Knowingness to Kyd

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

knowingness, n. (1)

    Exp 3.53 10 The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness [of physicians].

Knowledge, Apples of, n. (1)

    Hist 2.39 5 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Apples of Knowledge...

knowledge, n. (291)

    Nat 1.26 23 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;...
    Nat 1.35 26 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...
    Nat 1.39 8 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he...feels by knowledge the privilege to BE!
    Nat 1.43 25 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
    Nat 1.45 15 [The spirit] says, From such as this [human form] have I drawn joy and knowledge;...
    Nat 1.63 16 Let [the ideal theory] stand then, in the present state of our knowledge, merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    Nat 1.66 7 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    Nat 1.73 18 ...the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge...but that of God is a morning knowledge...
    Nat 1.73 20 ...the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge...but that of God is a morning knowledge...
    AmS 1.86 26 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.92 21 ...the human mind can be fed by any knowledge.
    AmS 1.93 25 Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing.
    AmS 1.103 19 The orator distrusts at first...his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses...
    DSA 1.134 16 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    DSA 1.145 10 Once leave your own knowledge of God...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.145 11 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    LE 1.164 19 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    LE 1.172 11 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.
    MN 1.193 1 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    MN 1.213 9 ...all knowledge is assimilation to the object of knowledge...
    MN 1.213 10 ...all knowledge is assimilation to the object of knowledge...
    MN 1.222 15 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MN 1.222 16 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph, calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
    MR 1.232 8 I leave for those who have the knowledge the part of sifting the oaths of our custom-houses;...
    MR 1.240 3 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the enlargement of his knowledge...
    MR 1.246 4 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Con 1.323 16 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    Con 1.323 17 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    Con 1.323 23 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Hist 2.39 20 I hold our actual knowledge very cheap.
    Comp 2.104 13 [The soul] would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it,--power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty.
    Comp 2.114 16 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue...
    Comp 2.114 20 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs...may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
    Comp 2.114 24 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    Comp 2.122 10 There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge...
    Comp 2.123 8 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists...
    SL 2.137 23 He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.
    SL 2.148 2 Our dreams are the sequel of our waking knowledge.
    SL 2.159 21 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...and the want of due knowledge,--all blab.
    Lov1 2.182 27 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and knowledge of the Divinity...
    Prd1 2.222 18 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world.
    Prd1 2.224 12 The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
    OS 2.270 15 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.285 8 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    OS 2.289 6 The soul is superior to its knowledge...
    Cir 2.308 5 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprise? has he knowledge? it boots not.
    Cir 2.318 23 That central life is somewhat...superior to knowledge and thought...
    Cir 2.320 22 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge...
    Int 2.325 18 How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge...
    Int 2.325 20 ...[the mind] melts will into perception, knowledge into act?
    Int 2.330 3 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge...
    Int 2.333 23 ...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.
    Art1 2.362 16 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value...
    Pt1 3.3 3 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    Pt1 3.3 10 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars...
    Pt1 3.18 7 Why covet a knowledge of new facts?
    Exp 3.56 14 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge.
    Exp 3.80 10 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
    Nat2 3.195 26 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NER 3.269 25 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...
    NER 3.269 27 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane growth...
    UGM 4.4 13 The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
    UGM 4.34 11 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge...
    PPh 4.42 1 What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge.
    PPh 4.50 5 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...made up of true knowledge...
    PPh 4.50 8 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    PPh 4.51 21 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is... earnestness; the other, knowledge...
    PPh 4.62 10 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power, before form, before will, before knowledge...
    PPh 4.63 27 ...courage is nothing else than knowledge;...
    PPh 4.71 9 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...
    PNR 4.86 8 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity;...
    PNR 4.86 12 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real...
    SwM 4.96 9 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.96 17 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.100 22 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.106 3 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    SwM 4.138 5 ...that is knowledge,[say the Hindoos,] which is for our liberation...
    MoS 4.155 16 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river...
    MoS 4.174 2 Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.
    ShP 4.210 1 What mystery has [Shakespeare] not signified his knowledge of?
    ShP 4.219 18 ...knowledge will brighten the sunshine;...
    NMW 4.242 9 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own...
    GoW 4.279 17 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws;...that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET1 5.13 2 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order.
    ET1 5.20 23 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England,--which the reformers represent as a tax upon knowledge...
    ET2 5.30 3 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...
    ET3 5.35 26 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress.
    ET5 5.99 10 ...the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.
    ET11 5.190 18 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written, and the company nobly bred which performed it with knowledge and sympathy.
    ET12 5.206 19 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
    ET12 5.210 4 Such knowledge as they prize [at Oxford] they possess and impart.
    ET12 5.210 20 ...in general, here [at Oxford]...the knowledge pretended to be conveyed was conveyed.
    ET12 5.211 18 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors, and to the end of a knowledge how the things whereof they treat really stand...
    ET13 5.224 2 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.
    ET14 5.239 3 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known. That knowledge...would supersede all that we call science of the mind.
    ET14 5.245 27 Hallam inspires respect by his knowledge and fidelity...
    ET14 5.255 16 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    ET14 5.260 11 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    ET16 5.273 20 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    F 6.27 25 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    Wth 6.87 27 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added...length to the day, and knowledge and good will.
    Wth 6.96 24 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!...
    Ctr 6.146 22 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    Ctr 6.147 12 ...knowledge and fine moral quality [nature] lodges in distant men.
    Bhr 6.190 10 How do [men] get this rapid knowledge...of each other's power and disposition?
    Wsp 6.240 22 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he...does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
    CbW 6.264 10 ...to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
    CbW 6.271 23 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    CbW 6.273 9 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
    Bty 6.286 13 Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners...never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.286 19 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    Bty 6.301 7 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Ill 6.324 16 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    SS 7.5 25 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Civ 7.21 2 ...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to knowledge, as to commerce.
    Civ 7.24 10 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...
    Civ 7.30 22 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.
    Civ 7.33 24 ...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Elo1 7.82 20 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus, being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge could aid the cabinet;...
    Elo1 7.89 5 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    DL 7.103 22 [The child's] ignorance is more charming than all knowledge...
    DL 7.105 21 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
    DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    DL 7.122 6 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...such vast knowledge that he was not ignorant in anything...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Boks 7.202 4 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
    Clbs 7.227 18 See how Nature has secured the communication of knowledge.
    Clbs 7.235 9 What is a match at...chess, to a match...of knowledge and of resources?
    Clbs 7.244 1 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith...
    Clbs 7.245 1 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social skill to the daylight in your company and affection;...
    Clbs 7.246 25 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men. Their knowledge contradicts the popular opinion and your own on many points.
    Cour 7.262 27 Knowledge is the encourager...
    Cour 7.263 1 Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use...
    Cour 7.263 2 Knowledge is the encourager...knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice.
    Cour 7.264 23 Knowledge, yes; for the danger of dangers is illusion.
    Suc 7.290 10 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables...
    Suc 7.294 3 Is there no loving of knowledge...for itself alone?
    Suc 7.294 24 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    Suc 7.295 13 ...it is only as a door into this [central intelligence], that any talent or the knowledge it gives is of value.
    Suc 7.300 14 ...life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.
    Suc 7.303 3 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge...
    OA 7.321 22 ...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands;...
    OA 7.321 24 ...there is no knowledge that is not power.
    OA 7.322 25 We still feel the force...of Bacon, who took all knowledge to be his province;...
    OA 7.327 13 [Man] wants friends, employment, knowledge...
    OA 7.336 7 ...the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.10 17 The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
    PI 8.24 24 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents...which make the raw material of knowledge.
    PI 8.24 26 It was sensation;...when the mind acted, it was knowledge;...
    PI 8.24 27 It was sensation;...when the mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
    SA 8.89 4 ...we want knowledge;...
    SA 8.90 18 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.100 7 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    Elo2 8.110 4 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.116 24 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people]...with his better knowledge...
    Elo2 8.133 3 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Res 8.151 18 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature...
    Comc 8.168 16 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...
    QO 8.190 27 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.192 14 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
    QO 8.200 10 Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds...
    PC 8.205 8 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./
    PC 8.223 19 ...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance,-plastic, transparent, delightful, to knowledge.
    PC 8.226 13 Knowledge exists to be imparted.
    PPo 8.237 3 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall...we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.
    PPo 8.237 20 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock...
    PPo 8.244 4 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    PPo 8.258 17 Hafiz says...to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
    Insp 8.269 18 Knowledge runs to the man, and the man runs to knowledge.
    Insp 8.269 19 Knowledge runs to the man, and the man runs to knowledge.
    Insp 8.270 17 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature...
    Insp 8.274 17 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge.
    Insp 8.276 6 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans: the good will, the knowledge...are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Insp 8.291 19 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of the house, and from all knowledge of the feet that come and go therein.
    Insp 8.295 6 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book...from which I draw some lasting knowledge.
    Insp 8.295 23 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought...
    Imtl 8.337 4 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are not random whims...
    Imtl 8.337 7 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion, the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature, and meant to be satisfied by food, by motion, by sleep, by society, by knowledge.
    Imtl 8.337 8 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    Imtl 8.337 9 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    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.
    Imtl 8.345 14 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly.
    Imtl 8.351 7 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
    Imtl 8.351 12 [Yama said to Nachiketas] That knowledge for which thou hast asked [concerning immortality] is not to be obtained by argument.
    Imtl 8.352 3 The soul cannot be gained by knowledge...
    Aris 10.53 24 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    PerF 10.72 20 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PerF 10.73 19 We come to reason and knowledge;...
    PerF 10.73 21 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge...
    PerF 10.76 10 ...[man] draws on all knowledge as his province...
    PerF 10.77 9 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence. Then the knowledge unutterable of our private strength...
    PerF 10.78 15 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    PerF 10.86 20 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us...
    PerF 10.88 12 ...the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last. Whence does the knowledge come?
    Chr2 10.101 25 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these not so much give particular knowledge...
    Edc1 10.126 1 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Edc1 10.129 10 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force.
    Edc1 10.132 9 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
    Edc1 10.132 13 Whilst thus the world exists for the mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to the knowledge of this fact.
    Edc1 10.141 22 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.144 16 The two points in a boy's training are...to...keep his nature and arm it with knowledge in the very direction in which it points.
    Edc1 10.147 15 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain...that power of performance is worth more than the knowledge.
    Prch 10.224 3 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from occupation with details to knowledge of the design;...
    Prch 10.230 4 [The clergy's] first duty is self-possession founded on knowledge.
    MoL 10.256 22 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.
    Schr 10.269 15 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth, and perpetual advance in knowledge of it...
    Schr 10.281 15 ...[Plotinus] says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.
    Schr 10.283 18 Nobody has found the limit of [mother-wit's] knowledge.
    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...
    LLNE 10.368 25 What knowledge of themselves and of each other...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    EzRy 10.392 25 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was an external experience...
    EzRy 10.394 9 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    EzRy 10.394 15 This intimate knowledge of families...made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    MMEm 10.418 17 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals...
    MMEm 10.427 26 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
    MMEm 10.429 13 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet. Away with knowledge;-God alone.
    MMEm 10.432 5 SlHr 10.446 11 ...if there were regions of knowledge not open to [Samuel Hoar], he did not pretend to them.
    Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...
    Thor 10.453 14 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of his mathematical knowledge...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.453 19 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.472 19 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
    Thor 10.473 4 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...
    Thor 10.485 7 ...wherever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, [Thoreau] will find a home.
    LS 11.6 5 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark...
    HDC 11.50 11 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God.
    War 11.156 16 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
    War 11.157 6 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...
    FSLN 11.218 21 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...
    AsSu 11.248 21 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...
    TPar 11.286 2 Theodore Parker was...strong, eager, inquisitive of knowledge...
    TPar 11.286 11 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit...
    ACiv 11.299 17 Is [man] not to make his knowledge practical?...
    SMC 11.356 26 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now verify his newspaper knowledge...
    SMC 11.375 16 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    Wom 11.408 15 So much sympathy as [women] have makes them inestimable as the mediators between those who have knowledge and those who want it...
    Wom 11.408 17 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    Wom 11.421 15 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.
    Shak1 11.449 25 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    Humb 11.456 3 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...
    Humb 11.456 5 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 see great advances in knowledge develop themselves...
    FRO2 11.487 8 ...the knowledge of Europe looks out into Persia and India...
    NHI 12.2 2 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    PLT 12.5 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PLT 12.9 27 ...what we really want is...a certain piety toward the source of action and knowledge.
    PLT 12.22 20 Is it not a little startling to see...with what genius some people fish,-what knowledge they still have of the creature they hunt?
    PLT 12.25 15 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me, not so much by adding to my knowledge as by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can be turned.
    PLT 12.33 4 The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge.
    PLT 12.33 12 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains...
    PLT 12.55 2 The natural remedy against this miscellany of knowledge and aim...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    PLT 12.59 9 We are passing into new heavens...in thought by our better knowledge.
    PLT 12.62 12 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.
    PLT 12.62 12 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power...
    II 12.65 4 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains...
    II 12.74 24 ...this wonderful source of knowledge [Inspiration] remains a mystery;...
    II 12.82 13 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture.
    II 12.89 1 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.90 10 ...memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    Mem 12.91 14 Any piece of knowledge I acquire to-day...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.91 19 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. To-morrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge, and use it better.
    Mem 12.94 23 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge...
    Mem 12.94 25 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.
    Mem 12.94 27 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.
    Mem 12.98 18 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge.
    Mem 12.101 10 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
    Mem 12.101 15 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    Mem 12.106 15 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...
    Mem 12.109 16 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;...
    Mem 12.109 17 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;...
    CInt 12.117 10 This Integrity over all partial knowledge and skill, homage to truth-how rare!
    CInt 12.120 27 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge;...
    CL 12.141 6 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future.
    CL 12.150 7 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use...
    CW 12.179 12 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.
    Bost 12.197 15 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    MAng1 12.219 15 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
    MAng1 12.219 27 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
    MAng1 12.221 6 The depth of [Michelangelo's] knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
    MAng1 12.222 13 Our knowledge of [the human form's] highest expression we owe to the Fine Arts.
    MAng1 12.223 6 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
    Milt1 12.252 18 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...the praise of intimate knowledge and delight;...
    Milt1 12.262 7 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.274 5 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    Milt1 12.274 8 From a just knowledge of what man should be, [Milton] described what he was.
    Milt1 12.277 10 Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    MLit 12.315 9 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are, because they have brought us to the knowledge of somewhat deeper than both them and us.
    MLit 12.321 22 The soul is superior to its knowledge...
    MLit 12.327 4 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration, which knowledge and correct thinking supply;...
    MLit 12.335 19 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
    WSL 12.338 16 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...
    Pray 12.355 16 I thank thee for the knowledge that I have attained of thee by thy sons who have been before me...
    AgMs 12.362 9 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney], with all his knowledge and present skill, would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...

Knowledge, n. (2)

    MR 1.240 8 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities...
    Cour 7.262 18 Knowledge is the antidote to fear,--Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

knowledges, n. (3)

    AmS 1.113 26 [The scholar] must be an university of knowledges.
    OS 2.276 10 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind...will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
    ET14 5.240 19 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.

Knowles, Thomas, n. (1)

    EWI 11.107 23 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783,- William Dillwyn, Samuel Hoar, George Harrison, Thomas Knowles, John Lloyd, Joseph Woods, to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

known, adj. (30)

    Nat 1.66 15 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any...other comparison of known quantities...
    Nat 1.70 22 In the cycle of the universal man, from whom the known individuals proceed, centuries are points...
    YA 1.365 18 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of land in the eastern;...
    SR 2.68 22 ...when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way;...
    Exp 3.67 4 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.
    Nat2 3.183 19 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
    NR 3.240 17 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Shakers, or by any known and effete name?
    PPh 4.77 4 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world...
    SwM 4.141 2 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    ShP 4.209 23 So far from Shakspeare's being the least known, he is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    ShP 4.209 24 ...[Shakespeare] is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    NMW 4.239 5 [Bonaparte's] achievement of business...enlarges the known powers of man.
    NMW 4.251 18 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value, after all the deduction that it seems is to be made from them on account of his known disingenuousness.
    ET12 5.205 13 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET16 5.279 13 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near.
    ET16 5.283 5 On hints like these, Stukeley...computing backward by the known variations of the compass, bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    Art2 7.54 1 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin of all the known orders of architecture;...
    Imtl 8.349 21 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
    Dem1 10.19 16 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Dem1 10.21 22 Power as such is not known to the angels.
    EWI 11.109 22 Every horrid fact [of the slave trade] became known.
    War 11.159 8 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;...
    FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
    FSLC 11.203 8 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
    FSLC 11.211 24 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to endorse the statute.
    FSLN 11.219 2 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.
    AKan 11.261 3 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
    SMC 11.348 17 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;/...
    MAng1 12.228 4 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months, a fact which enlarges, it has been said, the known powers of man.
    Pray 12.355 3 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost make thyself known to me...

known, v. (191)

    Nat 1.34 2 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
    Nat 1.39 12 ...Time and Space relations vanish as laws are known.
    Nat 1.55 12 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena, which being known, the phenomena can be predicted.
    Nat 1.75 13 ...poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known to you.
    AmS 1.98 23 That great principle of Undulation in nature...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.123 6 Character is always known.
    DSA 1.138 15 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    MN 1.200 23 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be...
    MN 1.204 13 ...there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?
    MN 1.213 17 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power, which...must be received and sympathetically known.
    MN 1.223 27 All things are known to the soul.
    Con 1.323 4 The man of principle is known as such [in a state of war or anarchy]...
    Tran 1.339 24 It is well known to most of my audience that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
    YA 1.392 6 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.
    Hist 2.10 14 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
    Hist 2.24 23 Luxury and elegance are not known [in the Grecian period].
    Hist 2.26 11 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child;...
    Hist 2.31 13 When the gods come among men, they are not known.
    SR 2.72 27 Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.
    SL 2.159 15 If you would not be known to do any thing, never do it.
    Lov1 2.179 12 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society...
    Lov1 2.186 22 All that is in the world, which is or ought to be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man, of woman...
    Lov1 2.187 3 If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.
    Fdsp 2.206 22 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms, perhaps because I have never known so high a fellowship as others.
    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.
    Cir 2.303 9 Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.
    Int 2.325 23 [Mind's] vision is not like the vision of the eye, but is union with the things known.
    Pt1 3.8 17 ...nature...must as much appear as it must be done, or known.
    Pt1 3.42 2 ...thou [O poet] shalt be known only to thine own...
    Exp 3.74 3 It is for us to believe in the rule, not in the exception. The noble are thus known from the ignoble.
    Exp 3.75 3 I exert the same quality of power in all places. Thus journeys the mighty Ideal before us; it never was known to fall into the rear.
    Mrs1 3.123 16 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality are known...
    Nat2 3.191 10 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue sometimes had the headache...
    NR 3.243 9 All persons, all things which we have known, are here present...
    NER 3.253 22 ...there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    UGM 4.11 18 Like can only be known by like.
    PPh 4.61 23 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be...known...
    PPh 4.75 7 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    SwM 4.96 13 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.113 15 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...
    SwM 4.115 2 A spirit may be known from only a single thought.
    SwM 4.117 8 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was known for ages, as a toy.
    SwM 4.117 9 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was known for ages, as a toy.
    SwM 4.132 16 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    SwM 4.145 21 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind, which is now only beginning to be known.
    NMW 4.223 3 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.228 12 An Italian proverb, too well known, declares that if you would succeed, you must not be too good.
    GoW 4.281 25 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind...and it constitutes his business and calling in the world to see those facts through, and to make them known.
    ET1 5.9 22 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...in which there is not a style nor a tint not known to him...
    ET1 5.11 23 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET5 5.78 6 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    ET5 5.100 25 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture, or in trade...
    ET9 5.148 20 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    ET12 5.207 14 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.
    ET14 5.239 3 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known.
    ET14 5.250 19 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters...
    ET14 5.253 4 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
    ET16 5.278 18 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how to cut a well-wrought tenon and mortise...
    ET16 5.278 25 We are not yet too late to learn much more than is known of this structure [Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.284 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...a house known to Shakspeare and Massinger...
    ET17 5.293 6 A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London] not less known and dear.
    ET17 5.293 12 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England], with persons little known.
    ET19 5.310 1 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform. But I have known all these persons already.
    ET19 5.310 4 The arguments of the League and its leader are known to all the friends of free trade.
    F 6.20 4 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
    F 6.40 11 Alas! till now I had not known,/ My guide and fortune's guide are one./
    Ctr 6.132 24 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Ctr 6.137 13 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.
    Ctr 6.144 9 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts. Their chief use to the youth is...to be known for what they are...
    Ctr 6.158 22 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    Ctr 6.166 6 The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized.
    Bhr 6.171 7 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Bhr 6.191 5 ...Whatever is known to thyself alone, has always very great value.
    Wsp 6.199 15 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
    Wsp 6.214 14 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.240 6 The only path of escape known in all the worlds of God is performance.
    Bty 6.297 14 Walpole says...people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be there.
    Ill 6.315 2 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold...
    SS 7.6 27 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful...
    Civ 7.32 20 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.74 10 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which, as is well known, overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    Elo1 7.77 18 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should have known better.
    Elo1 7.77 19 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers...
    DL 7.122 8 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...such vast knowledge that he was not ignorant in anything, yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    DL 7.129 2 [Friendship] is the happiness which, where it is truly known, postpones all other satisfactions...
    WD 7.180 20 The world is enigmatical,--everything said, and everything known or done...
    Boks 7.197 18 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...
    Boks 7.200 2 ...Plutarch's Morals is less known...
    Clbs 7.225 17 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...
    Clbs 7.238 11 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known...
    Clbs 7.242 4 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men...
    Clbs 7.242 8 I have known persons of rare ability who...were heavy to intellectual men who ought to have known them.
    Cour 7.277 19 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life, as narrated in a ballad by a lady to whom all the particulars of the fact are exactly known.
    OA 7.328 12 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
    OA 7.329 17 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks, and with accelerating speed as he becomes knowing and known.
    OA 7.334 22 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but a greater esteem, as he became more known.
    PI 8.8 21 Natural objects, if individually described and out of connection, are not yet known...
    PI 8.20 10 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven;...
    PI 8.44 14 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported the men...
    PI 8.61 9 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you...
    PI 8.61 10 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am known no longer...
    SA 8.93 27 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
    Elo2 8.126 25 ...we have all of us known men who lose their talents...at any sudden call.
    Elo2 8.128 9 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
    Res 8.145 17 Malus, known for his discoveries in the polarization of light, was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    QO 8.177 12 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
    QO 8.182 22 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    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, only recently known to Western nations, of the Indian Vedas...
    PC 8.220 1 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    PC 8.220 2 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are...always known to the adepts;...
    PPo 8.245 22 Alas! till now I had not known/ My guide and Fortune's guide are one./
    Insp 8.283 27 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day...
    Insp 8.288 26 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known...
    Grts 8.309 18 If you have ever known a good mind among the Quakers, you will have found [self-respect] is the element of their faith.
    Grts 8.319 4 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Imtl 8.337 19 I have known admirable persons, without feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.
    Imtl 8.351 8 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
    Dem1 10.15 5 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life? Had he known anything of futurity, he would not have come here to be killed by the arrow of Masollam the Jew.
    Dem1 10.25 6 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Dem1 10.25 20 ...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
    Aris 10.41 8 The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    PerF 10.70 21 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    PerF 10.83 15 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
    Chr2 10.102 9 A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him.
    Chr2 10.104 5 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all, God...known only as pure law...
    Edc1 10.138 19 I like...boys...known to have no money in their pockets, and themselves not suspecting the value of this poverty;...
    Edc1 10.142 1 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Supl 10.167 5 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said: I have known him long...and I believe him capable of virtue.
    SovE 10.212 20 ...what deeps of grandeur and beauty are known to us in ethical truth...
    Prch 10.216 1 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    Schr 10.273 2 The scholar, when he comes, will be known by an energy that will animate all who see him.
    Schr 10.276 21 How many young geniuses we have known, and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
    Schr 10.276 26 As Burke said, it is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent.
    Schr 10.283 19 Whatever object is brought before [mother-wit] is already well known to it.
    Plu 10.294 20 ...[Plutarch's] books were never known to the world in their own Greek tongue...
    LLNE 10.331 22 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    LLNE 10.358 27 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.
    LLNE 10.359 21 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.
    MMEm 10.402 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] good will to serve in time of sickness or of pressure was known to [her brothers and sisters]...
    SlHr 10.443 1 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    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 10.465 8 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    Thor 10.466 7 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    Thor 10.467 4 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.473 1 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen, who had at first known him only as an oddity.
    Thor 10.484 7 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    GSt 10.501 17 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    HDC 11.36 26 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
    HDC 11.37 7 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity were known to the Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
    HDC 11.72 27 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage. The story of that day is well known.
    EWI 11.116 18 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...
    EWI 11.136 9 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am now in a country where the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
    FSLC 11.186 2 [The devil] was never known to abate a penny of his rents.
    FSLN 11.235 19 The army of unright is encamped from pole to pole, but the road of victory is known to the just.
    AKan 11.262 15 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that instant justice would be administered to each offence...
    TPar 11.285 8 It is only what [a man] tells of himself that comes to be known and believed.
    TPar 11.291 18 ...it is well known that [Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    SMC 11.348 5 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    EdAd 11.393 20 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us...
    Koss 11.400 24 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    SHC 11.434 8 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    RBur 11.439 23 ...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival] with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better singers than we,-though that is yet to be known,-but they could not have better reason.
    Scot 11.462 1 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    CPL 11.500 10 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as the most skilful of surveyors...
    CPL 11.500 14 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country...
    CPL 11.501 10 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.
    CPL 11.504 2 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.
    FRep 11.512 21 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    PLT 12.6 21 When [the student] has once known the oracle he will need no priest.
    PLT 12.38 19 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and as they...have never known it otherwise, they accept it...
    PLT 12.48 25 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
    PLT 12.61 21 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    Mem 12.101 14 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    CInt 12.118 1 ...genius may be known by its probity.
    CL 12.144 26 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    CL 12.146 10 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian...
    CW 12.171 23 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through for their learning...
    CW 12.172 3 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers...
    Bost 12.192 23 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered; the powers of the savage were not known;...
    MAng1 12.217 6 This truth, that perfect beauty and perfect goodness are one, was made known to Michael Angelo;...
    MAng1 12.226 11 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...
    MAng1 12.228 15 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    Milt1 12.248 16 In his lifetime, [Milton] was little or not at all known as a poet...
    Milt1 12.251 13 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is far the best known and the most read of all...
    Milt1 12.269 14 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.
    ACri 12.287 9 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.
    MLit 12.309 13 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
    MLit 12.318 11 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been known in recent ages.
    MLit 12.329 19 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    Pray 12.356 24 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity, and it is known by charity.
    EurB 12.365 2 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

know-nothing, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 24 Here are know-nothing religions...

knows, v. (263)

    AmS 1.102 14 [The scholar] and he only knows the world.
    DSA 1.121 2 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word...
    DSA 1.125 13 Through [the sentiment of virtue], the soul first knows itself.
    DSA 1.130 18 The soul knows no persons.
    DSA 1.142 4 The pulpit in losing sight of this Law...gropes after it knows not what.
    LE 1.167 17 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing...of an of these fine things;...
    MN 1.201 14 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life...
    MN 1.207 20 [A man] knows his materials;...
    MN 1.219 2 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
    LT 1.265 8 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;...
    LT 1.265 9 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;-let us examine how well she knows.
    LT 1.288 4 ...from what port did we sail? Who knows?
    LT 1.288 5 ...from what port did we sail? Who knows? Or to what port are we bound? Who knows!
    Con 1.302 2 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.
    Con 1.316 24 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer who strolled, God knows when, in the infancy and barbarism of the old world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.331 15 The materialist...believes...that he...knows where he stands, and what he does.
    Tran 1.332 4 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it at a rate of thousands of miles the hour, he knows not whither...
    Tran 1.342 5 ...whoso knows these seething brains...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Hist 2.13 5 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not...
    Hist 2.13 6 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them...
    Hist 2.38 1 Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with indignation at an outrage...
    SR 2.46 20 The power which resides in [man] is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do...
    SR 2.48 19 It seems [the youth] knows how to speak to his contemporaries.
    SR 2.56 12 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    SR 2.65 6 Every man...knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due.
    SR 2.65 8 [Man] may err in the expression of [his involuntary perceptions], but he knows that these things are so...
    SR 2.81 16 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
    SR 2.83 12 No man yet knows what [that which he can do best] is...
    SR 2.85 14 ...the equinox [the man in the street] knows as little;...
    SR 2.89 9 He who knows that power is inborn...instantly rights himself...
    Comp 2.93 19 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always must be...
    Comp 2.106 15 Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva another.
    Comp 2.123 23 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it.
    SL 2.133 23 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.
    SL 2.137 23 He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.
    SL 2.142 16 Whatever [a man] knows and thinks...that let him communicate...
    SL 2.160 2 ...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...
    Lov1 2.188 6 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...
    Fdsp 2.196 7 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
    Prd1 2.222 12 ...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that its own office is subaltern;...
    Prd1 2.222 12 ...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that it is surface and not centre where it works.
    Prd1 2.226 22 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years. ... Such is the value of these matters that a man who knows other things can never know too much of these.
    Hsm1 2.251 7 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
    Hsm1 2.254 24 A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses;...
    OS 2.274 5 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.
    OS 2.274 13 The soul knows only the soul;...
    Cir 2.308 22 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe...
    Cir 2.322 5 A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
    Int 2.330 18 Everybody knows as much as the savant.
    Int 2.337 5 A child knows if an arm or a leg be distorted in a picture;...
    Pt1 3.8 23 [The poet] is the true and only doctor; he knows and tells;...
    Pt1 3.11 9 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet, and no one knows how much it may concern him.
    Pt1 3.16 23 Some stars...or other figure which came into credit God knows how, on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation...
    Pt1 3.21 11 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    Pt1 3.27 3 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...
    Pt1 3.39 21 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his;...
    Exp 3.70 18 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
    Chr1 3.110 10 He who confronts the gods, without any misgiving, knows heaven;...
    Chr1 3.110 12 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
    Chr1 3.115 7 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
    Mrs1 3.119 1 Half the world, it is said, knows not how the other half live.
    Mrs1 3.123 22 God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door;...
    Mrs1 3.135 26 ...Napoleon...as all the world knows from Madame de Stael, was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    Gts 3.164 10 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Nat2 3.173 23 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.173 24 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.183 25 Common sense knows its own...
    Pol1 3.199 14 ...the old statesman knows that society is fluid;...
    NER 3.281 2 Let a clear, apprehensive mind, such as every man knows among his friends, converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    UGM 4.11 19 The reason why [man] knows about [things] is that he is of them;...
    UGM 4.11 22 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine...
    UGM 4.22 2 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties...but who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    PPh 4.42 3 ...the inventor only knows how to borrow;...
    PPh 4.50 11 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    PPh 4.73 18 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant, who knows nothing, but the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached;...
    PNR 4.83 24 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue; for vice can never know itself and virtue, but virtue knows both itself and vice.
    SwM 4.95 25 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
    SwM 4.112 18 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature...
    SwM 4.113 6 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    MoS 4.168 23 Montaigne...knows the world and books and himself...
    ShP 4.189 20 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
    ShP 4.197 5 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone...
    ShP 4.206 20 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate their lives to this genius [Shakespeare]; him they crown, elucidate, obey and express. The genius knows them not.
    ShP 4.215 19 We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
    NMW 4.229 19 This ciphering operative [Bonaparte] knows what he is working with and what is the product.
    GoW 4.274 15 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
    ET1 5.18 25 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET1 5.20 13 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET5 5.101 7 Every man [in England]...knows what is confided to him...
    ET6 5.110 8 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
    ET10 5.168 26 It is rare to find a merchant who knows why a crisis occurs in trade...
    ET10 5.168 27 It is rare to find a merchant...who knows the mischief of paper-money.
    ET11 5.187 23 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions...
    ET11 5.188 1 He who keeps the door of a mine...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
    ET13 5.225 27 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail...
    F 6.13 7 ...[the individual] knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
    F 6.39 2 When there is something to be done, the world knows how to get it done.
    Pow 6.56 18 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.59 18 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark...
    Pow 6.62 24 The commerce of rivers...and who knows but the commerce of air-balloons, must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Pow 6.76 14 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Pow 6.76 17 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.
    Pow 6.81 14 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Wth 6.85 5 [A man] is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood.
    Wth 6.89 8 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
    Wth 6.100 11 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound...
    Wth 6.101 22 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents.
    Wth 6.101 25 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;...
    Wth 6.101 26 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience...
    Wth 6.106 12 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wth 6.106 20 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wth 6.107 25 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Wth 6.119 17 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...
    Wth 6.122 3 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    Wth 6.127 2 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    Ctr 6.161 11 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Bhr 6.171 6 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Bhr 6.171 20 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want...
    Bhr 6.184 1 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first;...
    Bhr 6.188 17 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance...
    Bty 6.288 3 ...everybody knows people who appear beridden...
    Bty 6.305 23 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns.
    Art2 7.47 16 Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
    Art2 7.56 15 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
    Elo1 7.70 16 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators...in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
    Elo1 7.76 7 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.
    Elo1 7.84 6 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    Elo1 7.84 22 ...by making [the people] wise in that which he knows, [the orator] has the advantage of the assembly every moment.
    Elo1 7.85 12 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    Elo1 7.96 11 ...[the sturdy countryman]...knows all the secrets of swamp and snow-bank...
    Farm 7.138 7 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    Farm 7.146 7 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants aid, knows where to find his fellow laborers.
    Farm 7.153 6 [The farmer] knows every secret of labor;...
    WD 7.175 21 No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    WD 7.176 26 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
    Boks 7.196 13 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Clbs 7.234 18 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk. Yes, and we look into his eye, and see that he knows it and hides his eye from ours.
    Clbs 7.238 6 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Cour 7.254 23 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...
    Cour 7.255 2 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them as...the man that knows more does of the man that knows less...
    Cour 7.263 6 It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can safely ride him.
    Cour 7.263 13 [The soldier]...knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    Cour 7.268 23 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers...all yield to it, and so the fair singer indulges her instinct, and dares, and dares, because she knows she can.
    Cour 7.269 12 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...and nobody knows what to say of it...
    Suc 7.288 13 The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
    Suc 7.289 27 Nature knows how to convert evil to good;...
    Suc 7.291 22 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best; not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be.
    Suc 7.296 4 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline, and knows not that he borrows and gives.
    Suc 7.311 18 ...[the inner live] loves right, it knows nothing else;...
    OA 7.317 6 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    PI 8.10 19 The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives.
    PI 8.24 13 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences...
    PI 8.36 12 ...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. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    PI 8.39 16 [The poet] knows that he did not make his thought...
    PI 8.40 1 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation]...knows the right way...
    PI 8.41 26 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...
    PI 8.49 16 There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety, as every artist knows.
    PI 8.56 16 ...I honor the geometer, but he has before him higher power and happiness than he knows.
    SA 8.80 13 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points.
    SA 8.90 23 Every highly organized person knows the value of the social barriers...
    SA 8.95 26 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not;...
    SA 8.102 11 ...every one knows that in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Elo2 8.111 14 Who knows before the debate begins what the preparation...
    Res 8.138 20 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am invigorated...
    Res 8.144 13 ...the woodsman knows how to make warm garments out of cold and wet themselves.
    Res 8.147 5 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Comc 8.160 3 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    QO 8.179 2 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all machines in use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...
    QO 8.180 24 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    QO 8.184 23 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham! he knows politics, Greek, history, science;...
    QO 8.190 16 There is none so eminent and wise but he knows minds whose opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
    QO 8.201 19 ...[Genius] knows that facts are not ultimates...
    QO 8.204 8 Only an inventor knows how to borrow...
    PC 8.228 2 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PPo 8.244 3 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    PPo 8.244 18 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    Insp 8.272 3 ...every earnest workman...knows some favorable conditions for his task.
    Insp 8.287 7 ...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
    Insp 8.290 19 Every artist knows well some favorite retirement.
    Grts 8.308 6 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
    Grts 8.313 12 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
    Imtl 8.351 20 Brahma the supreme, whoever knows him obtains whatever he wishes.
    Dem1 10.10 19 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows;...
    PerF 10.71 10 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds? But a gardener knows that it is full of peaches...
    PerF 10.82 9 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    PerF 10.86 23 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Edc1 10.142 2 The solitary knows the essence of the thought...
    Edc1 10.153 13 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police court...
    Edc1 10.158 11 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    SovE 10.185 5 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body, and, as long as he knows no more, we justify him;...
    SovE 10.196 14 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not.
    SovE 10.207 21 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...
    Prch 10.222 4 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation? To him, it is no creation; to him, these fair creatures are hapless spectres: he knows not what to make of it.
    MoL 10.246 13 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
    MoL 10.247 17 [The scholar] knows that the world is always equal to itself;...
    MoL 10.252 20 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    MoL 10.256 19 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of that which every boy and girl of fifteen knows perfectly,-the rights of men and women.
    Schr 10.266 9 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet knows the unspeakable hope...
    Schr 10.277 11 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
    Schr 10.283 7 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...
    Schr 10.288 19 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    Plu 10.298 26 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows the court, the camp and the judgment-hall...
    LLNE 10.343 3 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom...
    LLNE 10.359 10 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    MMEm 10.408 14 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson] was fantastic enough, Heaven knows...
    Thor 10.449 2 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    Thor 10.463 15 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to...
    Thor 10.484 24 The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost [in Thoreau].
    FSLC 11.206 9 The North likes the South well enough, for it knows its own advantages.
    AKan 11.257 24 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is no accidental brawl...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.261 6 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    JBB 11.272 14 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    ACiv 11.301 9 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction. Is this new? No, everybody knows it.
    HCom 11.343 7 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite-God knows they had no fury for killing their old friends and countrymen-had its signal and lasting effect.
    SMC 11.375 7 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
    EdAd 11.389 3 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    Wom 11.406 8 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she takes them for granted, and does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    Wom 11.426 13 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.
    CPL 11.507 5 You meet with...a good thinker or good wit,-but you do not know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
    CPL 11.507 18 The imagination knows its own food in every pasture...
    FRep 11.525 13 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration, God only knows whence; a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    FRep 11.529 10 The government...knows the leading men in the middle class...
    FRep 11.529 11 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class.
    FRep 11.543 26 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral which knows the way...
    NHI 12.2 2 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    PLT 12.8 5 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    PLT 12.23 9 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task...
    PLT 12.27 7 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain;...
    PLT 12.40 7 The philosopher knows only laws.
    PLT 12.46 25 All men know the truth, but what of that? It is rare to find one who knows how to speak it.
    II 12.69 1 [Instinct] is resistless, and knows the way...
    II 12.69 11 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.70 3 Who knows not the insufficiency of our forces...
    II 12.73 19 [The spirit] has been in the universe before...and knows its way up and down.
    II 12.82 16 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture. Society is unanimous against his project. He never hears it as he knows it.
    II 12.85 21 In persistency, [man] knows the strength of Nature, and the immortality of man to lie.
    Mem 12.106 18 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    CInt 12.119 11 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    CInt 12.119 20 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people...
    CInt 12.121 9 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CInt 12.130 16 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do.
    CL 12.133 4 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./
    CL 12.149 25 [The Indian] knows his way in a straight line from watercourse to watercourse...
    CL 12.161 21 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.
    CL 12.161 25 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
    CL 12.163 17 ...the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
    CL 12.167 5 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then Nature has a lord.
    CL 12.167 6 ...as soon as man...knows that Nature and he are from one source...then Nature has a lord.
    MAng1 12.219 17 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface...
    MAng1 12.219 19 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies, which, to him who knows them, compose the image of higher beauty.
    ACri 12.287 7 Everybody knows the points in which the mob has the advantage of the Academy...
    ACri 12.296 25 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has, a noble, idiomatic English...
    MLit 12.320 10 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things, and so he describes each as one who knows many and all.
    MLit 12.335 14 In [man's] heart he knows the ache of spiritual pain...
    WSL 12.347 23 [Landor] knows the value of his own words.
    WSL 12.348 1 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.
    Pray 12.356 22 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is...
    Pray 12.356 23 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity...
    Pray 12.356 24 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity...
    PPr 12.383 7 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.
    PPr 12.388 8 [Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who knows what belongs to him...
    Let 12.404 8 ...every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.

Knox, John, n. (3)

    MR 1.228 17 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
    LT 1.269 12 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    TPar 11.289 7 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like Luther, Knox and Latimer...to speak tart truth...

Knox, Robert, n. (1)

    F 6.16 16 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...

Knoxes, John, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 24 Wild men...John Knoxes, utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.

kobolds, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...

Koh-i-noor, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 16 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...

Konghelle, Denmark, n. (1)

    ET4 5.62 6 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.

Konigsberg, Prussia, n. (1)

    Tran 1.339 27 ...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant, of Konigsberg...

Koran, n. (13)

    Lov1 2.167 3 I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    Mrs1 3.154 16 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    PPh 4.39 3 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    PPh 4.66 8 The Koran is explicit on this point of caste.
    SwM 4.94 24 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    SwM 4.95 6 The Koran makes a distinct class of those who are by nature good...
    ShP 4.217 25 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
    NMW 4.225 1 God has granted, says the Koran, to every people a prophet in its own tongue.
    Elo1 7.64 18 The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man will not change his disposition;...
    PI 8.13 25 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each remembered by their happiest figure.
    SA 8.98 6 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg, when he wrote in the Koran: On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    Elo2 8.121 19 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    Elo2 8.121 25 ...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.

kosmos, n. (2)

    Nat 1.15 3 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, beauty.
    MAng1 12.216 25 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty;...

Kosmos, n. (1)

    WD 7.172 7 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone. The Greek Kosmos did;...

Kossuth, Lajos [Louis], n. (2)

    F 6.39 23 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Kossuth...and the rest.
    PI 8.25 27 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis...or Kossuth, or Phillips, what great hearts they have...

Kossuth, Lajos, n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 15 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State (Kossuth called it the City State)...

Kossuth, Louis, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 3 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.

Kossuth's, Lajos [Louis], n (1)

    ALin 11.334 6 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...

Kossuths, n. (1)

    F 6.13 24 ...strong natures...Kossuths, are inevitable patriots...

Kotzebue, August Friedrich (1)

    SL 2.154 15 Blackmore, Kotzebue or Pollok may endure for a night...

kratometric, adj. (1)

    ET3 5.40 20 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.

Krishna, n. (2)

    PPh 4.49 22 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
    MoS 4.172 22 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat...

ktema, n. (1)

    ET1 5.23 23 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.

kuboi, n. (1)

    Comp 2.102 12 Aei gar eu piptousin oi Dios kuboi...

Kunst, n. (1)

    ET16 5.274 8 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...

Kurd, n. (1)

    Con 1.317 6 ...the vigor of...Saladin the Kurd...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

Kyd, Thomas, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 13 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

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