More (continued) to More's

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

    ET6 5.110 24 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they...never wish to hear of alteration more.
    ET7 5.118 23 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
    ET7 5.125 2 ...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. He let it lie there six months...and he said, Now let me never be bothered more with this proven lie.
    ET8 5.128 9 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are much more prone to melancholy.
    ET8 5.129 5 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET8 5.131 17 ...Nelson said of his sailors, They really mind shot no more than peas.
    ET8 5.136 9 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours.
    ET8 5.136 17 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical grounds.
    ET8 5.137 1 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own.
    ET8 5.140 6 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them...
    ET9 5.150 22 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality and in the more important ones of freedom, virtue and science.
    ET9 5.151 9 ...[the English] are more just than kind;...
    ET10 5.156 24 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET10 5.157 23 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.161 9 ...another machine more potent in England than steam is the Bank.
    ET11 5.176 23 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which, whether more or less true in its particulars, carries a general truth.
    ET11 5.182 6 In the country, the size of private [English] estates is more impressive.
    ET11 5.185 12 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated, others more subtle make a part of unconscious history.
    ET11 5.196 14 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart. This is more manifest every day...
    ET12 5.200 16 Still more descriptive is the fact that out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    ET12 5.210 19 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...
    ET13 5.220 1 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
    ET13 5.222 26 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    ET13 5.226 1 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail, any more than the supply of fibrine and chyle;...
    ET13 5.227 14 The modes of initiation [in the English Church] are more damaging than custom-house oaths.
    ET13 5.229 15 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.
    ET13 5.230 19 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more convenient, but really the same thing.
    ET14 5.236 20 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone.
    ET14 5.237 5 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    ET14 5.238 1 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin... by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET14 5.240 8 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    ET14 5.242 22 I cite these generalizations, some of which are more recent, merely to indicate a class.
    ET14 5.243 6 Such richness of genius had not existed more than once before [the Elizabethan age].
    ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.248 20 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
    ET14 5.251 3 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...
    ET14 5.252 13 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    ET14 5.257 10 One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more liquid and musical.
    ET15 5.261 5 In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.
    ET15 5.261 13 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance, so as to make the public a more terrible spy than any foreigner;...
    ET15 5.263 9 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper. No power in England is more felt, more feared, or more obeyed.
    ET15 5.267 5 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe, and...none is more conscious of it than its conductors.
    ET15 5.268 12 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.
    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 5.272 21 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being...the defender of the exile and patriot against despots, would be more effectually discharged;...
    ET16 5.276 16 On the top of a mountain, the old temple [Stonehenge] would not be more impressive.
    ET16 5.280 20 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-cart...in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    ET16 5.285 2 I had not seen more charming grounds [than at Wilton Hall].
    ET16 5.285 18 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry...
    ET16 5.286 2 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is...
    ET17 5.296 22 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than any anecdote I knew.
    ET18 5.303 26 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
    ET18 5.305 3 [The English] are oppressive with their temperament, and all the more that they are refined.
    ET18 5.306 15 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still more in the submissive ideas pervading these people.
    ET18 5.307 14 The American system is more democratic [than the English]...
    ET18 5.307 15 The American system is more democratic [than the English], more humane;...
    ET18 5.307 16 ...the American people do not yield better or more able men...than the English.
    ET19 5.309 10 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    ET19 5.310 22 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    ET19 5.310 24 I am...here...to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...
    F 6.15 27 ...when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.
    F 6.20 23 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him; the more he spurned it the stiffer it drew.
    F 6.23 10 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves...
    F 6.26 24 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence...we forget very fast what he says, much more interested in the new play of our own thought than in any thought of his.
    F 6.28 9 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.
    F 6.34 1 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more reluctant...
    F 6.44 15 Certain ideas are in the air. We are...all impressionable, but some more than others...
    F 6.45 20 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    Pow 6.53 2 There is not yet any inventory of a man's faculties, any more than a bible of his opinions.
    Pow 6.57 27 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.64 11 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water.
    Pow 6.64 21 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Pow 6.81 10 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Pow 6.81 19 ...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and hindrances, so that when we go to the mill, the machine is more moral than we.
    Pow 6.81 22 The world-mill is more complex than the calico-mill, and the architect stooped less.
    Pow 6.82 5 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...
    Pow 6.82 10 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.
    Wth 6.91 26 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning;...
    Wth 6.93 21 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it.
    Wth 6.102 11 ...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to metaphysical changes.
    Wth 6.103 26 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state is more worth, in the hour of his action.
    Wth 6.105 1 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity.
    Wth 6.106 7 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    Ctr 6.143 19 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Ctr 6.150 5 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a more searching culture.
    Ctr 6.151 11 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...to appear a little more capricious than he was.
    Ctr 6.151 22 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
    Ctr 6.157 3 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions.
    Ctr 6.157 9 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities, that more catholic and humane relations may appear.
    Ctr 6.157 13 ...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his public than in his private quality.
    Ctr 6.161 10 ...much more a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Ctr 6.162 11 When the state is unquiet, personal qualities are more than ever decisive.
    Ctr 6.163 22 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Ctr 6.165 11 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Ctr 6.166 6 The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized.
    Ctr 6.166 11 [Man] is to convert...all enemies into power. The formidable mischief will only make the more useful slave.
    Bhr 6.170 15 The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom.
    Bhr 6.177 4 If [the human body] were made of glass...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    Bhr 6.185 18 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...
    Bhr 6.186 7 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second is still more effective...
    Bhr 6.187 13 ...nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Bhr 6.188 8 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
    Bhr 6.191 24 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to... treat this part of life more worthily.
    Bhr 6.193 6 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly...
    Wsp 6.199 16 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
    Wsp 6.203 4 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined, it would be less formal...
    Wsp 6.214 17 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms;...the wilder it is, the more virtuous.
    Wsp 6.216 25 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own,--a finer conscience, more impressionable...
    CbW 6.250 23 The more difficulty there is in creating good men, the more they are used when they come.
    CbW 6.262 7 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    CbW 6.263 26 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying. I said he seemed to me to need quite other company, and all the more that he had this;...
    CbW 6.264 3 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest, and sometimes much more frivolous.
    CbW 6.264 7 [Health] is more essential than talent...
    CbW 6.264 24 ...so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
    CbW 6.272 9 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    Bty 6.282 25 The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes...
    Bty 6.283 13 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
    Bty 6.285 22 ...the clergy are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
    Bty 6.290 4 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that...each is a sign of some better health or more excellent action.
    Bty 6.292 17 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
    Bty 6.294 18 ...our art saves material by more skilful arrangement...
    Bty 6.301 23 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
    Bty 6.305 12 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted...
    Ill 6.310 15 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads...
    Ill 6.312 13 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
    Ill 6.318 8 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    Ill 6.318 11 Is not our faith in the impenetrability of matter more sedative than narcotics?
    SS 7.14 13 It would be more true to say [people in conversation] separate as oil from water...
    Civ 7.23 13 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.
    Civ 7.28 17 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Civ 7.34 20 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
    Art2 7.38 5 The more profound the thought, the more burdensome.
    Art2 7.38 6 The more profound the thought, the more burdensome.
    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.
    Art2 7.46 16 In poetry, It is tradition more than invention that helps the poet to a good fable.
    Art2 7.48 19 The artist who is to produce a work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself...
    Art2 7.51 1 The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. And every work of art is a more or less pure manifestation of the same.
    Art2 7.51 22 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
    Elo1 7.61 17 ...because every man is an orator...an assembly of men is so much more susceptible.
    Elo1 7.66 14 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
    Elo1 7.70 26 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.71 1 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Elo1 7.71 2 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Elo1 7.72 12 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other; but, both sitting, Ulysses was more majestic.
    Elo1 7.74 16 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Elo1 7.86 12 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.
    DL 7.103 12 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his little arms more irresistible than the soldier's...
    DL 7.103 16 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child...soften all hearts to pity...
    DL 7.103 21 [The child's] ignorance is more charming than all knowledge...
    DL 7.103 23 ...[the child's] little sins [are] more bewitching than any virtue.
    DL 7.107 8 The events that occur [in the home] are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies.
    DL 7.113 5 ...is there any calamity more grave...than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    DL 7.113 5 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    DL 7.116 20 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
    DL 7.124 3 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes...the chief fact in their history. In woman, it is love and marriage (which is more reasonable);...
    DL 7.131 25 A collection of this kind [a library and museum]...would dignify the town, and we should love and respect our neighbors more.
    DL 7.132 2 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the more considerable the institution had become.
    Farm 7.150 9 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story more valuable... than all the superstructure.
    Farm 7.150 27 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...
    WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    WD 7.165 22 Politics were never more corrupt and brutal;...
    WD 7.168 2 Czar Alexander was more expansive [than Bonaparte], and wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
    WD 7.176 23 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned...
    WD 7.177 2 Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you, for one more ambitious.
    WD 7.177 6 That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required.
    WD 7.177 17 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face. He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap.
    WD 7.182 16 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
    Boks 7.193 19 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic...
    Boks 7.202 1 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece; the Life and Letters of Niebuhr, even more than his Lectures, furnish leading views;...
    Boks 7.203 19 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...
    Boks 7.212 3 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age...
    Boks 7.215 11 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Clbs 7.227 8 The understanding can no more empty itself by its own action than can a deal box.
    Clbs 7.227 19 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Clbs 7.229 3 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...people became...more intimate in a day than if they had been neighbors for years.
    Clbs 7.229 9 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;...
    Clbs 7.229 14 [The student] seeks intelligent persons, whether more wise or less wise than he, who will give him provocation...
    Clbs 7.230 17 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
    Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Clbs 7.242 14 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more opportunity, or more adapted.
    Clbs 7.246 6 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
    Clbs 7.248 13 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    Cour 7.254 14 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether, more loftily, a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Cour 7.265 8 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility...suffer in the fear of the pang more acutely than in the pang.
    Cour 7.265 9 ...the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    Cour 7.265 11 ...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than the victims.
    Cour 7.267 10 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Cour 7.267 11 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Cour 7.267 13 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...
    Cour 7.267 14 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...
    Cour 7.269 15 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
    Cour 7.271 25 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader, become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
    Cour 7.279 10 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    Suc 7.286 24 We respect ourselves more if we have succeeded.
    Suc 7.288 12 ...the public values the invention more than the inventor does.
    Suc 7.292 4 ...nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own.
    Suc 7.299 8 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that every spring was more beautiful to him than the last.
    Suc 7.301 15 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    Suc 7.301 22 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    Suc 7.302 27 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love; yet in that kind of learning I lay claim to being more skilled than any one man of the past or present time.
    Suc 7.306 9 ...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.
    OA 7.313 1 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    OA 7.318 22 ...looking at age under an aspect more conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    OA 7.334 15 [George Whitefield's] voice and manner helped him more than his sermons.
    OA 7.334 22 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but a greater esteem, as he became more known.
    PI 8.1 9 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
    PI 8.4 24 It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle;...
    PI 8.13 26 There is no more welcome gift to men than a new symbol.
    PI 8.17 17 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.20 23 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
    PI 8.27 17 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    PI 8.27 23 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.27 24 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.28 2 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
    PI 8.30 7 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility...
    PI 8.31 9 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show, or sails more than riding.
    PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    PI 8.53 7 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    PI 8.56 3 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day, any more than a right Gothic cathedral.
    PI 8.56 22 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his...
    PI 8.57 8 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    PI 8.57 9 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    PI 8.59 22 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf, and their weapons so blunt that they could no more cut than a willow-twig.
    PI 8.60 11 There is in every poem a height which attracts more than other parts...
    PI 8.61 18 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you will never see me more...
    PI 8.62 9 ...said Merlin...I have been fool enough to love another more than myself...
    PI 8.63 4 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    SA 8.79 13 ...grace is more beautiful than beauty.
    SA 8.89 5 We want...a more inward existence to read the history of each other.
    SA 8.96 14 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence.
    SA 8.107 17 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here, and, we hope, in the next generation will still more abound.
    Elo2 8.116 16 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent;...
    Elo2 8.117 10 No act indicates more universal health than eloquence.
    Elo2 8.129 12 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    Res 8.140 10 The marked events in history, as the emigration of a colony to a new and more delightful coast; the building of a large ship;...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.140 14 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.151 6 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    Res 8.153 9 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals...
    Res 8.154 1 ...man is more miserably fed and conditioned there [in the tropics] than in the cold and stingy zones.
    Comc 8.165 3 ...the more overgrown the particular form is, the more ridiculous to the intellect.
    Comc 8.165 4 ...the more overgrown the particular form is, the more ridiculous to the intellect.
    QO 8.178 8 We expect a great man to be a good reader; or in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power. And though such are a more difficult and exacting class, they are not less eager.
    QO 8.184 11 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more strictly...
    QO 8.188 4 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    QO 8.189 16 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    QO 8.190 7 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends.
    QO 8.191 1 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.191 14 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.
    QO 8.191 22 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    QO 8.193 1 It is no more according to Plato than according to me.
    QO 8.199 24 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
    QO 8.201 3 Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
    QO 8.201 4 Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
    PC 8.214 4 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    PC 8.215 3 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    PC 8.222 20 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PC 8.222 25 [Newton's] law was only a particular of the more universal law of centrality.
    PC 8.224 1 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
    PC 8.231 15 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PPo 8.239 9 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos (more Oriental in every sense)...
    PPo 8.251 7 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees?
    PPo 8.252 7 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    PPo 8.254 1 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    PPo 8.254 18 Oft have I said, I say it once more,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    Insp 8.268 8 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.277 25 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Insp 8.278 24 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan.
    Insp 8.280 15 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more.
    Insp 8.282 20 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...
    Insp 8.283 17 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Insp 8.288 7 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.
    Insp 8.288 13 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home. I thus secured a more absolute seclusion;...
    Insp 8.289 1 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem. I have more womanly eyes.
    Insp 8.294 3 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Insp 8.295 21 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Insp 8.296 17 The day is good in which we have had the most perceptions. The analysis is the more difficult, because poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...
    Grts 8.307 3 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him...
    Grts 8.307 4 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society.
    Grts 8.312 11 ...the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.
    Grts 8.313 19 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Grts 8.314 27 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
    Grts 8.316 11 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Grts 8.318 1 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Grts 8.318 12 ...there are always men who have a more catholic genius...
    Imtl 8.323 19 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, and we behold it no more.
    Imtl 8.324 16 The credence of men, more than race or climate, makes their manners and customs;...
    Imtl 8.324 23 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips, or of an easier and more plentiful life after death.
    Imtl 8.326 17 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.327 23 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    Imtl 8.341 10 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has learned is that there is much more to be learned. The wiser he is, he feels only the more his incompetence.
    Dem1 10.12 10 ...I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour.
    Dem1 10.15 12 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
    Dem1 10.19 9 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked, or do more strangely turn to their account.
    Dem1 10.22 13 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    Dem1 10.26 11 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
    Aris 10.54 5 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Aris 10.56 22 The nearer my friend, the more spacious is our realm...
    Aris 10.60 2 We...see that if the ignorant are around us, the great are much more near;...
    PerF 10.72 10 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements, the sources of them, and much more rapid and strong;...
    Chr2 10.100 5 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Chr2 10.110 21 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...
    Chr2 10.116 19 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    Chr2 10.117 1 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions], as Calvinism has a more tenacious vitality;...
    Chr2 10.119 1 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...
    Chr2 10.119 6 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...and never wishes to be assisted more.
    Edc1 10.127 5 Certain nations...usually in more temperate climates, have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Edc1 10.139 7 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    Edc1 10.141 5 ...from [friendship's] revelations we come more worthily into nature.
    Edc1 10.142 24 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
    Edc1 10.142 25 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
    Edc1 10.149 19 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend...
    Edc1 10.150 9 [Young men] are more sensual than intellectual.
    Edc1 10.152 16 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
    Edc1 10.155 2 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    Edc1 10.157 13 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power].
    Supl 10.166 2 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.
    Supl 10.166 21 The more I am engaged with [the real world], the more it suffices.
    Supl 10.166 22 The more I am engaged with [the real world], the more it suffices.
    Supl 10.168 10 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    SovE 10.187 7 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.
    SovE 10.188 18 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers, destroying what is more destructive than they...
    SovE 10.189 17 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
    SovE 10.192 8 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery...but oftener when the mind is more mature;...
    SovE 10.192 10 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art.
    SovE 10.196 3 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did? Who was more pained than Luther or Paul?
    SovE 10.196 9 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident, though our leg be broken. No more is the law of justice by our departure from it.
    SovE 10.204 25 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    SovE 10.205 1 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded...and never more evident than in our American church.
    SovE 10.205 6 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance unprecedented.
    SovE 10.205 22 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs, or, more truly, have not yet their own legitimate force.
    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...
    Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
    Prch 10.225 21 ...there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.
    Prch 10.227 21 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I agree with them more than I disagree.
    Prch 10.229 13 Nothing is more rare, in any man, than an act of his own.
    Prch 10.233 11 The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
    Prch 10.236 23 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to...put us in possession of ourselves once more...
    Schr 10.261 16 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like. We are used to these surprises. This is but one operation of a more general law.
    Schr 10.263 9 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
    Schr 10.264 17 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Schr 10.267 20 The action of these [busy] men I cannot respect, for they do not respect it themselves. They were better and more respectable abed and asleep.
    Schr 10.277 27 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.278 2 I think there is no more intellectual people than ours.
    Schr 10.283 13 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age. More or less clouded it yet resides the same in all...
    Schr 10.283 16 ...[Mother-wit's] grand Ay and its grand No are more musical than all eloquence.
    Plu 10.294 14 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    Plu 10.295 11 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    Plu 10.300 20 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
    Plu 10.302 13 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians.
    Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly, the benign Providence...
    Plu 10.308 12 Of philosophy [Plutarch] is more interested in the results than in the method.
    Plu 10.311 26 Seneca was still more a man of the world than Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.313 3 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    Plu 10.314 7 [Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately into a better and more divine state.
    Plu 10.314 11 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    Plu 10.316 2 [Plutarch] thought, with Epicurus, that it is more delightful to do than to receive a kindness.
    LLNE 10.328 17 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    LLNE 10.335 2 ...[works of talent] are more or less matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them...
    LLNE 10.337 22 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation. What could be more revolting to the contemplative philosopher!
    LLNE 10.343 22 ...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 10.351 14 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more.
    LLNE 10.356 16 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing in them than any of his company...
    LLNE 10.359 1 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships. Why not have a larger one, and with more various members?
    LLNE 10.360 3 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.363 25 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm], and more or less directly interested in the leaders and the success.
    CSC 10.376 7 These men and women [at the Chardon Street Convention] were in search of something better and more satisfying than a vote or a definition...
    EzRy 10.385 6 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
    EzRy 10.395 1 By education, and still more by temperament, [Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.
    MMEm 10.403 18 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so fertile, and only used to strike, that she never used it for display, any more than a wasp would parade his sting.
    MMEm 10.407 9 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
    MMEm 10.412 10 The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.
    MMEm 10.412 14 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author, feels that it is related to him more than by any ties of Creation,-it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.412 18 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable lustre...then, however awed, who can fear?
    MMEm 10.413 16 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station;...
    MMEm 10.415 18 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause (any more than if it had been dead eternal matter) to that Cause;...
    MMEm 10.416 25 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.423 2 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!
    MMEm 10.424 16 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored...by the prophecy of others, more dreary, blind and sickly.
    MMEm 10.426 6 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply;...
    MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply; to lose external objects a little more!
    MMEm 10.427 24 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
    MMEm 10.430 24 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence, more than the blood of many a martyr who has it not.
    SlHr 10.446 10 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    SlHr 10.446 18 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
    Thor 10.452 18 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he had a perfect probity...
    Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
    Thor 10.453 1 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.
    Thor 10.455 15 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious.
    Thor 10.455 22 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses, as cheaper, and more agreeable to him...
    Thor 10.458 3 [Thoreau] was more unlike his neighbors in his thought than in his action.
    Thor 10.461 17 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    Thor 10.465 24 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    Thor 10.467 15 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used, more important to him than microscope or alcohol-receiver to other investigators, was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...
    Thor 10.468 13 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
    Thor 10.472 21 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed; none in a more large and religious synthesis.
    Thor 10.476 2 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets of his mind.
    Thor 10.478 19 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    Thor 10.481 19 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy.
    Carl 10.489 3 Thomas Carlyle is...as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing,-I think even more so.
    GSt 10.501 22 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics, then growing more anxious year by year, engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.502 8 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
    LS 11.3 4 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.4 3 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature.
    LS 11.8 8 ...men more easily transmit a form than a virtue...
    LS 11.10 17 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.11 19 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.
    LS 11.12 23 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately remembered by them;...
    LS 11.16 12 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    LS 11.18 14 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? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
    LS 11.19 26 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.
    LS 11.19 27 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.
    HDC 11.36 19 [The Indians'] physical powers...before yet the English alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English sword, astonished the white men.
    HDC 11.39 10 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg, and some in time of frost and snow, yet they were more healthy than now they are.
    HDC 11.39 16 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that New England may boast of the element of fire, more than all the rest; for all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.45 2 ...[the settlers of Concord]...very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them. Meantime, to this paramount necessity, a milder and more pleasing influence was joined.
    HDC 11.45 22 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much more their love than his chartered authority.
    HDC 11.55 3 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year...
    HDC 11.58 24 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    HDC 11.62 6 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken. They never more disturbed the interior settlements...
    HDC 11.62 12 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure place...
    HDC 11.86 6 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. But even more sacred influences than these have mingled here with the stream of human life.
    LVB 11.93 12 ...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?
    EWI 11.101 14 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...and would not exchange them for the more intelligent but precarious hired service of whites, I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.105 2 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes...of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
    EWI 11.105 5 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up...
    EWI 11.115 1 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 11.140 26 ...a more enlightened and humane opinion [of the negro] began to prevail.
    EWI 11.141 24 It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization.
    EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago, more than for bad dreams?
    EWI 11.145 11 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
    EWI 11.145 19 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens, but which belongs to more abstract views than we are now taking...
    EWI 11.147 21 The sentiment of Right...ever more articulate...pronounces Freedom.
    War 11.152 12 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    War 11.153 19 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.
    War 11.153 27 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    War 11.159 4 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
    War 11.167 16 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
    War 11.175 1 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.180 4 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable...
    FSLC 11.183 3 The fact comes out more plainly that you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
    FSLC 11.184 22 Nothing proves...the absence of standard in men's minds, more than the dominion of party.
    FSLC 11.197 6 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design. Philadelphia, more fortunate, had no conscience at all...
    FSLC 11.200 27 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously 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 11.218 2 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    FSLN 11.220 10 I saw plainly that the great show their legitimate power in nothing more than in their power to misguide us.
    FSLN 11.221 25 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech...
    FSLN 11.224 18 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
    FSLN 11.229 25 ...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice, and, with every degree of civility, it will be more truly felt and defined.
    FSLN 11.233 1 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    AsSu 11.248 18 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    AsSu 11.248 25 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.
    AKan 11.259 7 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...
    AKan 11.259 8 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime, and ever more plainly...
    JBS 11.281 4 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.
    JBS 11.281 8 Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy [with John Brown]...
    TPar 11.284 6 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least;/...
    TPar 11.287 16 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous logic, rejected them.
    ACiv 11.296 2 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!/
    ACiv 11.302 10 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will...more than make good any petty and injurious profit which it may disturb.
    ACiv 11.303 4 Better the war should more dangerously threaten us...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    ACiv 11.306 15 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    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...
    ACiv 11.310 18 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...
    EPro 11.318 7 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...
    EPro 11.318 23 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    EPro 11.320 7 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America; they will no more fight against us...
    EPro 11.325 2 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
    EPro 11.326 17 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
    ALin 11.328 11 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
    ALin 11.336 27 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
    HCom 11.343 10 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
    SMC 11.348 4 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ In household faces waiting at the door/ Their evening step should lighten up no more?/
    SMC 11.348 12 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./
    SMC 11.364 23 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness, and suffered the more from this heat.
    EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
    EdAd 11.388 4 We are more solicitous than others to make our politics clear and healthful...
    EdAd 11.392 12 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    EdAd 11.393 21 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth...
    Koss 11.396 2 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Koss 11.398 18 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    Wom 11.405 7 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman. And none is more seriously interesting to every healthful and thoughtful mind.
    Wom 11.405 13 [Women] are more delicate than men...
    Wom 11.405 14 [Women] are more delicate than men...and thus more impressionable.
    Wom 11.405 24 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.
    Wom 11.409 25 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...
    Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...much more true is it of woman.
    Wom 11.412 9 More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal than men, [women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    Wom 11.412 10 More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal than men, [women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    Wom 11.415 14 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes. It is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers...
    Wom 11.418 13 [Women] are more personal.
    SHC 11.432 6 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us, anxious, overdriven Americans...
    SHC 11.432 23 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead;...
    RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    RBur 11.440 24 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    Shak1 11.448 27 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.
    Scot 11.465 10 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances...
    ChiE 11.471 13 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph. It is the more welcome for the surprise.
    FRO2 11.485 9 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks, instead of the more extensive statement which I had hoped to offer them.
    FRO2 11.485 13 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.
    FRO2 11.485 14 I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the tendency of society...
    FRO2 11.489 20 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds.
    CPL 11.495 8 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...
    CPL 11.500 13 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country...
    CPL 11.500 19 No man would have rejoiced more than [Thoreau] in the event of this day [the opening of the Concord Library].
    CPL 11.501 4 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so and all the more, that they are not intended for consolation.
    FRep 11.509 2 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    FRep 11.512 14 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster, the more exquisite the better.
    FRep 11.515 24 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
    FRep 11.516 18 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us, and more the question of Religion.
    FRep 11.516 22 The mind is always better the more it is used...
    FRep 11.517 3 The wilder the paradox, the more sure is Punch to put it in the pillory.
    FRep 11.517 9 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
    FRep 11.523 14 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from their own counting-room...
    FRep 11.537 20 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's...
    FRep 11.541 8 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful for the interests of women...
    FRep 11.542 17 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
    FRep 11.542 18 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
    FRep 11.544 11 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
    PLT 12.16 2 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.25 20 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius; but the thought is prematurely checked, and grows no more.
    PLT 12.38 22 ...the perception [of spiritual facts] thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them, so that it becomes more indisputable.
    PLT 12.43 15 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
    PLT 12.48 4 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the economy of the Cosmos, and the more armed and biassed for the work the better.
    PLT 12.53 26 The more the peculiarities are pressed, the better the result.
    II 12.70 18 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of interesting us once more...
    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 12.74 22 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
    II 12.76 5 ...our famous orchardist once more: Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    II 12.82 1 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    II 12.86 26 There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible, virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
    II 12.88 4 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.
    Mem 12.92 20 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then you suffer no more...
    Mem 12.98 7 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees;...
    Mem 12.101 8 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
    Mem 12.102 4 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures...to which every step in the march of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
    Mem 12.103 1 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    Mem 12.104 19 Of the most romantic fact the memory is more romantic;...
    CInt 12.114 19 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CInt 12.117 23 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe...than mine;...
    CInt 12.119 10 I value talent,-perhaps no man more.
    CInt 12.119 26 ...I value [talent] more when it is legitimate...
    CInt 12.122 7 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    CL 12.143 5 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
    CL 12.144 3 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire...
    CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees, which bear more numerous branches on their southern side; (2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...
    CL 12.151 25 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    CL 12.158 17 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...returns more delicate impressions.
    CL 12.159 26 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...
    CL 12.161 22 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.
    CW 12.173 7 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than Babylonian robes...
    CW 12.173 13 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    CW 12.178 5 No lesson of chemistry is more impressive to me than this chemical fact that Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the atmosphere.
    Bost 12.186 25 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
    Bost 12.190 6 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
    Bost 12.190 7 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
    Bost 12.192 17 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    Bost 12.194 18 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    Bost 12.205 25 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    Bost 12.210 24 ...in Boston, Nature is more indulgent, and has given good sons to good sires...
    MAng1 12.215 23 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life...
    MAng1 12.218 3 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    MAng1 12.218 21 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    MAng1 12.218 24 ...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    MAng1 12.221 10 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.
    MAng1 12.233 22 As from the fire, heat cannot be divided, no more can beauty from the eternal.
    MAng1 12.239 3 It has been supposed that artists more than others are liable to this defect [lack of appreciation of the talents of others].
    Milt1 12.252 3 ...[Milton]...occupies a more imposing place in the mind of men at this hour than ever before.
    Milt1 12.252 14 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.252 19 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
    Milt1 12.256 16 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
    Milt1 12.259 21 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton], none upon whom its influences could have fallen more congenially.
    Milt1 12.276 24 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    Milt1 12.277 24 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions, and sometimes the muse soars highest in the former, because the thought is more sincere.
    Milt1 12.278 21 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.
    ACri 12.294 26 We cannot find that anything in [Shakespeare's] age was more worth expression than anything in ours;...
    ACri 12.297 6 In Carlyle as in Byron one is more struck with the rhetoric than with the matter.
    MLit 12.311 26 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.313 25 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality.
    MLit 12.315 6 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are...
    MLit 12.315 7 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are...
    MLit 12.315 19 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river, or a coal-mine,- nay, they are far more Nature,-but its essence and soul.
    MLit 12.318 9 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been known in recent ages.
    MLit 12.318 16 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    MLit 12.319 11 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.320 16 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been not his own but that of the idea which he shared with his coevals...
    MLit 12.321 12 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    MLit 12.323 19 There was never man more domesticated in this world than [Goethe].
    WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    WSL 12.344 4 [Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality...
    WSL 12.346 11 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
    Pray 12.350 20 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive volumes which usurp that name.
    Pray 12.353 6 If I may not search out and pierce thy thought, so much the more may my living praise thee [My Father].
    EurB 12.367 13 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
    EurB 12.371 17 ...Jonson's beauty is more grateful than Tennyson's.
    EurB 12.372 19 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation.
    EurB 12.375 10 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.
    EurB 12.378 19 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.
    PPr 12.380 24 Though...more than most philosophers a believer in political systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...
    PPr 12.384 19 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating than the lightning of the night-storm...
    PPr 12.386 1 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
    PPr 12.386 2 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
    PPr 12.388 5 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
    Let 12.392 3 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...
    Let 12.398 16 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things...
    Let 12.399 25 I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the Germans.
    Let 12.402 5 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.
    Trag 12.406 5 It is usually agreed that some nations have a more sombre temperament...
    Trag 12.406 16 ...whether we and those who are next to us are more or less vulnerable, no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.
    Trag 12.407 27 ...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will] disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood.

More, Henry, n. (2)

    PPh 4.40 18 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More, Henry More...
    ET14 5.234 17 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius; in these writers [Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton] and in Herbert, Henry More, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne.

more, n. (71)

    Nat 1.31 15 We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
    Nat 1.44 5 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
    AmS 1.81 12 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more.
    MR 1.254 5 ...no one should take more than his share...
    MR 1.256 7 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...sure of more to come than is yet seen,-postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    Con 1.307 21 [The youth says] I shall seek those whom I love, and shun those whom I love not, and what more can all your laws render me?
    Tran 1.331 10 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive. What more could an idealist say?
    Tran 1.337 26 The Buddhist...who...will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    YA 1.390 11 More than our good-will we may not be able to give.
    Comp 2.91 7 Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and pencil plays./
    Comp 2.93 5 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation]...the people knew more than the preachers taught.
    Comp 2.102 17 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, not more nor less, still returns to you.
    SL 2.163 18 ...why should we be cowed by the name of Action? 'T is a trick of the senses,--no more.
    Lov1 2.185 1 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet], has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
    Prd1 2.229 4 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
    OS 2.278 18 We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
    Int 2.343 17 Who leaves all, receives more.
    Pt1 3.14 4 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Exp 3.65 11 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream;...
    Chr1 3.97 19 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a certain chain of circumstances, and they will ask no more.
    NR 3.225 24 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    MoS 4.152 13 In England...property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
    MoS 4.153 5 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to conclusions not yet ripe, and say more than is true;...
    ShP 4.192 21 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of Shakspeare there is much more.
    ShP 4.214 1 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that more or less of production...is a thing indifferent.
    ShP 4.217 23 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    ET1 5.12 8 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more...
    ET1 5.19 14 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET3 5.37 18 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. Add South Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of Scotland.
    ET4 5.56 14 have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET14 5.256 26 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources, out of which all this, and much more readily springs;...
    ET16 5.278 25 We are not yet too late to learn much more than is known of this structure [Stonehenge].
    F 6.11 17 The more of these drones perish, the better for the hive.
    F 6.19 12 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one...
    F 6.22 8 We must respect Fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.
    Pow 6.58 6 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies neither more or less of talent...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Ctr 6.158 14 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me.
    CbW 6.264 24 ...so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
    CbW 6.278 13 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.
    WD 7.166 21 Every [inventor] has more to hide than he has to show...
    Suc 7.307 19 What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our constitution?...
    OA 7.322 20 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that hath seen more than all that went before him...
    SA 8.79 10 [The charm of fine manners] is perpetual promise of more than can be fulfilled.
    SA 8.87 22 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    Elo2 8.127 7 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study,--as if the more they had read the less they knew.
    Insp 8.278 2 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    Imtl 8.341 8 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has learned is that there is much more to be learned.
    Aris 10.46 7 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less.
    Aris 10.50 27 More than taste and talent must go to the Will.
    Chr2 10.97 14 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me; deal THOU with me; let me know it is thy will, and I ask no more.
    Edc1 10.140 18 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience, as he has more of both, will interpenetrate each other.
    Edc1 10.141 26 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Edc1 10.147 14 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain...that power of performance is worth more than the knowledge.
    SovE 10.185 5 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body, and, as long as he knows no more, we justify him;...
    Schr 10.268 19 Let us hear no more of the practical men...
    LLNE 10.348 14 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head, and much more.
    LLNE 10.356 7 Since the foxes and the birds have the right of it, with a warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    MMEm 10.428 7 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
    Thor 10.473 6 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm;...
    HDC 11.54 27 The country [around Concord] already began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
    War 11.169 2 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;...
    EPro 11.317 17 [Lincoln] has been permitted to do more for America than any other American man.
    FRep 11.525 20 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    PLT 12.7 16 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit...that you shall have no academy.
    PLT 12.21 19 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity, there is more or less of power;...
    PLT 12.21 23 ...there is development from less to more...
    PLT 12.57 5 If a man show cleverness...people clap their hands without asking more.
    CW 12.177 9 ...the countryman, as I said, has more than he paid for; the landscape is his.
    MLit 12.319 20 ...much more, [Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic traits;...
    EurB 12.367 16 ...[Wordsworth] has done more for the sanity of this generation than any other writer.
    PPr 12.383 7 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.

More, n. (2)

    Comp 2.123 20 The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less.
    Comp 2.123 22 How can Less not feel the pain; how not feel indignation or malevolence towards More?

More, Thomas, n. (5)

    Hist 2.10 22 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More...
    PPh 4.40 18 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More, Henry More...
    ET14 5.238 15 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;--More, Hooker, Bacon...
    Boks 7.196 1 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    Prch 10.227 20 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan.

moreover, adv. (6)

    PI 8.29 21 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts. Moreover, they know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
    PI 8.44 27 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...moreover, they speak after their own characters, not ours;...
    CSC 10.376 25 Moreover, although no decision was had...yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    War 11.157 4 ...moreover, trade brings men to look each other in the face...
    CL 12.162 26 Moreover the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.
    WSL 12.338 8 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull]...moreover the peculiarity which is alleged of the Englishman, that his virtues do not come out until he quarrels.

Mores, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 13 ...the age...of the Latimers, Mores, Cranmers;...is gone.

More's, Thomas, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 6 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.

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