Maker, Almighty to Making

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

Maker, Almighty, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.252 5 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious...to the Almighty Maker of men.

maker, n. (5)

    F 6.22 20 ...the lightning...maker of planets and suns, is in [man].
    F 6.26 7 [The mind] is of the maker, not of what is made.
    Civ 7.22 7 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road...there is...a maker of markets...
    PI 8.42 14 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending...from the part of a spectator to the part of a maker.
    CL 12.160 20 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived, and will not lie. They are instruments by the best maker.

Maker, n. (4)

    SR 2.83 11 That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
    OS 2.280 13 ...the Maker of all things and all persons stands behind us...
    Carl 10.487 1 Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad./
    PLT 12.46 17 He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made.

makers, n. (1)

    UGM 4.8 26 ...the makers of tools;...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.

makes, v. (538)

    Nat 1.18 22 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Nat 1.22 3 A virtuous man...makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
    Nat 1.28 18 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year.
    Nat 1.47 11 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...
    Nat 1.52 1 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea, makes them revolve around the axis of his primary thought...
    Nat 1.52 11 ...[the poet] invests dust and stones with humanity, and makes them the words of the Reason.
    Nat 1.52 13 The Imagination may be defined to be the use which the Reason makes of the material world.
    Nat 1.63 12 ...this [ideal] theory makes nature foreign to me...
    Nat 1.69 19 ...[Man] treads down that which doth befriend him/ When sickness makes him pale and wan./
    Nat 1.69 22 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
    Nat 1.76 2 Spirit alters, moulds, makes [nature].
    AmS 1.89 5 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book...makes an outcry if it is disparaged.
    AmS 1.105 21 The great man makes the great thing.
    AmS 1.105 23 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...
    DSA 1.124 24 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment...which makes our highest happiness.
    DSA 1.125 1 [The religious sentiment] makes the sky and the hills sublime...
    DSA 1.125 12 [The sentiment of virtue] makes [man] illimitable.
    DSA 1.132 3 That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
    DSA 1.150 2 Faith makes us, not we it...
    DSA 1.150 3 ...faith makes its own forms.
    LE 1.162 3 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out with patient courage, makes me bold.
    LE 1.174 27 Inspiration makes solitude anywhere.
    MN 1.195 18 It is [great men's] solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
    MN 1.196 17 ...the thunder...makes a skin-deep cut...
    MN 1.200 7 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed, which not only inhabits the organ but makes the organ.
    MN 1.201 11 There is...no detachment of an individual. Hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an exponent of the world.
    MN 1.204 1 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...
    MN 1.206 16 ...when the genius comes, it makes fingers...
    MR 1.245 14 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them ill;-yet he has learned their lesson.
    LT 1.273 21 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion;...
    LT 1.278 26 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    LT 1.280 18 ...I own our virtue makes me ashamed;...
    LT 1.280 27 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility...feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too.
    LT 1.289 11 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence right and wrong...
    LT 1.289 25 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it makes the foundation of these...
    Con 1.299 1 Conservatism makes no poetry...
    Con 1.299 3 It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
    Con 1.313 27 ...see you not how every personal character reacts on the form, and makes it new?
    Con 1.314 1 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
    Con 1.318 24 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    Con 1.319 5 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction;...
    Con 1.319 6 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction; and this omission makes his whole doctrine false.
    Con 1.325 27 ...The law...makes [the intemperate, covetous person] worse the longer it protects him.
    Tran 1.336 20 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist, makes use...
    Tran 1.339 22 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.
    YA 1.367 26 A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live.
    YA 1.367 27 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account;...
    YA 1.373 15 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...not a superfluous grain of sand, for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.
    YA 1.378 22 ...the historian will see that...trade...makes peace and keeps peace...
    YA 1.383 20 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;...
    YA 1.387 2 It is only their dislike of the pretender, which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
    Hist 2.13 22 ...a poet makes twenty fables with one moral.
    Hist 2.29 10 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Hist 2.31 24 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    SR 2.46 22 Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on [a man], and another none.
    SR 2.48 11 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    SR 2.53 12 ...for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
    SR 2.55 7 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars...but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.59 20 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field...
    SR 2.64 24 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth...
    SR 2.66 23 Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes...
    Comp 2.119 15 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one...
    Comp 2.121 26 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
    SL 2.129 10 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    SL 2.141 23 By doing his work [a man] makes the need felt which he can supply...
    SL 2.143 14 The parts of hospitality...and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    SL 2.160 7 Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things and the nature of things makes it prevalent.
    SL 2.160 16 Let us...learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
    Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden...
    Lov1 2.176 16 [Love] makes all things alive and significant.
    Lov1 2.177 21 ...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
    Lov1 2.178 17 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps. Her existence makes the world rich.
    Lov1 2.180 20 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness;...
    Lov1 2.181 27 ...if, accepting the hint of these visions and suggestions which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.185 19 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
    Fdsp 2.194 23 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them...now makes many one.
    Fdsp 2.200 2 It makes no difference how many friends I have...if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    Fdsp 2.205 7 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity.
    Fdsp 2.215 3 If [my friend] is great, he makes me so great that I cannot descend to converse.
    Prd1 2.237 4 ...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing and makes their business a friendship.
    Hsm1 2.249 10 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    Hsm1 2.249 11 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels;... insanity that makes him eat grass;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    Hsm1 2.250 9 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease, which makes the attractiveness of war.
    Hsm1 2.258 4 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men...
    OS 2.267 17 What is the universal sense of want and ignorance, but the fine innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim?
    OS 2.270 26 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
    OS 2.273 12 See how the deep divine thought...makes itself present through all ages.
    OS 2.281 26 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men, and makes society possible.
    OS 2.288 2 The same Omniscience flows into the intellect and makes what we call genius.
    OS 2.289 7 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth...
    OS 2.295 10 It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one.
    Cir 2.316 5 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who...makes the creditor wait tediously.
    Cir 2.321 3 Character makes an overpowering present;...
    Int 2.327 16 What is addressed to us for contemplation...makes us intellectual beings.
    Int 2.335 27 The relation between [a thought] and you first makes you, the value of you, apparent to me.
    Int 2.338 13 ...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures, but the Muse makes us free of her city.
    Int 2.346 4 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...dwelling in a worship which makes the sanctities of Christianity look parvenues and popular;...
    Art1 2.365 26 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
    Art1 2.366 16 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;...
    Art1 2.366 17 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;...
    Pt1 3.9 26 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem...
    Pt1 3.14 1 The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches...
    Pt1 3.17 13 Thought makes everything fit for use.
    Pt1 3.18 23 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    Pt1 3.20 13 The poet...gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pt1 3.23 8 [Nature] makes a man;...
    Pt1 3.30 6 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.
    Pt1 3.30 15 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
    Pt1 3.34 11 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.
    Pt1 3.36 8 There was this perception in [Swedenborg] which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
    Exp 3.65 26 Each of these elements [power and form] in excess makes a mischief as hurtful as its defect.
    Exp 3.66 15 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out. Irresistible nature made men such, and makes legions more of such, every day.
    Exp 3.68 6 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
    Exp 3.76 19 ...it is the eye which makes the horizon...
    Exp 3.76 20 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity...
    Exp 3.81 8 That need [of seeing things under private aspect] makes in morals the capital virtue of self-trust.
    Exp 3.82 10 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
    Chr1 3.93 5 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    Chr1 3.107 20 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets...
    Chr1 3.108 8 Nature never...makes two men alike.
    Chr1 3.111 8 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Chr1 3.111 15 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
    Mrs1 3.120 19 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
    Mrs1 3.121 10 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country, makes them intelligible and agreeable to each other...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.124 6 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power, which makes things easy to be done which daunt the wise.
    Mrs1 3.125 21 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which...makes itself felt by men of all classes.
    Mrs1 3.126 14 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds, and makes their action popular.
    Mrs1 3.137 19 A gentleman makes no noise;...
    Mrs1 3.139 19 That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
    Mrs1 3.152 15 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...
    Gts 3.160 14 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day...
    Nat2 3.175 27 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    Nat2 3.182 16 That identity [in nature] makes us all one...
    Nat2 3.183 5 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...
    Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...makes them a little wrong-headed in that direction in which they are rightest...
    Nat2 3.196 18 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    Pol1 3.203 9 Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    Pol1 3.203 11 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    Pol1 3.211 26 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    Pol1 3.213 14 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance;...
    Pol1 3.216 8 The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.
    NR 3.227 3 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    NER 3.249 7 ...the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
    NER 3.252 18 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain, and makes it more palatable and more digestible.
    NER 3.261 2 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish; and that makes the offensiveness of the class.
    NER 3.262 14 It makes no difference what you say, you must make me feel that you are aloof from [the institution];...
    NER 3.276 11 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    UGM 4.7 12 What is good...makes for itself room, food and allies.
    UGM 4.7 17 The river makes its own shores...
    UGM 4.7 18 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels...
    UGM 4.11 23 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career;...
    UGM 4.28 2 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself.
    PPh 4.39 13 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities.
    PPh 4.57 6 The synthesis which makes the character of [Plato's] mind appears in all his talents.
    PPh 4.58 11 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him tender for the superstitions of the people.
    PPh 4.60 15 ...[Plato] plays with the doubt, and makes the most of it...
    PPh 4.74 27 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums, whose sound makes me deaf to every thing you say.
    PNR 4.88 9 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    SwM 4.94 2 For other things, I make poetry of them; but the moral sentiment makes poetry of me.
    SwM 4.95 6 The Koran makes a distinct class of those who are by nature good...
    SwM 4.105 13 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    SwM 4.106 3 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    SwM 4.106 7 The grandeur of the topics makes the grandeur of [Swedenborg's] style.
    SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae...
    SwM 4.125 17 [To Swedenborg] Every one makes his own house and state.
    SwM 4.130 27 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    SwM 4.136 12 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
    SwM 4.138 17 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
    SwM 4.141 11 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...
    SwM 4.142 3 A man should not tell me that he has walked among the angels; his proof is that his eloquence makes me one.
    MoS 4.165 9 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial. He parades it: he makes the most of it...
    MoS 4.166 18 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease...
    MoS 4.169 3 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things;...
    MoS 4.170 21 Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius finds the real ones.
    MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
    MoS 4.179 17 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?
    MoS 4.183 13 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.
    MoS 4.183 24 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...which makes the tragedy of all souls.
    ShP 4.200 10 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    ShP 4.213 7 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs;...
    ShP 4.213 13 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    NMW 4.227 9 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] makes the code;...
    NMW 4.227 10 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] makes the system of weights and measures;...
    GoW 4.261 15 The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone.
    GoW 4.272 17 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    GoW 4.282 6 It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it
    ET1 5.17 22 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET2 5.28 12 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.
    ET2 5.29 18 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water... makes a mouthful of a fleet.
    ET2 5.31 8 ...every noble activity makes room for itself.
    ET3 5.38 19 Here [in England] is...a temperature which makes no exhausting demand on human strength...
    ET4 5.44 15 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends. Hence every writer makes a different count.
    ET4 5.44 19 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    ET4 5.45 13 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the quality of the units that compose it.
    ET4 5.46 18 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune; but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.
    ET4 5.53 14 In Scotland...the poverty of the country makes itself remarked...
    ET4 5.72 4 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET5 5.85 15 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.95 7 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle...
    ET5 5.99 26 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
    ET6 5.104 15 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;...
    ET6 5.114 23 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as broken country makes picturesque landscape;...
    ET6 5.114 24 ...our prevailing equality makes a prairie tameness...
    ET7 5.117 11 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    ET7 5.117 22 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    ET7 5.121 22 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
    ET7 5.121 27 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
    ET7 5.123 26 A slow temperament makes [the English] less rapid and ready than other countrymen...
    ET7 5.124 3 This [English] dulness makes their attachment to home...
    ET9 5.144 20 The pursy man [in England]...does wrong in order to feel his freedom, and makes a conscience of persisting in it.
    ET9 5.144 23 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET9 5.148 4 ...nature makes nothing in vain...
    ET9 5.148 10 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing, so that each man makes the most of himself...
    ET9 5.148 15 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    ET9 5.150 3 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance...
    ET10 5.160 9 [Steam] makes the motor of the last ninety years.
    ET10 5.160 26 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
    ET10 5.161 21 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under. Money makes place for them.
    ET10 5.161 25 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET11 5.180 20 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country...makes the safety of the English hall.
    ET11 5.196 2 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
    ET12 5.211 17 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    ET13 5.217 15 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.227 3 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a premium on felony.
    ET14 5.234 15 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius;...
    ET14 5.234 19 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
    ET14 5.235 11 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    ET14 5.242 11 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg...that the man makes his heaven and hell;...
    ET14 5.245 6 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value; the tone of feeling in them makes their chief worth.
    ET14 5.250 6 ...where impatience of the tricks of men makes Nemesis amiable...the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty.
    ET16 5.277 13 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...
    ET16 5.283 1 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.
    ET18 5.302 10 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English.
    ET18 5.306 4 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel...which makes all these its instruments.
    F 6.6 21 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner, makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.
    F 6.9 6 Every spirit makes its house;...
    F 6.18 25 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a week;...
    F 6.24 2 ...the dogma [of Fate] makes a different impression when it is held by the weak and lazy.
    F 6.28 12 If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment.
    F 6.33 7 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for food...
    F 6.38 12 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...
    F 6.38 14 The planet makes itself.
    F 6.38 15 The animal cell makes itself;...
    F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
    F 6.39 18 Person makes event...
    F 6.49 16 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave...
    Pow 6.58 23 There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
    Pow 6.59 1 [The strong man's] eye makes estates...
    Pow 6.71 26 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Pow 6.74 1 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine;...
    Pow 6.82 6 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger...
    Wth 6.86 11 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.92 8 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done. No matter whether he makes shoes, or statues, or laws.
    Wth 6.92 19 The statue is so beautiful that it...makes the market a silent gallery for itself.
    Wth 6.100 5 The right merchant is...a man...who makes up his decision on what he has seen.
    Wth 6.102 14 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
    Wth 6.103 24 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Wth 6.112 6 Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.
    Wth 6.114 18 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Ctr 6.131 6 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac;...
    Ctr 6.131 7 ...a skill to get money makes [a man] a miser, that is, a beggar.
    Ctr 6.131 14 For performance, nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done; makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.
    Ctr 6.131 15 If [nature] wants a thumb, she makes one at the cost of arms and legs...
    Ctr 6.151 14 ...dress makes a little restraint;...
    Wsp 6.222 12 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities...
    Wsp 6.234 11 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    Wsp 6.237 27 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice of virtue which outrages the virtuous;...
    CbW 6.246 21 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly, adds to our power...
    CbW 6.250 13 Nature makes fifty poor melons for one that is good...
    CbW 6.252 21 ...this beast-force, whilst it makes the discipline of the world...has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    CbW 6.254 24 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
    CbW 6.269 14 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion.
    CbW 6.274 1 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
    CbW 6.274 13 ...it is marriage, fit or unfit, that makes our home...
    Bty 6.281 19 The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a dull dictionary.
    Bty 6.286 23 Every spirit makes its house...
    Bty 6.288 23 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art...
    Bty 6.289 1 Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
    Bty 6.290 20 It is...health of constitution that makes the sparkle and the power of the eye.
    Bty 6.295 4 Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.
    Bty 6.301 16 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
    Ill 6.316 14 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    Ill 6.317 7 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is gone.
    Ill 6.320 2 There is illusion that shall deceive even the performer of the miracle. Though he make his body, he denies that he makes it.
    Civ 7.21 6 The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast...
    Civ 7.28 18 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Art2 7.49 21 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour...
    Elo1 7.61 20 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors...
    Elo1 7.68 5 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits, and makes all safe and secure...
    Elo1 7.71 2 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Elo1 7.76 2 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    Elo1 7.86 20 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.93 17 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    DL 7.110 27 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    DL 7.124 11 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    DL 7.128 11 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals, which makes the faith and the practice of all reasonable men.
    DL 7.129 3 [Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and commerce and churches cheap.
    Farm 7.138 21 It is the beauty of the great economy of the world that makes [the farmer's] comeliness.
    Farm 7.141 9 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
    Farm 7.141 10 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him...
    Farm 7.148 20 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...and makes a little Cuba within it...
    WD 7.160 24 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
    WD 7.164 22 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
    WD 7.185 19 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which...makes us great in all conditions...
    Boks 7.203 16 The reader of these books [of the Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind;...
    Clbs 7.226 3 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love, and makes the balm of our early and of our latest days;...
    Clbs 7.226 17 ...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
    Clbs 7.236 21 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also...because he makes it.
    Clbs 7.241 7 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and of action...whom we now consider.
    Clbs 7.241 9 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them at last fatalists...whom we now consider.
    Clbs 7.243 12 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.
    Cour 7.253 18 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...
    Cour 7.263 9 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty...
    Cour 7.271 12 The true temper has genial influences. It makes a bond of union between enemies.
    Cour 7.275 9 There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue.
    Suc 7.296 1 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great.
    Suc 7.296 17 'T is the good reader that makes the good book;...
    Suc 7.308 5 A man is a man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.
    Suc 7.309 4 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    Suc 7.309 25 Good will makes insight...
    Suc 7.310 27 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine' s] little hope less with satire and skepticism...
    Suc 7.311 19 ...[the inner life] makes no progress;...
    Suc 7.311 24 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions; this [inner life] makes no account of them all.
    Suc 7.311 26 ...[the inner life] makes the present great.
    OA 7.316 4 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time...
    OA 7.327 21 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession. This makes the value of age...
    PI 8.3 23 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.5 11 Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry...
    PI 8.12 16 Genius thus [through figurative speech] makes the transfer from one part of Nature to a remote part...
    PI 8.12 18 Genius thus [through figurative speech]...betrays the rhymes and echoes that pole makes with pole.
    PI 8.19 25 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
    PI 8.24 1 How long it took to find out what a day was, or what this sun, that makes days!
    PI 8.25 4 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing.
    PI 8.30 7 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility...
    PI 8.39 25 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men.
    PI 8.57 6 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    PI 8.58 20 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./
    SA 8.79 17 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.81 7 The perfect defence and isolation which [manners] effect makes an insuperable protection.
    SA 8.86 14 A man makes his inferiors his superiors by heat.
    SA 8.96 22 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    SA 8.97 5 ...there are...people on whom speech makes no impression;...
    SA 8.105 7 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    SA 8.105 8 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it, makes all its acts and words gracious and interesting.
    Elo2 8.113 5 ...[the eloquent man] makes [the people] glad or angry or penitent at his pleasure;...
    Elo2 8.113 6 ...[the eloquent man]...of enemies makes friends...
    Elo2 8.114 20 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.
    Elo2 8.122 22 If indignation makes verses, as Horace says, it is not less true that a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.122 23 ...a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.132 7 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Res 8.137 14 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Res 8.140 18 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    Res 8.144 19 The sailor by his boat and sail makes a ford out of deepest waters.
    Res 8.149 3 [The good aunt] relies on the same principle that makes the strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.
    Comc 8.160 9 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    Comc 8.163 6 Wit makes its own welcome...
    Comc 8.165 1 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it...makes the mistake of the wig for the head...
    QO 8.192 25 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    QO 8.201 17 The profound apprehension of the Present is Genius, which makes the Past forgotten.
    PC 8.215 20 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    PC 8.231 22 It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defender.
    PPo 8.247 19 ...a large utterance, a river that makes its own shores...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    PPo 8.248 13 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    PPo 8.248 21 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which makes the ascetic and the saint;...
    Insp 8.292 1 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
    Grts 8.307 4 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society.
    Grts 8.308 6 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
    Grts 8.310 26 The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
    Grts 8.310 27 The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
    Grts 8.312 18 [The great man] makes himself of no reputation;...
    Grts 8.319 6 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism...which makes [the scholar] require geniality and humanity in his heroes.
    Grts 8.320 10 ...the difference of level which makes Niagara a cataract, makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Grts 8.320 10 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Grts 8.320 14 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    Imtl 8.324 17 The credence of men...makes their manners and customs;...
    Imtl 8.330 19 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said; what! never die? never, never? It makes me feel so tired.
    Imtl 8.342 12 It is a proverb of the world that good will makes intelligence...
    Imtl 8.347 25 A great integrity makes us immortal...
    Imtl 8.347 26 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear. It makes a day memorable.
    Dem1 10.12 8 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as much demand on our faith as miracles do.
    Dem1 10.15 15 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Dem1 10.19 3 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    Dem1 10.20 11 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation.
    Aris 10.36 9 The English government and people...may easily make mistakes [in bestowing titles]; but Nature makes none.
    Aris 10.45 26 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor.
    Aris 10.46 18 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation...
    Aris 10.47 9 All spiritual or real power makes its own place.
    Aris 10.55 8 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought.
    Aris 10.55 9 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes the beautiful scorn...which all men admire...
    Aris 10.61 18 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
    PerF 10.75 8 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    PerF 10.78 12 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem of thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...
    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 10.97 11 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    Chr2 10.122 12 [Character] makes no stipulations for earthly felicity...
    Edc1 10.142 23 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him...
    Edc1 10.145 4 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
    Edc1 10.148 1 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly, with a fulness of power that makes all the steps forgotten.
    Edc1 10.157 5 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...
    Supl 10.166 1 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.
    Supl 10.177 2 ...[Nature]...in the East...makes ecstasy an institution.
    Supl 10.178 25 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    SovE 10.184 27 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day.
    SovE 10.197 11 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll a dweller in ages...
    SovE 10.197 17 ...the good of the whole, or what I call the right, makes me invulnerable.
    SovE 10.198 25 ...it is...our negligence...of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    SovE 10.200 15 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds. It makes churches of two, churches of one.
    Prch 10.223 17 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference;...
    Prch 10.223 26 ...there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.
    Prch 10.232 9 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
    MoL 10.247 26 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm...
    MoL 10.251 14 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do.
    MoL 10.252 15 Thought makes us men;...
    Schr 10.261 18 ...in coming among strange faces we find that the love of letters makes us friends...
    Schr 10.263 23 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man...
    Schr 10.266 8 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous.
    Schr 10.278 10 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...
    Schr 10.281 14 Plotinus makes no apologies, he says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.
    Schr 10.282 17 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a counterweight for it. This makes one man good against mankind.
    Schr 10.283 12 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age.
    Schr 10.283 24 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit]... makes new means for its great ends.
    Plu 10.297 27 [Plutarch] had that universal sympathy with genius which makes all its victories his own;...
    Plu 10.298 21 The range of mind makes the glad writer.
    Plu 10.302 14 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians. Yet he inspires a curiosity, sometimes makes a necessity, to read them.
    Plu 10.302 25 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages...
    Plu 10.303 18 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias...
    Plu 10.308 23 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
    Plu 10.314 27 ...[Plutarch] makes a fight against Fortune whenever she is named.
    Plu 10.316 18 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and by its brightness, like the soul, discovers and makes everything apparent...
    Plu 10.316 21 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle, for it makes a noise and resists...
    LLNE 10.352 19 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.
    MMEm 10.426 12 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life!
    Thor 10.470 15 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...
    Thor 10.477 1 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes...
    Carl 10.492 9 [Young men] go for free institutions...and only giving opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent government, that shows people what they must do, and makes them do it.
    LS 11.21 17 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence;...
    EWI 11.99 5 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason;...of that which makes us better than a flock of birds and beasts;...
    EWI 11.138 1 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
    War 11.153 9 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides.
    War 11.156 26 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.
    War 11.167 1 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive demonstration...
    War 11.172 11 What makes to us the attractiveness of the Greek heroes? of the Roman?
    War 11.172 12 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    FSLC 11.183 27 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility...
    FSLC 11.186 21 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
    FSLC 11.188 22 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see...what makes the essence of rational beings...
    FSLC 11.188 27 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life...
    FSLC 11.200 12 ...the Nemesis works underneath again. It is a power that makes noonday dark...
    FSLC 11.205 7 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says what he hears said, but often makes signal blunders in their use.
    FSLN 11.217 6 ...I see what havoc it makes with any good mind, a dissipated philanthropy.
    FSLN 11.237 17 ...as well-doing makes power and wisdom, ill-doing takes them away.
    FSLN 11.244 13 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.
    JBS 11.278 26 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    JBS 11.281 12 Who makes the abolitionist? The slave-holder.
    TPar 11.291 10 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
    ACiv 11.299 3 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.307 19 ...Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.
    ACiv 11.308 25 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying these that is the outrage, and makes the danger from the blacks.
    EPro 11.318 18 'T is wonderful what power is...and how its ill use makes life mean...
    EPro 11.319 25 This act [the Emancipation Proclamation] makes that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain.
    EPro 11.319 27 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats.
    EPro 11.322 14 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    EPro 11.325 8 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race...
    ALin 11.337 18 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time...
    ALin 11.337 19 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...makes no account of disasters...
    ALin 11.337 25 [Providence] makes its own instruments...
    HCom 11.342 20 ...it is the gentle soul that makes the firm hero after all.
    EdAd 11.386 16 Every material organization exists to a moral end, which makes the reason of its existence.
    Wom 11.408 14 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 11.425 4 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which...makes charlatans.
    Wom 11.425 25 Slavery it is that makes slavery;...
    SHC 11.435 4 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    RBur 11.439 8 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    ChiE 11.470 6 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality, and makes ecstasy an institution.
    FRO1 11.478 11 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm...which makes the romance of history.
    FRO2 11.488 13 This claim [of miraculour dispensation] impairs, to my mind, the soundness of him who makes it...
    FRO2 11.489 16 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    CPL 11.497 3 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...
    CPL 11.502 24 ...it is our own state of mind at any time that makes our estimate of life and the world.
    CPL 11.503 21 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man,-has decided his way of life. It makes friends.
    FRep 11.521 7 ...we...shrink from an act of our own. Every such act makes a man famous...
    FRep 11.522 20 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance that makes him self-willed and unscrupulous.
    FRep 11.532 21 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this levity makes them as easily despond.
    FRep 11.534 10 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress; the baker your bread...
    FRep 11.535 4 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough and ready force...makes them fit citizens and civilizers.
    PLT 12.6 7 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is.
    PLT 12.7 26 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose.
    PLT 12.15 25 What but thought...makes us better than cow or cat?
    PLT 12.16 21 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
    PLT 12.16 22 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the observer too.
    PLT 12.16 23 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the observer too.
    PLT 12.17 4 ...I believe...that mind makes the senses it sees with;...
    PLT 12.19 25 Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
    PLT 12.20 2 There is in Nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available.
    PLT 12.33 17 The healthy mind...sees things in place, or makes discoveries.
    PLT 12.50 20 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    PLT 12.52 8 [Imbalance of faculties] makes inconvenience in society...
    PLT 12.54 17 [The tree or the brook]...makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.
    PLT 12.61 27 Good will makes insight.
    II 12.75 10 [The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it? This makes the perpetual problem of education.
    II 12.80 24 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove...
    II 12.81 3 ...the force of method and the force of will makes trade...
    Mem 12.99 9 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
    Mem 12.105 17 ...we understand best what we like; for this doubles our power of attention, and makes it our own.
    Mem 12.108 21 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.
    Mem 12.110 6 With every broader generalization which the mind makes... its retrospect is also wider.
    CInt 12.118 4 ...ambition makes insane.
    CInt 12.123 17 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it...sets up for itself, and makes confusion.
    CL 12.140 15 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
    CL 12.145 14 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam of the sun, serve him.
    CL 12.147 18 ...Nature makes a like impression on age as on youth.
    CL 12.147 27 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood;...
    CL 12.153 5 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave.
    CW 12.175 21 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;...
    Bost 12.193 27 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
    Bost 12.197 3 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    Bost 12.197 18 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which makes the elegance of wealth look stupid...
    Bost 12.203 8 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire who makes an unnecessary ado to establish his dogma;...
    MAng1 12.228 21 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    Milt1 12.254 8 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who...by an influence purely spiritual makes us jealous for his fame as for that of a near friend.
    Milt1 12.262 26 ...the foremost impression [Milton's] character makes is that of elegance.
    Milt1 12.268 11 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
    Milt1 12.277 20 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./
    ACri 12.290 8 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
    ACri 12.297 9 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time.
    ACri 12.299 14 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise.
    ACri 12.300 8 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.
    MLit 12.330 11 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer...
    WSL 12.342 19 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.
    PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
    PPr 12.382 26 ...[a man's] acts should be representative of the human race, as one who makes them rich in his having...
    PPr 12.389 9 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.
    Trag 12.407 5 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.
    Trag 12.407 10 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.
    Trag 12.415 5 Our human being is wonderfully plastic; if it cannot win this satisfaction here, it makes itself amends by running out there and winning that.

make-shift, n. [makeshift,] (4)

    ET1 5.6 26 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...the entire and immediate banishment of all make-shift and make-believe.
    PI 8.4 27 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;--that too was no finality; only provisional, a make-shift;...
    PI 8.6 5 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...
    Comc 8.166 29 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly a makeshift...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...

makeshifts, n. (2)

    ET18 5.299 4 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts;...
    PC 8.212 12 Our towns are still rude, the makeshifts of emigrants...

maketh, v. (5)

    Hist 2.1 2 There is no great and no small/ To the Soul that maketh all:/...
    Comp 2.124 8 ...he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
    SL 2.148 1 [A man] may see what he maketh.
    PPh 4.63 17 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature: this benefit, namely, that it can understand nature, which it made and maketh.
    EWI 11.115 27 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.

makeweight, n. (1)

    Comp 2.91 11 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./

making, v. (163)

    AmS 1.89 20 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul.
    AmS 1.101 14 For the ease and pleasure of...accepting...the religion of society, [the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    AmS 1.115 9 ...for work...the making those instincts prevalent...
    MR 1.237 12 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar, hominy...by simply signing my name...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me in making all these far-fetched matters important to my comfort?
    MR 1.244 18 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend...
    LT 1.275 6 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes, destroying privacy and making thorough-lights.
    Con 1.296 15 There is not only the alternative of making and not making, but also of unmaking.
    Con 1.296 23 O Saturn, replied Uranus, thou canst not hold thine own but by making more.
    Con 1.297 6 ...Saturn...went on making oysters for a thousand years.
    Tran 1.344 22 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
    YA 1.367 20 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts...
    YA 1.382 11 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations which are now making their first feeble experiments.
    YA 1.386 15 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction...does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    YA 1.387 15 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by making his life secretly beautiful.
    Hist 2.19 21 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    Hist 2.36 7 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...
    Fdsp 2.213 26 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual...
    Prd1 2.224 8 The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards...
    Prd1 2.229 18 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet, making the hands grasp...
    Prd1 2.230 18 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... making every law our enemy...
    Cir 2.321 5 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.
    Int 2.326 22 The making a fact the subject of thought raises it.
    Art1 2.355 26 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure...is beautiful...
    Art1 2.363 18 ...[art] is impatient...of making cripples and monsters...
    Pt1 3.26 9 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
    Pt1 3.35 13 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    Nat2 3.184 21 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it...
    NR 3.233 23 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    NR 3.246 22 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest offices beautiful...
    PPh 4.44 24 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.
    SwM 4.138 11 Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
    ShP 4.189 4 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ShP 4.211 22 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form...out of notice. 'T is like making a question concerning the paper on which a king's message is written.
    ShP 4.214 10 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare;...
    NMW 4.234 17 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.235 25 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    NMW 4.236 2 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.246 22 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
    NMW 4.246 23 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers...
    GoW 4.265 14 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET1 5.13 26 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
    ET1 5.16 27 ...[Carlyle] disparaged Socrates; and, when pressed, persisted in making Mirabeau a hero.
    ET1 5.20 6 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth];...
    ET3 5.36 3 The Turk and Chinese also are making awkward efforts to be English.
    ET3 5.36 19 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET5 5.89 6 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield, where I was shown the process of making a razor and a penknife, I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET5 5.89 7 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    ET5 5.96 14 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products, but on its manufactures, or the making well every thing which is ill-made elsewhere.
    ET8 5.134 17 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty; making this temperament a sea to which all storms are superficial;...
    ET8 5.135 22 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...making an era in painting;...
    ET8 5.140 24 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making itself a war of opinions also...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET10 5.167 2 ...the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.
    ET10 5.167 3 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating.
    ET11 5.195 26 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET12 5.199 21 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford], some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind...
    ET14 5.237 19 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;--the reception proved by his making his fortune;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.247 15 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    ET15 5.268 17 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET17 5.297 14 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in silence.
    F 6.29 26 There can be no driving force except through the conversion of the man into his will, making him the will, and the will him.
    F 6.35 16 ...if evil is good in the making...we are reconciled.
    F 6.40 27 Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
    Pow 6.72 7 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Wth 6.85 14 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.
    Wth 6.88 6 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
    Wth 6.88 21 ...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making his wants few...
    Wth 6.100 9 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so in making money.
    Wth 6.107 19 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent, but so he incapacitates himself from making proper repairs...
    Ctr 6.162 14 Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then.
    Bhr 6.189 3 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
    Wsp 6.201 6 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.
    Wsp 6.225 3 Here is a low political economy...excluding others by force, or making war on them;...
    Wsp 6.226 4 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
    Wsp 6.227 3 What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another, whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
    Bty 6.294 26 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent...
    Bty 6.302 12 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him; making use of geometry, instead of expense;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.310 6 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes, making night to mimic day...
    SS 7.7 12 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    SS 7.9 24 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life...making our warm covenants sentimental and momentary.
    Civ 7.23 14 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.
    Elo1 7.84 19 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    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 7.98 25 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great...
    Farm 7.141 22 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    WD 7.165 2 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
    Boks 7.216 14 Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Clbs 7.232 22 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply, making too much haste to introduce and impart their new whim or discovery;...
    Suc 7.290 15 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through making believe you are powerful...
    Suc 7.294 19 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
    PI 8.2 6 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...
    PI 8.4 8 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here; that we must be making ready to go;...
    PI 8.22 12 Charles James Fox thought...that men first found out they had minds, by making and tasting poetry.
    PI 8.37 1 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from the gossip and routine of society, and the allowed right and practice of making better.
    PI 8.44 19 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.
    PI 8.51 18 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... making puzzles of Titanian erections...
    PI 8.62 14 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will King Arthur, my uncle, be...who is making search after you throughout all countries.
    SA 8.94 17 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
    Elo2 8.125 4 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary.
    Res 8.141 6 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...he making himself comfortable in every climate, in every condition.
    QO 8.179 10 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    PPo 8.239 5 The favor of the climate, making subsistence easy...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    Insp 8.268 9 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Grts 8.311 4 No way has been found for making heroism easy...
    Grts 8.311 13 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves.
    Dem1 10.20 21 ...the fabled ring of Gyges, making the wearer invisible...is simply mischievous.
    Aris 10.48 2 Every Frenchman would have a career. We English are not any better with our love of making a figure.
    PerF 10.69 21 ...King David had no good from making his census out of vainglory...
    PerF 10.73 2 ...[the force of intellect] is perception, a seeing, not making, thoughts.
    PerF 10.78 9 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem of thought.
    PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making peoples' hearts dance to his pipe!
    Chr2 10.122 3 [A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
    SovE 10.188 19 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers...making better life possible.
    SovE 10.211 2 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like...to test his own reality by making himself useful and indispensable?
    Prch 10.221 14 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
    Schr 10.278 20 In making this claim of costly accomplishments for the scholar, I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of his work by the lustre of his appointments.
    Plu 10.318 20 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes, making him the carrier of civilization into the East...endeared him to Plutarch.
    LLNE 10.340 18 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.
    LLNE 10.348 3 Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
    Thor 10.452 5 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies, making every day some new acquaintance with Nature...
    Thor 10.455 6 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much;...
    Thor 10.455 7 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.
    Thor 10.455 16 [Thoreau] chose to be rich by making his wants few...
    Thor 10.473 23 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head...
    GSt 10.502 9 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
    LS 11.19 21 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    HDC 11.30 22 ...the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to [Bulkeley's] blood.
    HDC 11.39 2 The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].
    HDC 11.48 14 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    EWI 11.100 7 The subject [emancipation] is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
    EWI 11.136 22 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there, superior to any man, and making use of each, in turn...
    EWI 11.147 14 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always...making all crime mean and ugly.
    FSLC 11.210 5 Is it not time to do something besides...making the earth mellow and friable?
    FSLC 11.212 21 We must make a small state great, by making every man in it true.
    AKan 11.257 8 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    AKan 11.258 12 We adore the forms of law, instead of making them vehicles of wisdom and justice.
    ACiv 11.302 4 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    EPro 11.321 1 We confide that...as [Lincoln] has been slow in making up his mind...he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].
    SMC 11.361 1 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written by fire-light, making the short night shorter;...
    Wom 11.410 9 ...[Women] are always making that civilization which they require;...
    Wom 11.424 10 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground...
    Shak1 11.448 22 All criticism is only a making of rules out of [Shakespeare's] beauties.
    Shak1 11.449 1 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.
    Humb 11.458 24 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.
    Scot 11.466 15 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn;...
    CPL 11.496 4 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making readers of those who are not readers...
    CPL 11.496 5 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now;...
    FRep 11.514 5 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd, however at first making his obedient apprenticeship in party tactics...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.519 27 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of...making a real government titular.
    FRep 11.538 19 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    PLT 12.15 21 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...making day where it comes and leaving night when it departs, is no fee or property of man or angel.
    PLT 12.17 6 ...I believe...that the genius of man is a continuation of the power that made him and that has not done making him.
    PLT 12.34 26 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back.
    II 12.82 5 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.
    Mem 12.90 6 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is necessary to moral action.
    CInt 12.120 7 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...not the making a plausible case...
    CL 12.138 17 [Linnaeus] learned the secret of making pearls in the river-pearl mussel.
    CL 12.149 18 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...making his bow of hickory, birch, or even a fir-bough, at a pinch;...
    CW 12.174 3 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.
    Milt1 12.272 26 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.
    ACri 12.284 15 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...
    AgMs 12.362 17 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
    Trag 12.416 18 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.

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