Oak to Obtains

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

oak, adj. (1)

    CW 12.175 20 I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.

oak, n. (23)

    AmS 1.97 13 I will not...transplant an oak into a flower-pot...
    LE 1.169 5 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.201 15 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life...
    MN 1.222 24 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    Con 1.300 6 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    Hist 2.21 1 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced...its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
    SR 2.66 17 Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?
    Nat2 3.183 9 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us...
    NR 3.242 9 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature like an apple or an oak...
    PPh 4.76 14 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    F 6.24 14 A man ought to compare advantageously with...an oak...
    DL 7.117 19 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    Res 8.153 4 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    Comc 8.158 7 An oak or a chestnut undertakes no function it cannot execute;...
    PC 8.227 15 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
    Insp 8.290 17 Certain localities, as...natural parks of oak and pine...are excitants of the muse.
    LS 11.2 3 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    HDC 11.37 22 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    FSLN 11.222 26 [Webster] worked with...the same quiet and sure feeling of right to his place that an oak or a mountain have to theirs.
    TPar 11.284 9 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak/...
    ALin 11.330 12 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a quite native, aboriginal man, as an acorn from the oak;...
    CL 12.139 6 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...plant its miles and miles of barren waste with oak and pine...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.151 9 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe.

Oak, Talking [Alfred, Lord (1)

    EurB 12.372 15 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...

Oakdales, n. (1)

    Bost 12.198 27 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the...Oakdales and Phalanteries...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

oaken, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.200 4 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling.

oak-leaf, n. (1)

    ET19 5.312 8 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.

oak-leaves, n. (1)

    ACri 12.298 15 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...

oak-opening, n. (1)

    Farm 7.146 25 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared...

oaks, n. (9)

    Nat2 3.170 16 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    ET5 5.94 26 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    SS 7.4 13 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there...
    Farm 7.147 2 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
    PI 8.41 10 ...roses and violets renew their race like oaks...
    SlHr 10.448 7 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
    Thor 10.467 23 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America,-most of the oaks, most of the willows...
    SHC 11.433 21 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...
    SHC 11.435 10 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...

oak-stick, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.96 1 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some tough oak-stick of a man...

oak-tree, n. (2)

    Art1 2.364 11 Under an oak-tree loaded with leaves and nuts...I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Art2 7.41 4 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree...

oak-trees, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.199 12 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre...

oar, n. (5)

    SR 2.78 1 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    ET5 5.80 13 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is a logic that brings...oar to boat;...
    ET14 5.233 5 [The Englishman] loves the axe, the spade, the oar, the gun, the steam-pipe;...
    PerF 10.81 27 ...if we go to the regatta, we forget the bowler for the stroke oar;...
    SovE 10.196 17 ...when we have conversed with navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.

oars, n. (4)

    ET4 5.58 20 ...oars, scythes, harpoons...are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.
    ET5 5.101 13 ...the [English] sailor times his oars to God save the King!
    Suc 7.284 4 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
    PI 8.6 24 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...

oath, n. (20)

    MR 1.231 27 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
    YA 1.390 6 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood, to succor the helpless and oppressed;...
    SL 2.153 2 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed. It must affirm itself, or no forms of logic or of oath can give it evidence.
    Cir 2.320 2 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    ET6 5.109 25 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...
    F 6.29 5 Each pulse from that heart [the moral sentiment] is an oath from the Most High.
    CbW 6.274 18 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    Boks 7.221 3 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it, and shall report on it as under oath;...
    SA 8.97 9 ...there are people...who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishness is the only culture;...
    Chr2 10.109 27 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross...
    Schr 10.261 2 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    FSLC 11.191 20 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.
    FSLN 11.244 6 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.
    JBS 11.278 18 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    JBS 11.278 23 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was...the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years before.
    JBS 11.281 4 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood?
    SMC 11.363 11 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath.
    SHC 11.436 6 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul? Here will burn for us, as the oath of God, the sublime belief.
    Milt1 12.264 7 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
    ACri 12.288 9 ...I confess to some titillation of my ears from a rattling oath.

oaths, n. (5)

    MR 1.232 9 I leave for those who have the knowledge the part of sifting the oaths of our custom-houses;...
    PPh 4.46 1 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women... blunder and quarrel...their speech if full of oaths.
    ET13 5.227 15 The modes of initiation [in the English Church] are more damaging than custom-house oaths.
    Schr 10.281 3 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts, but do not prevail so far as to establish the new kingdom which shall supersede contracts, oaths and property.
    War 11.164 20 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.

Oaths, n. (1)

    LT 1.269 10 The leaders of the crusades against War...Court and Custom-house Oaths...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...

obbedisce, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 4 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

obduracy, n. (1)

    LT 1.280 16 I am not mortified by our vice; that is obduracy;...

obdurate, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.98 4 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments; their majesty is felt by the most obdurate.

Obeahs, n. (1)

    EWI 11.103 13 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.

obedience, n. (53)

    LE 1.181 7 Let [the scholar] know that...in the private obedience to his mind;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    MN 1.199 27 ...nature descends always from above. It is unbroken obedience.
    MR 1.249 16 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    Tran 1.338 27 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish?
    Tran 1.352 19 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
    Hist 2.28 23 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience...is a familiar fact...
    Hist 2.33 4 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
    SR 2.70 3 Who has more obedience than I masters me...
    SR 2.72 16 If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations;...
    Comp 2.114 23 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives.
    SL 2.138 27 ...by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.
    Hsm1 2.251 13 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.
    OS 2.276 21 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    OS 2.281 14 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience, and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception.
    NER 3.284 21 Obedience to [a man's] genius is the only liberating influence.
    NER 3.284 26 ...only by obedience to his genius...does an angel seem to arise before a man...
    SwM 4.140 24 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...
    ET6 5.104 20 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will;...
    ET8 5.131 23 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience...
    ET17 5.291 17 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    F 6.4 14 By the same obedience to other thoughts we learn [their power]...
    Wth 6.101 9 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept up:--and he might have added that the way in which it must be begun and kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
    Wth 6.101 13 Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world, and since those laws are intellectual and moral, an intellectual and moral obedience.
    Wsp 6.240 16 ...the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    PI 8.30 22 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.
    Insp 8.281 4 The perfection of writing is...when the mind finds perfect obedience in the body.
    Insp 8.297 11 These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers of the human soul.
    Dem1 10.6 12 In a dream we have the instinctive obedience, the same torpidity of the highest power...as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
    Aris 10.61 20 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world;...
    PerF 10.84 4 Obedience alone gives the right to command.
    PerF 10.84 8 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    Chr2 10.103 15 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Edc1 10.154 22 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...and get obedience without words...
    SovE 10.194 27 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he...exists only in obedience and love of the Author.
    SovE 10.198 3 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will. Character is the habit of this obedience...
    SovE 10.208 4 We cannot disenchant, we cannot impoverish ourselves, by obedience;...
    SovE 10.208 5 ...by obedience we command...
    Schr 10.269 16 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action?
    LLNE 10.353 18 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    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...
    SlHr 10.439 9 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of justice, and a perfect obedience thereto in his action;...
    HDC 11.45 22 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience...
    EWI 11.101 12 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants, their silent obedience...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    EWI 11.102 24 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    FSLC 11.181 15 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FRep 11.530 3 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    NHI 12.2 1 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    II 12.87 11 Obedience to its genius...is the particular of faith;...
    Mem 12.110 11 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us...
    CInt 12.123 16 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...
    Bost 12.204 18 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law;...
    Bost 12.205 2 [The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
    Milt1 12.265 5 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...

obedient, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.76 5 ...to pure spirit [nature]...is obedient.
    SL 2.142 21 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
    ET10 5.159 2 Iron and steel are very obedient.
    F 6.21 19 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.
    WD 7.180 26 Cannot we be a little abstemious and obedient?
    War 11.164 16 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    FRep 11.514 5 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd, however at first making his obedient apprenticeship in party tactics...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    CInt 12.123 24 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought]...
    CL 12.167 7 ...as soon as man...knows that Nature and he are from one source, and that he, when humble and obedient, is nearer to the source... then Nature has a lord.
    Pray 12.353 2 My Father, when I cannot be cheerful or happy, I can be true and obedient...

obeisance, n. (1)

    Carl 10.495 4 Nor can that decorum...in attaining which the Englishman exceeds all nations, win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.

obelisk, n. (6)

    Art2 7.54 15 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk;...
    Art2 7.54 23 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.
    SMC 11.350 15 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    SMC 11.350 25 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SMC 11.374 22 Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the names of the dead.
    MLit 12.324 25 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

Oberlins, n. (1)

    DSA 1.145 23 Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins...

obey, v. (71)

    Nat 1.20 12 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;...
    DSA 1.132 1 The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
    LE 1.155 3 The invitation to address you this day...was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
    LE 1.165 11 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    MN 1.209 20 If the man will exactly obey [that well-known voice], it will adopt him...
    Con 1.307 16 [The youth says] Like the Persian noble of old, I ask that I may neither command nor obey.
    Tran 1.357 23 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius then most when his impulse is wildest;...
    YA 1.387 17 I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart and be the nobility of this land.
    SR 2.73 1 ...henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.
    SR 2.79 7 Speak thou, speak any man with us, and we will obey.
    SR 2.84 6 ...obey thy heart...
    SL 2.139 11 We need only obey.
    Prd1 2.228 7 If you think the senses final, obey their law.
    Hsm1 2.253 12 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I will obey the God, and the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
    OS 2.271 17 All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
    Cir 2.318 8 ...lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my own whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.
    Art1 2.368 23 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Exp 3.70 25 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will.
    Pol1 3.208 4 Good men must not obey the laws too well.
    Pol1 3.215 9 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.
    NR 3.234 21 We obey the same intellectual integrity when we study in exceptions the law of the world.
    NER 3.283 11 Pitiless, [the Law] avails itself of our success when we obey it, and of our ruin when we contravene it.
    ShP 4.206 19 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate their lives to this genius [Shakespeare]; him they crown, elucidate, obey and express.
    ET3 5.36 1 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress. Those who resist it do not feel it or obey it less.
    ET8 5.142 15 [The English] wish neither to command nor obey...
    F 6.3 15 We can only obey our own polarity.
    Bhr 6.181 17 The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    Wsp 6.214 24 ...obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
    Bty 6.306 8 An adorer of truth we cannot choose but obey...
    Ill 6.325 17 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd...whose movement and doings he must obey;...
    DL 7.109 6 Does the household obey an idea?
    Farm 7.144 7 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    WD 7.163 13 Things begin to obey [man].
    Cour 7.277 9 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...
    OA 7.314 4 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    OA 7.322 4 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...
    PI 8.22 17 [Man] wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him.
    PI 8.50 7 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    PC 8.231 2 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve, denying you, but not less forced to obey.
    Grts 8.307 14 ...every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
    Grts 8.310 1 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. Very well,-I let it lie, thinking it may pass away, but if it do not pass away I yield to it, obey it.
    Grts 8.310 21 ...if the first rule is to obey your native bias...the second rule is concentration...
    Grts 8.316 25 Intellect...will see the force of morals over men, if it does not itself obey.
    Imtl 8.345 6 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey...
    PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person... competent to rule, willing to obey.
    Edc1 10.135 20 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.
    Edc1 10.151 4 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    Schr 10.279 26 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are...all wasted and mischievous when they assume to lead and not obey.
    CSC 10.376 15 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    MMEm 10.416 11 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    Carl 10.493 6 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    GSt 10.505 4 ...virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    LS 11.19 12 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    LS 11.21 14 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...
    HDC 11.52 2 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language? If a man be wise, and his sachem weak, must he obey him?
    FSLC 11.191 20 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.
    FSLC 11.191 26 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    FSLC 11.198 3 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without loss of self-respect...
    FSLN 11.234 23 Covenants are of no use without honest men to keep them; laws of none but with loyal citizens to obey them.
    ACiv 11.303 1 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would leave the government behind...
    ALin 11.331 21 ...[Lincoln] had a strong sense of duty, which it was very easy for him to obey.
    FRep 11.536 13 A man for success...must obey ideas...
    PLT 12.14 7 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...hear and save its oracles and obey them.
    PLT 12.31 16 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
    PLT 12.61 20 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    CInt 12.115 10 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...
    CInt 12.119 26 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that...they serve him with a million hands just as implicitly as his own members obey him.
    MAng1 12.236 1 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.
    ACri 12.303 2 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    EurB 12.367 25 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
    EurB 12.376 26 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister], by which each was dignified and all were dignified; then each was to obey his genius to the length of abandonment.

obeyed, v. (14)

    ET15 5.263 9 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper. No power in England is more felt, more feared, or more obeyed.
    F 6.43 22 What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
    Wth 6.83 5 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/ What god the element obeyed?/
    OA 7.314 4 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    QO 8.204 14 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    Insp 8.297 16 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints, which ever become clearer and grander as they are obeyed.
    Chr2 10.95 25 This wonderful [moral] sentiment, which endears itself as it is obeyed, seems to be the fountain of the intellect;...
    Schr 10.283 23 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit] becomes active and salient...
    Schr 10.286 5 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...will and must be finally obeyed and done.
    EzRy 10.389 5 [Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and ran fine to the last.
    FSLC 11.206 16 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion. The law is suicidal, and cannot be obeyed.
    EdAd 11.393 6 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...
    CInt 12.114 14 When the war came to his own city, [Michaelangelo]... defended Florence as long as he was obeyed.
    EurB 12.374 10 ...[the complete man] would be obeyed as naturally as the rain and the sunshine are.

obeyer, n. (1)

    PC 8.220 18 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher, the perceiver and obeyer of truth,-than the foolish and sensual millions around them!

obeyers, n. (2)

    Schr 10.268 26 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.
    FRep 11.538 22 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful obeyers of duty...

obeying, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.198 3 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without loss of self-respect...

obeying, v. (16)

    DSA 1.137 5 The test of the true faith...should be its power to charm...the soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
    Hist 2.13 5 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them...
    SR 2.47 25 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort...
    Pol1 3.208 24 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and obeying personal considerations, throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    ET14 5.241 25 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature is commanded by obeying her;...
    ET18 5.304 1 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
    F 6.4 11 By obeying each thought frankly...we learn at last its power.
    F 6.28 7 Of two men, each obeying his own thought, he whose thought is deepest will be the strongest character.
    Civ 7.23 20 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Grts 8.302 4 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
    Imtl 8.345 6 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life...
    FRep 11.514 7 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    II 12.77 19 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    II 12.82 11 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias, in obeying which his power, opportunity and happiness reside.
    Bost 12.188 16 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of principle, obeying a sentiment...
    Milt1 12.267 14 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures... dignity by lowliness? Obeying this sentiment, Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../

obeys, v. (18)

    MN 1.204 6 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
    OS 2.275 24 Within the same sentiment is the germ of intellectual growth, which obeys the same law.
    Cir 2.303 25 ...[a man] has a helm which he obeys...
    Pt1 3.35 21 Everything on which [Swedenborg's] eye rests, obeys the impulses of moral nature.
    SwM 4.130 14 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...
    Bhr 6.178 12 The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
    Comc 8.171 8 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress; and another whose dress obeys and heightens the expression of her form.
    PC 8.220 12 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;...
    PC 8.226 22 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it, and the hand obeys the same lesson.
    Grts 8.307 15 ...it is only as [a man] feels and obeys [his bias] that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world.
    Dem1 10.22 8 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he...obeys a high family destiny;...
    PerF 10.83 10 [The susceptible man]...obeys a preexisting right which he sees.
    Chr2 10.121 6 In a sensible family...nobody commands, and nobody obeys...
    Supl 10.175 13 [Nature's] communication obeys the gospel rule, yea or nay.
    Prch 10.228 20 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    FSLC 11.203 26 [Webster] obeys his powerful animal nature;...
    PLT 12.21 18 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    MAng1 12.213 5 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.

obituaries, n. (1)

    NR 3.244 8 ...men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries...

object, n. (171)

    Nat 1.15 19 There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.
    Nat 1.22 15 There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be viewed, namely, as it becomes an object of the intellect.
    Nat 1.24 4 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
    Nat 1.35 23 ...every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul.
    Nat 1.35 25 That which was unconscious truth, becomes, when interpreted and defined in an object, a part of the domain of knowledge...
    Nat 1.46 17 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.47 3 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
    Nat 1.59 14 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life...
    Nat 1.74 19 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    AmS 1.96 19 Henceforth [the new deed] is an object of beauty...
    LE 1.184 26 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...
    LE 1.186 9 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...
    MN 1.213 10 ...all knowledge is assimilation to the object of knowledge...
    MN 1.214 17 ...a man never sees the same object twice...
    MN 1.214 18 ...a man never sees the same object twice: with his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects.
    MN 1.217 10 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object...
    MN 1.217 10 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object, blending for the time that object with the real and only good...
    MN 1.217 17 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved...
    MN 1.217 19 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it.
    MN 1.217 23 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind, and the wisdom it brought him; and it craves a new and higher object.
    MN 1.222 8 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly, they woo and court us from every object in nature...
    Con 1.301 20 ...men are...very foolish children, who...are the victims at all times of the nearest object.
    Tran 1.331 2 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    YA 1.365 12 ...scientific agriculture is an object of growing attention;...
    Hist 2.36 10 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    Hist 2.38 6 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock...
    Comp 2.105 24 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see God whole in each object...
    Comp 2.105 26 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
    SL 2.147 2 No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes is the object.
    SL 2.161 22 The object of the man...is to make daylight shine through him...
    Lov1 2.175 20 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Lov1 2.177 25 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
    Lov1 2.184 21 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
    Lov1 2.187 12 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Fdsp 2.216 22 True love transcends the unworthy object...
    Fdsp 2.217 4 [Friendship] treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.
    Prd1 2.237 14 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension...
    Hsm1 2.246 11 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell;.../
    OS 2.269 15 ...the subject and the object, are one.
    Int 2.326 11 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science...
    Int 2.327 10 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Int 2.335 19 To be communicable [the thought] must become picture or sensible object.
    Int 2.335 24 ...only when [the ray of light] falls on an object is it seen.
    Art1 2.354 11 The virtue of art lies...in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety.
    Art1 2.354 23 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
    Art1 2.355 3 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Art1 2.355 7 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
    Art1 2.355 8 ...every object has its roots in central nature...
    Art1 2.355 17 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole...
    Pt1 3.13 13 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object...
    Pt1 3.20 15 The poet...puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object.
    Pt1 3.36 9 There was this perception in [Swedenborg] which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
    Exp 3.46 22 Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
    Exp 3.77 9 Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
    Exp 3.77 14 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
    Exp 3.79 23 Thus inevitably does...every object fall successively into the subject itself.
    Exp 3.80 22 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    Chr1 3.96 18 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun...
    Nat2 3.172 10 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    Nat2 3.182 11 ...from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    Nat2 3.191 15 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    Nat2 3.192 18 ...the poet finds himself not near enough to his object.
    Nat2 3.192 26 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Nat2 3.196 22 Every moment instructs, and every object;...
    NR 3.243 17 As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.
    NR 3.243 18 As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.
    NR 3.243 26 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it...
    NR 3.244 3 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation...
    NER 3.265 1 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
    PPh 4.54 26 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.56 5 Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety; that is, always by an object or symbol.
    PPh 4.62 25 ...to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to it.
    SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.121 3 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...
    MoS 4.150 24 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object.
    MoS 4.150 27 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    ShP 4.202 7 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...
    NMW 4.233 26 [Napoleon] would shorten a straight line to come at his object.
    NMW 4.234 7 [Napoleon] saw only the object: and the obstacle must give way.
    GoW 4.261 22 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent.
    GoW 4.265 9 Society has, at all times, the same want, namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations.
    GoW 4.265 14 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and, by detaching the object from its relations, easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET3 5.38 2 I reply to all the urgencies that refer me to this and that object indispensably to be seen,--Yes, to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    ET15 5.267 24 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    F 6.41 9 We know what madness belongs to love,-what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
    Wth 6.116 20 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
    Ctr 6.135 1 [Our student] must have...a power to see with a free and disengaged look every object.
    Ctr 6.135 8 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    Ctr 6.135 9 Though [men] talk of the object before them, they are thinking of themselves...
    Ctr 6.158 18 Bonaparte, like Caesar...could look at every object for itself...
    Bhr 6.192 3 [The boy in earlier novels] was in want of a wife and a castle, and the object of the story was to supply him with one or both.
    Wsp 6.228 14 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect, drew back with anger...
    Bty 6.286 3 No object really interests us but man...
    Bty 6.294 27 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent...
    Bty 6.303 6 [Beauty] instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon.
    Bty 6.303 20 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world, and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality.
    Bty 6.305 4 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine...
    Art2 7.55 3 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
    Elo1 7.89 9 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting;...
    Elo1 7.100 3 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
    WD 7.181 17 The days at Belleisle were all different, and only joined by a perfect love of the same object.
    Cour 7.275 11 ...the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    OA 7.328 20 Youth has an excess of sensibility, before which every object glitters and attracts.
    PI 8.9 19 Every object [the student] beholds is the mask of a man.
    PI 8.11 17 The lover sees reminders of his mistress in every beautiful object;...
    PI 8.15 24 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
    PI 8.17 7 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away...
    SA 8.104 25 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;...
    SA 8.105 6 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    Elo2 8.118 19 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
    Comc 8.158 24 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    Comc 8.159 2 Separate any object...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...
    PPo 8.247 7 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature... which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and syllable significant, are in Hafiz...
    Insp 8.275 5 What is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but this daring of ruin for its object?
    Imtl 8.351 4 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man.
    Imtl 8.351 7 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
    Imtl 8.351 8 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
    Aris 10.38 17 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
    Chr2 10.91 19 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Edc1 10.129 19 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
    Edc1 10.135 5 The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life.
    Edc1 10.135 6 The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life.
    Supl 10.173 18 ...the luminous object wastes itself by its shining...
    SovE 10.201 27 It is a necessity of the human mind that he who looks at one object should look away from all other objects.
    Prch 10.222 16 ...religion has an object.
    Prch 10.222 18 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains forever unhurt and identical.
    Schr 10.272 16 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in any object of Nature, or in any handiwork of man;...
    Schr 10.274 23 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.
    Schr 10.283 18 Whatever object is brought before [mother-wit] is already well known to it.
    MMEm 10.431 18 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
    Thor 10.479 18 The tendency...to read all the laws of Nature in the one object or one combination under your eye, is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    Carl 10.494 10 A natural defender of anything...[Carlyle] respects; and the nobler this object, of course, the better.
    Carl 10.495 18 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence...
    LS 11.20 13 The general object and effect of the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] is unexceptionable.
    LS 11.21 22 [Christianity] has for its object simply to make men good and wise.
    FSLN 11.233 9 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    ACiv 11.297 24 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government.
    ACiv 11.309 20 Morality is the object of government.
    Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    Wom 11.407 8 When women engage in any art or trade, it is usually as a resource, not as a primary object.
    Wom 11.413 25 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
    FRep 11.541 1 Morality is the object of government.
    PLT 12.5 20 Every object in Nature is a word to signify some fact in the mind.
    PLT 12.39 1 A man is intellectual in proportion as he can make an object of every sensation, perception and intuition;...
    PLT 12.39 19 An intellectual man has the power to go out of himself and see himself as an object;...
    PLT 12.40 4 [A perception] lifts the object, whether in material or moral nature, into a type.
    PLT 12.40 14 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.44 9 This slight discontinuity which perception effects between the mind and the object paralyzes the will.
    PLT 12.44 23 Affection blends, intellect disjoins subject and object.
    II 12.66 21 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's] experience is invariably identical in a million individuals.
    Mem 12.107 23 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was, a mere sensuous object before the eye or ear, but a reminder of its law...
    Mem 12.107 27 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object...
    CL 12.164 23 ...as man is the object of Nature, what we study in Nature is man.
    Bost 12.192 20 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified.
    MAng1 12.217 14 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
    MAng1 12.218 27 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
    MAng1 12.221 25 Man is the highest, and indeed the only proper object of plastic art.
    MAng1 12.222 5 ...behold the effect of this familiar object [the human form] every day!
    MAng1 12.223 8 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.
    MAng1 12.229 23 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.
    MAng1 12.235 1 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied...the characters I have painted were...holy men, with whom gold was an object of contempt.
    MAng1 12.236 24 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with, and this was the capital object of his wishes...
    MAng1 12.241 2 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous, and having for its object to extinguish in youth every improper desire...
    Milt1 12.256 5 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
    ACri 12.300 17 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience...
    MLit 12.313 1 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me? and what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I? And this is called subjectiveness, as the eye is withdrawn from the object and fixed on the subject or mind.
    MLit 12.328 2 Here was a man [Goethe] who...went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
    MLit 12.335 4 ...a love that fainteth at the sight of its object, is new to-day.
    PPr 12.386 8 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...
    Let 12.396 22 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

object, v. (1)

    FRO2 11.488 10 I object...to the claim of miraculous dispensation...

objected, v. (3)

    Aris 10.57 12 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...
    Thor 10.457 6 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course...
    TPar 11.287 17 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions.

objection, n. (31)

    Con 1.318 17 The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
    Tran 1.355 26 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.383 27 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    SR 2.54 5 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
    SR 2.81 11 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...
    SL 2.164 12 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objection to much of our reading?
    Exp 3.59 13 ...the practical wisdom infers an indifferency, from the omnipresence of objection.
    Exp 3.76 25 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...
    NER 3.261 25 Do not be so vain of your one objection.
    NMW 4.248 7 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties,--made infinite objection...
    Wsp 6.230 19 Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer an objection to it?
    Civ 7.27 24 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...the river is good-natured, and never hints an objection.
    Civ 7.28 8 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had no carpet-bag...
    Supl 10.172 14 The objection to unmeasured speech is its lie.
    Schr 10.280 21 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Plu 10.320 2 [Plutarch] has an objection to the introduction of music at feasts.
    LS 11.17 8 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    LS 11.19 13 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    LS 11.19 16 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance.
    LS 11.19 17 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance. It is my own objection.
    LS 11.23 25 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
    HDC 11.47 12 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight.
    ACiv 11.307 20 ...whilst Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.
    ACiv 11.309 9 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...
    SMC 11.364 13 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do so. He said he had no objection...
    Wom 11.421 3 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
    Wom 11.421 18 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended. I could heartily wish the objection were sound.
    II 12.67 26 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    EurB 12.370 10 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth;...
    PPr 12.385 22 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel.
    Let 12.395 11 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.

objections, n. (22)

    MR 1.228 27 What if some of the objections whereby our institutions are assailed are extreme and speculative...
    Tran 1.352 2 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    Tran 1.352 4 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems...not so easy to dispose of the doubts and objections that occur to themselves.
    Exp 3.59 9 Objections and criticism we have had our fill of.
    Exp 3.59 11 There are objections to every course of life and action...
    NER 3.278 4 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    MoS 4.157 2 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    MoS 4.173 20 I shall not take Sunday objections, made up on purpose to be put down.
    MoS 4.183 7 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections...
    NMW 4.248 9 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...mustered all the impediments; but he snapped his finger at their objections.
    ET16 5.287 10 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance, and anticipated the objections and the fun...
    DL 7.114 23 ...[wealth] cannot be the right answer; there are objections to wealth.
    Boks 7.191 18 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
    LLNE 10.365 9 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    LS 11.16 22 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    LS 11.18 26 Passing other objections, I come to this, that the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    LS 11.23 13 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter.
    EWI 11.114 12 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    War 11.162 20 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    War 11.167 15 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
    Wom 11.421 12 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    CPL 11.501 16 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections...I have little to say.

objective, adj. (11)

    Hist 2.31 2 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Comp 2.97 7 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...subjective, objective;...
    Exp 3.79 20 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil. This it is not; it has an objective existence, but no subjective.
    SwM 4.124 24 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    PI 8.27 9 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
    Imtl 8.344 7 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But so soon as the man will be objective and go out of himself...he is lost in contradiction.
    Dem1 10.8 3 [Dreams] have a double consciousness, at once sub-and ob-jective.
    Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
    Plu 10.298 4 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in...his sharp, objective eyes.
    Plu 10.300 23 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
    MLit 12.319 2 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency; their poetry is objective.

objectless, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.130 18 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.

objector, n. (1)

    OS 2.267 11 We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope.

objects, n. (163)

    Nat 1.7 21 ...all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
    Nat 1.8 11 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects.
    Nat 1.15 13 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects...into a well colored and shaded globe...
    Nat 1.15 15 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    Nat 1.21 20 ...among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.27 24 ...man...studies relations in all objects.
    Nat 1.27 27 ...neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.
    Nat 1.32 7 We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings.
    Nat 1.35 1 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.35 17 By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature...
    Nat 1.35 22 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    Nat 1.36 20 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Nat 1.40 16 Sensible objects conform to the premonitions of Reason...
    Nat 1.43 19 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    Nat 1.47 17 In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Nat 1.50 3 [Grace and expression]...abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects.
    Nat 1.51 5 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    Nat 1.52 23 ...all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.
    Nat 1.53 24 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Nat 1.57 4 As objects of science [ideas] are accessible to few men.
    Nat 1.74 25 It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects.
    AmS 1.86 1 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic...
    AmS 1.114 17 The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
    DSA 1.122 4 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue]...
    MN 1.200 1 The beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a metaphysical and eternal spring.
    MN 1.212 27 ...[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, and fill that realm with their fame. So is it with all immaterial objects.
    MN 1.216 3 The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
    Con 1.325 5 Wherever there are men, are the objects of my study and love.
    Tran 1.329 7 The light...falls on a great variety of objects...
    Tran 1.329 10 ...thought only appears in the objects it classifies.
    Tran 1.333 5 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers...or amount of objects...
    Hist 2.12 14 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance;...
    Hist 2.23 5 ...perhaps [the healthy man's] facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes.
    Hist 2.23 10 ...this intellectual nomadism, in its excess, bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects.
    SR 2.79 17 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought] touches...is [the pupil's] complacency.
    Lov1 2.181 10 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and unable to see any other objects than those of this world...
    Lov1 2.181 22 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Lov1 2.188 12 ...the objects of the affections change...
    Lov1 2.188 13 ...the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.
    Fdsp 2.215 20 ...next week I shall have languid moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
    Hsm1 2.251 27 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    Hsm1 2.259 19 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye...
    Cir 2.316 2 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.
    Int 2.326 24 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Int 2.341 10 ...the truth was in us before it was reflected to us from natural objects;...
    Art1 2.355 23 ...it is the right and property of all natural objects...to be for their moment the top of the world.
    Art1 2.356 8 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world...
    Art1 2.358 15 Since what skill is...shown [in a work of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...it should produce a similar impression to that made by natural objects.
    Pt1 3.25 1 ...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...
    Pt1 3.29 10 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
    Pt1 3.34 11 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.
    Exp 3.48 20 ...souls never touch their objects.
    Exp 3.49 19 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects...to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    Exp 3.55 5 The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects.
    Exp 3.55 13 We need change of objects.
    Exp 3.76 2 ...perhaps there are no objects.
    Exp 3.76 6 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Exp 3.80 8 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
    Chr1 3.92 15 In the new objects we recognize the old game...
    Mrs1 3.130 17 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.
    Mrs1 3.136 27 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    Mrs1 3.149 7 A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature...
    Gts 3.162 18 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Nat2 3.183 4 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...
    Nat2 3.195 20 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol... of our condensation and acceleration of objects;...
    Nat2 3.196 15 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought. Hence the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of natural objects...
    Pol1 3.201 22 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    UGM 4.29 9 [Children] shed their own abundant beauty on the objects they behold.
    PPh 4.68 27 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images...
    SwM 4.118 7 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties...that each man would ask of all objects what they mean...
    SwM 4.120 10 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added...that these, when they saw terrestrial objects, did not think at all about them, but only about those which they signified.
    SwM 4.122 24 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects, and showed their origin and meaning...
    MoS 4.183 18 This faith avails to the whole emergency of life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
    ShP 4.214 6 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine, and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million. There are always objects; but there was never representation.
    ShP 4.218 27 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...
    NMW 4.228 2 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside.
    GoW 4.262 10 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life...
    ET1 5.15 17 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    ET1 5.15 20 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle];...
    ET7 5.122 13 [Englishmen] like a man committed to his objects.
    ET10 5.170 26 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects.
    ET14 5.237 12 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    ET14 5.255 23 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.
    ET15 5.263 20 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen, unflinching adherence to its objects...
    ET16 5.274 1 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.
    ET16 5.279 2 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance, so whimsical in its choice of objects, which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    Wth 6.113 21 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    Ctr 6.135 4 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Ctr 6.153 15 You say the gods ought to respect a life whose objects are their own;...
    Ctr 6.159 17 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished...
    Bhr 6.184 18 ...to youths or maidens who have great objects at heart, we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    Wsp 6.238 8 The great class...the men who could not make their hands meet around their objects...suggest what they cannot execute.
    CbW 6.258 2 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on objects which have a brief importance...he prefers it to the universe...
    CbW 6.271 8 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces...
    CbW 6.277 7 How respectable the life that clings to its objects!
    Bty 6.281 6 ...how far off and at arm's length [our science] is from its objects!
    Bty 6.288 15 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
    Bty 6.295 1 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.
    Bty 6.295 24 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Temple of Vesta? These are objects of tenderness to all.
    Ill 6.310 3 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    Ill 6.312 12 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
    Art2 7.42 15 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
    DL 7.104 10 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered...by the extent of natural objects...
    DL 7.118 17 ...the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere;...
    DL 7.129 26 ...let [a man] not think that a property in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...
    Boks 7.205 7 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down--with notice of all remarkable objects on the way--through fourteen hundred years of time.
    Clbs 7.225 12 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Clbs 7.225 13 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Suc 7.295 27 'T is the fulness of man that runs over into objects...
    Suc 7.302 9 The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects...
    PI 8.7 10 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...
    PI 8.8 19 Natural objects, if individually described and out of connection, are not yet known...
    PI 8.12 8 God himself...communicates with us by...dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.
    PI 8.17 2 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PI 8.22 15 Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.
    PI 8.28 20 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    PI 8.45 15 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected.
    PI 8.53 17 Poetry being an attempt to express...the beauty and soul in [the hero's] aspect as it shines to fancy and feeling; and so of all other objects in Nature; runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    Insp 8.274 22 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
    Insp 8.281 27 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Insp 8.290 24 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
    Imtl 8.336 5 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.
    Imtl 8.351 5 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man. But thou, considering the objects of desire, hast abandoned them.
    Aris 10.41 7 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects.
    Aris 10.55 3 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
    Supl 10.163 20 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the objects were monsters and extremes.
    Supl 10.171 18 Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought.
    SovE 10.202 1 It is a necessity of the human mind that he who looks at one object should look away from all other objects.
    SovE 10.206 1 We delight in children...because of their reverence for their seniors, and for their objects of belief.
    SovE 10.206 10 You cannot impoverish man by taking away these objects above him without ruin.
    SovE 10.207 3 In religion too we want objects above;...
    SovE 10.207 12 It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
    CSC 10.373 22 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    EzRy 10.393 3 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...all the common objects that engage the thought of the farmer.
    MMEm 10.418 7 Weary at times of objects so tedious to hear and see.
    MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply; to lose external objects a little more!
    Thor 10.453 15 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    EWI 11.146 19 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes...those whose attention should be nailed to the grand objects of this cause [emancipation], so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    War 11.155 8 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    Wom 11.412 17 [Women] emit from their pores a colored atmosphere...and see all objects through this warm-tinted mist that envelops them.
    Wom 11.418 18 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...
    Humb 11.458 7 ...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects of his researches.
    PLT 12.4 6 [These higher laws] also are objects of science...
    PLT 12.10 15 A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
    PLT 12.10 22 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to hold them fast, as objects of examination...
    PLT 12.12 25 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
    PLT 12.16 15 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures;...
    PLT 12.34 19 ...though [instinct] does not show objects, yet it shows the way.
    PLT 12.56 1 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...
    II 12.66 3 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.68 12 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
    CL 12.164 15 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.
    CW 12.174 26 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.
    MAng1 12.217 4 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful, and that, by the contemplation of such objects, he is taught and exalted.
    MAng1 12.217 24 There is no standard whereby the understanding can determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
    MAng1 12.218 14 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.
    MLit 12.313 10 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects...
    MLit 12.324 19 This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what they are.
    WSL 12.342 8 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects...
    EurB 12.366 10 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    PPr 12.380 4 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but to dispose objects in their right places...
    PPr 12.387 14 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
    Trag 12.407 6 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.

oblations, n. (1)

    CL 12.149 8 The Hindoos called fire Agni...bearer of oblations...

obligable, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.277 21 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not.

obligated, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.237 21 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual.

obligation, n. (10)

    Con 1.305 6 ...you cannot...attain liberty without rejecting obligation...
    Hist 2.31 5 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous.
    SR 2.52 5 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    Hsm1 2.254 4 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    ShP 4.215 24 [The poet] loves virtue, not for its obligation but for its grace...
    ShP 4.219 4 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...an obligation, a sadness...fell on them...
    Cour 7.267 16 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men...
    SovE 10.209 15 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are... recorded for their beauty, for the delight they give, not for their obligation;...
    LLNE 10.348 1 Fourier...has put men under the obligation which a generous mind always confers...
    FSLC 11.190 3 The laws especially draw their obligation only from their concurrence with [the spiritual element].

obligations, n. (3)

    CbW 6.277 20 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not.
    Aris 10.55 13 ...the thought has...no low obligations or relations...
    LVB 11.95 16 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

oblige, v. (4)

    Mrs1 3.141 3 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature,--expressing all degrees of generosity, from the lowest willingness and faculty to oblige, up to the heights of magnanimity and love.
    PC 8.230 9 It is an old legend of just men, Noblesse oblige;...
    Plu 10.308 22 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    FSLC 11.191 22 No engagement (to a sovereign) can oblige or even authorize a man to violate the laws of Nature.

obliged, adj. (3)

    Gts 3.163 20 ...the expectation of gratitude...is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person.
    ET18 5.302 2 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they shall be of any nation at war with us. It is a statute and obliged hospitality and peremptorily maintained.
    HDC 11.68 14 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of;...

obliged, v. (8)

    Pt1 3.9 9 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    NMW 4.225 20 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    WD 7.168 3 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.
    Suc 7.285 21 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they...would be obliged to go on a voyage of discovery as much as if they had never been there before.
    Plu 10.315 22 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.
    EWI 11.104 27 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    EWI 11.109 25 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce. The planters were obliged to give way;...
    MAng1 12.224 23 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient, and the Prince was obliged to turn his siege into a blockade.

obliging, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.316 5 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.

oblique, adj. (4)

    Exp 3.50 2 Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
    Gts 3.164 20 We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one;...
    SwM 4.94 17 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book. A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply;...
    NMW 4.243 27 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...

obliquely, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.68 15 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...

obliterate, v. (1)

    Insp 8.290 25 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.

obliterated, adj. (1)

    LE 1.163 18 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...

obliterated, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.170 26 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present...

oblivion, n. (5)

    DSA 1.132 6 Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me...
    SwM 4.98 18 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.
    PI 8.51 13 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied...the misty vaporousness of oblivion.
    Mem 12.99 18 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion?...
    Milt1 12.251 26 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.

Oblivion, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 17 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid...

obloquy, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.278 10 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce; an essay, which, from the first, until now, has brought a degree of obloquy on his name.

obscene, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.112 3 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing.
    Pt1 3.17 16 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
    Aris 10.52 17 To live without duties is obscene.

obscene, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.17 17 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.

obscura, camera, n. [obscura,] (2)

    Nat 1.51 7 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
    LT 1.261 26 Whilst the Daguerreotypist, with camera-obscura and silver plate, begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...

obscure, adj. (27)

    Nat 1.73 8 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...
    AmS 1.100 26 ...[the scholar]...cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    MR 1.233 8 [The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it. What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread.
    Tran 1.335 11 Am I vicious and insane? my fortunes will seem to you obscure and descending.
    Hist 2.6 7 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day...
    Hist 2.34 19 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    SL 2.143 7 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written...
    Hsm1 2.262 23 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    Int 2.345 5 Say then, instead of too timidly poring into his obscure sense, that [the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Pol1 3.204 5 ...there is an instinctive sense, however obscure and yet inarticulate, that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    ShP 4.218 23 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ET1 5.4 25 It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    Ctr 6.155 26 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
    Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My race may not be prospering; we are sick, ugly, obscure, unpopular.
    Bty 6.306 4 Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;...
    PC 8.231 23 The great are not tender at being obscure...
    Dem1 10.5 27 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Chr2 10.98 1 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    Edc1 10.141 16 The obscure youth learns [in solitude] the practice instead of the literature of his virtues;...
    Edc1 10.151 7 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
    SovE 10.188 24 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea which animates either party...
    MMEm 10.401 26 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
    MMEm 10.430 14 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong...for that kind of obscure virtue which is so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality.
    EWI 11.130 2 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    War 11.175 21 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region, obscure from their numbers and the extent of the domain.
    WSL 12.348 2 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.

obscure, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.100 12 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...to whom all parties feel related, both the leaders of opinion and the obscure and eccentric,--he helps;...
    FSLC 11.201 20 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...

obscure, v. (2)

    SwM 4.146 5 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure;...
    MAng1 12.237 6 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.

obscurely, adv. (3)

    SR 2.63 19 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    ET1 5.21 26 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely.
    Bty 6.287 23 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;... ... We recognize obscurely the same fact...

obscurest, adj. (4)

    CbW 6.278 18 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in the miscellany of metropolitan life...
    Ill 6.324 25 ...in the obscurest hamlet in Maine or California, the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    SovE 10.195 2 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    MMEm 10.428 11 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.

obscuring, v. (1)

    Bost 12.193 14 ...these Englishmen [who settled Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were filled with Christian thought.

obscurities, n. (2)

    F 6.8 5 Without...groping after...the obscurities of alternate generation,- the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Schr 10.263 17 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...out of the obscurities of barbarous life...

obscurity, n. (7)

    ET11 5.178 13 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity, than with any great lustre.
    Chr2 10.122 5 There is no trifle, no obscurity to [a well-principled man]...
    SovE 10.198 14 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    SovE 10.198 15 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    Schr 10.277 12 I like to see a man of that virtue that no obscurity or disguise can conceal...
    LLNE 10.343 25 ...The Dial...enjoyed its obscurity for four years.
    RBur 11.441 21 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts.

obsequies, n. (1)

    LT 1.264 7 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age.

obsequious, adj. (2)

    SR 2.62 16 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke...symbolizes... the state of man...
    TPar 11.288 9 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...

obsequiousness, n. (2)

    MR 1.231 10 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he...must take on him the harness of routine and obsequiousness.
    Nat2 3.174 21 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.

observable, adj. (5)

    LE 1.171 5 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    Tran 1.354 22 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the moral movements of the time...
    YA 1.372 9 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit; so slight as to be hardly observable, yet it is there.
    NER 3.255 4 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
    Elo1 7.98 4 It is observable that as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...

observance, n. (4)

    Chr2 10.107 8 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
    LS 11.4 27 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.11 9 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others,-particularly one other which had at least an equal claim to our observance.
    LS 11.13 11 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.

observances, n. (2)

    LE 1.178 15 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor, and learn how to receive and use it, by fidelity also to the lower observances.
    Bhr 6.187 3 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances...which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.

observation, n. (48)

    Nat 1.56 1 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
    Nat 1.56 6 The astronomer, the geometer...disdain the results of observation.
    Nat 1.68 13 ...[man] is lord [of the world]...because he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of...atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lays open.
    Nat 1.77 8 The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.96 6 The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation.
    AmS 1.96 24 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...
    AmS 1.100 21 [The scholar] plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.
    AmS 1.103 1 ...let [the scholar]...add observation to observation...
    LE 1.171 23 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    Hist 2.23 4 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys. Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation...
    Exp 3.68 24 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness, for it is never other;...the kingdom that cometh without observation.
    Exp 3.69 2 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...
    NR 3.229 18 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    NR 3.244 4 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation...
    PPh 4.62 24 [Dialectic] rests on the observation of identity and diversity;...
    GoW 4.272 16 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    ET7 5.124 1 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards...
    ET11 5.179 8 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body. What history too, and what stores of primitive and savage observation it infolds!
    ET11 5.195 25 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET14 5.244 26 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...
    Wth 6.116 19 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation...
    Ill 6.316 18 Teague and his jade get some just relations of...kindly observation...
    Civ 7.24 20 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...longitude reckoned by lunar observation and by chronometer...
    Civ 7.29 9 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Civ 7.29 11 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Civ 7.29 13 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    PI 8.56 13 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.
    Res 8.137 15 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...
    Res 8.152 4 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    PC 8.224 16 The good wit finds the law from a single observation...
    PPo 8.246 10 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation...
    Insp 8.287 1 ...we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Insp 8.293 6 'T is a historic observation that a writer must find an audience up to his thought...
    Edc1 10.154 26 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    EzRy 10.392 26 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
    MMEm 10.431 18 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
    Thor 10.467 21 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...namely, of extolling his own town and neighborhood as the most favored centre for natural observation.
    Thor 10.471 14 [Thoreau's] power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses.
    Thor 10.480 12 ...what were you [Thoreau] sent into the world for, but to add this observation?
    LS 11.14 26 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper]; and that is,the observation that his mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    EWI 11.137 13 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.
    FSLN 11.224 4 ...there is...not an observation on life and manners...that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    Wom 11.409 11 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though...unenlightened by science, he had found much observation and much intelligence;...
    FRep 11.514 22 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace. It is a very old observation;...
    PLT 12.12 5 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit...
    MAng1 12.220 12 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature.
    MLit 12.323 13 To look at [Goethe] one would say there was never an observer before. What sagacity, what industry of observation.
    WSL 12.340 19 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an industrious observation in every department of life...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

observations, n. (17)

    SL 2.135 5 The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    SL 2.160 11 The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not seem.
    OS 2.278 8 We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound...
    ShP 4.212 19 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence...
    GoW 4.287 24 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    ET2 5.29 22 ...the registered observations of a few hundred years find [the land] in a perpetual tilt...
    ET5 5.94 11 This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world with astronomical observations.
    ET14 5.238 21 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET14 5.240 6 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    Art2 7.49 16 The poet aims at getting observations without aim;...
    PI 8.24 3 Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    SA 8.96 26 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 8.139 24 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    PerF 10.77 13 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    Thor 10.466 12 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years...
    Thor 10.471 9 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society.
    PLT 12.13 8 Metaphysics...must be the observations of a working man on working men;...

observatories, n. (3)

    AmS 1.100 22 Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    Con 1.311 5 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    ET5 5.100 20 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...

observatory, n. (6)

    AmS 1.100 25 ...[the scholar], in his private observatory...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    Bhr 6.177 27 In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a longer sight, beside the advantage by their wings of a higher observatory.
    PC 8.211 24 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory...
    MMEm 10.433 3 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?
    CW 12.175 11 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more,-a telescope in an observatory will show two hundred.
    ACri 12.304 18 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.

observe, v. (73)

    AmS 1.96 21 Observe too the impossibility of antedating this act.
    DSA 1.134 27 ...observe the condition, the spiritual limitation of the office [of priest].
    LE 1.162 5 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but observe them...
    LE 1.166 5 Observe the phenomenon of extempore debate.
    MR 1.253 3 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    Con 1.305 21 ...among the lovers of the new I observe that there is a jealousy of the newest...
    Con 1.316 12 I observe that [riches] take somewhat for everything they give.
    Hist 2.14 16 Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius.
    Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    SR 2.49 16 Who...having observed, [can] observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always be formidable.
    SR 2.85 13 The solstice [the man in the street] does not observe;...
    Comp 2.94 14 As far as I could observe when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    Int 2.331 5 At last comes the era of reflection, when we not only observe, but take pains to observe;...
    Int 2.331 6 At last comes the era of reflection, when we not only observe, but take pains to observe;...
    Int 2.334 25 In the intellect constructive...we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    Art1 2.352 2 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
    Pt1 3.13 6 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Pt1 3.18 19 In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
    Exp 3.71 6 Do but observe the mode of our illumination.
    Exp 3.84 26 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it.
    Exp 3.85 7 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Chr1 3.91 4 ...I observe that in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    NR 3.227 2 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    NR 3.233 22 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    ET11 5.183 13 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords.
    F 6.36 17 ...observe how far the roots of every creature run...
    Ctr 6.145 2 ...I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own...
    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 6.164 14 In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    CbW 6.267 23 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood...
    Bty 6.298 2 We observe [women's] intellectual influence on the most serious student.
    Elo1 7.75 17 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Elo1 7.80 18 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    Elo1 7.84 4 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    WD 7.183 2 ...[the savant] observes as other academicians observe;...
    Boks 7.204 4 ...I observe that, in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Boks 7.209 7 ...I observe that tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
    Cour 7.253 1 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
    Cour 7.268 21 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir. The singers, I observe, all yield to it...
    OA 7.327 27 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    PI 8.9 25 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    Elo2 8.125 23 ...observe that all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words.
    QO 8.181 23 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology...
    QO 8.187 17 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.195 1 Observe...that a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.
    PC 8.208 15 Observe the marked ethical quality of the innovations urged or adopted [in America].
    Insp 8.287 23 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    Dem1 10.18 14 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual. In the course of my life I have been able to observe several such...
    Dem1 10.19 22 You will observe that [belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...
    Aris 10.31 12 I observe that the word gentleman is gladly heard in all companies;...
    Aris 10.33 18 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities.
    Aris 10.55 22 I observe...that it takes two to make an atmosphere.
    Prch 10.234 25 ...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet the power of sympathy is always great;...
    Plu 10.304 11 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    LLNE 10.352 1 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    LLNE 10.367 2 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.
    LS 11.5 22 ...observe the facts. Two of the Evangelists...were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.14 3 The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    HDC 11.29 6 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    EWI 11.118 15 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    EWI 11.143 9 The grand style of Nature, her great periods, is all we observe in them.
    War 11.164 6 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with societies, houses, cities...
    War 11.164 9 Observe the ideas of the present day,-orthodoxy, skepticism, missions...
    FRO2 11.490 9 Meantime, observe, you cannot bring me too good a word... from the Jews.
    PLT 12.14 2 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and its settings...that I may learn to live with it wisely...
    CInt 12.123 11 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    CL 12.145 20 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars. Observe their form; not a branch nor a twig is to spare.
    CL 12.151 22 In August...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    MAng1 12.220 18 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    MAng1 12.226 20 ...we observe with delight that, besides the sublimity and even extravagance of Michael Angelo, he possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
    MLit 12.310 2 Observe...that we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    AgMs 12.360 11 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last, as I observe the first sermon of a minister is often his best...
    AgMs 12.362 1 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.

observed, adj. (3)

    PI 8.50 23 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Thor 10.467 12 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...yet with exactness, and always to an observed fact.
    PLT 12.12 7 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees...and waits for a new opportunity, well assured that these observed arcs will consist with each other.

observed, n. (1)

    UGM 4.11 7 The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed.

observed, v. (61)

    Nat 1.26 5 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children.
    Nat 1.29 1 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.
    Nat 1.29 11 It has moreover been observed, that the idioms of all languages approach each other...
    Nat 1.56 11 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
    AmS 1.92 14 ...we should suppose...some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants, like the fact observed in insects...
    AmS 1.100 9 ...always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    LE 1.178 27 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    MN 1.199 9 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? That rushing stream will not stop to be observed.
    Hist 2.15 14 Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
    SR 2.49 16 Who...having observed, [can] observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always be formidable.
    SR 2.82 21 [The work of art] was an application of [the artist's] own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to be observed.
    SR 2.86 1 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
    Comp 2.97 18 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...
    SL 2.147 21 ...it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought...
    SL 2.149 4 You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil.
    Lov1 2.177 16 It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Lov1 2.179 25 The same fluency may be observed in every work of the plastic arts.
    Exp 3.49 23 Nature does not like to be observed...
    Exp 3.68 26 A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best.
    Mrs1 3.126 15 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    Mrs1 3.135 27 ...Napoleon...was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    UGM 4.6 26 ...I have observed there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
    UGM 4.25 18 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like...
    SwM 4.145 22 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps: he observed and published the laws of nature;...
    NMW 4.238 9 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
    NMW 4.239 1 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...
    ET2 5.29 27 A rising of the sea, such as has been observed, say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET3 5.37 9 It is observed that the English interest us a little less within a few years;...
    ET7 5.120 17 ...I observed that the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    F 6.14 16 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    F 6.37 4 When hibernation was observed, it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
    Wth 6.105 4 In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the price of bread.
    Wth 6.118 7 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Ctr 6.158 16 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course; but what a charm it adds when observed in practical men.
    CbW 6.264 2 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest...
    CbW 6.265 2 It is observed that a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    Bty 6.293 20 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    SS 7.4 17 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    Elo1 7.83 11 This balance [between the orator and the occasion] is observed in the privatest intercourse.
    Clbs 7.229 20 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is again shown him. But the right conditions must be observed.
    Clbs 7.230 5 Every metaphysician must have observed...that no thought is alone...
    Cour 7.265 4 It is observed that men with little imagination are less fearful;...
    Cour 7.271 4 'T is still observed those men most valiant are/ Who are most modest ere they came to war./
    Grts 8.309 2 I have observed that in all public speaking, the rule of the orator begins... when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,-when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Dem1 10.17 27 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal, after the example of the ancients, and of those who had observed the like.
    Edc1 10.145 27 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this.
    MMEm 10.410 7 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut.
    MMEm 10.410 8 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it.
    Thor 10.468 1 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
    LS 11.13 13 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    EWI 11.120 13 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
    EWI 11.141 26 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    Wom 11.409 8 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    PLT 12.10 21 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed.
    PLT 12.11 25 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows a system also...
    PLT 12.26 10 It is observed that our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    MAng1 12.220 5 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its joints observed...
    MAng1 12.238 1 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles...
    MLit 12.324 22 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed.
    EurB 12.377 2 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly, without his knowing that he was observed...
    Trag 12.411 23 It is observed that the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.

observer, n. (32)

    Nat 1.18 25 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Nat 1.51 1 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least, wholly detached from all relation to the observer...
    Nat 1.51 15 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    Tran 1.340 26 It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Comp 2.96 8 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Pt1 3.15 5 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    Chr1 3.110 15 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Pol1 3.211 14 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us;...
    UGM 4.11 6 The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed.
    UGM 4.32 9 Some rays escape the common observer...
    MoS 4.149 6 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse.
    F 6.14 15 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    Wth 6.93 2 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Bhr 6.179 19 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...
    Wsp 6.229 16 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
    CbW 6.252 14 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
    Bty 6.303 14 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Suc 7.296 22 The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer.
    Elo2 8.111 11 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded.
    Elo2 8.117 6 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak. Then the observer says, What a godsend is this manner of man to a town!...
    Prch 10.233 25 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
    Schr 10.270 19 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    LLNE 10.362 16 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    EzRy 10.395 11 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
    CPL 11.506 15 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    PLT 12.13 11 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
    PLT 12.16 23 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the observer too.
    CInt 12.129 14 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...
    CL 12.153 5 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave.
    MLit 12.323 12 To look at [Goethe] one would say there was never an observer before.
    MLit 12.330 12 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer...
    Trag 12.410 12 Tragedy is in the eye of the observer...

observers, n. (12)

    Lov1 2.188 9 We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
    NER 3.279 4 I suppose considerate observers...will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    MoS 4.175 2 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame, not to mention many distinguished private observers,--I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    Wth 6.117 16 In England...I was assured by shrewd observers that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Imtl 8.334 6 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    EzRy 10.390 13 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic...and his merits so intelligible to all observers, that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
    FRep 11.517 10 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers...to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
    PLT 12.10 21 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed.
    PLT 12.38 11 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back. The observers may come at their leisure...
    CL 12.142 14 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...
    MAng1 12.216 24 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not the indescribable charm of the natural world...want observers.
    Let 12.399 12 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result. Certainly we are not insensible to this calamity, as described by the observers...

observes, v. (11)

    UGM 4.30 4 The microscope observes a monad or wheel-insect among the infusories circulating in water.
    Wth 6.91 5 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Ctr 6.143 3 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.
    DL 7.123 23 [Every man] observes the swiftness with which life culminates...
    WD 7.183 1 ...[the savant] observes as other academicians observe;...
    Boks 7.215 9 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    PI 8.9 6 ...[the student] observes that all things...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.21 25 [The poet] observes higher laws than he transgresses.
    Dem1 10.16 13 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius...is no longer present and active.
    Schr 10.278 11 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    EWI 11.146 16 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...

observing, v. (5)

    Pow 6.61 14 A timid man...observing the profligacy of party...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Boks 7.211 6 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.
    Res 8.153 7 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    PLT 12.22 26 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    Mem 12.107 7 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.

obsolete, adj. (15)

    MR 1.236 16 The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete...
    MR 1.249 21 We use these words [Faith and Hope] as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen.
    MR 1.255 1 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.
    LT 1.275 13 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity, which had become as good as obsolete for us, is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
    Tran 1.356 12 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to an obsolete history...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    Mrs1 3.122 10 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality. Gentility is mean, and gentilesse is obsolete.
    NR 3.234 23 Anomalous facts, as the never quite obsolete rumors of magic and demonology...are of ideal use.
    ET10 5.161 19 Nations are getting obsolete...
    ET11 5.172 2 The feudal character of the English state, now that it is getting obsolete, glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET12 5.210 2 ...no doubt their learning is grown obsolete;--but Oxford also has its merits...
    Art2 7.57 9 ...beauty, truth and goodness are not obsolete;...
    Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
    HDC 11.64 11 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord].
    Scot 11.462 6 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so reanimated the well-nigh obsolete feudal history...of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete...

obstacle, n. (7)

    NMW 4.234 8 [Napoleon] saw only the object: and the obstacle must give way.
    NMW 4.235 8 In the plenitude of [Napoleon's] resources, every obstacle seemed to vanish.
    SA 8.79 15 ...how impossible to overcome the obstacle of an unlucky temperament and acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    Grts 8.309 24 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Prch 10.234 22 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    Shak1 11.453 1 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but...being again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
    Bost 12.203 1 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which... fed the party and carried it, over every rampart and obstacle, to victory.

obstacles, n. (13)

    LE 1.179 23 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between...efforts and obstacles.
    NMW 4.251 6 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence?
    Pow 6.54 19 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements...by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
    CbW 6.257 24 We see those who surmount...obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    Clbs 7.234 21 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    Clbs 7.245 6 ...the club must be self-protecting, and obstacles arise at the outset.
    Res 8.144 17 It is out of the obstacles to be encountered that [the Indian, the sailor, the hunter] make the means of destroying them.
    Chr2 10.109 4 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Thor 10.469 8 The other weapon with which [Thoreau] conquered all obstacles in science was patience.
    ACiv 11.309 27 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    PLT 12.55 23 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    MAng1 12.231 14 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...surmounting by the dignity of his purposes all obstacles and all enmities...
    Milt1 12.249 4 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the obstacles that are to be overcome before that which he proposes can be done.

obstetric, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.59 25 Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy;...

obstinate, adj. (8)

    ET5 5.81 11 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
    ET8 5.130 8 [The English] are...slow but obstinate admirers...
    ET8 5.140 10 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard...
    Bhr 6.176 11 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood...has some reason in common experience.
    Edc1 10.155 16 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still, reptile, fish...begin to return.
    Prch 10.219 24 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    HDC 11.68 10 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the past and present obstinate endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    FRO2 11.485 17 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.

obstreperous, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.162 15 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.

obstruct, v. (2)

    OS 2.277 26 There is a certain wisdom of humanity...which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct.
    ET15 5.270 23 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement, year by year; watching them only to taunt and obstruct them...

obstructed, v. (6)

    AmS 1.90 7 ...[the active soul] every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
    UGM 4.15 20 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    ET5 5.95 9 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET16 5.285 25 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle...
    Edc1 10.150 6 ...though every young man is born with some determination in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed...
    ACri 12.301 26 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.

obstructing, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.49 15 I think that the community-every community, if obstructing laws and usages are removed-will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...

obstruction, n. (18)

    LE 1.184 12 ...[the scholar] will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom out of what seemed hours of obstruction and loss.
    SL 2.141 1 [Each man] is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one, on that side all obstruction is taken away...
    SL 2.161 25 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction...
    Int 2.328 24 We do not determine what we will think. We only...clear away as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see.
    Pt1 3.6 2 ...there is some obstruction...in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    SwM 4.140 9 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action, but it appears as an obstruction to any thing unfit.
    Bhr 6.193 7 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly, as if everything of obstruction, of malformation, had been trained away.
    CbW 6.252 27 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    Bty 6.305 21 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...
    Aris 10.59 3 [A grand interest] prospers as well...in obstruction and nonsense...
    War 11.162 27 ...what is true...must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
    FSLC 11.212 9 [Boston] should have placed obstruction [to the Fugitive Slave Law] at every step.
    AKan 11.258 27 In this country for the last few years the government has been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
    JBB 11.269 1 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery...
    ALin 11.337 22 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...thrusts aside enemy and obstruction...
    Koss 11.400 21 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property...you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    PLT 12.47 20 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened; but sometimes they pass away dumb, to find it where all obstruction is removed.
    PLT 12.63 18 The superiority of the man is...that he has no obstruction, but looks straight at the pure fact...

obstructions, n. (9)

    SL 2.132 10 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him, and...his nature shall not yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
    SL 2.140 27 [Each man] is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one...
    Mrs1 3.127 8 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road...
    OA 7.335 25 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
    PC 8.226 27 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is...the expression of their hope of what they shall become when the obstructions of their mal-formation and mal-education shall be trained away.
    PC 8.231 16 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    PerF 10.77 11 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence. Then the knowledge unutterable of our private strength...of its accesses and facilitations, and of its obstructions.
    Thor 10.464 17 ...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
    PLT 12.14 4 I observe with curiosity...[the Intellect's] obstructions and its provocations, that I may learn to live with it wisely...

obstructives, n. (1)

    ET15 5.261 23 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the reason of reform, and, one by one, take away every argument of the obstructives.

obtain, v. (19)

    Mrs1 3.143 2 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy. We must obtain that, if we can; but by all means we must affirm this.
    GoW 4.267 26 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for both obtain the selfsame end...
    ET4 5.72 3 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET12 5.207 27 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET16 5.282 24 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    CbW 6.253 23 To obtain subsidies, [Edward I] paid in privileges.
    SS 7.13 6 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them...
    PI 8.42 20 Anything, child, that the mind covets...thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.
    Res 8.142 2 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Comc 8.174 8 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    Imtl 8.350 27 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest.
    Aris 10.48 15 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to obtain them?
    Aris 10.55 5 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
    Prch 10.235 1 ...the power of sympathy is always great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain it when argument would fail.
    Schr 10.284 15 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you obtain what you wish?
    JBS 11.280 2 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
    ALin 11.334 22 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
    CL 12.159 1 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year, and obtain at last an intimacy with the country...these we call professors.
    Let 12.403 25 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is a wood-pile in the yard...

obtained, v. (23)

    Comp 2.115 10 ...the doctrine that every thing has its price,--and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Pt1 3.22 1 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    ET3 5.35 25 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET4 5.60 21 The [Norman] conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the memory of sorrow.
    ET8 5.128 6 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of demeanor and their few words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
    ET13 5.216 12 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    Wsp 6.226 8 Wherever work is done, victory is obtained.
    Bty 6.296 26 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Boks 7.201 10 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...
    PC 8.221 7 The chief value [of devotion to natural science] is not the useful powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
    PC 8.232 24 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.
    Imtl 8.351 13 [Yama said to Nachiketas] That knowledge for which thou hast asked [concerning immortality] is not to be obtained by argument.
    Imtl 8.351 15 [Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is transient, for that firm one is not to be obtained by what is not firm.
    Imtl 8.352 4 [The soul] can be obtained by the soul by which it is desired.
    LLNE 10.347 14 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of...Prince Metternich, with whom the persevering doctrinaire had obtained interviews;...
    Thor 10.451 21 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    GSt 10.502 7 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...
    GSt 10.502 23 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.
    GSt 10.502 27 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients, and to furnish them money and arms in advance of the subscriptions which he obtained.
    HDC 11.77 27 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
    EWI 11.141 15 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    Wom 11.408 9 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    Milt1 12.248 16 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.

obtaineth, v. (1)

    SwM 4.139 12 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he soon becometh of a virtuous spirit and obtaineth eternal happiness.

obtaining, v. (5)

    OS 2.284 23 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
    ET11 5.174 17 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it were changed.
    ET15 5.269 22 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title...into any county jail in England, he having been convicted of obtaining money under false pretences.
    EWI 11.128 20 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from obtaining that ascendency...which a question of property tends to acquire.
    Wom 11.420 2 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?

obtains, v. (6)

    Farm 7.137 4 ...[the farmer] obtains from the earth the bread and the meat.
    PI 8.24 10 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports, and obtains from them results which are the essence or intellectual form of the experiences.
    Imtl 8.351 20 Brahma the supreme, whoever knows him obtains whatever he wishes.
    Aris 10.45 22 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    ALin 11.337 23 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    MLit 12.330 4 ...because Nature is moral, that mind only can see, in which the same order entirely obtains.

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