Once to Opium-Shop

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

once, adv. (303)

    Nat 1.20 20 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.64 13 Once inhale the upper air...and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    Nat 1.71 13 Once [man] was permeated and dissolved by spirit.
    Nat 1.71 24 Say, rather, [the structure] once fitted [man]...
    AmS 1.89 4 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it...
    AmS 1.89 4 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    AmS 1.97 6 ...many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already;...
    AmS 1.108 5 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
    DSA 1.127 14 Once man was all; now he is an appendage...
    DSA 1.130 25 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...
    DSA 1.137 19 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.139 25 [The prayers and dogmas of our church] mark the height to which the waters once rose.
    DSA 1.143 9 What was once a mere circumstance, that the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    DSA 1.145 10 Once leave your own knowledge of God...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.150 10 ...if once you are alive, you shall find [the old forms] shall become plastic and new.
    LE 1.166 12 Once embarked...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.166 13 ...once having overcome the novelty of the situation, [the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.185 25 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...
    MN 1.197 3 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.
    MR 1.237 9 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name once in three months to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.246 25 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform, nor do they once perceive the cruel joke of their lives...
    MR 1.255 2 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    LT 1.267 3 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions!...
    Con 1.325 21 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    Tran 1.345 26 ...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had departed?
    Tran 1.350 5 I do not wish to do one thing but once.
    Tran 1.350 6 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    Tran 1.354 13 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence, nor once strove to repair it with hypocrisy or false heat of any kind.
    YA 1.389 12 ...you cannot repudiate but once.
    Hist 2.3 4 He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate.
    Hist 2.5 1 Every reform was once a private opinion...
    Hist 2.14 25 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture...
    Hist 2.15 1 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...
    Hist 2.19 2 What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often...
    Hist 2.26 12 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child;...
    Hist 2.28 11 More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.49 10 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person...
    SR 2.78 17 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of...putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
    Comp 2.125 25 We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs...
    Lov1 2.187 4 [Lovers'] once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast...
    Lov1 2.187 11 [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.
    Lov1 2.187 15 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together,--those once sacred features...was deciduous...
    Fdsp 2.200 10 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Prd1 2.223 2 Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale...
    Prd1 2.224 14 The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world. This recognition once made...will reward any degree of attention.
    Prd1 2.228 21 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
    Hsm1 2.260 21 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person...
    Hsm1 2.261 8 Greatness once and for ever has done with opinion.
    Cir 2.303 17 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    Cir 2.308 3 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
    Cir 2.309 19 We learn first to play with [idealism] academically, as the magnet was once a toy.
    Cir 2.313 3 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Cir 2.320 22 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge...
    Int 2.336 4 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Pt1 3.18 14 Every word was once a poem.
    Pt1 3.22 5 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
    Pt1 3.30 14 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
    Pt1 3.39 23 Once having tasted this immortal ichor, [the poet] cannot have enough of it...
    Exp 3.54 15 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    Exp 3.55 16 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book;...
    Exp 3.55 24 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once...
    Exp 3.67 3 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.
    Exp 3.76 2 Once we lived in what we saw;...
    Mrs1 3.126 26 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword...
    Mrs1 3.130 13 ...that assembly once dispersed, its members will not in the year meet again.
    Mrs1 3.147 5 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.148 25 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    Nat2 3.184 10 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
    Nat2 3.188 2 ...James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ.
    Pol1 3.199 5 ...we ought to remember...that every one of [the State's institutions] was once the act of a single man;...
    NR 3.237 13 ...once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
    NR 3.243 25 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist, and does not once suspect their being.
    NR 3.248 19 Could [my good men] but once understand that I loved to know that they existed...yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.258 18 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.266 24 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern, as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    UGM 4.12 12 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
    UGM 4.17 20 ...we are entitled to these enlargements [of the imagination], and once having passed the bounds shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were.
    UGM 4.34 2 Once you saw phoenixes: they are gone; the world is not therefore disenchanted.
    UGM 4.34 10 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge...
    PPh 4.46 18 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    PPh 4.68 4 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...
    SwM 4.108 18 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. Nature recites her lesson once more in a higher mood.
    SwM 4.128 20 ...once abroad again, we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.
    SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    SwM 4.141 9 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
    MoS 4.158 26 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    MoS 4.173 17 [Doubts and negations] will never be so formidable when once they have been identified and registered.
    MoS 4.176 18 I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once a week.
    MoS 4.180 26 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night...
    ShP 4.198 12 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    ShP 4.206 24 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...
    NMW 4.228 22 Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections...
    GoW 4.271 23 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered...once, a Roman or Attic genius.
    GoW 4.274 2 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he...was not a whit less vivacious or rich in Liverpool or the Hague than once in Rome or Antioch.
    ET1 5.12 2 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well, because he had once been a Unitarian and knew what quackery it was.
    ET1 5.14 4 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET1 5.21 3 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing...
    ET3 5.36 16 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    ET4 5.67 2 [The blonde race] is not a final race, once a crab always crab...
    ET5 5.100 24 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion.
    ET6 5.112 25 Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful [in England].
    ET8 5.129 5 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET8 5.134 24 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET8 5.141 1 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...
    ET11 5.181 18 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House, now stands...
    ET11 5.187 23 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions...
    ET11 5.196 10 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET13 5.220 18 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return, or find a place in their once sacred stalls.
    ET13 5.222 6 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.
    ET14 5.243 7 Such richness of genius had not existed more than once before [the Elizabethan age].
    ET14 5.243 20 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps...
    ET14 5.243 22 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so beloved;...
    ET14 5.258 6 The best office of the best poets has been to show...that only once or twice they have struck the high chord.
    ET15 5.263 16 I asked one of [the London Times's] old contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he said;...
    ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    ET16 5.277 25 There are ninety-four stones [at Stonehenge], and there were once probably one hundred and sixty.
    ET17 5.296 24 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    ET17 5.297 9 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton...
    ET17 5.297 11 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth...
    F 6.8 20 Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every day? Aye, but what happens once may happen again...
    F 6.15 3 Once we thought positive power was all.
    F 6.27 1 Once we were stepping a little this way and a little that way;...
    F 6.42 12 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...
    Wth 6.83 2 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Wth 6.92 3 ...wise men...will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ctr 6.144 26 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing, if it were possible, only once or twice, would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Ctr 6.154 9 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Ctr 6.160 22 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Ctr 6.162 18 The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
    Bhr 6.169 9 Nature tells every secret once.
    Bhr 6.169 20 Manners are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
    Wsp 6.210 5 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches that once sucked the roots of right and wrong...
    Wsp 6.213 7 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Wsp 6.217 2 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. ... But, once satisfied of such superiority, we set no limit to our expectation of his genius.
    Wsp 6.221 5 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
    CbW 6.250 19 Nature...only hits the white once in a million throws.
    CbW 6.250 23 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    CbW 6.259 16 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue when once it is begun.
    CbW 6.263 4 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy, already propounded once and again...
    CbW 6.263 22 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town, who were his companions?...
    CbW 6.272 6 Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
    Ill 6.311 10 Once we fancied the earth a plane, and stationary.
    Civ 7.22 12 There was once a giantess who had a daughter...
    Elo1 7.61 3 ...probably every man is eloquent once in his life.
    Elo1 7.72 5 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    DL 7.102 4 Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee once shall seek again./
    Farm 7.149 26 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in every five years perambulated the boundaries...
    WD 7.160 19 The soil of Holland, once the most populous in Europe, is below the level of the sea.
    WD 7.165 10 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...
    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.
    Boks 7.213 25 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Clbs 7.234 25 ...once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    Cour 7.263 4 It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting it again.
    Cour 7.264 14 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he is as cool as Archimedes...
    Suc 7.289 4 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    Suc 7.312 3 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    OA 7.313 1 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    OA 7.313 3 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    OA 7.324 15 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    OA 7.326 12 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of appearance...that once degraded him he is thus rid of!
    PI 8.5 5 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    PI 8.7 1 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated.
    PI 8.24 18 The atoms of the body were once nebulae...
    PI 8.40 7 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;...
    PI 8.41 6 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment, when once their hour is struck...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PI 8.63 10 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread! The most they have done is to intoxicate us once and again with its taste.
    PI 8.68 9 What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a sound of tin pans;...
    PI 8.73 15 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration...
    SA 8.92 3 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met...
    SA 8.97 16 Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth...
    Elo2 8.116 7 ...[the people] have spent their money once or twice very freely.
    Elo2 8.119 4 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...
    Elo2 8.119 16 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat, which a man attains to perhaps only once in his life.
    Elo2 8.120 21 Every one of us has at some time...perhaps been repelled once for all by a harsh, mechanical speaker.
    Elo2 8.127 11 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Elo2 8.128 4 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles Chauncy],--that he so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent;...
    Res 8.143 22 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their few masters bought...
    Res 8.147 3 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Res 8.147 11 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even!
    Res 8.147 17 Against the terrors of the mob, which...once suffered to gain the ascendant, is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Comc 8.172 25 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
    QO 8.177 11 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
    QO 8.193 19 Every word in the language has once been used happily.
    QO 8.198 5 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper.
    PPo 8.254 18 Oft have I said, I say it once more,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    PPo 8.255 17 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.
    PPo 8.256 6 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
    PPo 8.262 16 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    Insp 8.272 25 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life...
    Insp 8.276 7 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Insp 8.277 13 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not.
    Insp 8.281 17 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.282 20 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...
    Insp 8.291 24 ...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted.
    Grts 8.314 23 ...one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless.
    Imtl 8.324 12 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.330 21 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Imtl 8.335 13 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    Imtl 8.348 3 [Jesus] is never once weak or sentimental;...
    Dem1 10.8 3 [Dreams] have a double consciousness, at once sub-and ob-jective.
    Dem1 10.8 14 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams]...
    Dem1 10.14 15 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...
    Dem1 10.18 9 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted...to settle the thing once for all...
    Dem1 10.25 11 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
    Aris 10.61 11 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
    Chr2 10.103 27 The religions we call false were once true.
    Chr2 10.105 18 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time...
    Chr2 10.107 23 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Chr2 10.108 27 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    Chr2 10.109 3 ...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.
    Chr2 10.109 7 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Supl 10.168 5 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are, once for all, distasteful;...
    Supl 10.170 11 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    SovE 10.192 1 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    SovE 10.208 18 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend...
    SovE 10.213 4 Once men thought Spirit divine, and Matter diabolic;...
    Prch 10.225 6 The lessons of the moral sentiment are, once for all, an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    Prch 10.229 25 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    Prch 10.232 15 ...there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Prch 10.236 23 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to...put us in possession of ourselves once more...
    MoL 10.249 6 A scholar was once a priest.
    MoL 10.258 9 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain, to end once for all that pest of all our free institutions, one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    Schr 10.278 6 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy and once in England were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    Schr 10.282 26 We have had once what was called the Revival of Letters.
    Plu 10.308 19 ...[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.
    Plu 10.315 20 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is...a gift nothing can supply; once lost, not to be replaced.
    LLNE 10.327 1 There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once supposed essential to civil society.
    LLNE 10.328 2 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week.
    EzRy 10.387 16 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
    MMEm 10.406 8 ...no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without remembering her with interest...
    MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...
    MMEm 10.432 8 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of...
    Thor 10.452 4 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...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied that he should never make another pencil. Why should I? I would not do again what I have done once.
    Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.469 2 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    Carl 10.492 27 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    Carl 10.496 12 Wellington [Carlyle] respects...as having made up his mind, once for all, that he will not have to do with any kind of lie.
    LS 11.3 22 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...
    LS 11.15 19 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    HDC 11.33 22 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither...for...the Indian paths, once lost, they did not easily find.
    HDC 11.36 8 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced.
    HDC 11.46 4 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    HDC 11.61 10 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
    HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle, all once included in Concord...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    EWI 11.104 20 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them.
    EWI 11.116 10 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence...
    EWI 11.126 17 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and European manners could get a foothold there.
    EWI 11.147 20 The sentiment of Right, once very low and indistinct... pronounces Freedom.
    War 11.157 23 The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and of torture, once supposed as necessary as navies now.
    War 11.161 11 The star once risen...will mount and mount...
    War 11.163 2 There is no good now enjoyed by society that was not once as problematical and visionary as [peace].
    War 11.170 16 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    War 11.175 17 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    FSLC 11.197 25 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...
    FSLC 11.200 24 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves. We know what we are doing. We have conquered you once, and we can and will conquer you again.
    FSLC 11.200 26 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. ... Ay, we will drive you to the wall, and when we have you there once more, we will keep you there and nail you down like base money.
    FSLC 11.201 25 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored...disown him...
    FSLC 11.209 13 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    FSLC 11.210 7 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.
    JBB 11.272 2 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts...stained to all ages, once and again, by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    ACiv 11.296 2 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
    ACiv 11.308 10 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken...
    EPro 11.315 2 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EPro 11.320 8 ...[the Emancipation Proclamation] relieves our race once for all of its crime and false position.
    ALin 11.328 11 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
    SMC 11.348 22 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
    SMC 11.350 20 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    SMC 11.353 19 Once we were patriots up to the town-bounds, or the state-line.
    CPL 11.502 15 Once brought into the world, [thought] runs over the vessel which received it into all minds that love it.
    CPL 11.504 1 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.
    FRep 11.523 4 ...one may run a risk once too often.
    FRep 11.527 19 The legislature, to which every good farmer goes once on trial, is a superior academy.
    FRep 11.540 21 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now, once for all, the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.
    PLT 12.6 21 When [the student] has once known the oracle he will need no priest.
    PLT 12.13 14 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    PLT 12.38 11 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.
    PLT 12.44 21 ...the fact of intellectual perception severs once for all the man from the things with which he converses.
    PLT 12.49 6 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    II 12.65 22 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...
    II 12.70 18 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of interesting us once more...
    II 12.76 5 ...our famous orchardist once more: Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    Mem 12.90 20 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    Mem 12.91 23 Once [the active mind] joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations.
    Mem 12.99 4 ...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained when he is once broken by training...
    Mem 12.102 11 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain. This water once spilled cannot be gathered.
    Mem 12.103 6 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.
    Mem 12.105 9 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    Mem 12.105 10 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
    Mem 12.107 21 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess.
    CL 12.160 9 Nature tells everything once.
    Bost 12.189 22 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.
    MAng1 12.225 26 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi leading to the church once the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus;...
    Milt1 12.262 19 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast, and for once shows itself beautiful.
    Milt1 12.270 15 ...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English genius.
    ACri 12.284 3 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
    ACri 12.301 14 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me...
    ACri 12.305 4 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.
    EurB 12.368 11 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...
    PPr 12.391 20 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...
    Trag 12.405 20 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.
    Trag 12.415 24 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month.

once, n. (111)

    Nat 1.13 3 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
    Nat 1.21 21 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.30 23 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
    Nat 1.36 2 ...we arrive at once at a new fact, that nature is a discipline.
    Nat 1.49 27 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    Nat 1.50 27 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    Nat 1.72 23 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch, instead of vaulting at once into his throne.
    DSA 1.120 10 ...when the mind opens...then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration...
    MR 1.234 18 ...whilst another man has no land...your title to yours, is at once vitiated.
    MR 1.248 26 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    MR 1.250 8 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    MR 1.252 5 We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
    LT 1.263 20 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    Hist 2.16 3 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.19 5 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.21 11 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
    SR 2.64 5 The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we call...Instinct.
    SR 2.72 8 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    SR 2.72 15 If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations;...
    Comp 2.105 23 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
    SL 2.129 2 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect/...
    Fdsp 2.213 23 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims whereof only one or two wander in nature at once...
    Cir 2.301 21 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success, may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Int 2.346 13 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
    Art1 2.360 16 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Exp 3.71 9 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions...
    Exp 3.76 14 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Mrs1 3.121 12 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.129 12 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Mrs1 3.151 5 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...
    Mrs1 3.154 21 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool...who...had a pet madness in his brain, but fled at once to him;...
    Gts 3.164 7 After you have served [a magnanimous person] he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
    NR 3.243 6 ...according to our nature [things and persons] act on us not at once but in succession...
    NER 3.260 2 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    UGM 4.16 18 These [new fields of activity] are at once accepted as the reality...
    PPh 4.40 9 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind...
    PPh 4.54 12 The reason why we do not at once believe in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience.
    PNR 4.86 5 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...a power which is the key at once to the centrality and the evanescence of things.
    SwM 4.119 3 To a right perception, at once broad and minute, of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    MoS 4.169 11 In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek flushes and his style rises to passion.
    ET1 5.8 12 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
    ET1 5.12 12 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    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...
    ET4 5.72 15 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry.
    ET8 5.134 21 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET10 5.155 10 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth. It is at once the pride of art of the Saxon...and his passion for independence.
    ET12 5.200 1 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...
    ET13 5.216 26 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately.
    ET14 5.234 8 Hudibras has the same hard mentality,--keeping the truth at once to the senses and to the intellect.
    ET14 5.258 22 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is thunder it never heard...
    ET16 5.275 18 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    Pow 6.59 8 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Pow 6.76 12 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one.
    Wth 6.122 23 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Ctr 6.131 17 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.
    Bhr 6.179 24 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
    Bhr 6.182 12 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.197 20 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not primary...
    Wsp 6.217 17 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease...
    Wsp 6.229 14 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest;...
    Ill 6.317 4 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors, which I had not thought of. Then at once I will daub with this new paint; but it will not stick.
    Elo1 7.68 6 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which...makes all safe and secure, so that any and every sort of good speaking becomes at once practicable.
    Elo1 7.76 4 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he at once becomes famous...
    Farm 7.147 1 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.
    WD 7.179 14 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    Clbs 7.229 15 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...
    Clbs 7.232 4 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...they kill conversation at once.
    Clbs 7.234 13 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation. This conclusion is at once the logic of persecution and of love.
    PI 8.30 23 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy...
    PI 8.33 9 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought...
    PI 8.38 20 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded. And this perception has at once its moral sequence.
    PI 8.47 1 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
    PI 8.49 20 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    PI 8.49 25 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes.
    Elo2 8.117 22 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman, so that he is at once a potentate...
    Res 8.139 1 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Res 8.145 13 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    Res 8.147 15 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes, as drunkards who see a thousand candles at once.
    Res 8.151 15 Natural history is, in the country...at once elegant, immortal...
    Comc 8.159 6 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...
    Comc 8.159 16 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the intellect...
    Comc 8.172 25 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
    QO 8.190 23 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    PPo 8.247 22 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life, at once tender and bold... this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    PPo 8.248 3 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet, but passes over into new form, at once relief and creation.
    Grts 8.303 5 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    Aris 10.41 25 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a new country; was at once made a chief.
    Edc1 10.154 12 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Edc1 10.158 2 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    SovE 10.193 12 He that plants his foot here [on belief in Divine justice] passes at once out of the kingdom of illusions.
    SovE 10.210 15 ...to draw [the moral principle] out of its natural current is to lose at once all its power.
    MoL 10.246 20 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    MoL 10.257 10 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once.
    Plu 10.307 9 These men [who revere the spiritual power] lift themselves at once from the vulgar and are not the parasites of wealth.
    LLNE 10.355 6 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
    EzRy 10.389 25 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    MMEm 10.405 22 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...
    GSt 10.502 15 Mr. [George] Stearns made himself at once necessary to Captain Brown as one who respected his inspirations...
    EWI 11.141 9 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind...
    ACiv 11.308 20 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations. This measure at once puts all parties right.
    EdAd 11.389 10 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political opposition. The country needs to be extricated from its delirium at once.
    Scot 11.465 9 The tone of strength in Waverley at once announced the master...
    PLT 12.10 21 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed.
    PLT 12.16 10 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    II 12.83 19 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for.
    Mem 12.99 14 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
    ACri 12.283 9 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    ACri 12.300 20 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience, and we set about translating it at once into our parallel facts.
    WSL 12.341 14 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we pass at once out of trivial associations...
    Pray 12.353 24 I know that sorrow comes not at once only.
    Trag 12.413 23 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

One Mind, n. (1)

    MLit 12.316 22 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.

One, n. (3)

    SR 2.70 14 This is the ultimate fact...the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE.
    PPh 4.62 11 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power...the Same, the Good, the One;...
    Prch 10.223 7 Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.

one-hour, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.292 10 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

one-hour-rule, n. (1)

    NR 3.247 22 ...if there could be any regulation, any one-hour-rule, that a man should never leave his point of view without sound of trumpet.

oneness, n. (3)

    AmS 1.109 6 With the views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals, I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].
    PPh 4.48 5 ...every mental act,--this very perception of identity, or oneness, recognizes the difference of things.
    PPh 4.48 6 Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to speak or to think without embracing both.

onerous, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.31 6 ...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.
    Gts 3.163 24 It is a very onerous business, this of being served...

one-sidedness, n. (1)

    MoS 4.155 6 [The skeptic] sees the one-sidedness of these men of the street;...

onset, n. (3)

    ET15 5.267 20 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns. Hence, too, the heat and gallantry of its onset.
    Cour 7.267 24 The fury of onset is one, and of calm endurance another.
    Carl 10.493 24 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed, sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.

ontology, n. (1)

    PPh 4.39 9 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.

Onund, of Norway [Sturluson (1)

    ET4 5.59 15 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself...slain by a land-slide, like the agricultural King Onund.

onus, n. (2)

    Suc 7.292 16 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent, and thus throw on a bolder party the onus of an initiative.
    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...

onward, adj. (6)

    Hist 2.23 18 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    Exp 3.55 7 This onward trick of nature is too strong for us...
    Ctr 6.140 6 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.
    Bty 6.294 4 ...this demand in our thought for an ever onward action is the argument for the immortality.
    War 11.175 23 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    ACri 12.295 10 ...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the Bible, have a great onward march.

onward, adv. (24)

    Hist 2.18 14 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward;...
    SR 2.87 11 The wave moves onward...
    Comp 2.126 3 The voice of the Almighty saith, Up and onward for evermore!
    Cir 2.313 22 ...the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    Cir 2.316 18 Let me live onward;...
    Cir 2.319 10 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are...not newness, not the way onward.
    Exp 3.75 6 Onward and onward! In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    Nat2 3.170 22 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    Nat2 3.181 15 The direction is forever onward...
    UGM 4.30 3 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop, nor will all the forces of inertia, fear, or of love itself hold thee there. On, and forever onward!
    SwM 4.143 9 It is the best sign of a great nature that it...like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward.
    ShP 4.190 9 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
    NMW 4.233 23 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward...
    ET13 5.225 7 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
    ET14 5.254 9 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...
    Bty 6.293 2 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode...
    OA 7.314 6 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    PI 8.48 9 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    PPo 8.258 5 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./ And so onward, through many a page.
    LS 11.21 20 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
    EWI 11.147 19 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
    EdAd 11.387 21 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward...
    CL 12.163 4 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions, and passed onward and left them...
    MAng1 12.231 10 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

oozes, v. (1)

    CInt 12.117 6 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school; power oozes out of it just as fast as truth does;...

opal, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.210 27 The hues of the opal...are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    ACri 12.293 15 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...opal and the rest of the precious stones, carcanet, diadem.

opaline, adj. (3)

    Lov1 2.179 17 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres...
    Nat2 3.186 13 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    PI 8.53 3 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles, opaline, air-borne...instead of a few drops of soap and water.

opaque, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.73 27 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque.
    Pt1 3.12 4 ...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live,--opaque, though they seem transparent...
    UGM 4.35 1 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
    CbW 6.255 4 The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque.
    SlHr 10.446 4 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    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...

ope, v. (3)

    Comp 2.106 20 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    Imtl 8.321 1 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    CW 12.169 12 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

open, adj. (108)

    Nat 1.7 22 ...all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
    Nat 1.21 15 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    Nat 1.35 18 ...the world shall be to us an open book...
    Nat 1.49 6 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.68 14 ...[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.
    DSA 1.126 25 ...the doors of the temple stand open...
    DSA 1.128 20 [Jesus Christ] saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.
    DSA 1.134 6 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...into the open soul, is not explored...
    DSA 1.148 5 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit...
    MR 1.227 17 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    MR 1.236 5 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor...
    Tran 1.341 15 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] consent to such labor as is open to them...
    Tran 1.356 2 ...no doubt [Transcendentalists] will lay themselves open to criticism and to lampoons...
    YA 1.393 1 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Hist 2.17 27 In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...
    SL 2.140 25 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man].
    SL 2.145 9 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate, nor can he take anything else though all doors were open...
    Prd1 2.233 17 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening, when the bazaars are open, slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    Hsm1 2.251 3 ...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed, and is not open to the censure of philosophers or divines.
    Hsm1 2.253 18 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were open...
    OS 2.272 2 We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature...
    OS 2.286 14 Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open...
    OS 2.294 5 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    Cir 2.318 5 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open...
    Int 2.327 4 ...man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Int 2.331 8 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open whilst we converse...
    Int 2.345 16 I will not...speak to the open question between Truth and Love.
    Pt1 3.30 9 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air.
    Mrs1 3.149 24 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.
    NR 3.243 19 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NER 3.267 26 ...[our system of education] is open to graver criticism than the palsy of its members...
    NER 3.280 23 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    NER 3.282 11 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...
    UGM 4.31 26 Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them!
    PPh 4.71 11 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate...
    SwM 4.127 9 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls, as it would lay open the genesis of all institutions, customs and manners.
    MoS 4.157 17 Is not marriage an open question...
    MoS 4.158 12 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    MoS 4.164 17 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.
    ShP 4.209 5 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open, which affect their fortunes;...
    NMW 4.224 11 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all...
    NMW 4.235 12 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...until Italy was as open to Paris as any town in France.
    NMW 4.258 26 Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open...
    ET4 5.48 26 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...open market, or good wages for every kind of labor;...
    ET4 5.67 6 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
    ET4 5.67 9 The fair Saxon man, with open front and honest meaning...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    ET4 5.68 17 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...
    ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air...
    ET5 5.78 10 The English game is...fair play and open field...
    ET8 5.128 17 [The English]...even if disposed to recreation, will avoid an open garden.
    ET9 5.152 9 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched...
    ET10 5.163 10 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
    ET11 5.174 9 English history is aristocracy with the doors open.
    ET11 5.188 2 Everybody who is real is open and ready for that which is also real.
    ET11 5.196 11 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET11 5.197 9 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open...
    ET13 5.214 15 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open...
    ET18 5.301 18 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations.
    ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    Wth 6.99 10 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.121 13 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open.
    Wsp 6.237 27 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice of virtue which outrages the virtuous;...
    SS 7.6 2 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    Elo1 7.76 2 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...has a talent for speaking. In the debate with open doors, this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    DL 7.117 22 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be the shelter always open to good and true persons;...
    Suc 7.306 16 Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is...an open and noble temper.
    OA 7.321 23 ...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands;...
    PI 8.14 13 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.
    SA 8.89 23 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    QO 8.185 16 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
    Grts 8.310 12 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude.
    Grts 8.316 10 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Imtl 8.332 2 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Imtl 8.351 19 [Yama said] Thee, O Nachiketas! I believe a house whose door is open to Brahma.
    Dem1 10.25 13 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    Edc1 10.133 17 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    SovE 10.198 21 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
    Prch 10.238 4 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
    MoL 10.255 4 ...neither saint nor sage, can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    Plu 10.307 12 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    LLNE 10.355 17 In our free institutions, where...all possible modes of working and gaining are open to [a man], fortunes are easily made...
    EzRy 10.390 17 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited; his nature social, his house open to all men.
    EzRy 10.390 23 [Ezra Ripley's] brow was serene and open to his visitor...
    SlHr 10.446 12 ...if there were regions of knowledge not open to [Samuel Hoar], he did not pretend to them.
    Thor 10.474 15 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music.
    HDC 11.37 5 [The Indian] was open as a child to kindness and justice.
    HDC 11.47 11 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance;...
    HDC 11.66 8 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
    War 11.168 6 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance when your strong-box is broken open...
    FSLC 11.184 24 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
    FSLC 11.185 4 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...open, generous, brave, who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    FSLN 11.225 6 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism...
    EPro 11.322 21 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him;...
    EPro 11.326 1 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career.
    SMC 11.352 14 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law...kept its eye wide open.
    EdAd 11.393 16 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is freely and solicitously open...
    FRep 11.541 17 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open.
    MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
    MAng1 12.244 1 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.
    WSL 12.340 7 ...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor]. Possibly his writings are open to harsher censure;...
    WSL 12.346 18 [Landor] loves...Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Virgil, yet with open eyes.
    EurB 12.365 23 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante, whilst they have the just and open soul, have also the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...
    EurB 12.367 4 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense; as a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house. Wordsworth is open to ridicule of this kind.
    EurB 12.377 4 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...and when he had given proof that he was a faithful man, all doors, all houses, all relations were open to him;...
    Let 12.403 6 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides...
    Trag 12.412 20 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands.

open, v. (75)

    Nat 1.39 16 Open any recent journal of science...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    AmS 1.89 3 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    DSA 1.120 22 A more...overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
    DSA 1.135 8 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels...
    LE 1.165 15 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;...
    LE 1.171 25 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LE 1.177 23 [The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
    LE 1.183 27 Let [the scholar] open his breast to all honest inquiry...
    MN 1.193 16 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance, as the eyes of men open to their capabilities.
    LT 1.266 27 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
    Con 1.297 27 ...[conservatism] will not open its eyes to see a better fact.
    Tran 1.346 15 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if the earth should open at my side...his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.
    YA 1.391 21 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future, which the imagination fears to open.
    SR 2.76 17 Let a Stoic open the resources of man...
    Cir 2.312 27 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits, and I open my eye on my own possibilities.
    Int 2.328 23 We do not determine what we will think. We only open our senses...and suffer the intellect to see.
    Art1 2.358 5 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.
    Mrs1 3.126 4 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen...who have chosen the condition of poverty when that of wealth was equally open to them.
    Mrs1 3.138 10 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.
    UGM 4.6 5 [Man's] own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity...
    UGM 4.6 12 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light...
    MoS 4.186 9 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...
    NMW 4.258 3 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    GoW 4.281 20 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow.
    ET13 5.224 7 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England. The first leaf of the New Testament it does not open.
    Wth 6.105 26 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice...
    Ctr 6.163 5 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
    Wsp 6.237 12 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...
    CbW 6.254 19 Wars, fires, plagues...open a fair field to new men.
    Civ 7.32 16 ...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.69 2 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
    DL 7.113 18 It...certainly ought to open our ear to every good-minded reformer, that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.132 10 Will not man one day open his eyes and see how dear he is to the soul of Nature...
    Farm 7.152 10 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future...
    WD 7.170 4 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn...and in its wide leisures we dare open that book.
    WD 7.171 19 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    Boks 7.200 11 ...it signifies little where you open [Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
    Boks 7.205 23 There is Dante's poem, to open the Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...
    Boks 7.213 1 What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the suggestion of rich music!
    Clbs 7.244 27 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social skill to the daylight in your company...
    Cour 7.257 4 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo, before yet the eyes are open, bites fiercely;...
    Cour 7.268 4 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    OA 7.324 6 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open.
    OA 7.325 7 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.
    PI 8.68 16 The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved us as...to open the eye of the intellect to see farther and better.
    SA 8.94 12 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    Res 8.151 17 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself...
    PPo 8.257 6 We may open anywhere [in the poetry of Hafiz] on a floral catalogue.
    PPo 8.264 27 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Dem1 10.25 12 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    PerF 10.73 18 ...as the reflective faculties open, [temperament] subsides.
    Edc1 10.134 14 Why always coast on the surface and never open the interior of Nature...
    Edc1 10.139 11 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
    Prch 10.237 24 The Church is open to great and small in all nations;...
    Prch 10.238 1 We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    MoL 10.254 15 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    Plu 10.311 19 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book, we forget to open it again.
    LLNE 10.340 21 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.
    MMEm 10.429 11 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
    MMEm 10.429 17 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late.
    HDC 11.71 10 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions.
    War 11.173 16 ...another age comes, a truer religion and ethics open...
    FSLC 11.181 17 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame.
    ACiv 11.302 15 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    RBur 11.443 3 Open the windows behind you, and hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of [the memory of Burns].
    FRO2 11.490 1 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us...
    FRep 11.537 2 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    PLT 12.26 26 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull; there is no genius. Ask of your flowers to open when you have let in on them a freezing wind.
    PLT 12.27 14 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication...open to us the tendencies and duties of men of thought in the present time.
    II 12.69 21 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips?
    II 12.70 16 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise...
    II 12.79 13 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    Mem 12.93 2 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on...
    MAng1 12.216 23 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of morn and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want observers.

opened, v. (71)

    AmS 1.89 4 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it...
    MN 1.222 13 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MR 1.242 6 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that... when the pair above are closed, those which are beneath should be opened.
    YA 1.365 22 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in this country...
    Lov1 2.177 14 The heats that have opened [the lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
    OS 2.273 14 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened?
    OS 2.286 16 ...thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
    Cir 2.306 15 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened;...
    Art1 2.357 5 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Pt1 3.27 16 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature;...
    Exp 3.58 26 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    Chr1 3.115 11 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Nat2 3.180 7 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
    Pol1 3.201 1 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.
    UGM 4.20 15 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...
    SwM 4.117 26 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
    SwM 4.122 26 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects...and opened the future world by indicating the continuity of the same laws.
    SwM 4.132 23 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it.
    SwM 4.136 21 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    NMW 4.242 16 A market for all the powers and productions of man was opened [in France];...
    NMW 4.255 15 ...[Napoleon]...opened letters...
    ET5 5.98 16 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built, a banking-house is opened, and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
    ET13 5.214 10 A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET15 5.265 17 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but the door was opened by a mild old woman...
    ET16 5.287 8 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance...
    ET17 5.292 17 The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum and of the Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
    ET17 5.293 13 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England]...
    ET19 5.309 12 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech.
    F 6.11 24 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...
    Wsp 6.219 4 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened;...
    Wsp 6.231 12 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
    Bty 6.305 10 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...
    Civ 7.34 1 ...if there be...a country...where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Boks 7.203 18 The reader of these books [of the Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind; new regions of thought are opened.
    Clbs 7.241 16 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    Suc 7.299 7 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that his eyes opened as he grew older...
    OA 7.322 21 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that...hath opened the eyes of all that shall come after him;...
    PI 8.21 18 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs matter, custom, and all but itself.
    PI 8.67 17 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to the face of Nature...
    PI 8.68 1 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...and the way opened to the paradise which ever in the best hour beckons us?
    SA 8.103 16 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he...opened the eyes of the person he talked with without contradicting him.
    Elo2 8.116 13 The silence and coldness after the meeting is opened and the purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
    Res 8.142 17 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...
    Res 8.146 6 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    QO 8.182 25 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    QO 8.183 23 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents...
    Edc1 10.150 8 ...though every young man is born with some determination in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed, and, whatever they may hereafter be, their senses are now opened in advance of their minds.
    Prch 10.237 14 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that... when the pair above are closed, those which are beneath are opened.
    LLNE 10.330 25 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.
    LLNE 10.334 25 ...[Everett's power] lay...in a new perception of Grecian beauty, to which he had opened our eyes.
    LLNE 10.340 26 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...
    LLNE 10.341 4 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley...
    LLNE 10.355 26 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the enemy into the castle;...
    EzRy 10.391 25 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say...
    Thor 10.452 1 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...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.
    Carl 10.498 3 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society,-a very few houses only in the high circles being ever opened to them,-[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    GSt 10.501 11 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    HDC 11.55 20 New plantations and better land had been opened, far and near;...
    EWI 11.126 25 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the dullest in Britain.
    War 11.176 1 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall, and the green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters of oppression and guilt;...
    SMC 11.374 10 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...
    EdAd 11.389 3 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    Koss 11.397 18 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    FRep 11.528 18 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent...
    PLT 12.21 22 ...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a higher class in which its rudiments are opened...
    PLT 12.38 11 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.
    PLT 12.47 18 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...
    CInt 12.130 18 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments.
    MAng1 12.243 4 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...
    WSL 12.342 18 ...a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master's freedom a slavery.
    AgMs 12.361 7 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.

opener, n. (2)

    NMW 4.252 19 [Napoleon] was...the opener of doors and markets...
    Prch 10.233 22 ...[inspiration] will be an opener of doors;...

openers, n. (1)

    II 12.78 25 ...we must be openers of doors, and not a blind alley;...

open-handed, adj. (3)

    Con 1.316 11 Conservatism is affluent and open-handed...
    EzRy 10.391 2 [Ezra Ripley] was open-handed and just and generous.
    SlHr 10.440 13 [Samuel Hoar] was open-handed to every charity...

open-hearted, adj. (1)

    ET7 5.126 9 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/ For they 're so open-hearted, you may know/ Their own most secret thoughts, and others' too./

opening, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.170 22 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    Pow 6.71 2 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...

opening, n. (2)

    Exp 3.71 25 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
    PI 8.30 24 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy, as in...the opening of the Merchant of Venice.

opening, v. (27)

    MR 1.256 14 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices...
    Hist 2.39 10 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the opening of new sciences and new regions in man.
    Fdsp 2.211 12 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower by your impatience for its opening.
    OS 2.282 1 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    OS 2.282 13 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Chr1 3.102 17 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them...
    Chr1 3.113 15 The ages are opening this moral force [of character].
    UGM 4.18 26 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages;...
    PNR 4.85 11 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds, opening power and capability in everything he touches.
    SwM 4.104 7 The robust Aristotelian method...opening, by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    NMW 4.242 10 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own, opening of course to them and their children all places of power and trust.
    F 6.7 16 Rivers dry up by opening of the forest.
    Wsp 6.211 22 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them... opening their own houses to him...
    CbW 6.256 11 The agencies by which events so grand as the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are paltry...
    Civ 7.22 1 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
    Res 8.151 15 Natural history is, in the country...always opening new resorts.
    QO 8.188 16 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    Dem1 10.24 17 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical, related to the machinery of man, opening to our curiosity how we live...
    Edc1 10.148 3 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind is not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
    HDC 11.60 19 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    EdAd 11.383 1 The American people are fast opening their own destiny.
    EdAd 11.385 15 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?
    SHC 11.429 3 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    Bost 12.201 11 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy...as great a gain to mankind as the opening of this continent.
    Milt1 12.267 24 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
    EurB 12.375 16 Had one noble thought, opening the chambers of the intellect...been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...

openly, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 5 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised; and the court did not dare to punish them, at least openly.

openness, n. (1)

    Tran 1.335 23 [The Transcendentalist] believes...in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power;...

opens, v. (52)

    Nat 1.49 27 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    DSA 1.120 7 ...when the mind opens...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    MR 1.236 1 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? ... This would be great action, which always opens the eyes of men.
    Con 1.311 21 ...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under the polar circle;...
    Lov1 2.169 15 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... opens the imagination...
    Cir 2.301 18 ...under every deep a lower deep opens.
    Cir 2.302 18 The Greek letters...are already...tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Exp 3.72 2 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...the sunbright Mecca of the desert. And what a future it opens!
    UGM 4.3 4 All mythology opens with demigods...
    UGM 4.17 13 [The imagination] opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size...
    PPh 4.51 13 Nature opens and creates.
    SwM 4.94 21 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which...opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.
    SwM 4.107 11 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf...
    SwM 4.134 2 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away...
    SwM 4.143 8 It is the best sign of a great nature that it opens a foreground...
    ET2 5.29 17 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
    ET16 5.279 4 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    F 6.25 16 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    F 6.35 25 ...before [every individual] opens liberty...
    Wth 6.88 17 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man]...
    Wth 6.97 15 They should own who can administer...they whose work... opens a path for all.
    Ctr 6.159 10 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Bhr 6.191 18 ...when [a man] opens [his thought] for show, it corrupts him.
    Ill 6.319 22 The intellect sees...that the mind opens to omnipotence;...
    OA 7.319 6 [The cup of time] opens the senses...
    SA 8.106 21 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
    Res 8.138 23 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things...the horizon opens...
    PPo 8.245 14 Here is the sum, that, when one door opens, another shuts.
    Insp 8.293 17 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence...
    Grts 8.305 23 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who, as his genius opens, aims...to dedicate himself to that.
    Aris 10.44 23 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    PerF 10.82 21 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...
    Edc1 10.126 6 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the talisman that opens kings' palaces...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    Edc1 10.130 3 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul...
    SovE 10.185 7 ...presently...a new perception opens, and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
    SovE 10.202 9 ...in trying to dispel the illusions of his neighbor, [a man] opens his own eyes.
    SovE 10.211 25 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...
    Schr 10.270 23 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
    EWI 11.145 18 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens...
    SMC 11.353 18 [War] opens the eyes wider.
    Wom 11.420 23 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    FRO2 11.490 22 The earth moves, and the mind opens.
    CPL 11.507 7 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire...
    FRep 11.522 14 In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.
    PLT 12.5 1 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be, comprehends and works thus;...
    PLT 12.37 25 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
    Mem 12.110 3 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that...since the Universe opens to us, the reach of the memory must be as large.
    Milt1 12.265 24 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics. He opens the war and strikes the first blow.
    WSL 12.342 16 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.
    AgMs 12.361 11 ...our [New England] people...will remove from town to town as a new market opens...
    PPr 12.387 19 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens great avenues.
    Let 12.401 17 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul, to which the shy sensibility opens...

opera, n. (8)

    Art1 2.355 14 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet, an opera...
    ET6 5.112 19 Cold, repressive manners prevail [in England]. No enthusiasm is permitted except at the opera.
    ET7 5.125 13 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran.
    ET11 5.177 23 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London, and only go thither a short time, during the season, to see the opera;...
    Ctr 6.138 14 We can spare your opera...
    Ctr 6.148 17 In town [a man] can find...opera, theatre and panorama;...
    Suc 7.284 11 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Edc1 10.140 12 ...Jove and Achilles...opera and binomial theorem...dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.

opera-glass, n. (1)

    SR 2.86 18 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.

opera-going, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.54 1 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...

operate, v. (2)

    MR 1.253 22 Let our affection flow out to our fellows; it would operate in a day the greatest of all revolutions.
    Int 2.340 12 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.

operated, v. (2)

    LT 1.284 1 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    ET6 5.103 12 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.

operates, v. (7)

    Hist 2.33 26 ...[Goethe's Helena] operates a wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images...
    Comp 2.126 17 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life...
    NER 3.281 23 ...every hinderance operates as a concentration of [a man's] force.
    F 6.14 18 ...all that the primary power or spasm operates is still vesicles, vesicles.
    Schr 10.278 14 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...and how little thought operates how great an effect, one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    MMEm 10.428 3 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;-but how rare, how dependent on the organs through which the soul operates!
    FSLC 11.195 24 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by the mischiefs it operates.

operating, adj. (1)

    PI 8.50 24 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.

operation, n. (12)

    DSA 1.123 2 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life...is at last as sure as in the soul.
    Pt1 3.6 22 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
    NER 3.282 19 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
    Wsp 6.233 9 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners...
    Art2 7.51 7 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation.
    Aris 10.29 18 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Edc1 10.149 13 See how far a young doctor will ride or walk to witness a new surgical operation.
    Schr 10.261 16 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like. We are used to these surprises. This is but one operation of a more general law.
    HDC 11.80 11 The operation of a new government was dreaded [in Concord], lest it should prove expensive...
    FRep 11.509 2 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    Mem 12.107 8 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    MAng1 12.224 12 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato.

operations, n. (6)

    Nat 1.5 12 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant...that... they do not vary the result.
    PPh 4.69 5 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,---conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    Wth 6.100 20 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...
    Art2 7.42 24 ...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
    MMEm 10.422 2 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
    EWI 11.118 27 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

operative, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.109 19 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    FSLN 11.228 26 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill made it operative...

operative, n. (5)

    YA 1.380 15 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
    Comp 2.114 26 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    MoS 4.173 1 It turns out that [the wise skeptic] is not the champion of the operative, the pauper, the prisoner, the slave.
    NMW 4.229 19 This ciphering operative [Bonaparte] knows what he is working with and what is the product.
    ET4 5.69 10 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious diet. The operative cannot subsist on water-cresses.

operatives, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.209 8 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as...the party of capitalists and that of operatives...
    ET13 5.221 14 [The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is not the church of the poor. The operatives do not own it...
    Res 8.148 11 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.

operator, n. (1)

    PerF 10.84 5 Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of empires as they pass to the capital.

operose, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.190 19 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method!

opes, v. (1)

    Nat 1.64 21 This [spiritual] view, which...points to virtue as to The golden key/ Which opes the palace of eternity,/ carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...

Ophelia, n. (1)

    PI 8.67 9 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...

opiates, n. (1)

    NER 3.268 27 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure...opiates.

opinion, n. (238)

    AmS 1.100 11 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    AmS 1.115 16 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically...
    DSA 1.148 19 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit, that has nothing to do with opinion...
    LE 1.156 5 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    MR 1.234 2 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
    LT 1.291 6 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every unproven opinion...
    Con 1.308 27 ...I feel called upon...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
    YA 1.371 5 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing their private thought to the public opinion...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.375 25 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when...the emperor of an empire, deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    YA 1.375 25 Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
    YA 1.389 20 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease...
    YA 1.389 21 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease, or, shall I say, the publicness of opinion, the absence of private opinion.
    YA 1.390 20 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist, the philanthropist; as the organs of influence and opinion are swift to do.
    Hist 2.5 1 Every reform was once a private opinion...
    Hist 2.5 2 Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
    SR 2.46 9 ...we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
    SR 2.53 27 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...
    SR 2.55 7 ...most men have...attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.
    Comp 2.110 10 Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
    SL 2.146 5 ...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of ties,--that he has been understood; and he who has received an opinion may come to find it the most inconvenient of bonds.
    SL 2.146 7 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
    SL 2.156 7 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Hsm1 2.255 22 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    Hsm1 2.261 9 Greatness once and for ever has done with opinion.
    Hsm1 2.262 10 [Culture] will not now run against an axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
    Hsm1 2.262 16 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob, for the rights of free speech and opinion...
    OS 2.279 22 We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
    OS 2.290 5 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone. He does not talk with men with an eye to their opinion.
    Int 2.330 3 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge...
    Int 2.342 11 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion...
    Pt1 3.30 24 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Exp 3.56 6 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
    Exp 3.56 7 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion gives me tidings of their mood...
    Chr1 3.98 9 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake at opinion, the public opinion as we call it;...
    Chr1 3.98 10 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake at opinion, the public opinion as we call it;...
    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;...
    Mrs1 3.124 23 I...am of opinion that the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through;...
    Mrs1 3.132 20 ...we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.
    Pol1 3.203 3 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.209 18 The vice of our leading parties in this country (which may be cited as a fair specimen of these societies of opinion) is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    Pol1 3.211 13 It is said that...in the despotism of public opinion, we have no anchor;...
    NER 3.253 20 With this din of opinion and debate there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    NER 3.265 14 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    NER 3.265 24 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him.
    NER 3.270 15 I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.
    NER 3.279 9 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion...is in you...
    UGM 4.24 17 Altogether independent of the intellectual force in each is the pride of opinion...
    UGM 4.24 20 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    UGM 4.30 25 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders, who have sentiment, opinion, love, self-devotion; and they make war and death sacred;...
    PPh 4.70 19 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
    PPh 4.73 16 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    SwM 4.118 24 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...
    MoS 4.157 25 All society is divided in opinion on the subject of the State.
    MoS 4.165 13 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times;...
    MoS 4.165 18 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    MoS 4.173 25 I know the quadruped opinion will not prevail.
    MoS 4.186 10 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...
    NMW 4.227 6 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
    NMW 4.231 25 I have always marched with the opinion of great masses and with events [said Bonaparte].
    NMW 4.249 22 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions. His opinion is always original and to the purpose.
    GoW 4.266 4 In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public opinion commends the practical man;...
    GoW 4.266 8 Our people are of Bonaparte's opinion concerning ideologists.
    GoW 4.269 21 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public;...
    ET3 5.36 6 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.71 21 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. The horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
    ET5 5.81 13 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion...
    ET5 5.82 11 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
    ET5 5.85 18 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    ET5 5.92 27 [The English] have made...London...a sanctuary to refugees of every political and religious opinion;...
    ET5 5.93 11 It is England whose opinion is waited for on the merit of a new invention, an improved science.
    ET6 5.102 21 [The English] require you to dare to be of your own opinion...
    ET7 5.118 12 ...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.
    ET8 5.131 4 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion...
    ET8 5.136 8 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours.
    ET8 5.137 23 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press: the first querulous, captious, sensitive about English opinion;...
    ET8 5.137 24 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion...
    ET8 5.140 9 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard...
    ET9 5.146 9 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England, that the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by them for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET9 5.147 21 ...in all companies, each of [the English] has too good an opinion of himself to imitate anybody.
    ET11 5.189 17 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great, after the estimate and opinion of their times.
    ET13 5.220 16 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return...
    ET13 5.225 7 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
    ET14 5.259 9 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
    ET15 5.262 16 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance.
    ET18 5.302 5 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    ET18 5.305 19 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.
    ET18 5.306 21 ...any forbearance from [an Englishman's] superiors surprises him, and they suffer in his good opinion.
    F 6.29 15 Does the reading of history make us fatalists? What courage does not the opposite opinion show!
    F 6.34 7 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world...
    Pow 6.65 9 Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion...
    Pow 6.78 27 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...
    Pow 6.79 3 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience, and off that ground their opinion is not valuable.
    Wth 6.91 24 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...
    Wth 6.111 8 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    Wth 6.123 17 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Ctr 6.141 26 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters. Their opinion has weight, because they had means of knowing the opposite opinion.
    Ctr 6.141 27 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters. Their opinion has weight, because they had means of knowing the opposite opinion.
    Ctr 6.153 12 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe...servile to public opinion.
    Ctr 6.158 22 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal grounds, and give a just opinion.
    Ctr 6.163 6 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
    Ctr 6.163 22 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    Ctr 6.164 9 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Ctr 6.164 11 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Bhr 6.173 1 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach...
    Wsp 6.208 19 There is faith...in public opinion, but not in divine causes.
    Wsp 6.208 22 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of opinion, they run into freak and extravagance.
    Wsp 6.210 27 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Wsp 6.224 4 He is a strong man who can hold down his opinion.
    Wsp 6.224 10 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Wsp 6.225 18 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...not into opinion...
    CbW 6.252 17 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority...do not yet know their opinion.
    Civ 7.32 13 ...when I...see...man acting on man by weight of opinion...I see what cubic values America has...
    DL 7.110 27 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    DL 7.116 17 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    Farm 7.141 26 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;...
    WD 7.178 27 I am of the opinion of the poet Wordsworth, that there is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue.
    WD 7.179 2 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
    WD 7.179 5 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    Boks 7.191 12 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...
    Boks 7.191 14 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value; if you do not know these, you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject.
    Boks 7.195 19 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion...
    Boks 7.199 26 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself, and the opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions...
    Clbs 7.226 23 ...opinion native to the speaker is sweet and refreshing...
    Clbs 7.234 7 In fact the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
    Clbs 7.234 16 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion...
    Clbs 7.236 25 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is...a constitutional value for a thought or opinion, among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    Clbs 7.246 25 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men. Their knowledge contradicts the popular opinion and your own on many points.
    Clbs 7.249 4 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.
    Cour 7.258 26 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion;...
    Cour 7.266 9 The thoughtful man says, You differ from me in opinion and methods...
    Cour 7.277 14 ...there is one good opinion which must always be of consequence to you, namely, your own.
    Suc 7.290 24 We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement and manufacture of public opinion;...
    Suc 7.308 9 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...
    Suc 7.308 10 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...
    SA 8.86 18 State your opinion without apology.
    QO 8.190 16 There is none so eminent and wise but he knows minds whose opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
    QO 8.190 22 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    Grts 8.303 4 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    Grts 8.303 16 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    Grts 8.319 14 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in New York...there might be fit society;...
    Imtl 8.327 8 ...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form...
    Imtl 8.328 4 ...we are all aware of a revolution in opinion [concerning immortality].
    Imtl 8.328 19 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living. That inscription describes a progress in opinion.
    Imtl 8.330 5 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    Aris 10.36 27 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Chr2 10.102 17 Character denotes...a balance not to be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
    Chr2 10.110 5 There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in civil countries, reaches everybody.
    Chr2 10.112 9 Romanism in Europe does not represent the real opinion of enlightened men.
    Chr2 10.114 22 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient...
    Chr2 10.119 18 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    Edc1 10.137 26 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...
    Edc1 10.139 13 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
    Supl 10.164 8 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution!...
    SovE 10.202 12 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...
    SovE 10.202 14 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    SovE 10.206 13 It is very sad to see men who think their goodness made of themselves; it is very grateful to see those who hold an opinion the reverse of this.
    SovE 10.212 1 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law, of public opinion, to the self-revealing idea;...
    Prch 10.217 1 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Prch 10.217 19 In consequence of this revolution in opinion, it appears, for the time, as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    Prch 10.223 9 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...
    Prch 10.229 2 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    Prch 10.231 26 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the public opinion of the times...
    Prch 10.234 15 The differences of opinion, the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    Schr 10.282 2 We will hold fast our opinion and die in silence.
    Schr 10.288 22 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...
    Plu 10.297 9 Whatever is eminent...in opinion, in character...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.317 10 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at;...
    LLNE 10.340 7 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    LLNE 10.345 17 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself and five or six young men with whom he agreed in opinion, of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    LLNE 10.354 9 Fourier was of the opinion of Saint-Evremond; abstinence from pleasure appeared to him a great sin.
    CSC 10.374 13 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion...
    MMEm 10.403 10 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is] that a mind like Byron's would never be satisfied with modern Unitarianism...
    SlHr 10.438 23 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go. But his opinion was unchanged.
    SlHr 10.442 17 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    SlHr 10.443 3 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    Thor 10.458 15 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
    Thor 10.458 16 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
    Thor 10.458 18 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company. It was of no consequence if every one present held the opposite opinion.
    Carl 10.497 24 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties. His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit...
    GSt 10.506 12 There [George Stearns] sat in the council...with no pride of opinion...
    LS 11.4 23 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    LS 11.5 1 ...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; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do.
    LS 11.8 2 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.13 23 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    LS 11.15 25 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.15 26 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.24 5 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not.
    LS 11.24 14 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it. Neither should I ever have obtruded this opinion upon other people, had I not been called by my office to administer it.
    LS 11.24 21 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    HDC 11.46 24 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned...to exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the country.
    HDC 11.47 11 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance;...
    HDC 11.51 5 Thomas Hooker anticipated the opinion of Humboldt, and called [the Indians] the ruins of mankind.
    HDC 11.66 11 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
    EWI 11.140 26 ...a more enlightened and humane opinion [of the negro] began to prevail.
    War 11.153 16 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history; and it must be owned he gives sound reason for his opinion.
    War 11.170 15 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    War 11.170 27 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion...
    War 11.171 1 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but by private opinion, by private conviction...
    FSLC 11.193 27 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.197 22 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who, by the fear of public opinion, or through the dangerous ascendency of Southern manners, have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.208 7 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    AsSu 11.250 18 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    TPar 11.287 13 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    TPar 11.289 13 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion...
    TPar 11.291 15 Fops, whether in hotels or churches, will utter the fop's opinion...
    TPar 11.291 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    ACiv 11.300 21 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world.
    EPro 11.317 7 ...so fair a mind that none ever listened so patiently to such extreme varieties of opinion,-so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    ALin 11.331 7 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
    ALin 11.336 15 [Lincoln] had conquered the public opinion of Canada, England and France.
    HCom 11.341 2 With whatever opinion we come here, I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    HCom 11.343 27 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    EdAd 11.392 2 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Koss 11.398 22 [The sympathy of Americans] is, in every expression, antagonized. No opinion will pass but must stand the tug of war.
    Koss 11.398 27 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through;...and it will draw all opinion to itself.
    Wom 11.406 20 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    Wom 11.407 26 As for Plato's opinion [of women], it is true that, up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have they produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.417 12 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    Wom 11.425 3 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion...
    ChiE 11.471 2 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.
    CPL 11.503 3 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.
    FRep 11.515 27 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations...
    FRep 11.516 24 The humblest [in America] is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical questions...
    FRep 11.518 15 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place...
    FRep 11.521 10 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought without waiting...for public opinion...
    PLT 12.42 24 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    CInt 12.118 26 ...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered expression of opinion.
    Bost 12.184 1 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    MAng1 12.226 11 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...
    Milt1 12.269 2 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
    ACri 12.302 6 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
    ACri 12.304 23 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.310 20 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book, for every opinion...has an organ.
    AgMs 12.362 9 ...in my [Edmund hosmer's] opinion, Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    AgMs 12.363 23 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of the [Agricultural] Surveyor...
    Let 12.392 10 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion.
    Trag 12.413 12 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge, who has nowise made up his opinion...
    Trag 12.413 23 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society, any revolution of custom, of law, of opinion, and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

opinionative, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.390 6 Like other credulous men, [Ezra Ripley] was opinionative...

opinionativeness, n. (1)

    NMW 4.231 13 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself...on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.

opinionists, n. (1)

    ACri 12.302 8 Here is my friend E., the model of opinionists.

opinions, n. (135)

    Nat 1.22 11 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him, - the persons, the opinions...
    LE 1.159 13 ...the new man must feel that he...has not come into the world mortgaged to the opinions and usages of Europe...
    LE 1.160 19 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of...the Tennemanns, who give us the story of men or of opinions.
    LE 1.181 15 Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...
    MN 1.221 17 [The intellect] will burn up...all base current opinions...as in a moment of time.
    LT 1.259 17 The Times-the nations, manners, institutions, opinions, votes, are to be studied as omens...
    YA 1.369 24 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land, and carry its quality in their manners and opinions.
    YA 1.376 11 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
    YA 1.376 13 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    YA 1.380 25 These [Communities] proceeded...from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted...
    SR 2.49 19 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs...
    SR 2.65 14 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions...
    SR 2.82 15 ...our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past...
    Hsm1 2.263 9 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.
    OS 2.286 25 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    Cir 2.308 15 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    Int 2.343 22 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Pt1 3.41 11 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Exp 3.47 14 How many individuals can we count in society? how many actions? how many opinions?
    Exp 3.47 25 There are even few opinions...
    Chr1 3.91 23 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them;...
    Chr1 3.96 26 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.
    Chr1 3.100 1 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices.
    Mrs1 3.122 27 The gentleman is...not in any manner dependent and servile, either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
    NR 3.247 18 If we were not of all opinions!...
    PPh 4.69 3 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    PNR 4.84 7 Plato affirms...that the soul is unwillingly deprived of true opinions...
    SwM 4.144 26 Many opinions conflict as to the true centre.
    MoS 4.175 23 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he...will rapidly alternate all opinions in his own life.
    MoS 4.176 11 Are the opinions of a man on right and wrong...at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    MoS 4.176 16 ...what guaranty for the permanence of [a man's] opinions?
    ShP 4.212 20 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence...
    GoW 4.282 23 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    GoW 4.286 24 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET1 5.5 23 ...all [Greenough's] opinions had elevation and magnanimity.
    ET1 5.7 17 ...[Landor] is decided in his opinions...
    ET1 5.12 19 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
    ET1 5.24 24 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.
    ET7 5.121 7 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour.
    ET8 5.140 25 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making itself a war of opinions also...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET12 5.213 11 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould the opinions of cities...
    ET13 5.219 8 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family and the Parliament, by name; and this lifelong consecration cannot be without influence on his opinions.
    ET17 5.295 27 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    Pow 6.53 3 There is not yet any inventory of a man's faculties, any more than a bible of his opinions.
    Pow 6.65 8 Men in power have no opinions...
    Ctr 6.156 5 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    Wsp 6.201 22 We are of different opinions at different hours...
    Wsp 6.218 10 If your eye is on the eternal...your opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.
    Bty 6.301 6 If a man...can lead the opinions of mankind...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Elo1 7.65 16 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...with their opinions in the keeping of a confessor, or with their opinions in their bank-safes,--he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Elo1 7.65 17 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...with their opinions in the keeping of a confessor, or with their opinions in their bank-safes,--he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Elo1 7.72 14 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...
    Farm 7.150 19 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
    Boks 7.207 25 ...what with...the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Boks 7.214 4 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Clbs 7.226 20 Opinions are accidental in people...
    Suc 7.292 11 ...we import the religion of other nations; we quote their opinions;...
    OA 7.315 15 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    PI 8.67 6 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...
    SA 8.94 12 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    SA 8.99 5 Don't recite other people's opinions.
    Res 8.151 5 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    Comc 8.171 22 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions;...
    QO 8.199 4 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    QO 8.200 13 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited.
    PC 8.211 11 Steffens said, The religious opinions of men rest on their views of Nature.
    Dem1 10.8 18 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements...
    Chr2 10.112 11 The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the opinions of the universities.
    Chr2 10.113 12 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
    Edc1 10.137 11 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.
    SovE 10.202 15 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    SovE 10.207 6 ...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions...
    SovE 10.207 23 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    SovE 10.213 20 SovE 10.213 25 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.227 3 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is select in his opinions...he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Prch 10.229 11 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    Prch 10.231 14 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary, and the opinions of the floating crowd of no importance whatever.
    Prch 10.235 10 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject; seeing that opinions are temporary, but convictions uniform and eternal...
    MoL 10.256 15 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
    Schr 10.282 22 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Plu 10.309 26 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are, for the most part, very crude opinions;...
    Plu 10.311 20 There is a certain violence in [Seneca's] opinions...
    Plu 10.322 18 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    LLNE 10.342 15 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    EzRy 10.395 10 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
    MMEm 10.406 22 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    Thor 10.452 27 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.
    Thor 10.464 23 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    Thor 10.472 23 ...not a particle of respect had [Thoreau] to the opinions of any man or body of men...
    Carl 10.491 5 Young men, especially those holding liberal opinions, press to see [Carlyle]...
    LS 11.5 4 ...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; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these two opinions.
    LS 11.8 1 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.16 3 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
    LS 11.17 26 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    EWI 11.106 4 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    FSLC 11.184 10 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
    FSLN 11.219 21 [Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] had no opinions...
    FSLN 11.220 4 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.
    FSLN 11.225 4 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others...
    FSLN 11.243 9 I [Robert Winthrop] go then for such parties and opinions as have provided me with a working apparatus.
    AKan 11.260 22 It must happen, in the variety of human opinions, that there are dissenters.
    TPar 11.286 6 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit for a man of the world; with decided opinions and plenty of power to state them;...
    TPar 11.287 21 ...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the opinions of the new generation.
    TPar 11.287 22 The opinions of men are organic.
    TPar 11.287 26 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    TPar 11.288 1 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    HCom 11.341 6 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    SMC 11.354 23 The opinions of masses of men...the [Civil] war discovered;...
    Koss 11.398 16 It is our republican doctrine...that the wide variety of opinions is an advantage.
    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?
    Wom 11.424 16 ...this appearance of new opinions...is itself the wonderful fact.
    Wom 11.424 23 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness...
    FRO2 11.490 5 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...
    FRO2 11.490 6 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions,-opinions from all parts of the world,-by our churchmen...
    FRO2 11.490 20 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    FRep 11.529 9 The government is acquainted with the opinions of all classes...
    PLT 12.32 6 ...men are primary or secondary as their opinions and actions are organic or not.
    II 12.74 4 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it...
    II 12.78 22 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
    CL 12.160 3 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true.
    MAng1 12.243 12 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot.
    Milt1 12.266 11 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and, by way of marking the contrast to vulgar opinions, laying its chief stress on humility.
    Milt1 12.270 21 [Milton's] private opinions and private conscience always distinguish him.
    Milt1 12.272 17 [Milton's] opinions on all subjects are formed for man as he ought to be...
    Milt1 12.273 12 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent spiritualist...
    Milt1 12.275 4 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...
    Milt1 12.275 23 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions.
    MLit 12.311 23 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...opinions, epics, lyrics...
    AgMs 12.364 2 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...
    EurB 12.369 19 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...modifying opinions which it did not change...
    PPr 12.383 9 Time stills the loud noise of opinions...
    PPr 12.384 5 ...[Carlyle] has added to his love whatever honor his opinions may forfeit.
    PPr 12.388 24 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
    Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few;...

Opinions of the Philosophers (1)

    Plu 10.309 24 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.

opium, n. (11)

    Hsm1 2.254 23 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness...the use of tobacco, or opium, or tea, or silk, or gold.
    Cir 2.322 7 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
    Pt1 3.27 21 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love...opium...
    Pt1 3.28 23 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
    Exp 3.48 1 What opium is instilled into all disaster!
    UGM 4.23 25 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe...
    Wsp 6.223 10 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    Wsp 6.223 11 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    Civ 7.31 11 Tobacco and opium have broad backs...
    Elo1 7.74 2 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    Edc1 10.128 22 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt: the opium of custom, whereof all drink and many go mad.

opium-eater, n. (1)

    Mem 12.109 5 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.

opium-shop, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 17 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.

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