Proprietary to Puberty

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

proprietary, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.129 5 So far from there being anything divine in the low and proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...

proprietary, n. (1)

    ET15 5.265 3 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...

proprieties, n. (5)

    ET6 5.111 21 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen.
    Bhr 6.177 17 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    Wsp 6.222 24 ...it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
    MMEm 10.432 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    AsSu 11.250 17 ...beyond this charge...that he broke over the proprieties of debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...

proprietor, n. (8)

    SR 2.63 15 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered... the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Pol1 3.206 20 The non-proprietor will be the scribe of the proprietor.
    ET11 5.172 8 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them...
    Pow 6.66 7 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    Wth 6.117 26 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.
    Ctr 6.164 25 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Bhr 6.189 20 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...
    Schr 10.271 20 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the present proprietor.

proprietors, n. (14)

    Pol1 3.203 1 In the earliest society the proprietors made their own wealth...
    Pol1 3.203 21 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    ET10 5.162 2 The introduction of these elements [steam and money] gives new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    ET15 5.265 8 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...
    ET16 5.283 23 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors...
    Wth 6.96 11 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Townleys, Vernons and Peels, in England; or whatever great proprietors.
    Wth 6.97 13 They should own who can administer...not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars...
    Wth 6.99 14 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wsp 6.210 20 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors that there is no more virtue than they possess;...
    PI 8.37 10 Malthus is the right organ of the English proprietors;...
    PC 8.230 19 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...
    SovE 10.193 6 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
    HDC 11.48 13 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...

propriety, n. (18)

    LE 1.158 1 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
    SL 2.160 9 ...with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM.
    Cir 2.321 23 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to be surprised out of our propriety...
    Mrs1 3.127 11 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
    Mrs1 3.131 13 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    ET6 5.107 9 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET6 5.112 4 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets intrenched...
    ET14 5.259 9 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
    WD 7.172 8 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    Elo2 8.118 2 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.126 9 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides.
    LS 11.12 27 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    LS 11.13 1 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    FSLN 11.222 22 [Webster] had a great and everywhere equal propriety.
    FSLN 11.223 1 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    Humb 11.457 14 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.
    ACri 12.287 17 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of the expression...
    MLit 12.323 5 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste...

proprium, n. (1)

    Grts 8.307 10 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Swedenborg called it the proprium...

prosaic, adj. (9)

    Art1 2.367 11 [Men] reject life as prosaic...
    SwM 4.144 7 ...[Swedenborg's] books have...no relief to the dead prosaic level.
    ShP 4.215 13 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic.
    GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    ET14 5.256 9 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic;...
    Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me quite out of prosaic surroundings...
    Edc1 10.132 18 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert.
    LLNE 10.351 11 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    CInt 12.128 24 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...you expose your atheism.

proscribe, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 25 Here are know-nothing religions, or churches that proscribe intellect;...

proscribes, v. (1)

    PPr 12.384 15 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes.

prose, adj. (12)

    Cir 2.311 7 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
    PNR 4.85 22 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated, either in poetry or prose writings,--how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.
    PI 8.12 21 Imaginative minds...do not wish [their images] rashly rendered into prose reality...
    PI 8.50 9 There are also prose poets.
    PI 8.52 20 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    Plu 10.297 13 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...
    Plu 10.304 6 ...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative...
    Milt1 12.248 20 [Milton's] prose writings...seem to have been read with avidity.
    Milt1 12.251 6 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica...the most splendid of his prose works.
    ACri 12.291 5 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.

prose, n. (38)

    Fdsp 2.199 15 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet...translate all poetry into stale prose.
    Art1 2.351 10 The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit...
    Chr1 3.106 15 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    NR 3.231 17 Money, which represents the prose of life...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered...into verse and prose...
    GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
    ET1 5.22 7 ...[Wordsworth] never writes prose...
    ET6 5.108 25 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET6 5.111 26 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
    ET14 5.239 21 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
    ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.256 21 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    Ill 6.312 13 Even the prose of the streets is full of refractions.
    Boks 7.218 3 The Greek fables...and even the prose of Bacon and Milton... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Boks 7.218 5 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    PI 8.12 7 God himself does not speak prose...
    PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself with exceptions...
    PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry precedes prose.
    PI 8.52 4 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify;...
    PI 8.52 7 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted...
    PI 8.52 12 ...we talk of our work, our tools and material necessities, in prose;...
    PI 8.54 19 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags;...
    QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have their best fame within [this century].
    Insp 8.295 14 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton,- and Milton's prose as his verse;...
    Dem1 10.18 8 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...
    Edc1 10.149 5 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret...of good reading and good recitation of poetry or of prose...
    Supl 10.169 2 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...
    Plu 10.299 5 A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye...
    Plu 10.302 20 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences, in prose or verse, of authors whose books are lost;...
    Plu 10.318 10 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    Thor 10.475 6 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic charm in prose.
    Scot 11.464 2 Critics have found [Scott's books] to be only rhymed prose.
    Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
    CL 12.156 4 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal of prose...
    Milt1 12.277 22 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions;...
    Milt1 12.277 25 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...
    MLit 12.331 8 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet...of this world, and not of religion and hope; in short, if we may say so, the poet of prose, and not of poetry.
    Let 12.392 9 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have honored us, in verse or prose, with their confidence...

prose, v. (1)

    MoS 4.167 3 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...

prosecuted, v. (4)

    MN 1.214 26 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    YA 1.384 12 ...aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times...will be prosecuted until they succeed.
    FSLN 11.228 5 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the [Fugitive Slave] law was sharply called treason, and prosecuted so.
    FSLN 11.243 18 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.

prosecutes, v. (1)

    DL 7.107 2 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.

prosecuting, v. (2)

    MoS 4.163 5 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    Elo1 7.91 18 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...

prosecution, n. (1)

    MR 1.239 27 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the prosecution of his love;...

prosecutor, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.447 7 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a prosecutor of the liquor dealers.

proselyte, v. (2)

    ET8 5.137 5 [The English] proselyte, and are not proselyted.
    FRO2 11.485 19 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind...

proselyted, v. (1)

    ET8 5.137 5 [The English] proselyte, and are not proselyted.

Proserpine, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.263 22 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

prose-writers, n. (1)

    ET14 5.244 17 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that faculty; at least among the prose-writers.

pro-slavery, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.300 23 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live;...

prospect, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.165 13 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.

prospect, n. (8)

    MR 1.235 14 I see no instant prospect of a virtuous revolution;...
    SR 2.58 15 ...let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    Cir 2.305 19 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder; the steps are actions, the new prospect is power.
    ET5 5.78 27 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.
    ET10 5.165 11 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    ET12 5.206 11 [The young men at Oxford] shuddered at the prospect of dying a Fellow...
    MMEm 10.418 16 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals...
    MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.

prospecting, v. (1)

    ET14 5.254 11 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there, like diggers in California prospecting for a placer that will pay.

prospective, adj. (10)

    MR 1.255 12 The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have a great prospective prudence.
    YA 1.375 8 ...we make prospective laws...for remote generations.
    Lov1 2.187 17 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...had a prospective end...
    Int 2.332 17 Every intellection is mainly prospective.
    Exp 3.73 22 Our life seems not present so much as prospective;...
    Nat2 3.187 7 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end;...
    Nat2 3.190 5 Every end is prospective of some other end...
    UGM 4.34 21 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective...
    Imtl 8.334 16 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui? Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter.
    AsSu 11.247 11 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with long prospective interests...

prospectively, adv. (1)

    PNR 4.80 17 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...

prospects, n. (2)

    Cour 7.253 7 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Elo2 8.124 1 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.

Prospects of Culture, n. (1)

    Let 12.394 1 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

prosper, v. (13)

    Tran 1.356 7 These persons [Transcendentalists] are of unequal strength, and do not all prosper.
    SL 2.139 6 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
    GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    ET1 5.6 6 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
    Pow 6.62 1 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Wth 6.112 24 ...society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Elo1 7.74 25 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
    Insp 8.288 12 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home.
    Aris 10.38 11 ...they only prosper or they prosper best who have a military mind...
    Aris 10.47 10 ...we prosper or fail by what we are.
    GSt 10.507 4 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    War 11.169 15 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one against which no weapon can prosper;...
    Bost 12.211 15 ...[Boston] can only prosper by adhering to her faith.

prospered, v. (5)

    ET13 5.225 18 No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a religion.
    MMEm 10.414 12 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
    II 12.66 8 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which constitutes sanity;...
    CInt 12.125 26 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary, and who only prospered at last because he forsook theirs and took his own.
    Let 12.403 9 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer and see how he prospered...

prospering, adj. (2)

    GSt 10.506 2 [George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
    HDC 11.77 4 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament...

prospering, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.235 1 [Benedict said] My race may not be prospering;...

prosperities, n. (5)

    Hist 2.6 25 We sympathize...in the great resistances, the great prosperities of men; because there law was enacted...for us...
    Chr1 3.99 9 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Boks 7.216 12 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread. I fear 't is so with the novelist's prosperities.
    PI 8.1 8 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
    Prch 10.231 27 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the calamities and prosperities of our town and country;...

prosperity, n. (54)

    AmS 1.101 27 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism...
    MN 1.220 7 A [New England] man was born not for prosperity, but to suffer for the benefit of others...
    Comp 2.112 9 The terror of cloudless noon...the awe of prosperity...are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    Comp 2.113 14 If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
    Comp 2.124 20 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    Hsm1 2.251 22 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
    Art1 2.366 17 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;...
    Chr1 3.97 25 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Mrs1 3.149 15 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and commanding, and held out protection and prosperity;...
    MoS 4.170 18 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but...a prosperity and no account of it...dispirits us.
    MoS 4.171 13 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    ET4 5.53 22 ...there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity.
    ET4 5.53 24 ...there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity.
    ET7 5.120 7 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures, but only games, fireworks and spectacles,--no prosperity could support it;...
    ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
    ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national prosperity...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET10 5.170 14 [England's] prosperity...is the very argument of materialism.
    ET19 5.312 23 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that in prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish...
    Wth 6.109 25 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...
    Wth 6.110 9 Britain, France and Germany...send out...their millions of poor people, to share the crop. At first we employ them, and increase our prosperity;...
    Wsp 6.233 22 [The faithful student] learns that adversity is the prosperity of the great.
    CbW 6.256 1 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
    CbW 6.262 8 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    Civ 7.31 21 I see the immense material prosperity...
    Elo1 7.64 1 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Elo1 7.100 4 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country, or the laws...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    Suc 7.297 1 There is no prosperity, trade...but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    Suc 7.306 22 All beauty...is a sign of health, prosperity and the favor of God.
    PI 8.40 13 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    PC 8.207 4 No good citizen but shares the wonderful prosperity of the Federal Union.
    Insp 8.272 17 A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
    Imtl 8.343 3 ...no prosperity is promised to our self-esteem.
    Aris 10.58 6 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very young gentlemen, whom such things content;...
    SovE 10.189 23 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.
    MoL 10.242 18 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
    Schr 10.288 1 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] must relinquish...prosperity and convenience;...
    LLNE 10.326 8 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
    EWI 11.121 27 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population...affords a proof of their continued comfort and prosperity.
    FSLC 11.180 18 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.185 27 The greatest prosperity will in vain resist the greatest calamity.
    FSLC 11.186 6 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.
    FSLN 11.229 10 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history. It showed that our prosperity had hurt us...
    ACiv 11.309 12 An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us Stoics or Christians.
    ALin 11.337 14 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.
    Koss 11.399 14 We [people of Concord] are afraid that you [Kossuth] are growing popular, Sir; you may be called to the dangers of prosperity.
    CPL 11.496 1 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
    FRep 11.516 13 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
    FRep 11.530 2 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...
    Bost 12.204 24 The seed of prosperity was planted [in Massachusetts].
    Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
    ACri 12.284 18 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides...
    EurB 12.376 10 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.
    Let 12.401 9 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...
    Trag 12.409 26 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Prospero, n. (1)

    PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...

Prospero [Shakespeare, The (1)

    Nat 1.54 7 Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo...

prosperous, adj. (7)

    LE 1.169 27 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    Wth 6.90 19 The English are prosperous and peaceable...
    Farm 7.150 27 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...
    Dem1 10.7 12 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal]; and sometimes too the sharpwitted prosperous white man awakens it.
    Thor 10.478 24 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
    FSLC 11.186 12 ...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.
    FRep 11.532 19 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.

prosperously, adv. (2)

    Con 1.321 6 ...the work went on prosperously.
    Clbs 7.248 22 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...

prospers, v. (5)

    Exp 3.59 27 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Exp 3.68 12 ...the mind...never prospers but by fits.
    ET10 5.155 17 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.
    Aris 10.59 2 [A grand interest] prospers as well in mistake as in luck...
    Let 12.401 8 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...

prostitutes, n. (1)

    ET11 5.191 10 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses [in England]...

prostitution, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 17 I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

prostrate, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.280 14 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...

prostrate, v. (1)

    PPh 4.61 21 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...

prostration, n. (1)

    LVB 11.93 27 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year, touching the prostration of the currency and of trade, seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].

Protagoras, n. (1)

    Boks 7.199 12 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates...

Protagoras [Plato], n. (1)

    Boks 7.199 18 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read...the Protagoras...

protect, v. (25)

    MR 1.234 5 ...our laws which establish and protect [property] seem not to be the issue of love and reason...
    Con 1.325 9 I cannot thank your law for my protection. I protect it.
    Con 1.325 9 It is not in [the law's] power to protect me.
    SR 2.87 19 ...the reliance on Property, including the reliance on the governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
    Comp 2.118 21 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    NR 3.228 1 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude, or by courtesy...
    UGM 4.28 23 ...whilst every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other.
    ET11 5.188 6 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art...
    ET16 5.280 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.
    Bhr 6.180 27 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against them.
    SS 7.7 15 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect himself?
    SS 7.7 16 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect himself?
    Cour 7.260 11 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant, and bred disgust in those who would protect the victim.
    PI 8.62 25 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur...
    SovE 10.212 24 What armor [innocence] is to protect the good from outward or inward harm...
    FSLN 11.230 8 ...it is...the essence...of love...to protect another from oneself.
    FSLN 11.233 19 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens.
    JBB 11.271 8 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner.
    JBB 11.272 5 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state, and to protect the life and freedom of every inhabitant not a criminal, it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    JBS 11.281 6 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood? What but to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor?
    JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.297 22 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...and to protect that... is the object of all government.
    ACiv 11.298 3 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and goverments exist for that,-to protect and insure it to the laborer.
    ACiv 11.305 24 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates...
    Milt1 12.264 11 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.

protected, adj. (8)

    AmS 1.104 10 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
    MR 1.239 19 ...we have now a puny, protected person...
    SR 2.47 23 ...we are...not minors and invalids in a protected corner...
    Wth 6.110 10 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    PerF 10.78 21 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...
    PerF 10.87 13 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    Prch 10.236 18 The calmest and most protected life cannot save us.

protected, v. (7)

    Fdsp 2.200 15 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
    Pt1 3.42 1 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower...
    Pol1 3.205 4 Property will be protected.
    NER 3.256 22 Am I not too protected a person?...
    CbW 6.261 1 ...he who is to be wise for many must not be protected.
    EWI 11.105 22 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again. Sharpe protected the slave.
    EWI 11.143 14 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected...

protecting, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.267 21 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon.
    Pray 12.355 23 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.

protecting, v. (3)

    MoS 4.163 21 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ET11 5.175 22 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
    Res 8.143 24 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.

protection, n. (43)

    Con 1.325 8 I cannot thank your law for my protection.
    Con 1.325 17 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
    Mrs1 3.149 15 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and commanding, and held out protection and prosperity;...
    Pol1 3.201 22 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.202 23 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    Pol1 3.213 7 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the protection of life and property.
    NER 3.253 4 ...a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs and mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.
    PNR 4.89 14 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below protection,--outlaws;...
    ET10 5.165 22 [The Englishman] goes with the most powerful protection...
    Cour 7.259 1 ...the protection which a house, a family...gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    OA 7.325 2 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.
    SA 8.81 7 The perfect defence and isolation which [manners] effect makes an insuperable protection.
    Comc 8.162 2 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    Grts 8.303 23 There is something...in Samuel Johnson that needs no protection.
    Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
    Aris 10.47 15 The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.
    Aris 10.48 8 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life; I earnestly wished it might be under his protection...
    EzRy 10.385 5 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience? Do I exercise the faith in the Divine care and protection which I ought to do?
    Thor 10.472 9 ...[Thoreau]...took the foxes under his protection from the hunters.
    EWI 11.127 5 The House of Commons would destroy the protection of [West Indian] island produce...
    EWI 11.129 7 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.131 7 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection...
    War 11.171 27 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man] should not ask of the state protection;...
    FSLC 11.184 13 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.204 4 [Webster] believes...that government exists for the protection of property.
    FSLN 11.230 3 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    FSLN 11.235 10 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
    JBB 11.271 13 ...the government, the judges...give such protection as they give in Utah to honest citizens...
    JBB 11.271 15 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    JBB 11.272 14 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    JBB 11.272 26 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection;...
    JBS 11.280 11 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests confided to him.
    EPro 11.319 11 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    ALin 11.333 8 ...[good humor]...is the protection of the overdriven brain against rancor and insanity.
    SMC 11.350 12 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were exerted for the protection of our common country...
    SMC 11.365 6 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to see the whole regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
    SMC 11.375 17 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    EdAd 11.389 14 The facility of majorities is no protection from the natural sequence of their own acts.
    SHC 11.435 26 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
    PLT 12.22 1 If man has organs...for digesting, for protection by house-building... you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    CL 12.137 14 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots, and he taught [the people of Oland] to plant it for the protection of their shores.
    CL 12.151 20 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...

protectionist, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 13 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...

protections, n. (1)

    CbW 6.261 13 What tests of manhood could [the rich man] stand? Take him out of his protections.

Protector, Lord, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.258 22 ...foreigners came to England, we are told, to see the Lord Protector and Mr. Milton.

protector, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.203 17 A self-poise belongs to every particle, and a rectitude to every mind, and is the Nemesis and protector of every society.
    AsSu 11.251 27 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every mother thinks of him as the protector of families;...
    CL 12.149 9 The Hindoos called fire Agni...protector of people in villages;...

protects, v. (11)

    Con 1.325 27 ...The law...makes [the intemperate, covetous person] worse the longer it protects him.
    SL 2.149 16 Every society protects itself.
    Nat2 3.187 3 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    ET8 5.138 20 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception...
    Ctr 6.162 26 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
    Wsp 6.224 17 ...the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
    SS 7.6 10 Nature protects her own work.
    SS 7.7 6 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...
    Edc1 10.142 16 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    SovE 10.190 3 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws.
    FSLN 11.235 12 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit. Then he protects New York.

protest, n. (15)

    Hist 2.29 9 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Nat2 3.178 19 ...our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    NER 3.251 21 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    NER 3.260 25 ...in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
    F 6.19 13 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one...
    PI 8.74 4 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism.
    QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    Imtl 8.333 7 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie.
    Chr2 10.104 22 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms, thundering its protest...
    Chr2 10.105 19 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time...
    Prch 10.217 3 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first, not in argument and formal protest, but in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    Thor 10.458 13 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax, notwithstanding his protest, I believe he ceased to resist.
    EWI 11.110 6 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    TPar 11.290 27 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
    FRep 11.520 11 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians]. In this innocence you are puzzled how to meet them; must shake hands with them, under protest.

Protest of One of the Indep (1)

    ET1 5.12 24 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.

protest, v. (1)

    CSC 10.374 26 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon Street Convention], wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.

Protestant, adj. (2)

    Prch 10.217 12 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church broke into Protestant and Catholic...
    LLNE 10.325 22 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...

protestant, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.219 25 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    Thor 10.452 22 [Thoreau] was a born protestant.
    Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance...
    Bost 12.203 22 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who will not stoop to infamy when all are gone mad...

protestants, n. (1)

    Tran 1.339 18 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made protestants and ascetic monks...

Protestants, n. (1)

    ET4 5.47 25 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...

protestations, n. (3)

    SL 2.157 5 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury, despite all his protestations...
    Lov1 2.185 26 Not always can...protestations...content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Hsm1 2.248 12 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.

protested, v. (1)

    LVB 11.91 9 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.

protester, n. (1)

    Bost 12.203 10 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some protester against the cruelty of the magistrates to the Quakers;...

protesting, n. (1)

    NER 3.253 23 ...there was sincere protesting against existing evils...

protests, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.105 20 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against earlier impieties, but had lost their truth.
    HDC 11.48 9 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings].

protests, v. (1)

    MoS 4.168 25 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or prays...

Proteus, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.5 15 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.

Proteus, n. (10)

    Nat 1.43 10 The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth.
    Hist 2.31 24 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    Hist 2.32 1 ...what see I on any side but the transmigrations of Proteus?
    Nat2 3.179 14 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes (as the ancients represented nature by Proteus, a shepherd,)...
    PPh 4.49 1 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble in the highest as in the lowest grounds;...
    SwM 4.121 8 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense. The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught.
    MoS 4.157 7 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
    GoW 4.273 22 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life, the old cunning Proteus, nestling close beside us...
    Ill 6.308 10 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 6.313 14 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, Proteus, or Momus, or Gylfi's Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the Titans...

protoplasm, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 15 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...

protract, v. (1)

    Aris 10.57 3 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous.

protracted, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.199 2 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

protuberances, n. (1)

    YA 1.372 13 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.

proud, adj. (43)

    Tran 1.332 22 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    YA 1.393 13 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    Hist 2.35 14 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...
    Hsm1 2.259 23 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    OS 2.289 27 ...[the energy of the soul] comes to whomsoever will put off what is foreign and proud;...
    Cir 2.299 2 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
    Gts 3.159 15 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
    NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and exclusive.
    ET8 5.128 15 [The English] are proud and private...
    ET11 5.173 24 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.
    ET11 5.177 27 Some of [the English aristocracy] are too old and too proud to wear titles...
    ET11 5.191 1 Castles are proud things, but 't is safest to be outside of them.
    ET15 5.272 19 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being the voice of Europe...would be more effectually discharged;...
    ET18 5.302 21 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    F 6.23 27 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    Wth 6.114 14 ...proud people are intolerably selfish...
    SS 7.13 13 If solitude is proud, so is society vulgar.
    WD 7.170 24 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather...
    Boks 7.191 2 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place...
    Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the proud anecdotes of our heroes...
    PI 8.65 12 [Nature] is not proud of the sea...
    SA 8.103 2 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of.
    QO 8.198 17 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda, who is so proud of all we do.
    PPo 8.257 15 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
    SovE 10.191 2 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    Schr 10.270 22 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
    EzRy 10.385 3 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience?
    MMEm 10.414 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
    GSt 10.507 8 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
    HDC 11.27 9 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
    HDC 11.81 15 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
    EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    FSLC 11.180 11 Boston, of whose fame for spirit and character we have all been so proud;...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLN 11.239 20 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish.
    HCom 11.340 24 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    HCom 11.344 15 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.349 13 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit.
    SMC 11.361 5 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...
    SMC 11.363 26 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor, and their own printed record is a proud and affecting narrative.
    RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters, proud of each other...
    CW 12.173 19 ...without going into the proud niceties of an European garden, there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    WSL 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the truth...

proud, n. (2)

    YA 1.389 23 ...we want justice, with heart of steel, to fight down the proud.
    Exp 3.76 10 The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

prouder, adj. (5)

    Prd1 2.240 16 Undoubtedly we...can easily whisper names prouder, and that tickle the fancy more.
    GoW 4.272 19 Still [Goethe] is a poet,--poet of a prouder laurel than any contemporary...
    PPo 8.257 16 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
    Aris 10.40 21 Every survey of the dignified classes...establishes a nobility of a prouder creation.
    HDC 11.85 20 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.

proudest, adj. (7)

    YA 1.394 11 The English have...the proudest history of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.
    Nat2 3.173 8 ...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.
    ET10 5.165 17 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    Aris 10.62 21 The English House of Commons is the proudest assembly of gentlemen in the world...
    FSLC 11.201 9 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster], our best and proudest...
    Bost 12.188 2 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same...

proudly, adv. (6)

    Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    PI 8.40 8 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle.
    Schr 10.288 19 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    FSLC 11.180 15 ...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures so proudly in John Adams's Diary...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    CPL 11.508 9 ...read proudly;...
    MLit 12.329 1 All great men have written proudly...

prove, v. (39)

    YA 1.377 2 ...when peace comes, the nobles prove very whimsical and uncomfortable masters;...
    YA 1.384 5 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    SR 2.79 12 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
    Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
    Comp 2.126 25 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains...the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years;...
    SL 2.160 4 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a better proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
    Fdsp 2.197 1 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries, though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our banquet.
    Hsm1 2.246 23 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./
    Exp 3.50 6 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue...
    UGM 4.32 19 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
    MoS 4.182 6 The generosities of the day prove an intractable element for [the spiritualist].
    MoS 4.184 19 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    ShP 4.213 27 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that more or less of production...is a thing indifferent.
    ET4 5.44 2 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
    ET6 5.103 8 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service, and as they never tire, they prove too much for their tenders.
    ET10 5.162 16 ...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam]; new men prove an overmatch for the land-owner...
    ET12 5.210 17 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    Wsp 6.232 25 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague, in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also;...
    Bty 6.286 22 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers, but they all prove the transparency.
    Bty 6.302 3 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Elo1 7.96 19 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...
    Farm 7.135 5 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/...
    PC 8.231 6 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
    PPo 8.239 24 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
    Grts 8.306 11 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases, to prove that whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    Imtl 8.345 13 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Imtl 8.346 8 We cannot prove our faith [in immortality] by syllogisms.
    Aris 10.49 23 The verdict of battles will best prove the general;...
    Chr2 10.91 14 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things...no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    LLNE 10.334 16 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
    HDC 11.80 12 The operation of a new government was dreaded [in Concord], lest it should prove expensive...
    FSLC 11.198 8 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
    FSLN 11.238 13 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.
    PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...
    PLT 12.31 16 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
    II 12.67 26 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    Bost 12.196 4 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained which prove a college for the young rustic.
    Milt1 12.266 22 [Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    Milt1 12.271 23 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.

proved, v. (28)

    Nat 1.16 4 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them...
    Int 2.346 18 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek philosophers'] thought is proved by its scope and applicability...
    Gts 3.165 15 When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
    Pol1 3.197 6 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    NMW 4.250 17 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time...
    ET3 5.41 8 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET10 5.168 10 The machinery has proved, like the balloon, unmanageable...
    ET10 5.168 17 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...
    ET14 5.237 18 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;--the reception proved by his making his fortune;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.237 19 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all contemporary panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    F 6.7 25 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets...
    Wsp 6.239 17 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity and designs...
    Cour 7.253 12 ...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.
    PI 8.46 3 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
    Imtl 8.342 6 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
    Dem1 10.16 1 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.
    PerF 10.80 14 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company;...
    MMEm 10.432 26 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    MMEm 10.433 4 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?
    Thor 10.459 12 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    HDC 11.36 19 [The Indians'] physical powers...before yet the English alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English sword, astonished the white men.
    EWI 11.106 4 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    EWI 11.126 4 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. For these reasons the islands [of the West Indies] proved bad customers to England.
    SMC 11.347 2 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    Koss 11.398 25 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through;...it has proved sound and whole;...
    ChiE 11.471 19 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRep 11.516 1 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the fact of the vast immigration into this country...
    EurB 12.373 5 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.

proven, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.54 6 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    ET7 5.125 2 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...and he said, Now let me never be bothered more with this proven lie.
    FRep 11.519 4 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...

Provencal, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.111 10 I ask not for...what is...Provencal minstrelsy;...
    ShP 4.197 27 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...

Provence, n. (1)

    Insp 8.287 15 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet? Caerleon, Provence, Ossian and Cadwallon?

proverb, n. (45)

    AmS 1.91 21 The Arabian proverb says, A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    AmS 1.92 26 As the proverb says, He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    Comp 2.111 3 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin, is sound philosophy.
    Fdsp 2.211 15 There is at least this satisfaction in crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Prd1 2.237 16 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
    Prd1 2.238 17 It is a proverb that courtesy costs nothing;...
    OS 2.271 23 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
    OS 2.294 3 Every proverb...that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    Exp 3.84 1 I say to the Genius, if he will pardon the proverb, In for a mill, in for a million.
    ShP 4.203 6 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
    NMW 4.228 12 An Italian proverb...declares that if you would succeed, you must not be too good.
    ET4 5.59 16 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
    ET4 5.73 12 It is a proverb in England that it is safer to shoot a man than a hare.
    ET6 5.102 17 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
    ET8 5.133 11 There are multitudes of rude young English...who...have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    ET11 5.178 4 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...
    ET18 5.300 15 The [English] game-laws are a proverb of oppression.
    Pow 6.65 22 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    Pow 6.66 12 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.
    Wsp 6.209 24 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.
    Wsp 6.218 5 As much love, so much mind, said the Latin proverb.
    CbW 6.264 20 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing...
    CbW 6.265 7 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
    PI 8.14 17 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.
    PI 8.61 6 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but...thus the proverb says true, Leave the court and the court will leave you.
    PI 8.74 11 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
    SA 8.89 19 Either death or a friend, is a Persian proverb.
    Elo2 8.109 16 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    Elo2 8.112 5 It is an old proverb that Every people has its prophet;...
    QO 8.180 27 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest...
    Insp 8.280 27 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Insp 8.286 10 The French have a proverb to the effect that not the day only, but all things have their morning...
    Imtl 8.342 11 It is a proverb of the world that good will makes intelligence...
    Dem1 10.18 28 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
    MoL 10.253 9 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    EWI 11.138 3 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the anti-slavery chapel.
    War 11.158 5 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line;...
    FRO2 11.487 9 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.
    FRep 11.521 18 General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
    PLT 12.50 9 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one.
    Bost 12.210 21 It is almost a proverb that a great man has not a great son.
    Milt1 12.257 6 Handsome to a proverb, [Milton] was called the lady of his college.
    ACri 12.294 19 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb...
    ACri 12.298 1 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb...
    Let 12.401 2 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.

proverbial, adj. (5)

    ET7 5.116 3 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning.
    SovE 10.186 7 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    ALin 11.336 5 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen...the proverbial ingratitude of statesmen;...
    SMC 11.354 25 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    II 12.77 3 We call genius, in all our popular and proverbial language, divine;...

proverbially, adv. (1)

    YA 1.371 16 From Washington, proverbially the city of magnificent distances...through all its cities...[America] is a country of beginnings...

proverbs, n. (23)

    Nat 1.33 14 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.33 25 What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables...
    Comp 2.106 8 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting...of proverbs...
    Comp 2.108 27 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
    Comp 2.109 2 Proverbs...are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
    Comp 2.109 7 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Comp 2.109 10 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    Prd1 2.223 10 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...
    Cir 2.315 24 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    NR 3.231 1 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
    ShP 4.210 25 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be...cut up into proverbs;...
    NMW 4.254 4 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
    ET7 5.118 2 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...
    ET14 5.236 19 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it...in proverbs and forms of speech.
    Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of custom and proverbs...
    PI 8.46 5 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better, as so many proverbs may show.
    QO 8.178 25 We quote not only books and proverbs...
    QO 8.185 10 Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
    Plu 10.302 23 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
    FSLC 11.194 18 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.238 26 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival.
    ALin 11.333 21 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...by his fables and proverbs.

proves, v. (16)

    Lov1 2.186 14 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Pt1 3.15 9 The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense;...
    PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large.
    ET8 5.139 10 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    CbW 6.260 7 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Elo1 7.70 21 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life, and the delight of young Europe and young America in them proves that she fairly earned it.
    Clbs 7.230 4 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Cour 7.255 21 ...the immense esteem in which [courage] is held proves it to be rare.
    PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry.
    LLNE 10.355 19 In our free institutions...fortunes are easily made by thousands, as in no other country. Then property proves too much for the man...
    FSLC 11.184 20 Nothing proves the want of all thought...more than the dominion of party.
    PLT 12.8 4 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    II 12.73 16 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be done? How could I do it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,- yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.
    CL 12.138 19 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    MLit 12.317 2 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much individuals as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves them my own,-literature is far the best expression.
    WSL 12.344 24 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.

provide, v. (25)

    Fdsp 2.217 4 [Friendship] must not surmise or provide for infirmity.
    Hsm1 2.253 14 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I will obey the God, and the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
    ET2 5.31 12 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    Wth 6.99 14 ...in America...the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wth 6.117 27 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.
    Ctr 6.141 8 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    CbW 6.273 19 ...we do not provide for the greatest good of life.
    SS 7.4 22 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Boks 7.191 22 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
    Imtl 8.337 26 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort. The good Power can easily provide me millions more as good.
    Chr2 10.117 12 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...and these will provide [the moral sentiment] with new historic forms and songs.
    Carl 10.492 13 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    Carl 10.496 15 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...
    HDC 11.34 7 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...
    HDC 11.34 13 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses...
    HDC 11.34 23 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...
    HDC 11.71 21 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition...
    HDC 11.84 12 ...for the most part, [our fathers]...provide well for the schools and the poor.
    JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.305 17 Congress can...as a part of the military defence which it is the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
    CL 12.138 2 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.
    EurB 12.375 8 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably.
    PPr 12.381 16 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the state shall provide at least schoolmaster's education for all the citizens;...
    Let 12.396 1 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

provided, v. (30)

    Nat 1.37 5 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
    LE 1.170 19 Thucydides, Livy, have only provided materials.
    Con 1.307 13 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
    Tran 1.338 22 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
    Hsm1. 2.252 15 What joys has kind nature provided for us dear creatures!
    Hsm1 2.253 23 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals...
    Pol1 3.202 22 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    GoW 4.264 22 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared from of old and from everlasting...
    ET3 5.34 22 ...England is a huge phalanstery, where all that man wants is provided within the precinct.
    Pow 6.69 1 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's] friends and governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is provided.
    Pow 6.72 1 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it...must be had in that form, and absorbents provided to take off its edge.
    Ctr 6.142 26 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy has resources...these will not serve him less than the books.
    Ctr 6.143 21 Provided always the boy is teachable...football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...
    CbW 6.252 5 Nature provided for real needs.
    DL 7.123 14 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.
    WD 7.161 20 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
    Clbs 7.229 23 ...I prize the good invention whereby everybody is provided with somebody who is glad to see him.
    Elo2 8.131 8 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him. But I say, provided your cause is really honest.
    Res 8.138 18 ...if you tell me...that every man is provided, in the new bias of his faculty, with a key to Nature...I am invigorated...
    QO 8.177 12 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
    PPo 8.251 5 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success, provided only the treatment be cordial.
    Edc1 10.149 7 Nature provided for the communication of thought...
    Supl 10.165 7 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    Prch 10.229 1 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    MMEm 10.429 1 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.
    FSLC 11.184 12 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.193 22 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
    FSLN 11.243 9 I [Robert Winthrop] go then for such parties and opinions as have provided me with a working apparatus.
    CL 12.147 13 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.

Providence, Divine, n. (16)

    F 6.28 10 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.
    Wsp 6.202 2 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    Imtl 8.330 3 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Edc1 10.135 15 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence.
    SovE 10.201 11 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... He interrupts for the moment your peaceful trust in the Divine Providence.
    Plu 10.313 22 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
    ACiv 11.299 25 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    EPro 11.317 15 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    HCom 11.341 8 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    HCom 11.342 1 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    HCom 11.342 12 The proof that war...is a marked benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
    SMC 11.354 19 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    FRep 11.544 2 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    CL 12.144 24 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    Let 12.397 1 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship. But herein we are never quite forsaken by the Divine Providence.
    Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...

Providence, Eternal, n. (1)

    DL 7.132 19 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?

providence, n. (10)

    Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    LT 1.275 1 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    SR 2.47 13 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...
    Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
    DL 7.103 1 The perfection of the providence for childhood is easily acknowledged.
    SovE 10.203 10 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence...
    EzRy 10.382 11 ...through a kind providence and the patronage of Dr. Forbes, [Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    EzRy 10.384 3 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...
    EzRy 10.384 4 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence,-certainly, as they held it, a very particular providence......
    MAng1 12.224 14 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato. His design was frustrated by the providence of Michael Angelo.

Providence, n. (43)

    DSA 1.123 4 By [the moral sentiment] a man is made the Providence to himself...
    Con 1.312 20 Providence takes care that you shall have a place...
    Con 1.322 3 Every honest fellow...must patronize Providence and piety...
    Comp 2.96 6 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    NR 3.243 19 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NER 3.282 20 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
    PNR 4.89 25 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
    SwM 4.135 8 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence...
    MoS 4.182 12 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man, of the divine Providence and of the immortality of the soul, [the spiritualist's] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a certain parsimony.
    ET5 5.85 23 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET12 5.203 24 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.
    ET13 5.224 8 [England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with levity a pound sterling.
    ET14 5.255 10 No [English] priest dares hint at a Providence which does not respect English utility.
    ET18 5.307 7 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    F 6.7 3 The way of Providence is a little rude.
    F 6.8 11 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end...
    F 6.31 16 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a Providence.
    Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence...
    DL 7.103 9 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.
    SA 8.92 2 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either. But these ties are taken care of by Providence to each of us.
    Imtl 8.338 4 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous...
    Dem1 10.17 18 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled Providence, since it pointed at connection.
    PerF 10.85 18 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the long Providence...
    Chr2 10.101 21 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Edc1 10.153 12 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet...
    Edc1 10.156 5 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity? Can you not wait for him, as Nature and Providence do?
    Supl 10.164 15 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly, the benign Providence...
    LLNE 10.336 18 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
    EzRy 10.384 27 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
    MMEm 10.414 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.
    LS 11.21 18 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence;...
    HDC 11.76 9 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
    EWI 11.108 24 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral...
    EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
    FSLN 11.240 5 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit...
    FSLN 11.244 25 ...I hope we...have come to a belief that there is a divine Providence in the world...
    ALin 11.337 17 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations...
    Wom 11.419 6 Providence is always surprising us with new and unlikely instruments.
    PLT 12.31 9 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
    PLT 12.45 12 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they have a hankering to play Providence...
    PLT 12.55 14 There is in all students a distrust of truth, a timidity about affirming it; a wish to patronize Providence.

Providence, Rhode Island, n (1)

    Hist 2.10 26 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before...the Animal Magnetism in Paris, or in Providence.

Providence [Synesius], n. (1)

    Boks 7.202 24 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...

Providences, n. (1)

    ET11 5.194 2 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.

providential, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.76 22 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus, the providential man, is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Edc1 10.152 27 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.

provider, n. (2)

    Wth 6.114 19 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Wth 6.124 18 Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong a good provider.

provides, v. (4)

    YA 1.386 20 We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society...
    CbW 6.273 22 ...who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?
    DL 7.103 4 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    PI 8.33 17 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth. That provides him with the best word.

providing, v. (6)

    Wth 6.97 24 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all. For example, the providing to each man the means and apparatus of science and of the arts.
    Insp 8.295 2 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...
    Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted, providing for their children...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    HDC 11.65 5 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    HDC 11.79 17 For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.
    Bost 12.197 1 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...

province, n. (16)

    Hist 2.36 6 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire...
    Pt1 3.7 20 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
    ET5 5.98 21 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    ET9 5.151 14 Coarse local distinctions, as those of nation, province or town, are useful in the absence of real ones;...
    OA 7.322 25 We still feel the force...of Bacon, who took all knowledge to be his province;...
    PI 8.28 5 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.
    QO 8.192 14 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
    PC 8.210 14 Consider...what masters, each in his several province, the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    PC 8.213 25 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    Grts 8.308 5 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
    PerF 10.76 10 ...[man] draws on all knowledge as his province...
    HDC 11.63 15 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros.
    HDC 11.70 4 ...if any person or persons, inhabitants of this province...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    FRep 11.542 15 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...in the province assigned to them...
    Bost 12.187 22 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into every invisible and unnamed province of whim and passion.
    Bost 12.203 17 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...

Province, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.212 26 Every Roman reckoned himself at least a match for a Province.

provinces, n. (1)

    HDC 11.68 22 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...

provincial, adj. (7)

    GoW 4.271 24 ...there is no trace of provincial limitation in [Goethe's] muse.
    ET4 5.53 13 In Scotland...a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear;...
    Pow 6.77 27 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Ctr 6.161 5 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Carl 10.490 25 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    FRep 11.533 18 America is provincial.
    Bost 12.187 8 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.

Provincial Committee of Saf (1)

    HDC 11.72 22 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.

Provincial Congress, n. (4)

    HDC 11.71 24 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord.
    HDC 11.72 10 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
    HDC 11.78 26 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    HDC 11.86 4 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Hancock, and his compatriots of the Provincial Congress;...

proving, v. (5)

    SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    Ctr 6.157 22 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
    Comc 8.169 23 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    EWI 11.105 8 Humane persons who were informed of the reports [on West Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.
    Mem 12.98 6 [The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.

provision, n. (13)

    Nat 1.12 15 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight...
    Con 1.311 24 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces with every...provision for luxury, swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this world.
    Mrs1 3.134 12 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    GoW 4.261 1 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    DL 7.119 19 There was...never any [country in the world] where the state has made such efficient provision for popular education...
    Insp 8.269 8 ...every reasonable man would give any price of house and land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Aris 10.60 25 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...
    Edc1 10.125 21 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...not alone in the elements, but, by further provision, in the languages...
    Edc1 10.137 8 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.
    HDC 11.60 17 ...his piles of meal and other provision wasted by the English, it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    EWI 11.114 2 ...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity.
    FSLC 11.204 15 Not the smallest municipal provision, if it were new, would receive [Webster's] sanction.
    Wom 11.425 14 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write...the cunning clauses of provision...

provisional, adj. (1)

    PI 8.4 27 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;--that too was no finality; only provisional...

provisioning, v. (1)

    AmS 1.110 26 That which had been negligently trodden under foot by those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.

provisions, n. (6)

    MR 1.238 8 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... provisions by mould, putridity, or vermin;...
    MR 1.238 25 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...provisions...the son finds his hands full...
    NR 3.232 5 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,--it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    ET10 5.164 11 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    EWI 11.112 20 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
    FSLN 11.233 8 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.

proviso, n. (2)

    SovE 10.195 3 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    MMEm 10.428 12 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.

provocation, n. (9)

    DSA 1.127 3 ...it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
    LE 1.162 10 To feel the full value of these lives, as occasions of hope and provocation, you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    Nat2 3.174 13 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company, but the provocation and point of the invitation came out of these beguiling stars.
    GoW 4.289 22 This cheerful laborer [Goethe], with no external popularity or provocation...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    Clbs 7.229 15 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation...
    Insp 8.292 21 For provocation of thought, we use ourselves and use each other.
    Aris 10.38 21 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit. For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous.
    LS 11.20 6 A passage read from [Christ's] discourses, a moving provocation to works like his...I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
    CPL 11.506 19 In books I have the history or the energy of the past. Angels they are to us of entertainment, sympathy and provocation.

provocations, n. (3)

    DSA 1.132 13 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards]...
    MMEm 10.417 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] did overcome and return kindness for the repeated provocations.
    PLT 12.14 4 I observe with curiosity...[the Intellect's] obstructions and its provocations, that I may learn to live with it wisely...

provoke, v. (10)

    Int 2.345 15 I will not, though the subject might provoke it, speak to the open question between Truth and Love.
    Mrs1 3.129 9 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    CbW 6.266 24 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    Bty 6.287 7 ...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.
    Res 8.146 10 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if they should provoke him he would burn up their rivers and their forests;...
    EPro 11.316 8 These measures [for liberty] provoke no noisy joy...
    FRep 11.516 27 Cant is good to provoke common sense.
    II 12.69 8 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius.
    MAng1 12.240 18 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world...not to provoke but to purify the sensual into an intellectual and divine love.
    Let 12.394 22 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.

provoked, v. (6)

    ET7 5.117 4 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...but it has provoked the malice of all others...
    CbW 6.252 22 ...this beast-force...has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    War 11.175 7 ...if the rising generation can be provoked to think it unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a short day...
    JBB 11.267 9 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    EdAd 11.391 1 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
    MLit 12.325 15 We are provoked with [Goethe's] Olympian self-complacency...

provokes, v. (1)

    Civ 7.20 21 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.

provoking, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.278 9 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius...
    ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman, and with the most provoking airs of condescension.

provoking, v. (5)

    GoW 4.278 3 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind...
    Elo1 7.95 2 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...became sometimes exquisitely provoking and sometimes terrific to [their antagonists].
    DL 7.106 27 ...by beautiful traits...provoking the love that watches and educates him, the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    PPo 8.248 15 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend, and therefore is always provoking the accusation of irreligion.
    LLNE 10.339 15 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.

provokingly, adv. (2)

    Cir 2.303 16 Nature looks provokingly stable and secular...
    ET9 5.144 23 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.

prow, n. (1)

    Res 8.147 13 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow...

prowess, n. (5)

    Tran 1.357 19 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel, when the soul has greater health and prowess.
    Hist 2.34 21 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    ET11 5.194 24 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess.
    SS 7.12 23 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur-de-Lion...
    Milt1 12.273 20 [Milton] admonished his friend not to admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.

prowling, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.181 4 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate...

prowling, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.183 10 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar;...

proxies, n. (3)

    UGM 4.12 16 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies.
    ET11 5.184 8 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies--the proxies of fifty peers...
    Boks 7.220 15 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...

proximate, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book. A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply;...

proximities, n. (1)

    SR 2.73 2 I will have no covenants but proximities.

proximity, n. (2)

    SwM 4.105 11 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    Pow 6.71 11 The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war.

proxy, n. (3)

    Hist 2.11 4 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
    Pol1 3.215 25 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy;...
    Boks 7.220 14 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...

prudence, n. (77)

    AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers...who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    DSA 1.149 9 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding not the faculties of prudence and thrift...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    LE 1.180 1 ...whilst he...omitted no part of prudence, [Napoleon] believed also in the freedom...of the soul.
    LE 1.185 14 You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence.
    MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is the prudence of simple tastes...
    MR 1.255 12 The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have a great prospective prudence.
    MR 1.256 5 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man...
    LT 1.278 23 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.
    Con 1.299 3 Reform has...no prudence...
    Tran 1.345 18 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land, amidst all the prudence and all the triviality, one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Tran 1.355 3 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation. If they granted restitution, it was prudence which granted it.
    Comp 2.113 7 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant...
    Lov1 2.183 8 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    Prd1 2.221 3 My prudence consists in avoiding and going without...
    Prd1 2.221 12 ...I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.
    Prd1 2.222 1 Prudence is the virtue of the senses.
    Prd1 2.222 10 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    Prd1 2.222 14 Prudence is false when detached.
    Prd1 2.223 11 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...
    Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which adores the Rule of Three...
    Prd1 2.223 23 [Culture] sees prudence not to be a several faculty...
    Prd1 2.224 8 The spurious prudence...is the god of sots and cowards...
    Prd1 2.224 11 The true prudence limits this sensualism...
    Prd1 2.224 25 Prudence does not go behind nature and ask whence it is.
    Prd1 2.228 6 ...nature punishes any neglect of prudence.
    Prd1 2.230 22 We must call the highest prudence to counsel...
    Prd1 2.231 1 Poetry and prudence should be coincident.
    Prd1 2.233 4 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
    Prd1 2.234 14 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot;...
    Prd1 2.234 17 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...
    Prd1 2.234 20 The eye of prudence may never shut.
    Prd1 2.235 5 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
    Prd1 2.235 14 Let [a man] learn a prudence of a higher strain.
    Prd1 2.236 14 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Prd1 2.236 17 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    Prd1 2.237 10 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    Hsm1 2.249 2 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
    Hsm1 2.250 10 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence...
    Hsm1. 2.252 8 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    Cir 2.314 26 ...all [the great man's] prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.
    Cir 2.315 2 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...
    Cir 2.315 13 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.
    Cir 2.315 14 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.
    Nat2 3.177 22 I would not be frivolous before the admirable reserve and prudence of time...
    SwM 4.145 6 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense...
    MoS 4.152 10 Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
    NMW 4.230 18 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.237 7 [Napoleon's] vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality.
    NMW 4.238 15 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune. The same prudence and good sense mark all his behavior.
    NMW 4.247 9 I should cite [Napoleon], in his earlier years, as a model of prudence.
    ET13 5.217 8 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church.
    Pow 6.73 26 The one prudence in life is concentration;...
    Art2 7.39 2 ...from the simplest expedient of private prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Elo1 7.74 10 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which...overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    DL 7.111 22 A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy;...
    WD 7.167 20 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of piety as well as prudence...
    Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
    SA 8.84 27 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    QO 8.189 2 In common prudence there is an early limit to this leaning on an original.
    PPo 8.250 5 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence.
    Insp 8.286 17 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Insp 8.291 10 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Insp 8.291 16 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
    Dem1 10.15 26 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Aris 10.65 6 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    PerF 10.77 8 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence.
    SovE 10.204 12 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...
    EzRy 10.391 1 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty.
    Thor 10.463 7 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence...
    HDC 11.80 27 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury. This was securing the prudence of the
    EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
    ChiE 11.473 11 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
    PLT 12.29 11 [Man's] equipment, though new, is complete; his prudence is his own;...
    Milt1 12.266 1 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    Milt1 12.273 8 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life, scorning to take thought for the aspects of prudence and expediency.

Prudence, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.221 1 What right have I to write on Prudence...
    DL 7.111 9 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.

prudent, adj. (26)

    MN 1.217 3 Never self-possessed or prudent, [Love] is all abandonment.
    YA 1.365 8 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
    SR 2.56 14 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent...
    Prd1 2.230 15 Who is prudent?
    Hsm1 2.251 20 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
    Hsm1 2.260 16 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    Cir 2.314 26 The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense;...
    Cir 2.315 3 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still;...
    Art1 2.366 27 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
    Chr1 3.115 18 There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues;...
    NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...compact, instant, selfish, prudent...
    ET13 5.214 22 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    Wth 6.94 4 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Bhr 6.188 15 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly...
    Bty 6.283 22 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...
    Elo1 7.72 3 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
    Elo1 7.72 8 I [Antenor] became acquainted with the genius and the prudent judgments of [Ulysses and Menelaus].
    Elo1 7.81 4 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to forsake his work...
    Boks 7.210 9 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...
    Suc 7.288 23 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people, whose watches go faster than their neighbors'...
    Elo2 8.116 16 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent;...
    Elo2 8.124 9 ...in your struggles with the world, should a crisis ever occur when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    HDC 11.65 17 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    EWI 11.134 15 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    Let 12.395 23 But to be prudent in all the particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
    Let 12.395 25 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

prudent, n. (6)

    Comp 2.114 2 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
    Hsm1 2.251 25 ...[every heroic act] finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
    MoS 4.159 27 [The skeptic] is the considerer, the prudent...
    CbW 6.257 25 We see those who surmount...obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    Dem1 10.21 11 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...
    PLT 12.55 24 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.

prudential, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.213 10 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.

prudently, adv. (1)

    LLNE 10.335 22 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted, if prudently, with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.

prudery, n. (1)

    ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.

prune, v. (3)

    UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
    ET12 5.207 16 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore. They prune his orations and point his pen.
    Pow 6.60 9 Here is question, every spring...whether to whitewash, or to potash, or to prune;...

pruned, v. (1)

    PerF 10.75 14 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees... rightly pruned...

prunella, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.195 3 All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.

prunes, v. (1)

    MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...

pruning, n. (2)

    Pow 6.73 20 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    Let 12.404 22 The pruning in the wild gardens of Nature is never forborne.

pruning, v. (1)

    Pow 6.60 12 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite...of pruning, or neglect...

pruning-shears, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 3 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.

prurient, adj. (2)

    PI 8.69 9 Faust abounds in the disagreeable. The vice is prurient, learned, Parisian.
    LLNE 10.354 16 [The Fourier marriage] was false and prurient...

Prussia, n. (3)

    Grts 8.318 2 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Humb 11.459 4 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...

prussic, adj. (1)

    OA 7.319 3 ...prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.

pry, v. (3)

    MR 1.232 11 ...I will not pry into the usages of our retail trade.
    SR 2.65 1 ...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.
    Wom 11.416 13 There was nothing [antagonism to Slavery] did not pry into...

prying, adj. (1)

    NER 3.256 5 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism broke out in unexpected quarters.

prying, v. (4)

    SL 2.137 16 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...
    SwM 4.99 8 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into chemistry and optics...
    Dem1 10.24 20 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.
    FSLC 11.199 17 There is...not a moralist but is prying into [slavery's] quality;...

Prytaneum, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 5 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.

psalm, n. (4)

    WD 7.169 18 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    SovE 10.205 5 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race, who analyze the prayer and psalm of their forefathers...
    HDC 11.54 7 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    HDC 11.72 20 It is said that all the services of that day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of Concord], even to the singing of the psalm.

psalmist, n. (1)

    Nat 1.68 16 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.

psalmody, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 23 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung in every tone of the psalmody of the Puritans;...

psalms, n. (3)

    DL 7.101 8 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./
    QO 8.182 5 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth...
    HDC 11.34 12 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...

psalm-tune, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 21 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the country from which its emigrants came; or named at a pinch from a psalm-tune.

psaltery, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 14 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut;...

pseudo-spiritualists, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.21 13 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror; so...the alleged second-sight of the pseudo-spiritualists.

Psyche, n. (2)

    Bty 6.295 22 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Psyche...
    SovE 10.185 1 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day. The Greeks called it Psyche, a manifest emblem of the soul.

psychologist, n. (1)

    ET13 5.222 27 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.

psychology, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.179 4 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism...
    SwM 4.119 12 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
    MMEm 10.426 3 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element.

pterodactyl, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 2 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.

Ptolemaic, adj. (4)

    Nat2 3.180 1 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
    UGM 4.18 13 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle, the Ptolemaic astronomy...are in point.
    ET12 5.202 8 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
    LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.

Ptolemais, Palestine, n. (1)

    NMW 4.246 15 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon].

Ptolemy, n. (1)

    WD 7.179 19 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...

puberty, n. (4)

    SR 2.48 13 So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm...
    ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    DL 7.123 27 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society...which becomes the crisis of life...
    FRep 11.516 9 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or puberty to the human individual.

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