Mix to Monge

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

mix, v. (16)

    LT 1.277 12 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment with personal and party heats...
    Tran 1.353 16 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
    Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix...
    Fdsp 2.207 1 Do not mix waters too much.
    Fdsp 2.207 2 Do not mix waters too much. The best mix as ill as good and bad.
    Nat2 3.190 9 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    PPh 4.47 16 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures.
    SwM 4.96 26 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix;...
    SwM 4.130 26 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    MoS 4.159 8 ...let us mix in affairs;...
    ET4 5.50 5 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix...
    CbW 6.270 23 How to live with unfit companions?...experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence, namely...not to mix yourself in any manner with them...
    Ill 6.311 9 The senses...mix their own structure with all they report of.
    PI 8.22 6 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres, and must not mix them.
    QO 8.203 19 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
    Prch 10.232 18 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth, in whose affairs we so hotly mix...

mixed, adj. (14)

    Tran 1.359 23 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
    Comp 2.96 6 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Nat2 3.176 26 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess. It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called the subject of religion.
    ET4 5.50 21 The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
    ET6 5.105 25 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons;...
    ET8 5.129 3 In mixed company [the English] shut their mouths.
    F 6.8 13 ...it is of no use to try to whitewash [Providence's] huge, mixed instrumentalities...
    Art2 7.43 11 Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts...
    Clbs 7.225 8 ...thought is the native air of the mind, yet pure it is a poison to our mixed constitution...
    Clbs 7.233 9 The greatest sufferers are often...men of a delicate sympathy, who are dumb in mixed company.
    Dem1 10.7 12 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...
    Chr2 10.102 21 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    LLNE 10.360 13 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    LS 11.3 10 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper]; whether mixed or unmixed wine should be served;...the questions have been settled differently in every church...

mixed, v. (17)

    Nat 1.51 17 Hence arises a pleasure mixed with awe;...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    AmS 1.92 4 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    MN 1.213 4 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass through his wondering eyes into him, and so all things are mixed.
    Exp 3.45 10 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.
    Pol1 3.203 18 ...persons and property mixed themselves in every transaction.
    SwM 4.144 17 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    ET4 5.50 23 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...
    ET8 5.134 6 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    Pow 6.72 21 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands...
    Wsp 6.206 14 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./
    Bty 6.287 19 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed; on an evil man, resting on his head; in a good man, mixed with his substance.
    Elo1 7.72 9 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...
    OA 7.332 24 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life. I said, The world thinks a good deal of joy has been mixed with it.
    EWI 11.146 25 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
    PLT 12.26 3 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
    MAng1 12.227 16 ...in painting, [Michelangelo] not only mixed but ground his colors himself...

mixes, v. (4)

    Wth 6.90 24 The subject of economy mixes itself with morals...
    Bty 6.297 26 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form with moon and stars...
    PI 8.16 26 ...the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water;...
    SMC 11.351 20 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...

mixture, n. (27)

    Nat 1.5 10 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the [unchanged essences]...
    Nat 1.17 1 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies...without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
    LT 1.287 18 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...with less fear, less fable, less mixture of any sort.
    Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression...implies a mixture of will, a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Exp 3.60 3 Life itself is a mixture of power and form...
    MoS 4.165 27 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    GoW 4.275 21 ...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of light and darkness in new proportions.
    ET4 5.50 18 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer of nations.
    ET4 5.72 23 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture;...
    ET8 5.134 5 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET10 5.153 14 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses. There is a mixture of religion in it.
    ET12 5.213 8 England is the land of mixture and surprise...
    ET14 5.235 7 Mixture is a secret of the English island;...
    Ctr 6.134 23 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture...
    Ill 6.316 16 In the worst-assorted connections there is ever some mixture of true marriage.
    Elo2 8.128 27 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    Insp 8.279 11 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness...
    Insp 8.289 10 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Aris 10.43 22 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture...
    Edc1 10.139 23 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of fun and earnest...with which the game is played;...
    Supl 10.169 23 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you... and he sees...whether your head is addled by this mixture of wines.
    Plu 10.306 19 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our will.
    FSLC 11.187 17 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    JBS 11.279 14 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise...
    MLit 12.330 9 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...
    WSL 12.348 17 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
    Trag 12.405 6 The conversation of men is a mixture of regrets and apprehensions.

mixtures, n. (5)

    NMW 4.251 9 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
    F 6.28 13 The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
    Wsp 6.206 15 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    Supl 10.178 25 ...Nature, who loves crosses and mixtures, makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    PLT 12.26 1 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...

Mizar, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 18 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion, the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor, must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.

mizzen, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.296 1 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/

mnemonical, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.32 24 ...life is mnemonical.

mnemonics, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 8 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes...with its wonderful mnemonics...

Mnemosyne, n. (1)

    Mem 12.95 19 A seneschal of Parnassus is Mnemosyne.

moan, n. (1)

    RBur 11.438 3 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./

moan, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.171 15 Let any man go back to those delicious relations...which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.

moaning, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.47 10 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands...

moaning, n. (1)

    DSA 1.136 6 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...

moanings, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.9 3 Why...should not symptoms, auguries, forebodings be, and, as one said, the moanings of the spirit?

moans, v. (2)

    MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans;...
    Trag 12.410 14 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always another person who is tormented.

mob, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.33 25 ...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

mob, n. (33)

    SR 2.71 14 ...now we are a mob.
    Comp 2.119 17 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be...a tyrant or a mob.
    Comp 2.119 17 A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason...
    Comp 2.119 19 The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
    Hsm1 2.249 27 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...
    Hsm1 2.262 15 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...
    Chr1 3.115 20 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable;...
    Pol1 3.212 11 A mob cannot be a permanency;...
    NR 3.238 27 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob, into a banking house...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    PPh 4.75 14 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
    MoS 4.184 23 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor...left to whistle by himself, or thrust into a mob of emperors, all whistling...
    ET7 5.123 8 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    ET9 5.152 10 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched...
    ET10 5.159 6 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters, after a mob and riot at Staley Bridge, Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
    ET10 5.164 4 [The English] have...no mob...
    ET14 5.232 12 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
    Pow 6.70 2 The people lean on this [aboriginal source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes say, for it has this good side.
    Art2 7.52 1 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Elo1 7.96 2 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob...
    Elo1 7.96 3 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob, because he is more mob than they...
    Elo1 7.96 4 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob, because he is more mob than they,--one who mobs the mob...
    Suc 7.293 14 ...the mob uniformly cheers the publisher, and not the inventor.
    Res 8.147 16 Against the terrors of the mob...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Res 8.147 27 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Res 8.148 7 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
    Res 8.148 12 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
    Aris 10.35 10 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob...can avail to outlaw... or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    SlHr 10.438 12 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    Carl 10.492 27 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    FSLN 11.241 20 We should not forgive...the Government, if it sustain the mob against the laws.
    FRep 11.524 9 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
    Milt1 12.250 27 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself. The voice of the mob is silent, and Milton speaks.
    ACri 12.287 8 Everybody knows the points in which the mob has the advantage of the Academy...

Mobeds, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.109 13 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...

mobile, primum, n. (1)

    Bost 12.206 17 ...here [in Boston] was the moving principle itself, the primum mobile...

mobility, n. (1)

    MoS 4.160 15 The philosophy we want is one of fluxions and mobility.

mobs, n. (15)

    SR 2.88 11 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which does not wait the beck of...mobs...
    Pt1 3.27 27 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... mobs...
    Chr1 3.113 20 ...our nations have been mobs;...
    Pow 6.78 4 A course of mobs is good practice for orators.
    CbW 6.261 21 ...try [a rich man] with a course of mobs;...this may be the element he wants...
    Bty 6.297 11 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton]. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs...
    Bty 6.302 2 The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Elo1 7.97 2 ...the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
    PC 8.231 9 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
    Edc1 10.138 17 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all...town-meetings, caucuses, mobs, target-shootings, as flies have;...
    SlHr 10.437 16 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs or nations;...
    EWI 11.140 2 [The timid and base persons] would raise mobs, for fear is very cruel.
    FSLC 11.202 5 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.
    FRep 11.518 2 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government not quite of mobs, but in practice of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    FRep 11.528 1 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public even when irregular and vicious,-the voice of mobs, the voice of lynch law...

mobs, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.96 4 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man who is not to be silenced or insulted or intimidated by a mob, because he is more mob than they,--one who mobs the mob...

mock, adj. (2)

    NR 3.244 7 ...men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries...
    Edc1 10.147 25 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...

mock, v. (1)

    Nat 1.19 13 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.

mocked, v. (2)

    MN 1.212 6 ...is [man's work in the world] for pleasure? he is mocked;...
    NMW 4.258 22 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions.

mocker, n. (1)

    SovE 10.197 12 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll a... mocker at time...

mockeries, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 23 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...what bitter mockeries!

mockers, n. (1)

    MoS 4.174 4 The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.

mocking, adj. (4)

    Nat2 3.178 7 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
    Nat2 3.190 1 ...there is throughout nature something mocking...
    OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    Imtl 8.336 8 Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.

mocking, n. (1)

    Ill 6.313 15 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, Proteus, or Momus, or Gylfi's Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the Titans...

mocks, v. (4)

    Tran 1.331 12 The materialist...mocks at fine-spun theories...
    PI 8.15 2 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
    MoL 10.247 25 Nature...mocks at the puny forces of destruction.
    CL 12.146 18 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...

mode, n. (53)

    LE 1.179 5 Napoleon...walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motion in the French mode.
    MN 1.206 12 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a mode of living...
    Hist 2.8 13 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    SL 2.141 5 This talent and this call depend on...the mode in which the general soul incarnates itself in [a man].
    OS 2.276 17 One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the spirit in a form...
    OS 2.284 22 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
    OS 2.296 2 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    Int 2.327 19 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict...the mode of that spontaneity.
    Art1 2.360 13 [The artist] need not...ask what is the mode in Rome or in Paris....
    Art1 2.364 4 [Sculpture] was originally...a mode of writing...
    Pt1 3.28 16 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and, as it was a spurious mode of attaining freedom...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    Exp 3.71 6 Do but observe the mode of our illumination.
    Mrs1 3.144 22 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...
    NR 3.239 12 ...there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    SwM 4.120 4 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories, or written in the angelic and ecstatic mode, [Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    SwM 4.128 1 ...Swedenborg, after his mode, pinned his theory [of marriage] to a temporary form.
    SwM 4.134 27 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations. The mode, as well as the essence, was sacred.
    NMW 4.235 22 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    ET3 5.40 18 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal.
    ET6 5.113 11 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat...
    ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in...every mode of exact information...
    ET11 5.176 9 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
    Wth 6.121 11 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing...
    Wth 6.123 17 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Bhr 6.170 11 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned, into a mode.
    Bhr 6.175 7 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires...a becoming mode of receiving and replying to this homage.
    Wsp 6.205 21 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    Bty 6.293 1 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode...
    Bty 6.293 3 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode...
    DL 7.121 21 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    Suc 7.285 23 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    OA 7.336 4 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit...
    PI 8.6 3 ...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. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
    PI 8.53 1 Substance [in poetry] is much, but so are mode and form much.
    Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    PPo 8.252 1 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    Insp 8.275 26 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    PerF 10.75 9 Labor hides itself in every mode and form.
    Prch 10.219 1 ...when we have extricated ourselves from all the embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any light on the mode of individual life.
    LS 11.3 7 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been...any uniformity in the mode of celebrating it.
    LS 11.8 25 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.
    LS 11.19 17 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me.
    LS 11.19 22 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    LS 11.23 24 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
    EWI 11.137 15 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.
    PLT 12.27 12 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics...
    PLT 12.29 14 [Man] has his own defences and his own fangs; his perception and his own mode of reply to sophistries.
    CInt 12.118 8 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus, at Mr. Rarey's mode of taming a horse by kindness...
    Milt1 12.273 7 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...
    ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    ACri 12.292 9 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    MLit 12.324 23 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate;...
    Let 12.395 3 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

model, adj. (6)

    YA 1.369 5 ...these [European estates] make model farms, and model architecture...
    ET5 5.79 5 Sir Kenelm Digby...was a model Englishman in his day.
    ET10 5.158 15 The Life of Sir Robert Peel, in his day the model Englishman, very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny...
    Aris 10.31 9 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...
    Carl 10.493 5 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    AgMs 12.362 2 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.

model, n. (33)

    DSA 1.145 26 Imitation cannot go above its model.
    Hist 2.17 22 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
    SR 2.82 19 It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model.
    SR 2.82 23 ...why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model?
    Int 2.340 15 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
    Art1 2.353 2 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Art1 2.359 26 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...
    Mrs1 3.141 22 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    PPh 4.69 26 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    NMW 4.247 9 I should cite [Napoleon], in his earlier years, as a model of prudence.
    GoW 4.262 24 Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture.
    ET5 5.79 23 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET6 5.114 1 The English dinner is precisely the model on which our own are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
    Art2 7.41 4 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree...
    Art2 7.41 7 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.
    Art2 7.44 14 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan;...
    Art2 7.44 18 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    DL 7.123 18 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.
    Suc 7.293 18 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector.
    QO 8.180 7 There is imitation, model and suggestion, to the very archangels, if we knew their history.
    Grts 8.315 20 Diderot was no model...
    Aris 10.62 2 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
    Edc1 10.146 15 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    LLNE 10.353 7 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
    SlHr 10.447 12 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...
    Scot 11.464 19 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.
    FRO2 11.489 21 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example, a model;...
    MAng1 12.227 10 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter...
    MAng1 12.231 19 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.
    Milt1 12.263 24 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
    Milt1 12.274 18 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
    ACri 12.298 4 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.
    ACri 12.302 8 Here is my friend E., the model of opinionists.

model, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.231 17 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax.

modelling, v. (1)

    PLT 12.49 7 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.

models, n. (14)

    Nat 1.68 1 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    DSA 1.145 19 ...refuse the good models...
    MN 1.218 6 Talent finds its models, methods, and ends, in society...
    Hist 2.24 10 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Pt1 3.8 2 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter...
    MoS 4.151 7 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models.
    ET5 5.96 21 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in books, maps, models...
    ET17 5.294 21 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    F 6.17 17 Man is the arch machine of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models.
    WD 7.157 7 The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint was taken.
    Aris 10.61 15 All reference to models...is the road to mediocrity.
    Plu 10.321 12 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    FRep 11.512 7 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune. The jewellers imitated the revived models in silver and gold.

moderate, adj. (7)

    MR 1.241 22 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    Exp 3.62 4 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    Pol1 3.210 16 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
    Supl 10.168 3 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern...
    Supl 10.168 20 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact...
    ACiv 11.307 3 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...
    PLT 12.25 5 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.

moderate, n. (1)

    HDC 11.31 15 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.

moderate, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 3 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.

moderately, adv. (1)

    Wsp 6.238 6 Talent and success interest me but moderately.

moderates, v. (1)

    ACri 12.297 18 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates...

moderation, n. (11)

    Comp 2.98 11 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life.
    Comp 2.118 4 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...has got moderation and real skill.
    PPh 4.60 4 What moderation and understatement and checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!
    CbW 6.261 10 A rich man was never in danger from cold, or hunger, or war or ruffians,--and you can see he was not, from the moderation of his ideas.
    Supl 10.166 25 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.
    HDC 11.66 18 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.
    EWI 11.115 2 I have never read anything in history more touching than the moderation of the negroes [at the news of emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.142 15 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of profit and of trust; and best of all is the testimony to their moderation.
    JBB 11.269 5 The governor of Virginia has pronounced [John Brown's] eulogy in a manner that discredits the moderation of our timid parties.
    EPro 11.316 27 The extreme moderation with which the President [Lincoln] advanced to his design,-his long-avowed expectant policy...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    Mem 12.107 2 When the body is in a quiescent state...in the moderation of food, it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.

moderator, n. (1)

    HDC 11.47 14 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece...

Moderator, n. (1)

    CSC 10.373 9 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...

modern, adj. (160)

    AmS 1.87 9 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    AmS 1.92 1 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with the most modern joy...
    AmS 1.112 17 Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
    LE 1.178 22 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    LE 1.179 12 ...the modern majesty consists in work.
    MN 1.211 12 If the theory has receded out of modern criticism, it is because we have not had poets.
    LT 1.261 8 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of...the American republic as of...modern England.
    Tran 1.341 20 ...every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these [Transcendentalists] must. The question which a wise man and a student of modern history will ask, is, what that kind is?
    Hist 2.7 8 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    Hist 2.24 12 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities...
    Prd1 2.232 25 Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.
    Art1 2.365 24 The fountains of invention and beauty in modern society are all but dried up.
    Pt1 3.9 17 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...
    Mrs1 3.119 6 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault.
    Mrs1 3.120 22 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman?
    Nat2 3.195 18 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors...
    Pol1 3.207 18 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form...
    Pol1 3.219 11 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints. The movement in this direction has been very marked in modern history.
    NR 3.234 10 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous;...
    NER 3.274 16 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    UGM 4.5 11 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    PNR 4.80 9 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    SwM 4.94 4 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.98 10 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    SwM 4.102 6 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
    SwM 4.103 6 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
    SwM 4.119 12 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
    SwM 4.124 7 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    SwM 4.135 4 The genius of Swedenborg, largest of all modern souls in this [Hebraic] department of thought, wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    SwM 4.142 16 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...
    MoS 4.161 25 Some wise limitation, as the modern phrase is;...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ShP 4.193 24 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried. Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.
    ShP 4.209 23 ...[Shakespeare] is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    ShP 4.211 4 [Shakespeare] wrote the airs for all our modern music...
    ShP 4.211 5 ...[Shakespeare] wrote the text of modern life;...
    NMW 4.225 10 Napoleon is thoroughly modern...
    NMW 4.230 22 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.252 13 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society;...
    NMW 4.252 15 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...
    NMW 4.256 9 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    GoW 4.271 6 We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things, which is distracting.
    GoW 4.272 5 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    GoW 4.273 20 [Goethe] has clothed our modern existence with poetry.
    GoW 4.274 19 [Goethe] has explained the distinction between the antique and the modern spirit and art.
    GoW 4.275 4 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    GoW 4.276 18 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real; he shall be modern;...
    GoW 4.277 22 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society...
    GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    GoW 4.290 1 It is the last lesson of modern science that the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    GoW 4.290 19 The secret of genius is...in the high refinement of modern life...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET3 5.36 5 The practical common-sense of modern society...is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET3 5.36 8 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility...
    ET3 5.41 5 ...England is anchored...right in the heart of the modern world.
    ET5 5.82 25 Their self-respect...and their realistic logic...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET5 5.85 7 ...[the English] have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilization.
    ET5 5.92 7 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others, as certificate of equality with themselves. The modern world is theirs.
    ET5 5.101 23 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET7 5.116 16 ...in modern times, any slipperiness in the [English] government...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET8 5.139 26 The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
    ET8 5.141 5 The stability of England is the security of the modern world.
    ET9 5.152 14 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world.
    ET10 5.157 15 It is a curious chapter in modern history, the growth of the machine-shop.
    ET10 5.162 25 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    ET10 5.164 1 This comfort and splendor [in England]...sumptuous castle and modern villa,--all consist with perfect order.
    ET11 5.182 2 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    ET12 5.201 24 [Oxford's] gates shut of themselves against modern innovation.
    ET13 5.225 15 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
    ET14 5.237 25 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin, before our modern facilities were yet ready;...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET14 5.247 8 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is its direction on fruit;...
    ET14 5.248 11 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...
    ET14 5.251 23 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle...
    ET14 5.253 1 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET14 5.256 17 Where is great design in modern English poetry?
    ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    ET16 5.284 24 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.285 16 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
    ET16 5.290 13 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    ET18 5.299 9 ...[the English] constitute the modern world...
    Ctr 6.161 18 ...Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity, before which the brawls of modern senates are but pot-house politics.
    Bhr 6.174 22 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
    Civ 7.33 5 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    WD 7.176 9 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and Lucretius; and, in modern times, of Swedenborg and of Hahnemann.
    Boks 7.198 19 In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
    Boks 7.198 25 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato].
    Boks 7.206 19 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Boks 7.211 17 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
    OA 7.316 3 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    PI 8.19 13 ...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...
    PI 8.69 6 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible.
    PI 8.69 14 The book [Goethe's Faust]...stands unhappily related to the whole modern world;...
    SA 8.80 16 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history;...
    SA 8.101 7 In Europe, ancient and modern, it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    Res 8.142 21 ...the walls of a modern house are perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...
    QO 8.181 1 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest, derived from him into all modern languages;...
    PC 8.214 14 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages.
    PPo 8.263 22 The tone [of Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations] is quite modern.
    Imtl 8.326 2 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
    Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].
    Dem1 10.11 22 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Dem1 10.15 11 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance...to omens. But the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind...
    Dem1 10.16 27 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in...the wholesome potency of the sign of the cross in modern Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.20 22 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...which is represented in modern fable by the telescope as used by Schlemil, is simply mischievous.
    Aris 10.32 1 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    Aris 10.36 15 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.40 20 Every survey of the dignified classes, in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...
    Aris 10.40 27 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach...out of their old war and modern land-owning...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.62 16 In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will find the laughing devil...
    Chr2 10.91 17 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.118 4 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
    Supl 10.176 2 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men...
    Supl 10.178 17 Our modern improvements have been in the invention of friction matches;...
    Plu 10.294 19 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    Plu 10.301 25 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Plu 10.310 10 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    LLNE 10.326 10 The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual...
    LLNE 10.363 15 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare, and in modern novels and romances of merit.
    EzRy 10.395 7 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
    MMEm 10.399 14 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    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.
    MMEm 10.403 11 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is] that a mind like Byron's would never be satisfied with modern Unitarianism...
    MMEm 10.409 10 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore.
    MMEm 10.427 2 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite.
    SlHr 10.445 28 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
    LS 11.8 26 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.
    LS 11.9 15 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    EWI 11.140 9 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
    War 11.151 1 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    War 11.170 7 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,-the universal specific of modern politics;...
    EPro 11.315 17 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    ALin 11.329 11 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together...
    EdAd 11.391 3 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
    Wom 11.408 3 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    Wom 11.415 7 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
    SHC 11.431 20 Modern taste has shown that there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    Scot 11.463 14 ...no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
    FRep 11.512 17 Our modern wealth stands on a few staples...
    PLT 12.23 18 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    PLT 12.45 6 Goethe, the surpassing intellect of modern times, apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
    II 12.73 11 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
    II 12.87 23 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    II 12.88 2 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
    MAng1 12.221 7 The depth of [Michelangelo's] knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
    Milt1 12.248 2 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious; yet so near to the modern mind as to be still alive and life-giving.
    Milt1 12.249 10 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice. Therein [his tracts] are discriminated from modern writings, in which a regard to the actual is all but universal.
    ACri 12.283 19 In this art [writing] modern society has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.
    ACri 12.299 13 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.
    ACri 12.303 25 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.
    ACri 12.305 2 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique. In society I do not find it, in modern books, seldom;...
    MLit 12.313 4 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    MLit 12.316 17 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    MLit 12.318 2 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...
    MLit 12.319 23 [Shelley] is clearly modern...
    MLit 12.320 12 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature...
    MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all.
    MLit 12.328 9 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
    WSL 12.346 25 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
    EurB 12.370 18 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
    EurB 12.375 1 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...
    PPr 12.382 3 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book.
    PPr 12.390 9 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.

modern, n. (2)

    Plu 10.301 21 I find [Plutarch] a better teacher of rhetoric than any modern.
    ACri 12.304 10 The classic should, the modern would.

Modern Plutarch, n. (1)

    ShP 4.206 8 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.

Modern Science, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 27 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science;...

modernized, v. (1)

    EzRy 10.383 19 It was a pity that [Ezra Ripley's] old meeting-house should have been modernized in his time.

modernness, n. (4)

    NR 3.233 1 The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
    PPh 4.45 2 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit.
    PPh 4.45 9 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art;...
    ACri 12.296 10 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is, therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer.

moderns, n. (4)

    AmS 1.112 17 Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
    Exp 3.73 2 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Jesus and the moderns by love;...
    II 12.88 13 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should, and not like the moderns, in the weak would.
    PPr 12.390 1 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains.

modes, n. (42)

    AmS 1.100 11 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    MN 1.212 12 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature, and itself alone in all modes and throughout space and spirit to prevail and possess.
    MR 1.243 20 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    MR 1.252 2 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes of living, a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...
    LT 1.271 13 Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination.
    LT 1.285 24 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...
    LT 1.286 16 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.
    Tran 1.330 2 These two modes of thinking [Materialism and Idealism] are both natural...
    Tran 1.359 11 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded; these modes of living lost out of memory;...
    YA 1.367 19 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat]...
    SR 2.77 6 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in...their modes of living;...
    SL 2.136 25 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    SL 2.139 15 Why need you choose so painfully your...modes of action and of entertainment?
    SL 2.162 21 Heaven...affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
    Prd1 2.230 18 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature, distorting our modes of living...
    Cir 2.312 9 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Int 2.330 24 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Pt1 3.8 18 Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy.
    Mrs1 3.149 19 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...
    Pol1 3.200 1 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population...may be voted in or out;...
    SwM 4.135 9 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence, before Western modes of thought and expression.
    GoW 4.272 27 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages, and their religions, politics and modes of thinking, are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    ET2 5.33 11 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's thought arises now a new system...English loves and fears, English history and social modes.
    ET13 5.227 14 The modes of initiation [in the English Church] are more damaging than custom-house oaths.
    ET14 5.251 14 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers.
    ET14 5.259 10 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
    ET19 5.313 11 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...I feel in regard to this aged England...pressed upon by...new and all incalculable modes, fabrics, arts, machines and competing populations.
    F 6.33 11 Man moves in all modes...
    Bhr 6.175 10 There are always exceptional people and modes.
    Bty 6.293 6 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode... This fact suggests the reason of all mistakes and offence in our own modes.
    Civ 7.31 15 These are traits and measures and modes [of civilization];...
    DL 7.104 19 ...chiefly...the young American studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
    Aris 10.64 10 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.
    Edc1 10.153 24 Our modes of Education aim to expedite...
    Supl 10.179 3 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    LLNE 10.329 7 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics; the like in all arts, modes.
    LLNE 10.355 16 In our free institutions, where...all possible modes of working and gaining are open to [a man], fortunes are easily made...
    LS 11.19 1 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper], however suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    War 11.175 19 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles...modes, gloves and cologne...
    EurB 12.368 13 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...
    EurB 12.369 3 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...

modest, adj. (23)

    LE 1.173 19 [The scholar] must be a solitary, laborious, modest, and charitable soul.
    SR 2.51 15 ...be good-natured and modest;...
    Chr1 3.91 3 ...to use a more modest illustration and nearer home, I observe that in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    MoS 4.171 13 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    GoW 4.261 14 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
    ET4 5.68 11 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    ET9 5.148 23 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    ET17 5.296 14 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
    Ctr 6.155 3 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    Boks 7.189 7 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Cour 7.271 5 'T is still observed those men most valiant are/ Who are most modest ere they came to war./
    Edc1 10.153 8 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done. Besides, how can he please himself with genius, and foster modest virtue?
    LLNE 10.343 23 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results. Nothing more serious came of it than the modest quarterly journal called The Dial...
    LLNE 10.367 6 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition...
    SlHr 10.439 18 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence, which made him modest and courteous...
    EWI 11.116 16 We were told that the dress of the negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest.
    ALin 11.330 17 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad structure of his fame was laid.
    SMC 11.359 17 [George Prescott] was...the most modest and amiable of men...
    SHC 11.428 4 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.435 17 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair, to this modest spot of God's earth, every sweet and friendly influence;...
    CPL 11.497 23 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.
    CPL 11.499 9 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson]...who removed into Maine, where she possessed a farm and a modest income.
    CPL 11.505 18 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.

modestly, adv. (4)

    NR 3.238 22 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures, and thinks modestly enough of his own endowment.
    PPh 4.60 9 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato];...
    ET9 5.146 14 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    Bhr 6.197 1 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...

modesty, n. (13)

    SL 2.162 9 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage that man we are...
    SL 2.163 5 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my...vain modesty...
    Prd1 2.239 8 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and crow...and not a thought has enriched either party, and not an emotion of bravery, modesty, or hope.
    SwM 4.101 3 [Swedenborg] had great modesty and gentleness of bearing.
    ET4 5.68 14 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most terrible determination.
    SA 8.103 5 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with...such modesty and persistent preference for others.
    Edc1 10.158 16 Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the children...
    SlHr 10.441 1 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left...the strength of a chief united to the modesty of a child.
    SlHr 10.446 12 [Samuel Hoar's] modesty was sincere.
    SlHr 10.447 19 I have spoken of [Samuel Hoar's] modesty;...
    FSLC 11.191 25 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    Scot 11.467 2 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him...from...sham modesty or jealousy.
    Milt1 12.264 3 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.

modification, n. (4)

    Nat 1.44 10 Each creature is only a modification of the other;...
    Wth 6.90 13 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence, and in its special modification, pecuniary independence.
    Wsp 6.214 21 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds...
    EWI 11.112 5 The scheme of the Minister, with such modification as it received in the legislature, proposed gradual emancipation [in the West Indies];...

modifications, n. (3)

    Exp 3.52 16 Some modifications the moral sentiment avails to impose, but the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Pol1 3.200 1 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population...may be voted in or out;...
    WD 7.167 3 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun, still recognizable through the modifications of our vernacular words...

modified, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.338 14 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...every part of the plant from root to fruit is only a modified leaf...

modified, v. (7)

    Comp 2.108 22 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    Fdsp 2.195 19 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is very little modified.
    Hsm1 2.251 1 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
    Art2 7.37 17 ...the human mind...tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought, modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our experience injure the individuality through which it passes.
    Art2 7.44 1 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Wom 11.419 3 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    PLT 12.22 5 ...[a muskrat] is only man modified to live in a mud-bank.

modifies, v. (3)

    War 11.155 14 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this;...
    PLT 12.21 9 Every new thought modifies, interprets old problems.
    Milt1 12.274 21 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.

modify, v. (2)

    YA 1.391 19 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    PI 8.49 21 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality, and will modify the metre.

modifying, v. (4)

    SwM 4.107 20 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine, with a limited power of modifying its form...
    MoS 4.175 18 There is the power of complexions, obviously modifying the dispositions and sentiments.
    ET3 5.40 4 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    EurB 12.369 19 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...modifying opinions which it did not change...

modish, adj. (5)

    Fdsp 2.205 18 I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
    ET9 5.148 2 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    ET14 5.258 18 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    Elo2 8.126 5 The polite are always catching modish innovations...
    ACri 12.284 13 The polite are always catching modish innovations [in language]...

modulate, v. (2)

    Pt1 3.26 2 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits...
    Ctr 6.137 2 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...

modulated, v. (3)

    Nat 1.17 23 The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated with tints of unspeakable softness...
    PNR 4.87 23 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    Edc1 10.137 13 The charm of life is...these contrasts and flavors by which Heaven has modulated the identity of truth...

modulation, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.333 20 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton, and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed;...

modus, n. (4)

    SwM 4.119 20 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state...
    Insp 8.274 17 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge.
    Insp 8.281 15 The experience of writing letters is one of the keys to the modus of inspiration.
    Mem 12.97 17 We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences.

Moghan, Hoghan [Butler, Hu (1)

    Comc 8.166 22 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./

Mohammed, n. (1)

    Supl 10.177 4 The ground of Paradise, said Mohammed, is extensive, and the plants of it are hallelujahs.

Mohammedan, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.414 14 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...

Mohican Indians, n. (1)

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

moiety, n. (1)

    ACri 12.292 18 Vulgarisms to be gazetted, moiety used for a small part;...

moist, adj. (3)

    LE 1.168 24 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    MMEm 10.397 26 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    CW 12.169 12 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

moisture, n. (1)

    SwM 4.107 16 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.

molasses, n. (1)

    HDC 11.56 22 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.

Mole, Louis Mathieu, n. (1)

    SA 8.94 11 ...[Madame de Stael] said one day, seriously, to M. Mole, If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...

mole, n. (6)

    Comp 2.116 7 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every...mole.
    Art1 2.361 24 What, old mole! workest thou in the earth so fast?
    SwM 4.131 13 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest, or a mole bore into the ground, than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round each new crew of offenders.
    Wth 6.83 25 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/ Dust is their pyramid and mole:/...
    PPo 8.243 1 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.251 19 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/

molecular, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.63 27 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom...
    PerF 10.70 14 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.

moles, n. (1)

    PPo 8.257 22 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./

molest, v. (2)

    Tran 1.344 10 I will not molest myself for you.
    Bost 12.202 10 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state...

Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poq (2)

    QO 8.181 20 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
    CInt 12.124 13 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection of Moliere by the French Academy...

Moller, Georg, n. (1)

    F 6.45 3 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...

mollified, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.165 6 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...

mollify, v. (2)

    SA 8.105 26 ...mollify the homicide...but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
    Trag 12.407 8 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that grinds or thunders...

mollis, Arnica, n. (1)

    Thor 10.464 5 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.

mollusk, n. (5)

    ET14 5.253 15 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain; whilst reptile or mollusk only exists in system, in relation.
    PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
    PI 8.10 10 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it...
    PI 8.10 12 Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system...
    PLT 12.22 8 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations...

Moloch, n. (1)

    F 6.45 25 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

Moltke, Helmut Karl von, n. (1)

    Grts 8.302 12 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...

Moly, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 22 Plant...Haemony, Moly, Spikenard, Amomum.

Molyneux, William, n. (1)

    SA 8.96 25 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...

moment, n. (272)

    Nat 1.18 13 To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty...
    Nat 1.18 17 The heavens change every moment...
    Nat 1.28 25 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.30 25 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
    Nat 1.43 11 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole...
    AmS 1.102 15 The world of any moment is the merest appearance.
    DSA 1.139 18 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...
    LE 1.166 2 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
    LE 1.170 20 The moment a man of genius pronounces the name of the Pelasgi...we see their state under a new aspect.
    LE 1.180 8 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment, repaired all losses...
    MN 1.198 26 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear;...
    MN 1.221 18 [The intellect] will burn up...all the false powers of the world, as in a moment of time.
    MR 1.230 1 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    MR 1.248 13 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature...which sleeps no moment on an old past...
    MR 1.251 3 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
    LT 1.265 15 Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.290 24 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any fact...
    Con 1.321 21 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.
    Tran 1.350 15 Every moment of a hero so raises and cheers us that a twelvemonth is an age.
    Tran 1.350 21 It is the quality of the moment...that imports.
    Tran 1.353 4 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    YA 1.387 23 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called, by the men of the moment, chimerical and fantastic.
    YA 1.390 24 At this moment, the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
    SR 2.58 25 Men...do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
    SR 2.67 9 ...[the rose] is perfect in every moment of its existence.
    SR 2.69 17 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state...
    SR 2.76 23 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...we pity him no more...
    SR 2.83 7 Your own gift you can present every moment...
    SR 2.83 22 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
    Comp 2.108 25 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions...of Shakspeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    Comp 2.126 11 ...a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    SL 2.155 12 ...[what the great man did]...grew out of the circumstances of the moment.
    Fdsp 2.193 19 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...
    Hsm1 2.259 2 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
    OS 2.268 7 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.
    OS 2.268 7 I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
    OS 2.272 6 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures...tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.
    OS 2.281 16 Every moment when the individual feels himself invaded by [the soul] is memorable.
    OS 2.283 19 Never a moment did that sublime spirit [Jesus] speak in [men' s] patois.
    OS 2.284 4 The moment the doctrine of the immortality [of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
    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 2.297 8 ...the universe is represented...in a moment of time.
    Cir 2.319 26 In nature every moment is new;...
    Cir 2.320 22 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge...
    Int 2.329 10 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we cease to report...it is not truth.
    Int 2.329 22 ...the moment [logic] would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
    Int 2.332 1 ...in a moment, and unannounced, the truth appears.
    Int 2.340 13 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.
    Art1 2.355 25 ...it is the right and property...of all native properties whatsoever, to be for their moment the top of the world.
    Art1 2.358 1 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
    Art1 2.364 21 ...there is a moment when [the art gallery] becomes frivolous.
    Pt1 3.22 2 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    Pt1 3.34 15 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Exp 3.52 8 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    Exp 3.58 6 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Exp 3.58 7 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Exp 3.60 5 To finish the moment...is wisdom.
    Exp 3.68 6 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
    Chr1 3.90 18 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.
    Chr1 3.95 22 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air...
    Chr1 3.113 9 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart.
    Chr1 3.113 10 The moment is all, in all noble relations.
    Mrs1 3.132 5 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment...
    Mrs1 3.150 7 ...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it excels in women.
    Nat2 3.196 21 Every moment instructs, and every object;...
    Pol1 3.218 8 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    Pol1 3.221 24 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.234 16 The eye must not lose sight for a moment of the purpose [of the artist].
    NR 3.236 9 ...[nature]...insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.
    NR 3.236 17 You are one thing, but Nature is one thing and the other thing, in the same moment.
    NR 3.237 14 ...once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
    NR 3.247 19 ...if we did not in any moment shift the platform on which we stand, and look and speak from another!...
    NER 3.261 8 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    NER 3.273 16 [Men] like flattery for the moment...
    UGM 4.32 7 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in whom, at the moment of success, a quality is ripe which is then in request.
    UGM 4.34 25 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
    PPh 4.46 22 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    PPh 4.47 2 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health...
    PPh 4.74 5 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him; but at this moment he cannot even tell what it is,--this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him.
    SwM 4.129 12 In fact, in the spiritual world we change sexes every moment.
    MoS 4.169 2 Montaigne...tastes every moment of the day;...
    MoS 4.178 23 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...
    NMW 4.233 3 ...Napoleon understood his business. Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next.
    NMW 4.233 22 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward...
    NMW 4.234 17 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.238 23 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
    NMW 4.243 21 In a moment of bitterness [Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    NMW 4.248 27 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops... feel inclined to run.
    NMW 4.249 9 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.
    NMW 4.249 12 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other; a moment of panic occurs, and that moment must be turned to advantage.
    NMW 4.249 15 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty...
    GoW 4.265 2 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine. Every thought which dawns on the mine, in the moment of its emergence announces its own rank...
    GoW 4.284 25 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand, but with peremptory heed that he should not be for a moment prejudiced by his instruments.
    ET1 5.17 12 [Carlyle] took despairing or satirical views of literature at this moment;...
    ET2 5.26 2 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment of more leisure...
    ET2 5.27 12 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment...
    ET6 5.106 16 I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a commercial crisis.
    ET6 5.106 26 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation, and they exert the same commanding industry at this moment.
    ET11 5.177 14 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons, who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with ermine.
    ET11 5.184 8 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...
    ET11 5.190 24 ...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.
    ET13 5.230 3 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied.
    ET14 5.251 15 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology...
    ET15 5.269 2 When I see [the English] reading [the London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more British.
    ET15 5.270 13 ...[the editors of the London Times] give a voice to the class who at the moment take the lead;...
    ET16 5.274 5 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
    F 6.5 11 The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf in the moment when he entered the world, rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    Pow 6.61 9 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.
    Pow 6.70 27 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...
    Pow 6.71 6 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition [from savagery to civility]...
    Pow 6.77 16 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.
    Wth 6.124 15 Hotspur lives for the moment...
    Bhr 6.179 5 ...[eyes]...go through and through you in a moment of time.
    Bhr 6.185 23 ...the movements of Blanche are the sallies of a spirit which is sufficient for the moment...
    Bhr 6.188 3 ...the thought of the present moment has a greater value than all the past.
    Wsp 6.207 20 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them...
    Wsp 6.213 3 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of his superlative effects.
    Wsp 6.218 12 The moment of your loss of faith...will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    Wsp 6.218 27 ...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.
    Wsp 6.233 12 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    CbW 6.252 19 ...in the passing moment the quadruped interest is very prone to prevail;...
    CbW 6.265 18 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
    Bty 6.287 26 ...every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
    Bty 6.292 10 Beauty is the moment of transition...
    Ill 6.315 14 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff.
    Ill 6.325 22 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
    SS 7.4 24 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    SS 7.9 2 ...the moment we meet with anybody, each becomes a fraction.
    Art2 7.38 1 ...every plant, in the moment of germination, struggles up to light.
    Art2 7.50 21 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    Art2 7.50 25 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber. The individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.
    Elo1 7.84 24 ...by making [the people] wise in that which he knows, [the orator] has the advantage of the assembly every moment.
    Elo1 7.95 10 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains. Besides, what is best is lost,--the fiery life of the moment.
    DL 7.124 11 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    DL 7.126 22 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment...
    Farm 7.144 27 Our senses...believe only the impression of the moment...
    WD 7.156 1 This passing moment is an edifice/ Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild/
    WD 7.177 25 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment;...
    WD 7.183 16 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment...
    WD 7.184 18 What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.
    WD 7.185 19 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which values one moment as another...
    Boks 7.206 19 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Clbs 7.231 25 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...
    Clbs 7.242 3 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Cour 7.257 9 The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone...
    Cour 7.257 18 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    Cour 7.258 11 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    Cour 7.262 14 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. From that moment I was as fearless and as forward as the oldest of the boat's crew.
    Cour 7.262 17 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. ... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
    Cour 7.272 27 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    Suc 7.288 25 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.
    OA 7.331 8 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
    OA 7.332 5 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch...but it reports a moment in the life of a heroic person...
    PI 8.15 14 ...the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
    PI 8.17 15 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
    PI 8.30 12 ...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
    PI 8.31 23 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to this moment...
    PI 8.33 11 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought,--exists at the moment for that alone...
    PI 8.33 27 If your subject do not appear to you the flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it.
    PI 8.71 25 ...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.
    SA 8.81 11 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber, eat at the same table, he is yet a thousand miles off, and can at any moment finish with you.
    SA 8.86 4 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection.
    SA 8.89 27 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    SA 8.91 2 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions, though they happen at this moment to thwart his wishes.
    SA 8.91 11 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    SA 8.98 24 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law;...
    SA 8.103 24 The young men in America at this moment take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.
    SA 8.104 22 The consolation and happy moment of life...is sentiment;...
    Elo2 8.113 13 ...recall the delight that sudden eloquence gives,--the surprise that the moment is so rich.
    Elo2 8.132 13 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Comc 8.162 24 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.
    Comc 8.169 15 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
    QO 8.175 3 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.
    QO 8.178 22 Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
    QO 8.193 4 ...the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed.
    QO 8.196 9 ...Cardinal de Retz, at a critical moment in the Parliament of Paris, described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...
    QO 8.204 5 We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
    Insp 8.276 25 ...says the man...the favorable hour will come...when that will be easy to do which is at this moment impossible.
    Insp 8.283 24 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.
    Grts 8.301 22 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all...which, in every sane moment, we resolve to make our own.
    Grts 8.310 17 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
    Imtl 8.323 16 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    Imtl 8.341 1 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to undertstand;...
    Dem1 10.6 25 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog]...should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization.
    Dem1 10.12 11 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    PerF 10.87 14 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    Chr2 10.118 14 ...in the new importance of the individual, when... presidents and governors are forced every moment to remember their constituencies;...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Edc1 10.132 26 ...the event of each moment, the shower, the steamboat disaster...are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    Edc1 10.150 1 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind. But the moment this is organized, difficulties begin.
    Supl 10.170 21 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence.
    SovE 10.189 3 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...in spite of malignity and blind self-interest living for the moment, an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    SovE 10.189 8 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to...work in the present moment,-the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    SovE 10.194 10 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and grandeur...
    SovE 10.199 6 Wise on all other, [many men] lose their head the moment they talk of religion.
    SovE 10.199 13 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    SovE 10.201 10 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... He interrupts for the moment your peaceful trust in the Divine Providence.
    SovE 10.211 8 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world; there are rulers that will at any moment make these forgotten.
    SovE 10.212 8 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power;...
    SovE 10.212 10 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power; but the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson...
    Prch 10.217 11 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition;...
    Prch 10.225 13 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment...to do the duty of that moment...
    Prch 10.225 15 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment...to do the duty of that moment...
    Prch 10.236 2 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
    Prch 10.237 7 Truth...insists on being of this age and of this moment.
    MoL 10.257 15 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives...
    Schr 10.266 12 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    LLNE 10.327 20 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
    LLNE 10.331 19 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the moment.
    LLNE 10.368 21 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure.
    CSC 10.374 25 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    MMEm 10.417 21 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.
    MMEm 10.427 18 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    SlHr 10.445 2 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it, and he never possessed it better, and he was equally ready at any moment to state the facts.
    Thor 10.459 5 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
    Thor 10.465 9 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    Thor 10.479 17 The tendency to magnify the moment...is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    GSt 10.504 22 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger outlasted for a moment the mischief done or threatened to the good cause...
    LS 11.18 7 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    LS 11.18 10 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may...add one moment to your life,-do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    LS 11.20 24 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable...
    HDC 11.75 4 The militia and minute-men-every one from that moment being his own commander-ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
    HDC 11.85 14 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    War 11.154 14 ...[war] is at this moment the delight of half the world...
    War 11.162 21 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    FSLC 11.197 18 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by their political action.
    FSLC 11.200 14 ...[Nemesis's] dismal way is to pillory the offender in the moment of his triumph.
    FSLC 11.200 16 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled.
    FSLC 11.201 4 [John Randolph's] words...come down now like the cry of Fate, in the moment when they are fulfilled.
    FSLC 11.201 10 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...
    FSLC 11.210 2 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work, and are every moment stronger.
    FSLN 11.233 2 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment...
    AsSu 11.247 19 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people live for the moment...
    AsSu 11.248 9 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    AKan 11.258 15 I esteem [governments] only good in the moment when they are established.
    JBB 11.270 4 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    JBB 11.271 9 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
    ACiv 11.298 13 At this moment in America the aspects of political society absorb attention.
    ACiv 11.303 2 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would...create on the moment the means and executors it wanted.
    ACiv 11.306 18 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it...
    EPro 11.318 12 Against all timorous counsels [Lincoln] had the courage to seize the moment;...
    EPro 11.321 3 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment, he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].
    ALin 11.333 24 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches, hidden now by the very closeness of their application to the moment, are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    SMC 11.354 6 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
    EdAd 11.392 6 Mankind for the moment seem to be in search of a religion.
    Wom 11.416 2 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects this is at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
    ChiE 11.473 14 China interests us at this moment in a point of politics.
    CPL 11.503 17 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    CPL 11.507 25 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
    FRep 11.515 24 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
    FRep 11.530 16 ...the great interests of mankind, being at every moment through ages in favor of justice and the largest liberty, will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
    FRep 11.532 9 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.
    FRep 11.532 11 Our people act on the moment...
    FRep 11.537 6 We want...men...who can live in the moment and take a step forward.
    PLT 12.21 14 The life of the All must stream through us to make the man and the moment great.
    PLT 12.25 3 The moment a man begins not to be convinced, that moment he begins to convince.
    PLT 12.25 4 The moment a man begins not to be convinced, that moment he begins to convince.
    PLT 12.37 24 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
    PLT 12.58 12 Present power...requires concentration on the moment...
    PLT 12.63 24 ...at last [the Intellect] will be justified, though for the moment it seem hostile to what is most reveres.
    PLT 12.64 10 [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...
    II 12.79 18 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
    Mem 12.91 17 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.91 21 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind...
    Mem 12.93 27 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
    Mem 12.100 9 ...men of great presence of mind...can think in this moment as well and deeply as in any past moment...
    Mem 12.100 10 ...men of great presence of mind...can think in this moment as well and deeply as in any past moment...
    Mem 12.109 12 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review. They remembered in a moment all that they ever did.
    CInt 12.131 25 ...it is the privilege of the moral sentiment to be every moment new and commanding...
    CL 12.156 21 Where is he who is to save the perfect moment...
    WSL 12.342 2 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
    Pray 12.355 27 Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance...brought under our eye nearly at the same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    Trag 12.413 8 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.

momentarily, adv. (1)

    NR 3.225 12 The man momentarily stands for the thought, but will not bear examination;...

momentary, adj. (29)

    Nat 1.73 12 These are examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the sceptre;...
    LE 1.165 7 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    MN 1.209 2 The ends are momentary;...
    MN 1.209 5 A man's wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary...
    SL 2.143 23 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.
    Int 2.334 11 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.
    Art1 2.355 2 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Pol1 3.209 22 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...
    NR 3.229 7 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers...
    NER 3.258 22 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of activity in physical science.
    NER 3.265 3 [One man]...in his natural and momentary associations, doubles or multiplies himself;...
    SwM 4.127 20 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
    SwM 4.128 6 ...of progressive souls, all loves and friendships are [to Swedenborg] momentary.
    MoS 4.168 16 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue.
    Wsp 6.209 16 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.
    SS 7.9 25 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life...making our warm covenants sentimental and momentary.
    Elo1 7.73 22 ...as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement, though it be decisive in its momentary effect, it is yet a juggle...
    Suc 7.289 14 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...
    QO 8.200 7 ...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was yesterday another's...
    Chr2 10.96 4 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim but...momentary rays of its light?
    SovE 10.194 18 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.
    LLNE 10.327 11 The association of the time is accidental and momentary and hypocritical...
    MMEm 10.419 1 Took a momentary revenge on--for worrying me [Mary Moody Emerson].
    HDC 11.56 17 The check [to Concord] was but momentary.
    ACiv 11.306 8 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.
    ChiE 11.471 19 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    PLT 12.27 21 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
    PLT 12.27 26 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    Milt1 12.247 13 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary challenge of universal attention to his claims.

momentis, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 23 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

moments, n. (69)

    Nat 1.50 7 The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers...
    DSA 1.141 13 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers, as...in the sincere moments of every man.
    MN 1.210 14 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
    Con 1.314 20 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Tran 1.353 5 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    Tran 1.354 7 ...we retain the belief...that the moments will characterize the days.
    Hist 2.6 24 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...for us...
    SR 2.67 13 [The rose's] nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike.
    SR 2.74 2 ...all persons have their moments of reason...
    SL 2.134 11 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
    SL 2.161 10 ...real action is in silent moments.
    SL 2.161 22 The object of the man, the aim of these moments, is to make daylight shine through him...
    Lov1 2.188 14 There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man...
    Prd1 2.235 10 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    OS 2.267 3 Our faith comes in moments;...
    OS 2.267 5 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    Cir 2.317 7 It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
    Cir 2.317 14 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence...
    Cir 2.322 1 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas...
    Int 2.328 27 We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven...
    Int 2.336 11 There is an inequality...between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Pt1 3.11 3 These stony moments are still sparkling and animated!
    Exp 3.60 13 Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
    Exp 3.75 6 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    NER 3.276 19 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery;...
    UGM 4.4 20 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men.
    UGM 4.10 6 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    SwM 4.138 3 No man can afford to waste his moments in compunctions.
    MoS 4.150 27 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
    ET1 5.22 15 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    Pow 6.54 24 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility...even in heroes in all but certain eminent moments;...
    Ctr 6.159 17 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished...
    Art2 7.50 21 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    WD 7.169 3 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life was then calendared by moments...
    WD 7.174 10 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.
    WD 7.178 17 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    WD 7.178 19 We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or grand moments, that signify.
    WD 7.178 21 Moments of insight...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
    Boks 7.201 11 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history, in which the important moments and persons can be rightly set down;...
    OA 7.318 2 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments.
    PI 8.36 15 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.73 1 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    Elo2 8.121 11 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    Insp 8.270 27 In happy moments [thought] is reinforced...
    Insp 8.277 8 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves...
    Insp 8.279 14 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us.
    PerF 10.79 6 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He...learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
    PerF 10.88 4 What we do and suffer is in moments...
    Chr2 10.95 7 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    MoL 10.253 1 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering. These are the moments that balance years.
    LLNE 10.344 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
    MMEm 10.420 21 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious. And, at moments, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am tired out.
    MMEm 10.422 1 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out some of the moments of eternity...
    Thor 10.477 6 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    EWI 11.135 26 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.
    EWI 11.146 2 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    EWI 11.147 8 There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven who doubted [emancipation].
    EWI 11.147 9 There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven who doubted [emancipation]. Those moments are past.
    War 11.152 20 War...brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
    FSLC 11.188 21 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...
    FSLC 11.189 8 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...that these moments counterbalance the years of drudgery...
    FSLC 11.189 14 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    FSLC 11.203 12 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    FSLN 11.224 8 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    TPar 11.288 11 It will not be...in the state-house, the proclamations of governors, with their failing virtue-failing them at critical moments-that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...
    EPro 11.315 16 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    II 12.74 14 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
    II 12.76 26 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge unaccountably into light.
    MLit 12.333 20 All that in our sovereign moments each of us has divined of the powers of thought...this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.

moment's, n. (4)

    Int 2.346 27 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below...
    Bty 6.279 10 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music which they gave./
    Suc 7.305 7 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
    FSLN 11.227 23 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses. But not a moment's pause was allowed.

momentum, n. (5)

    Tran 1.357 14 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    PPh 4.59 2 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet...
    PerF 10.79 8 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power, just as a falling body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall.
    PLT 12.23 5 How obvious is the momentum, in our mental history!
    PLT 12.23 6 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.

Momus, n. (2)

    Ill 6.313 14 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, Proteus, or Momus, or Gylfi's Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the Titans...
    Dem1 10.25 25 Mesmerism is...Momus playing Jove in the kitchens of Olympus.

Monachism, n. (1)

    SR 2.61 16 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony;...

monad, n. (2)

    Hist 2.13 11 Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.
    UGM 4.30 4 The microscope observes a monad or wheel-insect among the infusories circulating in water.

Monadnoc, Mount, New Hamps (5)

    Wth 6.122 20 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc.
    Elo2 8.109 7 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
    Insp 8.287 12 Do you want Monadnoc, Agiocochook...in your closet?
    HDC 11.39 5 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
    Bost 12.191 24 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions; Monadnoc was burned over to kill them.

Monadnoc [Ralph Waldo Emer (1)

    Imtl 8.322 7 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.

monads, n. (2)

    PI 8.4 19 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the monads, or primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    MLit 12.333 9 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...

monarch, n. (8)

    Mrs1 3.129 1 In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.
    UGM 4.23 18 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a monarch who gives a constitution to his people;...
    NMW 4.242 21 ...those who smarted under the immediate rigors of the new monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the military system which had driven out the oppressor.
    ET9 5.149 9 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    ET15 5.270 26 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch...
    Wth 6.112 3 As long as your genius buys, the investment is safe, though you spend like a monarch.
    Bty 6.285 15 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death. The monarch rejoined, Live, my child, and be wise.
    PC 8.217 17 [Culture] creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down...

monarchical, adj. (4)

    Pol1 3.207 20 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient.
    Pol1 3.207 25 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right.
    ET4 5.57 5 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta.
    Bhr 6.176 13 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of the Old World, has some reason in common experience.

monarchies, n. (1)

    Con 1.295 7 The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.

monarchs, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.143 20 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there. Monarchs and heroes, sages and lovers, these gallants are not.
    Aris 10.41 8 The multiplication of monarchs...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...

monarchy, n. (12)

    AmS 1.107 25 The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy...than any kingdom in history.
    DSA 1.130 21 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity...the friend of man is made the injurer of man.
    Pol1 3.207 24 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to judge of monarchy...
    Pol1 3.211 19 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic...
    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;...
    ET7 5.122 19 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot, so entirely was the pith and heart of monarchy eaten out.
    ET14 5.251 25 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created as an ornament and finish of their monarchy...
    ET15 5.261 6 In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.
    PI 8.23 23 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris, building a universal monarchy.
    PC 8.217 13 [Culture] raises a rival royalty in a monarchy.
    FSLN 11.231 2 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.
    ACri 12.304 4 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.

monasteries, n. (2)

    ET12 5.212 14 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    PLT 12.48 15 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice, for example, the failure of monasteries and Brook Farms.

monastery, n. (2)

    GoW 4.267 11 ...the Shaker has established his monastery and his dance;...
    Elo2 8.122 12 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.

monastic, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.188 15 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...monastic architectures...

Monday, adj. (2)

    ET15 5.265 7 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will; I shall publish The New Times next Monday morning.
    EWI 11.116 21 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.

Monday, n. (3)

    Prch 10.232 10 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
    LLNE 10.366 17 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    EWI 11.115 20 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.

monde, n. (2)

    ET13 5.231 5 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil, souffrir de tout le monde, et ne faire souffrir personne, that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    Ctr 6.153 21 ...Jupiter livre le monde/ Aux mirmidons, aux mirmidons./

Mondes, Deux, Revue des, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 26 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes;...

money, adj. (8)

    Prd1 2.235 10 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    NMW 4.224 2 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks...and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 5 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
    ET5 5.88 13 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home? The questions of freedom, of taxation, of privilege, are money questions.
    Bty 6.283 24 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...
    Elo1 7.79 25 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    EWI 11.144 24 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.
    Bost 12.206 3 Moral values become also money values....

money, n. (184)

    AmS 1.107 13 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...
    AmS 1.107 14 Men...very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money...
    DSA 1.140 10 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money a hundred or a thousand miles...
    DSA 1.146 9 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you...
    LE 1.185 16 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    MN 1.215 17 You shall love rectitude...and not the disuse of money...
    MR 1.228 21 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... coined money.
    MR 1.234 12 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    MR 1.234 13 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    MR 1.238 9 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... money by thieves;...
    MR 1.238 26 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...money...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.252 9 The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
    MR 1.256 11 ...the merchant gladly takes money from his income to add to his capital...
    LT 1.276 15 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...not on a principle, but...on money...
    YA 1.383 25 Money is of no value;...
    YA 1.388 24 The opposition is against those who have money, from those who wish to have money.
    YA 1.388 25 The opposition is against those who have money, from those who wish to have money.
    YA 1.390 23 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power, and not to rely on our money...
    YA 1.390 24 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power, and not to rely on our money, and on the state because it is the guard of money.
    SR 2.63 17 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...pay for benefits not with money but with honor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Comp 2.112 21 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money?
    Comp 2.114 18 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen...
    SL 2.165 22 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world,-- palaces, gardens, money, navies, kingdoms...these all are his...
    Prd1 2.221 7 I have no skill to make money spend well...
    Prd1 2.231 18 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius; talent which converts itself to money;...
    Prd1 2.234 11 The laws of the world are written out for [a man] on every piece of money in his hand.
    Prd1 2.234 25 ...money, if kept by us, yields no rent and is liable to loss;...
    Hsm1 2.254 1 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    Hsm1 2.261 8 Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money.
    OS 2.279 8 In my dealing with my child...my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing;...
    Cir 2.316 10 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first... the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind...
    Cir 2.316 23 Does [a man] owe no debt but money?
    Chr1 3.98 26 The capitalist does not run every hour to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the realm;...
    Chr1 3.104 15 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money, the fortune I inherited...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    Mrs1 3.125 19 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is...
    Mrs1 3.142 9 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor;...
    Pol1 3.216 16 [The wise man] needs...no money, for he is value;...
    NR 3.231 17 Money...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    NER 3.252 9 One apostle thought all men should go to farming, and another that no man should buy or sell, that the use of money was the cardinal evil;...
    NER 3.256 7 Who gave me the money with which I bought my coat?
    NER 3.256 16 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    NER 3.277 25 ...we hold on to our little properties...office and money, for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    SwM 4.93 12 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money...
    SwM 4.125 26 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be abiding in cells where their money is deposited...
    MoS 4.153 23 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    ShP 4.204 25 The Shakspeare Society have...offered money for any information that will lead to proof,--and with what result?
    ShP 4.205 11 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was intrusted by his neighbors with their commissions in London, as of borrowing money, and the like;...
    ShP 4.206 4 We tell the chronicle of parentage...earning of money...
    NMW 4.225 4 Paris and London and New York, the spirit...of money and material power, were also to have their prophet;...
    NMW 4.228 26 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in money and in troops...
    NMW 4.233 15 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing,--money, troops, generals, and his own safety also, to his aim;...
    NMW 4.235 18 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops...
    NMW 4.242 26 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    ET1 5.20 6 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth];...
    ET2 5.30 15 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England.
    ET3 5.43 17 With [England's] fruits, and wares, and money, must its civil influence radiate.
    ET4 5.64 9 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall, as security for money which he borrowed.
    ET5 5.81 13 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion...
    ET5 5.97 6 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions. Their property, a scrip or certificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw.
    ET5 5.97 27 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
    ET7 5.122 23 [The English] love stoutness...in declining money or promotion that costs any concession.
    ET7 5.124 24 ...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.
    ET9 5.144 15 There is no freak so ridiculous but some Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.
    ET9 5.152 5 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money, embraced Arianism, collected a library...
    ET10 5.156 8 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    ET10 5.160 17 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    ET10 5.161 16 By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are changed.
    ET10 5.161 21 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under. Money makes place for them.
    ET10 5.169 23 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    ET10 5.170 24 A civility of trifles, of money and expense...takes place [in England]...
    ET11 5.193 6 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    ET11 5.196 7 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    ET13 5.223 17 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money in music and building...
    ET13 5.226 16 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money will do after its kind...
    ET15 5.269 22 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title...into any county jail in England, he having been convicted of obtaining money under false pretences.
    ET18 5.301 6 The foreign policy of England, though ambitious and lavish of money, has not often been generous or just.
    F 6.13 26 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots, until...their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.
    F 6.30 14 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
    F 6.40 14 All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury, power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.75 17 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.95 12 The world is his who has money to go over it.
    Wth 6.100 9 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so in making money.
    Wth 6.101 4 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    Wth 6.101 18 Money is representative...
    Wth 6.102 3 In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
    Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Wth 6.109 11 Money often costs too much...
    Wth 6.112 16 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Wth 6.114 11 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    Wth 6.117 4 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money...
    Wth 6.117 18 In England...I was assured...that liberality with money is as rare and as immediately famous a virtue as it is here.
    Wth 6.118 25 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it.
    Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Wth 6.124 12 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money.
    Wth 6.125 10 ...it is a maxim that money is another kind of blood...
    Wth 6.125 16 ...Best use of money is to pay debts;...
    Ctr 6.131 7 ...a skill to get money makes [a man] a miser, that is, a beggar.
    Ctr 6.165 24 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Trade with its money;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Wsp 6.223 20 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Wsp 6.231 11 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office, or fame, is almost equally low.
    CbW 6.253 19 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles...
    CbW 6.266 23 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    CbW 6.273 21 ...we lay up money;...
    CbW 6.275 11 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money.
    CbW 6.275 13 ...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.
    Civ 7.23 14 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.
    Elo1 7.81 3 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is penurious, to squander money for some purpose he now least thinks of...
    Elo1 7.96 5 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money, nor politeness...make any impression.
    DL 7.109 15 A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money...
    DL 7.109 16 A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money...
    DL 7.110 20 We must not make believe with our money...
    DL 7.114 27 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth.
    DL 7.115 2 To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off.
    DL 7.115 14 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no mean-spirited offer of condolence because you have not money...
    DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit...
    DL 7.115 19 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    DL 7.115 21 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    WD 7.163 9 ...we have money, and paper money;...
    WD 7.164 5 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
    WD 7.174 7 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    WD 7.181 25 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat...for money;...
    Boks 7.216 26 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel];...
    Clbs 7.227 18 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Cour 7.275 1 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal; not seeking to have land or money or conveniences...
    OA 7.326 17 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who...pay for him when he has no money...
    PI 8.70 18 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
    SA 8.84 11 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him, and that he has money.
    Elo2 8.116 7 ...[the people] have spent their money once or twice very freely.
    Insp 8.269 10 Our money is only a second best.
    Aris 10.34 15 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.37 15 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough...if their money or their family should be dispersed;...
    Aris 10.63 1 In America [the gentleman] shall find...the narrowest contraction of ethics to the one duty of paying money.
    Aris 10.63 4 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion and never look back to the fatal question,-where had you the money that you paid?
    PerF 10.77 23 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is not his land or his money or body's strength, but his thoughts...
    PerF 10.79 18 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work, which was not suited to the country. Why throw good money after bad?
    PerF 10.80 12 [The prisoner] had no money, he had no friends...
    PerF 10.80 19 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    Edc1 10.138 20 I like...boys...known to have no money in their pockets, and themselves not suspecting the value of this poverty;...
    SovE 10.209 27 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    MoL 10.246 20 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    MoL 10.247 16 The fears and agitations of men who watch...the plenty or scarcity of money...are not for [the scholar].
    MoL 10.254 1 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money.
    MoL 10.254 2 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Schr 10.271 17 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
    Schr 10.275 12 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    Schr 10.276 9 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea. Then it is paid for by hundreds of thousands of our money.
    Schr 10.280 1 What is the use of...birth, or breeding, or money to a maniac?
    Schr 10.280 5 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and money.
    Schr 10.281 24 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    LLNE 10.345 14 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door where he hoped to find hearing for his doctrine, which was, Never to give or receive money.
    LLNE 10.359 23 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money...
    SlHr 10.440 9 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use...
    SlHr 10.440 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.
    Thor 10.453 3 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
    Carl 10.491 21 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    GSt 10.502 6 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...
    GSt 10.502 26 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients, and to furnish them money and arms in advance of the subscriptions which he obtained.
    GSt 10.503 3 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
    HDC 11.31 24 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants, 70 pounds, in money;...
    EWI 11.108 1 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave;...
    EWI 11.118 6 We sometimes say...give [the planter] money, give him a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    EWI 11.118 7 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    FSLC 11.185 10 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.196 12 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich. Vanity can buy some, ambition others, and money others.
    FSLC 11.201 1 The words of John Randolph...have been ringing onimously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. ... Ay, we will drive you to the wall, and when we have you there once more, we will keep you there and nail you down like base money.
    FSLN 11.227 14 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be...a piece of money?
    FSLN 11.230 15 We [in Massachusetts] have more money and value of every kind than other people...
    SMC 11.373 20 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money...
    ChiE 11.474 8 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art...
    FRep 11.516 5 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    FRep 11.523 26 [The people] must have money...
    PLT 12.57 7 We like faculty that can rapidly be coined into money...
    II 12.72 25 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
    II 12.73 1 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.73 2 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.
    II 12.73 4 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.
    II 12.85 15 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands...
    Mem 12.96 25 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest;...one by trifling external marks, as dress or money.
    ACri 12.288 6 I envy the boys the force of the double negative (no shoes, no money, no nothing)...
    AgMs 12.359 9 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.
    AgMs 12.359 9 [Edmund Hosmer] borrowed the money with which he bought his farm...
    AgMs 12.362 19 ...a farm will not make an honest man rich in money.
    EurB 12.374 6 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.

Money, n. (1)

    ET10 5.168 18 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...

money-catcher, n. (1)

    MR 1.229 26 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.

moneyed, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.282 10 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation...
    ET13 5.226 14 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...

money-getting, adj. (1)

    Let 12.402 3 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

moneyless, adj. (1)

    MR 1.244 16 ...we are first thoughtless, and then find that we are moneyless.

money-loving, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.141 8 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving;...

moneys, n. (1)

    Cir 2.316 17 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

money's, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.215 19 Everywhere [men] think they get their money's worth, except for [taxes].
    DL 7.114 27 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth.

Monge, Gaspard, n. (1)

    NMW 4.250 24 [Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation of men of science, particularly of Monge and Berthollet;...

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