Right to Rived
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
right, adj. (249)
Nat 1.25 16 Right means straight;...
Nat 1.33 18 ...A cripple in the right way will beat a
racer in the wrong;...
Nat 1.45 4 A right action seems to fill the eye...
Nat 1.59 13 I only wish to indicate the true position
of nature in regard to
man, wherein to establish man all right education tends;...
AmS 1.84 5 In the right state [the scholar] is Man
Thinking.
AmS 1.89 25 What is the right use [of books]?
AmS 1.91 9 Undoubtedly there is a right way of
reading...
AmS 1.103 5 Success treads on every right step.
AmS 1.106 17 ...in a millenium...one or two
approximations to the right
state of every man.
DSA 1.148 21 ...let us study the grand strokes of
rectitude:...a certain
solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that
it is
taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be
taken
by it...
LE 1.180 8 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in
the sallies of
courage...which, at the right moment, repaired all losses...
MN 1.206 14 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a
right picture as for
grass to bear apples.
LT 1.269 12 The leaders of the crusades against War,
Negro slavery...are
the right successors of Luther, Knox...
Con 1.302 25 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself
in driving to the
utmost some specialty of right conduct...
Con 1.319 5 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he
makes no allowance for
friction;...
Tran 1.357 15 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of
greater momentum lose no
time, but take the right road at first.
YA 1.381 8 ...[these communists] thought that the farm,
as we manage it, did not satisfy the right ambition of man.
Hist 2.34 20 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a
deep presentiment of
the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of
understanding
the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right
direction.
SR 2.51 7 Every decent and well-spoken individual
affects and sways me
more than is right.
SR 2.55 13 ...we know not where to begin to set
[conformists] right.
SR 2.76 5 If the finest genius studies at one of our
colleges and is not
installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his
friends and
to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
Comp 2.116 15 ...the law holds with equal sureness for
all right action.
SL 2.139 13 ...by lowly listening we shall hear the
right word.
SL 2.145 4 The soul's emphasis is always right.
SL 2.158 4 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as
well and accurately
weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number,
as
if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
Prd1 2.229 16 This property [which gives life to the
figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the
right centre of gravity.
Prd1 2.232 18 It does not seem to me so genuine grief
when some
tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent
persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each
other.
Prd1 2.234 22 ...beer, if not brewed in the right state
of the atmosphere, will sour;...
Prd1 2.239 22 The thought is not [in dispute] taken
hold of by the right
handle...
Hsm1 2.243 10 ...Chambers of the great are jails,/ And
head-winds right for
royal sails./
Hsm1 2.250 25 Heroism feels and never reasons, and
therefore is always
right;...
OS 2.268 26 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is...that common heart...to which all right
action is submission;...
Cir 2.313 12 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms
which the field offers
us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
Pt1 3.20 21 ...the poet...shows us all things in their
right series and
procession.
Exp 3.59 8 There is now no longer any right course of
action nor any self-devotion
left among the Iranis.
Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right
action of ours is quite
unaffecting to our friends...
Exp 3.78 24 Especially the crimes that spring from love
seem right and fair
from the actor's point of view...
Exp 3.85 14 ...there never was a right endeavor but it
succeeded.
Chr1 3.97 2 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted
in the actor, and its
quality as right or wrong it was easy to predict.
Chr1 3.111 26 If it were possible to live in right
relations with men!...
Chr1 3.115 7 This is confusion, this the right
insanity, when the soul no
longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
Mrs1 3.124 18 The rulers of society must be...men of
the right Caesarian
pattern...
Gts 3.161 17 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ...
Therefore the poet
brings his poem;...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is
right
and pleasing...
Nat2 3.178 27 ...if our own life flowed with the right
energy, we should
shame the brook.
Nat2 3.184 18 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the
discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls
rolled.
Nat2 3.184 21 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the
discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls
rolled. It was no great
affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of
it...
Pol1 3.207 26 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified
to judge of
monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was
also
relatively right.
NR 3.247 16 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few
weeks be coldly set aside by the same speaker, as morbid; I thought I
was
right, but I was not...
NER 3.254 18 It is right and beautiful in any man to
say, I will take this
coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see
the
act to be original...
NER 3.262 1 All our things are right and wrong
together.
NER 3.275 3 All that a man has will he give for right
relations with his
mates.
NER 3.284 11 Do not be so impatient to set the town
right concerning the
unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of
standing.
NER 3.284 14 Do not be so impatient to set the town
right concerning the
unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of
standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning
themselves, and
will certainly succeed.
UGM 4.8 10 Right ethics are central...
UGM 4.24 17 Altogether independent of the intellectual
force in each is... the security that we are right.
UGM 4.33 25 The genius of humanity is the right point
of view of history.
PPh 4.65 18 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us
for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in
the heavens, we might
properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by
imitating
the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and
blunders.
PNR 4.84 14 [Plato affirms that] The right punishment
of one out of tune is
to make him play in tune;...
SwM 4.107 24 A poetic anatomist, in our own day,
teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect
line, constitute a right
angle;...
SwM 4.119 3 To a right perception...of the order of
nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their
widest social aspects;...
SwM 4.134 8 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in
Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature
to
each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....
SwM 4.140 10 ...the right examples are private
experiences...
MoS 4.159 19 This then is the right ground of the
skeptic,--this of
consideration, of self-containing;...
MoS 4.170 5 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the
right and
permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
NMW 4.232 9 [Bonaparte] is strong in the right manner,
namely by insight.
NMW 4.235 25 ...if fighting be the best mode of
adjusting national
differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
GoW 4.265 10 Society has, at all times, the same want,
namely of one sane
man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of
monomania in its right relations.
GoW 4.265 21 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye
that can replace
this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of speech
of a right book I
meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
ET1 5.4 27 It is probable you left some obscure
comrade...with right
mother-wit and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play
bo-peep
with celebrated scribes.
ET1 5.10 2 The criticism [of Landor] may be right or
wrong, and is quickly
forgotten;...
ET1 5.23 6 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus
far to see a poet and
he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I
was
wrong...
ET2 5.32 20 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic
ship the right avenue to
the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
ET3 5.35 20 ...an American has more reasons than
another to draw him to
Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right
thinking
or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and
overpowering.
ET4 5.51 14 Who can call by right names what races are
in Britain?
ET4 5.53 18 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as
in England, but...no
right relation to the land...
ET4 5.59 26 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew,
burning in clear
flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right
end of
King Hake.
ET5 5.85 1 [The English] put the expense in the right
place...
ET6 5.111 7 Bacon told [the English], Time was the
right reformer;...
ET8 5.130 5 ...these [lower] classes are the right
English stock...
ET13 5.214 13 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he
is asked what he
thinks...of the right relations of the sexes?
ET14 5.233 4 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things
by the right end...
ET16 5.286 25 My friends asked, whether there were any
Americans?--any
with an American idea,--any theory of the right future of that country?
ET17 5.295 6 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right
poetic genius, though
with some affectation.
ET18 5.306 9 [The English] are right in their feeling,
though wrong in their
speculation.
ET18 5.307 3 ...now we say that the right measures of
England are the men
it bred;...
F 6.17 20 'T is hard to find the right Homer,
Zoroaster, or Menu;...
F 6.24 5 The right use of Fate is to bring up our
conduct to the loftiness of
nature.
F 6.30 1 ...no man has a right perception of any truth
who has not been
reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
F 6.30 7 One way is right to go;...
F 6.32 24 ...right drainage destroys typhus.
F 6.38 4 [A creature] is not possible until the
invisible things are right for
him...
Pow 6.63 13 The instinct of the people is right.
Pow 6.68 10 The rule for this whole class of [natural]
agencies is,--all plus
is good; only put it in the right place.
Pow 6.71 24 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy
in carrying on the
world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of
commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it
dangerous and
destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
Wth 6.86 8 ...the art of getting rich consists not in
industry...but...in being
at the right spot.
Wth 6.99 20 Property is an intellectual production. The
game requires
coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.
Wth 6.100 3 The right merchant is one who has the just
average of faculties
we call common-sense;...
Wth 6.123 6 ...the citizen comes to know that his
predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
Wth 6.125 18 ...The right investment is in tools of
your trade;...
Wth 6.126 19 The bread [a man] eats is first strength
and animal spirits; it
becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the
right
compound interest;...
Ctr 6.142 21 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus,
and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses and boats. Well, the boy is
right...
Bhr 6.186 12 Society...if you do not belong to it,
resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon
enrages the party attacked; the
second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not
easily
found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never
suspect
the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on them very injuriously
to any
cause but the right one.
Bhr 6.193 4 It is sublime to feel and say of
another...if he did thus or thus, I
know it was right.
Wsp 6.214 5 ...the religious appear isolated. I esteem
this a step in the right
direction.
Wsp 6.224 27 The way to mend the bad world is to create
the right world.
Wsp 6.231 26 ...as soon as the man is right, assurances
and previsions
emanate from the interior of his body and his mind;...
Wsp 6.232 27 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick
of the plague, in
order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the
plague also; and he was right.
CbW 6.248 9 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to
the man who can
will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of
success. Whoever said it, this is in the right key.
CbW 6.257 25 The right partisan is a heady, narrow
man...
CbW 6.265 5 It is an old commendation of right
behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb
translates, Be merry and wise.
CbW 6.270 4 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes
that...he only is right.
Bty 6.282 18 Alchemy, which sought...to arm with
power,--that was in the
right direction.
Bty 6.283 9 ...a right and perfect man would be felt to
the centre of the
Copernican system.
Bty 6.304 25 The poets are quite right in decking their
mistresses with the
spoils of the landscape...
Ill 6.317 3 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a
new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and
right if dressed in these colors...
SS 7.10 8 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no
metaphysics can
make right or tolerable.
SS 7.12 17 Heat puts you in right relation with
magazines of facts.
Civ 7.23 25 Right position of woman in the State is
another index [of
civilization].
Civ 7.24 1 ...place the sexes in right relations of
mutual respect, and a
severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all
that
is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
Art2 7.44 27 A jumble of musical sounds...in which the
rhythm of the tune
is played without one of the notes being right, gives pleasure to the
unskilful ear.
Elo1 7.64 3 There is no calamity which right words will
not begin to
redress.
Elo1 7.69 27 The right eloquence needs no bell to call
the people together...
Elo1 7.99 16 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an
elastic, unexhausted
power...
DL 7.114 22 ...[wealth] cannot be the right answer;
there are objections to
wealth.
DL 7.121 7 What is the hoop that holds [the eager,
blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has
directed their activity in safe
and right channels...
DL 7.126 26 Every face, every figure, suggests its own
right and sound
estate.
WD 7.164 6 Can anybody remember when...the right sort
of men, and the
right sort of women, were plentiful?
WD 7.164 7 Can anybody remember when...the right sort
of men, and the
right sort of women, were plentiful?
WD 7.169 26 The scholar must look long for the right
hour for Plato's
Timaeus.
Boks 7.192 9 ...your chance of hitting on the right
[book] is to be computed
by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
Boks 7.192 18 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in
naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him
safely
over dark morasses and barren oceans...
Boks 7.212 6 A right metaphysics should do justice to
the coordinate
powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
Boks 7.214 7 ...books that...distribute things...after
the laws of right reason... put us on our feet again...
Clbs 7.227 13 The physician helps [people] mainly...by
healthy talk giving
a right tone to the patient's mind.
Clbs 7.229 19 [The student] seeks intelligent
persons...who will give him
provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his
brain...and
the infinite opulence of things is again shown him. But the right
conditions
must be observed.
Clbs 7.234 25 ...once in the right company, new and
vast values do not fail
to appear.
Clbs 7.245 13 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit
no man whose
presence excludes any one topic.
Clbs 7.246 27 Things which you fancy wrong
[manufacturers, merchants
and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable;...
Cour 7.266 4 ...there is no separate essence called
courage...but it is the
right or healthy state of every man...
Cour 7.270 18 ...the right men will give a permanent
direction to the
fortunes of a state.
Suc 7.293 6 It is enough if you work in the right
direction.
Suc 7.301 7 If we follow this hint [of correspondence]
into our intellectual
education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our
first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and
moral sensibilities, those fountains of right thought...
Suc 7.306 17 There was never poet who had not the heart
in the right place.
Suc 7.308 22 I think that some so-called sacred
subjects must be treated
with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish
art to
be right pictures for houses and churches.
PI 8.30 6 The right poetic mood is or makes a more
complete sensibility...
PI 8.37 10 Malthus is the right organ of the English
proprietors;...
PI 8.40 1 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter
brains the instinct [of
creation]...knows the right way...
PI 8.49 16 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be
at once lifted out of
conventionality...
PI 8.56 3 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not
producible to-day, any
more than a right Gothic cathedral.
PI 8.60 21 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of
one groaning on his
right hand;...
PI 8.61 3 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which
thus called him by
his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me?
SA 8.95 20 A right speech is not well to be
distinguished from action.
Elo2 8.126 7 ...the learned forsake the vulgar, when
the vulgar is right;...
QO 8.201 27 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just
impressions from the
external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of
thought. It implies Will, or original force, for their right
distribution and
expression.
PPo 8.241 2 When Solomon travelled, his throne was
placed on a carpet of
green silk, of a length and breadth sufficient for all his army to
stand
upon,-men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his
left.
PPo 8.244 3 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two
only men
contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from
whom is knowledge hid./
Insp 8.269 23 The hunter on the prairie, at the right
season, has no need of
choosing his ground;...
Insp 8.277 19 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote
here, nor was there
any time to consider how to set it punctually down according to the
right
understanding of the letters, but all was ordered according to the
direction
of the spirit...
Insp 8.284 25 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me
pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my
quiet industry./
Insp 8.287 1 ...we take as much delight in finding the
right place for an old
observation, as in a new thought.
Insp 8.289 2 All the conditions must be right for my
success...
Insp 8.292 8 Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but
conversation, is the right
metaphysical professor.
Insp 8.293 1 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy,
to be brought
into the right conditions...
Insp 8.297 10 These are some hints towards what is in
all education a chief
necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers
of
the human soul.
Insp 8.297 11 These are some hints towards what is in
all education a chief
necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers
of
the human soul.
Grts 8.312 27 If it was right, what signifies who did
it?
Grts 8.313 4 ...do you know what the right meaning of
Fame is?
Imtl 8.328 23 ...spend yourself on the work before you,
well assured that
the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best
preparation for
the hours or ages that follow it...
Aris 10.32 1 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man
of honor...which seems
to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern
society.
Aris 10.43 22 In a thousand cups of life, only one is
the right mixture...
Aris 10.44 10 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me
see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific
memory, a right
classifier;...
Aris 10.47 5 All right activity is amiable.
Aris 10.49 26 The prerogatives of a right physician are
determined...by the
health he restores to body and mind;...
Aris 10.51 20 To a right aristocracy...everything will
be permitted and
pardoned...
Aris 10.64 2 ...shame to the fop of learning and
philosophy...who abandons
his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and
unpoetic
doers of God's work.
PerF 10.79 20 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and
after many years
succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
PerF 10.80 7 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense
battery discharging
irresistible volleys of power always at the right point in the right
time.
PerF 10.80 8 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense
battery discharging
irresistible volleys of power always at the right point in the right
time.
Chr2 10.102 18 Character...by implication points to the
source of right
motive.
Chr2 10.113 6 [Morals] does not ask whether you are
wrong or right in
your anecdotes of [past teachers and witnesses];...
Chr2 10.117 22 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear
of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
Chr2 10.120 4 [Character] compels right relation to
every other man...
Edc1 10.139 16 [Boys'] elections at baseball or cricket
are founded on
merit, and are right.
Edc1 10.147 7 Make [a boy] call things by their right
names.
Edc1 10.156 21 See what [your pupils] need, and that
the right thing is
done.
Edc1 10.158 19 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you
in your speech, cries
out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
SovE 10.189 4 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the
bottom of the heart
that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things
right;...
MoL 10.249 1 Every man...does not need any one good so
much as this of
right thought.
MoL 10.258 6 ...on each new threat of faction, the
ballot of the people has
been unexpectedly right.
Schr 10.267 9 Action is legitimate and good; forever be
it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...
Schr 10.269 16 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in
proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it
in
right action?
Schr 10.273 5 In the right hands, literature is not
resorted to as a
consolation...but as a decalogue.
Schr 10.274 2 The speculative man, the scholar, is the
right hero.
Plu 10.313 4 When you are persuaded in your mind that
you cannot either
offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the
entertaining a
right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less
evil than
atheism.
Plu 10.314 27 So keen is [Plutarch's] sense of
allegiance to right reason, that he makes a fight against Fortune
whenever she is named.
LLNE 10.346 22 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt
that he had hit on a
right and perfect socialism...
MMEm 10.397 10 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/
If He should
make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's
content
would find it right./
Thor 10.457 4 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see
with regret that his
page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights
everybody?
LS 11.18 6 ...I believe...that every effort to pay
religious homage to more
than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
EWI 11.108 11 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge,
England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was,
Is it right to
make slaves of others against their will?
War 11.166 8 ...the least change in the man will change
his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every
man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works
with
right.
War 11.171 11 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God,
which bids the devils
that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him and let him now be
clothed and walk forth in his right mind.
War 11.173 24 ...the man who...without any notice of
his action abroad, expecting none, takes in solitude the right step
uniformly...does not yield, in
my imagination, to any man.
FSLC 11.187 18 If our resistance to this law [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is
not right, there is no right.
FSLC 11.208 26 It is really the great task fit for this
country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the
British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy...because it is the only practicable course,
and is
innocent. Here is a right social or public function...which all men
must do.
FSLN 11.220 13 I saw that a great man [Webster],
deservedly admired for
his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he
failed...to
carry parties with him.
FSLN 11.221 2 There are those...who have power and
inspiration only to
do ill. Their talent or their faculty deserts them when they undertake
anything right.
FSLN 11.223 8 ...[Webster's] head distributed things in
their right places...
FSLN 11.224 20 It is remarked of Americans...that they
think they praise a
man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
FSLN 11.233 13 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law
was right...
FSLN 11.242 26 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a
man virtuously
inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics. I should
prefer
the right side.
AsSu 11.246 4 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he
prevails,/ Looks from
his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the
eternal
scales./
JBB 11.269 12 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I
had interfered in
behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.
JBB 11.269 15 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I
had interfered in
behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I
believe
that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not
wrong, but right.
JBB 11.271 3 Great wealth, great population, men of
talent in the
executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
JBB 11.272 27 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in
which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and
not a protection; for it takes
away [a man's] right reliance on himself...
ACiv 11.302 1 ...imposts are the cheap and right
taxation;...
ACiv 11.308 15 A week before the two captive
commissioners were
surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done: it
would
divide the North. It was done, and in two days all agreed it was the
right
action.
ACiv 11.308 21 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the
world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause
of war and ruin to nations. This measure at once puts all parties
right.
EPro 11.320 10 The first condition of success is
secured in putting
ourselves right.
ALin 11.332 9 ...this man [Lincoln] was...all right for
labor...
SMC 11.357 14 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys
were sitting on a
rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice
themselves.
SMC 11.368 1 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker
for a day and a
half,-but all right.
EdAd 11.387 5 ...the right patriotism consists in the
delight which springs
from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit
of
humanity.
FRO1 11.477 3 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding
this house this
morning, that I had come into the right hall.
FRep 11.525 12 In each new threat of faction the ballot
has been, beyond
expectation, right and decisive.
PLT 12.33 20 Right thought comes spontaneously...
PLT 12.37 10 If we could retain our early innocence, we
might trust our
feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
PLT 12.42 16 Each soul...walking in its own path walks
firmly; and to the
astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as
softly and
playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...over terrific
pits right and
left, it were a wide prairie.
PLT 12.53 12 Every sincere man is right...
PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make
him right, only needs
a little larger dose of his own personality.
PLT 12.55 24 The right partisan is a heady man...
II 12.82 16 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all
his knowledge only
through that aperture. Society is unanimous against his project. He
never
hears it as he knows it. Nevertheless he is right; right against the
world.
II 12.82 19 If [a man] is wrong, increase his
determination to his aim, and
he is right again.
CInt 12.124 9 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy;
here is...the hope and
impulse imparted. And education is what it should be, a delightful
unfolding of the faculties in right order.
CL 12.165 14 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to
explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard
to man. They may have
been right or wrong in any particulars of their interpretation...
Bost 12.195 4 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton,
Fenelon, to our
devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will
say with
Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the
evening die, I can be happy.
Bost 12.200 2 What should hinder that this
America...what should hinder
that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode,
where
all elements were right for the health, power and virtue of man?
MAng1 12.220 14 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a
toilsome
observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him shows him to
be
already on the right road.
MAng1 12.229 24 In the church called the Minerva, at
Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the
people that
the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from
being
kissed away.
Milt1 12.272 25 [Milton] defends the slaying of the
king, because a king is
a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill
Philip
of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of
Spain
hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern
tyranically.
ACri 12.284 17 ...the learned depart from established
forms of speech, in
hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction
forsake the
vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
MLit 12.320 21 The Excursion awakened in every lover of
Nature the right
feeling.
Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this
petition in the mouth
of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which
I have
may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of
mine;...
AgMs 12.363 11 The true men of skill, the poor
farmers...are the only right
subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
PPr 12.380 4 ...the merit of seers is not to invent but
to dispose objects in
their right places...
PPr 12.380 7 ...he is the commander...whose eye not
only sees details, but
throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
Let 12.398 11 [American youths] are in the state of the
young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and
said...there is now
no longer any right course of action, nor any self-devotion left among
the
Iranis.
right, adv. (15)
NER 3.279 3 I remember standing at the polls one day
when the anger of
the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the
independent
electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I
am
satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to
vote right.
ET3 5.41 5 ...England is anchored...right in the heart
of the modern world.
ET6 5.113 1 [The English] avoid pretension and go right
to the heart of the
thing.
CbW 6.250 5 What a vicious practice is this of our
politicians at
Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could
excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
Elo1 7.96 18 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went
through, in
childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in the New
England
assembly a purer bit of New England than any, and flings his sarcasms
right
and left.
Cour 7.278 12 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the
hunter's skill,/ The
boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
Cour 7.278 15 One day as through the cleft/ Between two
mountains
steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
Cour 7.278 20 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With
hunger fierce and fell/
Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
OA 7.314 6 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right
onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And
every wave is charmed./
PI 8.62 13 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that
whereby she hath
imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes,
Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful...
SA 8.82 15 Give me a thought, and my hands and legs and
voice and face
will all go right.
Chr2 10.121 19 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure
loveliness and
right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
EzRy 10.388 8 Right manly [Ezra Ripley] was, and the
manly thing he
could always say.
SMC 11.362 16 One day [George Prescott] writes, I
expect to have a time
this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is
very
profane, and I will not stand it. If he does not stop it, I will march
my men
right away when he is drilling them.
WSL 12.344 26 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the
portrait of a man
who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.
right, n. (245)
Nat 1.11 3 [The waving of the boughs'] effect is like
that of a higher
thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was...doing
right.
Nat 1.41 1 ...every animal function from the sponge up
to Hercules, shall
hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
DSA 1.131 13 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a
creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...
DSA 1.143 14 What was once a mere circumstance,
that...the young and
old, should meet one day as fellows in one house, in sign of an equal
right
in the soul, has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
DSA 1.148 3 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and
universal aims, and
they instantly feel that you have right...
DSA 1.148 4 [The commanders] also feel your right;...
LE 1.186 6 It is this domineering temper of the sensual
world that creates
the extreme need of the priests of science; and it is the office and
right of
the intellect to make and not take its estimate.
LE 1.186 19 Why should you renounce your right to
traverse the star-lit
deserts of truth...
MN 1.194 13 ...the whole world feels that thou art in
the right.
MN 1.205 27 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in
thy heart, the bower
of love and the realms of right and wrong.
MN 1.207 10 ...what strikes us in the fine genius is
that which belongs of
right to every one.
MN 1.219 23 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement]
was the growth and
expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent
Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right
in every clear and
active spirit of the period.
MR 1.238 2 ...I...have not earned by use a right to my
arms and feet.
LT 1.270 8 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong...
LT 1.270 12 The political questions touching...the
right of the constituent
to instruct the representative;...are all pregnant with ethical
conclusions;...
LT 1.276 7 [These reforms] are the simplest statements
of man in these
matters; the plain right and wrong.
LT 1.289 11 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence
or absence right
and wrong...
Con 1.298 12 ...innovation is always in the right...
Con 1.310 5 ...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.
Con 1.311 9 Have we not atoned for this small
offence...of leaving you no
right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national
wealth?
Con 1.313 21 [This manner of living] nourished you with
care and love on
its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a
poet...
Con 1.318 23 ...[the conservative party] goes...for
expediency in its
measures, and not for the right.
Tran 1.336 22 Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and
wrong except the
determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime
but has
sometimes been a virtue.
Tran 1.337 12 ...I have assurance in myself that in
pardoning these faults
according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the
majesty of
his being confers on him;...
Tran 1.348 10 What right, cries the good world, has the
man of genius to
retreat from work, and indulge himself?
YA 1.389 19 The more need of...a resort to the fountain
of right, by the
brave.
Hist 2.3 4 He that is once admitted to the right of
reason is made a freeman
of the whole estate.
SR 2.50 26 ...the only right is what is after my
constitution;...
SR 2.53 15 I cannot consent to pay for a privilege
where I have intrinsic
right.
SR 2.59 14 If I can be firm enough to-day to do right
and scorn eyes, I must
have done so much right before as to defend me now.
SR 2.59 15 ...I must have done so much right before as
to defend me now.
SR 2.59 16 Be it how it will, do right now.
SR 2.63 21 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 their consciousness of their own right
and
comeliness...
SR 2.63 21 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.
SR 2.70 24 Power is, in nature, the essential measure
of right.
SR 2.80 10 [The unbalanced mind] cannot imagine how you
aliens have
any right to see...
Comp 2.119 23 ...[the mob] would whip a right;...
SL 2.139 16 Certainly there is a possible right for you
that precludes the
need of balance and wilful election.
SL 2.139 22 Place yourself in the middle of the stream
of power and
wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right...
SL 2.139 25 Place yourself in the middle of the stream
of power and
wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect
contentment. ... Then you are...the measure of right...
SL 2.140 11 ...that which I call right or goodness, is
the choice of my
constitution;...
SL 2.145 6 Over all things that are agreeable to his
nature and genius the
man has the highest right.
SL 2.145 12 It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from
one who has a right
to know it.
SL 2.145 15 That mood into which a friend can bring us
is his dominion
over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right.
Lov1 2.180 22 ...personal beauty is then first charming
and itself...when [the beholder] cannot feel his right to it, though he
were Caesar;...
Lov1 2.180 23 ...personal beauty is then first charming
and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than
to the firmament and the
splendors of a sunset.
Fdsp 2.194 18 By oldest right, by the divine affinity
of virtue with itself, I
find [my friends]...
Prd1 2.221 1 What right have I to write on Prudence...
OS 2.293 25 Has it not occurred to you that you have no
right to go, unless
you are equally willing to be prevented from going?
Cir 2.317 6 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues
too,/ Those smaller
faults, half converts to the right./
Art1 2.355 22 ...it is the right and property of all
natural objects...to be for
their moment the top of the world.
Pt1 3.7 13 ...the poet...is emperor in his own right.
Exp 3.65 4 Right to hold land, right of property, is
disputed...and before the
vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
Exp 3.65 5 Right to hold land, right of property, is
disputed...and before the
vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
Chr1 3.95 6 Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor
slave-captain's
mind;...
Mrs1 3.123 27 [The name gentleman] describes a man
standing in his own
right...
Mrs1 3.143 24 There is not only the right of conquest,
which genius
pretends...but less claims will pass for the time;...
Mrs1 3.148 14 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and
great ladies, had
some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their
mouths
before the days of Waverley;...
Nat2 3.177 23 ...I cannot renounce the right of
returning often to this old
topic [nature].
Pol1 3.202 25 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better
of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
Pol1 3.205 20 ...the attributes of a person, his wit
and his moral energy, will
exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper
force...with
right, or by might.
Pol1 3.210 18 [The conservative party] vindicates no
right...
Pol1 3.213 9 ...absolute right is the first
governor;...
Pol1 3.214 2 Every man's nature is a sufficient
advertisement to him of the
character of his fellows. My right and my wrong is their right and
their
wrong.
Pol1 3.217 23 We are haunted by a conscience of this
right to grandeur of
character...
Pol1 3.219 20 A man has a right to be employed...
Pol1 3.221 5 ...there never was in any man sufficient
faith in the power of
rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State
on the
principle of right and love.
NER 3.256 20 ...if I had not that commodity
[money]...man would be a
benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a
right to
those aids and services which each asked of the other.
NER 3.263 4 When we see...a special reformer, we feel
like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
NER 3.263 7 In another way the right will be
vindicated.
NER 3.283 15 ...[men] believe...that right is done at
last;...
PNR 4.84 13 [Plato affirms that] The intelligent have a
right over the
ignorant...
PNR 4.84 14 [Plato affirms that] The intelligent have a
right over the
ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them.
SwM 4.93 22 Wherever the sentiment of right comes in,
it takes precedence
of every thing else.
SwM 4.134 9 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in
Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature
to
each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....
SwM 4.134 25 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of
right and
wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has
had for the nations.
SwM 4.145 17 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some
transmigrating votary of
Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the
last
rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to
right, as
the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
MoS 4.163 1 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery
of Pere Lachaise, I
came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to
do
right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
MoS 4.176 12 Are the opinions of a man on right and
wrong...at the mercy
of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
MoS 4.180 6 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines
us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts,--and lie for the right?
MoS 4.180 15 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit]
not a right to insist
on being convinced in his own way?
ShP 4.219 18 ...right is more beautiful than private
affection;...
GoW 4.284 22 There is nothing [Goethe] had not right to
know...
ET4 5.64 3 The right of the husband to sell the wife
has been retained [in
England] down to our times.
ET5 5.81 14 ...when [English] courts and parliament are
both deaf, the
plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from
year to
year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations
and
estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his
opinion, resolved that if all remedy fails, right of revolution is at
the bottom of his
charter-box.
ET5 5.87 16 It is not usually a point of honor...and
never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but
usually property, and right
measured by property, that breeds revolution.
ET5 5.87 22 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the
Englishman's] day's wages, on...his right in common...he will fight to
the Judgment.
ET5 5.87 27 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American
Revolution, are all
questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...
ET5 5.97 5 The nearer we look, the more artificial is
[the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions.
Their property, a scrip or
certificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw.
ET7 5.118 18 The Duke of Wellington, who had the best
right to say so, advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely
on the parole of an
English officer.
ET7 5.122 22 [The English] love stoutness in standing
for your right...
ET8 5.133 25 The common Englishman is prone to forget a
cardinal article
in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own
ears.
ET9 5.144 2 Individual right is pushed [in England] to
the uttermost bound
compatible with public order.
ET9 5.144 18 The pursy man [in England] means by
freedom the right to
do as he pleases...
ET11 5.173 2 In spite of...the devastation of society
by the profligacy of the
court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King
Charles's
return to his right with his Cavaliers,
ET11 5.174 26 The things these English have done were
not done...without
wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show
their right to their honors...
ET12 5.208 24 A gentleman [in England] must
possess...an independent
and public position, or at least the right of assuming it.
ET13 5.224 12 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer,
much less any
saintly prayer for the Queen's mind; ask neither for light nor right...
ET15 5.272 2 I wish I could add that this journal [the
London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields, by guidance of
the public sentiment
to the right.
ET15 5.272 11 If only [the London Times] dared to
cleave to the right...
ET15 5.272 11 If only [the London Times] dared...to
show the right to be
the only expedient...
ET18 5.308 10 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged
should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island
famous...for the announcements
of original right which make the stone tables of liberty.
ET19 5.311 3 That which lures a solitary American in
the woods with the
wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its
commanding sense of right and wrong...
F 6.19 20 ...[the drowning men] had a right to their
eye-beams, and all the
rest was Fate.
F 6.23 14 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the
flippant mistaking for
freedom of some paper preamble like...the statute right to vote, by
those
who have never dared to think or to act...
Pow 6.58 12 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal
ascendency...then...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right
to
absorb them.
Wth 6.103 21 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is
itself the detector of
the right and wrong where it circulates.
Wth 6.103 24 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by
the increase of
equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote, or adheres to some odious
right, he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
Ctr 6.134 15 Every valuable nature is there in its own
right...
Ctr 6.155 7 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and
outgrown coat, that
he may secure the coveted place in college and the right in the
library, is
educated to some purpose.
Ctr 6.161 6 A man who stands on a good footing with the
heads of parties
at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key
to the
right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this
will
end.
Bhr 6.187 9 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the
movers and masters of
our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as
they
please...
Wsp 6.210 5 What [proof of infidelity], like the
externality of churches that
once sucked the roots of right and wrong...
Wsp 6.216 27 ...we very slowly admit in another
man...an ear to hear acuter
notes of right and wrong than we can.
Wsp 6.219 17 ...the primordial atoms...are in search of
justice, and ultimate
right is done.
Wsp 6.219 21 Religion or worship is the attitude of
those...who see that
against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right
forever.
Wsp 6.232 6 ...man is made equal to every event. He can
face danger for
the right.
CbW 6.252 10 We have as good right, and the same sort
of right to be here, as Cape Cod or Sandy Hook have to be there.
CbW 6.252 11 We have as good right, and the same sort
of right to be here, as Cape Cod or Sandy Hook have to be there.
SS 7.9 18 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the
world with superficial
and treacherous courtesies!
SS 7.16 3 ...a sound mind will derive its principles
from insight, with ever a
purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right...
Elo1 7.90 7 Condense some daily experience into a
glowing symbol, and an
audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some
new
right and power over a fact which they can detach...
WD 7.185 14 ...this is the progress of every earnest
mind;...from local skills
and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the
finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and the right
we
have to the work...
Boks 7.191 19 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to
be heard on the
questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the
books of
Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed
of. If
not, he has no right to our time.
Cour 7.255 26 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in
lonely adherence to the
right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
Cour 7.259 14 ...the aggressive attitude of men who
will have right done... that part, the part of the leader and soul of
the vigilance committee, must be
taken by stout and sincere men...
Cour 7.260 15 ...the measure of our sincerity and
therefore of the respect of
men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence
of
our right.
Cour 7.275 19 We have little right in piping times of
peace to pronounce
on these rare heights of character;...
Suc 7.309 17 When that is spoken which has a right to
be spoken, the
chatter and the criticism will stop.
Suc 7.311 18 ...[the inner live] loves right...
PI 8.31 20 To the poet...it is always time to do right.
PI 8.37 1 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from
the gossip and
routine of society, and the allowed right and practice of making
better.
PI 8.52 6 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour
contempt on the prose
you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent. The like
allowance is
the prescriptive right of poetry.
SA 8.90 26 [The highly organized person] of all men
would keep the right
of choice sacred...
SA 8.100 5 The consideration the rich possess in all
societies is not without
meaning or right.
Elo2 8.114 19 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the
seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the
assembly who has the most to say...
Elo2 8.125 11 That something which each man was created
to say and do, he only or he best can tell you, and has a right to
supreme attention so far.
Comc 8.160 12 The presence of the ideal of right and of
truth in all action
makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the
conscience...
QO 8.203 5 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the
subject to which it
has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
PC 8.230 18 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists...amidst fools
and blind, to see the right done;...
PPo 8.249 15 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a
groom, and heaven a
closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
This
boundless charter is the right of genius.
Grts 8.301 4 Every human being has a right to
[greatness]...
Grts 8.309 4 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
his deep conviction, and
the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his
audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
Aris 10.52 21 Genius...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges...
Aris 10.52 24 Genius...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by
all men as their delegate. It has
indeed the best right, because it raises men above themselves...
Aris 10.63 24 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music
and the dance of
liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in
also. Then I shall not have forfeited my right to speak and act for
mankind.
PerF 10.83 10 [The susceptible man]...obeys a
preexisting right which he
sees.
PerF 10.84 4 Obedience alone gives the right to
command.
PerF 10.88 1 Every new asserter of the right surprises
us...
PerF 10.88 5 ...the cause of right for which we labor
never dies...
Chr2 10.92 12 It were an unspeakable calamity if any
one should think he
had the right to impose a private will on others.
Chr2 10.95 13 The moral element invites man...to find
his satisfaction...not
in bread, but in his right to his bread;...
Chr2 10.115 13 ...[Jesus's disciples] hamper us with
limitations of person
and text. Every exaggeration of these is a violation of the soul's
right...
Supl 10.171 1 Men of the world value truth...not by its
sacredness, but for
its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right
to
expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the
form.
SovE 10.188 24 The wars which make history so dreary
have served the
cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of
right...
SovE 10.192 14 The idea of right exists in the human
mind...
SovE 10.197 17 ...the good of the whole, or what I call
the right, makes me
invulnerable.
Prch 10.231 23 We come to church properly...for
approach to principles to
see how it stands with us, with the deep and dear facts of right and
love.
MoL 10.257 13 War, seeking for the roots of strength,
comes upon the
moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen
devil, as
by immemorial right.
Schr 10.271 18 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that
genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because
they have a royal right in these and in all things...
Schr 10.271 20 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that
genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because
they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the
present
proprietor.
Schr 10.276 26 As Burke said, it is not only our duty
to make the right
known, but to make it prevalent.
Plu 10.301 19 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the
sages and warriors he
reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these
stirring
deeds and speeches.
Plu 10.302 10 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the
ports of every
nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to
discriminate
owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch, by right of
eminent
domain...
Plu 10.312 21 [Seneca's] thoughts are excellent, if
only he had the right to
say them.
LLNE 10.348 4 Fourier...has put men under the
obligation...of conceiving
magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
LLNE 10.356 6 Since the foxes and the birds have the
right of it, with a
warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend
the
sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and
thoughts...
MMEm 10.431 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid
her
passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the
delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original:
Have I
this right?
Thor 10.484 21 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope
to gather this
plant [the Edelweisse], which belonged to him of right.
HDC 11.46 24 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns
learned...to
exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before
the
country.
HDC 11.75 24 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right
to their corn and
their cattle...
LVB 11.89 3 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places
you in a relation of
credit and nearness to every citizen. By right and natural position,
every
citizen is your friend.
LVB 11.89 8 Each has the highest right to call your
[Van Buren's] attention
to such subjects as are of a public nature...
EWI 11.101 22 The history of mankind interests us only
as it exhibits a
steady gain of truth and right...
EWI 11.103 4 For the negro...no right in the poor black
woman that
cherished him in her bosom...
EWI 11.103 5 For the negro...no right to the children
of his body;...
EWI 11.128 11 For months and years the bill [on
emanicipation in the
West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed...
EWI 11.140 19 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat
the
underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners: they had a right to do what they had done.
EWI 11.144 15 ...now, the arrival in the world of such
men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American
humanity. The anti-slavery
of the whole world is dust in the balance before this,-is a poor
squeamishness and nervousness: the might and the right are here...
EWI 11.146 11 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing
negro...has
believed there was no vindication of right;...
EWI 11.147 13 There is a blessed necessity by which the
interest of men is
always driving them to the right;...
War 11.159 26 All history is the decline of war, though
the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation: the
doctrine of the right of war
still remains.
War 11.167 14 Since the peace question has been before
the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have
naturally been met with
objections more or less weighty.
FSLC 11.186 26 ...laws do not make right...
FSLC 11.186 26 ...laws...are simply declaratory of a
right which already
existed...
FSLC 11.187 14 A man's right to liberty is as
inalienable as his right to life.
FSLC 11.187 15 A man's right to liberty is as
inalienable as his right to life.
FSLC 11.187 18 Pains seem to have been taken to give us
in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture
of right.
FSLC 11.187 19 If our resistance to this law [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is
not right, there is no right.
FSLC 11.191 8 Lord Coke held that where an Act of
Parliament is against
common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
FSLC 11.197 1 The humiliating scandal of great men
warping right into
wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the
cities.
FSLC 11.199 27 When a moral quality comes into
politics, when a right is
invaded...general principles are laid bare...
FSLC 11.208 21 It is really the great task fit for this
country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the
British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to
own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
FSLC 11.213 15 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was
foully lost, that the well-known
sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
In this one fastness let truth be spoken and right done.
FSLN 11.222 25 [Webster] worked with...the same quiet
and sure feeling
of right to his place that an oak or a mountain have to theirs.
FSLN 11.223 12 What gratitude does every man feel to
him who speaks
well for the right...
FSLN 11.224 9 Four years ago to-night, on one of those
high critical
moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered
for
conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on
the
side of Slavery...
FSLN 11.225 18 ...it is the genius and temper of the
man which decides
whether he will stand for right or for might.
FSLN 11.229 13 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law]
showed that the old
religion and the sense of the right had faded and gone out;...
FSLN 11.231 23 May and Must, and the sense of right and
duty, on the one
hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
FSLN 11.235 7 ...no man has a right to hope that the
laws of New York
will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he
has
made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New
York, but to his own sense and spirit.
FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind,
that there is...no
liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and
allies will
promptly appear...
FSLN 11.238 1 ...if you have a nice question of right
and wrong, you
would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
FSLN 11.241 22 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 appreciate the service...
AKan 11.254 4 ...Help them who cannot help again:/
Beware from right to
swerve./
AKan 11.255 14 There is this peculiarity about the case
of Kansas, that all
the right is on one side.
AKan 11.256 25 [The people of Kansas] have a right to
be helped...
JBS 11.279 6 [John Brown] grew up...having that force
of thought and that
sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness.
ACiv 11.298 27 We have attempted to hold together two
states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and
the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old
military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands,
makes
an oligarchy...
ACiv 11.307 25 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the
poor-white of the
South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer.
Now, in
the name of all that is simple and generous, why should not this great
right
be done?
EPro 11.321 11 What right has any one to read in the
journals tidings of
victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure,
personal
sacrifice...
HCom 11.341 5 ...I think it is not in man to see,
without a feeling of pride
and pleasure...the armed defender of the right.
HCom 11.342 11 The proof that war also is within the
highest right...is its
morale.
SMC 11.354 13 The secret architecture of things begins
to disclose itself; the fact that all things were made on a basis of
right;...
SMC 11.354 18 ...whatever may happen in this hour or
that, the years and
the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the
right.
EdAd 11.393 18 We entreat the aid of every lover of
truth and right...
Koss 11.400 13 You [Kossuth] have achieved your right
to interpret our
Washington.
Wom 11.413 3 We men have no right to say it, but the
omnipotence of Eve
is in humility.
Wom 11.416 13 There was...no right [antagonism to
Slavery] did not
explore...
Wom 11.416 19 ...one right is an accession of strength
to take more.
Wom 11.416 23 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to
education, to avenues of
employment...
Wom 11.419 17 [Women] have an unquestionable right to
their own
property.
Wom 11.419 27 ...bring together a cultivated society of
both sexes, in a
drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste
or on
a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical
difficulty in
obtaining their authentic opinions?
Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming
at abstract right
without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification,
but a
qualification [for voting].
FRep 11.525 15 In each new threat of faction the ballot
has been, beyond
expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden,
undated
perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were
wrong;...
FRep 11.540 8 America should affirm and establish that
in no instance
shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
PLT 12.33 4 The appetite and the power of digestion
measure our right to
knowledge.
PLT 12.38 14 The thought, the doctrine, the right
hitherto not affirmed is
published in set propositions...
PLT 12.46 2 A blending of these two-the intellectual
perception of truth
and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
PLT 12.46 6 Wishing is castle-building; the dreaming
about things
agreeable to the senses, but to which we have no right.
PLT 12.46 11 The revelation of thought takes us out of
servitude into
freedom. So does the sense of right.
PLT 12.47 2 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his
voice is...rude and
chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in
power to do the right.
PLT 12.62 7 The measure of mental health is the
disposition to find good
everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of
truth, tendency to be in the right...
Mem 12.108 12 How in the right are children, said
Margaret Fuller, to
forget name and date and place.
CInt 12.125 20 What right have you to be better than
your neighbor?
Bost 12.208 10 ...there is yet in every city a certain
permanent tone; a
tendency to be in the right or in the wrong;...
Milt1 12.250 11 The lover of [Milton's] genius will
always regret that he
should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have
written
from the deep convictions of love and right...
Milt1 12.253 3 We think we have heard the recitation of
[Milton's] verses
by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation
which
told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the
perception and enjoyment of...his perfect fusion of the classic and the
English styles. This is a poet's right;...
Milt1 12.259 20 ...probably no traveller ever entered
that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality
[than Milton]...
Milt1 12.272 27 [Milton] defends the slaying of the
king, because a king is
a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill
Philip
of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of
Spain
hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern
tyranically.
ACri 12.291 18 ...a man has a right to pass...for a
worse man than he is, but
not for a better.
MLit 12.313 20 ...the single soul feels its right to be
no longer confounded
with numbers...
MLit 12.323 24 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and
duty to stand before and
try and judge every fact in Nature.
EurB 12.371 9 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who
collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such
superfineness.
Trag 12.406 17 ...no theory of life can have any right
which leaves out of
account the values of vice...fear and death.
Right, n. (9)
DSA 1.121 6 When...[man] attains to say, - I love the
Right...then...God is
well pleased.
SR 2.69 7 The soul raised over passion...perceives the
self-existence of
Truth and Right...
F 6.28 1 A breath of will blows eternally through the
universe of souls in
the direction of the Right and Necessary.
Ill 6.324 22 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are
not broken by the
disguise.
Comc 8.161 8 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees
the Right, and sympathizes with it...
Chr2 10.93 15 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike
in all.
Chr2 10.96 16 ...under the action of this sentiment of
the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above
Nature.
Schr 10.275 14 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries
and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all mankind at the call
of
that private and perfect Right and Beauty in which he lives.
EWI 11.147 20 The sentiment of Right...pronounces
Freedom.
right, v. (4)
MR 1.231 2 ...it requires more vigor and resources than
can be expected of
every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...
CbW 6.254 20 There is a tendency in things to right
themselves...
Aris 10.47 18 I do not pity the misery of a man
underplaced: that will right
itself presently...
MLit 12.329 9 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
That all shall right
itself in the long Morrow, I may well allow, and my novel [Wilhelm
Meister] may wait for the same regeneration.
righteousness, n. (5)
LS 11.3 1 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness
and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.
LS 11.20 20 ...the Apostle well assures us that the
kingdom of God is not
meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
LS 11.23 9 ...now...Christians must contend that it
is...really a duty, to
commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that
form be agreeable to their understandings or not. ... Is not this to
make
men,-to make ourselves,-forget that...not names, but righteousness and
love are enjoined;...
HDC 11.82 25 Two religious societies, of differing
creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding, both
promoting, we hope, the cause of
righteousness and love.
EWI 11.106 13 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the
case of George
Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions
were
set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's
righteousness in
Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.
righter, adj. (2)
LT 1.287 17 ...we think the Genius of this Age more
philosophical than any
other has been, righter in its aims...
F 6.44 27 [The great man's] mind is righter than others
because he yields to
a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised.
rightest, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.185 22 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of
fairer forms, of
lordlier youths...makes them a little wrong-headed in that direction in
which
they are rightest...
rightful, adj. (5)
Mrs1 3.124 26 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful
master which is the
complement of whatever person it converses with.
Pol1 3.203 20 At last it seemed settled that the
rightful distinction was that
the proprietors should have more elective franchise than
non-proprietors...
Pol1 3.217 3 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble
all rulers from their
chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
Wsp 6.213 13 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed,
undescribable
presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord...
EWI 11.135 10 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme,
to the bright aspects of
the occasion.
rightfully, adv. (3)
LE 1.158 18 When [the scholar] has seen that [the
intellectual power]...is
the soul which made the world...he will know that he...may rightfully
hold
all things subordinate and answerable to it.
YA 1.388 11 I find no expression...especially in our
newspapers, of a high
national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood.
FSLN 11.241 13 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and
education be cast
where they rightfully belong.
righting, v. (2)
DSA 1.122 27 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh
everywhere, righting wrongs...
YA 1.386 3 If any man has a talent for righting
wrong...let him in the
county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
rightly, adv. (68)
Nat 1.35 23 ...every object rightly seen, unlocks a new
faculty of the soul.
Nat 1.45 7 ...in the one thing [the wise man] does
rightly, he sees the
likeness of all which is done rightly.
Nat 1.45 8 ...in the one thing [the wise man] does
rightly, he sees the
likeness of all which is done rightly.
AmS 1.108 1 ...a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the
particular natures
of all men.
AmS 1.112 21 There is one man of genius...whose
literary value has never
yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
MN 1.211 25 There is no office or function of man but
is rightly discharged
by this divine method...
Hist 2.5 9 We, as we read, must...fasten these images
to some reality in our
secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
Cir 2.313 13 Christianity is rightly dear to the best
of mankind;...
Cir 2.314 20 Not through subtle subterranean channels
need friend and fact
be drawn to their counterpart, but, rightly considered, these things
proceed
from the eternal generation of the soul.
Cir 2.320 24 Now for the first time seem I to know any
thing rightly.
Mrs1 3.154 27 ...it seemed as if the instinct of all
sufferers drew them to [Osman's] side. And the madness which he
harbored he did not share. Is
not this to be rich? this only to be rightly rich?
Nat2 3.180 2 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our
Mosaic and
Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. We knew nothing rightly, for
want of
perspective.
NR 3.242 2 ...rightly every man is a channel through
which heaven
floweth...
UGM 4.29 5 We rightly speak of the guardian angels of
children.
PPh 4.47 22 He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly
divide and define.
SwM 4.121 20 ...we must be at the top of our condition
to understand any
thing rightly.
SwM 4.127 7 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to
be the Hymn of
Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as
rightly
celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance
the souls...
SwM 4.138 15 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being
in the gods are
one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
MoS 4.171 14 ...though the town and state and way of
living, which our
counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity,
yet
men rightly go for him...
GoW 4.281 19 If [the writer] can not rightly express
himself to-day, the
same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow.
ET11 5.180 4 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the
token of the glebe that
gave them birth...
ET13 5.225 26 Prophet and apostle can only be rightly
understood by
prophet and apostle.
ET14 5.241 15 A few generalizations always circulate in
the world, whose
authors we do not rightly know...
ET14 5.249 16 But for Coleridge...one would say that in
Germany and in
America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
ET16 5.290 18 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was
unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble
hands and patted
them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built
Windsor
and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
F 6.25 9 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born and
afterward we were
born again...
Wth 6.112 14 Do your work, respecting the excellence of
the work, and not
its acceptableness. This is so much economy that, rightly read, it is
the sum
of economy.
Bhr 6.189 2 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air
and manner, except by
making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural
expression.
Wsp 6.199 22 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/
Severing rightly [Fate'
s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
Wsp 6.225 25 In every variety of human
employment...there are...those
who love work, and love to see it rightly done;...
Wsp 6.230 25 He only is rightly immortal to whom all
things are immortal.
Wsp 6.236 4 [Benedict said] if [the thought] come not
spontaneously, it
comes not rightly at all.
Bty 6.303 12 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that
never was on sea or
land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
Ill 6.313 5 ...we rightly accuse the critic who
destroys too many illusions.
Art2 7.39 13 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which
are said to be done by
Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
WD 7.175 20 No man has learned anything rightly until
he knows that
every day is Doomsday.
WD 7.180 23 We must be at the top of our condition to
understand
anything rightly.
Boks 7.201 12 Of course a certain outline should be
obtained of Greek
history, in which the important moments and persons can be rightly set
down;...
Suc 7.293 11 The fame of each discovery rightly
attaches to the mind that
made the formula which contains all the details...
PI 8.28 25 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair,
eyes, complexion of
the maid.
PI 8.34 1 If your subject do not appear to you the
flower of the world at this
moment, you have not rightly chosen it.
PI 8.42 24 Rightly, poetry is organic.
PI 8.47 2 I think you will also find a charm heroic,
plaintive, pathetic, in
these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on
searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
PI 8.47 14 ...human passion, seizing these
constitutional tunes, aims to fill
them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought,
believing...that for
every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are
immense against our finding it, and only genius can rightly say the
banns.
Res 8.138 20 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly
knows himself as far as
he has experimented on things,--I am invigorated...
PPo 8.244 28 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of
heaven/ When it rolls not
rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/ Who fall thereon and die./
Grts 8.307 15 ...it is only as [a man] feels and obeys
[his bias] that he
rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world.
Grts 8.310 9 You are rightly fond of certain books or
men...
Aris 10.39 27 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be
truth,-the doing what
elsewhere is pretended to be done. One would gladly see all our
institutions
rightly aristocratic in this wise.
PerF 10.75 14 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and
condition of trees... rightly pruned...
Edc1 10.132 14 We learn nothing rightly until we learn
the symbolical
character of life.
Supl 10.171 17 ...rightly to be great is not to stir
without great argument.
SovE 10.187 15 The civil history of men might be traced
by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came
the
day when, as the historians rightly tell, the nerves of the world were
electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
MoL 10.250 9 [Nature says to the American] One thing
you have rightly
done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son
of
Adam who will till it.
Schr 10.265 25 Like [the pearl-diver and the
diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in
the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success
will arrive at last, which will give him at
one bound a universal dominion. And rightly;...
MMEm 10.433 10 Very rightly...the Christian ages,
proceeding on a grand
instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
LVB 11.91 27 ...the American President and the Cabinet,
the Senate and
the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the
Cherokees]...to
a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper
purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour
for
this doleful removal. In the name of God, sir [Van Buren], we ask you
if
this be so? Do the newspapers rightly inform us?
FSLC 11.198 7 What shall we say of the functionary by
whom the recent
rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly
defined
his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the
prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a
reputable
citizen to hold?
FSLN 11.241 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.
EPro 11.324 23 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of
the historical
aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in
the
Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery,
give the
social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
SHC 11.429 17 ...this concourse of friendly company
assures me that [the
committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.
PLT 12.33 24 It does not need to pump your brains and
force thought to
think rightly.
PLT 12.46 7 Will is the advance to that which rightly
belongs to us...
PLT 12.55 19 The curses of malignity and despair are
important criticism, which must be heeded until [a man] can explain and
rightly silence them.
CW 12.172 22 It requires some geometry in the head to
lay [a good garden] out rightly...
Milt1 12.250 20 What under heaven had...the manner of
living of
Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question
whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
Milt1 12.262 15 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind...
WSL 12.348 25 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure
their own
immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no
mean
merit.
right-minded, adj. (1)
FRep 11.523 17 The people are right-minded enough on
ethical questions...
rightness, n. (1)
SwM 4.117 18 ...[Correspondence] required such rightness
of position that
the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
Rights, Bill of, Massachuse (1)
Bost 12.201 17 There is a little formula, couched in
pure Saxon...I 'm as
good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of
Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.
Rights, Bill of, n. (1)
SMC 11.352 10 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution]
began, the
Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But
in
the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to
the Bill
of Rights they had drawn up.
Rights, Eternal, n. (1)
FSLC 11.178 1 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily
wrongs:/ Awful
victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
rights, n. (62)
LE 1.164 1 An intimation of these broad rights is
familiar in the sense of
injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their
possible
progress.
Tran 1.356 22 ...[these old guardians] have but one
mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is
quite as much as Antony
can do to assert his rights...
YA 1.393 16 It is a questionable compensation to the
embittered feeling of
a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop, who, by the magic of
title... plucks from him half the graces and rights of a man, is
himself also an
aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
YA 1.394 24 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is
an invasion of the
sentiment of justice and the native rights of men...
Hsm1 2.262 16 It is but the other day that the brave
Lovejoy gave his
breast to the bullets of a mob, for the rights of free speech and
opinion...
Cir 2.310 27 When each new speaker [in a conversation]
strikes a new
light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
Pol1 3.201 10 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and
prays, and paints
to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through
conflict and
war...
Pol1 3.201 23 Of persons, all have equal rights, in
virtue of being identical
in nature.
Pol1 3.201 26 Whilst the rights of all as persons are
equal, in virtue of their
access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.
Pol1 3.201 27 Whilst the rights of all as persons are
equal, in virtue of their
access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.
Pol1 3.202 6 One man owns his clothes, and another owns
a county. This
accident...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
Pol1 3.202 7 Personal rights...demand a government
framed on the ratio of
the census;...
Pol1 3.202 17 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should
have equal rights
to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
Pol1 3.207 4 The same necessity which secures the
rights of person and
property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines
the
form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
Pol1 3.219 19 [The movement toward self-government]
promises a
recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom...
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;...
NER 3.255 25 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of
resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who have reserved
all their
rights;...
ET3 5.34 3 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only
countries worth
living in; the former because there Nature vindicates her rights...
ET5 5.82 15 Life [in England] is safe, and personal
rights;...
ET8 5.133 24 The common Englishman is prone to forget a
cardinal article
in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own
ears.
ET10 5.164 14 The rights of property [in England]
nothing but felony and
treason can override.
ET10 5.164 20 Vested rights are awful things...
ET15 5.270 11 [The London Times's] editors know better
than to defend... English vested rights, on abstract grounds.
SovE 10.187 13 The civil history of men might be traced
by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of
kings
with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to
masses...
SovE 10.187 14 The civil history of men might be traced
by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of
kings
with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to
masses...
SovE 10.210 5 ...there are the new conventions of
social science, before
which the questions of the rights of women...come for a hearing.
MoL 10.256 19 [Senators and lawyers] read that they
might know, did they
not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They
blundered; they were utterly ignorant of...the rights of men and women.
MoL 10.258 13 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our
advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well
be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that...a new era of equal rights dawn
on the universe.
Thor 10.473 8 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a
surveyor soon
discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell
every
farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to
feel a
little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
HDC 11.45 5 I esteem it the happiness of this country
that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural
rights...were united by
personal affection.
HDC 11.46 12 ...Concord and the other plantations found
themselves
separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own...
HDC 11.68 12 ...in answer to letters received from the
united committees
of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view
with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to
rob us
of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this
land;...
HDC 11.68 13 ...We cannot possibly view with
indifference the...endeavors
of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we
are
obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of;...
HDC 11.70 1 ...we will...to the utmost of our power,
defend all our rights
inviolate to the latest posterity.
HDC 11.70 14 ...we think it our duty...to return our
hearty thanks to the
town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the
preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties
infringed
upon;...
EWI 11.112 10 The scheme of the
Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the
West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be
registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the
rights and
privileges of freemen...
EWI 11.121 12 ...men of all colors have equal rights in
law [in Jamaica], and an equal footing in society...
EWI 11.121 18 It may be asserted...that the former
slaves of Jamaica are
now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
EWI 11.127 18 It was a stately spectacle, to see the
cause of human rights
argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful
people [the English].
EWI 11.134 5 ...you will not suffer me to forget one
eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the
freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation
of the slave-holder.
EWI 11.136 8 I was a slave, said the counsel of
[George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am
now in a country where
the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
FSLC 11.197 8 Philadelphia...in this auction of the
rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.
FSLN 11.229 23 ...there are rights which rest on the
finest sense of justice...
TPar 11.292 17 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to
human rights...rot
and are forgotten...
ACiv 11.305 21 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay
for such slaves as
we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us;
those
in the interior will know in a week what their rights are...
SMC 11.353 13 When the rights of man are recited under
any old
government, every one of them is a declaration of war.
EdAd 11.388 20 In hours when it seemed only to need one
just word from
a man of honor to have vindicated the rights of millions...we have seen
the
best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for
what
is called a New England sentiment any longer.
Koss 11.401 8 ...when the crisis arrives it will find
us all instructed
beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
Wom 11.416 22 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights
of all kinds...
Wom 11.416 24 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to
education...to equal rights of
property...
Wom 11.416 25 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to
education...to equal rights in
marriage...
CPL 11.508 2 The intellect reserves all its rights.
FRep 11.517 18 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to
carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.517 22 [The American people] are now
proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of
human duties.
FRep 11.527 4 ...here that same great body [of the
people] has arrived at a
sloven plenty...the man...understanding his own rights and stiff to
maintain
them...
FRep 11.540 19 [The Constitution and the law in
America] should be
mankind's bill of rights...
FRep 11.541 16 The genius of the country has marked out
our true
policy,-opportunity. Opportunity of civil rights...
PLT 12.37 26 At a moment in our history the mind's eye
opens and we
become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts...
CL 12.156 5 ...a view from a cliff over a wide
country...reinstates us
wronged men in our rights.
Milt1 12.269 5 Questions that involve all social and
personal rights were
hasting to be decided by the sword...
Milt1 12.272 14 The events which produced [Milton's
tracts on divorce and
freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to
blow
his trumpet for human rights.
EurB 12.367 20 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his
election between
assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth
and a
position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly
genius;...
Rights of Man, French, n. (1)
RBur 11.440 23 The Confession of Augsburg...the French
Rights of Man... are not more weighty documents in the history of
freedom than the songs of
Burns.
rights, v. (2)
SR 2.89 13 He who knows that power is inborn...instantly
rights himself...
Milt1 12.262 18 ...in [Milton] humanity rights
itself;...
Rights, Woman's, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.150 11 A certain awkward consciousness of
inferiority in the men
may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
right-wrong, n. (1)
NR 3.245 17 All the universe over, there is but one
thing, this old Two-Face... right-wrong, of which any proposition may
be affirmed or denied.
rigid, adj. (7)
SL 2.138 4 The wild fertility of nature is felt in
comparing our rigid names
and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
Pol1 3.199 11 Society is an illusion to the young
citizen. It lies before him
in rigid repose...
SwM 4.112 17 It is remarkable that this sublime genius
[Swedenborg]...in a
book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis,
claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
LLNE 10.353 3 [Fourier's] mistake is that this
particular order and series is
to be imposed...on all men, and carried into rigid execution.
HDC 11.78 10 The economy so rigid, which marked
[Concord's] earlier
history, has all vanished.
HDC 11.84 21 For splendor, there must be somewhere
rigid economy.
Milt1 12.247 19 The fame of a great man is not rigid
and stony like his bust.
rigor, n. (4)
MR 1.242 25 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias
to poetry...that
man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom
himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in
his
habits.
YA 1.394 18 That there are mitigations and practical
alleviations to this
rigor [of English aristocracy], is not an excuse for the rule.
Hsm1 2.261 16 ...to live with some rigor of
temperance...seems to be an
asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at
ease and in plenty...
Mrs1 3.139 2 The same discrimination of fit and fair
runs out, if with less
rigor, into all parts of life.
rigorous, adj. (2)
LE 1.175 27 ...we have need of a more rigorous
scholastic rule;...
Wth 6.106 15 Whoever knows what happens in the getting
and spending of
a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the
rigorous
limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that
the
budgets of empires can teach him.
rigors, n. (2)
Comp 2.100 19 The true life and satisfactions of man
seem to elude the
utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
NMW 4.242 20 ...those who smarted under the immediate
rigors of the new
monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the
military system which had driven out the oppressor.
rill, n. (6)
Art1 2.349 27 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play
its cheerful part,/ Man
in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of
one
element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to
climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender
rill/
Of human sense doth overfill./
QO 8.181 2 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should
see the rill of the
Rabelais river.
PLT 12.51 18 You say thought is a penurious rill. Well,
we can wait.
PLT 12.51 20 Nature having for capital this rill [of
thought], drop by drop... she husbands and hives...
PLT 12.51 21 Nature having for capital this rill [of
thought]...this rill and
her patience,-she husbands and hives...
EurB 12.369 10 ...the spirit of literature and the
modes of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question
[by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country
muse taught a stout pedestrian...following a river from its parent rill
down
to the sea.
rills, n. (1)
Wth 6.117 7 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain
point, then new and
steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth
begins.
rimed, v. (1)
Nat 1.18 6 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with
frost, contribute
something to the mute music.
rind, n. (1)
War 11.160 15 The eternal germination of the better has
unfolded new
powers, new instincts, which were really concealed under this rough and
base rind.
rinds, n. (1)
OS 2.275 3 With each divine impulse the mind rends the
thin rinds of the
visible and finite...
Ring, Gyge's, n. (1)
QO 8.186 21 There are many fables which...are said to be
agreeable to the
human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyges's Ring...
ring, n. (25)
AmS 1.95 11 I...take my place in the ring...
MN 1.203 13 The embryo does not more strive to be man,
than yonder burr
of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and
parent of
new stars.
Cir 2.304 2 The life of man is a self-evolving circle,
which, from a ring
imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger
circles...
Chr1 3.95 9 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there
never a glimpse of right
in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available
to
break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two
of
iron ring?
Mrs1 3.131 19 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if
it will, passes
unchallenged into the most guarded ring.
Nat2 3.180 20 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be
written on...the
signet of a ring.
PNR 4.83 7 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues
themselves;... the ring of Gyges;...
ET3 5.41 8 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous
line, divided the
poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage
with
all nations.
ET5 5.81 25 ...is it a boxer in the ring, is it a
candidate on the hustings, the
universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can
be
had.
F 6.20 16 ...the ring of necessity is always perched at
the top.
F 6.20 25 So soft and so stanch is the ring of Fate.
Wth 6.98 1 Every man wishes to see the ring of
Saturn...yet how few can
buy a telescope!...
Ctr 6.133 1 The [egotistical] man runs round a ring
formed by his own
talent...
CbW 6.260 18 ...what we ask daily, is to be
conventional. Supply, most
kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of
the
ring...
SS 7.1 5 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/
A cabin hung with
curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can
paint
on steel/...
SS 7.5 2 [My friend] would have given his soul for the
ring of Gyges.
Cour 7.267 3 In every school there are certain fighting
boys;...in every
town, bravoes and bullies...patrons of the cock-pit and the ring.
PPo 8.245 11 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences
which might be
engraved on a sword-blade and almost on a ring.
PPo 8.261 3 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce
the day;/ In the ring
of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
Dem1 10.20 20 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous.
PerF 10.87 16 The illusion that strikes me as the
masterpiece in that ring of
illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our
moral
sentiment.
MMEm 10.419 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain
Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on.
War 11.155 26 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's
ring are the
enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been
developed.
WSL 12.339 25 Before a well-dressed company [Landor]
plunges his
fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose...the jewels of his ring.
PPr 12.384 4 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;...
ring, v. (5)
Chr1 3.100 6 Our houses ring with laughter and personal
and critical
gossip, but it helps little.
EWI 11.124 9 If any mention was made of homicide,
madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let
the church-bells ring
louder...
AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by
these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon,
with every new link of
the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the
Capitol.
RBur 11.443 19 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in
all cities repeat [Burns's songs], and the chimes of bells ring them in
the spires.
ACri 12.297 18 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud
emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly
moderates...
ringing, adj. (1)
ET8 5.128 10 The English have...a ringing cheerful
voice.
ringing, v. (2)
Insp 8.287 22 Tie a couple of strings across a board,
and set it in your
window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It
needs no instructed ear;...it has...festal notes ringing out all
measures of
loftiness.
FSLC 11.200 19 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have
been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in
the
heat of the Missouri debate.
ringleader, n. (1)
AKan 11.261 8 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the
complainants go to
the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes
to
the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from
his
own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
ring-leaders, n. (1)
Res 8.148 1 ...we have noted examples among our orators,
who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant
mob...by a wit which
disconcerted and at last delighted the ring-leaders.
ringlet, n. (1)
MLit 12.334 25 Nature has not lost one ringlet of her
beauty...
ringlets, n. (1)
Comp 2.92 3 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch
and strong the
tendrils twine:/ Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,/ None from its
stock
that vine can reave./
rings, n. (4)
Nat 1.1 1 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next
unto the farthest
brings;/...
OS 2.290 11 The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons
and brooches and
rings...
Gts 3.161 9 Rings and other jewels are not gifts...
PLT 12.17 25 ...the sun is conceived to have made our
system by hurling
out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
rings, v. (7)
DL 7.107 4 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament
and joy of the house, which rings to his glee...
PI 8.25 13 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they
like that; or the Cid, and that rings well;...
SA 8.85 25 Why have you statues in your hall, but to
teach you that, when
the door-bell rings, you shall sit like them.
HDC 11.62 14 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is
o'er,/ Their fires are out
from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The
plough
is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/
The
pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are
dry./
War 11.174 24 If the universal cry for reform of so
many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be
trusted;...then war has a short
day...
PLT 12.32 19 The air rings with sounds, but only a few
vibrations can
reach our tympanum.
AgMs 12.359 22 [Edmund Hosmer's] laugh rings with the
sweetness and
hilarity of a child;...
Rintherouts, Jenny, n. (1)
Scot 11.466 14 In his own household and neighbors
[Scott] found
characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of
mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially
his... Meg Merrilies, and Jenny Rintherouts...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, n. (1)
ET17 5.295 13 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best
place in the
world for a great capital city.
riot, n. (8)
ET10 5.159 6 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether
it were not possible
to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the
solicitation of
the masters, after a mob and riot at Staley Bridge, Mr. Roberts of
Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow...
Wth 6.91 6 ...when one observes in the hotels and
palaces of our Atlantic
capitals...the riot of the senses...he feels that when a man or a woman
is
driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully
diminished;...
PPo 8.246 15 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the
deeply hidden lot
the veil that covers it...
LS 11.13 9 [Early Christian religious feasts] were
readily adopted by the
Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous
worship
had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these
to
gross riot...
LS 11.14 10 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer,
[St. Paul] goes back
to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what
sort of
feast that was, out of which this riot of theirs came...
EWI 11.114 27 On the night of the 31st July [1834],
[the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at
midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became
men;...they
were wild with joy, but there was no riot, no feasting.
FRep 11.537 27 [Our civilization] is a wild democracy;
the riot of
mediocrities and dishonesties and fudges.
Trag 12.409 12 Hark! what sounds on the night
wind...see these marks of
stamping feet, of hidden riot.
rioter, n. (1)
PPo 8.250 8 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter,
he turns short on you
with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
rioters, n. (1)
Let 12.400 21 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and
all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The
Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of
a beggar at
his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall...
riotous, adj. (3)
Pow 6.69 9 ...when [the young English] have no wars to
breathe their
riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
OA 7.325 10 We learn the fatal compensations that wait
on every act. Then, one after another, this riotous time-destroying
crew [of passions] disappear.
PPo 8.250 23 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous
fun of Falstaff;...
riots, n. (1)
HDC 11.71 15 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774],
the whole
town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety, to suppress
all
riots, tumults, and disorders in said town...
rip, v. (1)
Prd1 2.238 11 ...the sturdiest offender of your peace
and of the
neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any...
ripe, adj. (21)
AmS 1.96 16 In some contemplative hour [the new deed]
detaches itself
from the life like a ripe fruit...
AmS 1.105 20 They are the kings of the world
who...persuade men...that
this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to
pluck, now at last ripe...
LT 1.271 22 Nature, literature, science, childhood,
appear to us beautiful; but not...the ripe fruit and considered labors
of man.
SL 2.137 12 When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
Fdsp 2.200 17 [A delicate organization] would be lost
if it knew itself
before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
Prd1 2.228 8 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch
at sensual sweetness
before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
OS 2.274 4 The things we now esteem fixed
shall...detach themselves like
ripe fruit from our experience...
Pt1 3.23 8 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him
to ripe age, she
will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
UGM 4.9 26 In the history of discovery, the ripe and
latent truth seems to
have fashioned a brain for itself.
UGM 4.32 7 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in
whom, at the moment of
success, a quality is ripe which is then in request.
MoS 4.153 5 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to
conclusions not yet
ripe, and say more than is true;...
NMW 4.256 18 The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and
gone to seed;...
F 6.11 14 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman], in
the street, sees
that they are ripe to be each other's victim.
PI 8.41 7 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and
sentiment, when...the
world is ripe for them, know as well as coarser how to feed and
replenish
themselves;...
PC 8.226 20 The ear outgrows the tongue, is sooner ripe
and perfect;...
PerF 10.70 23 The ripe fruit is dropped at last without
violence...
CL 12.151 11 ...the oak and maple are red with the same
colors on the new
leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe.
CL 12.152 13 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully
ripe...
CL 12.152 14 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully
ripe, and, like the fruit
when fully ripe, acquires fine color...
Bost 12.199 23 What should hinder that this
America...the firm shore hid
until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed
aim...should
have its happy ports...
Let 12.393 26 The sea and the iron road are safer toys
for such ungrown
people; we are not yet ripe to be birds.
ripen, v. (12)
AmS 1.94 23 Without [action] thought can never ripen
into truth.
MN 1.206 2 An individual man is a fruit which it cost
all the foregoing
ages to form and ripen.
YA 1.380 5 The time is full of good signs. Some of them
shall ripen to fruit.
Fdsp 2.199 9 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the
whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must ripen.
Int 2.330 7 By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it
shall ripen into truth...
NR 3.238 14 Solitude would ripen a plentiful crop of
despots.
F 6.39 10 Things ripen...
Farm 7.147 5 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and
their fruit will never be
allowed to ripen.
WD 7.171 3 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...which the
prior races...existed to
ripen;...are given immeasurably to all.
Boks 7.219 13 Friendship should give and take, solitude
and time brood
and ripen...[the communications of the sacred books].
EWI 11.103 24 ...the crude element of good in human
affairs must work
and ripen...
II 12.84 2 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen
too slowly than that
the determination should appear in this brief life.
ripened, adj. (1)
SR 2.66 19 Is the parent better than the child into whom
he has cast his
ripened being?
ripened, v. (14)
AmS 1.106 20 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet
their own green
and crude being, - ripened;...
SL 2.147 8 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see
things that stare us in
the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened;...
Hsm1 2.258 17 We have seen or heard of many
extraordinary young men
who never ripened...
NR 3.246 9 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator
and rich man, has
ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
NR 3.246 27 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of
the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and
love
her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated
or too
early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
Boks 7.198 11 You find in [Plato] that which you have
already found in
Homer, now ripened to thought...
Schr 10.277 18 It is excellent when the individual is
ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference...
LLNE 10.352 11 [Fourier] treats man as...something that
may be...ripened
or retarded...at the will of the leader;...
EzRy 10.391 24 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his
fireside discourse traits
of that pertinency and judgment...which, under a better discipline,
might
have ripened into a Bentley or a Porson.
EWI 11.124 22 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen,
man is born with
intellect, as well as with a love of sugar; and with a sense of
justice, as well
as a taste for strong drink. These ripened, as well as those.
Shak1 11.452 10 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great
wine year when
wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
PLT 12.18 20 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached
from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by
many they hasten to
incarnate themselves in action...
PLT 12.37 18 ...Perception is the armed eye. A
civilization has tamed and
ripened this savage wit...
MAng1 12.236 10 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy
and interest
of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced,
[Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
ripeness, n. (9)
Tran 1.345 22 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? Are they...taken in early
ripeness to
the gods...
Pt1 3.23 13 ...when the soul of the poet has come to
ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems
or songs...
PPh 4.46 24 There is a moment in the history of every
nation, when...the
perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
Wsp 6.232 1 ...when flowers reach their ripeness,
incense exhales from
them...
OA 7.319 14 We postpone our literary work until we have
more ripeness
and skill to write...
SovE 10.187 5 The geologic world is chronicled by the
growing ripeness of
the strata from lower to higher...
FRep 11.531 26 That repose which is the ornament and
ripeness of man is
not American.
PLT 12.26 16 A subject of thought to which we
return...from year to year, has always some ripeness of which we can
give no account.
Let 12.396 26 To live solitary and unexpressed
is...painful in proportion to
one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of
friendship.
ripening, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.200 16 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in
which a delicate
organization is protected from premature ripening.
ripening, v. (5)
Wth 6.108 16 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, and the amount of risk in ripening it.
Farm 7.149 23 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold
through
constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of
this
standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the
surface
to the subsoil, and accelerates the ripening of the crop.
MMEm 10.408 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C.
Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is
ripening.
PLT 12.60 7 This premature stop, I know not how,
befalls most of us in
early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three
years in
the child, while all the pagan faculties went ripening on to sixty.
MAng1 12.224 26 After an active and successful service
to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a
treachery that
was ripening within the walls.
ripens, v. (6)
Comp 2.103 13 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected
ripens with the
flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
Lov1 2.169 2 ...each of [the soul's] joys ripens into a
new want.
ET5 5.94 19 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No
fruit ripens in
England but a baked apple;...
ET13 5.222 27 [The English university] ripens a bishop,
and extrudes a
philosopher.
Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious
belief [in immortality] presently appears...
LLNE 10.357 20 I regard these philanthropists as
themselves the effects of
the age in which we live, and...the efflorescence of the period and
predicting a good fruit that ripens.
riper, adj. (2)
Shak1 11.450 16 Young men of a contemplative turn carry
[Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any
tree, a room in any
inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest
hours. Later they find riper and manlier lessons in the plays.
Mem 12.91 27 Some fact that had a childish significance
to your childhood
and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means
more
and serves you better as an illustration;...
ripest, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.126 1 The child shall be taken up by the State,
and taught, at the
public cost...at last, the ripest results of art and science.
Ripley, Daniel Bliss, n. (1)
EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss...
Ripley, Ezra, n. (8)
EzRy 10.381 1 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O.
S.)...
EzRy 10.381 13 Ezra Ripley followed the business of
farming till sixteen
years of age...
EzRy 10.381 20 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
EzRy 10.382 27 Mr. Ripley was ordained minister of
Concord November
7, 1778.
EzRy 10.385 18 The same faith [in particular
providence] made what was
strong and what was weak in Dr. Ripley and his associates.
EzRy 10.391 15 Dr. Ripley had many virtues...
MMEm 10.401 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married
again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at
Concord [Dr. Ezra Ripley]...
MMEm 10.403 24 ...certain expressions, when they marked
a memorable
state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her
afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr.
Ripley or
Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life.
Ripley, George, Mr. and Mr (1)
LLNE 10.341 5 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened
his mind to
Mr. and Mrs. Ripley...
Ripley, George, n. (5)
LLNE 10.340 12 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with
George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring
cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
LLNE 10.341 13 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr.
Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James
Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew
together...
LLNE 10.359 19 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of
the West
Roxbury Association]...
LLNE 10.361 26 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of
[Brook] farm and
the most intimate friend of Mr. Ripley, was a frequent visitor.
LLNE 10.366 13 No doubt there was in many [at Brook
Farm] a certain
strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore
Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all
Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do
it
on Monday.
Ripley, Holy, n. (1)
EzRy 10.395 15 ...in college [Ezra Ripley] was called
Holy Ripley.
Ripley, Lincoln, n. (1)
MMEm 10.403 25 ...certain expressions, when they marked
a memorable
state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her
afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr.
Ripley or
Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life.
Ripley, Lydia Kent, n. (1)
EzRy 10.381 4 [Ezra Ripley] was the fifth of the
nineteen children of Noah
and Lydia (Kent) Ripley.
Ripley, Noah, n. (1)
EzRy 10.381 3 [Ezra Ripley] was the fifth of the
nineteen children of Noah
and Lydia (Kent) Ripley.
Ripley, Samuel, n. (1)
EzRy 10.383 5 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel, born
May 11, 1783; Daniel...
Ripley, Sarah, n. (1)
EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel... Daniel...
Ripley, William, n. (1)
EzRy 10.381 10 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at
Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William
Ripley, of
England...
Ripley's, Ezra, n. (1)
EzRy 10.387 6 ...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. He...looked at the cloud...and seemed to say, You know me;
this
field is mine,-Dr. Ripley's,-thine own servant!
Ripon Cathedral, England, n (1)
ET13 5.215 25 The power of the religious sentiment [in
England]...created
the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and
Dundee...
ripple, n. (1)
DSA 1.145 3 See how nations and races...leave no ripple
to tell where they
floated or sunk...
ripple, v. (2)
Nat2 3.172 15 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the mimic waving of
acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before
the
eye;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Elo1 7.59 12 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In
his every syllable/
Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/
The
pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons
be/
And life pulsates in rock or tree./
rippled, v. (1)
Bty 6.301 19 There are faces...so flushed and rippled by
the play of
thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
ripples, n. (4)
Art1 2.363 4 The real value of the Iliad or the
Transfiguration is as signs of
power; billows or ripples they are of the stream of tendency;...
NR 3.236 5 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a
fleet of ripples which
the wind drives over the surface of the water.
Insp 8.288 6 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the
swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the
woods
in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of
still
water into fleets of ripples...
CL 12.157 7 Can you bring home...the sedgy ripples of
the old Colony
ponds?...
rippling, n. (1)
Insp 8.288 7 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the
swell of an Aeolian
harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the
woods
in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of
still
water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that
it was
more like the rippling of the Aurora Borealis at night than any
spectacle of
day.
rise, n. (12)
Nat 1.75 21 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...our
daily history with the
rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
DSA 1.140 1 In a large portion of the community, the
religious service
gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
MN 1.197 15 ...we can use nature as...the meter of our
rise and fall.
SR 2.89 25 ...a rise of rents...or some other favorable
event raises your
spirits...
OS 2.275 11 This is the law of moral and of mental
gain. The simple rise as
by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of
all the
virtues.
Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of
inferiority in the men
may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
NMW 4.249 6 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, a pretence, to
restore
confidence to them. The art is, to give rise to the opportunity and to
invent
the pretence.
ET15 5.266 24 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the
London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
Wth 6.102 4 In the city, where money follows...a lucky
rise in exchange, [the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
Wsp 6.216 18 ...genius takes its rise out of the
mountains of rectitude;...
Ill 6.322 1 A sudden rise in the road shows us the
system of mountains...
SovE 10.195 8 The new saint gloried in infirmities. Who
or what was he? His rise and his recovery were vicarious.
rise, v. (58)
DSA 1.149 6 There are men who rise refreshed on hearing
a threat;...
LE 1.166 12 [The listener] must also rise and say
somewhat.
LE 1.174 7 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;
then will the faculties rise
fair and full within...
MN 1.219 17 What brought the pilgrims here? One man
says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was
plantation and trade. But if
the Puritans could rise from the dust they could not answer.
Con 1.323 11 Those who rise above war, and those who
fall below it, it
easily discriminates...
SR 2.72 15 If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities
of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations;...
SR 2.87 13 The same particle does not rise from the
valley [of the wave] to
the ridge.
Cir 2.302 8 Our culture is the predominance of an idea
which draws after it
this train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea;
they will
disappear.
Cir 2.307 12 If [my friend] were high enough to slight
me, then could I... rise by my affection to new heights.
Int 2.328 16 You cannot with your best deliberation and
heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you,
whilst
you rise from your bed...after meditating the matter before sleep on
the
previous night.
Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in
perceiving that [the
poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a
fowl or a
flying fish...
Chr1 3.103 5 If your friend has displeased you, you
shall not sit down to
consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you, and ere you
can rise
up again will burden you with blessings.
Mrs1 3.123 16 ...in the moving crowd of good society
the men of valor and
reality...rise to their natural place.
UGM 4.6 11 I count him a great man who inhabits a
higher sphere of
thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;...
PPh 4.49 15 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of
devotion lose all being in
one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in
the
Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings
contain
little else than this idea, and they rise to pure and sublime strains
in
celebrating it.
SwM 4.143 16 ...[Swedenborg] did not rise to the
platform of pure genius.
ET5 5.95 22 In due course, all England will be drained
and rise a second
time out of the waters.
ET5 5.98 18 Man in England submits to be a product of
political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as
water in a sluice-way, and towns and cities rise.
ET5 5.100 10 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in
England], when the
speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes
idiomatic;...
ET10 5.161 12 [The Bank of England] votes an issue of
bills, population is
stimulated and cities rise;...
ET10 5.168 27 It is rare to find a merchant who
knows...why prices rise or
fall...
ET11 5.173 16 Every man who becomes rich [in
England]...does what he
can to fortify the nobility, into which he hopes to rise.
ET13 5.228 22 Religious persons are driven out of the
Established Church
into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment
in check.
F 6.20 8 If we rise to spiritual culture, the
antagonism takes a spiritual form.
F 6.27 23 I know not whether there be...in the upper
region of our
atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries with it all
atoms
which rise to that height...
F 6.44 5 The races of men rise out of the ground
preoccupied with a
thought which rules them...
Wsp 6.205 2 ...the religion cannot rise above the state
of the votary.
CbW 6.271 2 Our habit of thought--take men as they
rise--is not
satisfying;...
Ill 6.318 5 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to
the most subtle and
beautiful.
SS 7.13 16 We sink as easily as we rise, through
sympathy.
Farm 7.147 2 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin
oak-opening has been
spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer
manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the
seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
OA 7.326 6 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion
rise quite beyond
his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...
PI 8.42 27 We sink to rise...
PI 8.52 14 ...when we rise into the world of
thought...speech refines into
order and harmony.
PI 8.54 26 ...the masters sometimes rise above
themselves to strains which
charm their readers...
PI 8.56 26 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must
rise to a loftier
strain...
SA 8.92 24 If you rise to frankness and generosity,
[people] will respect it
now or later.
PPo 8.237 11 The seven masters of the Persian
Parnassus...have ceased to
be empty names; and others...promise to rise in Western estimation.
Insp 8.281 21 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may
find that we rise to a
thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
Imtl 8.348 16 Here are people who cannot dispose of a
day;...and will you
offer them rolling ages without end? But this is the way we rise.
Dem1 10.3 20 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/
How many a large
creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/
Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never
feels
the crowd./
Dem1 10.8 4 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams],
the creation of our
fancy...
Aris 10.37 14 We like cool people, who...can survive
the blow well enough
if stock should rise or fall...
SovE 10.189 27 ...cities rise and fall...
SovE 10.208 5 ...by humility we rise...
SovE 10.209 23 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise
out of all forms to
an absolute justice and healthy perception.
MoL 10.258 15 Who would not, if it could be made
certain that the new
morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing
of one
generation, who would not consent to die?
Schr 10.289 8 ...if I could prevail to communicate the
incommunicable
mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your
proper
and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history, and rise
on the
same stairs to science and to joy.
LLNE 10.331 20 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what
occasion soever, a fact
had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well
known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
HDC 11.74 8 ...when the smoke began to rise from the
village where the
British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the
Americans
resolved to force their way into town.
FSLN 11.232 12 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of
nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that,
over and above all the musts
of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...
SMC 11.367 26 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in
one spot without
moving, except to rise and fire.
II 12.81 13 ...the races of men rise out of the ground
preoccupied with a
thought which rules them...
CInt 12.114 8 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of
Syracuse, broke
into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his
chair
and his diagram...
CW 12.174 1 If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident
or low spirits, his
spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
Bost 12.198 12 ...no depth of affection that does not
rise to a religious
sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which
belong
only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
MAng1 12.228 11 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he
often slept in his
clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he
was too
weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go
immediately to work.
ACri 12.298 13 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a
History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people
would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
risen, v. (9)
Con 1.307 27 ...I have risen early and sat late...
Cir 2.301 17 ...there is always another dawn risen on
mid-noon...
Chr1 3.99 1 ...[the capitalist] is satisfied to read in
the quotations of the
market that his stocks have risen.
MoS 4.174 19 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet
risen from their
knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude
is
partial and deformed...
ET15 5.263 13 [The London Times] has risen, year by
year, and victory by
victory, to its present authority.
War 11.161 11 The star once risen...will mount and
mount...
War 11.168 24 If you have a nation of men who have
risen to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men.
Shak1 11.448 8 Wherever there are men, and in the
degree in which they
are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of
the world.
Milt1 12.252 2 ...by his own innate worth this man
[Milton] has steadily
risen in the world's reverence...
riser, n. (1)
Milt1 12.263 7 [Milton] was...an early riser...
rises, n. (1)
Supl 10.170 9 The farmers in the region do not call
particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises...
rises, v. (43)
Nat 1.30 26 The moment our discourse rises above the
ground line of
familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
LE 1.166 11 Presently [the listener's] own emotion
rises to his lips...
MN 1.220 27 ...we also can bask in the great morning
which rises forever
out of the eastern sea...
LT 1.274 4 [The wealthy man] entertains [the
divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;
rises, is
saluted......
SR 2.64 11 ...the sense of being which in calm hours
rises...in the soul, is
not diverse from things...
SL 2.137 3 Our society is encumbered by ponderous
machinery, which
resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built...and which are
superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level of
its
source.
Hsm1 2.245 17 ...there is in [the elder English
dramatists'] plays a certain
heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on
such deep
grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional
incident
in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
OS 2.277 14 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the
company become
aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
Cir 2.304 27 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and
draws a circle
around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
Cir 2.322 4 A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so
high as when he
knows not whither he is going.
Mrs1 3.127 4 ...the youth finds himself in a more
transparent atmosphere, wherein life is a less troublesome game, and
not a misunderstanding rises
between the players.
Mrs1 3.129 13 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke
anger in the least
favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the
excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new
class
finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of
milk...
Mrs1 3.142 25 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to
cast a species of
derision on what we say.
MoS 4.169 11 In speaking of [Socrates], for once
[Montaigne's] cheek
flushes and his style rises to passion.
GoW 4.264 2 Whatever can be thought can be spoken, and
still rises for
utterance...
ET16 5.281 3 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises
exactly over the top of
that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
ET16 5.285 19 ...I had been more struck with [a
cathedral] of no fame, at
Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground...
Ctr 6.143 9 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with
whist and chess; but
presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long
played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
Wsp 6.240 15 ...the last lesson of life, the choral
song which rises from all
elements and all angels, is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated
freedom.
Art2 7.38 4 [Action] rises in thought, to the end that
it may uttered and
acted.
DL 7.124 16 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's
conversation, and
knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each
new
topic that rises.
Clbs 7.250 15 Discourse, when it rises highest...is
between two.
Elo2 8.116 14 When a good man rises in the cold and
malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to
be silent;...
Elo2 8.125 15 ...when any orator at the bar or in the
Senate rises in his
thought, he descends in his language...
Elo2 8.125 16 ...when [the orator] rises to any height
of thought or of
passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his
audience.
Res 8.149 19 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the
Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.
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.
PPo 8.261 5 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] love rises to a
religious sentiment...
PerF 10.72 3 When the continent sinks, the opposite
continent...rises.
Edc1 10.132 5 ...in history an idea always overhangs,
like the moon, and
rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a
generation.
Supl 10.177 15 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar, and
rises with the price
of a kingdom in his hand.
SovE 10.185 12 ...presently...[the man down in Nature]
is aware that he
owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this
universe. In the measure in which he has this sense he...rises to the
universal life.
SovE 10.186 5 ...in mature life the moral element
steadily rises in the
regard of all reasonable men.
SovE 10.195 9 The new saint gloried in infirmities. Who
or what was he? His rise and his recovery were vicarious. He has fallen
in another; he rises
in another.
SovE 10.200 14 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and
rises, it leaves
crowds.
Schr 10.275 10 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries
and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and
money, and power...
HDC 11.84 5 The tone of the [Concord Town] Records
rises with the
dignity of the event.
EWI 11.104 18 The blood is moral: the blood is
anti-slavery...the stomach
rises with disgust, and curses slavery.
FRep 11.514 4 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...that real power is gained...
II 12.86 16 The old Herschel must...draw on his
night-cap when the sun
rises, and defend his eyes for nocturnal use.
MAng1 12.216 27 ...in proportion as man rises above the
servitude to
wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most
real
is most beautiful...
Milt1 12.248 7 There is no name in English literature
between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his
own.
MLit 12.321 24 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our
recollection the
name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
risibility, n. (1)
Ill 6.314 27 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company
by maintaining
that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
rising, adj. (10)
Nat 1.54 15 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase
the ignorant fumes that
mantle/ Their clearer reason./
DSA 1.137 6 The faith should blend with the light of
rising and of setting
suns...
YA 1.384 21 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords...
Hist 2.18 18 The man who has seen the rising moon break
out of the clouds
at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of
light and
of the world.
ShP 4.193 13 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged
or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim
copyright in this
work of numbers.
ET1 5.12 3 [Coleridge] had been called the rising star
of Unitarianism.
Elo2 8.109 1 He, when the rising storm of party
roared,/ Brought his great
forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with
fears
the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
Dem1 10.11 9 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is
filled with
innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction, revealed by
the
beams of the rising sun!
HDC 11.35 21 A march of a number of families with their
stuff, through
twenty miles of unknown forest, from a little rising town that had not
much
to spare...must be laborious to all...
War 11.175 6 ...if the rising generation can be
provoked to think it
unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a
short
day...
Rising, in the Cave, Lady.. (1)
QO 8.186 23 There are many fables which...are said to be
agreeable to the
human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake
and Rising in the Cave...
rising, n. (2)
War 11.151 3 It has been a favorite study of modern
philosophy...to watch
the rising of a thought in one man's mind...
War 11.160 21 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising
of the general tide in the human soul...
rising, v. (13)
Con 1.314 26 ...rising one morning before day from his
bed of moss and
dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
OS 2.270 2 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will,
and behold! their
speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the
wind.
SwM 4.141 7 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly
parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing with...the
rising and setting of
autumnal stars.
ET2 5.29 23 ...the registered observations of a few
hundred years find [the
land] in a perpetual tilt, rising and falling.
ET2 5.29 26 A rising of the sea, such as has been
observed, say an inch in a
century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns,
monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
Art2 7.37 23 Every thought that arises in the mind, in
its rising aims to pass
out of the mind into act;...
WD 7.167 13 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works
and Days... instructing the husbandman at the rising of what
constellation he might
safely sow...
OA 7.315 24 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look
over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the
conclusion to a lofty
strain.
Insp 8.287 25 Did you never observe, says Gray, while
rocking winds are
piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive
note...
Insp 8.293 5 If the tone of the companion is higher
than ours, we delight in
rising to it.
Imtl 8.348 24 ...the man puts off the ignorance and
tumultuous passions of
youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes
at
last a public and universal soul. He is rising to greater heights...
Imtl 8.348 24 ...the man puts off the ignorance and
tumultuous passions of
youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes
at
last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities;...
War 11.160 22 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising
of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first
made
visible, in the most simple and pure souls...
risings, n. (2)
EWI 11.100 27 In this cause [emancipation], we must
renounce...the
risings of pride.
PLT 12.14 3 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's]
risings and its
settings...that I may learn to live with it wisely...
risk, n. (20)
LT 1.287 13 At the manifest risk of repeating what every
other Age has
thought of itself, we might say we think the Genius of this Age more
philosophical than any other has been...
YA 1.387 22 In every age of the world there has been a
leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the
interests of general
justice and humanity, at the risk of being called...chimerical and
fantastic.
Lov1 2.173 24 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very
truly and heartily
will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk
such
as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
Cir 2.308 21 Beware when the great God lets loose a
thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.
Pt1 3.23 9 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him
to ripe age, she
will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
ET2 5.27 25 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is
greater;...
Wth 6.108 16 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, and the amount of risk in ripening it.
Wth 6.109 24 ...we charged threepence a pound for
carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which paid for the
risk and loss...
Ctr 6.134 9 The preservation of the species was a point
of such necessity
that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the
passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder.
Wsp 6.201 6 Some of my friends have complained...that
we ran Cudworth'
s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not
answer it.
Wsp 6.233 13 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange]
directing the
operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir,
that
every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
Wsp 6.233 14 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange]
directing the
operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir,
that
every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more
risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty.
Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing
a list of old primers and
grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must
thankfully use.
Cour 7.263 13 [The soldier] sees how much is the
risk...
OA 7.324 25 To insure the existence of the race,
[Nature] reinforces the
sexual instinct, at the risk of disorder, grief and pain.
Res 8.151 12 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and
grounds, and
mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the
country...wants...an
old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk...
FSLC 11.187 27 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave
Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk
of being shot...to get away
from his driver...
ACiv 11.304 14 I will only advert to some leading
points of the argument [for emancipation], at the risk of repeating the
reasons of others.
FRep 11.523 4 ...one may run a risk once too often.
Milt1 12.265 20 [Milton] accepts a high impulse at
every risk...
risk, v. (4)
Con 1.304 26 You who...are willing to...risk the
indisputable good that
exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in
this [society]...
MoS 4.159 5 ...we ought to secure those advantages
which we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
HDC 11.69 23 ...in conjunction with our brethren in
America, we will risk
our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King
George the
Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
AsSu 11.247 20 In [the slave state]...man is an
animal...spending his days
in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against
his
slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and
dangerous way. Such people...readily risk on every passion a life which
is
of small value to themselves or to others.
risked, v. (2)
NMW 4.235 16 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared
nothing...
AsSu 11.248 5 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was
challenged in
Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends
came
forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be
thought
of; Mr. Webster's life...was not to be risked on the turn of a
vagabond's ball.
risking, v. (1)
FRep 11.521 22 The American marches with a careless
swagger to the
height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he
wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...
risks, n. (8)
Pt1 3.26 24 ...there is a great public power on which
[the intellectual man] can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human
doors...
ET2 5.27 22 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the
sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of
hundreds of
miles every day...
ET2 5.30 24 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant
abuse and the worst
pay.
ET11 5.175 26 ...the duel, which in peace still held
[French and English
nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and
studious
nations would else have pried into their title.
Pow 6.68 20 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]
are made...for hair-breadth
adventures, huge risks and the joy of eventful living.
Insp 8.279 5 There are...certain risks in this
presentiment of the decisive
perception...
Dem1 10.16 12 As [the young man] comes into manhood he
remembers
passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived
of
injurious influence on him. His eyes were holden that he could not see.
But
he learns that such risks he may no longer run.
Thor 10.472 14 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to
his most prized
botanical swamp,-possibly knowing that you could never find it again,
yet
willing to take his risks.
risks, v. (2)
Imtl 8.343 13 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins
property, health, life
itself, without hesitation, for its thought...
War 11.155 8 Nature implants with life...perpetual
struggle...to attain to a
mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to
each
creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life
continually in the
struggle for these ends.
risky, adj. (1)
MoS 4.167 16 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our
condition as men is
risky and ticklish enough.
rite, n. (16)
DSA 1.140 20 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's
Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
MR 1.228 25 ...not a kingdom, town, statute, rite,
calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit.
Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each thought,
having formed itself
into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance...a religious
rite,--to
heap itself on that ridge...
GoW 4.267 8 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration
in some rite or
covenant...
Chr2 10.109 2 When once Selden had said that the
priests seemed to him to
be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in
the
world.
LS 11.4 18 ...it is now near two hundred years since
the Society of Quakers
denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
LS 11.5 5 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did
not intend to establish
an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with
his
disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to
celebrate it
as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these
two
opinions. I. The authority of the rite.
LS 11.11 5 ...it is not a little singular that we
should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon
perpetuating one symbolical act of
Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
LS 11.11 23 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an
established rite in
our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been
impossible
to have argued against it.
LS 11.11 26 That rite [washing of the feet] is used by
the Church of Rome...
LS 11.13 17 It was only too probable that among the
half-converted Pagans
and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor...
LS 11.15 19 ...this single expectation of a speedy
reappearance of a
temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite
[the
Lord's Supper] when once established.
LS 11.16 15 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the
Lord's Supper] was not
designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?
LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite
[the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it;...
LS 11.22 3 ...although for the satisfaction of others I
have labored to show
by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to
be
perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul,
I
feel that here is the true point of view.
LS 11.23 19 There remain some practical objections to
the ordinance [the
Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which
I
had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in
which
it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely
from
disinclination to the rite.
rites, n. (13)
DSA 1.150 1 ...all attempts to project and establish a
Cultus with new rites
and forms, seem to me vain.
Tran 1.348 2 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly
share in the public
charities, in the public religious rites...
Prd1 2.231 25 ...[the finer souls] find beauty in rites
and bounds that resist [appetite].
OS 2.274 12 [The soul] has no dates, nor rites...
Pt1 3.16 8 It is nature the symbol...which [the
coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
ShP 4.190 14 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst
rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave
him, and builds a
cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
SS 7.1 11 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in
palaces/ Princely women
hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony,/ Decked by courtly rites
and
dress/...
Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who
tried to prophesy
without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she performed the usual
rites...fell into convulsions and died.
Chr2 10.107 11 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact
observance of the
Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees
with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and
aspiration.
SovE 10.205 3 To a self-denying, ardent church,
delighting in rites and
ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
SlHr 10.447 11 It seemed as if the New England church
had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend...of its
ministers, its rites, and its social reforms.
HDC 11.31 6 In consequence of [Laud's] famous
proclamation setting up
certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers
were
suspended for contumacy...
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...
Ritter, Letter to [Alexande (1)
Humb 11.456 7 If a life prolonged to an advanced period
bring with it
several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in
the
delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop
themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in
inactivity. Humboldt, Letter to Ritter.
ritual, n. (10)
DSA 1.130 16 ...[Christianity] is...an exaggeration
of...the ritual.
Mrs1 3.132 1 ...the countryman at a city dinner,
believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
ET11 5.187 7 Politeness is the ritual of society...
ET13 5.217 23 [The English Church] has the seal of...a
ritual marked by
the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
Wsp 6.208 1 Here are...even in the decent populations,
idolatries wherein
the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
Comc 8.164 24 In religion, the sentiment is all; the
ritual or ceremony
indifferent.
Chr2 10.104 19 Every particular instruction is speedily
embodied in a
ritual...
MoL 10.249 7 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the
scholar clung to joy...
Wom 11.411 17 ...I think [women] should magnify their
ritual of manners.
Bost 12.193 9 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude
ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
ritualism, n. (1)
Wsp 6.208 26 In creeds never was such levity;
witness...the peacock
ritualism...
ritualities, n. (1)
Chr2 10.108 6 ...So far the religion is now where it
should be. Persons...are
discriminated according to their aims, and not by these ritualities.
ritualize, v. (1)
Tran 1.357 12 ...church and old book mumble and
ritualize to an
unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
rituals, n. (1)
FRep 11.530 27 We must realize our rhetoric and our
rituals.
rival, adj. (5)
ET4 5.54 13 We must use the popular category...for
convenience, and not
as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the
best-settled
traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely
characteristic of the rival tribe.
Clbs 7.243 9 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first...piqued the
emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies...
PC 8.217 13 [Culture] raises a rival royalty in a
monarchy.
MoL 10.245 22 A French prophet of our age, Fourier,
predicted that one
day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's
excellence
in the manufacture of little cakes.
Milt1 12.259 13 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant
learning, [Milton] was
sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael
Angelo and Correggio;...
rival, n. (11)
MN 1.202 10 When we...shorten the sight to look into
this court of Louis
Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling
table...where
the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival...one can
hardly
help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent
space
with so poor an article.
SL 2.141 9 [A man] inclines to do something which is
easy to him and
good when it is done, but which no other man can do. He has no rival.
Suc 7.294 21 The time your rival spends in dressing up
his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real
knowledge and efficiency.
Chr2 10.97 8 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force]
saith, I am; and he
who hears it feels the impiety of wandering from this revelation to any
record or to any rival.
JBS 11.277 5 ...the best orators who have added their
praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and
that is JOHN BROWN.
TPar 11.289 21 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted beyond all
men in pulpits-I
cannot think of one rival-that the essence of Christianity is its
practical
morals;...
FRep 11.519 1 ...each aspirant for power vies with his
rival which can
stoop lowest...
II 12.85 25 No rival can rival backward.
Bost 12.205 22 The power of labor which belongs to the
English race fell
here...into a maritime country made for trade, where was no rival and
no
envious lawgiver.
ACri 12.295 3 We cannot...give any account of
[Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful
symbolizer and expressor, who
has no rival in all ages...
PPr 12.390 6 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has
entered the Field of
the Cloth of Gold, and shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has
no
rival in the tourney-play of these times;...
rival, v. (8)
Nat 1.19 5 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with
yellow butterflies in
continual motion. Art cannot rival this pomp of purple and gold.
Comp 2.125 23 We do not believe there is any force in
to-day to rival or
recreate that beautiful yesterday.
ET11 5.172 6 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all
over England, rival the
splendor of royal seats.
Pow 6.56 25 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which
easily rears a crop
which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere
rival.
Wsp 6.218 12 If your eye is on the eternal...your
opinions and actions will
have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can
rival.
Insp 8.287 18 Tie a couple of strings across a board,
and set it in your
window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
Plu 10.302 16 [Plutarch] disowns any attempt to rival
Thucydides;...
II 12.85 26 No rival can rival backward.
rivalled, v. (2)
LLNE 10.333 5 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins
to his florid, quaint
and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric
which
we have never seen rivalled in this country.
EurB 12.367 13 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power
of diction that is
no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
rivalling, v. (1)
Milt1 12.260 27 Not imitating but rivalling Shakspeare,
[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his
pastoral and romantic
fancies;...
rivalry, n. (5)
ET6 5.111 27 There is a prose in certain Englishmen
which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
ET14 5.236 11 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental
soaring, of
which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by
the
writers of two centuries. I find not only the great masters out of all
rivalry
and reach, but the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine
force
and freedom.
Elo1 7.83 1 There is always a rivalry between the
orator and the occasion...
Elo1 7.84 11 This rivalry between the orator and the
occasion is inevitable...
Milt1 12.255 24 The genius of France has not...yet
culminated in any one
head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to
entitle it to
any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
rivals, n. (7)
Comp 2.108 3 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to
Theagenes, a victor
in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to
throw
it down...
ET5 5.90 8 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by
heart. His colleagues
and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.
ET15 5.264 18 ...[the London Times] attacks its rivals
by perfecting its
printing machinery...
SS 7.12 26 'T is said the present and the future are
always rivals.
FSLN 11.221 7 ...[Webster] was, without effort, as
superior to his most
eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
MAng1 12.226 6 [Michelangelo...was proceeding with the
work [of
rebuilding the Pons Palatinus], when, through the intervention of his
rivals, this work was taken from him...
PPr 12.383 3 It requires great courage in a man of
letters to handle the
contemporary practical questions; not because he then has all men for
his
rivals, but because of the infinite entanglements of the problem...
rival's, n. (2)
ET8 5.135 24 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...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in
the
Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush
and
blackened his own.
Pow 6.59 19 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will
quite hit the mark, whilst all the rival's arrows are good, and well
thrown.
rivals, v. (1)
EWI 11.122 19 ...the Boston merchant rivals his brother
of New York;...
rive, v. (3)
Comp 2.92 13 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating
in air or pent in
stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow,
follow
thee./
F 6.34 15 ...sometimes the religious principle would
get in and...rive every
mountain laid on top of it.
Bty 6.288 14 Thought is the pent air-ball which can
rive the planet...
rived, v. (1)
Pt1 3.1 4 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the
game with joyful
eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with
private ray/...
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