Menace to Methuselah

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

menace, v. (2)

    ET8 5.140 27 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    Wsp 6.205 19 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo...does not hesitate to menace them...

menaces, v. (1)

    ACiv 11.299 13 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country, since the disorder of the less-civilized portion menaces the existence of the country?

Menage, Gilles, n. (1)

    Bty 6.299 23 Abbe Menage said of the President Le Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.

menagerie, n. (5)

    F 6.8 27 The menagerie...is a book of fate;...
    F 6.36 12 The whole circle of animal life...until at last the whole menagerie...is mellowed...for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Ctr 6.139 12 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited a menagerie...will not deny the validity of education.
    Dem1 10.6 16 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams.
    FSLC 11.189 24 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.

Menander, n. (2)

    DL 7.128 21 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains...
    Plu 10.303 1 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages,-not only Thespis, Polemos...but fragments of Menander and Pindar.

Mencius, n. (5)

    Exp 3.73 4 The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization.
    Exp 3.73 10 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion. The explanation, replied Mencius, is difficult.
    UGM 4.14 16 ...I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius: A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
    Boks 7.218 21 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
    ACri 12.295 13 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...

mend, v. (18)

    Nat 1.46 11 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
    MR 1.238 18 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to...mend the rudder.
    Tran 1.334 24 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    YA 1.379 11 Every line of history inspires a confidence...that things mend. .
    YA 1.395 4 ...youth is a fault of which we shall daily mend.
    Pol1 3.213 12 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
    SwM 4.138 27 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben, O wad ye tak a thought, and mend!/ has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    ET10 5.155 14 The Englishman believes that every man...has himself to thank if he do not mend his condition.
    Wsp 6.224 26 The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
    SA 8.79 4 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend.
    SA 8.106 6 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
    SA 8.107 11 We have much to regret, much to mend, in our society;...
    Elo2 8.125 3 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary.
    Comc 8.166 4 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    Imtl 8.329 14 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    SovE 10.208 9 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one;...
    Plu 10.299 13 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due, and would have hugged Robert Burns, when he cried;-O wad ye tak' a thought and mend!/
    HDC 11.58 1 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to...mend their guns...

mendacious, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.120 4 [Wellington] augured ill of the [Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious...

mended, v. (3)

    NR 3.237 12 We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended...
    ET2 5.28 17 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...had mended her speed...
    ET11 5.192 17 In the reign of the Fourth George, things do not seem to have mended [in England]...

mendicancy, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.214 13 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts. Let us drop this idolatry. Let us give over this mendicancy.

mendicant, adj. (5)

    SR 2.62 22 Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.
    SR 2.75 20 Our housekeeping is mendicant...
    WD 7.180 4 This mendicant America...will take off its dusty shoes...
    FSLN 11.229 3 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
    Milt1 12.276 17 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.

mendicant, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.124 14 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden masters.
    SS 7.13 3 Before [animal spirits] what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge!

mending, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.385 10 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.

mending, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.421 16 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry.

Mendoza, Diego Hurtado de ( (1)

    Elo1 7.82 17 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Mendoza [urged] that Flanders might be kept down...

mends, v. (3)

    Comp 2.117 19 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.
    CbW 6.245 17 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before. If the patient mends he is glad and surprised.
    SA 8.87 25 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends.

Menelaus [Homer, Iliad], n. (3)

    Elo1 7.72 6 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    Elo1 7.72 11 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...
    Elo1 7.72 14 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...

Menexenus, n. (1)

    Int 2.342 26 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.

menial, adj. (2)

    WD 7.180 2 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.
    Aris 10.33 17 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man, billows of chaos, down to the dancing and menial organizations.

menial, n. (1)

    MR 1.240 5 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and he is now what is called a rich man,-the menial and runner of his riches.

menials, n. (2)

    SL 2.161 18 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years, like menials, serve and wait on this...
    Schr 10.270 13 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials...

men-making, adj. (2)

    PI 8.64 9 Bring us...men-making poets;...
    Insp 8.294 17 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.

Meno [Plato, Meno], n. (1)

    PPh 4.74 2 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue...

men-of-war, n. (1)

    War 11.166 11 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the men-of-war would rot ashore;...

men's, n. (51)

    Nat 1.8 21 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms...
    AmS 1.84 8 ...[the scholar] tends to become...the parrot of other men's thinking.
    AmS 1.91 14 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    LE 1.155 17 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly into the holy ground, where other men's aspirations only point.
    LE 1.186 25 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions...
    LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property...in all men's affections...
    MN 1.196 1 As our soils and rocks lie in strata...so do all men's thinkings run laterally...
    MN 1.220 10 ...not men's acceptance of our doing, but the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.
    Con 1.299 10 Conservatism...believes that men's temper governs them;...
    Con 1.323 17 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    SR 2.71 27 All men have my blood and I all men's.
    SR 2.73 21 It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's...to live in truth.
    SR 2.79 3 ...men's prayers are a disease of the will...
    OS 2.294 25 [Man] must greatly listen to himself, withdrawing himself from all the accents of other men's devotion.
    Int 2.326 3 The considerations...of profit and hurt, tyrannize over most men' s minds.
    Exp 3.48 6 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
    Mrs1 3.143 6 Fashion...is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom code.
    NER 3.275 9 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart... to acquit himself in all men's sight as a man.
    NER 3.279 20 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    NER 3.284 19 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter, and he will have demonstrated his insufficiency to all men's eyes.
    MoS 4.171 1 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive;...
    NMW 4.228 2 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside.
    GoW 4.267 1 Men's actions are too strong for them.
    GoW 4.276 1 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years.
    ET14 5.241 1 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.
    Pow 6.56 9 ...health...runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
    Wth 6.89 7 He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.
    Ctr 6.147 1 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
    Wsp 6.234 25 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion, in all men's sight...
    Ill 6.319 1 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
    Elo1 7.89 17 [The orator's] expressions fix themselves in men's memories...
    Clbs 7.241 11 We consider those who are interested in thoughts, their own and other men's...
    PI 8.36 25 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...emancipation from other men's questions and glad study of his own;...
    Comc 8.166 4 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    PPo 8.247 27 The difference is not so much in the quality of men's thoughts as in the power of uttering them.
    Aris 10.34 4 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Aris 10.39 13 I wish...men who see the dance in men's lives as well as in a ball-room...
    Aris 10.54 7 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Aris 10.59 18 We have a rich men's aristocracy...
    PerF 10.87 8 If I have not my own respect, I am...not entitled to other men' s...
    Chr2 10.99 26 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
    Schr 10.283 1 I wish...to see men's sense of duty extend to the cherishing and use of their intellectual powers...
    EWI 11.100 9 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
    EWI 11.104 7 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.135 27 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives.
    War 11.151 15 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels,-when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    FSLC 11.184 21 Nothing proves...the absence of standard in men's minds, more than the dominion of party.
    AsSu 11.248 19 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...
    ACiv 11.297 18 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other men's labor.
    ACiv 11.303 9 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts...
    PLT 12.48 19 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.

Men's Republican Club, You (1)

    OA 7.321 5 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.

men-servants, n. (1)

    MR 1.239 21 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...men-servants and women-servants from the earth and the sky...

menstruum, n. (4)

    LE 1.171 26 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that, like a menstruum, shall dissolve all theories in it;...
    Int 2.325 8 ...the intellect dissolves...the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    GoW 4.272 25 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    Farm 7.144 20 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe,--a menstruum which melts the mountains into it.

mensuration, n. (2)

    MoL 10.249 26 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    Thor 10.453 13 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.

mental, adj. (79)

    Nat 1.26 8 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
    LT 1.281 18 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Tran 1.332 21 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    OS 2.275 10 This is the law of moral and of mental gain.
    Cir 2.310 8 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Int 2.326 23 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Exp 3.52 27 I know the mental proclivity of physicians.
    UGM 4.13 25 ...all mental and moral force is a positive good.
    UGM 4.17 14 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit.
    PPh 4.48 4 ...every mental act...recognizes the difference of things.
    SwM 4.97 21 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental power.
    SwM 4.109 20 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    SwM 4.117 14 [Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration, because the mental series exactly tallies with the material series.
    SwM 4.130 14 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...
    ShP 4.218 2 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    ET4 5.46 26 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
    ET4 5.49 12 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
    ET4 5.66 24 When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET5 5.76 12 [These Saxons] are the wealth-makers,--and by dint of mental faculty which has its own conditions.
    ET5 5.88 7 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power.
    ET5 5.90 11 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
    ET8 5.139 6 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they had oil also for their mental wheels...
    ET14 5.233 16 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    ET14 5.233 21 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...
    ET14 5.234 14 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius;...
    ET14 5.235 25 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale...
    ET14 5.236 1 The ardor and endurance of [English] study, the boldness and facility of their mental construction...astonish...
    ET14 5.242 23 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
    ET14 5.244 2 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of lives. Shakspeare is supreme in that, as in all the great mental energies.
    ET14 5.250 4 The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few categories;...
    Wth 6.103 10 Wealth is mental; wealth is moral.
    Wth 6.126 15 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby...bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor.
    Ctr 6.145 13 All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is their mental home...
    Wsp 6.210 9 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
    CbW 6.272 8 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    CbW 6.273 7 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz, who indicates this relation as the test of mental health...
    Ill 6.320 5 One after the other we accept the mental laws...
    Ill 6.325 3 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    DL 7.121 1 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    Clbs 7.235 2 Our fortunes in the world are as our mental equipment for this competition [in right company] is.
    Suc 7.295 5 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust, which is the pledge of all mental vigor and performance, from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    PI 8.15 19 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    PI 8.52 27 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
    PI 8.63 4 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    Elo2 8.112 7 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power...
    Res 8.150 11 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.
    QO 8.189 12 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has...
    QO 8.196 27 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
    PC 8.223 7 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    Insp 8.269 9 ...every reasonable man would give any price...for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Insp 8.271 5 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    PerF 10.72 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PerF 10.78 2 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...
    SovE 10.192 10 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes...
    MoL 10.243 14 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity...
    Plu 10.298 3 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in the...speed of his mental associations...
    MMEm 10.413 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles, lost to mental or heart existence, through fatigue...
    Thor 10.463 18 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle. But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted.
    War 11.156 16 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
    FSLC 11.213 10 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...
    FSLN 11.224 24 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
    Wom 11.406 27 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
    PLT 12.5 17 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PLT 12.11 16 I write...a sort of Farmer's Almanac of mental moods.
    PLT 12.23 6 How obvious is the momentum, in our mental history!
    PLT 12.24 15 The idea of vegetation is irresistible in considering mental activity.
    PLT 12.24 19 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function...all the accidents of the plant.
    PLT 12.26 10 ...our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    PLT 12.33 9 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into its mould;...
    PLT 12.40 8 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself.
    PLT 12.41 9 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    PLT 12.62 4 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere...
    II 12.65 1 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into mould...
    II 12.81 5 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
    Mem 12.97 17 We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences.
    Mem 12.102 24 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty...
    Mem 12.107 8 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Mem 12.108 23 The acceleration of mental process is equivalent to the lengthening of life.
    EurB 12.373 6 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.

mentality, n. (2)

    ET14 5.234 7 Hudibras has the same hard mentality...
    MMEm 10.430 2 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?

mention, n. (1)

    EWI 11.124 7 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...

mention, v. (5)

    DSA 1.143 25 ...when men die we do not mention them.
    MoS 4.175 1 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame, not to mention many distinguished private observers,--I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    Elo2 8.121 6 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    ChiE 11.472 10 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...
    Let 12.403 27 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

mentioned, v. (10)

    YA 1.376 2 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
    Pol1 3.217 9 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it;...
    MoS 4.164 1 Other coincidences, not needful to be mentioned here, concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.
    ShP 4.202 25 Bacon...never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
    NMW 4.240 17 I like an incident mentioned by one of [Napoleon's] biographers at St. Helena.
    OA 7.333 11 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, [John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
    Elo2 8.120 10 I mentioned Jenny Lind's voice. A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...
    Plu 10.294 12 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer.
    EzRy 10.387 18 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son...was becoming intemperate.
    CL 12.152 25 The influence of the ocean on the love of liberty, I have mentioned elsewhere.

mentioning, v. (1)

    QO 8.197 11 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.

mentions, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.237 22 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual. His friend Vasari mentions one occasion on which his scruples were overcome.

mentis, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.185 3 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men, compotes mentis...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...

Mentz [Mainz], Germany, adj (1)

    ET12 5.203 20 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...

Mentz [Mainz], Germany, n. (1)

    ET12 5.203 12 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...

Menu, Laws of, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 14 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the East Indies, the Laws of Menu;...

Menu, n. (13)

    Hist 2.28 5 How easily these old worships...of Menu...domesticate themselves in the mind.
    PNR 4.80 22 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    SwM 4.94 17 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on this problem [of essence].
    ShP 4.199 6 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...
    F 6.17 21 'T is hard to find the right Homer, Zoroaster, or Menu;...
    Boks 7.218 17 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Vedas and Laws of Menu;...
    Clbs 7.235 27 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    PI 8.65 6 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as...St. John and Menu, with their moral burdens.
    PC 8.214 12 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of...the Institutes of Menu...
    PC 8.216 5 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology; Homer, Menu, Viasa...
    PC 8.216 8 The early names are too typical...Menu, or man;...
    Insp 8.275 16 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    Grts 8.302 25 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu?...

Menyanthes, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 3 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes...

Mephistopheles [Goethe, Fau (1)

    GoW 4.277 10 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...

Mephistopheles, n. (1)

    MoS 4.174 23 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief...to the Understanding, the Mephistopheles...

mephitis, n. (1)

    ET2 5.29 8 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil.

mercantile, adj. (4)

    ET5 5.85 16 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET14 5.233 7 [The Englishman] is materialist, economical, mercantile.
    ET15 5.266 21 [The London Times] has mercantile and political correspondents in every foreign city...
    Pow 6.80 2 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and working talent.

mercenary, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.14 16 ...this mercenary benefit is one which has respect to a farther good.
    Art1 2.368 22 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    CbW 6.275 12 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    Chr2 10.92 23 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.

mercenary, n. (1)

    GoW 4.265 11 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...

merchandise, n. (2)

    Nat 1.13 25 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country...
    HDC 11.71 1 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain...

merchandising, n. (1)

    Aris 10.42 15 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.

merchant, adj. (2)

    ET2 5.31 17 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm...in the transom of a merchant brig.
    JBS 11.280 10 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince...

merchant, n. (43)

    Nat 1.42 10 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant...have each an experience precisely parallel...
    LE 1.184 22 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    MR 1.233 2 I do not charge the merchant or the manufacturer.
    MR 1.256 10 ...the merchant gladly takes money from his income to add to his capital...
    YA 1.381 11 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    SR 2.75 26 If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined.
    SL 2.161 7 We call the poet inactive, because he is not...a merchant...
    Prd1 2.221 16 ...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
    Cir 2.303 10 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact; to a merchant, one easily created out of any materials, and easily lost.
    Chr1 3.92 19 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant...
    NER 3.253 11 [Other reformers] assailed particular vocations, as...that of the merchant...
    NER 3.275 10 The consideration...of a noted merchant...a naval and military honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    ShP 4.201 6 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us.
    ShP 4.209 21 ...let Antonio the merchant answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ET5 5.79 1 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.
    ET10 5.168 25 It is rare to find a merchant who knows why a crisis occurs in trade...
    ET11 5.174 16 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner;...
    ET13 5.226 27 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant.
    Pow 6.58 12 The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier;...
    Pow 6.76 3 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.
    Wth 6.87 13 The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly.
    Wth 6.100 3 The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common-sense;...
    Wth 6.124 11 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money.
    Wth 6.125 14 ...there is no maxim of the merchant which does not admit of an extended sense...
    Wth 6.125 27 The merchant has but one rule...
    Bhr 6.176 16 Every man--mathematician, artist, soldier or merchant--looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Wsp 6.205 6 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal...and of the merchants a merchant.
    Bty 6.285 23 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details...
    Elo1 7.77 25 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Cour 7.268 5 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade...
    PPo 8.254 14 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled from the musk-bladder of the merchant...that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    PerF 10.76 2 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    MoL 10.252 4 the merchant is true to the merchant...
    MoL 10.252 5 the merchant is true to the merchant...
    Schr 10.264 26 The poet counsels his own son as if he were a merchant.
    LLNE 10.358 4 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
    GSt 10.505 2 ...an active and intelligent manufacturer and merchant... [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    HDC 11.32 4 With [Bulkeley's party] joined Mr. Simon Willard, a merchant from Kent in England.
    EWI 11.122 19 ...the Boston merchant rivals his brother of New York;...
    CInt 12.123 4 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is the calculator, he is the merchant, the politician, the worker in the useful;...
    Bost 12.203 18 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some defender of the slave against the politician and the merchant;...
    Bost 12.205 23 The sailor and the merchant [in America] made the law to suit themselves...
    MLit 12.322 22 Geologist, mechanic, merchant...all worked for [Goethe]...

Merchant of Venice [Wm. Sh (1)

    PI 8.30 25 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy, as in...the opening of the Merchant of Venice.

merchantable, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.97 26 Authors we have, in numbers...who...ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.

merchantman, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.211 20 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...

merchants, n. (21)

    SL 2.136 12 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them.
    Mrs1 3.130 9 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...
    ET4 5.65 3 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked...that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    ET5 5.76 5 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants...
    ET6 5.102 13 The cabmen [in England] have [pluck]; the merchants have it;...
    ET8 5.143 6 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants prefer investments in the three per cents.
    ET11 5.176 19 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    ET18 5.301 22 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    Wth 6.90 10 The Saxons are the merchants of the world;...
    Wth 6.104 1 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Ctr 6.136 1 Have you seen a few lawyers, merchants and brokers...
    Wsp 6.205 6 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal...and of the merchants a merchant.
    Wsp 6.208 4 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries, scholars as well as merchants, succumb to a great despair...
    Clbs 7.246 18 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see how much they have to say...
    Cour 7.268 7 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    LLNE 10.369 4 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...
    EWI 11.133 25 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    FSLC 11.197 4 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not.
    II 12.81 22 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
    CInt 12.112 13 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    Bost 12.208 26 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what...wise merchants;...

merchant's, n. (3)

    Wth 6.125 21 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy.
    Farm 7.139 16 [The farmer's] entertainments, his liberties and his spending must be on a farmer's scale, and not on a merchant's.
    Prch 10.230 9 [The man of practice or worldly force] does not forgive an application in the preacher to the merchant's things.

mercies, n. (1)

    Exp 3.61 26 I am thankful for small mercies.

merciless, adj. (2)

    DL 7.120 2 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...hastening into the sitting-room to the study of to-morrow's merciless lesson...
    PPr 12.385 2 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air, and kept in the air, with merciless kicks and rebounds...

Merck, Johann Heinrich, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 20 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

mercurial, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.134 9 If [a man] is jovial, if he is mercurial...society has need of all these.

mercuries, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.133 10 There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation...
    Wom 11.405 24 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.

mercury, n. (3)

    Int 2.340 21 ...an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity.
    ET11 5.187 27 He who keeps the door of a mine, whether of cobalt, or mercury...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
    War 11.166 25 War and peace thus resolve themselves into a mercury of the state of cultivation.

Mercury, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.105 4 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Chr2 10.105 10 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...

mercy, n. (19)

    Cir 2.309 3 ...the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Int 2.327 4 ...man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Art1 2.364 20 ...the [art] gallery stands at the mercy of our moods...
    Pol1 3.211 2 We are not at the mercy of any waves of chance.
    UGM 4.29 3 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where children seem so much at the mercy of their foolish parents...
    UGM 4.29 10 ...[children] are not at the mercy of such poor educators as we adults.
    MoS 4.176 13 Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    ET4 5.56 15 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy.
    ET18 5.306 18 An Englishman shows no mercy to those below him in the social scale...
    Ctr 6.131 12 For performance, nature has no mercy...
    Bty 6.304 17 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom? I cry you mercy, good shoe-box! I did not know you were a jewel-case.
    PC 8.209 27 ...[the fop] lies at [the patriot's] mercy in the ballot of the club.
    LVB 11.92 18 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice, and such deafness to screams for mercy were never heard of in times of peace...
    LVB 11.92 25 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men...does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].
    LVB 11.94 9 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by the American people...
    War 11.175 13 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    FSLN 11.243 24 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence with a recommendation to mercy.
    JBS 11.281 13 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    SHC 11.428 24 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.

mere, adj. (73)

    Nat 1.19 15 Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel;...
    AmS 1.84 7 ...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...
    AmS 1.109 26 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
    DSA 1.120 10 ...when the mind opens...then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.143 9 What was once a mere circumstance, that the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    LE 1.167 19 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things; that he has conversed with the mere surface and show of them all;...
    LE 1.172 1 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    LE 1.172 13 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
    MN 1.192 14 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step...taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
    Tran 1.344 3 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    Tran 1.353 13 Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting;...
    YA 1.363 19 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
    SR 2.74 8 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is... mere antinomianism;...
    SL 2.137 13 The circuit of the waters is mere falling.
    SL 2.156 2 ...the mere air of doing a thing...expresses character.
    Lov1 2.176 14 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence, and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets, mere pictures.
    OS 2.290 25 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become porous to thought...
    OS 2.295 21 Before the immense possibilities of man all mere experience... shrinks away.
    Int 2.338 2 Neither are the artist's copies from experience ever mere copies...
    Exp 3.73 24 Most of life seems to be mere advertisement of faculty;...
    Nat2 3.184 20 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 3.228 17 The acts which you praise, I praise not, since they are departures from [the man's] faith, and are mere compliances.
    SwM 4.106 10 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
    MoS 4.179 24 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found...mere misapprehension, distaste and scoffing.
    MoS 4.181 23 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy to agree where you can...
    NMW 4.247 4 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    NMW 4.255 13 [Napoleon] had no generosity, but mere vulgar hatred;...
    GoW 4.264 9 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature, but is mere stenography.
    GoW 4.287 9 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
    ET1 5.16 17 Landor's principle was mere rebellion; and that [Carlyle] feared was the American principle.
    ET4 5.50 10 The low organizations are simplest; a mere mouth, a jelly, or a straight worm.
    ET7 5.126 6 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/...
    ET10 5.166 6 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
    ET16 5.277 9 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 (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...
    Ctr 6.156 19 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    Ctr 6.163 14 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
    Wsp 6.215 8 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Bty 6.301 21 There are faces...so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
    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...
    Art2 7.56 17 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
    Elo1 7.67 24 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.
    DL 7.124 24 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    Suc 7.302 25 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    PI 8.54 24 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman.
    SA 8.107 6 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
    Comc 8.164 19 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature, being a mere rapture...
    Comc 8.166 7 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    QO 8.203 5 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
    PC 8.225 14 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;...
    Aris 10.59 4 ...[a grand interest] reckons fortunes mere paint;...
    Chr2 10.105 4 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Chr2 10.116 2 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    SovE 10.201 17 The house in which we were born is not quite mere timber and stone;...
    SovE 10.202 27 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    Prch 10.222 15 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning; every thought loses all its depth and has become mere surface.
    Plu 10.305 21 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation...
    LLNE 10.344 15 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact...
    LLNE 10.349 18 Genius hitherto has been shamefully misapplied, a mere trifler.
    Carl 10.494 3 Mere intellectual partisanship wearies [Carlyle];...
    LS 11.11 24 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.
    War 11.170 6 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...
    FSLN 11.241 3 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires...seems to demand of us more than mere hoping.
    Wom 11.411 14 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Wom 11.422 25 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    CPL 11.507 26 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...mere means...
    II 12.73 5 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money. I see not how any virtue is thus gained to society. It is a mere transference.
    Mem 12.106 11 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind; and 't is a mere drug.
    Mem 12.107 23 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was, a mere sensuous object before the eye or ear, but a reminder of its law...
    MAng1 12.233 13 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
    Milt1 12.272 12 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
    Milt1 12.276 17 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    WSL 12.345 4 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative...

merely, adv. (63)

    Nat 1.19 13 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely...
    Nat 1.63 16 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    DSA 1.124 4 Evil is merely privative...
    DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    DSA 1.137 24 The snow-storm was real, the preacher merely spectral...
    LE 1.163 14 The difference of circumstance is merely costume.
    MN 1.198 5 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation, of scientific statement? These are forms merely.
    MR 1.240 26 ...the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...
    LT 1.280 21 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist, whilst he aims merely at the circumstance of the slave.
    Con 1.310 21 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you...
    YA 1.369 20 ...he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger... values [the land] less.
    Hist 2.4 5 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    Hist 2.16 21 A painter told me that nobody could...draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely...
    Hist 2.19 15 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.
    Hist 2.27 14 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    Hist 2.29 2 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    SR 2.79 10 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he...recites fables merely of his brother's...God.
    SR 2.88 7 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it...merely lies there...
    Fdsp 2.213 25 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims...before whom the vulgar great show as spectres and shadows merely.
    OS 2.286 6 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge themselves, and merely reads and records their own verdict.
    OS 2.287 16 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without, as spectators merely...
    Art1 2.356 16 The office of painting and sculpture seems to be merely initial.
    Pt1 3.12 23 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
    Mrs1 3.120 4 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names; individuals...have nicknames merely.
    Mrs1 3.145 14 All generosity is not merely French and sentimental;...
    Pol1 3.206 24 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it. Of course I speak of all the property, not merely of the great estates.
    Pol1 3.210 17 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is...merely defensive of property.
    NMW 4.226 5 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
    ET12 5.211 6 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    ET14 5.242 22 I cite these generalizations...merely to indicate a class.
    F 6.11 23 Most men and most women are merely one couple more.
    Pow 6.58 6 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Art2 7.42 4 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best...
    Art2 7.45 23 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
    Art2 7.56 14 Now [the arts] languish, because their purpose is merely exhibition.
    Elo1 7.81 17 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that...being absent, leaves them a merely superficial value.
    Boks 7.189 5 ...certainly there is dilettanteism enough, and books that are merely neutral and do nothing for us.
    Boks 7.214 24 ...the novel...will not always be the novel of costume merely.
    Clbs 7.226 18 ...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
    Res 8.139 22 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely preparations of somewhat to follow;...
    Res 8.142 2 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Dem1 10.8 27 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character, and the sibyl dreams merely embodied it in fact.
    Dem1 10.24 16 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...
    Aris 10.52 5 ...if those who merely sit in [the right aristocrats'] places and are not, like them, able; if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Edc1 10.136 2 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming merely devout...
    SovE 10.192 2 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    LLNE 10.327 13 The association [of the time] is for power, merely,-for means;...
    MMEm 10.402 21 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of modern bards.
    LS 11.14 6 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper; but he wrote it merely to chide [his friends] for drunkenness.
    LS 11.23 18 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    War 11.155 19 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    War 11.162 20 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    FSLC 11.184 27 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies, rejoicing in his rendition,-merely from party ties.
    FSLC 11.195 1 Laws are merely declaratory of the natural sentiments of mankind...
    FRep 11.530 3 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    Mem 12.99 24 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.
    CL 12.164 15 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.
    Milt1 12.253 12 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.
    Milt1 12.253 25 ...Shakspeare is a voice merely;...
    MLit 12.309 6 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
    MLit 12.327 24 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    MLit 12.332 2 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
    Trag 12.416 17 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.

merest, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.102 16 The world of any moment is the merest appearance.

merge, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.207 12 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul...

mergite, v. (1)

    QO 8.186 11 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander, where the prayer of Leander is the same:-Parcite dum propero, mergite dum redeo.

Meriam, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 15 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood, Flint, Willard, Meriam...

meridian, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.281 27 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
    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...

meridian, n. (9)

    Pol1 3.216 26 We think our civilization near its meridian...
    NR 3.239 6 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man...
    NR 3.242 21 ...the points come in succession to the meridian...
    UGM 4.9 12 The earth rolls; every clod and stone comes to the meridian...
    F 6.18 15 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian.
    QO 8.201 2 One leaf, one blade of grass, one meridian, does not resemble another.
    PC 8.222 10 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    PPo 8.237 16 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the...facility of sweeping the meridian...
    Thor 10.468 24 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...

meridians, n. (1)

    WD 7.167 21 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is adapted to all meridians by adding the ethics of works and of days.

merit, n. (103)

    DSA 1.147 10 ...let us not aim at common degrees of merit.
    DSA 1.148 18 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...
    DSA 1.148 25 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    LE 1.156 27 ...the mark of American merit in painting...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    LE 1.172 15 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    LE 1.179 27 ...Napoleon...had also this crowning merit...
    LE 1.182 10 ...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great masters.
    YA 1.379 1 ...the aristocracy of trade...was...the result of merit of some kind...
    SR 2.45 15 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
    SL 2.133 19 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation. But there is no merit in the matter.
    SL 2.165 6 Bonaparte knew but one merit...
    Hsm1 2.261 11 We tell our charities...not because we think they have great merit...
    Art1 2.362 9 The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an eminent example of this peculiar merit [simplicity].
    Pt1 3.7 16 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
    Exp 3.61 12 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Exp 3.84 6 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since.
    Exp 3.84 7 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since. The merit itself, so-called, I reckon part of the receiving.
    Gts 3.161 20 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift, and every man's wealth is an index of his merit.
    NER 3.275 15 ...a naval and military honor...and, anyhow procured, the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    UGM 4.8 4 Churches believe in imputed merit.
    UGM 4.15 24 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    PPh 4.45 10 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art;...
    PPh 4.76 5 It is almost the sole deduction from the merit of Plato that his writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets... possess.
    PNR 4.82 7 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    SwM 4.102 27 Over and above the merit of [Swedenborg's] particular discoveries, is the capital merit of his self-equality.
    SwM 4.103 1 Over and above the merit of [Swedenborg's] particular discoveries, is the capital merit of his self-equality.
    SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
    SwM 4.125 27 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood.
    SwM 4.144 22 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    ShP 4.210 11 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    ShP 4.210 13 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    ShP 4.213 9 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.
    ShP 4.214 16 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they; and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece;...
    ShP 4.214 17 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they; and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece;...
    NMW 4.244 26 ...every species of merit was sought and advanced under [Napoleon's] government.
    NMW 4.253 21 ...[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    ET3 5.38 4 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    ET3 5.38 6 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    ET4 5.57 18 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...wherein the association is logical, between merit and land.
    ET5 5.79 27 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall,--as if it excluded their own merit...
    ET5 5.93 12 It is England whose opinion is waited for on the merit of a new invention, an improved science.
    ET6 5.111 22 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
    ET10 5.153 8 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
    ET11 5.174 13 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
    ET14 5.247 10 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that [modern philosophy's] merit is to avoid ideas and avoid morals.
    ET14 5.247 11 [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;...
    ET14 5.259 5 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude, in estimating the merit of such a production, all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    Wth 6.92 7 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wth 6.124 9 Friendship buys friendship;...military merit, military success.
    Ctr 6.139 6 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world, with men of merit...
    Bhr 6.184 17 ...[dress circles have] every variety of attraction and merit;...
    Art2 7.44 7 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure, as so much deduction from the merit of Art...
    Elo1 7.88 12 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
    Elo1 7.88 13 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
    WD 7.177 23 [Our ancestors'] merit was not to reverence the old...
    Suc 7.286 9 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which had one merit, of speaking to the universal heart...
    Suc 7.287 2 Here are already quite different degrees of moral merit in these examples.
    Suc 7.288 11 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit...
    Suc 7.305 15 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility...has eyes and hospitality for merit in corners.
    OA 7.315 21 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute], charming by its uniform rhetorical merit;...
    OA 7.325 15 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
    PI 8.43 16 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.69 5 To know the merit of Shakspeare, read Faust.
    SA 8.105 19 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit is in good repute...
    Elo2 8.125 19 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln...
    QO 8.189 14 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has,-every variety of merit.
    QO 8.198 13 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame...
    QO 8.203 17 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    PPo 8.248 5 The other merit of Hafiz is his intellectual liberty...
    Imtl 8.345 3 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as...falling without reason or merit?
    Aris 10.38 20 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    Edc1 10.139 16 [Boys'] elections at baseball or cricket are founded on merit...
    MoL 10.256 14 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
    Plu 10.301 9 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics.
    Plu 10.305 21 There is...a wide difference of time in the writing of these discourses [of Plutarch], and so in their merit.
    LLNE 10.349 5 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was that it was a system;...
    LLNE 10.363 16 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare, and in modern novels and romances of merit.
    CSC 10.375 2 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    CSC 10.375 5 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    Carl 10.497 25 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties. His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit...
    HDC 11.86 8 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    TPar 11.289 6 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit...to speak tart truth...
    TPar 11.289 19 [Theodore Parker's] commanding merit as a reformer is this, that he insisted beyond all men in pulpits...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    SMC 11.349 14 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit.
    SMC 11.354 2 [A principle] lifts every population to an equal power and merit.
    Koss 11.400 11 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College). We admit you to the same degree, without new trial. We suspend all rules before so paramount a merit.
    ChiE 11.474 14 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    ChiE 11.474 18 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    FRep 11.532 13 [Our people] all lean on some other, and this superstitiously, and not from insight of his merit.
    CL 12.164 18 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
    Bost 12.210 25 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good sons to good sires, or at least continued merit in the same blood.
    MAng1 12.230 24 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
    Milt1 12.248 1 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious;...
    ACri 12.296 22 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance...
    ACri 12.297 4 We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this merit of which I speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with these celebrities.
    WSL 12.348 20 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last...on the value of his sentences.
    WSL 12.348 26 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit.
    EurB 12.365 11 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception...
    EurB 12.365 22 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think...of claiming the poet's laurel on their merit.
    EurB 12.367 15 ...the capital merit of Wordsworth is that he has done more for the sanity of this generation than any other writer.
    EurB 12.372 23 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.
    PPr 12.380 3 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but to dispose objects in their right places...
    PPr 12.380 15 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...

merit, v. (1)

    SwM 4.126 4 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.

merite, n. (2)

    CbW 6.257 22 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.
    PLT 12.55 21 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.

merited, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.188 17 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly, as if they were merited.

meriting, v. (1)

    CbW 6.259 8 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude.

meritorious, adj. (2)

    SL 2.150 8 ...the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us;...
    CbW 6.260 12 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.

merits, n. (54)

    Nat 1.38 17 ...[the wise man's] scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
    DSA 1.147 17 ...almost all men are content with [society's] easy merits;...
    Con 1.323 1 ...[war] demonstrates the personal merits of all men.
    Tran 1.346 12 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should... refresh old merits continually with new ones;...
    SR 2.49 3 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    Fdsp 2.209 16 Of course [your friend] has merits that are not yours...
    Fdsp 2.209 19 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside; give those merits room;...
    Chr1 3.103 17 It is only low merits that can be enumerated.
    Chr1 3.109 10 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.
    Mrs1 3.126 18 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
    Mrs1 3.133 18 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... They are clear in their office, nor could they be thus formidable without their own merits.
    Nat2 3.187 17 Great causes are never tried on their merits;...
    PPh 4.78 25 [Plato's] sense deepens, his merits multiply, with study.
    SwM 4.101 25 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.
    SwM 4.111 26 The Animal Kingdom [by Swedenborg] is a book of wonderful merits.
    SwM 4.123 4 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings, their merits are so commanding...
    NMW 4.225 17 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    ET1 5.10 18 [Coleridge]...spoke warmly of [Allston's] merits and doings when he knew him in Rome;...
    ET4 5.60 4 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother, on their respective merits...
    ET4 5.61 7 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    ET6 5.109 15 This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course its doting and foolish side.
    ET9 5.146 13 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET9 5.149 15 ...[the English] feel themselves at liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of English merits.
    ET12 5.201 20 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.210 2 ...no doubt their learning is grown obsolete;--but Oxford also has its merits...
    ET13 5.217 24 [The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
    ET19 5.310 21 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    F 6.42 8 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position, as the proof of the last or total excellence, than on his merits.
    SS 7.13 21 Men cannot afford to live together on their merits...
    Art2 7.56 20 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
    Elo1 7.73 20 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    Boks 7.201 2 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...
    Aris 10.38 24 If the differences [in men] are organic, so are the merits...
    Aris 10.46 5 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe;...
    Aris 10.50 6 When the lawyer tries his case in court...his own merits appear as well as his client's.
    Edc1 10.138 25 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes...
    Edc1 10.139 1 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails...
    LLNE 10.359 11 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    LLNE 10.368 12 Few people can live together on their merits.
    EzRy 10.390 12 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic...and his merits so intelligible to all observers, that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
    Thor 10.475 20 ...if [Thoreau] want lyric fineness and technical merits [in his poetry]...he never lacks the causal thought...
    GSt 10.501 12 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    HDC 11.77 14 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter. But he had merits of his own.
    EWI 11.139 19 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
    War 11.153 2 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
    FSLN 11.225 7 ...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
    EdAd 11.391 12 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...
    PLT 12.9 4 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all.
    CInt 12.117 27 Society...exaggerates the merits of those who work to vulgar ends.
    ACri 12.305 18 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet. 'T is a question...of...not particular merits, but the mood of mind into which one and another can bring us.
    WSL 12.346 6 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    EurB 12.369 27 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits...
    Trag 12.413 14 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits...

Merlin [Malory, Morte d'Ar (10)

    PI 8.60 14 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
    PI 8.60 15 After the disappearance of Merlin from King Arthur's court he was seriously missed...
    PI 8.61 13 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin...
    PI 8.61 17 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you will never see me more...
    PI 8.62 3 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly...
    PI 8.62 7 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this happen, seeing that you are the wisest man in the world? Rather, said Merlin, the greatest fool;...
    PI 8.62 12 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful...
    PI 8.62 15 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne...
    PI 8.62 29 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.
    PI 8.63 1 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.

Merlin, n. (6)

    Pol1 3.197 5 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    ET4 5.55 18 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur.
    ET16 5.281 10 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland...
    CbW 6.243 1 Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest tongue./
    Boks 7.197 19 English history is best known through Shakspeare; how much through Merlin, Robin Hood and the Scottish ballads!...
    Boks 7.221 8 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...

Merlin the Wise, n. (1)

    OA 7.317 13 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...

Merlin's, n. (1)

    CInt 12.111 3 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./

Mermaid Club, London, Engl (1)

    Clbs 7.243 20 We know well the Mermaid Club...

mermaid's, n. (1)

    Comp 2.105 27 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail...

Merovingians, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 1 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those Merovingians, Guelphs...of the old warlike ages!

Merriam, n. (1)

    HDC 11.27 1 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./

Merriam, Put, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.388 17 When Put Merriam, after his release from the state prison, had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    EzRy 10.388 21 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.

merriest, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.133 5 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to, else he...will be an orphan in the merriest club.

Merrilies, Meg, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 13 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Meg Merrilies, and Jenny Rintherouts...

merrily, adv. (3)

    Hsm1 2.250 15 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music...
    PI 8.7 5 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off--swim we merrily--in a direction self-chosen...
    Comc 8.163 19 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak, but their philosophy even whilst they are silent or jest merrily;...

Merrimac River, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.186 24 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...

Merrimac River, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 4 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water...of the Merrimac and the Connecticut...

Merrimack River, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 11 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.

merriment, n. (4)

    Hsm1. 2.252 10 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    ET19 5.312 13 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    CSC 10.374 8 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
    WSL 12.339 14 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not so much the suggestion of merriment as of bitterness.

merry, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.48 11 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...
    MoS 4.153 6 ...[the men of the senses] make themselves merry with the philosopher...
    ShP 4.193 5 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    ET8 5.127 9 [The English], too, believe...that your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
    Ctr 6.138 18 ...instead of a healthy man, merry and wise, [your man of genius] is some mad dominie.
    CbW 6.265 7 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
    SS 7.14 27 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor. Leave them to seek their own mates, and they will be as merry as sparrows.
    Comc 8.164 1 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...
    QO 8.195 9 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing.
    Dem1 10.4 2 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us in merry and mad confusion;...
    Edc1 10.140 14 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    FRep 11.535 25 The class of which I speak make themselves merry without duties.

Merton Hall, Oxford, Engla (1)

    ET12 5.199 18 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...Merton Hall and the rest.

Merton Library, Oxford, En (1)

    ET12 5.201 26 The books in Merton Library [Oxford] are still chained to the wall.

Meru, Adsched of, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 6 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru...

meshes, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.429 21 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it.
    FRep 11.522 27 [Americans] are carless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.

mesmeric, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.141 18 [Swedenborg's] Inferno is mesmeric.

mesmerism, n. (8)

    Pt1 3.32 21 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as...palmistry, mesmerism, and so on, is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Nat2 3.179 5 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism...
    NER 3.253 8 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy... of mesmerism...
    GoW 4.265 12 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad, Romanism, mesmerism...and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    Elo1 7.80 19 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    Dem1 10.12 15 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences, of mesmerism, of astrology...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Dem1 10.25 25 Mesmerism is high life below stairs;...
    EdAd 11.391 22 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?

Mesmerism, n. (4)

    NR 3.235 2 So with Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    Wsp 6.209 1 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the squalor of Mesmerism...
    MoL 10.245 7 We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...
    LLNE 10.337 19 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism...

mesmerize, v. (2)

    SS 7.11 12 'T is hard to mesmerize ourselves...
    Elo1 7.80 21 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?

mesmerizers, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 22 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.

message, n. (18)

    Fdsp 2.210 8 A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from [my friend] I want...
    PNR 4.81 20 [Plato] is more than...the prophet of a peculiar message.
    ShP 4.211 23 ...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.
    GoW 4.282 1 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate? That message will find method and imagery, articulation and melody.
    ET1 5.10 11 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
    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.
    Civ 7.28 5 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message?
    PI 8.65 3 The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.
    Chr2 10.99 2 God sends his message, if not by one, then quite as well by another.
    Schr 10.274 19 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...
    ACiv 11.310 13 In the recent series of national successes, this message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the best.
    ACiv 11.310 23 The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has been received throughout the country with praise...
    ACiv 11.311 5 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
    EPro 11.326 6 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies...
    PLT 12.6 1 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king...
    PLT 12.8 22 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
    PPr 12.384 9 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
    PPr 12.389 20 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

Message, President's, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 8 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it;...

messages, n. (4)

    Pow 6.65 20 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    Wsp 6.212 1 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.
    PC 8.207 22 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology, to fly with [men] over the sea, and to send their messages under it.
    ALin 11.333 22 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.

messenger, n. (2)

    Comc 8.171 1 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much; but the countenance of the celestial messenger subordinates it, and we see it not.
    ACri 12.299 17 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...

Messiah [Georg Friedrich H (1)

    NR 3.233 19 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.

Messiah, n. (3)

    Nat 1.71 10 Infancy is the perpetual Messiah...
    PPo 8.253 9 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
    LS 11.15 16 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.

messieurs, n. (2)

    MN 1.203 14 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...
    SA 8.85 22 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.

met, v. (81)

    LT 1.282 27 Can there be too much intellect? We have never met with any such excess.
    Con 1.306 13 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    Tran 1.347 12 ...it is really a wish to be met...which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called society.
    YA 1.384 21 The actual differences of men must be...met with love and wisdom.
    Hist 2.26 23 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    Fdsp 2.216 5 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. ... We will meet as though we met not, and part as though we parted not.
    OS 2.285 13 In that other [man], though they had seldom met, authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
    Art1 2.361 10 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms...
    Mrs1 3.134 7 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward, and he assures the other party, first of all, that he has been met.
    NER 3.259 13 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand. I never met with ten.
    NER 3.273 5 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    PPh 4.46 12 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women. ah! you don't undertand me; I have never met with any one who comprehends me...
    NMW 4.237 16 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind...
    NMW 4.237 24 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage, and that he had met with few persons equal to himself in this respect.
    NMW 4.243 7 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs. Napoleon met this natural expectation.
    ET1 5.5 6 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will...give one...the sense of having been met...
    ET3 5.35 20 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
    ET7 5.120 19 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET11 5.176 21 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.
    ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers...
    ET17 5.292 14 At the house of Mr. Carlyle, I met persons eminent in society and in letters.
    F 6.38 1 [Every creature's] instincts must be met...
    Wth 6.94 10 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he.
    Bhr 6.183 7 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    Bhr 6.193 5 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness...
    Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way;...
    CbW 6.252 27 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    SS 7.3 11 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?
    SS 7.3 21 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
    SS 7.4 18 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    SS 7.15 17 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
    WD 7.162 26 Malthus...forgot to say...that the augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of invention.
    Clbs 7.228 14 What are the best days in memory? Those in which we met a companion who was truly such.
    Clbs 7.247 25 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis...
    Cour 7.268 7 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade, by which dangerous turns of affairs are met and prevailed over.
    Cour 7.279 6 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came on with dreadful pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
    Cour 7.279 19 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    Suc 7.304 11 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.
    OA 7.329 19 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    PI 8.64 13 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...
    SA 8.92 4 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met...
    Elo2 8.112 11 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met...
    Comc 8.167 20 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician...
    QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.184 4 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...
    QO 8.202 18 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform, and met this expectation.
    Imtl 8.328 1 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day...
    Imtl 8.328 16 Death is seen as a natural event, and is met with firmness.
    Imtl 8.331 27 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Imtl 8.332 6 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met...
    Dem1 10.13 20 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Edc1 10.144 27 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world, when he sends into quiet houses a young soul with a thought which is not met...
    SovE 10.188 16 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met...
    Plu 10.311 12 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary, though they never met...
    LLNE 10.362 17 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    MMEm 10.405 20 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...
    MMEm 10.406 8 ...no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without remembering her with interest...
    MMEm 10.413 8 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner...
    MMEm 10.417 20 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.
    SlHr 10.441 7 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
    Thor 10.476 13 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    LS 11.7 19 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    HDC 11.48 23 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...
    HDC 11.71 4 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
    HDC 11.71 25 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord.
    EWI 11.99 2 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    EWI 11.105 20 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.
    EWI 11.107 20 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    EWI 11.114 21 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
    War 11.167 15 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
    FSLC 11.181 4 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day...
    FSLN 11.234 3 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.
    FSLN 11.240 23 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted, stern trials met...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    AKan 11.258 19 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly, met to watch the government and to correct it.
    JBB 11.270 1 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.
    TPar 11.287 24 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    TPar 11.291 22 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer. These met in the house of this honest man...
    SMC 11.350 9 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    ChiE 11.473 11 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
    CPL 11.495 18 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library].
    CPL 11.504 1 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.

meta-chemistry, n. (1)

    ET14 5.239 5 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;...

metal, n. (5)

    DSA 1.119 23 ...in its mountains of metal and stone;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    PPh 4.66 9 Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.
    ET6 5.103 20 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal.
    EdAd 11.393 8 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs.
    WSL 12.349 3 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.

metallic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.57 5 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.

metallurgy, n. (1)

    SwM 4.100 2 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began. All his metallurgy and transportation of ships overland was absorbed into this ecstasy.

metals, n. (14)

    Hist 2.37 20 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    Cir 2.314 5 ...these metals and animals...are means and methods only...
    Mrs1 3.120 10 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    PPh 4.55 21 ...the taste of two metals in contact;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.101 27 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
    SwM 4.106 2 [Swedenborg] had studied spars and metals to some purpose.
    F 6.32 21 ...the ductility of metals...are awaiting you.
    SS 7.6 5 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha.
    PI 8.11 9 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    Insp 8.289 8 The seashore and the taste of two metals in contact...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Imtl 8.334 25 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in metals...
    PerF 10.70 9 All the earths are burnt metals.
    Thor 10.484 4 You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them.
    FRep 11.519 9 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading. The precious metals are not so precious as they are esteemed.

metamorphosed, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.6 15 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.

metamorphosed, v. (2)

    AmS 1.83 19 Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing...
    Fdsp 2.193 20 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...

metamorphoses, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.7 1 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses;...

metamorphosis, n. (24)

    MN 1.203 10 ...total nature...is in rapid metamorphosis.
    Hist 2.14 9 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Comp 2.101 6 ...the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis...
    OS 2.274 21 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state, such as can be represented by metamorphosis...
    Pt1 3.20 23 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things, and sees the flowing or metamorphosis;...
    Pt1 3.22 19 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again.
    Pt1 3.25 4 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    Pt1 3.27 18 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible.
    Pt1 3.30 2 The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
    Pt1 3.30 13 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
    Pt1 3.35 20 Before [Swedenborg] the metamorphosis continually plays.
    Chr1 3.112 11 It was a tradition of the ancient world that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god;...
    SwM 4.110 10 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...metamorphosis...
    Ill 6.319 23 The intellect sees...that, in the endless striving and ascents, the metamorphosis is entire...
    PI 8.8 10 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis...
    PI 8.15 17 The endless passing of one element into new forms, the incessant metamorphosis, explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    PI 8.18 17 What is the term of the ever-flowing metamorphosis?
    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.
    PI 8.39 5 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis...
    PI 8.71 19 The nature of things is flowing, a metamorphosis.
    PI 8.71 26 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    Insp 8.271 6 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
    LLNE 10.338 12 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...
    PLT 12.59 26 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.

metaphor, n. (3)

    Nat 1.32 26 ...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
    MR 1.253 18 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    Exp 3.73 3 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...and the metaphor of each has become a national religion.

metaphors, n. (1)

    Nat 1.32 25 Parts of speech are metaphors...

metaphysic, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.300 21 The fundamental fact in our metaphysic constitution is the correspondence of man to the world...

metaphysic, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.131 26 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Newton, of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.

metaphysical, adj. (36)

    Nat 1.56 15 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.
    LE 1.164 10 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality of literary or metaphysical power...and he is piqued.
    MN 1.200 1 The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.
    Con 1.299 23 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    Tran 1.333 7 The idealist has another measure, which is metaphysical...
    Hist 2.35 22 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
    Hist 2.40 5 ...what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man?
    Fdsp 2.196 18 Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple?
    Mrs1 3.136 27 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    UGM 4.7 27 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid...
    MoS 4.151 25 The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
    GoW 4.285 4 The lurking daemons sat to [Goethe], and the saint who saw the daemons; and the metaphysical elements took form.
    ET4 5.44 6 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law, disclosing their ideal or metaphysical necessity;...
    ET8 5.136 17 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical grounds.
    F 6.44 8 The races of men rise out of the ground...and divides into parties... angry to fight for this metaphysical abstraction.
    Wth 6.102 11 ...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to metaphysical changes.
    Ctr 6.132 26 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical variety of this malady?
    PI 8.16 12 The atomic theory is only...the effect of a foregone metaphysical theory.
    PI 8.19 12 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times...
    Elo2 8.131 16 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    Elo2 8.131 23 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis...
    Comc 8.161 22 ...a perception of the Comic seems to be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure.
    PC 8.221 6 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in mining and in war. But over all their utilities, I must hold their chief value to be metaphysical.
    Insp 8.282 11 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Insp 8.292 8 Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but conversation, is the right metaphysical professor.
    Imtl 8.330 13 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.
    PerF 10.69 18 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his arsenal of forces, physical, metaphysical, immortal.
    SovE 10.208 20 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend, but in the moral sentiment and the metaphysical fact which the legends enclosed...
    Schr 10.272 11 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.
    Plu 10.297 10 Whatever is eminent...in institutions, in science,-natural, moral, or metaphysical...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.306 12 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.
    Plu 10.314 15 ...Plutarch always addresses the question [of immortality] on the human side, and not on the metaphysical;...
    FSLC 11.184 2 I cannot think the most judicious tubing a compensation for metaphysical debility.
    II 12.66 3 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field of metaphysical discovery...
    II 12.81 1 The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical...
    MLit 12.315 16 The great lead us to Nature, and in our age to metaphysical Nature...

metaphysically, adv. (2)

    ET4 5.51 16 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain? Who can trace them historically? Who can discriminate them anatomically, or metaphysically?
    Bty 6.299 10 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...

metaphysician, n. (8)

    Clbs 7.230 5 Every metaphysician must have observed...that no thought is alone...
    PI 8.10 13 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    Insp 8.274 13 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate the tonics of the torpid mind...
    Schr 10.264 22 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer, the metaphysician...talk hard and worldly...
    Plu 10.297 20 [Plutarch] is...not a metaphysician, like Parmenides, Plato or Aristotle;...
    Plu 10.306 15 One asks sometimes whether a metaphysician can treat the intellect well.
    Wom 11.416 7 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician.
    PLT 12.14 15 ...the metaphysician, dealing as it were with the mathematics of the mind, puts himself out of the way of inspiration;...

metaphysicians, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.184 13 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians...
    PLT 12.12 10 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    II 12.66 7 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which constitutes sanity;...

metaphysics, n. (26)

    Nat 1.67 18 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray upon the metaphysics of conchology...to the mind...
    SR 2.57 10 In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity...
    OS 2.267 22 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless?
    Cir 2.312 18 All the argument and all the wisdom is not in...the treatise on metaphysics...
    Pt1 3.15 1 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics;...
    PPh 4.47 13 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    PPh 4.54 6 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe;...
    SwM 4.109 18 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    MoS 4.166 16 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere.
    ShP 4.213 14 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet and has added a new problem to metaphysics.
    ET9 5.151 18 There is no fence in metaphysics discriminating Greek, or English, or Spanish science.
    ET14 5.250 14 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    SS 7.10 8 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.
    Boks 7.212 7 A right metaphysics should do justice to the coordinate powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
    PI 8.28 4 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.
    Elo2 8.128 12 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education,--teaching a youth Latin and metaphysics and history... that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    SovE 10.204 20 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    LLNE 10.338 20 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy, Hegel his metaphysics...
    PLT 12.5 10 Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations...
    PLT 12.13 3 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit.
    PLT 12.13 7 Metaphysics must be perpetually reinforced by life;...
    PLT 12.13 13 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    PLT 12.13 27 My metaphysics are to the end of use.
    PLT 12.14 13 There is something surgical in metaphysics as we treat it.
    PLT 12.46 21 When [will] appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.
    CL 12.161 22 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.

Metcalfe, Charles, n. (1)

    EWI 11.121 1 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...

meted, v. (1)

    TPar 11.290 20 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he...meted out to every official...his due portion.

Metellus, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.78 9 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...

metempsychosis, n. (4)

    Hist 2.13 12 Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.
    PPh 4.58 20 ...[Plato] beholds the penal metempsychosis...
    SwM 4.124 21 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    Imtl 8.324 11 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...

meteor, n. (3)

    DSA 1.137 27 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    Int 2.344 4 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be no longer an alarming meteor...
    Pt1 3.34 22 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen...

meteoric, adj. (1)

    PC 8.224 13 The asteroids are the chips of an old star, and a meteoric stone is a chip of an asteroid.

meteorologists, n. (1)

    PC 8.211 27 That cosmical west wind which, meteorologists tell us, constitutes, by the revolution of the globe, the upper current, is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.

meteorous, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.62 8 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing meteorous appearance can ill spare.
    Insp 8.279 17 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...

meteors, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.1 3 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with private ray/...
    Bty 6.304 11 My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise, meteors and constellations.
    Insp 8.296 1 Books of natural science...explorations of the sea, of meteors, of astronomy,-all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    CW 12.175 3 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come...

meter, n. (11)

    MN 1.197 14 ...we can use nature as...the meter of our rise and fall.
    SwM 4.98 2 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire, by weight and meter, to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
    F 6.30 17 We can afford to allow the limitation, if we know it is the meter of the growing man.
    Wth 6.101 20 The coin is a delicate meter of civil, social and moral changes.
    Wth 6.105 22 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.
    Civ 7.23 2 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Elo1 7.66 7 The audience is a constant meter of the orator.
    WD 7.157 3 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle;...
    WD 7.157 12 The body is a meter.
    SlHr 10.443 4 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
    PLT 12.47 4 There is a meter which determines the constructive power of man...

meters, n. (2)

    Tran 1.358 15 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    Supl 10.178 5 One of the meters of the height to which any civility rose is the skill in the fabric of iron.

metes, n. (2)

    Exp 3.69 13 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...
    Schr 10.263 27 Intellect is the science of metes and bounds;...

metest, v. (1)

    FRO2 11.484 1 Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the breeze;/...

method, n. (89)

    AmS 1.86 6 The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter;...
    MN 1.197 24 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    MN 1.199 7 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
    MN 1.204 9 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
    MN 1.211 25 There is no office or function of man but is rightly discharged by this divine method...
    MR 1.239 1 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    LT 1.263 24 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.
    LT 1.283 3 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought, without causing a new method of life.
    Con 1.301 25 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood. As this is the invariable method of our training, we must give it allowance...
    SR 2.89 1 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you, but by a method precisely the reverse.
    SL 2.144 3 A man is a method...
    Fdsp 2.198 4 The soul invirons itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society. This method betrays itself along the whole history of our personal relations.
    Prd1 2.227 12 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...
    Int 2.325 6 ...the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Int 2.329 21 ...[logic's] virtue is as silent method;...
    Int 2.330 9 Each mind has its own method.
    Nat2 3.190 19 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method!
    UGM 4.18 11 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression.
    PPh 4.68 15 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
    SwM 4.95 17 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.104 2 The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.105 2 ...the nobility of method...had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
    SwM 4.112 15 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...
    SwM 4.123 18 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth...
    MoS 4.161 15 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life;...
    MoS 4.178 14 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    MoS 4.179 2 A method in the world we do not see...
    NMW 4.235 1 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of elevating light howitzers.
    NMW 4.235 3 My method was immediately followed by the adjoining batteries...
    GoW 4.281 27 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate?
    GoW 4.282 1 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate? That message will find method and imagery, articulation and melody.
    ET5 5.93 19 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET10 5.156 9 [The English] proceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift.
    ET14 5.238 6 ...[English] scholars...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    F 6.4 22 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    F 6.31 10 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
    Bhr 6.176 6 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
    Wsp 6.220 27 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...method, and an even web;...
    Bty 6.287 12 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature...of brain or method...
    Bty 6.292 7 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    Bty 6.298 5 [Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
    Bty 6.302 4 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Ill 6.318 2 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it...
    Elo1 7.89 6 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    Elo1 7.90 20 Statement, method, imagery...are keys which the orator holds;...
    Elo1 7.93 14 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which...keeps the secret of its means and method; and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Farm 7.143 11 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all.
    Boks 7.193 20 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic, where none but a natural method is really pertinent.
    Boks 7.194 5 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature...
    Boks 7.211 23 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.
    Boks 7.211 26 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius, but no high method, no inspiring efflux.
    PI 8.5 25 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.
    PI 8.6 18 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own...
    SA 8.101 6 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments. Every country wishes this, and each has taken its own method to secure such service to the state.
    SA 8.101 13 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured permanence of families...
    Elo2 8.133 3 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Res 8.137 19 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it.
    QO 8.179 12 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    PC 8.211 26 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind, and imparts a sympathetic enlargement to its inventions and method.
    Grts 8.308 3 ...to each his own method, style, wit, eloquence.
    PerF 10.74 26 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    PerF 10.77 24 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his method.
    PerF 10.78 14 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    Edc1 10.148 5 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind is not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
    Edc1 10.148 17 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments...
    Edc1 10.152 19 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast...
    Schr 10.267 15 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an acceptance of the method and frauds of other men;...
    Schr 10.284 15 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Is there method in your consciousness?
    Plu 10.308 13 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method.
    Plu 10.308 21 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    LLNE 10.335 24 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.353 8 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted...
    SlHr 10.439 13 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    GSt 10.504 13 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
    AKan 11.257 17 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    TPar 11.286 20 [Theodore Parker] had...a logical method...
    FRep 11.544 1 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    PLT 12.4 22 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...
    PLT 12.4 26 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...
    PLT 12.20 20 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...
    PLT 12.29 25 Every man is a new method and distributes things anew.
    PLT 12.52 16 It is much to write sentences; it is more to add method and write out the spirit of your life symmetrically.
    II 12.81 2 ...the force of method and the force of will makes trade...
    Mem 12.91 23 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind, through the incessant purification and better method of its memory.
    Mem 12.97 3 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...mind, being, in their own method and law.
    Mem 12.106 17 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper, without method...
    CL 12.146 7 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...and his method of working is no less beautiful than the result.
    CL 12.164 6 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    WSL 12.348 14 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.

methodical, adj. (2)

    ET6 5.106 27 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal...
    SlHr 10.439 10 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding, precise and methodical...

Methodism, n. (3)

    SR 2.61 18 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as... Methodism, of Wesley;...
    Pt1 3.37 21 ...Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people...
    ET13 5.222 5 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.

Methodist, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.107 5 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...
    Elo2 8.114 10 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...
    ACri 12.287 14 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!

Methodists, n. (3)

    OS 2.282 17 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    ET4 5.48 19 The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face;...
    PC 8.216 24 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few; and you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...

methodizing, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.20 2 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts.

methods, n. (48)

    LE 1.184 3 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means.
    MN 1.218 6 Talent finds its models, methods, and ends, in society...
    MR 1.254 17 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods...which force could never achieve.
    LT 1.277 3 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...
    LT 1.286 18 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.
    Con 1.305 16 You [reformers] are not only identical with us [conservatives] in your needs, but also in your methods and aims.
    Con 1.308 2 I never dreamed about methods;...
    Con 1.325 7 Sooner or later all men will be my friends, and will testify in all methods the energy of their regard.
    Tran 1.338 18 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life]...
    YA 1.380 4 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance. We have already seen our way to shorter methods.
    SL 2.135 1 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods?
    Prd1 2.221 5 My prudence consists...not in the inventing of means and methods...
    Cir 2.314 7 ...these metals and animals...are means and methods only...
    Pt1 3.38 22 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal...
    Exp 3.68 7 ...[nature's] methods are saltatory and impulsive.
    Mrs1 3.124 1 [The name gentleman] describes a man...working after untaught methods.
    Pol1 3.207 7 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    Pol1 3.220 2 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless?...
    NER 3.252 2 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare...their independence of their colleagues, and their impatience of the methods whereby they were working.
    NER 3.254 1 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...a tendency to the adoption of simpler methods...
    NER 3.255 6 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
    NER 3.260 11 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods;...
    NER 3.267 3 ...this union [of men] must be inward...and is to be reached by a reverse of the methods they use.
    NER 3.269 15 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too the doubt comes...from persons who have tried these methods.
    NER 3.283 7 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall use his native but forgotten methods...
    UGM 4.33 12 A new quality of mind...publishes itself by unknown methods...
    MoS 4.182 7 the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's]; their methods are not his;...
    Wth 6.106 24 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    WD 7.177 4 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone.
    Cour 7.266 9 The thoughtful man says, You differ from me in opinion and methods...
    Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    QO 8.187 19 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types...of tools and methods in tillage...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    PerF 10.73 5 The brain of man has methods and arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
    Chr2 10.120 26 [Character's] methods are subtle, it works without means.
    Edc1 10.145 7 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.148 12 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Edc1 10.154 20 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.
    Edc1 10.156 9 [The child] has a secret; wonderful methods in him;...
    Prch 10.233 22 ...[inspiration] will invent its own methods...
    Schr 10.274 12 Let [men of thought] decline henceforward foreign methods and foreign courages.
    Schr 10.281 10 Everybody hates imbecility and shortcoming, not new methods.
    Schr 10.288 17 ...[the scholar] is to subdue and keep down his methods;...
    EWI 11.107 12 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
    PLT 12.64 11 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands, creating men and methods...
    II 12.74 25 ...[Inspiration's] arts and methods of working remain a mystery...
    CInt 12.125 25 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary...
    AgMs 12.362 25 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes.
    AgMs 12.363 14 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed;...

Methuselah, n. (1)

    CL 12.150 14 I think sometimes how many days could Methuselah go out and find something new!

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