Power and Manifestation to Power

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

Power and Manifestation, Divine (1)

    WD 7.167 5 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...importing that the Day is the Divine Power and Manifestation...

Power, Divine, n. (1)

    Suc 7.306 23 Everything lasting and fit for men the Divine Power has marked with this stamp [of beauty].

Power, Eternal, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.185 19 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.

power, n. (1192)

    Nat 1.11 4 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature...
    Nat 1.15 5 ...such [is] the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.23 5 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect; and then again, in its turn, of the active power.
    Nat 1.29 14 ...the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.
    Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.29 22 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    Nat 1.30 4 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of...the desire of...power...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.30 6 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;...
    Nat 1.30 12 In due time...words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
    Nat 1.32 5 ...with these forms...the keys of power are put into [the poet's] hands.
    Nat 1.35 27 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a new weapon in the magazine of power.
    Nat 1.39 24 ...the lesson of power, is taught in every event.
    Nat 1.45 21 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    Nat 1.46 10 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
    Nat 1.52 14 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    Nat 1.53 26 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Nat 1.63 25 ...the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one...is that for which all things exist...
    Nat 1.64 12 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...draws at his need inexhaustible power.
    Nat 1.64 19 This [spiritual] view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    Nat 1.72 5 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    Nat 1.72 7 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not conscious power...
    Nat 1.72 16 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding...
    Nat 1.72 21 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
    Nat 1.73 13 These are examples of...the exertions of a power which exists not in time or space...
    Nat 1.73 15 These are examples of...an instantaneous in-streaming causing power.
    AmS 1.83 10 ...this fountain of power, has been so distributed to multitudes...that it is spilled into drops...
    AmS 1.85 8 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
    AmS 1.95 26 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.
    AmS 1.107 13 Men...very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money...
    DSA 1.123 26 ...the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    DSA 1.124 18 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...
    DSA 1.124 25 Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's] power to charm and to command.
    DSA 1.125 4 By [the religious sentiment] is the universe made safe and habitable, not by science or power.
    DSA 1.137 1 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    DSA 1.141 19 ...thus historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching...
    DSA 1.141 23 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...where are the resources of astonishment and power.
    LE 1.158 14 [The scholar] cannot know [his resources] until he has beheld with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the intellectual power.
    LE 1.161 6 If you would know the power of character, see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.161 10 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...and cause them not to be. See you not how much less the power of man would be?
    LE 1.164 10 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality of literary or metaphysical power, and he is piqued.
    LE 1.164 17 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray...
    LE 1.164 23 ...we must pay our vows to the highest power...
    LE 1.166 10 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;-a state of being and power how unlike his own!
    MN 1.193 22 Into our charmed circle, power cannot enter;...
    MN 1.194 3 The power of mind is not mortification, but life.
    MN 1.197 11 ...we have lost our miraculous power;...
    MN 1.206 8 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...
    MN 1.206 17 ...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.
    MN 1.207 1 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    MN 1.213 11 ...as the power or genius of nature is ecstatic, so must its science or the description of it be.
    MN 1.218 8 Talent...goes to the soul only for power to work.
    MN 1.220 22 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?
    MN 1.221 25 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power.
    MN 1.224 9 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who...goes out through universal love to universal power.
    MR 1.239 12 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.242 7 ...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    MR 1.244 1 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things. Custom does it for me, gives me no power therefrom...
    MR 1.248 26 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    MR 1.249 25 [The Americans] rely on the power of a dollar;...
    MR 1.250 27 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses, but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of principles.
    MR 1.251 2 To principles something else is possible that transcends all the power of expedients.
    MR 1.254 18 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods,- being its own lever, fulcrum, and power,-which force could never achieve.
    MR 1.254 26 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness.
    MR 1.256 18 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their power and their fame...
    MR 1.256 20 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice.
    LT 1.270 12 The political questions touching...the limits of the executive power;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    LT 1.272 18 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded power.
    LT 1.280 13 We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no more political power...
    LT 1.286 23 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...
    LT 1.291 3 Have you leisure, power, property, friends?
    Con 1.296 18 ...my power ebbs;...
    Con 1.298 16 ...conservatism [stands] on circumstance, liberalism on power;...
    Con 1.309 15 To the end of your power you will serve this lie which cheats you.
    Con 1.320 18 ...the people have the power...
    Con 1.323 21 ...it is always at last the virtue of some men in the society, which keeps the law in any reverence and power.
    Con 1.324 11 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    Con 1.324 13 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
    Con 1.324 19 If there be power in good intention...the north wind shall be purer...that I have lived.
    Con 1.325 9 It is not in [the law's] power to protect me.
    Tran 1.329 23 ...the idealist [insists] on the power of Thought and of Will...
    Tran 1.335 7 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould. You call it the power of circumstance, but it is the power of me.
    Tran 1.335 8 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould. You call it the power of circumstance, but it is the power of me.
    Tran 1.335 24 [The Transcendentalist] believes...in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power;...
    Tran 1.339 13 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait and talent of beauty and power.
    Tran 1.345 17 In looking at the class of counsel, and power...of the land... one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Tran 1.348 15 ...genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
    Tran 1.357 21 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge, and deserve a larger power.
    Tran 1.358 3 What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency, through its power to attach itself to what is permanent?
    Tran 1.358 20 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark, with power to convey the electricity to others.
    YA 1.364 19 Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
    YA 1.370 11 ...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    YA 1.370 16 ...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 18 Feudalism...had broken the power of the kings...
    YA 1.377 23 Trade was the strong man that...raised a new and unknown power in [Feudalism's] place.
    YA 1.394 20 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    Hist 2.3 23 ...the limits of nature give power to but one [law] at a time.
    Hist 2.7 5 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
    Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension...the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    Hist 2.17 12 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    Hist 2.23 9 ...this intellectual nomadism, in its excess, bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects.
    Hist 2.31 20 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Hist 2.34 17 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power of subduing the elements...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Hist 2.36 1 [Man's] power consists in the multitude of his affinities...
    Hist 2.36 24 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    SR 2.44 4 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./
    SR 2.46 18 The power which resides in [man] is new in nature...
    SR 2.62 24 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    SR 2.63 27 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...
    SR 2.69 15 Power ceases in the instant of repose;...
    SR 2.69 25 Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.
    SR 2.70 23 Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right.
    SR 2.72 10 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
    SR 2.74 1 ...I cannot sell...my power, to save [my friends'] sensibility.
    SR 2.79 13 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
    SR 2.80 2 It will happen for a time that the pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his master's mind.
    SR 2.89 10 He who knows that power is inborn...instantly rights himself...
    Comp 2.92 8 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power to him who power exerts;/...
    Comp 2.97 26 What we gain in power is lost in time, and the converse.
    Comp 2.99 10 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things.
    Comp 2.104 8 ...the body would have the power over things to its own ends.
    Comp 2.104 12 [The soul] would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it,--power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty.
    Comp 2.104 20 Men...would have offices, wealth, power, and fame.
    Comp 2.105 1 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...power out of strong things, as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Comp 2.111 21 ...all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.
    Comp 2.115 1 The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power;...
    Comp 2.115 2 ...they who do not the thing have not the power.
    Comp 2.116 27 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    SL 2.134 9 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in them.
    SL 2.135 4 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value, blending with the daylight and the vital energy the power to stand and to go.
    SL 2.139 20 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...
    SL 2.141 15 Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique...
    SL 2.153 14 The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
    SL 2.160 16 Let us lie low in the Lord's power...
    SL 2.163 12 The good soul...unlocks new magazines of power and enjoyment to me every day.
    SL 2.165 25 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his, and by the power of these he rouses the nations.
    Lov1 2.169 15 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... enhances the power of the senses...
    Lov1 2.174 7 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
    Lov1 2.175 3 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    Lov1 2.184 3 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us.
    Fdsp 2.208 14 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Fdsp 2.213 7 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting... which can love us and which we can love.
    Hsm1 2.250 11 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.
    Hsm1. 2.252 2 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    Hsm1 2.256 10 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    Hsm1 2.257 2 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Hsm1 2.259 20 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being...
    OS 2.265 10 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
    OS 2.269 5 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
    OS 2.269 10 ...this deep power in which we exist...is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour...
    OS 2.270 18 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation...
    OS 2.277 20 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty...
    OS 2.281 12 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do...
    OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
    OS 2.293 1 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    OS 2.293 19 ...there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in [your friend] also...
    Cir 2.301 24 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Cir 2.303 22 Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
    Cir 2.305 11 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave all thy creed...
    Cir 2.305 19 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder; the steps are actions, the new prospect is power.
    Cir 2.306 21 I see no reason why I should not have...the same power of expression, to-morrow.
    Cir 2.309 7 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery...
    Cir 2.312 22 In my daily work I...do not believe...in the power of change and reform.
    Cir 2.315 12 ...with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.
    Cir 2.317 7 It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
    Cir 2.319 24 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...they are perfumed again with hope and power.
    Cir 2.320 9 We do not guess to-day...the power, of to-morrow...
    Cir 2.321 2 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Int 2.325 10 Intellect is the simple power anterior to all action or construction.
    Int 2.326 25 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.
    Int 2.336 2 The rich inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing...
    Int 2.336 7 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head...
    Int 2.336 16 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Art1 2.351 15 ...the same power which sees through [the painter's] eyes is seen in that spectacle [of nature];...
    Art1 2.354 17 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Art1 2.354 26 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    Art1 2.355 2 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Art1 2.355 6 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
    Art1 2.363 3 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...
    Art1 2.363 26 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    Pt1 3.6 18 The poet is...the man...who...is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.
    Pt1 3.7 4 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. ... ...each of these three has the power of the others latent in him and his own, patent.
    Pt1 3.15 3 ...every thing in nature answers to a moral power...
    Pt1 3.15 27 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present.
    Pt1 3.16 14 In our political parties, compute the power of badges and emblems.
    Pt1 3.16 21 See the power of national emblems.
    Pt1 3.17 20 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
    Pt1 3.20 13 The poet...gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pt1 3.26 22 ...beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...
    Pt1 3.26 23 ...beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...
    Pt1 3.27 25 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
    Pt1 3.30 4 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
    Pt1 3.33 1 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Pt1 3.33 25 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it...is a measure of intellect.
    Pt1 3.39 25 ...an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet]...
    Pt1 3.40 14 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy...
    Pt1 3.40 20 Comes [the poet] to that power, his genius is no longer exhaustible.
    Exp 3.49 27 Direct strokes [nature] never gave us power to make;...
    Exp 3.52 23 ...temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself.
    Exp 3.54 21 ...it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself.
    Exp 3.56 24 There is no power of expansion in men.
    Exp 3.57 1 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power...
    Exp 3.60 3 Life itself is a mixture of power and form...
    Exp 3.65 24 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form...
    Exp 3.67 18 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...
    Exp 3.75 1 I exert the same quality of power in all places.
    Exp 3.76 2 Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power;...
    Exp 3.76 4 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.
    Exp 3.78 6 The soul...is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.
    Exp 3.82 5 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.
    Exp 3.86 5 ...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Chr1 3.89 21 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance. The largest part of their power was latent.
    Chr1 3.91 9 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Chr1 3.93 17 I see [in the natural merchant], with the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    Chr1 3.94 9 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals. Men exert on each other a similar occult power.
    Chr1 3.95 10 [Character] is a natural power...
    Chr1 3.96 24 The natural measure of this power [of character] is the resistance of circumstances.
    Chr1 3.97 21 A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
    Chr1 3.97 26 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Chr1 3.100 27 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good; for these announce the instant presence of supreme power.
    Chr1 3.101 20 It is only on reality that any power of action can be based.
    Chr1 3.103 4 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you...
    Chr1 3.104 22 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Chr1 3.105 15 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    Chr1 3.107 27 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine, and who seem to be an accumulation of that power [of character] we consider.
    Chr1 3.111 6 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Chr1 3.113 9 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart.
    Mrs1 3.122 3 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient, namely virtue, wit, beauty, wealth and power.
    Mrs1 3.123 20 Power first, or no leading class.
    Mrs1 3.124 6 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power...
    Mrs1 3.127 19 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    Mrs1 3.128 14 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.128 15 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.128 15 The class of power...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    Mrs1 3.140 5 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    Mrs1 3.147 9 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty.../
    Mrs1 3.147 23 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in society and the power to embellish the passing day.
    Gts 3.164 14 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
    Nat2 3.173 10 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    Nat2 3.175 26 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of the air.
    Nat2 3.185 26 The child...without any power to compare and rank his sensations...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Nat2 3.196 17 That power which does not respect quantity...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    Pol1 3.201 25 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a democracy.
    Pol1 3.205 10 [Persons and property] exert their power, as steadily as matter its attraction.
    Pol1 3.206 14 The law may do what it will with the owner of property; its just power will still attach to the cent.
    Pol1 3.206 16 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property;...
    Pol1 3.206 21 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do...
    Pol1 3.210 6 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power.
    Pol1 3.210 25 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    Pol1 3.215 22 ...the less government we have the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
    Pol1 3.217 3 As a political power...[character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    Pol1 3.217 12 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth.
    Pol1 3.219 22 The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
    Pol1 3.221 3 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    NR 3.226 22 ...the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total symphony of [a man's] talents.
    NR 3.235 14 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat, when presently the dream will scatter, and we shall burst into universal power.
    NR 3.238 7 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring, that all this wash and waste of power may be imparted and exchanged.
    NR 3.239 21 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
    NR 3.241 21 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game, and share the power of the cards.
    NER 3.261 8 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers]...lose their sanity and power of benefit.
    NER 3.264 18 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
    NER 3.266 23 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern, as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    NER 3.268 2 Men do not believe in a power of education.
    NER 3.270 3 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power of speech...
    NER 3.270 4 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power of poetry...
    NER 3.277 5 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the same healing should not stop in his thought, but should penetrate his will or active power.
    NER 3.280 7 The man whose part is taken and who does not wait for society in anything, has a power which society cannot choose but feel.
    NER 3.280 21 The disparities of power in men are superficial;...
    NER 3.281 15 ...[lovers of truth] know...what a price of greatness the power of expression too often pays.
    NER 3.281 26 There is power over and behind us...
    UGM 4.8 2 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
    UGM 4.14 2 I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without fresh resolution.
    UGM 4.14 27 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can...
    UGM 4.16 22 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
    UGM 4.16 26 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...great power of abstraction...
    UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
    UGM 4.18 19 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
    UGM 4.19 24 The power which [the best men] communicate is not theirs.
    UGM 4.23 10 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power.
    UGM 4.23 17 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing.
    UGM 4.28 25 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals...
    UGM 4.33 8 This is the key to the power of the greatest men,--their spirit diffuses itself.
    PPh 4.46 14 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone,--fault of power to express their precise meaning.
    PPh 4.47 3 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health, the culmination of power.
    PPh 4.51 11 ...[diversity] is the power of nature.
    PPh 4.51 18 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...power; the other distribution...
    PPh 4.54 26 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.56 2 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.57 13 The mind of Plato...is to be apprehended by an original mind in the exercise of its original power.
    PPh 4.61 1 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    PPh 4.62 9 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power...
    PPh 4.65 6 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;... what to astronomy, whose appeasing and medicinal power he celebrates!
    PPh 4.67 9 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    PPh 4.67 26 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    PPh 4.69 27 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    PPh 4.70 27 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    PPh 4.75 25 ...the defect of Plato in power is only that which results inevitably from his quality.
    PPh 4.78 10 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.
    PNR 4.81 21 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms...
    PNR 4.85 11 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds, opening power and capability in everything he touches.
    PNR 4.85 20 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself, and subsisting by its own power in the soul of the possessor...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.86 3 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...
    PNR 4.86 4 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...a power which is the key at once to the centrality and the evanescence of things.
    SwM 4.97 21 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled, in spite of the unquestionable increase of mental power.
    SwM 4.101 2 ...[Swedenborg] seems to have kept the friendship of men in power.
    SwM 4.104 6 The robust Aristotelian method...skilful to discriminate power from form...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.107 12 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
    SwM 4.107 20 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine, with a limited power of modifying its form...
    SwM 4.130 14 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...
    SwM 4.133 3 Swedenborg's system of the world...lacks power to generate life.
    SwM 4.141 22 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like, in its endless power of lurid pictures, to the phenomena of dreaming...
    MoS 4.151 13 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    MoS 4.152 6 ...to the men of practical power...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    MoS 4.156 13 [The skeptic says] Why exaggerate the power of virtue?
    MoS 4.172 10 ...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself in all changes.
    MoS 4.175 15 There is the power of moods...
    MoS 4.175 17 There is the power of complexions...
    MoS 4.176 27 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...
    MoS 4.177 9 We have too little power of resistance against this ferocity which champs us up.
    MoS 4.183 23 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
    MoS 4.183 24 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance, between the demand and supply of power...
    MoS 4.184 3 ...the incompetency of power is the universal grief of young and ardent minds.
    MoS 4.184 12 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
    MoS 4.185 2 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.190 8 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...I foresee a new mechanic power...
    ShP 4.190 23 ...[every master's] power lay in his sympathy with his people...
    ShP 4.190 26 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an economy of power!...
    ShP 4.191 10 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
    ShP 4.204 21 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
    ShP 4.212 9 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    ShP 4.213 8 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs;...
    ShP 4.213 11 This power of expression...makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    ShP 4.214 3 [Shakespeare] had the power to make one picture.
    ShP 4.214 13 [Shakespeare's] lyric power lies in the genius of the piece.
    ShP 4.217 11 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    ShP 4.218 2 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    NMW 4.223 14 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.225 4 Paris and London and New York, the spirit...of money and material power, were also to have their prophet;...
    NMW 4.227 8 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
    NMW 4.227 26 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth...
    NMW 4.229 11 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of arrangement...
    NMW 4.229 15 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power...
    NMW 4.231 10 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune...
    NMW 4.236 24 My power would fall, were I not to support it by new achievements [said Napoleon].
    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.
    NMW 4.243 13 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...a wish to measure his power with other masters...
    NMW 4.245 2 Natural power was sure to be well received at [Napoleon's] court.
    NMW 4.247 9 [Napoleon's] power does not consist in any wild or extravagant force;...
    NMW 4.247 12 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion;...
    NMW 4.252 10 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
    NMW 4.254 14 If I were to give the liberty of the press [said Napoleon], my power could not last three days.
    NMW 4.256 5 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;...
    NMW 4.257 8 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...
    NMW 4.258 7 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...
    GoW 4.263 9 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the power of talking wisely.
    GoW 4.265 4 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine. Every thought which dawns on the mine, in the moment of its emergence announces its own rank,--whether it is some whimsy, or whether it is a power.
    GoW 4.273 18 [Goethe] had a power to unite the detached atoms again by their own law.
    GoW 4.274 7 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    GoW 4.288 27 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
    GoW 4.289 6 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth.
    ET1 5.4 23 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
    ET1 5.21 10 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration.
    ET3 5.35 10 What are the elements of that power which the English hold over other nations?
    ET3 5.35 27 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress.
    ET3 5.37 12 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years; and hence the impression that the British power has culminated...
    ET3 5.37 22 The innumerable details [in England]...the number and power of the trades and guilds...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET3 5.41 19 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...enriched with every seed of national power...
    ET4 5.46 12 Is this [English] power due to their race...
    ET4 5.46 13 Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race.
    ET4 5.47 26 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged...that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
    ET4 5.49 25 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    ET4 5.56 22 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
    ET4 5.58 5 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power...
    ET4 5.61 18 The power of the race migrated and left Norway void.
    ET4 5.66 24 When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET5 5.75 19 The power of the Saxon-Danes...stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET5 5.76 21 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...
    ET5 5.77 4 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain, and turn the sweat of their face to power and renown.
    ET5 5.85 16 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.86 4 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    ET5 5.88 7 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power.
    ET5 5.97 8 [English] social classes are made by statute. Their ratios of power and representation are historical and legal.
    ET5 5.97 10 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
    ET5 5.97 14 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies;...
    ET5 5.97 15 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies; power at home, by a standing army of police.
    ET5 5.99 4 One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is their mutual good understanding.
    ET5 5.99 13 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
    ET5 5.101 24 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET6 5.106 24 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation...
    ET6 5.110 18 The English power resides also in their dislike of change.
    ET6 5.111 15 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET7 5.116 23 [Englishmen's] practical power rests on their national sincerity.
    ET7 5.119 1 [The English] love reality in wealth, power, hospitality...
    ET7 5.120 25 In the power of saying rude truth...no men surpass [the English].
    ET7 5.125 22 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power;...
    ET8 5.130 26 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    ET8 5.136 26 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement. With larger scale, they have great retrieving power.
    ET8 5.138 25 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET8 5.141 3 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles and find...a second millennium of power in their colonies.
    ET8 5.143 1 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    ET9 5.144 22 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET9 5.148 6 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
    ET9 5.151 10 ...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.
    ET10 5.159 17 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET10 5.164 7 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    ET10 5.165 27 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET10 5.166 17 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual,--that he has...power to spare.
    ET10 5.167 2 ...the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.
    ET11 5.172 4 The inequality of power and property [in England] shocks republican nerves.
    ET11 5.184 18 This monopoly of political power has given [the English peers] their intellectual and social eminence in Europe.
    ET11 5.185 19 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men, born to wealth and power...
    ET11 5.186 1 Power of any kind readily appears in the manners;...
    ET11 5.186 2 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    ET11 5.186 22 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    ET11 5.194 1 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
    ET11 5.197 10 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood. The doors, though ostentatiously guarded, are really open, and hence the power of the bribe.
    ET11 5.198 14 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    ET12 5.210 26 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    ET12 5.211 5 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.
    ET13 5.215 12 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England]...
    ET13 5.215 19 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET13 5.216 9 The violence of the northern savages exasperated Christianity into power.
    ET13 5.222 1 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET13 5.222 14 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET14 5.236 5 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish...
    ET14 5.239 18 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
    ET14 5.242 8 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...
    ET14 5.245 22 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    ET14 5.252 23 [A good Englishman] has learning, good sense, power of labor, and logic;...
    ET14 5.253 26 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    ET14 5.255 7 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims, and the smallest fraction of power remains for heroism and poetry.
    ET14 5.257 20 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public,--a certificate of good sense and general power...
    ET14 5.258 23 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is...power which trifles with time and space.
    ET14 5.259 16 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET14 5.260 4 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always becoming the other; for Robert Owen does not exaggerate the power of circumstance.
    ET14 5.260 16 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET15 5.261 1 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America...
    ET15 5.263 8 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper. No power in England is more felt, more feared, or more obeyed.
    ET15 5.264 1 When Lord Brougham was in power, [the London Times] decided against him, and pulled him down.
    ET15 5.265 10 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
    ET15 5.267 5 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe...
    ET15 5.270 14 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies...
    ET15 5.270 25 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact, that power is on the point of passing to them, they strike in with the voice of a monarch...
    ET15 5.271 22 [The London Times] is a living index of the colossal British power.
    ET15 5.272 1 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...
    ET15 5.272 27 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new millennium of beneficent power.
    ET18 5.300 13 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
    ET18 5.302 19 What variety of power and talent;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    ET18 5.303 11 I have noted the reserve of power in the English temperament.
    ET18 5.304 9 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people, to qualify them for self-government, when the British power shall be finally called home.
    ET18 5.305 24 Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
    ET18 5.307 22 The power of performance [in England] has not been exceeded...
    ET19 5.313 19 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
    F 6.4 8 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the power of character.
    F 6.4 13 ...by harping...on each string, we learn at last its power.
    F 6.8 24 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    F 6.9 5 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.14 12 In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
    F 6.14 18 ...all that the primary power or spasm operates is still vesicles, vesicles.
    F 6.15 3 Once we thought positive power was all.
    F 6.15 4 Now we learn that negative power, or circumstance, is half.
    F 6.19 26 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
    F 6.24 12 No power...shall make [man] give up his point.
    F 6.27 8 Just as much intellect as you add, so much organic power.
    F 6.28 23 Where power is shown in will, it must rest on the universal force.
    F 6.29 4 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.
    F 6.31 2 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?
    F 6.31 21 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.
    F 6.32 8 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like its own foam, a plume and a power.
    F 6.33 22 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil...
    F 6.34 17 The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it was a power...
    F 6.35 16 ...if limitation is power that shall be...we are reconciled.
    F 6.38 2 ...[every creature] has predisposing power that bends and fits what is near him to his use.
    F 6.40 14 All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury, power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
    F 6.41 9 We know what madness belongs to love,-what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
    F 6.43 16 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind, and the power to flux it is the measure of the mind.
    F 6.48 3 A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
    Pow 6.53 13 Life is a search after power;...
    Pow 6.53 21 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Pow 6.56 10 All power is of one kind...
    Pow 6.60 5 Health is good,--power, life, that resists disease, poison and all enemies...
    Pow 6.61 26 Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain every faculty of every citizen.
    Pow 6.62 14 Power educates the potentate.
    Pow 6.63 1 As long as our people quote English standards they will miss the sovereignty of power;...
    Pow 6.63 25 This power [in American politics], to be sure, is not clothed in satin.
    Pow 6.63 26 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power of Lynch law...
    Pow 6.64 2 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...
    Pow 6.64 3 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...power of mind with physical health;...
    Pow 6.65 8 Men in power have no opinions...
    Pow 6.71 14 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Pow 6.71 22 We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and body, on power of work, on courage;...
    Pow 6.73 12 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Pow 6.73 12 ...an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
    Pow 6.77 8 The second substitute for temperament is drill, the power of use and routine.
    Pow 6.77 11 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Pow 6.79 6 The friction in nature is so enormous that we cannot spare any power.
    Pow 6.79 21 To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of manipulations; to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of the mechanic and the clerk.
    Pow 6.80 5 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior men...
    Wth 6.83 7 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
    Wth 6.86 26 Every basket [of coal] is power and civilization.
    Wth 6.87 8 ...coal...with its comfort brings its industrial power.
    Wth 6.88 18 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
    Wth 6.89 16 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Wth 6.89 20 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. Fire offers, on its side, an equal power.
    Wth 6.91 15 ...if [a man] wishes the power and privilege of thought...he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.91 18 ...if [a man] wishes...having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.93 11 Power is what [men of sense] want, not candy;...
    Wth 6.93 12 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet...to their thought;...
    Wth 6.95 21 ...every man...should pluck his living, his instruments, his power and his knowing, from the sun, moon and stars.
    Wth 6.96 4 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Wth 6.101 4 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    Wth 6.103 9 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Wth 6.105 12 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Wth 6.109 12 ...power and pleasure are not cheap.
    Wth 6.125 22 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is to spend for power and not for pleasure.
    Wth 6.126 11 Will [a man] not spend but hoard for power?
    Wth 6.126 21 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is...man raised to his highest power.
    Ctr 6.131 3 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.131 4 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, and of wealth as a means of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.131 5 A man is the prisoner of his power.
    Ctr 6.131 16 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.
    Ctr 6.131 23 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias, sacrificing his symmetry to his working power.
    Ctr 6.134 23 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
    Ctr 6.134 27 [Our student] must have...a power to see with a free and disengaged look every object.
    Ctr 6.140 3 'T is inhuman to want faith in the power of education...
    Ctr 6.142 2 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    Ctr 6.142 3 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    Ctr 6.143 25 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power...
    Ctr 6.151 5 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of...any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody;...
    Ctr 6.160 20 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Ctr 6.162 22 [The finished man of the world]...values men only as channels of power.
    Ctr 6.166 10 [Man] is to convert...all enemies into power.
    Bhr 6.170 12 The power of manners is incessant...
    Bhr 6.171 4 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Bhr 6.172 12 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has, and what relations to convenience, power and beauty.
    Bhr 6.175 1 Broad lands and great interests...form manners of power.
    Bhr 6.179 3 ...[eyes] respect...neither learning nor power nor virtue nor sex;...
    Bhr 6.181 6 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
    Bhr 6.181 8 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
    Bhr 6.181 20 If the organ of sight is such a vehicle of power, other features have their own.
    Bhr 6.182 11 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.182 19 The maxim of courts is that manner is power.
    Bhr 6.183 26 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms? Manners: manners of power;...
    Bhr 6.185 5 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...nor distinguished power to serve you;...
    Bhr 6.188 7 In persons of character we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness. We are surprised by the thing done, out of all power to watch the way of it.
    Bhr 6.188 26 Manners impress as they indicate real power.
    Bhr 6.190 11 How do [men] get this rapid knowledge...of each other's power and disposition?
    Bhr 6.196 2 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest.
    Wsp 6.202 5 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in trade, in the love of power and pleasure...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Wsp 6.202 16 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...
    Wsp 6.202 23 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers. It counterbalances any accumulations of power...
    Wsp 6.213 19 To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden enlargements of power.
    Wsp 6.216 11 ...when there was any extraordinary power of performance... the human soul was in earnest...
    Wsp 6.216 19 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
    Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the balance of power from age to age unbroken.
    CbW 6.246 22 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly, adds to our power...
    CbW 6.248 6 You must say of nothing, That is beneath me [said Mirabeau], nor feel that anything can be out of your power.
    CbW 6.255 6 ...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
    CbW 6.261 24 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants, and he will come out of it with broader wisdom and manly power.
    CbW 6.265 1 ...the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or drained.
    CbW 6.265 19 ...power dwells with cheerfulness;...
    CbW 6.267 4 Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance;...
    CbW 6.269 10 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves. Others...bereave us of the power of thought...
    CbW 6.269 15 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
    CbW 6.272 8 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    CbW 6.272 12 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...
    Bty 6.282 17 Alchemy, which sought...to arm with power,--that was in the right direction.
    Bty 6.283 13 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
    Bty 6.286 14 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.287 4 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.288 17 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought and acquaints the prisoner that liberty and power await him.
    Bty 6.290 21 It is...health of constitution that makes the sparkle and the power of the eye.
    Bty 6.294 22 In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
    Bty 6.301 15 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
    Bty 6.301 22 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
    Bty 6.303 18 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world...
    Bty 6.305 27 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky.
    Ill 6.308 11 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.314 27 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
    SS 7.11 5 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    SS 7.12 19 [Animal spirits] seem a power incredible...
    SS 7.12 26 Animal spirits constitute the power of the present...
    Civ 7.19 12 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor and taste.
    Civ 7.20 13 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret of cumulative power...
    Civ 7.20 15 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies...power to compare...
    Civ 7.21 5 The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast...
    Civ 7.21 13 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Civ 7.22 25 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Civ 7.23 22 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Art2 7.47 19 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Art2 7.55 25 It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being.
    Elo1 7.64 4 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
    Elo1 7.64 24 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power [of eloquence]...
    Elo1 7.65 23 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music drew like the power of gravitation,--drew soldiers and priests...
    Elo1 7.65 27 [Eloquence] is a power of many degrees...
    Elo1 7.69 23 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...
    Elo1 7.70 13 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
    Elo1 7.73 1 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.
    Elo1 7.73 17 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    Elo1 7.73 23 ...as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle, and of no lasting power.
    Elo1 7.74 6 There are all degrees of power [in eloquence]...
    Elo1 7.76 14 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power...
    Elo1 7.77 13 What a difference between men in power of face!
    Elo1 7.77 14 A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than another...
    Elo1 7.77 21 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would accomplish anything...
    Elo1 7.77 23 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Elo1 7.77 26 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound...men of influence and power...
    Elo1 7.78 3 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    Elo1 7.78 22 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...has a reserve of power when he has hit his mark.
    Elo1 7.79 4 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
    Elo1 7.81 12 A man who has tastes like mine, but in greater power, will rule me any day...
    Elo1 7.81 16 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that being present, gives them their perfection...
    Elo1 7.81 23 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Elo1 7.81 27 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials. This circumstance enters into every consideration of the power of orators...
    Elo1 7.84 18 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    Elo1 7.85 10 ...[the orator] must have power of statement...
    Elo1 7.89 25 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's...
    Elo1 7.90 8 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach...
    Elo1 7.90 21 ...tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts...are keys which the orator holds;...
    Elo1 7.91 2 ...the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    Elo1 7.91 8 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Elo1 7.92 15 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads, and draw all this wide power to a point.
    Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
    Elo1 7.93 16 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Elo1 7.94 2 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...no power of wit or learning or illustration will make any amends for want of this.
    Elo1 7.94 25 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    Elo1 7.98 12 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs...
    Elo1 7.99 17 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...
    Elo1 7.99 27 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent,-- neither voice, rhythm, poetic power, anecdote, sarcasm--to appear for show;...
    DL 7.104 12 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power...
    DL 7.106 4 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    DL 7.122 21 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions...
    DL 7.126 3 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce, with all this immense expenditure of means and power, so cheap and humble a result.
    DL 7.126 16 There is no face, no form, which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul.
    DL 7.127 2 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    DL 7.127 4 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
    DL 7.128 9 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    DL 7.130 13 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends to pictures and vases...
    Farm 7.140 22 ...it is from [the farmer] that the health and power, moral and intellectual, of the cities came.
    Farm 7.142 15 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
    Farm 7.144 3 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it.
    Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
    Farm 7.146 20 ...[the farmer]...is taught the power that lurks in petty things.
    WD 7.158 12 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.
    WD 7.161 14 Art and power will go on as they have done...
    WD 7.162 19 The science of power is forced to remember the power of science.
    WD 7.162 20 The science of power is forced to remember the power of science.
    WD 7.162 27 Malthus...forgot to say...that the augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of invention.
    WD 7.166 23 ...with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.
    WD 7.168 9 He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
    WD 7.171 19 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.172 6 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone.
    WD 7.175 16 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. HE lurks, he hides, he who is success, reality, joy and power.
    WD 7.176 14 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size.
    WD 7.183 21 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.
    WD 7.185 21 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done... then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which...makes us great in all conditions, and as the only definition we have of freedom and power.
    Boks 7.190 27 [Books] impart sympathetic activity to the moral power.
    Boks 7.212 17 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination, the great awakening power, nor the Morals...are addressed.
    Boks 7.213 4 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...
    Boks 7.216 22 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day. There is no new element, no power, no furtherance.
    Clbs 7.225 3 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.
    Clbs 7.229 27 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more;...
    Clbs 7.231 10 The lover of letters loves power too.
    Clbs 7.235 11 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...
    Clbs 7.250 2 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    Clbs 7.250 8 ...glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Cour 7.253 14 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. This has made the power of the saints of the East and West...
    Cour 7.254 1 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind:--1. Disinterestedness...2. Practical power...3. courage...
    Cour 7.254 11 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...
    Cour 7.257 10 ...[the babe] comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Cour 7.265 4 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis; we must not forget the variety of temperaments, each of which qualifies this power of resistance.
    Cour 7.268 18 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Cour 7.269 19 In all applications [courage] is the same power...
    Cour 7.277 3 If you have no faith in beneficent power above you...then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
    Suc 7.283 5 We have the power of territory and of seacoast...
    Suc 7.286 19 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for,--each one as it is a new direction of human power.
    Suc 7.288 11 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit, and some of them involve power of a high kind.
    Suc 7.290 15 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through making believe you are powerful...
    Suc 7.291 23 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best; not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be.
    Suc 7.294 2 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    Suc 7.294 6 Cannot we please ourselves with...gaining truth and power, without being praised for it?
    Suc 7.297 7 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of... power to appreciate faint, fainter and infinitely faintest voices and visions.
    Suc 7.302 7 We are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness.
    Suc 7.302 13 This sensibility appears...in the power which form and color exert upon the soul;...
    OA 7.317 19 Wherever there is power, there is age.
    OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time] opens the senses, adds power...
    OA 7.321 8 ...in all governments, the councils of power were held by the old;...
    OA 7.321 24 ...there is no knowledge that is not power.
    OA 7.327 13 [Man] wants...power, house and land...
    OA 7.327 18 [A man] has his calling, homestead, social connection and personal power...
    OA 7.328 6 In a world so charged and sparkling with power, a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    OA 7.330 18 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...which gives it instantly radiating power...
    OA 7.333 7 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know;...
    PI 8.5 1 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose...
    PI 8.5 2 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom.
    PI 8.7 20 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint whose power is not yet exhausted...
    PI 8.16 21 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men, and then, melted again, come out words, without any abatement, but with an exaltation of power!
    PI 8.20 16 This power is in the image because this power is in Nature.
    PI 8.20 23 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
    PI 8.23 21 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things,--marching in the direction of universal power.
    PI 8.24 22 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    PI 8.27 4 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things...
    PI 8.27 11 ...this power [the perception of the symbolic character of things] appears in Dante and Shakspeare.
    PI 8.34 13 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
    PI 8.35 9 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.39 4 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis...
    PI 8.40 16 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    PI 8.44 15 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...
    PI 8.47 5 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    PI 8.56 16 ...I honor the geometer, but he has before him higher power and happiness than he knows.
    PI 8.59 18 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power...
    PI 8.63 4 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    PI 8.63 25 Power, new power, is the good which the soul seeks.
    PI 8.71 21 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
    PI 8.72 5 Power of generalizing differences men.
    SA 8.86 13 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
    SA 8.89 17 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    SA 8.92 17 Speech is power...
    SA 8.93 16 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman: There is a quality in which no woman in the world can compete with her,--it is the power of intellectual irritation.
    SA 8.100 11 It is the sense of every human being that man...should arm himself with tools and force the elements to drudge for him and give him power.
    SA 8.102 17 ...as in civil duties, so in social power and duties.
    SA 8.102 26 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    Elo2 8.111 5 [An anecdote of eloquence] is a triumph of pure power...
    Elo2 8.111 22 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence...
    Elo2 8.112 8 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power...
    Elo2 8.112 22 Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
    Elo2 8.115 2 [Eloquence] instructs in the power of man over men;...
    Elo2 8.115 3 [Eloquence] instructs...that a man is...to the extent of his being, a power;...
    Elo2 8.116 18 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power...
    Elo2 8.117 12 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Elo2 8.117 18 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Elo2 8.118 15 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.
    Elo2 8.119 13 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator. Now you find what all that excess of power which so chafed and fretted you in a tete-a-tete with him was for.
    Elo2 8.119 22 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the organ-stop, and could now use it temperately, and now let out all the length and breadth of the power.
    Elo2 8.122 20 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Elo2 8.125 12 The power of [the men in the street's] speech is, that it is perfectly understood by all;...
    Elo2 8.129 25 ...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence], of power of statement...
    Elo2 8.130 3 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
    Elo2 8.132 16 If there ever was a country where eloquence was a power, it is the United States.
    Res 8.139 4 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power...
    Res 8.140 7 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    Res 8.141 12 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the power and habit of invention in their brain.
    Res 8.143 3 America is...such a magazine of power, that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    Res 8.143 5 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
    Res 8.143 7 The creation of power had never any parallel [to that in America].
    Res 8.144 16 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Res 8.146 24 [The determined man] reveals to us the enormous power of one man over masses of men;...
    Res 8.150 4 ...every power in energy speedily arrives at its limits...
    Res 8.150 12 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.
    Res 8.153 18 Resources of Man...it is the power of passion, the majesty of virtue and the omnipotence of will.
    QO 8.178 7 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    QO 8.178 8 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
    QO 8.190 25 Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power...
    QO 8.190 26 Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power...
    QO 8.201 25 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought.
    QO 8.203 26 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    PC 8.206 2 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears/...
    PC 8.208 22 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    PC 8.209 18 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power...
    PC 8.217 21 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know the power of numbers...
    PC 8.218 26 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne by rank or official power...
    PC 8.219 12 Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities...
    PC 8.220 11 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;...
    PC 8.223 13 On this power, this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
    PC 8.224 1 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
    PC 8.224 21 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand...not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    PC 8.228 11 [The moral sentiment] is the fountain of power...
    PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    PC 8.232 11 The community of scholars do not know their own power...
    PC 8.232 14 ...nobody doubts the power of manners...
    PC 8.234 8 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.237 18 Many qualities go to make a good telescope...but the one eminent value is the space-penetrating power;...
    PPo 8.247 27 The difference is not so much in the quality of men's thoughts as in the power of uttering them.
    Insp 8.269 4 ...the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.

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