Report, First to Reservoirs

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

Report, First, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.360 10 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last...

report, n. (24)

    Nat 1.47 15 In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Fdsp 2.192 16 Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others...
    Hsm1 2.255 12 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade. I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report.
    Pt1 3.11 15 ...the value of genius to us is in the veracity of its report.
    Exp 3.54 6 But, sir, medical history; the report of the Institute; the proven facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
    Nat2 3.196 7 The reality is more excellent than the report.
    SwM 4.119 15 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    GoW 4.262 5 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal.
    Elo1 7.73 9 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    OA 7.335 10 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...
    QO 8.194 2 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour;...
    Edc1 10.145 16 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report, in good or bad company;...
    Supl 10.168 13 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets and the Exchange, or politics, than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    CSC 10.373 19 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations,
    EzRy 10.383 26 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers...and not less with the report like musketry from the movable seats.
    HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs, and published an admirable report.
    EWI 11.127 22 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.128 5 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    TPar 11.285 6 ...every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts but the report.
    TPar 11.285 12 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
    ALin 11.330 27 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President] (notwithstanding the report of the acclamations of that convention [in Chicago], we heard the result coldly and sadly.
    SMC 11.370 11 Let me add an extract from the official report of the brigade commander...
    Wom 11.406 19 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful? 'T is a true report that things are going ill or well.
    AgMs 12.360 4 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth...

Report, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.363 12 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

report, v. (33)

    LT 1.265 17 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    SL 2.161 26 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character...
    OS 2.270 5 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
    Int 2.329 10 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we cease to report...it is not truth.
    Pt1 3.5 24 ...the great majority of men seem to be...mutes, who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature.
    Pt1 3.6 8 Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
    Nat2 3.194 7 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    MoS 4.173 27 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect;...
    NMW 4.227 12 All distinguished engineers, savans, statists, report to [a man of Napoleon's stamp]...
    GoW 4.261 3 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.
    GoW 4.263 1 ...[the writer] would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.
    Wsp 6.226 14 There was never a man born so wise or good but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty and report it.
    Ill 6.311 10 The senses...mix their own structure with all they report of.
    Elo1 7.77 16 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler...
    Boks 7.221 2 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it, and shall report on it as under oath;...
    Boks 7.221 6 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    PI 8.24 23 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    PI 8.73 1 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    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, and other men report as much, but none wholly and well.
    QO 8.203 15 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...
    Dem1 10.26 9 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
    Aris 10.54 10 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to report the tale to all men...
    PerF 10.76 21 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions, and can truly report them...
    Chr2 10.98 3 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation. They report the truth. It is the truth.
    SovE 10.187 27 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
    LLNE 10.329 2 In science the French savant......travels into all nooks and islands, to weigh, to analyze and report.
    MMEm 10.399 18 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...
    Thor 10.465 1 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre.
    FSLN 11.241 25 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to his own and the next age.
    PLT 12.39 26 The senses report the new fact or change;...
    PLT 12.45 26 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but...cannot connect or arrange their thoughts so as effectively to report them.
    II 12.79 24 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but we report them as thoughts;...
    Mem 12.98 24 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report of no more...

reported, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.253 17 Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.

reported, v. (25)

    Nat 1.73 7 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the miracles of enthusiasm, as those reported of Swedenborg...
    YA 1.376 9 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
    Prd1 2.228 11 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    GoW 4.261 8 Nature will be reported.
    GoW 4.263 6 In [the writer's] eyes...the universe is the possibility of being reported.
    ET11 5.193 17 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    Bhr 6.182 27 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.
    Elo1 7.83 18 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Elo1 7.95 6 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
    Clbs 7.236 16 ...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation as reported by Boswell has a lasting charm.
    PI 8.44 14 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported the men...
    QO 8.184 20 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat. But this speech is also D'Argenson's, and is reported by Grimm.
    QO 8.197 10 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    Schr 10.269 26 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn.
    LLNE 10.339 20 [Channing] could never be reported...
    LLNE 10.342 7 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke. One declared that It seemed to him like going to heaven in a swing; another reported that...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted...
    CSC 10.374 2 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    GSt 10.504 6 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, in January, 1860, as reported in the public documents, is a chapter well worth reading...
    LS 11.10 15 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    EWI 11.106 22 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
    EWI 11.140 20 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?
    SMC 11.370 26 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.
    EdAd 11.385 6 At least as far as the purpose and genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
    CPL 11.504 24 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable, as reported by Las Casas;...
    Pray 12.356 1 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...

reporter, n. (2)

    OA 7.335 12 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed...
    PI 8.39 15 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all. But with that, he is the lawgiver, as being an exact reporter of the essential law.

reporters, n. (5)

    NR 3.232 20 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    ET15 5.266 26 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself, on one occasion, where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET15 5.267 1 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    Carl 10.491 25 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    FSLN 11.228 16 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.

reporter's, n. [reporters',] (2)

    SwM 4.119 16 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    ET15 5.266 6 I remember I saw the reporters' room [of the London Times]...

reporting, n. (1)

    PLT 12.11 17 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...

reporting, v. (4)

    SwM 4.144 2 ...is [Swedenborg] reporting a breach of the manners of that heavenly society?...
    GoW 4.263 5 In [the writer's] eyes, a man is the faculty of reporting...
    ET3 5.35 6 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    QO 8.201 22 [Originality] is...reporting accurately what we see and are.

reports, n. (6)

    ET15 5.263 23 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by...its world-wide network of correspondence and reports.
    Clbs 7.249 10 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in...the printing and transmission of ponderous reports.
    PI 8.24 9 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports...
    EWI 11.105 7 Humane persons who were informed of the reports [on West Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.
    TPar 11.286 17 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    PLT 12.22 22 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.

Reports, n. (2)

    AgMs 12.362 2 ...especially observe what is said throughout these [Agricultural] Reports of the model farms and model farmers.
    AgMs 12.363 1 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms.

reports, v. (16)

    Tran 1.330 12 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which are of the same nature as the faculty which reports them...
    Pt1 3.31 22 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
    ET5 5.85 19 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;...
    Pow 6.58 14 ...the geologist reports the surveys of his subalterns;...
    Boks 7.220 19 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    OA 7.322 6 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at...Bruce, as Barbour reports him;...
    OA 7.332 5 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch...but it reports a moment in the life of a heroic person...
    PI 8.26 27 ...against all the appearance [the true poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates matter.
    PI 8.64 21 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it...
    PI 8.74 10 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
    Chr2 10.118 22 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no confessor reports that he has neglected the confessional...
    Edc1 10.130 23 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom...he reports the condition of millions of worlds which his eye never saw.
    SovE 10.186 9 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that which Anthony Wood reports 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).
    Plu 10.301 18 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports...
    Mem 12.92 11 [Memory...reports to you not what you wish, but what really befell.
    Let 12.403 9 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer...and reports that a miracle had been wrought.

repose, n. (26)

    Nat 1.17 27 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill...
    Hist 2.22 22 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate.
    SR 2.69 16 Power ceases in the instant of repose;...
    SL 2.132 2 ...the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
    Int 2.341 25 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
    Int 2.342 1 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed...he meets...
    Exp 3.71 15 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose...
    Pol1 3.199 11 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose...
    ET5 5.76 10 [These Saxons] have the taste for toil, a distaste for pleasure or repose...
    ET11 5.183 9 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...
    ET11 5.186 13 ...[English nobles] have that simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of greatness.
    Ctr 6.159 19 Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman...
    Ctr 6.159 20 Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman,-- repose in energy.
    Bhr 6.185 16 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not express more repose than his behavior.
    CbW 6.278 7 The man,--it is his attitude...in repose alike as in energy, still formidable and not to be disposed of.
    DL 7.113 15 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded of affinity, of repose...
    DL 7.122 12 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came, not so much for repose as study...
    DL 7.133 21 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    WD 7.180 9 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose...
    Suc 7.298 10 In Nature all is large massive repose.
    Aris 10.37 3 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
    SHC 11.434 5 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...as the fit place for their final repose.
    FRep 11.527 1 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort...far from polished, without dignity in his repose;...
    FRep 11.531 26 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American.
    FRep 11.531 27 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe...
    Trag 12.412 7 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

repose, v. (3)

    NMW 4.257 23 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward,--they could not...repose on their down-beds...they deserted [Napoleon].
    Wsp 6.241 26 ...the super-personal Heart,--[man] shall repose alone on that.
    SHC 11.428 15 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...

reposed, v. (1)

    NMW 4.232 21 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because, in the persuasion that your confidence was reposed in me, my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.

reposing, adj. (1)

    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.

reposing, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 7 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched...

repositories, n. (1)

    Hist 2.4 13 ...the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature...

repossess, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.4 26 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole;...

represent, v. (49)

    MR 1.246 18 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as the most wronged...persons on earth.
    LT 1.265 10 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.266 9 ...how many [men] seem not quite available for that idea which they represent?
    Con 1.308 26 ...I feel called upon in behalf of rational nature, which I represent, to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
    Tran 1.330 9 [The idealist]...asks the materialist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them.
    SR 2.63 18 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Comp 2.114 19 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs...may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent...cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
    SL 2.133 14 People represent virtue as a struggle...
    Lov1 2.186 20 ...it is the nature and end of this relation [love], that [lovers] should represent the human race to each other.
    OS 2.271 4 What we commonly call man...does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
    Art1 2.352 24 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future beholders the Unknown...
    Art1 2.355 9 ...every object...may of course be so exhibited to us as to represent the world.
    Pt1 3.41 20 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet];...
    Exp 3.72 26 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...
    Chr1 3.91 13 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    Chr1 3.91 23 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent;...
    Gts 3.161 22 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    Gts 3.161 24 This is fit for kings, and rich men who represent kings...to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    NR 3.225 14 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    PPh 4.68 23 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.
    PNR 4.86 25 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
    NMW 4.256 22 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party...
    GoW 4.270 5 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe to represent the powers and duties of the scholar or writer.
    ET1 5.20 22 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England,--which the reformers represent as a tax upon knowledge...
    ET4 5.69 15 ...in their caricatures [the English] represent the Frenchman as a poor, starved body.
    ET5 5.74 8 ...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET5 5.74 12 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically, one to represent the worker and the other the enjoyer.
    ET5 5.101 22 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET18 5.303 1 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what clerks and scholars! No one man and no few men can represent them.
    Pow 6.63 5 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...to represent its wrath and cupidity at Washington,--let these drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Elo1 7.88 1 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality...
    DL 7.109 16 A man's money...should represent to him the things he would willingliest do with it.
    WD 7.172 19 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
    Boks 7.191 9 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.214 20 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee, which represent the fashion of the month, are to portraits.
    PI 8.34 5 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    PC 8.218 21 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent;...
    Grts 8.302 12 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    Grts 8.302 18 ...the scholars represent the intellect, by which man is man;...
    Chr2 10.112 9 Romanism in Europe does not represent the real opinion of enlightened men.
    Chr2 10.112 11 The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the opinions of the universities.
    SovE 10.185 26 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited;...
    MoL 10.250 18 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents. But what does the scholar represent?
    HDC 11.67 4 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
    LVB 11.91 6 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the will of the nation;...
    FSLN 11.243 1 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    FRep 11.531 2 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
    ACri 12.302 2 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.
    MLit 12.328 17 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be and is now becoming?

representable, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.180 7 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

representation, n. (17)

    Hist 2.15 10 ...of the genius of one remarkable people we have a fourfold representation...
    Pol1 3.213 18 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a double choice to get the representation of the whole;...
    NR 3.242 23 Nature keeps herself whole and her representation complete in the experience of each mind.
    NER 3.251 5 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    PNR 4.85 9 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted...in discovering connection, continuity and representation everywhere...
    ShP 4.214 7 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine, and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million. There are always objects; but there was never representation.
    ShP 4.214 7 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last;...
    ET5 5.97 8 [English] social classes are made by statute. Their ratios of power and representation are historical and legal.
    ET9 5.147 1 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;...
    Art2 7.40 7 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    PI 8.44 3 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he treats them as real;...
    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;...
    EWI 11.132 2 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
    SMC 11.352 5 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted...offensive taxes of the British Parliament, claiming that there should be no tax without representation.
    Wom 11.424 13 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them,-according to our Teutonic principle, No representation, no tax.
    CPL 11.499 4 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century, and its representation there increased with its gross population.
    PLT 12.22 14 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...

representations, n. (3)

    Tran 1.329 19 ...The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
    Comp 2.120 18 The thoughtless say, on hearing these representations,-- What boots it to do well?...
    Pow 6.66 14 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.

Representations, n. (1)

    SwM 4.115 26 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...

representative, adj. (26)

    Pt1 3.5 2 ...the poet is representative.
    Pt1 3.6 16 The poet is...the man...who...is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.
    NR 3.225 2 ...a man is only a relative and representative nature.
    UGM 4.8 17 Men have a pictorial or representative quality...
    UGM 4.8 19 Behmen and Swedenborg saw that things were representative.
    UGM 4.8 20 Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of ideas.
    SwM 4.114 12 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    SwM 4.120 20 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    NMW 4.226 5 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
    NMW 4.240 9 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
    ET4 5.47 27 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged...that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
    ET15 5.270 7 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative...
    Wth 6.101 18 Money is representative...
    Wth 6.103 4 A dollar is not value, but representative of value...
    Wsp 6.214 6 Heaven deals with us on no representative system.
    Bty 6.304 20 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact...
    Farm 7.153 25 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to... rainbow and flood; because he is, as all natural persons are, representative of Nature as much as these.
    PI 8.27 6 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things, and the treating them as representative...
    PI 8.71 15 The poet is representative...
    Aris 10.52 22 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by all men as their delegate.
    SovE 10.197 16 I am representative of the whole;...
    MMEm 10.399 3 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...
    Wom 11.420 9 On the questions that are important,-whether the government shall be in one person, or whether representative, or whether democratic;...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    PLT 12.19 14 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.
    CInt 12.113 6 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity. Yet it is but representative...
    PPr 12.382 25 ...[a man's] acts should be representative of the human race...

Representative Government, n (1)

    AKan 11.259 19 Representative Government is really misrepresentative;...

representative, n. (31)

    MN 1.205 22 The great Pan of old...the firmament, his coat of stars,-was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    LT 1.270 13 The political questions touching...the right of the constituent to instruct the representative;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Lov1 2.178 22 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues.
    Exp 3.76 20 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity...
    Chr1 3.91 8 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Pol1 3.206 8 A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
    UGM 4.11 17 ...the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant.
    PPh 4.42 24 This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the representative of philosophy.
    MoS 4.162 11 ...I will...offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    NMW 4.224 15 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...the class of industry and skill. Napoleon is its representative.
    NMW 4.241 20 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...
    NMW 4.256 26 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative...
    GoW 4.270 7 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    ET5 5.97 12 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and Manchester...had no representative.
    Art2 7.40 23 Nature is the representative of the universal mind...
    Clbs 7.233 18 How delightful after these disturbers is the radiant, playful wit of--one whom I need not name,--for in every society there is his representative.
    Grts 8.320 15 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    EzRy 10.394 11 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
    HDC 11.65 18 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    HDC 11.65 20 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
    HDC 11.80 18 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.80 19 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.80 25 ......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.
    HDC 11.81 14 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.
    FSLC 11.203 7 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils. They were not for him to deal with: he was the commercial representative.
    FSLN 11.221 12 I think [people] looked at [Webster] as the representative of the American Continent.
    JBB 11.267 16 [John Brown] was happily a representative of the American Republic.
    EPro 11.316 25 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward, every one a representative of mankind...
    ALin 11.330 15 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;...
    ALin 11.335 17 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the true representative of this continent;...
    CInt 12.115 18 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country...every family has a representative in their halls...

Representative, n. (1)

    HDC 11.67 24 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

representatively, adv. (1)

    PI 8.15 22 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively...

representativeness, n. (1)

    Aris 10.53 13 [The eloquent man] has established relation, representativeness.

Representatives, House of, n (1)

    LVB 11.91 18 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see them...

representatives, n. (22)

    LE 1.156 5 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    LT 1.267 15 We are the representatives of religion and intellect...
    Tran 1.333 18 ...[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.355 10 [Our virtue's] representatives are austere;...
    YA 1.363 20 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    Exp 3.56 26 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    Pol1 3.210 8 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.
    GoW 4.289 16 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    Comc 8.173 13 ...when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
    Grts 8.301 15 ...we admire eminent men, not for themselves, but as representatives.
    Aris 10.50 13 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives.
    HDC 11.46 20 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the choice of their deputy to the house of representatives;...
    HDC 11.80 3 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    HDC 11.81 21 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    EWI 11.132 7 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.133 9 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    EWI 11.133 11 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    EWI 11.133 23 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    EWI 11.134 11 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders. What if we should send thither representatives who were a particle less amiable and less innocent?
    EdAd 11.389 2 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    PLT 12.34 4 Each man has a feeling that what is done anywhere is done by the same wit as his. All men are his representatives...
    CInt 12.122 17 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives...

represented, v. (36)

    Nat 1.29 9 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when...all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.
    LE 1.179 9 ...that man [Napoleon]...represented performance in lieu of pretension.
    MN 1.201 5 Nature can only be conceived as...a work of ecstasy, to be represented by a circular movement...
    MR 1.253 13 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base.
    LT 1.274 22 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant.
    Con 1.310 6 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...every interest did by right, or might, or sleight get represented;-the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Tran 1.345 14 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?
    Tran 1.345 20 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Comp 2.97 11 The entire system of things gets represented in every particle.
    Comp 2.101 2 ...the universe is represented in every one of its particles.
    SL 2.149 1 [A man]...comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances.
    Lov1 2.180 6 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
    OS 2.274 19 The soul's advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line...
    OS 2.274 20 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state, such as can be represented by metamorphosis...
    OS 2.297 7 ...the universe is represented in an atom...
    Mrs1 3.144 20 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    Nat2 3.177 20 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.
    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,)...
    SwM 4.108 11 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth.
    NMW 4.227 26 Bonaparte wrought, in common with that great class he represented, for power and wealth...
    ET10 5.153 19 [The English] do not wish to be represented except by opulent men.
    ET10 5.166 15 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual...
    ET11 5.180 3 The English lords...call themselves after their lands, as if the man represented the country that bred him;...
    ET11 5.180 15 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    Elo1 7.87 24 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented.
    Dem1 10.20 22 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...which is represented in modern fable by the telescope as used by Schlemil, is simply mischievous.
    Aris 10.42 2 Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very skilful carpenter.
    Aris 10.64 9 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    Plu 10.293 10 [Plutarch] has been represented as having been the tutor of the Emperor Trajan...
    HDC 11.30 20 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not.
    HDC 11.69 3 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament, as they are not virtually represented therein.
    FRO1 11.480 26 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association],-almost all of them are represented here...
    PLT 12.35 24 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan, god of the shepherds, who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...
    PLT 12.36 13 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image;...
    Mem 12.95 21 ...the poets represented the Muses as the daughters of Memory...
    MAng1 12.225 13 Michael Angelo is represented as having ordered his defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was compelled to retire.

representing, v. (8)

    DSA 1.144 14 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    PPh 4.68 21 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world...
    Elo1 7.80 4 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Elo1 7.91 19 ...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...
    Wom 11.422 22 There is no lack of votes representing the physical wants;...
    Wom 11.422 24 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    Wom 11.422 26 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons.
    MAng1 12.230 22 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves;...

represents, v. (33)

    LE 1.178 18 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution...
    MN 1.214 7 Nature represents the best meaning of the wisest man.
    LT 1.264 2 ...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question represents.
    Hist 2.30 26 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    SR 2.47 2 We...are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
    Pt1 3.7 6 The poet is...represents beauty.
    Mrs1 3.128 1 Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue.
    NR 3.231 17 Money, which represents the prose of life...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    PNR 4.81 20 [Plato] represents the privilege of the intellect...
    MoS 4.171 18 ...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have reason...
    NMW 4.256 11 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    ET6 5.111 15 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    F 6.10 9 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...
    F 6.28 10 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.
    Pow 6.58 4 Each plus man represents his set...
    Wth 6.101 23 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents.
    Wth 6.101 25 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;...
    Wth 6.108 15 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much. The shilling represents the number of enemies the pear has...
    Farm 7.138 19 [The farmer] represents the necessities.
    Farm 7.138 24 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...
    PI 8.22 8 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
    PI 8.57 13 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    Comc 8.173 19 All our plans, managements, houses, poems, if compared with the wisdom and love which man represents, are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    PC 8.215 18 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
    MoL 10.247 2 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force.
    MoL 10.250 17 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents.
    Schr 10.266 10 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet knows the unspeakable hope, and represents its audacity.
    FSLC 11.213 3 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...
    FSLC 11.213 3 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe.
    FSLN 11.218 2 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    RBur 11.440 4 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    FRep 11.515 25 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
    PLT 12.21 18 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...

repressed, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.325 4 Children had been repressed and kept in the background;...

repressing, v. (1)

    Hist 2.28 21 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child, in repressing his spirits and courage...is a familiar fact...

repression, n. (3)

    ShP 4.211 16 ...[Shakespeare] knew the laws of repression which make the police of nature...
    ET14 5.255 13 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    F 6.19 1 ...not less work the laws of repression...

repressive, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.112 17 Cold, repressive manners prevail [in England].

reprieve, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.231 6 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair; the Whig wisdom was only reprieve...
    Trag 12.405 12 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon, and is impatient of our short reprieve.

reprimand, v. (2)

    SR 2.60 19 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    Schr 10.273 25 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil... the steam-engine will reprimand...him;...

reprimanded, v. (2)

    ET8 5.133 20 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in; for which he was often reprimanded...
    FRep 11.518 24 The people are feared and flattered. They are not reprimanded.

reprint, v. (1)

    ET19 5.309 7 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it...

reprinted, v. (5)

    MoS 4.163 13 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].
    Boks 7.195 21 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;...
    Boks 7.195 22 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!...
    Boks 7.200 3 ...Plutarch's Morals is...seldom reprinted.
    Plu 10.322 22 ...[Plutarch's] books will be reprinted and read anew by coming generations.

reprints, v. (2)

    Boks 7.195 18 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who sits and weighs, and, ten years hence, out of a million of pages, reprints one.
    MLit 12.311 16 ...[the Present Age] has all books. It reprints the wisdom of the world.

reproach, n. (11)

    AmS 1.103 2 ...let [the scholar]...add observation to observation...patient of reproach...
    Hsm1 2.251 7 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent...of reproach...
    GoW 4.270 13 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    ET8 5.135 18 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...removing the reproach of sterility from English art...
    ET10 5.153 18 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil. In exact proportion is the reproach of poverty.
    ET14 5.248 26 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    QO 8.189 11 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    Edc1 10.139 24 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of...reproach and coaxing...with which the game is played;...
    AsSu 11.251 4 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
    TPar 11.290 24 [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.
    Trag 12.410 20 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.

reproach, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.12 18 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    MMEm 10.418 21 The moon and stars reproach me, because I [Mary Moody Emerson] had to do with mean fools.

reproached, v. (2)

    Mem 12.94 18 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.
    CInt 12.114 1 Hiero the king reproached [Archimedes] with his barren studies.

reproaches, n. (2)

    II 12.70 18 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of... silencing reproaches...
    MAng1 12.225 2 ...[Michelangelo]...was mortified by receiving from the government reproaches at his credulity and fear.

reproaches, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.420 10 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...

reproachful, adj. (3)

    EzRy 10.386 27 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    EWI 11.100 25 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. ... Let us withhold every reproachful...remark.
    Let 12.398 25 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be hid from the reproachful eyes of their countrymen...

reproachfully, adv. (1)

    JBS 11.279 17 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries, not sourly and reproachfully, but simply as unfit for his habit;...

reprobated, v. (1)

    LT 1.277 12 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.

reprobates, n. (2)

    F 6.31 14 What pious men in the parlor will vote for what reprobates at the polls!
    Grts 8.317 12 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.

reprobates, v. (1)

    SS 7.6 20 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...

reprobating, v. (1)

    ET13 5.224 26 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill...

reproduce, v. (8)

    Hist 2.38 17 Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its treasures for each pupil.
    SR 2.84 6 ...thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again.
    ET14 5.254 18 As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    Clbs 7.226 16 Especially women use words that are not words...but reproduce the genius of that they speak of;...
    Clbs 7.233 20 [Holmes's (?)] conversation is all pictures: he can reproduce whatever he has seen;...
    Imtl 8.338 12 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
    Schr 10.277 16 I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.
    CL 12.156 15 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...

reproduced, v. (5)

    Hist 2.20 27 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns...
    Bty 6.295 20 ...see how surely a beautiful form...is copied and reproduced without end.
    QO 8.192 7 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing...very soon reproduced it in his conversation and writing.
    Trag 12.407 27 ...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will] disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood.
    Trag 12.408 13 ...the antique tragedy, which was founded on this faith [in destiny], can never be reproduced.

reproduces, v. (1)

    AmS 1.99 2 The mind now thinks, now acts, and each fit reproduces the other.

reproducing, v. (2)

    MAng1 12.218 26 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms...
    MLit 12.330 8 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect and reproducing the world forever.

reproduction, n. (6)

    Nat 1.37 8 ...what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas;...
    Comp 2.101 23 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Pt1 3.6 11 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech.
    ET5 5.81 11 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
    Wom 11.409 1 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.
    PLT 12.22 2 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat.

reproductions, n. (2)

    Nat 1.13 17 The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
    Wth 6.86 4 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values...by song, or the reproductions of memory.

reproductive, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.23 6 All good is eternally reproductive.
    Art1 2.368 3 In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving, reproductive;...
    Art2 7.51 9 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive.

reproofs, n. (1)

    Bty 6.296 15 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential, but we love its reproofs and superiorities.

reprove, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.208 18 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party...
    Pray 12.353 14 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands, but instantly I must seek some cover. For that shame I reprove myself.

reproved, v. (3)

    GoW 4.265 16 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.
    Cour 7.258 9 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    Pray 12.353 11 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room?

reptile, n. (7)

    ET14 5.253 14 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain;...
    ET14 5.253 15 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain; whilst reptile or mollusk only exists in system, in relation.
    PI 8.10 10 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it...
    PI 8.10 12 Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system...
    Edc1 10.155 12 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away...
    Edc1 10.155 17 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still, reptile, fish...begin to return.
    Thor 10.469 10 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits...

reptiles, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.155 8 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of reptiles...
    SovE 10.190 26 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men...

Republic, American, n. (1)

    JBB 11.267 17 [John Brown] was happily a representative of the American Republic.

Republic, French, n. (3)

    SL 2.145 18 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
    ET15 5.264 7 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848...
    FSLN 11.239 26 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece;...against the French Republic whilst it was a republic.

republic, n. (18)

    LT 1.261 8 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of...the American republic as of old Rome...
    Con 1.303 27 You are welcome...if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...
    Hist 2.4 4 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    Hsm1 2.263 1 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear any signs of a decay of religion.
    Pol1 3.211 1 I do not for these defects despair of our republic.
    Pol1 3.211 19 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic...
    Pol1 3.211 22 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that...a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
    MoS 4.171 9 The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic...
    ET4 5.57 5 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta.
    Bhr 6.170 15 The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom.
    SA 8.90 17 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    LLNE 10.353 14 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...
    FSLN 11.239 27 England maintains trade, not liberty; stands against Greece;...against the French Republic whilst it was a republic.
    ACiv 11.309 18 It is not free institutions, it is not a republic, it is not a democracy, that is the end...
    Koss 11.400 5 This republic greets in you [Kossuth] a republican.
    FRep 11.517 10 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
    Milt1 12.271 16 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which the federal power was weak and loosely defined...
    WSL 12.346 7 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.

Republic, n. (16)

    Bhr 6.195 10 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
    PC 8.234 14 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe. I think their hands are strong enough to hold up the Republic.
    MoL 10.250 17 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents.
    Plu 10.322 3 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    LVB 11.90 20 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    FSLC 11.207 19 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
    AKan 11.263 8 ...in these times full of the fate of the Republic, I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    JBB 11.267 10 ...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.
    ACiv 11.299 8 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.
    EPro 11.319 17 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
    ALin 11.337 4 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic...
    SMC 11.349 19 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were...sporadic over vast tracts of the Republic.
    SMC 11.352 18 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years...brought the alternative of extirpation of the poison or ruin to the Republic.
    ChiE 11.471 4 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.
    CL 12.161 6 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    MAng1 12.225 16 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...

Republic of Man, n. (1)

    Schr 10.275 17 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.

Republic [Plato], n. (10)

    PPh 4.57 27 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness, which mounts, in the Republic and in the Phaedo, to piety.
    PPh 4.65 19 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    PPh 4.66 15 In the Republic [Plato] insists on the temperaments of the youth, as first of the first.
    PNR 4.82 2 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
    PNR 4.82 27 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
    PNR 4.89 5 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical...
    PNR 4.89 22 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    SwM 4.117 1 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
    ET17 5.295 20 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    Boks 7.199 18 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read...the Republic...

Republic, The [Plato], n. (1)

    PPh 4.42 25 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man...

republican, adj. (5)

    ET11 5.172 5 The inequality of power and property [in England] shocks republican nerves.
    Comc 8.171 22 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions;...
    Koss 11.398 15 It is our republican doctrine...that the wide variety of opinions is an advantage.
    FRep 11.517 6 The lodging the power in the people, as in republican forms, has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    Bost 12.185 25 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...

Republican, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.34 27 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...

Republican Club, Young Men (1)

    OA 7.321 5 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.

Republican Committee, n. (1)

    Thor 10.460 21 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.

republican, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.197 26 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    GSt 10.504 26 I look upon [George Stearns] as a type of the American republican.
    Koss 11.400 6 This republic greets in you [Kossuth] a republican.
    Bost 12.183 6 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion. The air was a good republican...

Republican, n. (3)

    Aris 10.50 14 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat?
    GSt 10.506 10 There [George Stearns] sat in the council, a simple, resolute Republican...
    SMC 11.353 7 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican...

republicanism, n. (1)

    Pow 6.64 18 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.

republicans, n. (4)

    NMW 4.243 24 I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just what I wish them.
    EdAd 11.384 8 [The traveller] reflects on the power which each of these plain republicans can employ;...
    Bost 12.201 15 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear...in the yard of the dame's school, from very little republicans: I ' m as good as you be...
    Bost 12.202 14 Bonaparte sighed for his republicans of 1789.

republication, n. (1)

    Plu 10.317 1 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...

Republics, Italian [Jean C (1)

    Boks 7.206 1 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.

Republics, Italian, n. (1)

    Boks 7.205 23 There is Dante's poem, to open the Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...

republics, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.199 23 Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city...
    Civ 7.26 20 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...patriotism, as in the Spartan and Roman republics;...
    Carl 10.491 11 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise republics and he likes the Russian Czar;...
    Carl 10.493 5 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    HCom 11.343 16 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.

republish, v. (2)

    MN 1.212 19 ...[the stars] desire to republish themselves in a more delicate world than that they occupy.
    Schr 10.263 18 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...and to republish them...

republished, v. (1)

    Scot 11.463 17 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...

repudiate, v. (2)

    LT 1.282 10 Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false;...
    YA 1.389 12 ...you cannot repudiate but once.

repudiated, v. (2)

    MoS 4.152 18 After dinner...ideas are...follies of young men, repudiated by the solid portion of society...
    Civ 7.34 3 ...if there be...a country...where public debts and private debts outside of the State are repudiated;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

repudiates, v. (3)

    LE 1.175 13 [The ingenious soul] repudiates the false, out of love of the true.
    Chr1 3.105 8 Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it;...
    ET14 5.253 2 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.

repudiation, n. (3)

    ET7 5.116 17 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith, or any repudiation or crookedness in matters of finance, would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    PC 8.233 18 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society...
    Insp 8.270 14 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of his descendants...

Repudiation, n. (1)

    YA 1.389 10 I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation;...

repudiations, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.37 27 Our log-rolling...our boats and our repudiations...are yet unsung.

repugnance, n. (2)

    HDC 11.31 14 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    PLT 12.12 17 We have invincible repugnance to introversion...

repulse, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.234 4 [Official papers] are a guaranty to the slave states that, as they have hitherto met with no repulse, they shall meet with none.

repulsion, n. (10)

    Comp 2.102 3 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion;...
    Chr1 3.105 7 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character. Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion!
    NR 3.245 13 ...every atom has a sphere of repulsion;...
    PPh 4.67 20 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
    Ctr 6.137 8 Culture...warns [a man] of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
    Ctr 6.148 13 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
    PC 8.222 27 Every law in Nature, as...repulsion...has a counterpart in the intellect.
    SovE 10.207 22 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...
    LS 11.19 5 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    EPro 11.325 12 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...the old repulsion will cease...

repulsions, n. (2)

    Hist 2.37 14 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
    WD 7.184 3 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight; discern the affinities and repulsions;...

repulsive, adj. (5)

    LE 1.169 13 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller, amid the repulsive plants that are native in the swamp, thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    SwM 4.112 5 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    ET14 5.253 4 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
    Bhr 6.184 27 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him.
    Pray 12.350 21 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive volumes which usurp that name.

reputable, adj. (3)

    MR 1.232 15 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...unshared by all reputable men) is a system of selfishness;...
    Con 1.323 25 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    FSLC 11.198 10 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?

reputation, n. (31)

    SR 2.69 21 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... turns...all reputation to a shame...
    SL 2.154 3 There is no luck in literary reputation.
    SL 2.158 12 What has he done? is the divine question which...transpierces every false reputation.
    Hsm1 2.249 26 ...neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    Cir 2.308 25 ...there is not any literary reputation...that may not be revised and condemned.
    Int 2.342 4 [He in whom the love of repose predominates] gets rest, commodity and reputation;...
    Chr1 3.89 16 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    NER 3.284 13 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    PPh 4.67 17 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be; if not...you will only annoy me. I shall seem to you stupid, and the reputation I have, false.
    ShP 4.205 17 ...[Shakespeare]...in all respects appears as a good husband, with no reputation for eccentricity or excess.
    NMW 4.231 22 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
    NMW 4.254 16 A great reputation is a great noise [said Napoleon]: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.
    ET7 5.121 27 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
    ET8 5.128 6 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of demeanor and their few words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
    ET8 5.128 24 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    Wsp 6.202 12 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation...
    CbW 6.273 19 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents...of reputation.
    WD 7.164 21 A man has a reputation, and is no longer free, but must respect that.
    OA 7.326 4 ...[the old lawyer's] reputation does not gain or suffer from one or a dozen new performances.
    PI 8.12 13 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation.
    Grts 8.312 19 [The great man] makes himself of no reputation;...
    Dem1 10.23 2 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
    SlHr 10.439 12 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    ALin 11.331 3 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    ALin 11.333 13 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...
    SMC 11.367 11 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    CInt 12.118 22 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America.
    MAng1 12.239 20 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    Milt1 12.248 13 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
    Milt1 12.253 12 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.
    PPr 12.384 3 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...

reputations, n. (14)

    LT 1.267 2 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish.
    LT 1.267 9 The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth.
    SL 2.138 4 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    UGM 4.32 18 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
    PPh 4.74 1 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.
    MoS 4.167 1 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    ET14 5.245 23 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    ET14 5.251 11 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    Bhr 6.188 16 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly...
    Suc 7.311 24 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions;...
    Aris 10.61 16 ...all comparison with neighboring abilities and reputations, is the road to mediocrity.
    FSLC 11.182 21 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of...
    JBB 11.269 18 It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with history, which plays such pranks with temporary reputations.
    EdAd 11.391 4 There are literary and philosophical reputations to settle.

repute, n. (7)

    PNR 4.85 17 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    SA 8.105 20 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit is in good repute...
    Res 8.151 1 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame. I know its repute...
    Schr 10.286 8 The scholar must be ready for...repute of failure...
    FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent, even a repute for honesty, all count for nothing.
    FRep 11.520 3 Our politics are full of adventurers, who having by education and social innocence a good repute in the state, break away from the law of honesty...
    FRep 11.532 18 ...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.

reputed, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.41 9 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...

reputed, v. (6)

    Fdsp 2.208 5 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle.
    Prd1 2.235 4 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
    Nat2 3.174 22 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    ET8 5.127 1 The English race are reputed morose.
    Elo1 7.80 2 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Dem1 10.9 8 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same affection.

request, n. (10)

    SR 2.50 4 The virtue in most request is conformity.
    Mrs1 3.138 21 Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    UGM 4.32 8 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in whom, at the moment of success, a quality is ripe which is then in request.
    ET2 5.25 11 The request [to lecture in England] was urged with every kind suggestion...
    ET11 5.176 17 The new age brings new qualities into request;...
    SA 8.91 12 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Imtl 8.325 10 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
    MoL 10.241 13 ...let me use the occasion which your kind request gives me, to offer you some counsels...
    HDC 11.51 18 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright; and the General Court acted on their request.
    HDC 11.53 18 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in their request to remain near the English...

request, v. (1)

    FRO2 11.485 7 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...

requested, v. (3)

    Elo2 8.127 17 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion.
    HDC 11.52 26 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord...
    SHC 11.429 13 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words...

requesting, v. (1)

    ET1 5.10 9 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him.

requiem, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 10 Hail requiem of departed Time!

require, v. (61)

    MN 1.211 1 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
    Con 1.301 11 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present, and require the impossible of the Future.
    Con 1.316 21 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    YA 1.389 4 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
    Lov1 2.169 20 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Fdsp 2.206 12 Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly... that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Hsm1 2.249 22 Let [a man] hear in season...that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
    OS 2.283 11 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail.
    Int 2.343 19 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.
    Art1 2.362 2 I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me...
    Exp 3.65 17 Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny habit require that thou do this or avoid that...
    Chr1 3.108 20 ...we should not require rash explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of [character's] action.
    Chr1 3.109 3 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    Mrs1 3.136 23 ...that of all the points of good-breeding I most require and insist upon, is deference.
    Mrs1 3.138 20 We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.
    Nat2 3.171 17 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
    PNR 4.82 3 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
    ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    ET6 5.102 20 [The English] require you to dare to be of your own opinion...
    ET6 5.103 7 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service...
    ET6 5.112 20 [The English] require a tone of voice that excites no attention in the room.
    ET7 5.117 17 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others.
    ET7 5.121 25 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.
    ET11 5.174 13 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
    ET13 5.225 24 It is the condition of a religion to require religion for its expositor.
    ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    Bhr 6.180 25 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.
    Bhr 6.187 13 Manners require time...
    CbW 6.271 18 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living...
    Ill 6.321 20 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...
    SS 7.15 19 We require such a solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in palaces;...
    Civ 7.23 18 The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    DL 7.120 23 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    Clbs 7.225 1 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.
    Cour 7.276 10 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us...
    Suc 7.301 16 A deep sympathy is what we require for any student of the mind;...
    PI 8.16 22 In poetry we say we require the miracle.
    PI 8.29 25 Veracity...is that which we require in poets...
    PI 8.32 15 I require that the poem should impress me so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...
    PI 8.49 13 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations, and will require an equal expansion in his metres.
    SA 8.86 27 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    SA 8.99 22 ...[manners and talk] require certain material conditions...
    Comc 8.162 26 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...
    PC 8.215 24 If [your public] know what is good, and require it, you will aspire and burn until you achieve it.
    PPo 8.253 17 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...
    Insp 8.293 15 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require new ways of living...
    Grts 8.319 6 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism...which makes [the scholar] require geniality and humanity in his heroes.
    Imtl 8.338 14 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
    Edc1 10.147 12 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance;...
    Edc1 10.150 14 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    Thor 10.484 22 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity...
    HDC 11.70 16 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope, should the state of our public affairs require it, that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...
    SMC 11.375 8 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
    Wom 11.410 10 ...[Women] are always making that civilization which they require;...
    FRO2 11.488 20 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize; namely, never to require a larger cause than is necessary to the effect.
    CL 12.140 10 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...maturing plants which require strongest sunshine...
    CL 12.148 10 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.
    Milt1 12.265 7 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations.
    MLit 12.322 8 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and faithful acknowledgment.
    Let 12.392 21 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing. It will require an expansion of the police of the old world.
    Trag 12.413 8 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.

required, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.166 26 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.

required, v. (39)

    YA 1.365 17 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    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.
    Chr1 3.113 9 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required...
    SwM 4.115 5 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    SwM 4.117 16 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series;...
    SwM 4.117 17 ...[Correspondence] required such rightness of position that the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
    NMW 4.229 22 [Bonaparte] knew the properties...of troops and diplomatists, and required that each should do after its kind.
    NMW 4.238 8 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
    NMW 4.239 3 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence...no longer required an answer.
    NMW 4.243 8 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent...
    ET3 5.42 5 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    ET4 5.71 19 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.
    ET10 5.159 20 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET11 5.185 5 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is to sit securely...
    ET12 5.200 14 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
    ET14 5.238 1 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin... by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET14 5.240 4 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    Wth 6.119 11 A master in each art is required...
    Ctr 6.147 19 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice...when there is required some foreign force...to prevent stagnation.
    Bhr 6.172 9 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey, and what divination is required in us for the reading of this fine telegraph,--we see what range the subject has...
    CbW 6.252 9 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils. If he is, he is wanted, and has the precise properties that are required.
    Elo1 7.92 10 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required...
    WD 7.159 17 [Steam]...will do anything required of it.
    WD 7.177 7 That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required.
    Suc 7.289 16 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
    Elo2 8.130 10 ...such possession of thought as is here required [in eloquence]...is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Elo2 8.130 22 Absoluteness is required [in eloquence]...
    PerF 10.79 23 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years... brought up the stock of his mills to par, and then sold out his interest, having accomplished the reform that was required.
    LLNE 10.346 2 ...[the pilgrim] had the courage which so stern a return to Arcadian manners required...
    LLNE 10.356 21 [Thoreau] required no Phalanx, no Government, no society, almost no memory.
    Thor 10.452 15 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
    Thor 10.456 2 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
    Thor 10.478 21 Himself of a perfect probity, [Thoreau] required not less of others.
    EWI 11.114 5 ...the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.
    EWI 11.121 21 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    FSLN 11.228 26 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves...
    ALin 11.336 22 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that...what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...
    Scot 11.464 16 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
    MAng1 12.235 15 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward...

requirements, n. (2)

    HDC 11.57 7 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. With these requirements Concord... complied...
    CInt 12.130 27 Our colleges may differ much in the scale of requirements... but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...

requires, v. (87)

    MR 1.230 27 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...
    MR 1.233 24 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes...
    MR 1.234 13 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    YA 1.365 2 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    SR 2.61 7 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    SL 2.132 23 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom. This requires rare gifts.
    Fdsp 2.203 25 Almost every man we meet requires some civility...
    Fdsp 2.203 25 Almost every man we meet...requires to be humored;...
    Fdsp 2.207 22 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
    Fdsp 2.208 12 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Fdsp 2.208 26 That high office [friendship] requires great and sublime parts.
    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.
    OS 2.275 14 The soul requires purity, but purity is not it;...
    OS 2.275 15 The soul...requires justice, but justice is not that;...
    OS 2.275 16 The soul...requires beneficence, but is somewhat better;...
    OS 2.290 6 [The soul] requires of us to be plain and true.
    Pt1 3.10 9 ...the experience of each new age requires a new confession...
    Chr1 3.114 14 ...the mind requires a victory to the senses;...
    Chr1 3.114 23 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages. It requires the more wariness in our private estimates.
    Mrs1 3.133 24 ...the first thing man requires of man is reality...
    Gts 3.162 2 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    Pol1 3.212 12 ...everybody's interest requires that [a mob] should not exist...
    PPh 4.78 22 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
    SwM 4.102 18 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...requires a long focal distance to be seen;...
    SwM 4.127 14 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.
    SwM 4.132 7 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.
    NMW 4.249 4 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity...to restore confidence to them.
    ET3 5.43 5 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew.
    ET6 5.103 17 The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
    ET6 5.103 26 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
    ET10 5.170 4 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires a deeper cure...
    ET11 5.194 6 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up. It requires a life of idleness, dressing and attendance on their parties.
    ET13 5.226 14 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
    ET14 5.239 16 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
    ET14 5.242 9 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...
    ET19 5.313 24 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    Pow 6.75 21 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    Pow 6.75 24 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild], and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
    Wth 6.88 4 First [nature] requires that each man should feed himself.
    Wth 6.89 1 Wealth requires...the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Wth 6.99 19 Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.
    Wth 6.119 15 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
    Ctr 6.149 21 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Bhr 6.187 16 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Ill 6.313 26 The intellectual man requires a fine bait;...
    Civ 7.21 5 The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast...
    Elo1 7.61 9 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires the additional caloric of a multitude and a public debate;...
    Elo1 7.74 19 It requires no special insight to edit one of our country newspapers.
    Elo1 7.76 14 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    Elo1 7.88 7 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which requires immeasurably higher powers...
    DL 7.122 20 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions...
    WD 7.161 19 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    Clbs 7.245 15 [A club] requires people who are not surprised and shocked...
    OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
    PI 8.34 26 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    SA 8.80 13 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
    SA 8.89 7 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence...
    Elo2 8.115 17 [The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
    Res 8.150 5 ...every power in energy...requires to be husbanded...
    Res 8.152 2 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    PPo 8.252 4 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
    Grts 8.304 22 Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go to California...
    Chr2 10.94 11 The [interest of the individual] craves a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.
    Edc1 10.141 9 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires of each only the flower of his nature and experience;...
    Edc1 10.141 10 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires good will, beauty, wit and select information;...
    Edc1 10.151 20 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...
    Edc1 10.152 12 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
    Edc1 10.153 10 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time...
    Edc1 10.154 13 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event...
    SovE 10.189 6 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to be the very hands of this guiding sentiment...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Prch 10.230 5 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force, like his own;...
    MMEm 10.426 14 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
    FSLN 11.241 1 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires is almost too sublime for mortals...
    AsSu 11.250 4 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires.
    ACiv 11.302 9 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will create the instruments it requires...
    FRep 11.539 16 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this...requires docility, sympathy, and religious receiving from higher principles;...
    PLT 12.36 27 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.
    PLT 12.37 2 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition...
    PLT 12.37 3 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition, requires all that is called humanity;...
    PLT 12.58 12 Present power...requires concentration on the moment...
    II 12.84 12 [Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step, and life requires too much compromise.
    CL 12.135 14 ...[the land] will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.
    CL 12.165 27 [External Nature] requires a will as perfectly organized,- requires man.
    CL 12.166 1 [External Nature] requires a will as perfectly organized,- requires man.
    CW 12.172 21 It requires some geometry in the head to lay [a good garden] out rightly...
    PPr 12.383 1 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...
    PPr 12.386 13 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A crisis has always arrived which requires a deus ex machina.

requiring, v. (14)

    Fdsp 2.204 4 My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.
    ET8 5.128 14 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade...instead of frivolous games.
    ET10 5.159 14 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.
    F 6.21 8 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator...requiring justice in man...
    Pow 6.55 9 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries, the maintenance of bodily strength requiring it...
    Elo1 7.66 1 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring in the orator a great range of faculty and experience...
    Elo1 7.66 2 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man...
    Elo1 7.87 4 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was.
    Boks 7.201 21 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    SovE 10.200 1 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind, and all personal preferences, and all requiring of wonders, are profane.
    SMC 11.366 11 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    ChiE 11.473 18 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    CL 12.158 21 [Taking a walk] is a fine art, requiring rare gifts and much experience.
    Milt1 12.273 4 [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...

requisite, adj. (4)

    MR 1.242 2 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are above them perceive...
    Mrs1 3.119 8 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    Ill 6.314 5 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Prch 10.237 11 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and it is requisite that the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are above them perceive;...

requisition, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 15 In August, 1862, on the new requisition for troops...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...

res, n. (1)

    Comp 2.100 7 Res nolunt diu male administrari.

rescinded, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.197 8 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.

rescue, n. (4)

    EWI 11.143 21 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers...
    FSLC 11.181 1 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    TPar 11.288 24 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who...came to the rescue of civilization at a hard pinch...
    EPro 11.314 4 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/

rescue, v. (4)

    Mrs1 3.146 2 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes, standing on the wharf, who jumps in to rescue a drowning man;...
    ET2 5.31 13 '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.
    Comc 8.159 7 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...no respectable qualities can rescue it from the ludicrous.
    FSLN 11.244 7 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.

rescued, v. (4)

    ShP 4.205 25 ...whatever scraps of information concerning [Shakespeare's] condition these researches may have rescued, they can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ET16 5.288 6 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
    Bty 6.295 12 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    EWI 11.130 25 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has...rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.

rescuer, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.158 10 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.

research, n. (5)

    ET5 5.91 24 In the same [English] spirit, were the excavation and research by Sir Charles Followes for the Xanthian monument...
    ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    Bty 6.290 16 The lesson taught by the study...of antique and of Pre-Raphaelite painting, was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    HDC 11.83 13 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck] has done us and posterity a kindness, by the zeal and patience of his research...
    Scot 11.465 27 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.

Researches, Celtic [Edward (1)

    ET16 5.281 17 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun, as Davies in the Celtic Researches maintains?

researches, n. (12)

    SwM 4.96 19 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...if he have but courage and faint not in the midst of his researches.
    ShP 4.201 14 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ShP 4.205 25 ...whatever scraps of information concerning [Shakespeare's] condition these researches may have rescued, they can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ET5 5.90 22 Private persons [in England] exhibit, in scientific and antiquarian researches, the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    Boks 7.206 25 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to the researches of Sharon Turner and Palgrave.
    Res 8.149 5 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy;...
    QO 8.180 16 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    QO 8.182 24 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    MoL 10.253 18 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt...
    Humb 11.458 7 ...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects of his researches.
    Humb 11.458 24 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.
    CW 12.177 21 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the ground, in barren moors, in the night even...

researches, v. (1)

    GoW 4.272 6 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...

Researches...Ethiopians [He (1)

    Hist 2.19 23 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren in his Researches on the Ethiopians, determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.

researching, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.23 23 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers...

resemblance, n. (16)

    Nat 1.53 15 The freshness of youth and love dazzles [Shakspeare] with its resemblance to morning;...
    Nat 1.72 3 ...sometimes [man]...muses strangely at the resemblance betwixt himself and [his house].
    Hist 2.15 20 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses...
    Comp 2.93 22 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Lov1 2.178 27 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
    Chr1 3.108 9 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person...
    SwM 4.123 15 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances, like the resemblance of a house to the man who built it.
    ET4 5.48 10 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers and Badgers of the American woods.
    ET4 5.69 19 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.
    PI 8.7 9 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...
    PI 8.29 8 Fancy joins by accidental resemblance...
    PC 8.215 14 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.
    Dem1 10.5 27 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Edc1 10.137 22 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to defeat his proper promise...
    SlHr 10.443 21 [Samuel Hoar's] head...had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    PLT 12.24 18 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function...all the accidents of the plant.

resemblances, n. (15)

    Nat 1.43 16 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    Hist 2.16 1 [Nature]...delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters.
    Lov1 2.178 24 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues. For that reason the lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others.
    PPh 4.48 3 We unite all things...by perceiving the superficial differences and the profound resemblances.
    SwM 4.116 1 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...
    SwM 4.123 14 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances...
    ET4 5.50 2 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races, and strange resemblances meet us everywhere.
    ET14 5.238 9 [British] minds...were cognizant of resemblances...
    ET14 5.239 7 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    PI 8.12 8 God himself...communicates with us by...dark resemblances in objects lying all around us.
    PI 8.21 6 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
    PI 8.28 12 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.28 20 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    Grts 8.306 24 ...every man, with whatever family resemblances, has a new countenance...
    Imtl 8.336 2 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?

resemble, v. (7)

    OS 2.278 25 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Pt1 3.41 3 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    UGM 4.25 17 Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.
    PI 8.9 11 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    QO 8.201 2 One leaf, one blade of grass, one meridian, does not resemble another.
    Chr2 10.109 9 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...
    Edc1 10.137 16 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.

resembled, v. (10)

    MN 1.219 20 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution...
    Int 2.332 7 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
    SwM 4.131 27 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the revengeful, whose faces resembled a round, broad cake...
    NMW 4.257 26 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo...
    ET4 5.61 9 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the...leopard, wolf and snake, which they severally resembled.
    Bty 6.298 25 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    PI 8.60 4 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast, never was a song good or beautiful which resembled any other.
    Dem1 10.17 17 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 chance, since it showed no sequel.
    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.
    Milt1 12.263 4 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.

resembles, v. (19)

    Nat 1.44 6 The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
    Nat 1.44 7 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
    Nat 1.44 9 ...the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space.
    AmS 1.85 9 Therein [nature] resembles [the scholar's] own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find...
    Comp 2.97 12 There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea...in a single needle of the pine...
    Comp 2.119 26 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys...
    SL 2.136 27 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    Lov1 2.179 18 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things...
    Prd1 2.233 12 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
    PPh 4.43 16 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
    SwM 4.120 14 The very organic form resembles the end inscribed on it.
    ET3 5.40 7 England resembles a ship in its shape...
    Wth 6.111 13 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...
    Farm 7.153 1 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    Schr 10.267 17 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action, but resembles the twitches of St. Vitus.
    Plu 10.315 26 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    Plu 10.316 15 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire.
    EdAd 11.392 26 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    CPL 11.499 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...

resembling, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.15 15 Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
    Pt1 3.25 22 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than...the resembling difference of a group of flowers.

resembling, v. (8)

    Int 2.339 7 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is our natural element...but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    SwM 4.106 5 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
    ET8 5.135 11 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh left out;...
    Elo1 7.99 22 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    Dem1 10.15 12 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
    Thor 10.462 10 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
    Thor 10.479 15 ...[Thoreau]...commended the wilderness for resembling Rome and Paris.
    ACri 12.297 11 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time. There's more character than intellect in every sentence-herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.

resent, v. (5)

    LE 1.164 4 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
    YA 1.393 9 The English...are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy], but an American would seriously resent it.
    NER 3.273 19 ...[Men] resent your honesty for an instant, they will thank you for it always.
    PI 8.12 21 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    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...

resented, v. (3)

    ET7 5.116 14 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.
    SA 8.79 3 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented.
    Aris 10.41 26 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a new country; was at once made a chief. And no wrong was so keenly resented as any fraud in this transaction.

resentment, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.193 21 Are we not engaged to a serious resentment of this use that is made of us?
    PC 8.228 3 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    Trag 12.414 7 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief, but it will not arouse resentment or fear, because he discerns its impassable limits.

resentments, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.223 4 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out;...
    FRep 11.514 8 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party, the resentments, the fears and whims of it, that real power is gained...

resents, v. (1)

    NR 3.236 8 [Nature]...resents generalizing...

reservation, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.100 13 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each; and all receiving from abroad must be controlled by this immense reservation.
    HDC 11.41 26 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a reservation of land for the minister...
    HDC 11.82 3 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts]...was accepted by the town [Concord], with the reservation of some articles.

reserve, n. (12)

    DSA 1.149 2 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the perpetual reserve...
    Mrs1 3.135 25 ...Napoleon...fenced himself with etiquette and within triple barriers of reserve;...
    Mrs1 3.151 5 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...
    Nat2 3.177 22 I would not be frivolous before the admirable reserve and prudence of time...
    NR 3.228 7 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    ET18 5.303 10 I have noted the reserve of power in the English temperament.
    Elo1 7.68 16 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative!
    Elo1 7.78 22 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...has a reserve of power when he has hit his mark.
    Farm 7.138 4 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...
    Edc1 10.156 17 Your teaching and discipline must have the reserve and taciturnity of Nature.
    SlHr 10.444 8 Was it some reserve of constitution...that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    Bost 12.199 19 What should hinder that this America, so long kept in reserve from the intellectual races until they should grow to it...should have its happy ports...

reserve, v. (4)

    OS 2.279 1 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses...and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.
    Mrs1 3.140 19 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game...
    Supl 10.170 9 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises, and reserve the word mountains for the range.
    Koss 11.398 8 [The people of Concord] wish to reserve our honor for actions of the noblest strain.

reserved, adj. (13)

    LE 1.166 6 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits...admires the miracle of free...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    LE 1.180 19 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    MN 1.221 25 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power.
    SL 2.156 11 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Chr1 3.89 23 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
    NER 3.255 24 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers, who throw themselves on their reserved rights;...
    SwM 4.139 24 ...the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    ET5 5.99 24 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...
    Cour 7.255 9 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a pure flame...
    QO 8.198 15 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame, and come up and take place in the reserved and authentic chairs!
    Supl 10.173 17 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens, who make the reserved guard, the central sense, of the world.
    FRep 11.531 24 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has...no reserved force whereon to fall back when a reverse comes.
    Trag 12.406 3 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.

reserved, v. (7)

    NER 3.255 25 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who have reserved all their rights;...
    ET6 5.113 19 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London...
    Aris 10.45 12 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
    LS 11.3 19 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.
    HDC 11.41 4 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...
    SHC 11.433 7 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved for secular purposes;...
    MAng1 12.242 17 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.

reservedness, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 15 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.

reserves, n. (5)

    ET8 5.134 10 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of aplomb and reserves...
    Clbs 7.248 2 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...the ordinary reserves are thrown off...
    PC 8.216 18 ...Jove is in his reserves.
    Thor 10.476 3 [Thoreau] had many reserves...
    EurB 12.368 5 ...Wordsworth...made no reserves or stipulations;...

reserves, v. (4)

    UGM 4.31 27 ...heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature.
    PPh 4.42 6 ...society is glad to forget the innumerable laborers who ministered to this architect, and reserves all its gratitude for him.
    SS 7.8 26 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation...is put upon us by the Genius of Life, who reserves this as a part of his prerogative.
    CPL 11.508 1 The intellect reserves all its rights.

reserving, v. (1)

    YA 1.373 8 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist, reserving all profits to the community...

reservoir, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 19 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it, stops every leak, turns all the streamlets to one reservoir and decants wine;...

reservoirs, n. (1)

    PLT 12.51 23 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs...

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