Placarding to Plants

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

placarding, v. (1)

    Cour 7.259 12 [Political parties] can do...the placarding...

placards, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.173 27 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
    MoL 10.251 24 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England, when on the walls in London you read everywhere placards, Down with the Lords.

place, n. (328)

    Nat 1.20 1 Every heroic act...causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    Nat 1.30 5 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    AmS 1.95 11 I...take my place in the ring...
    DSA 1.127 22 ...the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
    DSA 1.129 14 ...the figures of [Jesus's] rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth;...
    DSA 1.139 2 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment, that can lend a faint tint of light to...ignorance coming in its name and place.
    LE 1.174 1 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...
    LE 1.174 2 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...
    LE 1.174 20 Not insulation of place, but independence of spirit is essential...
    LE 1.185 6 ...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...
    LE 1.185 16 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    MN 1.194 7 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found any place in the world's market fit for thee;...
    MN 1.196 12 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him with new words in the old place...
    MN 1.200 9 How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom;...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    MN 1.201 1 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.210 9 [A man's] health and greatness consist...in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
    MN 1.211 9 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place.
    MN 1.214 9 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that.
    MR 1.228 5 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place a free and helpful man...
    MR 1.239 1 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    Con 1.312 4 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming in every strange place... to thy command;...
    Con 1.312 21 Providence takes care that you shall have a place...
    Con 1.318 4 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.
    Con 1.325 12 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
    Tran 1.352 14 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me...in some place, at some time...
    YA 1.365 5 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    YA 1.370 15 In the second place, the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    YA 1.377 12 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans... new command takes place, new servants and new masters.
    YA 1.377 24 Trade was the strong man that...raised a new and unknown power in [Feudalism's] place.
    YA 1.387 10 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society;...
    Hist 2.7 1 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...or the blow was struck, for us, as we ourselves in that place would have done or applauded.
    Hist 2.11 10 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then, and introduce in its place the Here and the Now.
    Hist 2.11 27 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production. We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder.
    SR 2.47 13 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...
    SR 2.57 4 Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
    SR 2.60 25 ...a true man belongs to no other time or place...
    SR 2.61 4 Character, reality...takes place of the whole creation.
    SR 2.81 2 In manly hours we feel that duty is our place.
    Comp 2.97 1 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Comp 2.99 10 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things.
    SL 2.131 1 When the act of reflection takes place in the mind...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.131 8 Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    SL 2.135 8 ...the world might be a happier place than it is;...
    SL 2.138 21 A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    SL 2.139 14 Why need you choose so painfully your place...
    SL 2.139 18 For you there is...a fit place and congenial duties.
    SL 2.151 18 Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce.
    SL 2.152 8 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;...
    Lov1 2.171 23 In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place-- dwell care and canker and fear.
    Lov1 2.175 15 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Fdsp 2.207 11 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Prd1 2.224 16 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    Hsm1 2.248 11 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.
    OS 2.288 23 ...the fine gentleman, does not take place of the man.
    OS 2.292 22 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place...
    Int 2.326 2 The considerations of time and place...tyrannize over most men' s minds.
    Int 2.326 16 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Int 2.343 14 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new.
    Art1 2.361 16 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place...
    Pt1 3.14 11 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place...
    Pt1 3.19 22 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway.
    Pt1 3.23 6 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place...
    Exp 3.45 17 Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
    Exp 3.52 14 ...temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    Exp 3.75 1 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Exp 3.79 25 ...all things sooner or later fall into place.
    Chr1 3.93 8 ...nobody in the universe can make [the natural merchant's] place good.
    Chr1 3.97 9 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north.
    Chr1 3.99 24 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place...
    Chr1 3.100 4 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer, and every inquirer will have to dispose of him, in the first place.
    Chr1 3.104 2 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a lucrative place found for Professor Voss...
    Chr1 3.109 6 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    Mrs1 3.123 17 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality...rise to their natural place.
    Mrs1 3.136 12 [Montaigne's] arrival in each place...is an event of some consequence.
    Mrs1 3.142 20 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    Mrs1 3.150 25 ...besides those who make good in our imagination the place of muses and of Delphic Sibyls, are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    Nat2 3.177 13 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
    Nat2 3.181 9 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth...
    Nat2 3.192 15 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.
    Pol1 3.201 13 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place in turn to new prayers and pictures.
    Pol1 3.215 3 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    Pol1 3.218 15 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
    NR 3.229 22 We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we have no place in our theory, and no name.
    NR 3.239 3 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    NR 3.239 4 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place...other talents take place, and rule the hour.
    NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...alike in one place and in another,-- wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
    NER 3.267 11 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul;...
    UGM 4.7 11 [The great] satisfy expectation and fall into place.
    UGM 4.7 15 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic...
    UGM 4.21 2 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place.
    UGM 4.27 5 [The great man's] attractions warp us from our place.
    UGM 4.30 12 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place.
    UGM 4.34 13 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky. Then we drew near, saw their means, culture and limits; and they yielded their place to other geniuses.
    PPh 4.43 7 Plato...stands upon the highest place of the poet...
    PPh 4.50 24 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who...is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same as themselves. I neither am going nor coming; nor is my dwelling in any one place;...
    PPh 4.65 26 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    PPh 4.71 26 [Socrates]...thought every thing in Athens a little better than anything in any other place.
    PPh 4.74 22 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place...
    PPh 4.76 17 In the second place, [Plato] has not a system.
    PPh 4.76 22 ...[Plato] has said one thing in one place, and the reverse of it in another place.
    PPh 4.76 23 ...[Plato] has said one thing in one place, and the reverse of it in another place.
    PNR 4.84 26 [Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
    PNR 4.88 14 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    SwM 4.107 26 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings find their place...
    SwM 4.116 12 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept...
    SwM 4.124 8 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place...among the lawgivers of mankind.
    SwM 4.124 24 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.139 20 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    ShP 4.190 20 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ShP 4.190 21 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ShP 4.194 25 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline: freak, extravagance and exhibition took the place of the old temperance.
    ShP 4.197 6 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it.
    ShP 4.210 18 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider how well he filled his place...
    GoW 4.267 27 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of the one is gained by the followers of the other.
    GoW 4.288 2 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place.
    ET4 5.46 24 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.52 4 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians, coming from one place and genetically identical...
    ET4 5.72 26 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
    ET5 5.75 15 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius of the place conspired to this effect.
    ET5 5.77 5 If the [English] race is good, so is the place.
    ET5 5.85 1 [The English] put the expense in the right place...
    ET8 5.135 6 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart...
    ET8 5.141 24 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read the genius of the English society, namely that private life is the place of honor.
    ET10 5.161 21 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under. Money makes place for them.
    ET10 5.167 15 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...
    ET10 5.170 25 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England]...
    ET11 5.174 14 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    ET11 5.181 25 Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross.
    ET11 5.192 8 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.194 11 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen], as if the noble...had not learned to disguise his pride of place.
    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 25 The action of the university, both in what is taught and in the spirit of the place, is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    ET14 5.248 14 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon...
    ET14 5.250 27 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions and give his present studies always the same high place.
    ET16 5.286 14 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us, but returned to our inn, after seeing another old church of the place.
    ET17 5.295 14 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best place in the world for a great capital city.
    ET18 5.299 14 England is not so public in its bias; private life is its place of honor.
    F 6.5 22 [The Calvinists] felt that the weight of the Universe held them down to their place.
    F 6.6 11 Whatever is fated that will take place.
    F 6.41 7 The pleasure of life is...not according to the work or the place.
    Pow 6.68 10 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
    Wth 6.85 10 [A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
    Wth 6.99 14 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wth 6.121 19 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles.
    Ctr 6.143 12 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it takes place with other things...
    Ctr 6.145 20 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad.
    Ctr 6.155 6 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
    Ctr 6.160 3 When our higher faculties are in activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
    Bhr 6.183 8 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.
    Bhr 6.193 21 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Bhr 6.194 3 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
    Bhr 6.194 7 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    Wsp 6.208 21 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 6.232 10 I am not afraid of accident as long as I am in my place.
    CbW 6.258 12 ...there is no moral deformity but is a good passion out of place;...
    CbW 6.266 13 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.
    SS 7.14 12 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    Civ 7.29 9 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.40 20 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
    Art2 7.46 12 The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
    Art2 7.50 13 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being...
    Elo1 7.64 19 The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man will not change his disposition;...
    Elo1 7.66 15 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
    Elo1 7.74 2 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    Elo1 7.94 14 The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.
    Elo1 7.98 1 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds...which have no trace of time or place or party.
    DL 7.124 7 In men, it is their place of education...or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    DL 7.129 25 ...whatever purifies and enlarges [the dweller], may well find place [in the household].
    DL 7.130 3 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum. Rather let the noble practice of the Greeks find place in our society...
    DL 7.131 19 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens...
    Farm 7.137 17 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    WD 7.180 4 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability. He dignifies the place where he is.
    Boks 7.191 2 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place...
    Boks 7.195 7 In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Boks 7.197 14 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece, and occupies that place as history which nothing can supply.
    Clbs 7.238 20 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...
    Clbs 7.240 24 These masters [eloquent men] can make good their own place...
    Cour 7.261 25 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do...
    Cour 7.273 18 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him...
    Suc 7.304 3 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    Suc 7.306 17 There was never poet who had not the heart in the right place.
    Suc 7.307 4 The plenty of the poorest place is too great...
    OA 7.320 1 Youth is everywhere in place.
    OA 7.334 2 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose, sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he.
    PI 8.58 20 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./
    PI 8.61 19 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you...
    PI 8.61 22 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress; for never other person will be able to discover this place for anything which may befall;...
    PI 8.62 20 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it; for you yourself, when you have turned away, will never be able to find the place...
    PI 8.70 12 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    Elo2 8.114 3 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Elo2 8.120 8 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers. Before, he was out of place, and unfitted as a cannon in a parlor.
    Res 8.152 16 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    Comc 8.157 13 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger.
    QO 8.198 14 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame, and come up and take place in the reserved and authentic chairs!
    PC 8.207 14 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...
    PPo 8.258 21 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    Insp 8.284 19 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...
    Insp 8.287 1 ...we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Grts 8.304 27 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Imtl 8.347 21 ...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions about time. The spiritual world takes place;-that which is always the same.
    Dem1 10.26 6 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
    Aris 10.30 6 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
    Aris 10.46 21 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    Aris 10.47 6 I never feel that any man occupies my place...
    Aris 10.47 9 All spiritual or real power makes its own place.
    Aris 10.47 14 There are men who may dare much and will be justified in their daring. But it is because they know they are in their place.
    Aris 10.47 14 As long as I am in my place, I am safe.
    Aris 10.50 11 ...we venture to put any man in any place.
    Aris 10.54 19 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    Aris 10.58 19 ...that is [the horseman's] business,-to ride...to ride unto the place whither he is bound.
    Aris 10.61 20 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world;...
    PerF 10.85 6 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    Chr2 10.95 18 [The moral sentiment] puts us in place.
    Chr2 10.115 1 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment]...the history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any place or time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
    Chr2 10.115 27 ...in [the Church's] most liberal forms, when such [best and freest] minds enter it, they are coldly received, and find themselves out of place.
    Supl 10.173 13 ...to the most expressive man that has existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
    SovE 10.189 17 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
    SovE 10.189 20 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.
    SovE 10.201 21 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
    SovE 10.203 3 Our religion...belongs to our time and place;...
    SovE 10.203 4 Our religion...respects and mythologizes some one time and place and person and people.
    SovE 10.204 15 ...cordage and machinery never supply the place of life.
    SovE 10.204 23 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which wit takes the place of faith in the leading spirits...
    Prch 10.225 9 [The moral sentiment] comes itself from the highest place.
    MoL 10.245 12 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    Schr 10.273 1 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar's] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
    Plu 10.297 6 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    Plu 10.306 22 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
    Plu 10.315 23 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.
    Plu 10.315 26 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    Plu 10.319 26 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation, since it is hard to break the custom of the place, I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    Plu 10.320 18 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    LLNE 10.328 4 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    LLNE 10.328 6 The stockholder has stepped into the place of the warlike baron.
    LLNE 10.332 16 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.350 18 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    LLNE 10.357 13 [Thoreau said] I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world...
    LLNE 10.358 2 The large cities are phalansteries; and the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place in our experience.
    LLNE 10.359 19 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...and took possession of the place in April.
    LLNE 10.359 25 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged...
    LLNE 10.360 11 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    LLNE 10.362 11 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.364 9 The Founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
    CSC 10.373 14 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    EzRy 10.387 27 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...
    EzRy 10.393 22 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
    MMEm 10.399 17 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
    MMEm 10.417 15 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
    MMEm 10.418 4 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time.
    MMEm 10.430 10 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    Thor 10.469 1 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.
    Carl 10.497 20 Holding an honored place in the best society, [Carlyle] has stood for the people...
    GSt 10.499 5 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    GSt 10.507 3 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...was never called... to see that others were waiting for his place and privilege...I count him happy among men.
    HDC 11.33 27 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.34 2 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...
    HDC 11.35 5 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson], in another place, make a jest of pumpkins...
    HDC 11.38 9 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    HDC 11.63 24 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure place...
    HDC 11.74 26 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.
    HDC 11.83 10 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author [Lemuel Shattuck], long a resident in this place.
    LVB 11.95 9 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens, whose agents the government are, have no place to interpose...
    EWI 11.105 19 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop.
    EWI 11.139 23 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the change...
    War 11.151 18 War...when seen...in the infancy of society, appears a part of the connection of events, and, in its place, necessary.
    War 11.152 23 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.
    War 11.162 19 In the first place, we answer that we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    War 11.169 19 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    War 11.170 5 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly, in the first place, in the way of routine and mere forms...
    War 11.171 12 Nor, in the next place, is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.
    War 11.175 20 There is the highest fitness in the place and time in which this enterprise [Congress of Nations] is begun.
    FSLN 11.221 9 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was an event which drew crowds of people...
    FSLN 11.221 25 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech...
    FSLN 11.222 26 [Webster] worked with...the same quiet and sure feeling of right to his place that an oak or a mountain have to theirs.
    JBB 11.267 16 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the church...another in the place of his birth.
    TPar 11.290 26 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    TPar 11.292 6 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age...your place cannot be supplied.
    ACiv 11.306 24 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
    ACiv 11.307 5 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel.
    ACiv 11.309 27 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    ALin 11.330 19 How slowly, and yet by happily prepared steps, [Lincoln] came to his place.
    ALin 11.335 5 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war. Here was place for no holiday magistrate...
    SMC 11.369 21 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ... There was no place nearer than Baltimore where we could have got a coffin...
    SMC 11.370 20 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied...I can hold this place;...
    Koss 11.397 11 ...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
    Wom 11.409 26 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...out of place they lose half their weight...
    Wom 11.409 27 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...out of place they are disfranchised.
    SHC 11.428 8 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...
    SHC 11.434 5 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...as the fit place for their final repose.
    Shak1 11.448 8 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    Shak1 11.450 7 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...
    CPL 11.499 20 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    CPL 11.503 18 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    CPL 11.507 14 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that it may take the place in your culture it does in theirs...
    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 11.518 5 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    FRep 11.518 16 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place...
    FRep 11.535 10 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... we should feel this reactionary, and absurdly out of place.
    FRep 11.542 6 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    NHI 12.1 3 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that...nothing should take place as event in life which did not also exist as truth in the mind.
    PLT 12.33 17 The healthy mind...sees things in place...
    PLT 12.58 16 The condition of sanity is...to keep down talent in its place...
    PLT 12.61 21 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    II 12.68 12 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
    II 12.82 5 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.
    Mem 12.108 14 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.
    Mem 12.109 21 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation now falls into place...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CInt 12.127 20 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius...
    CL 12.167 9 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then all things fly into place...
    CW 12.173 25 The place where a thoughtful man in the country feels the joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.
    Bost 12.186 1 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
    Bost 12.188 15 [Boston] is...not...an army-barracks grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...
    Bost 12.206 14 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing.
    MAng1 12.218 20 In the first place, all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    MAng1 12.218 24 In the second place, certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    MAng1 12.223 5 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
    MAng1 12.233 26 ...as, in the first place, [Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    Milt1 12.252 3 ...[Milton]...occupies a more imposing place in the mind of men at this hour than ever before.
    ACri 12.301 4 I passed at one time through a place called New City...
    MLit 12.311 16 In the first place [the Present Age] has all books.
    MLit 12.331 18 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels like a truant...
    WSL 12.343 10 Each kind of excellence takes place for its hour and excludes everything else.
    Pray 12.351 14 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan! and ye other gods who preside over this place! grant that I may be beautiful within;...
    EurB 12.368 5 ...Wordsworth threw himself into his place...
    PPr 12.384 18 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords! There is no help in place or pride...
    Let 12.393 27 In the next place, to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
    Let 12.402 27 As if any taste or imagination could take the place of fidelity!
    Trag 12.413 22 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.

place, v. (13)

    SL 2.139 19 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...
    SwM 4.125 27 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood.
    ShP 4.198 16 Thought is the property...of him who can adequately place it.
    ET1 5.18 10 ...[Carlyle]...did not like to place himself where no step can be taken.
    Civ 7.24 1 ...place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Art2 7.42 21 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Boks 7.204 24 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.
    Aris 10.65 1 It is the interest of society that good men should govern, and there is always a tendency so to place them.
    FSLC 11.202 11 ...passing from the ethical to the political view, I wish to place this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    PLT 12.48 11 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
    Mem 12.92 5 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    WSL 12.349 7 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
    Pray 12.355 20 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand...

placed, v. (24)

    Nat 1.27 24 [Man] is placed in the centre of beings...
    SR 2.46 25 The eye was placed where one ray should fall...
    Exp 3.81 21 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    Chr1 3.109 14 ...a golden chair was placed for the Yunani sage.
    Mrs1 3.150 12 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    PPh 4.75 10 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    NMW 4.227 7 [A man of Napoleon's stamp] is so largely receptive, and is so placed, that he comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
    NMW 4.234 25 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    ET5 5.96 22 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET12 5.203 22 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume;...
    ET12 5.206 8 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    ET16 5.278 2 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast...
    Cour 7.262 9 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint away. Lieutenant Ball...placed himself close beside me...and whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
    Suc 7.291 3 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself: Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my best hopes were placed, being dead, I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    PI 8.37 8 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things, placed in their true order, are poetry;...
    QO 8.189 23 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    PPo 8.240 26 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    Aris 10.49 10 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs...
    MMEm 10.415 13 'T was I [Nature] who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not, and you were placed in my most leafless waste.
    MMEm 10.425 14 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had...placed a viceregent.
    FSLC 11.209 17 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed?
    FSLC 11.212 9 [Boston] should have placed obstruction [to the Fugitive Slave Law] at every step.
    ACri 12.290 26 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
    Pray 12.355 5 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...

placer, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 12 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there, like diggers in California prospecting for a placer that will pay.

places, n. (77)

    Nat 1.21 19 In private places...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    DSA 1.131 15 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding not names and places...but even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    DSA 1.148 3 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    LE 1.174 24 Think alone, and all places are friendly and sacred.
    MR 1.244 11 Why must [any man] have...access to public houses and places of amusement?
    Con 1.304 13 The respect for the old names of places...is universal.
    Tran 1.351 19 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
    Hist 2.33 11 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    SR 2.81 23 Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    SL 2.142 27 We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties...
    SL 2.147 17 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky. There are as good earth and water in a thousand places, yet how unaffecting!
    SL 2.165 27 Let a man believe in God, and not in names and places and persons.
    Lov1 2.177 2 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Fdsp 2.192 13 ...all things fly into their places...
    Hsm1 2.257 12 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
    Hsm1 2.257 18 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    OS 2.283 7 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places.
    OS 2.297 12 [Man] will...be content with all places and with any service he can render.
    Pt1 3.28 18 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...as it was an emancipation not into the heavens but into the freedom of baser places, they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
    Exp 3.75 2 I exert the same quality of power in all places.
    Mrs1 3.144 20 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    Mrs1 3.149 25 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    Nat2 3.169 19 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    Nat2 3.170 15 The anciently-reported spells of these places [the woods] creep on us.
    UGM 4.12 15 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    UGM 4.29 1 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his activity into places where it is not due;...
    MoS 4.161 8 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet; art and nature, places and events;...
    MoS 4.176 26 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places?
    NMW 4.236 21 At Lonato, and at other places, [Napoleon] was on the point of being taken prisoner.
    NMW 4.242 11 ...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.
    ET1 5.5 10 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    ET12 5.205 25 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...fills places, as they fall vacant, from the body of students.
    ET17 5.292 13 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    ET17 5.297 25 There are torpid places in [Wordsworth's] mind...
    Pow 6.58 25 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.
    Ctr 6.138 24 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places.
    Ctr 6.145 5 ...men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
    Bty 6.297 13 Walpole says...people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be there.
    SS 7.4 21 ...[my new friend] consoled himself with the delicious thought of the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
    Elo1 7.89 20 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places.
    Elo1 7.95 12 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.
    Boks 7.208 3 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Boks 7.214 4 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    PI 8.55 16 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale Passion loves/...
    Elo2 8.110 8 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own places.--Milton.
    Imtl 8.325 27 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Imtl 8.332 21 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the...places of coarse amusement.
    Imtl 8.337 19 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Aris 10.51 4 ...if [Will] is not in you, you had better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy.
    Aris 10.52 6 ...if those who merely sit in [the right aristocrats'] places and are not, like them, able; if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Chr2 10.107 4 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Schr 10.263 26 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man, and...setting the north and the south, and the stars in their places.
    Schr 10.268 13 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places...
    Plu 10.320 20 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled...
    MMEm 10.420 20 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.
    MMEm 10.426 16 Number the waste places of the journey...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    Thor 10.469 1 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places...
    EWI 11.116 23 In some places [in the West Indies], [the negroes] waited to see their master, to know what bargain he would make;...
    War 11.158 17 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...
    FSLC 11.191 27 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;...
    FSLN 11.223 8 ...[Webster's] head distributed things in their right places...
    HCom 11.342 1 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.
    SMC 11.365 19 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments, and their places were not yet filled.
    PLT 12.41 3 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held...because we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things, and in all times and places will and must be the same thing,-is of inestimable value.
    CInt 12.130 1 You find the times and places mean.
    CL 12.148 14 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access.
    CW 12.177 20 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night...
    Bost 12.191 7 Snow and moonlight make all places alike;...
    Bost 12.200 25 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side...but if followed it leads to heavenly places.
    MAng1 12.237 6 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    Milt1 12.262 12 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own places.
    Milt1 12.266 24 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
    MLit 12.317 22 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places...
    EurB 12.369 18 The influence [of Wordsworth] was in the air, and was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...
    PPr 12.380 4 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but to dispose objects in their right places...

places, v. (2)

    LS 11.23 17 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    LVB 11.89 1 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen.

placid, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.84 12 [The scholar] Nature solicits with all her placid...pictures;...
    PLT 12.36 15 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence.

placing, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.89 14 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and worth.

placing, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.229 17 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...
    Elo1 7.91 21 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas, and uses them only to express these; placing facts, placing men;...
    SA 8.83 8 The circumstance of circumstance is timing and placing.
    PPo 8.241 2 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to stand upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left.
    EWI 11.101 8 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

plagiarism, n. (1)

    PPh 4.42 3 What is a great man but one...who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food? ... Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism.

plagiarized, v. (1)

    NMW 4.226 7 ...Mirabeau plagiarized every good thought, every good word that was spoken in France.

plague, n. (11)

    Hsm1 2.249 12 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    GoW 4.272 20 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes...strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    F 6.32 25 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice...
    Wsp 6.232 24 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague...
    Wsp 6.232 26 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague, in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also;...
    CbW 6.265 4 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    Suc 7.286 1 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
    PPo 8.238 17 ...the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...
    SovE 10.206 18 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
    EPro 11.322 12 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations, and created plague...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    ACri 12.302 6 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a man can wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.

plagued, v. (1)

    UGM 4.21 13 ...I am plagued, in all my living, with a perpetual tariff of prices.

plagues, n. (2)

    CbW 6.254 17 Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
    FSLC 11.186 4 In every nation all the immorality that exists breeds plagues.

plain, adj. (119)

    Nat 1.35 11 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
    DSA 1.140 21 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    LT 1.276 6 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong.
    YA 1.368 26 The land...looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
    YA 1.391 22 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    Hist 2.24 19 The manners of [the Grecian] period are plain and fierce.
    SR 2.67 21 [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature...above time. This should be plain enough.
    Comp 2.106 22 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.
    SL 2.132 27 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
    OS 2.290 6 [The soul] requires of us to be plain and true.
    OS 2.290 20 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true;...
    OS 2.291 11 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in... plain confession...
    OS 2.291 19 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
    OS 2.292 5 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of plain humanity...
    OS 2.295 18 Great is the soul, and plain.
    Art1 2.361 12 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I knew so well...
    Art1 2.362 6 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Pt1 3.29 9 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
    Exp 3.67 6 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Mrs1 3.146 1 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes...
    Nat2 3.171 2 These enchantments [of nature]...sober and heal us. These are plain pleasures, kindly and native to us.
    Nat2 3.184 14 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question.
    NER 3.261 13 The criticism and attack on institutions...has made one thing plain...
    NER 3.265 16 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.
    PPh 4.71 26 [Socrates] was plain as a Quaker in habit and speech...
    PPh 4.72 9 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.134 4 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...it is plain theologic Swedenborg like the rest.
    MoS 4.167 14 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.
    MoS 4.180 15 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    NMW 4.236 14 It is plain that in Italy [Napoleon] did what he could, and all that he could.
    ET1 5.19 5 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man...
    ET5 5.78 22 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing...is suffered the island [England].
    ET5 5.84 20 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    ET6 5.103 22 ...one thing is plain, [England] is no country for fainthearted people;...
    ET6 5.108 25 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET7 5.117 18 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others.
    ET7 5.119 16 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET10 5.165 21 [The Englishman] is a king in a plain coat.
    ET11 5.186 7 ...if [English nobility] never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of everything...
    ET11 5.195 7 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET14 5.232 13 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.
    ET14 5.233 24 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English.
    ET16 5.287 13 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth, and yet it is plain to me that no less valor than this can command my respect.
    F 6.42 24 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little puzzled; if you see him it will become plain.
    Wth 6.113 2 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Wth 6.113 3 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Ctr 6.151 3 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...
    Ctr 6.152 23 The English have a plain taste.
    Ctr 6.152 24 The English have a plain taste. The equipages of the grandees are plain.
    Ctr 6.153 2 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    Bhr 6.190 1 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    Bty 6.302 8 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    DL 7.108 2 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    DL 7.116 10 I think it plain that this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    DL 7.116 27 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come with plain living and high thinking;...
    Farm 7.138 2 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.140 9 ...[the farmer] has...plenty of plain food;...
    Farm 7.153 11 Plain in manners as in dress, [the farmer] would not shine in palaces;...
    WD 7.166 22 'T is too plain that with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.
    WD 7.175 26 Real kings...affect a plain and poor exterior.
    Cour 7.266 1 It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage...
    Suc 7.289 24 It is plain [egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...
    Suc 7.292 4 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
    Suc 7.305 2 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...
    PI 8.11 13 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    Elo2 8.129 23 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    PC 8.219 3 It is too plain that a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
    PC 8.233 5 There is a text in Swedenborg which tells in figure the plain truth.
    PPo 8.259 13 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    Insp 8.277 25 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Aris 10.36 15 It is plain that all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.36 22 ...it is plain that instead of this idolatry, a worship;...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Aris 10.62 5 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    PerF 10.86 14 One thing is plain; a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Supl 10.166 2 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.
    Supl 10.168 25 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was the power of plain statement...
    Supl 10.175 23 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
    Supl 10.176 3 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men...
    Supl 10.179 9 ...it is too plain that there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
    SovE 10.211 17 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    Plu 10.306 4 The plain speaking of Plutarch...has a great gain for brevity...
    LLNE 10.361 27 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.368 3 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    CSC 10.375 9 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    EzRy 10.394 4 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.
    SlHr 10.439 7 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man of simple tastes, plain and true in speech...
    SlHr 10.439 23 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate... with plain, uneducated, poor men...
    SlHr 10.440 1 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.
    SlHr 10.441 4 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house, on the plain wooden bench where honor came and sat down beside him.
    SlHr 10.441 24 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might...
    GSt 10.504 1 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.
    GSt 10.506 20 ...it was too plain that the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...
    HDC 11.33 10 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully...
    LVB 11.95 16 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
    LVB 11.95 21 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people...regard the policy of the government...
    EWI 11.105 1 It became plain to all men...that the crimes...of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
    EWI 11.107 15 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.
    EWI 11.127 1 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...
    EWI 11.130 2 ...I see...to be plain, poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.135 15 ...[emancipation in the West Indies] was achieved by plain means of plain men...
    War 11.152 7 It is plain...that in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
    FSLC 11.210 22 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true.
    FSLN 11.221 21 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...
    FSLN 11.223 13 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
    TPar 11.288 4 'T is plain to me that [Theodore Parker] has achieved a historic immortality here;...
    TPar 11.288 13 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker in this Music Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    ALin 11.331 14 A plain man of the people, an extraordinary fortune attended [Lincoln].
    SMC 11.351 17 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
    EdAd 11.384 8 [The traveller] reflects on the power which each of these plain republicans can employ;...
    RBur 11.441 2 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    PLT 12.7 20 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive...that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    CL 12.142 9 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
    ACri 12.296 26 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style...
    AgMs 12.361 19 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring. But we farmers always know what our interest dictates, and do accordingly. We have no choice in this matter; our way is but too plain.
    EurB 12.367 24 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
    PPr 12.381 6 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...
    PPr 12.384 11 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
    Let 12.393 20 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

plain, adv. (1)

    FSLN 11.232 24 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...

plain, n. (14)

    Pt1 3.21 12 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    PPh 4.61 18 [Plato]...slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.
    MoS 4.169 5 [Montaigne] keeps the plain;...
    ET3 5.42 12 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having plain, forest, marsh, river...
    ET16 5.276 15 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows, which rose like green bosses about the plain...
    ET16 5.276 18 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    ET16 5.277 12 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy...
    WD 7.174 25 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!
    Clbs 7.237 24 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what plain lies between the gods and Surtur, their adversary...
    PPo 8.261 18 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Aris 10.46 13 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like the freaks of the wind, heaping the snow-drift in gorges, stripping the plain;...
    HDC 11.33 10 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully...
    Bost 12.205 15 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is...the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
    Let 12.397 8 One thing is plain, that discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.

Plain, Salisbury, England, (2)

    ET16 5.276 10 After dinner we [Emerson and Carlyle] walked to Salisbury Plain.
    ET16 5.281 25 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...

plain-dealing, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.164 12 Downright and plain-dealing...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.

plaindealing, n. [plain-dealing,] (2)

    Fdsp 2.203 18 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing...
    Suc 7.289 25 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...

plainer, adj. (2)

    LS 11.14 7 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
    War 11.156 23 Nothing is plainer than that the sympathy with war is a juvenile and temporary state.

plainest, adj. (7)

    OS 2.292 13 ...[men's] plainest advice is a kind of praising.
    Int 2.347 3 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below, who do not comprehend their plainest argument;...
    GoW 4.274 15 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone...
    ET17 5.296 19 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Elo1 7.93 21 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
    Insp 8.290 22 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
    Milt1 12.277 19 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./

plainly, adv. (36)

    MN 1.215 26 ...I say to you plainly there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    MN 1.219 11 Has anything grand and lasting been done? Who did it? Plainly not any man, but all men...
    LT 1.286 6 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
    Con 1.304 2 ...plainly the burden of proof must lie with the projector.
    YA 1.379 13 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement...
    Hist 2.19 18 The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.
    Hist 2.20 9 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees...
    Lov1 2.173 14 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
    OS 2.292 8 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity...
    Pt1 3.9 10 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    Chr1 3.93 13 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly how many firm acts have been done;...
    Nat2 3.190 16 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.
    NR 3.232 24 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    MoS 4.156 6 ...I see plainly, [the skeptic] says, that I cannot see.
    ShP 4.195 19 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    ET9 5.146 18 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company, who plainly account all the world out of England a heap of rubbish.
    ET13 5.215 11 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England]...
    ET16 5.280 2 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God...
    Wth 6.121 12 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly...
    Ctr 6.150 20 ...[the man of the world]...dresses plainly...
    Ctr 6.154 15 Let us learn to...dress plainly...
    QO 8.198 1 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    Grts 8.318 1 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    SovE 10.200 18 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.
    Schr 10.284 11 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which, I must plainly tell you, cannot be staved off.
    Schr 10.288 7 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar].
    GSt 10.504 15 Plainly [George Stearns] was no boaster or pretender...
    HDC 11.84 23 That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad...
    FSLC 11.183 4 The fact comes out more plainly that you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
    FSLN 11.220 9 I saw plainly that the great show their legitimate power in nothing more than in their power to misguide us.
    FSLN 11.230 22 [Reasonably men] answered...that they saw plainly that all was going to the utmost verge of licence;...
    AKan 11.259 8 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime, and ever more plainly...
    FRep 11.537 19 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish.
    PLT 12.62 12 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power...
    Milt1 12.251 17 [Milton's Areopagitica]...plainly presupposes a very peculiar state of society.
    Milt1 12.277 1 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life...

plainness, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.37 5 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life...
    MoS 4.165 6 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    ET6 5.113 3 ...[the English] use a studied plainness.
    SlHr 10.440 8 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...

plains, n. (9)

    Nat 1.18 18 The heavens...reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath.
    Nat2 3.172 13 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    ET16 5.283 24 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk...
    Ctr 6.153 9 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains...
    CbW 6.262 13 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...
    PC 8.213 4 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that...the soil of the valleys and plains [is] a continual decomposition and recomposition.
    MoL 10.249 21 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
    EWI 11.98 3 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./
    SMC 11.350 25 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument], planted here in our quiet plains, what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.

plain-set, v. (1)

    DL 7.115 24 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain-set...

plain-spoken, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.300 2 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure.

plaint, n. (1)

    Exp 3.56 19 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.

plaintiff, n. (3)

    Con 1.307 23 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment...
    ET5 5.81 9 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced.
    F 6.49 7 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that plaintiff and defendant...are of one kind.

plaintive, adj. (4)

    PI 8.46 26 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind. I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
    Insp 8.287 26 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note...
    HDC 11.78 13 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music...

plan, n. (23)

    Lov1 2.171 21 Details are melancholy; the plan is seemly and noble.
    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...the plan of a temple...
    Chr1 3.100 21 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan of it.
    NER 3.273 2 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley, when he was preparing to leave England with his plan of planting the gospel among the American savages.
    NER 3.273 10 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
    MoS 4.171 10 The nonconformist and the rebel...discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
    NMW 4.233 7 Few men have any next; they live...without plan...
    GoW 4.289 23 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...drawing his motive and his plan from his own breast, tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    ET5 5.82 2 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan, a working machine...
    ET16 5.279 6 Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of its plan and its good preservation, is as if new and recent;...
    Art2 7.44 14 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan;...
    PI 8.33 21 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth,--Laodamia... and the plan of The Recluse.
    QO 8.185 23 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    Insp 8.278 25 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan.
    Grts 8.309 23 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I form some plan...I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    LLNE 10.349 5 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was that it was a system;...
    MMEm 10.427 21 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan;...
    FSLC 11.207 17 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
    ALin 11.328 3 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...
    SMC 11.356 6 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers. That was done again on the Kansas plan.
    CInt 12.124 21 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
    MAng1 12.223 22 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.
    MAng1 12.225 21 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban, who...took a plan of them.

plan, v. (1)

    Thor 10.462 20 [Thoreau] could plan a garden or a house or a barn;...

plane, n. (17)

    Hist 2.20 27 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns...
    NER 3.270 10 Life must be lived on a higher plane.
    PPh 4.46 9 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    SwM 4.108 16 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself.
    SwM 4.140 15 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is to carry the law of surface into the plane of substance...
    ET11 5.192 18 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    ET14 5.242 23 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
    F 6.23 24 They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
    Wth 6.126 23 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane;...
    Wsp 6.219 26 Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
    Ill 6.311 11 Once we fancied the earth a plane, and stationary.
    QO 8.177 8 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...
    Insp 8.275 20 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    Insp 8.277 4 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience. If this is true on this low plane, it is true on the higher.
    PerF 10.72 12 Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane.
    SovE 10.183 8 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    Schr 10.273 24 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he will not dare to hear the music of a saw or plane;...

planes, n. (5)

    Tran 1.358 10 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...carpenters' planes...but also some few finer instruments...
    SwM 4.107 9 [Identity-philosophy] is this, that Nature iterates her means perpetually on successive planes.
    SwM 4.140 13 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    Suc 7.311 7 We live on different planes or platforms.
    Prch 10.226 4 As the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae, so is the universe an infinite series of planes, each of which is a false bottom;...

planet, n. (94)

    Nat 1.13 13 ...the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this;...
    MN 1.202 12 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
    MN 1.203 7 ...planet, system, constellation, total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    MR 1.250 16 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best carpenters'... tools...
    LT 1.260 15 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet...
    LT 1.263 22 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would; and not only in ours but in any church, mosque, or temple on the planet;...
    LT 1.267 6 ...many another star has turned out to be a planet or an asteroid...
    Con 1.306 10 There [the youth] stands, newly born on the planet...
    Con 1.308 17 I find this vast network, which you call property, extended over the whole planet.
    Con 1.311 13 Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
    Con 1.313 8 Who put things on this false basis? ... No man voluntarily and knowingly; but it is the result of that degree of culture there is in the planet.
    Con 1.326 14 ...amidst a planet peopled with conservatives, one Reformer may yet be born.
    Hist 2.37 7 Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon.
    SR 2.70 27 The genesis and maturation of a planet...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Fdsp 2.197 10 ...the planet has a faint, moonlike ray.
    Fdsp 2.216 14 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.
    Cir 2.302 19 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    Cir 2.308 20 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    Art1 2.368 27 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat... arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    Exp 3.63 15 ...we are impatient of so public a life and planet...
    Exp 3.63 19 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
    Mrs1 3.143 8 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Nat2 3.169 7 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
    Nat2 3.185 3 Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse;...
    Nat2 3.190 15 The hunger for wealth, which reduces the planet to a garden, fools the eager pursuer.
    NR 3.232 12 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    NER 3.258 4 The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy;...
    NER 3.278 21 Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
    UGM 4.7 21 The true artist has the planet for his pedestal;...
    UGM 4.13 6 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
    UGM 4.32 14 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.
    PPh 4.59 3 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet...
    PPh 4.77 13 ...you shall feel that Alexander indeed overran, with men and horses, some countries of the planet;...
    PPh 4.77 15 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    SwM 4.102 5 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet...
    SwM 4.106 12 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    SwM 4.110 7 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins, as the planet in the sky;...
    MoS 4.151 27 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    MoS 4.161 7 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet;...
    GoW 4.261 9 The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow.
    ET1 5.16 12 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet...
    ET3 5.41 24 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET4 5.44 19 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    ET5 5.92 13 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    ET10 5.166 19 The English...seem to have established a tap-root in the bowels of the planet, because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    ET16 5.277 9 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet...
    ET18 5.302 7 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
    F 6.7 12 The planet is liable to shocks from comets...
    F 6.15 25 The face of the planet cools and dries...
    F 6.31 23 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.
    F 6.38 14 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...is it planet, animal or tree.
    F 6.38 14 The planet makes itself.
    F 6.49 8 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...animal and planet...are of one kind.
    Wth 6.83 24 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    Wth 6.88 27 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Wth 6.93 10 Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
    Wth 6.93 20 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it.
    Wsp 6.232 3 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
    Bty 6.288 14 Thought is the pent air-ball which can rive the planet...
    Civ 7.27 18 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe; that is to say, the planet itself splits his stick.
    Civ 7.29 5 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
    Art2 7.42 23 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity, that is, the weight of the planet, to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Art2 7.49 6 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
    Elo1 7.81 22 [Personal ascendency] is as surely felt as a mountain or a planet;...
    Farm 7.153 8 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin;...
    WD 7.162 6 Our selfishness...would have excluded from a quarter of the planet all that are not born on the soil of that quarter.
    Boks 7.220 6 ...there are as good eyes and ears now in the planet as ever were.
    Cour 7.254 16 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    Cour 7.276 18 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
    Suc 7.286 6 Leverrier...knew where to look for the new planet.
    Suc 7.288 5 The Arabian sheiks, the most dignified people in the planet, do not want [American arts];...
    OA 7.324 20 To keep man in the planet, [Nature] impresses the terror of death.
    PI 8.5 23 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety, be it animal, or plant, or planet...
    Res 8.141 2 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    PPo 8.253 4 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    Imtl 8.339 21 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet...
    PerF 10.77 16 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China, or...to the planet Jupiter or Mars...
    PerF 10.88 20 ...as...the planet on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
    Edc1 10.130 23 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.131 21 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away moon, and planet...by comprehending their relation and law.
    LLNE 10.336 10 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet...
    LLNE 10.349 20 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man and to redress the disorders of the planet he inhabits.
    MMEm 10.407 23 ...though [Mary Moody Emerson] might do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity, she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    EWI 11.143 2 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages...
    EPro 11.326 7 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet...
    ALin 11.329 6 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel...like the shadow of an uncalculated eclipse over the planet.
    EdAd 11.383 5 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet...
    FRep 11.542 21 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    II 12.71 21 [Our companion] exhibits an exotic culture, as if he had his education in another planet.
    Mem 12.109 22 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    Bost 12.184 21 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    Let 12.401 23 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth.

planetary, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.86 5 The astronomer discovers that geometry...is the measure of planetary motion.
    Grts 8.312 8 The day will come...when the eye, which carries in it planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.

planets, n. (33)

    MN 1.202 3 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off...suns and planets hospitable to souls...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    LT 1.262 13 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    Comp 2.98 1 The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance [of Compensation].
    Art1 2.364 24 I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    SwM 4.110 12 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...vortical motion, which is seen in eggs as in planets.
    MoS 4.184 9 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a hunger, as of space to be filled with planets;...
    ShP 4.217 17 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    NMW 4.250 2 One day [Napoleon] asked whether the planets were inhabited?
    F 6.7 13 The planet is liable to...perturbations from planets...
    F 6.22 20 ...the lightning which explodes and fashions planets...is in [man].
    F 6.22 21 ...the lightning...maker of planets and suns, is in [man].
    F 6.39 13 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    Wth 6.89 1 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet, and of more planets than his own.
    CbW 6.254 25 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
    Bty 6.294 1 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the periodical motion of planets...
    Bty 6.301 1 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    WD 7.167 16 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms, and what admonitions of the planets he must heed.
    Boks 7.213 24 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets;...
    PI 8.50 7 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    PC 8.221 17 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...which remains pure and indestructible in each mote as in masses and planets...
    PC 8.224 20 State the sun, and you state the planets, and conversely.
    PPo 8.255 26 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
    Grts 8.305 14 ...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Imtl 8.327 7 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    Aris 10.40 10 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    MoL 10.250 2 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the curve and the errors of planets, the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    SlHr 10.448 26 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    HDC 11.28 8 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    CPL 11.505 25 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    FRep 11.543 27 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral which...has the force to draw men and states and planets to their good.
    CL 12.166 5 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems.
    CW 12.174 27 Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens...
    EurB 12.377 19 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.

plank, n. (1)

    Suc 7.284 6 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...

planks, n. (1)

    HDC 11.74 12 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...

plan-maker, n. (1)

    Humb 11.459 2 I know that we have been accustomed to think...that in a crisis no plan-maker was to be found in the [German] empire;...

plans, n. (14)

    SL 2.134 8 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon;...
    Int 2.335 1 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    NER 3.264 3 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    CbW 6.277 8 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick?
    Cour 7.254 8 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...
    Comc 8.173 17 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    Insp 8.276 5 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...
    Aris 10.31 14 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
    Edc1 10.146 13 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    LLNE 10.352 4 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
    II 12.72 23 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration...
    MAng1 12.235 20 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done.
    MAng1 12.236 21 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
    EurB 12.369 21 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation.

plant, n. (70)

    Nat 1.13 14 ...the rain feeds the plant;...
    Nat 1.13 14 ...the plant feeds the animal;...
    Nat 1.28 7 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts, the habit of a plant... applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
    Nat 1.64 9 As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God;...
    MN 1.216 14 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence, as of...a living plant, is more predicable of man.
    MR 1.254 21 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom,-a plant without any solidity...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Con 1.316 21 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    Con 1.326 11 [Man's hope] was not imported from the stock of some celestial plant...
    YA 1.377 7 ...Trade, a plant which grows wherever there is peace...
    YA 1.379 18 Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant.
    Hist 2.12 24 ...every plant...teaches the unity of cause...
    Fdsp 2.196 24 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...
    Int 2.330 3 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.
    Pt1 3.9 27 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own...
    Nat2 3.177 4 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes...to fetch a plant or a mineral from a remote locality...
    Nat2 3.183 23 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    UGM 4.6 3 Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.
    UGM 4.9 15 Each plant has its parasite...
    UGM 4.11 14 ...the chemic lump arrives at the plant, and grows;...
    PNR 4.80 15 The human being has the saurian and the plant in his rear.
    SwM 4.107 11 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf...
    SwM 4.107 15 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end...
    GoW 4.275 6 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany...that every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf to meet a new condition;...
    GoW 4.275 13 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing at last with the flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
    ET6 5.111 8 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET16 5.285 20 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the lightness of a mullein plant...
    F 6.14 22 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal; in light, a plant.
    F 6.45 19 ...each man, like each plant, has his parasites.
    CbW 6.259 18 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures.
    CbW 6.259 20 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better nature.
    Bty 6.290 10 It is a rule of largest application, true in a plant, true in a loaf of bread, that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Bty 6.294 16 There is a compelling reason in the uses of the plant for every novelty of color or form;...
    Art2 7.37 24 ...every plant, in the moment of germination, struggles up to light.
    Art2 7.50 14 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
    DL 7.103 5 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    Farm 7.144 11 Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.
    Farm 7.144 13 In the stomach of the plant development begins.
    Farm 7.144 15 The plant is all suction-pipe...
    Farm 7.146 15 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
    OA 7.329 6 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.329 9 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PI 8.5 23 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety, be it animal, or plant, or planet...
    PI 8.8 12 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...
    PI 8.8 27 There is one animal, one plant, one matter and one force.
    PI 8.71 11 To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.
    PerF 10.70 18 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
    Edc1 10.127 14 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
    Edc1 10.130 26 ...what is the charm which every ore, every new plant... possess for Humboldt?
    LLNE 10.338 14 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...every part of the plant from root to fruit is only a modified leaf...
    Thor 10.463 21 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
    Thor 10.484 8 There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called Life-Everlasting...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    Thor 10.484 20 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant [the Edelweisse]...
    EdAd 11.382 10 Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the mine./
    EdAd 11.382 13 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...
    FRep 11.512 20 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    FRep 11.512 23 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered...
    FRep 11.513 2 ...prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
    FRep 11.542 13 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.
    PLT 12.6 6 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as the soul of a man, the soul of a plant, the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is.
    PLT 12.24 16 Man seems a higher plant.
    PLT 12.24 22 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function...all the accidents of the plant.
    PLT 12.24 24 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground...
    PLT 12.54 13 What strength belongs to every plant and animal in Nature.
    II 12.69 11 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.71 26 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will. Every part of the poem is therefore a true surprise to the reader, like the parts of the plant...
    Mem 12.97 2 Nature interests [the intellectual man]; a plant, a fish...in their own method and law.
    CL 12.133 3 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./
    CL 12.137 24 [Linneaus] found the plant [water-hemlock] also dried in [the people of Tornea's] cut hay.

plant, v. (42)

    AmS 1.115 2 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts... the huge world will come round to him.
    MR 1.247 13 If we suddenly plant our foot and say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    Con 1.306 19 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my field where to plant my corn...
    Con 1.309 5 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the Earth is given to me, what I want of it to till and to plant;...
    YA 1.375 7 We plant trees...for remote generations.
    YA 1.383 7 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
    Comp 2.122 6 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing...
    Fdsp 2.205 4 [Friendship] must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon.
    Art1 2.349 6 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
    Nat2 3.186 23 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves;...
    Nat2 3.193 4 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset! But who can go where they are, or lay his hand or plant his foot thereon?
    Pol1 3.205 6 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.
    Pol1 3.209 19 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    NER 3.257 26 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
    SwM 4.145 3 In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant myself here; all will sink before this;...
    MoS 4.155 4 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.
    ET10 5.161 6 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET16 5.279 17 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    F 6.23 5 If you please to plant yourself on the side of Fate...then we say, a part of Fate is the freedom of man.
    F 6.47 12 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot on the back of the other.
    Wth 6.121 3 I know not how to build or to plant;...
    CbW 6.243 6 ...The forefathers this land who found/ Failed to plant the vantage-ground;/...
    CbW 6.261 18 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants.
    SS 7.4 11 When [my new friend] bought a house, the first thing he did was to plant trees.
    Farm 7.147 3 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen.
    WD 7.163 4 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better [than our fathers did].
    PI 8.3 5 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build.
    Supl 10.175 15 Plant beechmast and it comes up, or it does not come up.
    SovE 10.182 2 Thou shalt not try/ To plant thy shrivelled pedantry/ On the shoulders of the sky./
    SlHr 10.448 8 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
    War 11.165 11 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    FSLC 11.206 20 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...
    FRep 11.539 2 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself;...
    II 12.80 23 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives...
    CL 12.135 12 Plant [the land], adorn it, study it, it will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.
    CL 12.137 14 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots, and he taught [the people of Oland] to plant it for the protection of their shores.
    CL 12.139 5 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...plant its miles and miles of barren waste with oak and pine...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.146 19 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys, who come out into the country, plant young trees, and watch them dwindling.
    CW 12.173 22 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    CW 12.174 14 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...
    CW 12.174 18 Plant the Banian, the Sandal-tree, the Lotus...
    Bost 12.202 11 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state...

Plantagenet, Richard, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 4 I like...Richard Plantagenet;...

Plantagenets, n. (2)

    ET11 5.175 10 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.
    War 11.172 17 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the Warwicks, the Plantagenets?

plantation, adj. (2)

    PC 8.232 7 It was what we call plantation manners which drove peaceable forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
    EWI 11.103 25 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest.

plantation, n. (10)

    MN 1.219 16 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade.
    ET11 5.189 7 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the plantation of forests...
    Civ 7.17 18 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Boks 7.198 5 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.
    HDC 11.32 9 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.38 18 The labors of a new plantation were paid by its excitements.
    EWI 11.116 22 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.
    EPro 11.315 18 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    SHC 11.432 2 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park?
    Bost 12.199 11 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation...

plantations, n. (10)

    Nat 1.9 25 Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign...
    MR 1.232 6 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
    YA 1.367 5 Public gardens, on the scale of such plantations in Europe and Asia, are now unknown to us.
    WD 7.160 18 In Massachusetts we fight...the blowing sand-barrens with pine plantations.
    HDC 11.42 19 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.43 11 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.46 11 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...
    HDC 11.54 21 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
    HDC 11.55 19 New plantations and better land had been opened, far and near;...
    EWI 11.113 8 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessions abroad.

planted, adj. (7)

    MR 1.238 10 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a planted field by weeds...
    Con 1.316 17 What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough...
    Prd1 2.225 8 Here is a planted globe...
    Exp 3.58 26 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    F 6.19 23 We cannot trifle with...this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world.
    WD 7.160 23 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    Trag 12.405 16 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain... leaving its planted fields to erasure and annihilation.

planted, v. (38)

    AmS 1.95 18 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    DSA 1.138 9 This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold;...
    LT 1.260 12 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its crosses, and crescents, and stars and stripes...over every rood of the planet...
    LT 1.282 19 [The men of other periods] planted their foot strong, and doubted nothing.
    YA 1.378 21 ...the historian will see that...trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism;...
    Pol1 3.205 5 Corn will not grow unless it is planted and manured;...
    NR 3.232 19 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    NR 3.247 13 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    PPh 4.46 27 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    ShP 4.218 19 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ET4 5.55 8 [The Celts] planted Britain...
    ET5 5.78 13 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET6 5.107 17 Without, [the Englishman's house] is all planted;...
    ET10 5.163 16 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations; the gardens which Evelyn planted;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.189 12 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    ET16 5.288 4 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall...
    ET18 5.303 22 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    Pow 6.67 19 [Boniface] was active in getting the roads repaired and planted with shade-trees;...
    Wth 6.107 27 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...the vines must be planted, next week...
    Farm 7.136 1 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/...
    WD 7.161 2 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    OA 7.327 6 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in which some great benefit for the world is planted.
    Edc1 10.128 5 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties...
    Prch 10.226 5 ...when we think our feet are planted now at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us.
    Schr 10.284 5 ...[the scholar] must have the resource of resources, and be planted on necessity.
    LLNE 10.324 1 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
    LLNE 10.350 27 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
    EzRy 10.383 17 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which...in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America.
    HDC 11.36 9 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced. Here they planted, hunted and fished.
    EPro 11.320 11 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature...
    SMC 11.350 25 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument], planted here in our quiet plains, what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SHC 11.433 17 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name recorded in a book;...
    FRep 11.516 4 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
    CW 12.174 16 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries. Bayard Taylor planted two -one died but I saw the other looking well.
    Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.
    Bost 12.191 11 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists]. But the next colony planted itself at Salem...
    Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted in 1620; in 1638 Harvard College was founded.
    Bost 12.204 24 The seed of prosperity was planted [in Massachusetts].

planter, n. (20)

    AmS 1.83 20 The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    MR 1.237 17 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    GoW 4.262 22 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants.
    Wth 6.108 6 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    Farm 7.148 7 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...
    Farm 7.151 11 The first planter...takes poor land.
    Boks 7.203 22 ...Pythagoras was...a planter of colonies...
    QO 8.199 18 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
    PerF 10.74 22 [Man] is a planter, a miner, a shipbuilder...and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    EWI 11.104 1 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter...
    EWI 11.104 13 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    EWI 11.105 10 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.118 2 ...[slavery] is not founded solely on the avarice of the planter.
    EWI 11.118 3 We sometimes say, the planter does not want slaves, he only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    EWI 11.119 1 The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...
    EWI 11.119 14 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the Baptist preachers and the stipendiary magistrates, who are the negroes' friends [in Jamaica], from the power of the planter.
    EWI 11.119 18 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...
    EWI 11.125 2 Unhappily...for the planter, the laws of nature are in harmony with each other...
    FSLC 11.208 21 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
    HCom 11.343 23 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state bigger than I knew

planters, n. (30)

    DSA 1.120 4 The planters, the mechanics, the inventors...history delights to honor.
    ET11 5.176 19 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    Pow 6.57 19 Import into any stationary district, as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania, or among the planters of Virginia, a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Farm 7.137 17 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Farm 7.152 6 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    HDC 11.31 26 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.41 14 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges, and they seem to have fallen heavily on the few wealthy planters.
    HDC 11.43 19 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    HDC 11.50 22 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters.
    EWI 11.101 18 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    EWI 11.109 10 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with the utmost ability and faithfulness; resisted by the planters and the whole West Indian interest, and lost.
    EWI 11.109 14 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters.
    EWI 11.109 25 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce. The planters were obliged to give way;...
    EWI 11.111 23 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...
    EWI 11.113 15 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.114 20 The negroes [of the West Indies] were called together by the missionaries and by the planters, and the news [of emancipation] explained to them.
    EWI 11.116 4 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...
    EWI 11.117 11 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
    EWI 11.117 22 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...
    EWI 11.119 6 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters;...
    EWI 11.119 14 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to oppress, was greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to withstand.
    EWI 11.120 8 The accounts [of emancipation] which we have from all parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters...and from the new freemen, are of the most satisfactory kind.
    EWI 11.125 10 It was shown to the planters that they, as well as the negroes, were slaves;...
    EWI 11.125 21 Many planters have said, since the emancipation [in the West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on the estates.
    EWI 11.128 15 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists; the planters are not, excepting in rare examples, members of the legislature.
    FSLC 11.201 13 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly...harnessing himself to the chariot of the planters.
    FSLC 11.208 19 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
    FRep 11.534 14 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    Bost 12.191 19 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men...
    Bost 12.204 13 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...

planter's, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.198 12 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post;...

Plantes, Jardin des, Paris, (1)

    PLT 12.22 13 If we go through...the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, or any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...

planting, adj. (2)

    OS 2.271 3 What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not...represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
    Pol1 3.209 6 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...

planting, n. (10)

    Pt1 3.38 2 Our log-rolling...the southern planting...are yet unsung.
    HDC 11.29 8 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].
    HDC 11.42 18 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.50 9 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
    HDC 11.67 19 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle.
    HDC 11.86 15 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    FRO2 11.486 18 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...
    FRep 11.515 22 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity...is the planting of America.
    FRep 11.534 19 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading.
    Bost 12.203 4 Boston never wanted a good principle of rebellion in it, from the planting until now;...

Planting, n. (1)

    HDC 11.85 15 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].

planting, v. (28)

    YA 1.364 16 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land...
    YA 1.365 1 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    Pt1 3.22 25 Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus;...
    NER 3.273 2 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley, when he was preparing to leave England with his plan of planting the gospel among the American savages.
    NER 3.283 21 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    SwM 4.127 23 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
    ET5 5.78 9 The English game is...the planting of foot to foot...
    ET11 5.177 25 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    F 6.13 13 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself...on the side of progress...
    F 6.16 8 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...
    Wth 6.117 14 When the cholera is in the potato, what is the use of planting larger crops?
    CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you select, algebra, planting...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    Bty 6.296 12 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
    Art2 7.48 3 ...[the artist] saw that his planting and his watering waited for the sunlight of Nature, or were vain.
    Farm 7.139 4 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
    Farm 7.142 11 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe... bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding, then of reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.
    Farm 7.152 1 Later [the first planter] learns that his planting is better than hunting;...
    PI 8.10 22 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,--a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a mountain.
    PI 8.51 11 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time...
    PI 8.63 19 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside and the whole world also, and planting itself.
    Edc1 10.125 10 We have already taken, at the planting of the Colonies...the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.149 8 Nature provided for the communication of thought, by planting with it in the receiving mind a fury to impart it.
    Schr 10.273 14 Other men are planting and building...
    Thor 10.453 5 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as...planting, grafting, surveying or other short work...
    Thor 10.462 13 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    PLT 12.43 14 There are times when...a farmer planting in his field is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
    Bost 12.189 9 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.
    PPr 12.390 12 We have been civilizing very fast...planting New England and India, New Holland and Oregon,-and it has not appeared in literature;...

Plants, Gardens of, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 14 It is the interest of all men that there should be...French Gardens of Plants...

plants, n. (72)

    Nat 1.18 21 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Nat 1.18 26 The tribes of birds and insects, like the plants punctual to their time, follow each other...
    Nat 1.42 6 ...weeds and plants...[a farm] is a sacred emblem...
    Nat 1.65 13 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants...
    LE 1.169 13 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller, amid the repulsive plants that are native in the swamp, thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Comp 2.96 20 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals;...
    Prd1 2.230 26 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...
    Pt1 3.27 2 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.
    Pt1 3.31 4 ...Timaeus affirms that the plants also are animals;...
    Pt1 3.41 16 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    Mrs1 3.153 3 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
    Nat2 3.173 25 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.181 19 Plants are the young of the world...
    UGM 4.8 22 ...plants convert the minerals into food for animals...
    UGM 4.9 6 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as Linnaeus, of plants;...
    PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature.
    MoS 4.159 10 Men are a sort of moving plants...
    GoW 4.262 22 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants.
    ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
    Wth 6.116 8 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner]...
    Wsp 6.218 24 We have learned the manners...of plants and animals.
    CbW 6.247 27 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements.
    Bty 6.284 20 The collector has dried all the plants in his herbal, but he has lost weight and humor.
    Bty 6.290 8 'T is a law of botany that in plants the same virtues follow the same forms.
    Farm 7.139 1 He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry.
    Farm 7.143 6 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals...
    Farm 7.143 7 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    Farm 7.143 9 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    Farm 7.144 7 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    Farm 7.145 8 The plants imbibe the materials which they want from the air and the ground.
    Farm 7.149 22 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
    Boks 7.195 5 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants.
    OA 7.329 5 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    PI 8.19 25 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
    Res 8.151 19 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy;...
    Res 8.153 6 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    Comc 8.157 3 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.
    QO 8.189 1 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...a mistletoe or dodder among plants,-the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
    Grts 8.305 10 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...others in plants;...
    Imtl 8.335 25 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession, as plants and animals do.
    Edc1 10.155 8 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of plants...
    Edc1 10.158 12 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about...plants...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    Supl 10.177 5 The ground of Paradise, said Mohammed, is extensive, and the plants of it are hallelujahs.
    SovE 10.183 12 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    SovE 10.186 24 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
    SovE 10.187 7 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.
    Thor 10.467 23 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...
    Thor 10.468 9 [Thoreau] was the attorney of the indigenous plants...
    Thor 10.468 10 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants...
    Thor 10.469 22 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants;...
    Thor 10.470 7 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day...
    Thor 10.470 12 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.
    Thor 10.481 14 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
    ChiE 11.472 7 ...China...had anticipated Linnaeus's nomenclature of plants;...
    FRO1 11.480 23 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up, like joyful plants of wholesomeness, all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    FRep 11.513 4 ...it is not the plants or the animals...that can give the sum of power...
    II 12.87 20 ...the plants, the rocks...keep their word.
    Mem 12.103 25 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life...
    CL 12.136 26 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs.
    CL 12.137 27 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].
    CL 12.138 14 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly...
    CL 12.138 25 [Linnaeus] examined eight thousand plants;...
    CL 12.140 10 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...maturing plants which require strongest sunshine...
    CL 12.149 25 [The Indian] can draw...food and antidotes from a hundred plants.
    CL 12.159 6 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
    CL 12.160 16 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
    CW 12.170 11 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/...
    CW 12.174 25 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.
    CW 12.177 2 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...
    CW 12.177 25 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    Bost 12.184 25 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...as the habitat of rare plants and minerals...were preferred before others.
    WSL 12.348 27 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.

plants, v. (15)

    Con 1.305 25 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Mrs1 3.146 6 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the second and third generation...
    NR 3.238 2 ...our economical mother...plants an eye wherever a new ray of light can fall...
    MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
    F 6.43 11 [Man] plants his brain and affections.
    F 6.48 21 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...
    Wth 6.120 14 [Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep the trees in ploughed land.
    Bty 6.305 19 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Farm 7.141 6 He who...plants a grove of trees by the roadside...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.141 7 He who...plants an orchard...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.151 26 'T is long before [the first planter] digs or plants at all...
    OA 7.324 27 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
    PI 8.44 3 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he treats them as real;...
    SovE 10.193 12 He that plants his foot here [on belief in Divine justice] passes at once out of the kingdom of illusions.
    SHC 11.431 15 [Man] plants for the next millennium.

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