New Hampshire to Noah's

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

New Hampshire, adj. (4)

    Art1 2.360 18 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    F 6.13 22 ...strong natures...New Hampshire giants...are inevitable patriots...
    Wth 6.109 1 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
    CL 12.157 5 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...

New Hampshire, n. (6)

    SR 2.76 6 A sturdy lad from New Hampshire...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SR 2.88 22 ...with each new uproar of announcement...The Democrats from New Hampshire!...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    LLNE 10.332 11 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    SlHr 10.446 6 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...which are found in Acworth, New Hampshire, not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    SMC 11.353 23 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ohio...
    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...

New Harmonies, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.352 20 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.
    Bost 12.198 27 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the Zoars, New Harmonies and Brook Farms...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

New Harmony, Indiana, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 3 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook Farm...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

New Haven, Connecticut, n. (2)

    Civ 7.32 3 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.
    Grts 8.319 16 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in...New Haven...there might be fit society;...

New Holland, n. (1)

    PPr 12.390 12 We have been civilizing very fast...planting New England and India, New Holland and Oregon,-and it has not appeared in literature;...

New Jersey, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 4 John Woolman of New Jersey, whilst yet an apprentice, was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.

New Jerusalem Church, n. (1)

    OS 2.282 15 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

New Jerusalem, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.244 21 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.

New London, Connecticut, n. (1)

    Bost 12.186 20 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland...

new, n. (16)

    AmS 1.99 27 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new...
    AmS 1.110 7 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side...
    Con 1.305 21 ...among the lovers of the new I observe that there is a jealousy of the newest...
    Con 1.322 19 How will every strong and generous mind choose its ground,-with the defenders of the old? or with the seekers of the new?
    Comp 2.126 5 We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new;...
    Int 2.333 13 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new;...
    Int 2.333 14 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise.
    Art1 2.352 17 ...the new in art is always formed out of the old.
    ET13 5.218 19 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride. That was binding old and new to some purpose.
    F 6.25 12 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old...
    QO 8.175 1 Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature.
    QO 8.178 21 Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
    QO 8.201 14 The divine resides in the new.
    HDC 11.85 13 With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
    Mem 12.108 18 The divine gift is not the old but the new.
    Trag 12.414 26 ...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken is whole again.

New Orleans, Louisiana, n. (12)

    YA 1.371 2 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America, namely Boston, New York, and New Orleans...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    ET3 5.41 1 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    F 6.7 22 ...the sword of the climate...at New Orleans, cut off men like a massacre.
    Wth 6.105 11 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
    Wsp 6.222 11 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... This is the peril...of New Orleans...to young men.
    EWI 11.130 17 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.132 16 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    EPro 11.323 14 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
    SMC 11.363 20 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
    SMC 11.366 2 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans...
    CInt 12.118 19 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.
    Bost 12.187 10 In New York, in...New Orleans...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...

New Plymouth, Massachusetts (1)

    Bost 12.199 14 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...

New Spain, n. (1)

    War 11.158 20 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain...

New Style, n. (1)

    HDC 11.32 7 ...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.

New Testament, n. (7)

    SwM 4.120 2 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    ET13 5.224 6 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England. The first leaf of the New Testament it does not open.
    Chr2 10.115 14 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament...
    Chr2 10.116 4 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    LS 11.8 23 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
    LS 11.17 3 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression. But if you read the New Testament as I do, you do not believe he did.
    FRO2 11.489 7 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...

New Times, n. (1)

    ET15 5.265 7 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will; I shall publish The New Times next Monday morning.

New World, n. (5)

    Nat 1.21 6 Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's] form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
    SR 2.86 21 Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat.
    ET9 5.152 17 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck...
    Wsp 6.211 4 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    EdAd 11.385 14 Where is the great breath of the New World...

New Year, n. (1)

    Gts 3.159 7 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...

New Year's, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.472 9 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.

New York, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.543 3 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.

New York City, N. Y., adj (1)

    EWI 11.122 17 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;...

New York City, N. Y., n. (1)

    EWI 11.122 19 ...the Boston merchant rivals his brother of New York;...

New York City, N.Y., adj. (4)

    Mrs1 3.130 4 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man...
    ET1 5.16 21 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    Civ 7.31 27 ...it is not New York streets...that make the real estimation.
    FSLC 11.202 5 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.

New York City, N.Y., n. [New] (36)

    Con 1.311 17 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this world of Rome...and New York?
    YA 1.371 2 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America, namely Boston, New York, and New Orleans...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Hist 2.9 15 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way.
    SR 2.76 3 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the...suburbs of...New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    Pt1 3.29 23 If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York...thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    NER 3.260 4 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    UGM 4.21 19 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs...
    UGM 4.26 2 Viewed from any high point, this city of New York...would seem a bundle of insanities.
    NMW 4.225 3 Paris and London and New York...were also to have their prophet;...
    ET19 5.310 7 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    F 6.3 5 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times.
    Pow 6.56 26 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.
    Wth 6.102 26 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...the contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
    Wth 6.105 10 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
    Ctr 6.135 25 In New York the question [of life] is of some other eight, or ten, or twenty [men].
    Ctr 6.136 3 New York is a sucked orange.
    Ctr 6.149 11 ...London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
    Wsp 6.211 5 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York, he made a handsome thing of it...
    wsp 6.222 10 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... This is the peril of New York...to young men.
    Civ 7.20 1 The Chinese and Japanese...is different from the man of Madrid or the man of New York.
    Civ 7.31 24 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
    WD 7.163 23 Tantalus...has been seen again lately. He is in Paris, in New York, in Boston.
    PI 8.34 24 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PC 8.215 1 ...looking over how many horizons as far as into Liverpool and New York, [Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    Grts 8.319 15 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in New York...there might be fit society;...
    Edc1 10.149 15 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    SovE 10.211 21 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down New York, and London, and Paris...
    LLNE 10.348 24 We had an opportunity of learning something of these Socialists and their theory, from the indefatigable apostle of the sect in New York, Albert Brisbane.
    GSt 10.506 7 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation, and the broad hospitality which brought them about his board at his own house or in New York, or in Washington, never altered...one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    FSLC 11.197 2 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery...
    EPro 11.323 20 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
    Wom 11.420 17 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    ChiE 11.474 17 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    PLT 12.43 3 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    Bost 12.187 10 In New York, in Montreal...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
    Bost 12.208 6 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.

New York, n. (14)

    NMW 4.242 19 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    GoW 4.266 11 It is believed, the ordering a cargo of goods from New York to Smyrna...is practical and commendable.
    Pow 6.57 18 Import into any stationary district, as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Wth 6.86 21 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
    WD 7.178 9 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    PerF 10.87 1 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    LLNE 10.361 22 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother...were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.
    FSLN 11.235 8 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.235 11 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    FSLN 11.235 12 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit. Then he protects New York.
    JBB 11.272 21 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...New York...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    SMC 11.353 23 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ohio...
    SMC 11.358 13 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war, who enlisted in New York...
    ChiE 11.472 9 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.

New York Tribune, n. (2)

    WD 7.165 18 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers, namely the New York Tribune and the London Times, have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    LLNE 10.359 22 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.

New Yorker, n. (1)

    ET9 5.146 14 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...

New Zealander, n. (1)

    SR 2.84 22 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander...

newborn, adj. [new-born,] (9)

    DSA 1.146 5 Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity...
    YA 1.371 11 ...new-born, free, healthful, strong...[America] should speak for the human race.
    Hsm1 2.259 20 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being...
    NR 3.223 5 ...in the new-born millions,/ The perfect Adam lives./
    F 6.38 20 You may be sure the new-born man is not inert.
    Bty 6.287 21 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at the death of its ward, entered a new-born child...
    Civ 7.17 26 Mind wakes a new-born giant from her sleep.
    PLT 12.35 16 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    Milt1 12.254 2 Milton...reads the laws of the moral sentiment to the new-born race.

Newcastle, Duke of, n. (1)

    Aris 10.48 3 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...

Newcomb, Charles K. [San (3)

    MoS 4.174 6 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    MoS 4.174 11 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
    MoS 4.174 16 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.

new-comer, n. (4)

    SL 2.158 2 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Exp 3.80 4 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Pow 6.59 5 ...when into any old club a new-comer is domesticated,--that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Pow 6.59 9 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...

newcomers, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.365 19 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    HDC 11.41 6 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...

new-created, v. (1)

    Art2 7.43 20 ...[language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.

newer, adj. (5)

    AmS 1.112 5 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle.
    Hsm1 2.246 19 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../
    Imtl 8.338 24 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not, after millions of years, on the verge of still newer existence?...
    EWI 11.143 15 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a newer flower...
    PLT 12.24 24 ...under every thought is a newer thought.

newest, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.35 11 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne. Is it otherwise in the newest romance?
    Exp 3.60 1 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    SwM 4.107 8 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers, and derives perhaps its best illustration from the newest.
    Insp 8.271 9 Everything which we hear for the first time was expected by the mind; the newest discovery was expected.
    Insp 8.295 10 You shall not read...Montaigne, nor the newest French book.
    Insp 8.295 23 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought...
    EWI 11.145 22 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one...

newest, n. (1)

    Con 1.305 22 ...among the lovers of the new I observe that there is a jealousy of the newest...

new-found, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.247 7 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...

Newfoundland, n. (1)

    Pow 6.55 19 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.

Newgate Calendar, n. (1)

    WD 7.165 16 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.

new-kindled, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.120 12 What am I? and What is? asks the human spirit with a curiosity new-kindled...

newly, adv. (14)

    MN 1.215 8 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...
    MN 1.217 16 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved...
    Con 1.306 9 There [the youth] stands, newly born on the planet...
    YA 1.363 4 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    NR 3.225 4 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    NR 3.232 27 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    SwM 4.140 27 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.
    MoS 4.162 18 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book...
    ET14 5.232 4 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought...
    ET17 5.294 10 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour.
    Bhr 6.197 1 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...
    Bhr 6.197 3 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company, respecting the divine communications out of which all must be presumed to have newly come.
    Dem1 10.4 22 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
    Supl 10.174 12 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.

newly-discovered, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.163 15 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.

Newmarket, England, n. (1)

    ET4 5.73 23 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...

newness, n. (7)

    Cir 2.319 9 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are...not newness, not the way onward.
    Exp 3.68 21 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness...
    ET13 5.231 2 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret...
    Wsp 6.212 27 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
    PC 8.228 11 [The moral sentiment] is the fountain of power, preserves its eternal newness...
    II 12.71 6 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in art, in books. The mark and sign of it is newness.
    II 12.76 2 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.

new-planted, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.120 19 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...colonizes every new-planted island...

news, n. (42)

    AmS 1.111 16 The meal in the firkin;...the news of the boat;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    SR 2.51 12 If an angry bigot...comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
    Fdsp 2.210 10 A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from [my friend] I want, but not news, nor pottage.
    Pt1 3.8 24 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news...
    Pt1 3.11 20 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    Exp 3.47 12 ...the men ask, What's the news? as if the old were so bad.
    NMW 4.238 20 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible. Do not awake me when you have any good news to communicate;...
    NMW 4.238 22 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
    ET5 5.74 22 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy...
    ET6 5.114 13 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news;...
    ET17 5.294 18 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He...soon became full of talk on the French news.
    F 6.18 27 ...the journals contrive to furnish one good piece of news every day.
    Ctr 6.150 24 [The man of the world's] conversation clings to the weather and the news...
    Bhr 6.183 4 There are people who come in ever like a child with a piece of good news.
    CbW 6.271 10 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain.
    SS 7.14 4 Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news...
    Clbs 7.227 20 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    OA 7.335 13 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive.
    PI 8.30 3 What news? asks man of man everywhere.
    PI 8.30 4 The only teller of news is the poet.
    PI 8.35 10 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day, with its news, its cares, its fears...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    SA 8.86 20 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that, come good news or come bad, you remain in good heart and good mind...
    SA 8.86 22 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind, which is the best news you can possibly communicate.
    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...
    Grts 8.311 2 Let the student...sedulously wait every morning for the news concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.
    Aris 10.41 9 The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    Supl 10.164 14 Bad news is always exaggerated...
    Supl 10.168 13 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...
    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].
    Thor 10.459 18 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
    EWI 11.107 19 ...[the Quakers] were religious, tender-hearted men and women; and they had to hear the news [of slavery] and digest it as they could.
    EWI 11.114 20 The negroes [of the West Indies] were called together by the missionaries and by the planters, and the news [of emancipation] explained to them.
    FSLC 11.181 20 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news.
    ACiv 11.298 16 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    EPro 11.321 9 In times like these...what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?
    EPro 11.321 10 In times like these...what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?
    SMC 11.361 27 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home...
    II 12.79 25 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news...
    Mem 12.91 16 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    CInt 12.116 1 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the telegraph which speeds the local news over the land.
    MAng1 12.225 7 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...

newsboy, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.218 18 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.

newsboys, n. (2)

    EdAd 11.383 20 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    EdAd 11.385 13 There is no speech heard but that of auctioneers, newsboys, and the caucus.

news-boy's, n. (1)

    Civ 7.24 12 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door in the news-boy's basket.

newsmonger, n. (2)

    PLT 12.34 13 [Instinct] is no newsmonger...
    II 12.65 17 ...[Instinct] is no newsmonger, no disputant, no talker.

newspaper, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.356 25 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now verify his newspaper knowledge...
    EurB 12.365 14 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at such slipshod newspaper style.

Newspaper, Daily, n. (1)

    Aris 10.32 25 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in...any Court Journal, or even Daily Newspaper of the world.

newspaper, n. (42)

    SR 2.56 9 ...the...faces of the multitude...are put on and off as...a newspaper directs.
    SR 2.76 9 A sturdy lad...who...edits a newspaper...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Comp 2.118 11 I hate to be defended in a newspaper.
    Hsm1 2.263 8 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    Pt1 3.37 21 ...the newspaper and caucus...are flat and dull to dull people...
    Pol1 3.204 24 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
    NER 3.255 18 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    PPh 4.53 22 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...the newspaper and cheap press.
    ShP 4.192 2 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    GoW 4.282 9 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form;...
    ET1 5.17 14 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that no newspaper is trusted now...
    ET3 5.35 4 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper...
    ET6 5.102 15 ...the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England...
    ET6 5.105 19 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf; his eyes never wander from his table and newspaper.
    ET7 5.121 20 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot;...
    ET9 5.150 9 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England], from the Times newspaper through politicians and poets...
    ET13 5.218 17 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience, just fresh from the Times newspaper and their wine...
    ET15 5.261 1 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America...
    ET15 5.263 8 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper.
    Bty 6.295 16 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    Civ 7.24 15 ...in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    WD 7.163 6 ...we have the newspaper...
    Boks 7.196 19 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    Boks 7.200 1 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself, and the opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions, which make it as accessible as a newspaper.
    Boks 7.219 7 All these [sacred] books...are more to our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
    PI 8.73 27 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper...are hosts of ideals...
    QO 8.198 7 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper.
    Aris 10.35 9 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that...that neither the caucus, nor the newspaper...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    EzRy 10.389 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    EWI 11.115 12 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper...
    EWI 11.122 13 [Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper;...
    EWI 11.125 26 ...[slavery] does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college...
    FSLC 11.181 18 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame.
    FSLC 11.194 15 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
    FSLN 11.218 12 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    SMC 11.360 27 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills, some on brown paper, or strips of newspaper;...
    SMC 11.363 22 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper...
    FRep 11.523 23 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    FRep 11.523 25 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    Mem 12.99 18 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion?...
    ACri 12.299 15 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it in any newspaper or journal...
    MLit 12.330 26 The vicious conventions...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.

newspaper-report, n. (1)

    ET19 5.309 6 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it...

newspapers, n. (45)

    LE 1.176 19 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...a topic for newspapers...
    LT 1.291 8 All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble;...
    YA 1.388 10 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling...
    Exp 3.67 5 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    ShP 4.191 26 ...we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...
    NMW 4.225 12 Napoleon...at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of the newspapers.
    ET1 5.20 16 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
    ET1 5.20 19 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...
    ET1 5.20 21 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England...
    ET7 5.124 22 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET7 5.124 25 ...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, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the attention of the adepts;...
    ET13 5.229 7 What is so odious as the polite bows to God, in our books and newspapers?
    ET15 5.262 1 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET15 5.262 6 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    Pow 6.61 14 A timid man, listening to the alarmists in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Wth 6.115 17 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
    Ctr 6.136 3 Have you seen...two or three capitalists, two or three editors of newspapers?
    Ctr 6.161 5 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Elo1 7.74 20 It requires no special insight to edit one of our country newspapers.
    Elo1 7.77 15 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler...
    Elo1 7.89 10 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting; they have all read the facts in the same newspapers.
    WD 7.165 18 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    QO 8.185 4 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    PC 8.227 24 What is the use of telegraphs? What of newspapers?
    Insp 8.295 9 You shall not read newspapers, nor politics, nor novels...
    Prch 10.228 25 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    MoL 10.244 18 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    Schr 10.281 23 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    CSC 10.373 4 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers...
    CSC 10.374 2 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    GSt 10.505 14 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LVB 11.90 7 We have read [the Cherokees'] newspapers.
    LVB 11.90 26 The newspapers now inform us that, in December, 1835, a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 27 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal. In the name of God, sir [Van Buren], we ask you if this be so? Do the newspapers rightly inform us?
    LVB 11.92 7 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.144 24 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.
    War 11.164 9 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with...language, ceremonies, newspapers.
    War 11.170 11 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers.
    SMC 11.372 10 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two; whilst your newspapers talk of the inactivity of the Army of the Potomac.
    Wom 11.417 8 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... down to English Comedy, and, in our day, to Tennyson, and the American newspapers.
    CPL 11.496 6 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now;...
    FRep 11.518 4 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who by means of newspapers and caucuses really thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    CInt 12.118 22 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America.
    CInt 12.122 6 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

newsroom, n. (1)

    QO 8.177 6 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...

Newstead Abbey, England, n. (2)

    ET10 5.165 15 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks; and Newstead Abbey became one in the hands of Lord Byron.
    ET13 5.215 24 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture,--York, Newstead, Westminster...

Newton, Isaac, n. (64)

    AmS 1.98 25 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection, as Newton called them, are the law of nature...
    MN 1.212 23 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...
    Hist 2.37 8 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.
    SR 2.58 2 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and Newton...
    SR 2.83 16 Where is the master who could have instructed...Newton?
    Art1 2.364 22 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    Exp 3.80 1 Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind' s ministers.
    UGM 4.9 8 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Newton, of fluxions.
    PPh 4.40 4 St. Augustine...Newton...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    SwM 4.99 3 ...men of large calibre, though with some eccentricity or madness, like Pascal or Newton, help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
    SwM 4.104 15 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SwM 4.109 14 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good...
    SwM 4.133 22 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Hans Sloane, King George II....
    GoW 4.287 5 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler...Newton...
    GoW 4.287 11 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
    ET4 5.47 11 How came such men as...Philip Sidney, Isaac Newton...
    ET5 5.77 1 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Selden, Dugdale, Newton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET5 5.100 19 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...
    ET8 5.138 27 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits, in their patient Newton...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET14 5.248 15 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him...
    ET14 5.248 18 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... not by any tutoring more or less of Newton...
    F 6.18 6 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
    Pow 6.75 4 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
    Ctr 6.156 12 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd...
    Bty 6.300 20 It was said of Hooke, the friend of Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.
    Bty 6.306 20 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    SS 7.5 17 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...
    SS 7.6 11 To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is indispensable;...
    WD 7.158 18 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
    WD 7.158 21 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
    WD 7.183 5 ...in Newton, science was as easy as breathing;...
    Clbs 7.238 20 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...
    Clbs 7.240 22 Who can stop the mouth...of Newton...
    Clbs 7.243 27 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...
    Suc 7.287 24 Newton was a great man, without telegraph, or gas...
    Suc 7.296 8 We assume...that there is...but...one Newton...
    OA 7.322 22 We still feel the force...of Newton...
    PI 8.56 18 Newton may be permitted to call Terence a playbook...
    SA 8.96 24 The main point is to...say, with Newton, There's no contending against facts.
    SA 8.97 1 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    Res 8.149 3 [The good aunt] relies on the same principle that makes the strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.
    Res 8.150 6 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    PC 8.213 12 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy, working as hard and as successfully as Newton...
    PC 8.220 17 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    PC 8.224 9 [Man] finds that the universe, as Newton said, was made at one cast;...
    Grts 8.302 26 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Newton?...
    Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to...know Newton, Faraday...
    Edc1 10.130 16 If Newton come and first of men perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.131 25 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Newton, of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    Edc1 10.156 12 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    Supl 10.172 25 The arithmetic of Newton, the memory of Magliabecchi... are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    SovE 10.186 27 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakspeare...
    MoL 10.248 19 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Newton, with his gravity;...
    LLNE 10.338 10 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton...
    AsSu 11.251 12 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    FRep 11.511 7 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...
    PLT 12.25 12 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    PLT 12.32 25 What can Plato or Newton teach, if you are deaf or incapable?
    PLT 12.33 18 Newton did not exercise more ingenuity but less than another to see the world.
    Mem 12.100 13 Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the conversation turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...
    Mem 12.108 6 I have several times forgotten the name of Flamsteed, never that of Newton;...
    CInt 12.113 21 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue of Caesar or Pompey...but of Archimedes, of Milton, of Newton.
    Bost 12.210 22 Bacon, Newton and Washington were childless.
    WSL 12.347 10 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.

Newtonian, adj. (2)

    ET1 5.24 3 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten;...
    ET14 5.241 18 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics.

Newton's, Isaac, n. (6)

    Hist 2.37 11 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
    F 6.10 23 Ask the digger in the ditch to explain Newton's laws;...
    SA 8.96 27 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    PC 8.222 6 ...if we should analyze Newton's discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it would not have been found.
    CPL 11.496 18 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    MAng1 12.215 10 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works, like Sir Isaac Newton's, seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.

Newtown, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    HDC 11.32 20 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...

next, adj. (138)

    Nat 1.1 2 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest brings;/...
    AmS 1.87 11 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past...
    AmS 1.88 18 Each age...must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
    AmS 1.95 11 I grasp the hands of those next me...
    DSA 1.129 6 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
    DSA 1.129 11 The understanding...said, in the next age, This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
    LE 1.168 10 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    MN 1.200 18 This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, and everything refers.
    LT 1.265 17 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    Con 1.296 24 Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles, and with the next flowing of the tide they will be pebbles and sea-foam.
    Con 1.313 17 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be history in the next ages.
    SR 2.48 18 ...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic.
    SR 2.87 16 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die...
    Comp 2.94 11 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life.
    Comp 2.122 25 Material good...if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it away.
    Comp 2.126 25 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains...the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years;...
    Fdsp 2.215 18 ...next week I shall have languid moods...
    Hsm1 2.263 8 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    OS 2.268 7 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.
    Cir 2.305 17 Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
    Pt1 3.23 3 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
    Exp 3.60 15 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.
    Exp 3.85 23 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things...are forgotten next week;...
    Gts 3.161 3 Next to things of necessity, the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    NR 3.242 17 Your turn now, my turn next, is the rule of the game.
    NER 3.263 12 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.267 23 ...the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    UGM 4.19 18 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear;...
    SwM 4.99 24 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    SwM 4.109 2 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next...
    SwM 4.115 8 The second and next higher form is the circular...
    SwM 4.115 17 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial...
    ShP 4.201 12 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    ShP 4.210 17 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.
    NMW 4.226 23 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow: and he did speak it, with much effect, at the next day's session.
    ET1 5.14 2 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me in the next apartment, a picture of Allston's...
    ET1 5.17 24 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat, and supplies his wants to the next house.
    ET4 5.44 13 ...each variety [of race] shades down imperceptibly into the next...
    ET4 5.58 10 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered, a week here, a week there, and a fortnight on the next farm...
    ET10 5.156 14 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy; for they have no presumption of better fortunes next year...
    ET10 5.161 8 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon, and the next war will be fought in the air.
    ET11 5.176 7 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
    ET15 5.265 7 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will; I shall publish The New Times next Monday morning.
    ET16 5.280 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight, with the design to return the next morning...
    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.
    F 6.31 22 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.
    Pow 6.64 20 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
    Wth 6.107 27 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...the vines must be planted, next week...
    Wth 6.113 26 ...next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband.
    Ctr 6.159 6 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should wish to hug him.
    Ctr 6.165 2 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the estate...shall be delivered down to the next heir in as good condition as he received it;...
    Wsp 6.219 4 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.236 20 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Bty 6.285 8 The king, on the next day, conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso]...
    Bty 6.297 18 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Elo1 7.73 26 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next corner;...
    Elo1 7.89 5 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    DL 7.123 6 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide, for the next it dragged on the ground...
    Farm 7.143 22 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
    Farm 7.151 4 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best;...
    WD 7.163 14 ...the next war will be fought in the air.
    Boks 7.201 17 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation.
    Clbs 7.248 11 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
    Suc 7.295 17 My next point is that in the scale of powers it is not talent but sensibility which is best...
    Suc 7.305 21 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    OA 7.335 8 [John Adams]...is better the next day after having visitors in his chamber from morning to night.
    PI 8.8 26 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.
    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.
    QO 8.187 6 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    QO 8.191 15 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
    PC 8.208 21 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    PC 8.220 24 ...the next step in the series is the equivalence of the soul to Nature.
    Insp 8.286 19 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Aris 10.46 21 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    Aris 10.46 22 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not...like our democratic politics, my turn now, your turn next...
    Chr2 10.105 2 The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Chr2 10.113 16 No man can tell what religious revolutions await us in the next years;...
    SovE 10.194 4 [Good men] do not see that He [God], that It, is there, next and within;...
    SovE 10.212 10 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power; but the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson...
    Prch 10.222 25 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
    Plu 10.299 18 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter.
    Plu 10.309 19 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    EzRy 10.391 5 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door.
    MMEm 10.400 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's father] died at Rutland, Vermont, of army-fever, the next year...
    MMEm 10.410 15 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
    SlHr 10.443 19 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...and, of course also...we elected somebody else at the next term.
    Thor 10.458 11 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year.
    GSt 10.506 14 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    EWI 11.109 11 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.115 16 ...I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences...narrating the behavior of the emancipated people [of the West Indies] on the next day.
    EWI 11.115 20 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.
    EWI 11.116 21 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.
    EWI 11.143 16 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a richer fruit, in every period, yet its next product is never to be guessed.
    War 11.152 26 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles.
    War 11.170 21 The next season, an Indian war...or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    War 11.171 12 Nor, in the next place, is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.
    FSLN 11.241 26 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to his own and the next age.
    AKan 11.258 18 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly...
    TPar 11.288 17 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
    ACiv 11.305 10 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
    ALin 11.332 3 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
    ALin 11.337 8 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.
    SMC 11.363 12 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful.
    SMC 11.367 27 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right.
    SMC 11.370 3 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    SMC 11.371 12 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.
    SMC 11.373 27 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg. On the fourth of February, sudden orders came to move next morning at daylight.
    Wom 11.422 16 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
    Wom 11.424 21 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next.
    SHC 11.430 22 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.
    SHC 11.431 15 [Man] plants for the next millennium.
    FRep 11.516 14 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
    FRep 11.532 19 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
    PLT 12.18 14 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age...
    Mem 12.96 15 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note; on the next day the cow calved;...
    Mem 12.96 16 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...on the next I cut my finger;...
    Mem 12.96 17 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...on the next the banks suspended payment.
    Mem 12.107 12 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Mem 12.107 14 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    Mem 12.107 15 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next, and drive it this year and clinch it the next.
    CInt 12.130 12 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
    CL 12.151 3 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...
    Bost 12.191 11 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists]. But the next colony planted itself at Salem...
    Bost 12.191 12 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists]. But the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth;...
    MAng1 12.234 1 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    Milt1 12.252 10 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.
    ACri 12.290 7 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression...
    Pray 12.352 26 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
    Pray 12.354 3 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form.
    Pray 12.354 10 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
    EurB 12.372 19 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation.
    EurB 12.372 25 Next to the poetry, the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...
    PPr 12.383 18 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.
    PPr 12.391 25 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...in gigantic reverberation, as if the hills, the horizon, and the next ages returned the sound.
    Let 12.393 27 In the next place, to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
    Trag 12.406 15 ...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 18 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]: If you balk water you will be drowned the next time;...
    Trag 12.413 7 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.

next, adv. (15)

    MN 1.197 1 In the absence of man, we turn to nature, which stands next.
    NMW 4.233 4 Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next.
    ET1 5.12 12 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    ET5 5.95 26 Steam is almost an Englishman. I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next...
    ET8 5.135 24 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    Wsp 6.223 3 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out;...
    Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    Elo1 7.89 21 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places. What will he say next?
    OA 7.330 16 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence, or next related analogy...
    Res 8.146 9 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    Comc 8.162 26 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...
    Insp 8.278 20 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/...
    PLT 12.15 7 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature;...
    PLT 12.21 17 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    ACri 12.297 22 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...

next, n. (1)

    NMW 4.233 6 Few men have any next;...

Ney, Michel, n. (4)

    NMW 4.244 11 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to... Ney and Augereau.
    NMW 4.244 19 In the Russian campaign he was so much impressed by the courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    NMW 4.244 21 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    Cour 7.255 19 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Massena, and Ney.

Niagara [Falls ?], n. [Niagara, Niagara] (8)

    LE 1.169 22 What mean these journeys to Niagara;...
    YA 1.368 9 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    Pt1 3.25 10 The sea...Niagara...pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...
    Wth 6.94 23 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Ctr 6.159 23 ...we say of Niagara that it falls without speed.
    PLT 12.12 15 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought. That is upstream, and what a stream! Can you swim up Niagara Falls?
    CL 12.153 9 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.
    CL 12.153 10 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.

Niagara Falls [New York], (1)

    Grts 8.320 10 ...the difference of level which makes Niagara a cataract, makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.

Niagara River, n. (1)

    PI 8.6 26 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against, any more than against the current of Niagara.

Niantic Indians, n. (1)

    HDC 11.57 16 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...

Nibelungenlied, n. (3)

    Boks 7.197 21 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...the German, through the Nibelungenlied;...
    PI 8.57 17 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...the Nibelungen Lied...
    PC 8.213 27 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Niebelungen Lied, in Germany;...

Nibelungenlied [Nibelungen], (1)

    Comp 2.107 4 Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal...

nice, adj. (9)

    ET11 5.177 14 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons, who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with ermine.
    Pow 6.60 15 Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing.
    Bhr 6.175 2 A keen eye...will see nice gradations of rank...
    Wsp 6.202 7 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Clbs 7.225 1 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.
    Suc 7.295 3 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    Thor 10.457 10 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
    FSLN 11.238 1 ...if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
    MAng1 12.227 12 [Michelangelo] was so nice in tools that he made with his own hand the wimbles...and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

nicely, adv. (1)

    Hsm1 2.255 14 [The heroic soul] does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.

niceness, n. (2)

    Milt1 12.263 27 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    WSL 12.339 22 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.

niceties, n. (4)

    Nat 1.60 15 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than... the niceties of criticism;...
    Art1 2.357 20 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye, its training to the niceties and curiosities of its function.
    CW 12.173 19 ...without going into the proud niceties of an European garden, there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    Milt1 12.250 18 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?

nicety, n. (6)

    Exp 3.58 17 If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
    NMW 4.237 26 Every thing depended on the nicety of [Napoleon's] combinations...
    ET4 5.44 9 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds; a point of nicety...
    Pow 6.78 19 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety...
    Bhr 6.178 17 There is no nicety of learning sought by the mind which the eyes do not vie in acquiring.
    WD 7.169 24 I used formerly to choose my time with some nicety for each favorite book.

niche, n. (4)

    ET2 5.32 4 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up, which you have long had a vacant niche for...
    ET13 5.215 1 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    Ill 6.309 8 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto made of one seamless stalactite...
    PPo 8.255 15 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./

niches, n. (2)

    Aris 10.60 27 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...
    PLT 12.28 2 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches and localities...

Nicholas I, of Russia, n. (2)

    YA 1.376 9 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
    Carl 10.496 25 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero;...

nick, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.357 14 [Thoreau said] I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.

nickel, n. (1)

    ET11 5.187 27 He who keeps the door of a mine, whether of cobalt...or nickel...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.

Nickie-ben [Burns, Address (1)

    SwM 4.138 26 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.

nickname, n. (2)

    ET7 5.123 11 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers...
    Comc 8.171 20 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...

nicknames, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.120 4 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names; individuals...have nicknames merely.
    PPh 4.60 3 No orator can measure in effect with him who can give good nicknames.

Nidiver, George, n. (4)

    Cour 7.277 23 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
    Cour 7.279 3 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came on with dreadful pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
    Cour 7.279 11 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    Cour 7.279 25 What thoughts were in [the bear's] mind/ It would be hard to spell:/ What thoughts were in George Nidiver/ I rather guess than tell./

Niebelungen Lied, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 27 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Niebelungen Lied, in Germany;...

Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, n. (6)

    LE 1.170 14 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
    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;...
    PI 8.43 15 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    Edc1 10.149 26 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Germany around Fichte, or Niebuhr, or Goethe;...
    MoL 10.246 24 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent;...
    Mem 12.95 15 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.

Niebuhr, Bartold Georg, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.299 20 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.

Niebuhr, Karsten, n. (1)

    WD 7.174 24 What journeys and measurements,--Niebuhr and Muller and Layard,--to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!

Niebuhr's, Barthold Georg, (1)

    Insp 8.282 11 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.

niece, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.400 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was plenty of work for the little niece to do day by day...
    MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...

niggardly, adj. (1)

    Con 1.311 6 The ages have not been idle...nor the rich niggardly.

nigh, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.251 1 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./

nigh, adv. (3)

    DSA 1.149 24 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
    Comp 2.110 16 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    Mem 12.94 10 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years that they should lie...so nigh that they come on the instant when they are called for, never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.

nigh-dead, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.272 12 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians...

nigher, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.120 8 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
    ACri 12.297 20 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates, then hints, or raises an eyebrow. He has gone nigher to the wind than any other craft.

night, adj. (3)

    Ill 6.310 14 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
    HDC 11.34 11 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings, but the long rains penetrate through, to their great disturbance in the night season.
    Trag 12.409 10 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...

Night [Michelangelo], n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 3 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo, with the grand statues of Night and Day, and Aurora and Twilight.

night, n. (172)

    Nat 1.7 12 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
    Nat 1.7 16 ...every night come out these envoys of beauty...
    Nat 1.17 17 ...the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
    Nat 1.34 22 ...day and night...preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    Nat 1.54 14 The charm dissolves apace/ And, as the morning steals upon the night,/...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    Nat 1.69 11 The stars have us to bed:/ Night draws the curtain;.../
    Nat 1.71 19 ...the periods of [man's] actions externized themselves into day and night...
    AmS 1.98 21 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...in day and night;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.119 6 Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
    DSA 1.119 11 The cool night bathes the world as with a river...
    DSA 1.121 8 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve, day and night...then...God is well pleased.
    DSA 1.126 25 ...the doors of the temple stand open, night and day...
    LE 1.168 4 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    MN 1.205 24 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
    LT 1.274 3 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night...
    Con 1.298 23 We are...reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
    Hist 2.7 27 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
    Hist 2.31 26 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    SR 2.65 9 [Man] may err in the expression of [his involuntary perceptions], but he knows that these things are...like day and night, not to be disputed.
    SR 2.66 24 ...where [the soul] was, is night;...
    SR 2.75 19 ...we see that most natures...do lean and beg day and night continually.
    Comp 2.91 2 The wings of Time are black and white,/ Pied with morning and with night./
    Comp 2.97 13 There is somewhat that resembles...day and night...in a single needle of the pine...
    Comp 2.108 3 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    Comp 2.119 21 [The mob's] fit hour of activity is night.
    SL 2.148 3 The visions of the night bear some proportion to the visions of the day.
    SL 2.154 16 Blackmore, Kotzebue or Pollok may endure for a night...
    Lov1 2.175 7 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made...the morning and the night varied enchantments;...
    Lov1 2.176 7 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections;...
    Lov1 2.176 8 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on;...
    Lov1 2.185 2 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    Lov1 2.188 12 ...we are often made to feel that our affections are but tents of a night.
    Fdsp 2.193 21 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night;...
    Fdsp 2.212 7 Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until...day and night avail themselves of your lips.
    Prd1 2.226 11 At night [the islander] may sleep on a mat under the moon...
    Prd1 2.234 5 Let [a man] make the night night, and the day day.
    Hsm1 2.253 20 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. I asked the reason, and was told that the house had not been shut, night or day, for a hundred years.
    Int 2.328 19 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you, whilst you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night.
    Pt1 3.10 23 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before...
    Pt1 3.11 6 ...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have been streaming.
    Pt1 3.18 7 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Pt1 3.40 13 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own;...
    Pt1 3.42 17 ...wherever day and night meet in twilight...there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.45 13 ...night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
    Exp 3.55 8 When at night I look at the moon and stars, I seem stationary, and they to hurry.
    Exp 3.65 19 ...know that thy life is...a tent for a night...
    Mrs1 3.137 8 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.
    Nat2 3.170 6 We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning...
    Nat2 3.174 26 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    Nat2 3.176 9 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    Nat2 3.186 4 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    NR 3.231 14 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    NR 3.237 21 [Nature] loves better a wheelwright who dreams all night of wheels...
    NR 3.242 10 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...large as morning or night...
    UGM 4.33 10 A new quality of mind travels by night and by day...
    PPh 4.40 15 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men...
    PPh 4.47 1 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    PNR 4.80 20 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    SwM 4.141 17 The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the pit.
    MoS 4.155 22 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep...
    MoS 4.180 27 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night...
    ShP 4.217 20 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    NMW 4.235 27 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready, by day and by night...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.238 18 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible.
    NMW 4.246 17 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
    NMW 4.250 19 One fine night, on deck, amid a clatter of materialism, Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    GoW 4.269 27 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence by day and by night to the sources of inspiration?
    ET2 5.26 19 At last, on Sunday night...the storm came...
    ET2 5.26 23 The good ship darts through the water all day, all night, like a fish;...
    ET2 5.28 16 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET3 5.39 15 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a color.
    ET10 5.160 7 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...working night and day everlastingly, the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET12 5.200 13 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    ET15 5.261 10 There is no corner and no night. A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...
    ET16 5.288 18 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night...
    F 6.8 1 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets, which...are silenced by the fall of the temperature of one night.
    Pow 6.57 5 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point.
    Pow 6.60 13 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow...by night and by day...
    Pow 6.67 15 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the temperance people, in the night.
    Pow 6.70 6 March without the people...and you march into night...
    Wsp 6.238 17 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night...
    CbW 6.255 9 ...Art lives and thrills in...mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
    Bty 6.297 17 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Bty 6.305 1 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...flushes of morning and stars of night...
    Bty 6.305 3 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky, day and night, is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Ill 6.310 7 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes, making night to mimic day...
    WD 7.161 15 Art and power will...make day out of night...
    Boks 7.217 12 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us, in morning and night...the analogons of our own thoughts...
    Clbs 7.237 22 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name...of the god who brings the night;...
    Suc 7.299 12 Does that deep-toned bell, which has shortened many a night of ill nerves, render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    Suc 7.307 16 It is true there is evil and good, night and day...
    Suc 7.307 17 The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night.
    Suc 7.307 18 The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night.
    OA 7.335 9 [John Adams]...is better the next day after having visitors in his chamber from morning to night.
    PI 8.11 21 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    PI 8.48 5 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.48 7 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    Res 8.150 16 ...in France the theatre and the ball occupy the night.
    Res 8.153 5 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency...grows in the night and snow and cold.
    Comc 8.166 30 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Comc 8.173 1 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
    PC 8.205 4 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    PC 8.225 3 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    PC 8.227 11 The dreams of the night supplement by their divination the imperfect experiments of the day.
    PPo 8.242 7 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    PPo 8.258 3 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    PPo 8.263 12 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./
    Insp 8.282 24 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says...I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing:/ O my only light,/ It cannot be/ That I am he/ On whom thy tempests fell all night./
    Insp 8.285 14 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...
    Insp 8.285 19 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
    Insp 8.286 18 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Insp 8.288 8 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 8.291 15 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased; since from noon to night his strength abated.
    Grts 8.313 17 ...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.
    Imtl 8.341 5 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night;...
    Dem1 10.3 17 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    PerF 10.70 16 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    PerF 10.81 12 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her...
    Chr2 10.105 13 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches should be burned in one night.
    Edc1 10.123 2 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.128 14 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Schr 10.269 26 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn.
    Plu 10.309 20 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    LLNE 10.367 5 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    LLNE 10.370 5 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal... and so inspires the hope of...a day without night.
    EzRy 10.390 4 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc. Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
    MMEm 10.412 16 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow...then, however awed, who can fear?
    MMEm 10.417 14 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
    MMEm 10.418 1 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed...
    MMEm 10.422 8 Dissolve the body and the night is gone...
    Thor 10.461 19 [Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes.
    Thor 10.466 14 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years, and at every hour of the day and night.
    Thor 10.470 25 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day.
    Thor 10.481 11 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air...
    HDC 11.33 18 [The pilgrims] slept on the rocks, wherever night found them.
    HDC 11.60 9 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she plucked a saddle from under the head of one of them, took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
    EWI 11.114 21 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
    EWI 11.115 11 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    EWI 11.116 19 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of, either day or night...
    EWI 11.144 20 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent...
    JBB 11.266 8 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
    HCom 11.344 23 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...
    SMC 11.351 22 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
    SMC 11.357 16 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said, he had been thinking a good deal about it, last night, and he thought one was never too young to die for a principle.
    SMC 11.361 1 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written by fire-light, making the short night shorter;...
    SMC 11.362 24 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...
    SMC 11.368 5 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
    SMC 11.372 7 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third. On the night of the thirtieth,-The hardest day we ever had.
    SMC 11.372 14 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    EdAd 11.382 12 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    SHC 11.435 19 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence; the beautiful night and beautiful day will come in turn to sit upon the grass.
    Shak1 11.449 6 ...[Shakespeare] is...day without night;...
    CPL 11.499 22 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark...
    PLT 12.15 22 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...making day where it comes and leaving night when it departs, is no fee or property of man or angel.
    PLT 12.34 15 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night.
    II 12.65 18 Consciousness is but a taper in the great night;...
    II 12.86 15 The old Herschel must choose between the night and the day...
    Mem 12.109 4 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    Mem 12.109 7 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    CL 12.150 17 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night.
    CW 12.176 21 A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
    CW 12.177 20 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night...
    CW 12.177 22 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in the night even, because the woods exhibit a whole new world of nocturnal animals;...
    Bost 12.183 11 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night, from every flower and leaf...
    MAng1 12.228 11 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    MAng1 12.237 25 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    ACri 12.289 21 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades; ink of Erebus-night of Chaos.
    ACri 12.301 9 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.
    MLit 12.309 14 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...
    Pray 12.356 26 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God, to thee do I sigh day and night.
    Trag 12.409 3 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...an ominous spirit which haunts the afternoon and the night...
    Trag 12.411 6 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

Night, n. (6)

    AmS 1.84 26 Every day...after sunset, Night and her stars.
    Con 1.296 21 ...I hold what I have got; and so I resist Night and Chaos.
    Con 1.297 1 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus], thou art in league with Night...
    Comp 2.121 9 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    OS 2.265 8 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/...
    Let 12.402 14 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

Night, Twelfth, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 6 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream...

night-cap, n. [nightcap,] (3)

    PPo 8.244 19 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    Carl 10.491 19 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window, and even likes the Scotch nightcap;...
    II 12.86 15 The old Herschel must...draw on his night-cap when the sun rises, and defend his eyes for nocturnal use.

nightfall, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.238 5 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo].

night-gown, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.428 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...

Nightingale, Florence, n. (3)

    ET13 5.231 9 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred to those...of Florence Nightingale...
    CbW 6.256 21 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or Florence Nightingale...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    Cour 7.272 4 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.

nightingale, n. (4)

    PPo 8.242 24 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun, of Chosru and Schirin, and those of the nightingale for the rose;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.256 26 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    PPo 8.261 19 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Insp 8.284 18 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...

nightingales, n. (3)

    PPo 8.257 9 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    Insp 8.285 8 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
    Insp 8.285 9 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./

night-locks, n. (1)

    Trag 12.414 20 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

nightly, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.379 17 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...

nightly, adv. (2)

    Nat2 3.171 16 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon...
    SwM 4.141 24 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch...

nightmare, n. (2)

    Exp 3.55 1 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science].
    Farm 7.150 21 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...

nightmares, n. (1)

    Supl 10.165 21 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.

Nights', Arabian, Entertain (2)

    ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    Elo1 7.70 18 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are, in our translations of the Arabian Nights.

Night!s, Arabian, Entertain (1)

    PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian Nights, on the African coast.

Nights, Arabian, n. (1)

    CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not had the Arabian Nights...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.

Night's Dream, A... [Wm. (1)

    ShP 4.207 13 Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?

Nights' Entertainments, Ara (1)

    DL 7.106 20 The Arabian Nights' Entertainments...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!

Night's, Midsummer, Dream [ (2)

    PI 8.43 15 Better examples [of poetry] are Shakspeare's...fairies in the Midsummer Night's Dream.
    PLT 12.52 20 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece...a Hamlet, a Midsummer Night's Dream,-this continuity is for the great.

nights, n. (12)

    Tran 1.356 16 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it costs such sleepless nights...they have so many moods about it;...
    Chr1 3.104 23 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so.
    Nat2 3.189 2 Days and nights of fervid life...have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    NER 3.275 7 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart, to strike a good stroke...
    MoS 4.155 27 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream;...
    OA 7.326 11 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights.
    PI 8.55 5 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which you spend your folly!/
    PerF 10.85 3 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Supl 10.167 19 ...long nights and frost hold us pretty fast to realities.
    LLNE 10.346 3 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep, on cold nights...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    SMC 11.368 3 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours, and the nights were broken by frequent alarms.
    SMC 11.372 2 On the twenty-first, [the Thirty-second Regiment] had been, for seventeen days and nights, under arms without rest.

night's, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.196 7 It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging.

night-storm, n. (1)

    PPr 12.384 20 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating than the lightning of the night-storm...

night-warbler, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 20 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler...

night-watches, n. (1)

    PerF 10.77 14 Certain thoughts, certain observations, long familiar to me in night-watches and daylights, would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...

nil, n. (1)

    ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.

Nile River, n. (6)

    NER 3.274 23 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
    NER 3.276 18 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    Wth 6.94 23 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Plu 10.310 13 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...
    PLT 12.16 26 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who has made a chart of its channel, or approached the fountain of this wonderful Nile?
    Trag 12.412 6 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...with their stony eyes fixed on the East and on the Nile, have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

nimble, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.57 11 We become physically nimble and lightsome;...
    MN 1.205 16 See the play of thoughts! what nimble gigantic creatures are these!...
    SL 2.137 5 [Our society] is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over.
    OS 2.296 13 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble.
    Chr1 3.99 22 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    PPh 4.49 2 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble in the highest as in the lowest grounds;...
    ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    GoW 4.282 18 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble...
    ET1 5.18 9 ...[Carlyle] had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls...
    ET2 5.26 12 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles. A nimble Indian would have swum as far;...
    Wth 6.102 9 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble;...
    Clbs 7.240 9 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you...
    PI 8.72 7 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    Elo2 8.110 6 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
    PPo 8.248 26 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.
    Grts 8.318 3 Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone.
    PLT 12.19 2 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;-these are the ponderous instrumentalities into which the nimble thoughts pass...
    II 12.78 7 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will knock down the most nimble artillerists...
    Milt1 12.262 10 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...

nimble-fingered, adj. (1)

    SL 2.143 3 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and a nimble-fingered lad out of shreds of paper with his scissors...

nimbleness, n. (2)

    MR 1.228 8 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world...escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can...
    Art1 2.356 23 When [dancing] has educated the frame...to nimbleness...the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...

nimbler, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.303 4 Better than the hand and nimbler was the invisible thought which wrought through it;...

nimblest, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.192 23 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have the nimblest fancy...

nimbly, adv. (3)

    ET2 5.30 18 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he is climbing nimbly about after them;...
    ET14 5.232 20 The [English] poet nimbly recovers himself from every sally of the imagination.
    F 6.47 11 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse...

Nimrod, n. (1)

    HDC 11.37 25 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...

Nimroud, n. (1)

    WD 7.174 25 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!

Nine Acre Corner, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.

nine, adj. (24)

    Nat2 3.167 2 The rounded world is fair to see,/ Nine times folded in mystery/...
    Pol1 3.197 15 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    ET2 5.28 21 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h. 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET2 5.30 22 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys;...
    ET11 5.188 10 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET12 5.200 13 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    F 6.25 14 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old, and hence the mythology of the seven or the nine heavens.
    Pow 6.78 4 Practice is nine tenths.
    PI 8.65 23 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    QO 8.190 5 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...
    QO 8.190 6 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...
    Grts 8.308 20 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Supl 10.170 17 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine cold hurrahs.
    Supl 10.170 24 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility to the nine cold hurrahs...
    EzRy 10.386 3 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    EzRy 10.386 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had come to bad fortune or to a bad end.
    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor; the last year it expended 900 dollars.
    SMC 11.366 1 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, enlisted as nine months' men...
    CL 12.137 1 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs. These parties...stayed out till nine in the evening;...
    MAng1 12.228 18 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...

Nine, the, n. (1)

    PI 8.25 23 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.

Nine-Acre Corner, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 9 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw...Nine-Acre Corner...

ninepins, n. (1)

    Comp 2.110 26 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.

nineteen, adj. (13)

    ET12 5.200 25 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students; and nineteen most noble foundations were then established.
    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET16 5.278 12 The nineteen smaller stones of the inner circle [at Stonehenge] are of granite.
    EzRy 10.381 3 [Ezra Ripley] was the fifth of the nineteen children of Noah and Lydia (Kent) Ripley.
    EzRy 10.381 5 Seventeen of [Noah Ripley's] nineteen children married...
    EzRy 10.381 6 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...
    HDC 11.40 25 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...
    EWI 11.113 18 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling, to be divided into nineteen shares for the nineteen colonies...
    War 11.158 21 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships...
    SMC 11.368 19 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    II 12.80 21 Nineteen twentieths of their substance do trees draw from the air.
    CW 12.178 6 ...Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the atmosphere.
    Milt1 12.260 6 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...

nineteenth, adj. (27)

    LT 1.261 7 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    Hist 2.28 14 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.86 4 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    UGM 4.32 18 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
    SwM 4.102 3 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...
    MoS 4.174 26 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.204 11 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    NMW 4.223 1 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.226 1 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
    NMW 4.249 18 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    ET11 5.194 26 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
    ET13 5.221 27 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET14 5.236 26 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    ET15 5.271 15 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    WD 7.157 1 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.
    PI 8.34 16 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    SovE 10.202 19 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.
    LLNE 10.337 7 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    EzRy 10.390 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    HDC 11.77 20 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].
    FSLC 11.182 18 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat, on the 19th of April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.
    AKan 11.262 24 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    EPro 11.319 25 [Slavery] cannot be introduced as an improvement of the nineteenth century.
    Milt1 12.248 5 The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.
    WSL 12.341 2 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.

ninety, adj. (9)

    ET10 5.160 9 [Steam] makes the motor of the last ninety years.
    ET10 5.162 25 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    OA 7.332 22 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October);...
    Chr2 10.106 16 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
    LLNE 10.360 14 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
    ACiv 11.308 1 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race, as eighty or ninety years ago she was for the first...
    MAng1 12.216 2 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years, had not yet become old...
    MAng1 12.231 9 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

ninety-four, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.277 24 There are ninety-four stones [at Stonehenge]...
    OA 7.322 8 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...storming Constantinople at ninety-four...

ninety-nine, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.158 20 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and the machine dispensed with the work of ninety-nine men;...

ninety-seven, adj. (1)

    OA 7.322 11 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire, which he declined, and died doge at ninety-seven.

ninety-six, adj. (3)

    ET11 5.182 16 The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96, 000 acres in the County of Derby.
    OA 7.322 10 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...
    EzRy 10.381 7 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving...one hundred and two grandchildren and ninety-six great-grandchildren.

Nineveh, Assyria, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.91 26 In the same [English] spirit, were the excavation and research...of Layard for his Nineveh sculptures.

Nineveh, Assyria, n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 5.279 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance...which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

Ninevite, n. (1)

    QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and women, English, German, Celts, Aryan, Ninevite, Copt...

Ninigret, n. (1)

    HDC 11.57 16 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...

Ninigret's, n. (1)

    HDC 11.58 10 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.

ninth, adj. (7)

    Chr2 10.101 14 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    SovE 10.202 17 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.202 19 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.
    LS 11.3 18 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.
    HDC 11.66 22 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    SMC 11.374 11 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry...
    MAng1 12.225 18 and the city capitulated on the 9th of August.

Ninth Corps, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 9 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.

Ninth Regiment, n. (1)

    SMC 11.370 2 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.

nip, v. (1)

    Bost 12.185 18 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms.

Nisami, n. (2)

    PPo 8.237 8 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...
    PPo 8.261 17 Nithsdale, Scotland, n. (1) ET1 5.14 26 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale...

nitre, n. (1)

    UGM 4.6 7 It is easy...to nitre to be salt.

nitrogen, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.225 6 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen, and Nature has tempered the air with nitrogen.

nitrous, adj. (2)

    NER 3.258 7 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
    Ill 6.311 18 Life is sweet as nitrous oxide;...

nitrous-oxide, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 6 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.

No Government, n. (1)

    MN 1.214 24 The reforms whose fame now fills the land with...No Government...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.

No. 8, cell, n. (1)

    SMC 11.363 25 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...

Noah, n. (1)

    Nat 1.14 2 By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the face of the world changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon!

Noah's, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 22 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark...

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