 Mixture is a secret of the English
island;...
ET14 5.249 1 Coleridge...is one of those who save
England from the
reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest
wit
the island has yielded.
ET14 5.255 12 The island [England] is a roaring volcano
of fate, of
material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and
low
prices.
ET16 5.275 26 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but
meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I
shall
lapse at once into the feeling...that England, an old and exhausted
island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong
only in her
children.
ET17 5.291 12 ...my impression of the island [England]
is bright with
agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...
ET18 5.303 12 In the island [England], they never let
out all the length of
all the reins...
ET18 5.308 8 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged
should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous
for immortal laws...
ET19 5.312 11 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
PI 8.59 7 To an exile on an island [Taliessin]
says,--The heavy blue chain
of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
EWI 11.114 11 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in
the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In
the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the
legislature
rejected the apprenticeship system...
EWI 11.115 11 I will not repeat to you the well-known
paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of
emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
EWI 11.115 23 The clergy and missionaries throughout
the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to
enlighten the
people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
EWI 11.116 18 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day
after
emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...
EWI 11.117 17 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian]
islands that the
planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as
before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor.
In the
island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
EWI 11.119 25 ...the great island of
Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate
absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
EWI 11.121 5 All those who are acquainted with the
state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are
as free...as any that we
know of in any country.
ACri 12.295 15 ...if the English island had been larger
and the Straits of
Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of
Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages
yet;...
Island, Rhode, n. (3)
HCom 11.343 16 Here in this little Massachusetts, in
smaller Rhode
Island...[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at
Sumter.
ChiE 11.473 17 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear
in mind the bill
which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry
through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall
first
pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
CL 12.157 9 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of
your own bay, and
the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
islanded, adj. (1)
Bost 12.191 16 ...the next colony planted itself at
Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the
best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
islander, n. (2)
Prd1 2.226 10 The islander may ramble all day at will.
ET9 5.151 4 America is the paradise of the [English]
economists;...but
when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his
philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
Islander, Sandwich, n. (1)
Comp 2.118 18 ...the Sandwich Islander believes that the
strength and valor
of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
islanders, n. (3)
Mrs1 3.119 3 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee
islanders getting
their dinner off human bones;...
ET6 5.105 15 ...every one of these islanders [the
English] is an island
himself...
Wsp 6.205 13 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog
their gods when things
take an unfavorable turn.
Islands, Feejee, n. (1)
FSLN 11.228 22 Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was like
Slavery in Africa
or the Feejees, to me.
Islands, Ionian, n. (1)
ET8 5.137 17 ...[the English] administer, in different
parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...in the Ionian Islands, the Pandects
of
Justinian.
Islands, Madeira, n. (1)
Nat2 3.176 4 We can find these enchantments [of the
landscape] without
visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands.
islands, n. (21)
MN 1.222 21 Do what you know, and perception is
converted into
character, as islands and continents were built by invisible
infusories...
MR 1.231 21 ...in the Spanish islands the venality of
the officers of the
government has passed into usage...
MR 1.231 25 In the Spanish islands, every agent or
factor of the
Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
Nat2 3.174 4 Only as far as the masters of the world
have called in nature
to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the
meaning
of their...islands...to back their faulty personality with these strong
accessories.
PPh 4.73 9 ...under his hypocritical pretence of
knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine
philosophers of Athens, whether natives or strangers from Asia Minor
and the islands.
ET18 5.303 21 ...who would see...the explosion of their
well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred
years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and
planted
through all climates...
WD 7.181 5 The savages in the islands, [the foreign
scholar] said, delight
to play with the surf...
Edc1 10.127 1 For a thousand years the islands and
forests of a great part
of the world have been filled with savages...
LLNE 10.329 2 In science the French savant......travels
into all nooks and
islands...
EWI 11.107 10 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established
the principle that
the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe, but the wrongs
in the
islands [West Indies] were not thereby touched.
EWI 11.110 25 In the [West Indian] islands was an
ominous state of cruel
and licentious society;...
EWI 11.111 8 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen
hours, and his
ration by law, in some islands, was a pint of flour and one salt
herring a day.
EWI 11.114 15 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in
the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In
the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the
legislature... adopted absolute emancipation. In the other islands the
system of the
Ministry was accepted.
EWI 11.116 26 ...for the most part, throughout the
[West Indian] islands, nothing painful occurred.
EWI 11.117 11 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian]
islands that the
planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
EWI 11.120 4 ...the great island of
Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate
absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the
same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will; and the
other [West Indian] islands fell into the measure;...
EWI 11.126 4 ...[slavery] does not increase the white
population; it does
not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. For these reasons the
islands [of the West Indies] proved bad customers to England.
EWI 11.126 7 It was very easy for manufacturers...to
see that if the state of
things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves
had
wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
EWI 11.141 26 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is
observed, in the
islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a
thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
War 11.163 9 We have all grown up in the sight...of
armed forts and
islands...
Bost 12.190 19 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its
islands hospitably
shining in the sun...a good boatman can easily find his way for the
first time
to the State House...
Islands, n. (1)
Hist 2.9 23 I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and
the Islands...in my own
mind.
Islands, Society, n. (1)
QO 8.203 9 The earliest describers of savage life, as
Captain Cook's
account of the Society Islands...have a charm of truth...
isle, n. (5)
Prd1 2.223 6 Once in a long time, a man...sees and
enjoys the symbol
solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred
volcanic isle of
nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
ET5 5.98 12 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most
fruitful, luxurious and imperial land
in the whole earth.
ET16 5.276 20 It looked as if the wide margin given in
this crowded isle to
this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of
the
British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical
structures and
history had proceeded.
SS 7.7 23 Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely
as himself.
Aris 10.42 4 [Ulysses] builds the boat with which he
leaves Calypso's isle...
Isle of Guernsey, n. (1)
Thor 10.451 3 Henry David Thoreau was the last male
descendant of a
French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.
Isle of Man, n. (1)
ET8 5.137 14 ...[the English] administer, in different
parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...in the Isle of Man, of the
Scandinavian
Thing;...
Isles, Lord of the, The [W (1)
Scot 11.463 17 I can well remember as far back as when
The Lord of the
Isles was first republished in Boston...
isles, n. (1)
Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New
England] are
many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and
good
harbours.
Isles of Greece, n. (1)
Art2 7.57 12 ...[beauty, truth and goodness] are as
indigenous in
Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece.
islets, n. (1)
ET4 5.59 25 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew,
burning in clear
flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right
end of
King Hake.
Isocrates, n. (5)
PPh 4.64 27 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of
talent, on the powers
of Pericles, of Isocrates, of Parmenides!
Elo1 7.64 4 Isocrates described his art as the power of
magnifying what
was small and diminishing what was great...
Elo1 7.98 19 ...I do not accept that definition of
Isocrates, that the office of
his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small
great;...
Clbs 7.231 5 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often
to mind,--The things
which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can
say it
is not now the time.
ACri 12.300 15 To make of motes mountains, and of
mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
isolate, v. (2)
Exp 3.67 25 God delights to isolate us every day...
Prch 10.237 27 We [in the Church] come to educate, come
to isolate, to be
abstractionists;...
isolated, adj. (3)
GoW 4.265 20 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye
that can replace
this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
Bty 6.282 8 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to
the system. Instead of
an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star.
Mem 12.92 3 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or
conjecture, our later
experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other
views
which confirm and expand it.
isolated, v. (7)
Pt1 3.5 11 [The poet] is isolated among his
contemporaries by truth and by
his art...
NER 3.267 5 The union [of men] is only perfect when all
the uniters are
isolated.
UGM 4.7 4 One man answers some question which none of
his
contemporaries put, and is isolated.
Wsp 6.214 4 ...the religious appear isolated.
PI 8.10 11 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or
mollusk, and isolated
it...
PLT 12.21 12 To be isolated is to be sick...
Pray 12.352 27 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a
solitude as strict and
sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
isolates, v. (1)
ET14 5.253 14 [English science] isolates the reptile or
mullusk it assumes
to explain;...
isolation, n. (11)
MR 1.247 12 I do not wish to push my criticism on the
state of things
around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me...to an
absolute
isolation from the advantages of civil society.
SR 2.72 3 ...your isolation must not be mechanical, but
spiritual...
Mrs1 3.137 1 Let the incommunicable objects of nature
and the
metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
Wth 6.116 23 Sir David Brewster gives exact
instructions for microscopic
observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object
over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth,
who
needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going
out of
the body to think!
SS 7.6 16 [Archimedes and Newton] had that necessity of
isolation which
genius feels.
SA 8.81 6 The perfect defence and isolation which
[manners] effect makes
an insuperable protection.
Schr 10.271 7 I incline to concede the isolation which
[wealth] asks...
LLNE 10.349 26 By reason of the isolation of men at the
present day, all
work is drudgery.
MMEm 10.408 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My
oddities were
never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first, then
through isolation;...
Thor 10.477 20 ...the same isolation which belonged to
his original
thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
PPr 12.383 22 The poet cannot descend into the turbid
present without
injury to his rarest gifts. Hence that necessity of isolation which
genius has
always felt.
isolee, adj. (1)
PLT 12.50 23 The excess of individualism, when it is
not...subordinated to
the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones,
men of one idea, or, as the French say, enfant perdu d'une conviction
isolee...
Ispahan [Isfahan], Persia, (1)
Elo1 7.70 12 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers
in Ispahan and other
cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
Israel, n. (2)
HDC 11.50 20 The interest of the Puritans in the natives
was heightened by
a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes
of Israel.
SMC 11.354 7 ...the moment you cry Every man to his
tent, O Israel! the
delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
Israelite, n. (3)
ShP 4.218 26 ...other men...Israelite, German and Swede,
beheld the same
objects [as Shakespeare]...
EzRy 10.395 7 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern
Israelite in his
attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
Bost 12.184 4 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite,
Christian, have all passed
under this [Hindoo] influence...
Israelites, n. (1)
SR 2.79 5 [Men] say with those foolish Israelites, Let
not God speak to us, lest we die.
issue, n. (11)
Nat 1.34 26 A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit.
MR 1.234 5 ...our laws which establish and protect
[property] seem not to
be the issue of love and reason...
Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere
caprice and wild
romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
PNR 4.80 16 [The human being's] arts and sciences, the
easy issue of his
brain, look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain
of
ox...
ET5 5.82 4 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and
will...abide by the
issue...
ET10 5.161 11 [The Bank of England] votes an issue of
bills, population is
stimulated and cities rise;...
Res 8.147 2 ...one man whose eye commands the end in
view and the
means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do
not
see the issue and the means.
HDC 11.72 1 This body [the Provincial
Congress]...adopted those efficient
measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
FSLN 11.241 17 We should not forgive the clergy for
taking on every issue
the immoral side;...
HCom 11.339 11 We grudge them not, our dearest,
bravest, best,-/ Let
but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God
battling
for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
II 12.88 8 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the
conflict beforehand in
the rank of the actors, is calm.
issued, v. (3)
AmS 1.88 3 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind
from which it
issued, so high does [nature] soar...
ET15 5.265 25 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the
daily printing [of the
London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the
greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
F 6.3 8 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had
the same prominence in
some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same
season.
issues, n. (12)
LE 1.165 20 ...in [men] this disease of an excess of
organization cheats
them of equal issues.
SR 2.47 3 [The divine idea] may be safely trusted as
proportionate and of
good issues...
Exp 3.80 16 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes
you might see her
surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with
tragic and comic issues...
Wsp 6.219 16 ...the primordial atoms are prefigured and
predetermined to
moral issues...
PC 8.210 11 Consider...what variety of issues...the
railroad, the telegraph... have evoked!...
Edc1 10.129 13 No dollar of property can be created
without...some
acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...a study of the
issues of
one and another course of action...
SovE 10.194 2 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of
a mechanical
supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom
they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence
leaves them, and somehow knits and coordinates the issues of them in
all that is beyond
the reach of private faculty.
MoL 10.258 6 ...the issues already appearing overpay
the cost.
Schr 10.272 21 ...the quality and essence of the
universe is in [Union
Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or
custom
of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he
is to
show...its secret history and issues.
LLNE 10.353 5 ...what is true and good must not only be
begun by life, but
must be conducted to its issues by life.
FSLN 11.224 8 Four years ago to-night, on one of those
high critical
moments in history when great issues are determined...Mr. Webster, most
unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
Milt1 12.272 11 The events which produced [Milton's
tracts on divorce and
freedom of the press], the practical issues to which they tend, are
mere
occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
Isthmian, adj. (2)
QO 8.196 2 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards
or Vaux, and
straightway it commends itself to us as if it had received the Isthmian
crown.
MoL 10.253 23 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the
Pancratium of the
boys, at the Isthmian games.
Isthmian Games, n. (1)
Boks 7.200 12 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian
Games...
Isthmus, American, n. (1)
WD 7.160 15 What of the grand tools with which we
engineer, like kobolds
and enchanters...canalling the American Isthmus...
isthmus, n. (1)
ET3 5.41 12 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...
Isthmus of Suez, n. (1)
NMW 4.246 14 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible
resource:--what events! what
romantic pictures! what strange situations!...wading in the gulf of the
Isthmus of Suez.
/It is the dulness of the mul (1)
not see the house in n the ground-plan; the working, in
the model of the
projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera;
but when
it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...ten per cent., a hundred per
cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
Italian, adj. (21)
SL 2.164 8 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and
philosophy of Greek
and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
Art1 2.360 25 I remember when in my younger days I had
heard of the
wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pictures would be
great
strangers;...
ShP 4.193 5 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a
shelf full of English
history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and
Spanish
voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
ShP 4.207 26 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...in... the Italian painting...Genius draws up the
ladder after him...
NMW 4.228 12 An Italian proverb...declares that if you
would succeed, you must not be too good.
ET7 5.124 7 The old Italian author of the Relation of
England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when
the war is actually raging
most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their
other
comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
ET8 5.136 14 There is an English hero superior to the
French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek.
ET16 5.285 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge
[at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian
garden and into a French
pavilion garnished with French busts;...
Bty 6.301 27 The lives of the Italian artists...prove
how loyal men in all
times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
Boks 7.204 10 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German,
Italian...book, in the
original, which I can procure in a good version.
Suc 7.290 27 There was a wise man, an Italian artist,
Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in
one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and
safest course.
Suc 7.308 21 I think that some so-called sacred
subjects must be treated
with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish
art to
be right pictures for houses and churches.
Supl 10.167 14 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat
or hyperbole as
Irish, French, Italian...
War 11.157 15 Early in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to
dismantle their castles...
MAng1 12.218 8 The Italian artists sanction this view
of Beauty by
describing it as il piu nell' uno, the many in one...
MAng1 12.241 9 An eloquent vindication of
[Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the
Italian scholar, in the
Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...
Milt1 12.258 17 The form and the voice of Leonora
Baroni seemed to have
captivated [Milton] in Rome, and to her he addressed his Italian
sonnets and
Latin epigrams.
Milt1 12.259 10 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by
his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the
treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
ACri 12.288 20 What traveller has not listened to the
vigor of...the Sia
ammazato! of the Italian contadino...
MLit 12.324 23 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of
every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness
his
explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as
growing out of the Italian climate;...
MLit 12.324 25 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of
every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness
his
explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as
growing out of the Italian climate;...
Italian, n. (5)
Mrs1 3.153 27 Are you...rich enough to make...the
swarthy Italian with his
few broken words of English...feel the noble exception f your presence
and
your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
PPh 4.41 1 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how
English!...an
Italian,--how Roman and how Greek!
ShP 4.198 6 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only
judicious translation from
William of Lorris and John of Meung...The House of Fame, from the
French or Italian...
ET7 5.125 23 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard
treacherous...
Plu 10.294 22 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and
printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a
century before the
original Works were yet printed.
Italian Republics [Jean C. (1)
Boks 7.206 1 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M.
Sismondi's Italian
Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
Italian Republics, n. (1)
Boks 7.205 23 There is Dante's poem, to open the Italian
Republics of the
Middle Age;...
Italian Travels [Goethe], n (1)
GoW 4.287 1 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal, his
Italian Travels... have the same interest.
Italians, n. (6)
Nat 1.24 1 The standard of beauty is...the totality of
nature; which the
Italians expressed by defining beauty il piu nell' uno.
ET14 5.232 8 [The English]...never are surprised into a
covert or witty
word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians...
F 6.39 8 Dante and Columbus were Italians, in their
time;...
Ctr 6.152 19 The Italians are fond of red clothes...
Boks 7.204 8 The Italians have a fling at
translators,--i traditori traduttori;...
WSL 12.344 8 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the
Italians, the French, the
Scotch and the Irish.
italicize, v. (1)
Supl 10.169 4 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which
Schlegel gives,-In good
prose, every word is underscored; which, I suppose, means, Never
italicize.
italics, n. (1)
QO 8.194 18 ...a passage from one of the poets, well
recited, borrows new
interest from the rendering... As the journals say, the italics are
ours.
Italomania, n. (1)
Hist 2.22 13 In America and Europe the nomadism is of
trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of
Astaboras to the Anglo and
Italomania of Boston Bay.
Italy, n. (49)
AmS 1.111 9 I ask not for...what is doing in Italy or
Arabia;...
Con 1.304 20 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed
among the junior
tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
YA 1.393 24 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador
for neglecting serious
affairs in Italy...
Hist 2.9 23 I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and
the Islands...in my own
mind.
SR 2.80 23 It is for want of self-culture that the
superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt,
retains its fascination for all
educated Americans.
SR 2.80 26 They who made...Italy...venerable in the
imagination, did so by
sticking fast where they were...
Mrs1 3.136 10 I have just been reading...Montaigne's
account of his
journey into Italy...
PPh 4.42 20 Plato absorbed the learning of his
time...and finding himself
still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled into Italy...
PPh 4.44 6 [Plato] travelled into Italy;...
MoS 4.166 20 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to
entertain you with the
records of his disease, and his journey to Italy is quite full of that
matter.
NMW 4.235 12 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said;
and he built his
perfect roads...until Italy was as open to Paris as any town in France.
NMW 4.236 15 It is plain that in Italy [Napoleon] did
what he could, and
all that he could.
NMW 4.238 25 It was a whimsical economy of the same
kind which
dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to
his
burdensome correspondence.
NMW 4.243 15 In Italy, [Napoleon] sought for men and
found none.
NMW 4.243 17 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men
are! There are
eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two...
ET1 5.3 3 In 1833, on my return from a short tour in
Sicily, Italy and
France, I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
ET3 5.34 1 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only
countries worth
living in;...
ET4 5.63 1 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the
proof of the superiority
of the stock;...
ET5 5.74 22 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in
England]...presently
he heard bad news from Italy...
ET5 5.96 22 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the
best models of
Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing
population.
ET5 5.96 27 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find
new forms, to add a
grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their
foundries.
Wsp 6.209 22 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late
King of Naples, It has
been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of
government.
CbW 6.266 16 My countrymen are not less infatuated with
the rococo toy
of Italy.
Bty 6.288 26 ...the working of this deep instinct makes
all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of vain
travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
Boks 7.210 22 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and
fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten,
quietly
added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the
Valdarfer
Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory
instrument
swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell. The
stroke
of its fall sounded on the farthest shores of Italy.
PI 8.14 12 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone
inserted in the body
of Italy to keep the wound open.
SA 8.94 3 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished
persons in letters or
society in England, Germany and Italy...
PC 8.211 2 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years
ago will remember
the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around
him, if
a political topic were broached.
PC 8.216 21 Michel Angelo was the conscience of Italy.
PC 8.219 9 ...in every wise and genial soul we have
England, Greece, Italy, walking...
Chr2 10.116 23 ...a few clergymen, with a more
theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them
quietly. In general discourse, they
are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...in Italy, he might
leave
them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
MoL 10.248 8 Italy, France-a hundred times those
countries have been
trampled with armies and burned over...
Schr 10.278 5 These iron personalities, such as in
Greece and Italy...were
formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
Plu 10.295 3 ...the first printed edition of the Greek
Works [of Plutarch] did
not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found
learned
interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's]
wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as
large as Italy.
FSLC 11.186 11 There is always something in the very
advantages of a
condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...Italy its
Pope;...
FSLN 11.239 22 In 1825 Greece found America
deaf...Italy and Hungary
found her deaf.
TPar 11.292 11 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be
consoled in the
transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will
affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the
winds
of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave;...
EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman,
a Frenchman, or
an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition of Italy, until
1859...
SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our praises
of Italy or
Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
FRep 11.511 18 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely
took the sculptor
Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the
forms of old Etruscan vases...
CInt 12.118 9 Society is always taken by surprise at
any new example of
common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus,
at... Garibaldi's emancipation of Italy for Italy's sake;...
CL 12.158 11 My companion and I...agreed that russet
was the hue of
Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he
said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.
MAng1 12.222 20 There are now in Italy, both on canvas
and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by
contemplating.
MAng1 12.239 21 ...the reputation of many works of art
now in Italy
derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
MAng1 12.244 3 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius
of Italy draws
to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
Milt1 12.259 12 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant
learning, [Milton] was
sent into Italy...
Milt1 12.267 22 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in
returning from Italy
because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
MLit 12.325 11 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of
every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness
his
explanation...of the domestic rural architecture in Italy;...
Italy's, n. (1)
CInt 12.118 9 Society is always taken by surprise at any
new example of
common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus,
at... Garibaldi's emancipation of Italy for Italy's sake;...
itch, n. (1)
ET1 5.13 24 [Coleridge said] There were only three
things which the
government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely,
itch, pox and famine.
iterated, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.25 21 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be
less pleasing than
the iterated nodes of a seashell...
iterates, v. (1)
SwM 4.107 8 [Identity-philosophy] is this, that Nature
iterates her means
perpetually on successive planes.
iteration, n. (2)
SwM 4.117 14 [Correspondence] was involved...in the
doctrine of identity
and iteration...
SMC 11.348 13 Yea, many a tie, through iteration
sweet,/ Strove to detain
their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice
decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before
the
seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes
gathering on from zone to zone;/...
iterations, n. (4)
PI 8.47 16 Another form of rhyme is iterations of
phrase...
PI 8.48 1 Milton delights in these iterations...
PI 8.54 1 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have
iterations and
alliterations...
PI 8.64 15 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes and
cadences in the
rhymes and iterations of Nature...
Ithaca, Greece, n. (1)
Elo1 7.72 2 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove,
This is the wise
Ulysses...who was reared in the state of craggy Ithaca...
itinerancy, n. (1)
Hist 2.22 19 ...the cumulative values of long residence
are the restraints on
the itinerancy of the present day.
itinerant, adj. (1)
WD 7.180 5 ...this curious, peering, itinerant,
imitative America...will take
off its dusty shoes...
itinerant, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.153 25 Are you...rich enough to make...the
itinerant with his consul'
s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception
f
your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;...
Ivanhoe [Walter Scott], n. (1)
LE 1.172 24 Works of the intellect are great only by
comparison with each
other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the
Porter
novels;...
ivory, adj. (1)
Boks 7.210 19 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and
fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten,
quietly
added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the
Valdarfer
Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory
instrument
swept the air;...
ivory, n. (3)
Mrs1 3.120 5 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the
gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the
purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these
cannibals and man-stealers;...
Nat2 3.183 10 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks
and the oak and the
elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets
of silk.
Aris 10.42 6 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the
trunk of a tree and
inlays it with gold and ivory.
ivy, n. (2)
Wsp 6.235 19 I ate whatever was set before me [said
Benedict]; I touched
ivy and dogwood.
Trag 12.410 2 [People with an appetite for grief]
handle every nettle and
ivy in the hedge...
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