Romes to Ruling

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

Romes, n. (1)

    CbW 6.256 5 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.

Romilly, Samuel, n. (8)

    ET4 5.64 12 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    ET5 5.90 2 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies...
    ET5 5.90 13 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh, Romilly, are soon worked to death.
    ET6 5.108 27 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife.
    ET10 5.154 24 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    ET13 5.224 18 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard...to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    ET13 5.231 8 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred to those of Romilly...
    ET18 5.306 27 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox...Sheridan, Romilly...were by this means sent to Parliament...

Romilly's, Samuel, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 1 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.

Romish, adj. (2)

    YA 1.394 3 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy, and in the Romish church also, there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    CInt 12.128 27 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.

Romulus, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 16 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/...

Rondanini Medusa, n. (1)

    SS 7.3 2 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...

Rondanini Palace, Rome, It (1)

    MAng1 12.222 24 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.

rood, n. (5)

    LT 1.260 14 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet...
    ET3 5.34 16 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
    Farm 7.135 20 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/ For there 's no rood has not a star above it;/...
    Edc1 10.129 1 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction, whether it be over a cow or a rood of a potato-field...
    CW 12.170 1 There is no rood has not a star above it;/...

roof, n. (28)

    AmS 1.99 15 Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
    LE 1.186 22 Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
    Hist 2.37 6 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    Pt1 3.11 1 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side.
    Exp 3.47 8 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted;...
    Mrs1 3.119 12 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes. No rain can pass through the roof...
    Mrs1 3.134 21 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were of his sovereign, should not leave his roof...
    ShP 4.212 12 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his legend with form and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
    ET4 5.73 20 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET14 5.258 11 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
    F 6.33 19 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof...
    Wth 6.87 16 Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out;...
    Wth 6.89 2 Wealth requires, besides the crust of bread and the roof,--the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting, the roof and dome buoyant as the sky.
    Bhr 6.189 27 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    CbW 6.273 21 ...we make our roof tight...
    Civ 7.17 17 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Art2 7.41 21 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.
    Art2 7.41 22 The slope of your roof is determined by the weight of snow.
    DL 7.117 20 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    DL 7.119 26 ...who can see unmoved, under a low roof, the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    Res 8.145 9 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    Res 8.149 18 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.
    Res 8.149 23 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    Insp 8.289 6 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    FRep 11.526 25 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...tight roof and coals enough have been attained;...
    CL 12.149 20 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...hemlock bark for his roof, hair-moss or fern for his bed.
    Bost 12.194 15 Who shall restore to us the odoriferous Sabbaths which made the earth and the humble roof a sanctity?

roofs, n. (6)

    ShP 4.191 22 Inn-yards, houses without roofs...were ready theatres of strolling players.
    F 6.33 25 Could [steam] lift pots and roofs and houses so handily?
    DL 7.111 7 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    Boks 7.215 14 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Chr2 10.121 7 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    Bost 12.182 18 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/

roof-tree, n. (1)

    DL 7.133 8 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands.

rookery, n. (1)

    ET9 5.144 7 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.

Rookh, Lalla [Thomas Moore (1)

    EurB 12.370 13 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

room, n. (78)

    Nat 1.18 27 The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other, and the year has room for all.
    Nat 1.36 14 The understanding...finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene.
    DSA 1.142 23 ...[the Puritans'] creed is passing away, and none arises in its room.
    MN 1.200 8 How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom;...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    Tran 1.330 24 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair, and the walls of this room...
    Tran 1.358 18 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors;...
    YA 1.378 1 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.
    SR 2.48 18 ...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic.
    Comp 2.101 24 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Comp 2.126 27 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with no room for its roots...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    SL 2.149 18 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow. Every society protects itself. The company is perfectly safe, and he is not one of them, though his body is in the room.
    Fdsp 2.209 19 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside; give those merits room;...
    Hsm1 2.257 9 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment. Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses.
    Chr1 3.108 15 Character wants room;...
    Nat2 3.171 15 Cities give not the human senses room enough.
    Nat2 3.191 7 ...wealth was good as it...brought friends together in a warm and quiet room...
    Nat2 3.191 12 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days.
    NR 3.241 12 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
    UGM 4.7 13 What is good...makes for itself room, food and allies.
    UGM 4.22 24 ...in these new fields there is room...
    SwM 4.126 11 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...The more angels, the more room...
    MoS 4.179 8 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo...
    NMW 4.247 16 The lesson [Napoleon] teaches is that which vigor always teaches;--that there is always room for it.
    ET1 5.9 8 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show...
    ET1 5.21 22 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room.
    ET2 5.29 2 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees...
    ET2 5.31 8 ...every noble activity makes room for itself.
    ET4 5.63 21 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...
    ET5 5.81 2 There is room in [the English people's] minds for this and that...
    ET6 5.112 21 [The English] require a tone of voice that excites no attention in the room.
    ET8 5.133 27 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
    ET11 5.183 5 These broad [English] estates find room in this narrow island.
    ET11 5.193 4 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    ET11 5.193 5 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
    ET15 5.266 7 I remember I saw the reporters' room [of the London Times]...
    ET15 5.266 8 ...the editor's room [of the London Times], I did not see...
    ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube...
    Pow 6.58 22 There is always room for a man of force...
    Pow 6.58 23 There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
    Ctr 6.150 10 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Bhr 6.181 22 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
    Bhr 6.197 6 An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Wsp 6.222 1 ...there is no room for hypocrisy...
    CbW 6.269 16 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves;...
    Art2 7.50 20 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate: no room was there for choice...
    Boks 7.218 8 There is no room left,--and yet I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
    OA 7.334 24 We spent about an hour in [John Adams's] room.
    OA 7.335 7 [John Adams] likes to have...company talking in his room...
    PI 8.36 8 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    Elo2 8.119 25 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...
    Elo2 8.132 17 If there ever was a country where eloquence was a power, it is the United States. Here is room for every degree of it...
    Comc 8.162 13 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    Insp 8.289 21 I know there is room for whims here; but in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.
    Insp 8.294 9 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Grts 8.319 1 ...there was no room in [Lincoln's heart] to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Imtl 8.338 12 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
    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 10.6 6 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room...
    Aris 10.33 5 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit...
    PerF 10.72 6 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual;...
    Edc1 10.157 26 [The pupils] shall have no book but schoolbooks in the room;...
    MoL 10.251 17 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your shoes? I do. It was so in every room.
    MoL 10.255 11 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    LLNE 10.364 25 Letters were always flying not only from house to house [at Brook Farm], but from room to room.
    LS 11.4 23 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    HDC 11.53 4 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?
    EWI 11.146 4 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    Wom 11.422 9 Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
    Shak1 11.450 14 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.
    FRO2 11.487 7 [Thought] is easily carried; it takes no room;...
    CPL 11.496 27 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you,-how you forgot...the persons sitting in the room...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    PLT 12.9 4 Here [in society] each is to make room for others...
    CW 12.174 15 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea, give it room...
    ACri 12.290 21 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was...room to turn a chariot and horses between his valid words.
    WSL 12.348 4 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...
    WSL 12.348 9 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.353 12 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room?

rooms, n. (9)

    Lov1 2.184 13 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Mrs1 3.144 18 ...in these rooms every chair is waited for.
    Wth 6.114 7 Pride...can live in a house with two rooms...
    Clbs 7.242 27 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...brisk circulations keep him warm in cold rooms...
    Insp 8.291 21 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    LLNE 10.356 2 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    TPar 11.288 15 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...in legislative committee rooms, that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    Bost 12.196 15 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...

Roos, Philip Peter [Rosa d (1)

    Hist 2.16 24 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude. So Roos entered into the inmost nature of a sheep.

root, n. (41)

    Nat 1.25 15 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    AmS 1.86 17 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
    AmS 1.86 19 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that root?
    MN 1.203 23 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree,-root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed...
    LT 1.259 4 ...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    Con 1.304 24 All men have their root in [the existing social system].
    Tran 1.352 24 My life...takes no root in the deep world;...
    SR 2.67 12 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts;...in the leafless root there is no less.
    SR 2.88 6 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it...has no root in him...
    Comp 2.122 24 Material good...if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me...
    Fdsp 2.196 23 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...
    Int 2.330 4 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.
    Pt1 3.31 6 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree, growing with his root, which is his head, upward;...
    Pt1 3.31 8 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
    Exp 3.63 25 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man...
    Chr1 3.111 4 What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
    Mrs1 3.122 16 The usual words...must be respected; they will be found to contain the root of the matter.
    NER 3.257 18 We do not know an edible root in the woods...
    GoW 4.289 20 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET8 5.136 23 This [English] race has added new elements to humanity and has a deeper root in the world.
    ET9 5.151 8 The English sway of their colonies has no root of kindness.
    F 6.30 9 ...the hero...has the world under him for root and support.
    F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
    Ctr 6.134 10 ...egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.
    Bty 6.291 1 The tint of the flower proceeds from its root...
    Ill 6.314 8 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root.
    Ill 6.322 26 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Art2 7.53 15 The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things.
    DL 7.113 26 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
    DL 7.117 12 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is to raise our aim.
    Farm 7.144 16 The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.
    Aris 10.43 2 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions;...
    SovE 10.201 7 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    LLNE 10.338 14 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...every part of the plant from root to fruit is only a modified leaf...
    FSLC 11.194 22 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
    II 12.89 6 [A man] finds that events spring from the same root as persons;...
    CL 12.149 17 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or root of spruce, black or white, for strings;...
    CW 12.178 8 We knew the root was sucking juices from the ground. But the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.
    MLit 12.316 6 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which has no root in the character...
    Pray 12.351 10 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.
    Let 12.401 9 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...

root, v. (1)

    JBS 11.281 20 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need...a very strong force to root it out.

root-and-branch, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.140 27 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms.

rooted, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.52 7 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast;...
    Comp 2.101 8 ...the naturalist...regards...a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man.
    ACiv 11.306 14 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...

rooted, v. (12)

    LE 1.155 14 Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me...
    Fdsp 2.189 4 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./
    Exp 3.77 4 The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence...
    Nat2 3.181 23 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
    Pol1 3.199 12 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre...
    MoS 4.155 14 You believe yourselves rooted and grounded on adamant;...
    ET11 5.189 12 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    CbW 6.256 1 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
    Bty 6.286 7 ...though we are aware of a perfect law in nature, it has fascination for us only...as it is rooted in the mind.
    Suc 7.297 3 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    MAng1 12.227 19 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    ACri 12.284 24 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic, so strongly rooted in the German soil, that they are the terror of translators...

rootlet, n. (1)

    PI 8.71 12 To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.

roots, n. (36)

    Nat 1.33 22 ...Long-lived trees make roots first;...
    Nat 1.75 15 ...each phenomenon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind.
    AmS 1.85 22 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    DSA 1.123 15 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
    MR 1.248 8 ...we are...to clear ourselves of every usage which has not its roots in our own mind.
    Con 1.315 1 ...[Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
    Hist 2.17 20 ...the roots of all things are in man.
    Hist 2.36 12 A man is...a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
    Comp 2.127 1 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with no room for its roots...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    Prd1 2.236 19 ...every fact hath its roots in the soul...
    Art1 2.355 8 ...every object has its roots in central nature...
    Nat2 3.171 27 We nestle in nature, and draw our living as parasites from her roots and grains...
    Nat2 3.183 8 ...we think we shall be as grand as [natural objects] if we camp out and eat roots;...
    Pol1 3.199 15 ...the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres...
    F 6.36 17 ...observe how far the roots of every creature run...
    Wth 6.104 13 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    Ctr 6.136 18 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like roots of bitterness...
    Wsp 6.210 5 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches that once sucked the roots of right and wrong...
    Farm 7.147 21 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    Farm 7.148 27 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square, will take the roots into his laboratory;...
    Farm 7.149 3 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside, [the farmer] will attend to the roots in his tub...
    Farm 7.149 19 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 allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    Farm 7.149 22 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
    Farm 7.151 21 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear; he lives on their flesh when he can kill one, on roots and fruits when he cannot.
    WD 7.185 17 ...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 fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time.
    Edc1 10.131 13 In our condition are the roots of language and communication...
    MoL 10.257 9 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once.
    Plu 10.297 2 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.34 18 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...
    HDC 11.47 3 In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached.
    SMC 11.350 23 ...the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    SHC 11.431 8 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses;...
    CL 12.137 13 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
    Bost 12.209 5 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges, striking deep roots...
    Trag 12.413 18 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...

rope, n. (7)

    AmS 1.84 3 ...the sailor [becomes] a rope of the ship.
    Comp 2.119 15 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand.
    Chr1 3.95 4 Is there nothing but rope and iron?
    Pol1 3.200 8 ...foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting;...
    ET2 5.26 22 At last...the storm came, the winds blew, and we flew before a northwester which strained every rope and sail.
    Cour 7.274 19 ...the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious.
    Res 8.149 2 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect... that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times, when the necessity came of finding for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.

ropes, n. (5)

    Bhr 6.173 15 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist;...
    SS 7.15 7 ...ropes cannot hold me when my welcome is gone.
    PI 8.74 2 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are...a cordage of ropes that hold them up out of the slough.
    Insp 8.273 8 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    MAng1 12.226 26 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.

rope-walk, n. (1)

    CInt 12.115 5 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of a rope-walk or a candle-factory...

Rosa, Salvator, n. (2)

    MN 1.206 18 ...Salvator must be born.
    Exp 3.62 25 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for...a crayon-sketch of Salvator;...

Rosaceous, adj. (1)

    CL 12.145 3 The Rosaceous tribe in botany...are coeval with man.

rosary, n. (1)

    Pray 12.356 4 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Rose, Go, Lovely [Edmund (1)

    PI 8.55 27 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Waller's Go, Lovely Rose!...

rose, n. (22)

    Nat 1.1 4 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...
    Nat 1.21 25 Willingly does [nature] follow [man's] steps with the rose and the violet...
    Hist 2.34 26 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...
    SR 2.67 4 [Man] is ashamed before...the blowing rose.
    SR 2.67 9 There is simply the rose;...
    SL 2.140 5 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose and the air and the sun.
    Lov1 2.171 25 With thought, with the ideal, is...the rose of joy.
    Fdsp 2.189 12 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ Through thee the rose is red,/...
    Hsm1 2.243 3 ...Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;/...
    PNR 4.82 6 The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
    F 6.48 21 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...
    Bty 6.298 17 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws,--as every lily and every rose is well.
    DL 7.105 23 The blowing rose is a new event;...
    PPo 8.240 7 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram...
    PPo 8.242 24 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun, of Chosru and Schirin, and those of the nightingale for the rose;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.256 25 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/ Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose./
    PPo 8.257 12 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    PPo 8.257 13 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    PerF 10.68 3 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. They call it otto of rose and lavender,-I call it bilge-water.
    SMC 11.358 27 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
    MLit 12.311 1 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them...

Rose, Roman de la, n. (1)

    Boks 7.220 25 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!

Rose, Romaunt of the [Geoff (1)

    ShP 4.197 1 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...

rose, v. (30)

    DSA 1.139 25 [The prayers and dogmas of our church] mark the height to which the waters once rose.
    Hist 2.25 8 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood; whereupon others rose and did the like.
    Pt1 3.24 14 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn...
    Chr1 3.87 2 Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:/...
    NER 3.273 13 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    ET1 5.13 6 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said, I do not know whether you care about poetry...
    ET10 5.169 6 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET16 5.276 14 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows, which rose like green bosses about the plain...
    Wth 6.84 8 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    Ctr 6.165 11 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Bty 6.286 10 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Elo1 7.72 11 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...
    Farm 7.147 25 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger, and the mammoth Sequoias rose to their enormous proportions.
    WD 7.185 1 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Cour 7.256 14 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    OA 7.335 17 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
    Elo2 8.118 21 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly...
    PC 8.213 23 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height.
    Grts 8.302 4 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
    Grts 8.313 17 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    PerF 10.83 2 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man] and become property, but he rose to it and followed its circuits.
    Supl 10.178 6 One of the meters of the height to which any civility rose is the skill in the fabric of iron.
    MMEm 10.411 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...
    MMEm 10.428 6 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
    EWI 11.114 25 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 rose and embraced each other;...
    JBS 11.276 5 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
    SMC 11.360 2 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown,-an integrity incorruptible, and an ability that always rose to the need.
    Bost 12.206 12 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...quite naturally house-rents rose in Boston.
    EurB 12.369 13 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.
    EurB 12.369 14 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.

rose-bugs, n. (1)

    OA 7.324 11 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...

rose-color, n. (3)

    OS 2.290 21 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...has no rose-color...
    Farm 7.138 17 ...you must not try to paint [the farmer] in rose-color;...
    Farm 7.146 17 ...we must not paint the farmer in rose-color.

rose-lips, n. (1)

    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./

rosemary, n. (2)

    DSA 1.125 1 [The religious sentiment] is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary.
    Mrs1 3.137 13 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion. This is myrrh and rosemary to keep the other sweet.

roses, n. (23)

    SR 2.67 5 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...
    SR 2.67 6 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...
    SL 2.134 1 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
    Lov1 2.179 15 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to what roses and violets hint and foreshow.
    Mrs1 3.150 27 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    NR 3.231 20 Money...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    SwM 4.143 27 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends; but the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him that the skirt dropped from his hands?...
    ET4 5.69 7 The old [English] men are as red as roses...
    ET14 5.258 10 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET19 5.312 12 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    WD 7.174 14 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.
    PI 8.41 10 ...roses and violets renew their race like oaks...
    SA 8.105 16 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry,--and roses, and the moon...
    PC 8.224 26 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
    PPo 8.236 2 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
    PPo 8.243 2 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.245 5 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    PPo 8.249 27 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    PPo 8.254 22 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    PPo 8.257 7 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    PPo 8.261 18 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Supl 10.173 24 Gardens of roses must be stripped to make a few drops of otto.
    MLit 12.309 16 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...the stars are white points, the roses, brick-colored leaves...

roses, otto-of-, n. (1)

    EurB 12.370 16 Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is better.

rosettes, n. (1)

    UGM 4.5 1 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.

rose-water, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.176 22 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    WD 7.163 16 We may yet find a rose-water that will wash the negro white.

Rospigliosi Aurora [Guido (1)

    Hist 2.16 11 What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought...

Rosses, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 19 It is the interest of all that there should be...Rosses, Franklins, Richardsons and Kanes, to find the magnetic and the geographic poles.

rostrum, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.115 17 [The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.

rosy, adj. (7)

    Ill 6.312 16 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details and colors them with rosy hue.
    SS 7.11 6 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    DL 7.101 5 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms/...
    DL 7.107 5 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house...to rosy boyhood.
    Suc 7.310 12 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty, in all the street full of eager and rosy faces, but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Schr 10.287 18 I invite you [scholars] not...to a sleek and rosy comfort;...
    Wom 11.412 16 [Women] emit from their pores...wave upon wave of rosy light...

rot, n. (4)

    MR 1.238 7 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... timber by rot;...
    Suc 7.284 26 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    FSLN 11.241 4 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    CL 12.138 1 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.

rot, v. (8)

    SR 2.80 18 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold...will rot and vanish...
    Prd1 2.234 24 ...timber of ships will rot at sea...
    Prd1 2.235 9 Iron cannot rust...nor timber rot...in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Pt1 3.24 1 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short leap they fall plump down and rot...
    Nat2 3.185 8 Without electricity the air would rot...
    War 11.166 11 ...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. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the men-of-war would rot ashore;...
    TPar 11.292 18 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten...
    PLT 12.54 2 The air would rot without lightning;...

rotate, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 23 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    SwM 4.132 1 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the revengeful, whose faces resembled a round, broad cake, and their arms rotate like a wheel.

rotating, adj. (1)

    Res 8.139 4 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides.

rotating, v. (1)

    Farm 7.142 9 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...rotating its constellations...the farmer is the minder.

rotation, n. (9)

    NR 3.239 5 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man...
    NR 3.242 21 ...the points come in succession to the meridian, and by the speed of rotation a new whole is formed.
    UGM 4.19 7 Rotation is [nature's] remedy.
    UGM 4.19 13 Rotation is the law of nature.
    UGM 4.31 20 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    SwM 4.110 10 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...rotation...
    MoS 4.176 20 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    ET4 5.58 10 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...on all the farms in rotation.
    Aris 10.46 19 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation...

rotations, n. (1)

    SR 2.89 25 In the Will work and acquire, and thou...shall sit hereafter out of fear of [the wheel of Chance's] rotations.

rote, n. (3)

    SR 2.67 27 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames...
    Ctr 6.162 5 We wish to learn philosophy by rote...
    ALin 11.328 4 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...

Rothschild, Lionel Nathan, (2)

    F 6.39 23 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Rothschild...and the rest.
    Pow 6.75 16 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.

Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, n (1)

    Wth 6.105 13 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved.

Rothschilds, n. (1)

    Wth 6.105 6 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at Manchester...are forced into the highway...

rots, v. (1)

    Wom 11.423 14 ...there is contamination enough [in politics], but it rots the men now...

rotted, v. (2)

    Tran 1.359 12 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...
    Mrs1 3.129 3 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.

rotten, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.30 21 ...wise men pierce this rotten diction...
    Con 1.310 1 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that with all its admitted defects, rotten boroughs and monopolies, it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    ET11 5.192 17 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    ET18 5.306 24 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England], that it worked well...
    Pow 6.82 8 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...
    CbW 6.254 18 Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper...
    CbW 6.254 22 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    SlHr 10.442 21 ...[Samuel Hoar]...would not argue a rotten cause;...
    HDC 11.34 21 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...till the sod of the earth was rotten...
    EWI 11.146 26 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
    FSLN 11.234 1 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled. This eternal monument of his fame and of the Union is rotten in four years.

rottenness, n. (5)

    Comp 2.111 24 One thing [Fear] teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.
    ET11 5.192 5 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    ET14 5.249 23 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
    EWI 11.125 19 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.
    EPro 11.320 14 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./

rotting, v. (1)

    Wth 6.86 17 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan.

rough, adj. (45)

    AmS 1.94 15 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear...
    Tran 1.346 6 ...these youths bring us a rough but effectual aid.
    SR 2.51 19 Rough and graceless would be such greeting...
    SR 2.78 16 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks...
    Fdsp 2.206 3 [Friendship] is fit for...country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare...
    Pt1 3.25 24 ...a tempest is a rough ode...
    Exp 3.48 3 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction...
    UGM 4.22 27 ...I like rough and smooth [men]...
    SwM 4.107 4 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
    ET2 5.29 14 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth.
    ET4 5.57 22 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are substantial farmers whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties.
    ET4 5.57 27 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...living amphibiously on a rough coast...
    ET5 5.77 7 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
    ET5 5.78 10 The English game is...a rough tug without trick or dodging...
    ET5 5.84 17 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture.
    ET12 5.210 25 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    ET14 5.236 14 There is a hygienic simpleness, rough vigor...even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    F 6.6 24 We must see that the world is rough and surly...
    F 6.8 11 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end...
    Pow 6.63 2 ...let these rough riders...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Pow 6.72 26 [Michel Angelo] surpassed his successors in rough vigor, as much as in purity of intellect and refinement.
    Ctr 6.162 8 Try the rough water as well as the smooth.
    Ctr 6.162 9 Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
    CbW 6.254 9 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...
    SS 7.6 2 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    Civ 7.24 6 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which... breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate;...
    Art2 7.43 8 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    Cour 7.257 26 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    SA 8.95 4 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather or rough roads.
    SA 8.106 4 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
    Elo2 8.128 13 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...neglecting to give [a youth] the rough training of a boy...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Edc1 10.140 2 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    MoL 10.242 3 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    LLNE 10.337 12 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
    MMEm 10.423 9 War is among the means of discipline, the rough meliorators...
    HDC 11.36 1 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    War 11.160 14 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers, new instincts, which were really concealed under this rough and base rind.
    JBS 11.277 22 [John Brown] said that he loved rough play, could never have rough play enough;...
    TPar 11.288 21 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    SMC 11.359 2 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... one of the last men in this town [Concord] you would have picked out for the rough dealing of war...
    SMC 11.367 16 I have found many notes of [the Thirty-second Regiment' s] rough experience in the march and in the field.
    FRep 11.535 3 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough and ready force becomes them...
    PLT 12.13 6 The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
    CL 12.150 6 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens, whose bark is rough on the north and smooth on the south side.
    Bost 12.191 21 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens, not at all accustomed to the rough task of discoverers;...

rough, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.96 13 ...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.

rough, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.128 23 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.

rough-and-ready, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.62 11 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.

rougher, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.19 23 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters;...
    MoS 4.180 12 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men...
    Cour 7.261 5 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.

roughest, adj. (3)

    Fdsp 2.201 11 I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage.
    Exp 3.84 13 Hardest roughest action is visionary also.
    ET3 5.43 3 I [Nature] will not grudge a competition of the roughest males.

roughly, adv. (3)

    ET1 5.6 17 I have a private letter from [Greenough]...in which he roughly sketches his own theory.
    SA 8.88 6 If a man have manners and talent he may dress roughly and carelessly.
    LLNE 10.326 12 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.

roughness, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.354 26 Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.

rough-plastic, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.172 16 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...

roughs, n. (1)

    SMC 11.356 19 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who liked harsh play and violence...

round, adj. (13)

    Nat 1.15 17 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    Hist 2.18 25 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...
    OS 2.294 1 ...every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
    Nat2 3.190 6 Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.
    Nat2 3.193 5 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset! But who can go where they are, or lay his hand or plant his foot thereon? Off they fall from the round world forever and ever.
    NR 3.236 26 Nick Bottom cannot play all the parts, work it how he may; there will be somebody else, and the world will be round.
    SwM 4.131 27 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the revengeful, whose faces resembled a round, broad cake...
    ET4 5.65 12 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome;...
    CbW 6.244 1 Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and virtues here/...
    Elo1 7.90 17 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball...and the cause is half won.
    Suc 7.300 3 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a part of the round globe...
    Res 8.145 11 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    PPo 8.259 26 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./

round, adv. (34)

    AmS 1.115 4 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    MN 1.217 9 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object...
    MR 1.238 1 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round...
    Hist 2.5 27 ...we hedge [human life] round with penalties and laws.
    Hist 2.9 17 This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece...as with so many flowers...
    Nat2 3.187 1 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    UGM 4.10 11 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    UGM 4.12 22 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences...
    ShP 4.219 7 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
    GoW 4.269 23 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government, or must bark, all the year round, in opposition;...
    ET10 5.156 20 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET19 5.312 13 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    Wth 6.110 3 ...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes round.
    Ctr 6.132 25 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Ctr 6.164 11 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Ill 6.315 20 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance...
    SS 7.4 15 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there,--trees behind trees; above all, set evergreens, for they will keep a secret all the year round.
    Art2 7.55 1 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...
    Cour 7.278 21 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    Cour 7.279 21 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    Suc 7.284 7 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower, turn round swiftly and come back;...
    Suc 7.303 9 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    PI 8.59 5 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
    Res 8.148 7 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob. Try sending round the contribution-box.
    PC 8.231 18 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose...
    PPo 8.255 13 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./
    Aris 10.57 23 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...
    Edc1 10.128 15 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Humb 11.458 9 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    CInt 12.114 17 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...inroads and excursions round...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CW 12.173 21 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    Milt1 12.260 10 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
    Milt1 12.274 13 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./
    MLit 12.323 26 [Goethe] thought it necessary to dot round with his own pen the entire sphere of knowables;...

round, n. (5)

    SR 2.74 13 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    Cir 2.321 1 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    GoW 4.261 21 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures...
    ET1 5.18 22 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings. He liked the huge machine. Each keeps its own round.
    SHC 11.434 16 ...when I think of the mystery of life, its round of illusions... I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleep Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

Round Table, n. (2)

    Boks 7.221 7 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology, the Round Table...
    OA 7.317 13 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...

round, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 4 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;...
    NR 3.231 8 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

rounded, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.167 1 The rounded world is fair to see/...

rounded, v. (2)

    SR 2.58 6 All the sallies of [a man's] will are rounded in by the law of his being...
    ACri 12.296 3 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite, like the pebbles which the incessant attrition of the sea has rounded.

rounding, adj. (3)

    DSA 1.151 18 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see their rounding complete grace;...
    Exp 3.76 19 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity...
    Ill 6.311 12 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.

rounding, v. (2)

    OA 7.331 16 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...rounding their estates...
    QO 8.182 3 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer, everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the form...

roundly, adv. (1)

    Schr 10.281 14 ...[Plotinus] says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.

roundness, n. (1)

    ET14 5.235 11 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.

rounds, n. (1)

    PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see how many rounds of ammunition...we can bring to bear.

rounds, v. (3)

    Tran 1.332 1 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which rounds off to an almost perfect sphericity...
    Art1 2.355 17 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole...
    PPo 8.260 3 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./

rouse, v. (3)

    NMW 4.238 22 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
    Wsp 6.211 4 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    MMEm 10.405 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.

roused, v. (5)

    F 6.26 22 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence our own mind is roused to activity...
    Insp 8.285 17 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/...
    EPro 11.315 4 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when, roused by danger or inspired by genius, the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    HCom 11.344 5 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big enough to knock down an empire. And her blood was roused.
    FRep 11.533 2 The source of mischief is the extreme difficulty with which men are roused from the torpor of every day.

rouses, v. (3)

    SL 2.165 25 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart as great, self-sufficing, dauntless... these all are his, and by the power of these he rouses the nations.
    Elo1 7.80 16 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    Milt1 12.264 27 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier...

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, n. (7)

    NER 3.274 10 ...Rousseau, Mirabeau...they would know the worst...
    PPh 4.39 19 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius...Rousseau...is some reader of Plato...
    ShP 4.199 5 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so Locke and Rousseau think, for thousands;...
    Plu 10.296 10 ...Rousseau acknowledged [Plutarch] as his master.
    Scot 11.467 6 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott], as of Rousseau or Voltaire...
    CL 12.142 1 Walking, said Rousseau, has something which animates and vivifies my ideas.
    Milt1 12.255 21 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head-not in Rousseau, not in Pascal, not in Fenelon-into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].

Rousseau's, Jean Jacques, n (3)

    ET1 5.17 5 Rousseau's Confessions had discovered to [Carlyle] that he was not a dunce;...
    Boks 7.208 10 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Rousseau's Confessions;...
    War 11.160 21 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is no man's invention, neither St. Pierre's, nor Rousseau's...

Rousseaus, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.105 26 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What Mirabeaus, Rousseaus... and many another heretic, one can detect therein!

rout, n. (1)

    Exp 3.52 27 Temperament puts all divinity to rout.

routinary, adj. (3)

    WD 7.183 4 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Edc1 10.150 23 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
    LLNE 10.361 11 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.

routine, n. (42)

    AmS 1.83 27 The tradesman...is ridden by the routine of his craft...
    DSA 1.136 11 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches...should be heard...over the din of routine.
    DSA 1.147 3 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and sin, with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    LE 1.175 15 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of balls...can teach you no more than a few can.
    MN 1.192 16 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics...
    MN 1.192 18 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
    MN 1.192 21 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will, and the routine is not to be praised for it.
    MN 1.206 22 The sleepy nations are occupied with their political routine.
    MR 1.231 10 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he...must take on him the harness of routine and obsequiousness.
    Tran 1.350 6 I do not love routine.
    Hist 2.33 4 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...
    Hist 2.33 27 ...[Goethe's Helena] operates a wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images...
    Prd1 2.225 8 ...here lies stubborn matter, and will not swerve from its chemical routine.
    Cir 2.320 11 ...of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat;...
    Pt1 3.32 22 All the value which attaches to...Oken...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Exp 3.47 15 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine...that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    MoS 4.156 22 [The skeptic says] I tire of these hacks of routine...
    GoW 4.274 5 ...in the solidest kingdom of routine and the senses, [Goethe] showed the lurking daemonic power;...
    GoW 4.274 7 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself...
    ET6 5.107 1 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal, loving routine and conventional ways;...
    ET12 5.212 14 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine...
    ET18 5.305 9 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought, sleepy routine...
    Pow 6.77 8 The second substitute for temperament is drill, the power of use and routine.
    Bhr 6.169 23 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Wsp 6.212 12 ...[even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    CbW 6.254 17 Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
    Cour 7.257 25 A large majority of men...beginning early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry, never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    PI 8.36 27 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from the gossip and routine of society...
    PI 8.73 22 Time will be...when what are now glimpses and aspirations shall be the routine of the day.
    Imtl 8.331 20 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and, though attentive enough to the routine of public duty, they daily returned to each other...
    Chr2 10.102 3 The world would run into endless routine, and forms incrust forms, till the life was gone.
    Edc1 10.128 15 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round. In that routine are the sacred relations, the passions that bind and sever.
    Edc1 10.153 15 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.
    Plu 10.309 6 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was no play nor routine...
    LLNE 10.361 4 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of the routine...of society around them...
    LLNE 10.364 12 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.364 16 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade...broke up routine [at Brook Farm].
    CSC 10.376 11 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    War 11.170 6 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...
    EPro 11.315 7 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    PLT 12.59 17 Routine...is the path of indolence...
    CInt 12.125 1 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...

routines, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 26 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions?

Rouvroi, Louis de [Duc de (2)

    NER 3.264 1 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    Bhr 6.182 23 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you...in those potent secrets.

rove, v. (2)

    SR 2.71 5 ...let us not rove;...
    Aris 10.32 15 It will not pain me if I am found now and then to rove from the accepted and historic, to a theoretic peerage;...

rover, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 12 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...

rovers, n. (1)

    Hist 2.22 18 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...

roves, v. (1)

    DSA 1.124 17 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...

roving, adj. (1)

    LT 1.268 3 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with roving eyes, and an attention preoccupied with trifles.

roving, v. (3)

    SR 2.65 10 My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving;...
    SwM 4.123 21 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg],--his eye never roving...
    Bhr 6.178 25 Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping...

Row, Great Cheyne, London, (1)

    ACri 12.299 18 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...

row, n. (3)

    Wth 6.115 25 ...every hill of melons, row of corn [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
    PI 8.45 21 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows...
    PLT 12.20 8 Not only man puts things in a row, but things below in a row.

row, v. (4)

    ET4 5.70 12 [The English] box, run, shoot, ride, row, and sail from pole to pole.
    Edc1 10.139 18 [Boys] don't pass for swimmers until they can swim, nor for stroke-oar until they can row...
    MoL 10.251 7 Learn...to row a boat...
    EWI 11.123 13 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle, we truck, we sail, we row...to market, and for the sale of goods.

rowdies, n. (3)

    CbW 6.255 20 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
    Elo1 7.66 11 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
    FRep 11.534 24 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...or the river rowdies...

Rowe, Nicholas, n. (1)

    ShP 4.208 22 ...with Shakspeare for biographer, instead of Aubrey and Rowe, we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...

rowen, n. (1)

    NR 3.237 24 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...

rower, n. (1)

    SR 2.77 27 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...

rowers, n. (3)

    ET10 5.157 24 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    Suc 7.284 5 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
    PC 8.215 4 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...

rowing, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.71 7 The people at home [in England] are addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.

rowing, v. (3)

    MR 1.241 24 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise, such as...rowing...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    SL 2.137 16 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...
    Cour 7.262 5 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...

rowing-matches, n. (1)

    ET12 5.211 10 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...with skating and rowing-matches, the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...

rows, v. (3)

    NER 3.266 16 ...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
    Prch 10.224 20 Now every man...with one hand rows, and with the other backs water.
    PLT 12.54 24 [A man] rows with one hand and with the other backs water...

Roxburgh, Duke of [John Ke (1)

    Boks 7.209 18 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.

Roxbury Ditch, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 27 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.

Roxbury, West, Association, (1)

    LLNE 10.359 15 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841...

Roxbury, West, Massachusett (1)

    LLNE 10.359 17 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...

Roy, Rob, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.288 21 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause; after the Rob Roy rule...to be the strongest to-day...

royal, adj. (43)

    MN 1.204 16 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    Comp 2.116 21 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    SL 2.143 15 The parts of hospitality...and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    Hsm1 2.243 10 ...Chambers of the great are jails,/ And head-winds right for royal sails./
    OS 2.276 9 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind...will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
    OS 2.291 17 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves...
    Mrs1 3.153 16 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood...
    Nat2 3.173 8 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...a royal revel...establishes itself on the instant.
    Nat2 3.173 27 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    SwM 4.98 16 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.
    SwM 4.99 20 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland, for the royal service.
    SwM 4.110 27 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
    ShP 4.193 3 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly;...
    ShP 4.215 21 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
    ET3 5.42 8 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET4 5.62 12 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...
    ET4 5.64 6 The Jews have been the favorite victims [in England] of royal and popular persecution.
    ET7 5.117 27 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.
    ET7 5.118 1 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.
    ET11 5.172 7 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.
    ET13 5.219 6 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family...
    Wth 6.125 7 ...the royal rule of economy is that it should ascend...
    CbW 6.273 11 [Friendship] is a serious and majestic affair, like a royal presence...
    SS 7.6 9 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters...in royal chambers.
    Boks 7.210 26 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    SA 8.82 8 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...
    PPo 8.258 22 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    Aris 10.45 21 The blood royal never pays, we say.
    Aris 10.49 19 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any royal patronage;...
    Aris 10.52 21 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    Aris 10.60 21 One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is the patent of royal natures.
    Aris 10.61 27 ...[the true man] is to know that the distinction of a royal nature is a great heart;...
    Prch 10.231 8 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others...are only neuters in the hive,-every one a possible royal bee, but not now significant.
    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...
    HDC 11.63 10 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony; and on his return, in 1685, was a royal councillor.
    HDC 11.71 7 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    EWI 11.109 14 During the next sixteen years, ten times...the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters. The king, and all the royal family but one, were against it.
    FSLC 11.213 11 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...
    JBS 11.280 9 If [John Brown] kept sheep, it was with a royal mind;...
    ACiv 11.297 3 Ich dien, I serve, is a truly royal motto.
    Shak1 11.451 2 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    II 12.70 23 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you...
    CInt 12.112 14 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

Royal and Noble Authors [H (1)

    SL 2.154 14 [A book] must go with all Walpole's Noble and Royal Authors to its fate.

Royal Garden, Upsala, Swed (1)

    CW 12.172 24 Linnaeus, who was professor of the Royal Gardens at Upsala, took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...

Royal Government, n. (1)

    OA 7.333 27 [Mr. Lechmere] was Collector of the Customs for many years under the Royal Government.

Royal Institution, n. (1)

    Grts 8.306 7 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver, in the Royal Institution in London, a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...

Royal Libraries, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Royal... Libraries.

Royal Proclamation, n. (1)

    FRep 11.540 19 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect ascending the throne...

Royal Society [England], n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 19 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.

royalist, n. (1)

    HDC 11.61 17 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.

royally, adv. (1)

    Aris 10.61 3 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...

royalty, n. (6)

    SL 2.143 14 The parts of hospitality...and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    ET18 5.302 21 ...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship, ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    PC 8.217 13 [Culture] raises a rival royalty in a monarchy.
    EdAd 11.384 13 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon.
    Shak1 11.451 7 The loyalty and royalty [Shakespeare] drew were all his own.
    Milt1 12.269 16 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of royalty, of chivalry...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

roysterers, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.233 14 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.

roystering, adj. (1)

    Let 12.393 22 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

rub, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.3 9 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    Exp 3.58 23 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay; it would not rub down a horse;...
    CbW 6.264 26 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...

rubbed, v. (6)

    NMW 4.255 16 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him...
    Clbs 7.250 7 ...glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Comc 8.167 27 ...[the physician] rubbed his hands with delight...
    EWI 11.104 9 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk... we too should wince.
    EWI 11.111 12 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the eyes of the females;...
    PLT 12.27 20 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise, as glasses rubbed acquire power for a time.

rubber, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.287 25 Newton was a great man, without...steam-coach, or rubber shoes...

rubber-shoes, n. (1)

    Civ 7.33 11 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which... elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes...

rubbish, n. (9)

    Nat 1.39 2 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
    SR 2.68 13 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    Int 2.332 22 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.
    Art1 2.358 6 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.
    NER 3.261 2 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish;...
    ET9 5.146 19 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company, who plainly account all the world out of England a heap of rubbish.
    Boks 7.189 22 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
    HDC 11.51 22 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    CL 12.146 5 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...

rubies, n. (1)

    AmS 1.95 22 [Action] is pearls and rubies to [a man's] discourse.

rubs, v. (2)

    Pow 6.82 1 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight.
    Aris 10.56 12 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against bone.

ruby, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.243 1 Ruby wine is drunk by knaves/...

ruby, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.200 19 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which hardens the ruby in a million years...

rudder, n. (9)

    MR 1.238 19 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to...mend the rudder.
    ET2 5.28 8 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...she minds her rudder;...
    Art2 7.42 1 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat,-- keel, rudder and bows...
    OA 7.314 3 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    Dem1 10.14 12 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    SovE 10.196 19 The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
    Wom 11.407 4 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail...
    Wom 11.407 5 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
    II 12.75 1 ...the ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

ruddered, adj. (1)

    F 6.32 21 ...the ductility of metals...the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.

ruddering, v. (1)

    ET10 5.161 7 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon...

ruddy, adj. (5)

    Comp 2.119 27 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
    Fdsp 2.189 1 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...
    ET4 5.54 15 I found plenty of well-marked English types, the ruddy complexion fair and plump...
    ET4 5.65 13 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome;...
    CbW 6.243 17 The richest of all lords is Use,/ And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse./

rude, adj. (77)

    Con 1.313 14 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity]...
    Con 1.323 13 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates, as well as those who, accepting its rude conditions, keep their own head by their own sword.
    Hist 2.20 10 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees...
    Hist 2.22 23 A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication...
    SR 2.51 8 I ought to...speak the rude truth in all ways.
    Lov1 2.172 21 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door;...
    Int 2.330 19 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts.
    Art1 2.356 18 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Art1 2.364 9 ...[sculpture] is the game of a rude and youthful people...
    Mrs1 3.143 13 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Gts 3.162 2 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    Nat2 3.182 21 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear...
    NER 3.273 19 It is a foolish cowardice which keeps us from trusting [men] and speaking to them rude truth.
    ShP 4.193 26 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play...
    ShP 4.194 13 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments...
    GoW 4.264 3 Whatever can be thought can be spoken, and still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs.
    ET3 5.34 6 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a paradise of comfort and plenty.
    ET3 5.43 1 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET7 5.120 25 In the power of saying rude truth...no men surpass [the English].
    ET8 5.130 15 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    ET8 5.132 7 The young [English] men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors.
    ET8 5.133 7 There are multitudes of rude young English who have the self-sufficiency and bluntness of their nation...
    ET14 5.232 3 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought...
    ET15 5.262 27 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    ET15 5.269 8 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty.
    ET16 5.279 19 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    F 6.7 3 The way of Providence is a little rude.
    F 6.15 21 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms...
    F 6.24 6 Rude and invincible except by themselves are the elements.
    Ctr 6.144 13 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not; the refined, on rude strength;...
    Bhr 6.172 26 Society is infested with rude, cynical, restless and frivolous persons...
    CbW 6.249 6 Masses are rude, lame, unmade...
    CbW 6.258 8 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    Bty 6.306 23 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Art2 7.54 5 There was no wilfulness in the savages in this perpetuating of their first rude abodes.
    DL 7.105 16 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the domestics, who like rude foster-mothers befriend and feed him...
    Suc 7.290 4 The passion for sudden success is rude and puerile...
    OA 7.313 7 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    OA 7.313 9 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    PI 8.57 7 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    PI 8.58 9 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./
    SA 8.91 9 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    SA 8.91 18 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...
    PC 8.207 7 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    PC 8.212 11 Our towns are still rude...
    PC 8.231 13 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies. And who are the allies? Rude opposition, apathy, slander,-even these.
    PPo 8.239 19 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures...
    Insp 8.271 1 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope...
    Imtl 8.324 21 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...
    Chr2 10.119 8 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul] of all support drives him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
    SovE 10.204 7 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world.
    Plu 10.302 3 ...[Plutarch's] own cheerfulness and rude health are also magnetic.
    LLNE 10.345 9 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods, rude, hairy, careless of dress...
    LLNE 10.369 21 I please myself with the thought that our American mind is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...
    MMEm 10.406 23 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    Thor 10.475 17 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective.
    HDC 11.34 1 [The pilgrims'] first temporary accommodation was rude enough.
    HDC 11.38 24 The landscape before [the settlers of Concord] was fair, if it was strange and rude.
    EWI 11.143 24 If [men] are rude and foolish, down they must go.
    TPar 11.287 7 'T is sometimes a question, shall we not leave [the old religions] to decay without rude shocks?
    ACiv 11.299 5 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later...
    Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...
    FRep 11.525 21 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization...
    PLT 12.14 20 ...philosophy is still rude and elementary.
    PLT 12.15 8 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature; and I add a rude list of some by-laws of the mind.
    PLT 12.46 27 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding.
    CInt 12.114 3 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...
    CInt 12.122 8 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    Bost 12.193 3 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.
    Bost 12.193 9 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
    Bost 12.197 13 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    MLit 12.309 3 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    WSL 12.339 20 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and over-refinement.
    EurB 12.370 10 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth;...
    EurB 12.371 15 Jonson is rude, and only on rare occasions gay.
    EurB 12.375 24 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.
    Trag 12.412 23 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action;...

rudely, adv. (5)

    Lov1 2.173 1 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough...
    Int 2.345 21 ...I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    Pol1 3.208 16 [Parties]...rudely mark some real and lasting relation.
    F 6.49 19 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no contingencies;...
    Imtl 8.324 22 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...

rudeness, n. (8)

    Tran 1.345 1 The profound nature will have a savage rudeness;...
    ShP 4.210 8 What gentleman has [Shakespeare] not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
    Elo2 8.112 9 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power, from the highest refinement to the borders of savage ignorance and rudeness.
    Edc1 10.140 24 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man, purged of its uproar and rudeness...
    SovE 10.192 24 The strength of the animal to eat and to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
    Wom 11.419 11 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished,- because they feel the same rudeness and disadvantage which offends you,- that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Pray 12.352 8 ...soon...I desire to leave [my long-attached friend] (but not in rudeness), because I wished to be engaged in my business.
    PPr 12.391 1 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement.

ruder, adj. (4)

    Ctr 6.164 15 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    PPo 8.259 4 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Prch 10.234 18 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists, since it is not armed with prisons or fagots as in ruder times...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...

rudest, adj. (13)

    Nat 1.40 22 ...every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Hsm1 2.250 8 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease...
    Pt1 3.16 26 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior.
    NER 3.260 8 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
    SwM 4.107 3 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
    ET8 5.133 2 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
    Wth 6.85 18 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art.
    Civ 7.19 2 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...is called Civilization.
    PI 8.7 11 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects, and hence our science, from its rudest to its most refined theories.
    PerF 10.81 8 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day; he was no peasant after all. So near to us is the flowering of Fine Art in the rudest population.
    LLNE 10.330 24 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.
    II 12.69 15 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona...in itself...
    Let 12.403 2 The old Duty is the old God. And we may come to this by the rudest teaching.

rudiment, n. (1)

    ET4 5.62 22 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.

rudimental, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.165 11 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...

rudiments, n. (5)

    SwM 4.143 22 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
    SwM 4.145 15 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.
    ET4 5.50 5 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form...
    Edc1 10.125 24 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    PLT 12.21 22 ...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a higher class in which its rudiments are opened...

Rue de Bac, Paris, France, (1)

    SA 8.94 9 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...

rueful, adj. (2)

    LE 1.161 21 In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    SA 8.94 20 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...

ruffian, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.75 3 ...a ruffian touch in his rhetoric, will do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.

ruffian, n. (2)

    Comp 2.99 2 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Edc1 10.133 15 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.

ruffians, n. (5)

    CbW 6.261 9 A rich man was never in danger from cold, or hunger, or war or ruffians...
    Cour 7.259 15 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with burglars and ruffians in the streets...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    War 11.173 12 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.
    AKan 11.255 19 The printed letters of border ruffians avow the facts.
    AKan 11.259 4 The government armed and led the ruffians against the poor farmers [in Kansas].

ruffle, n. (1)

    ET5 5.84 15 The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

Rugby [School], England, n. (1)

    ET12 5.208 5 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...

Rugby, Tom Brown at [Thoma (1)

    Edc1 10.143 6 Let [the youth] read Tom Brown at Rugby...

rugged, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.149 17 So it is in rugged crises...that the angel is shown.
    SR 2.75 23 We shun the rugged battle of fate...
    DL 7.112 4 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    FSLN 11.236 6 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters...

ruggedest, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.131 1 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./

Ruhnken, David, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 14 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses in the style of Voss and Wolff and Ruhnken...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

ruin, n. (39)

    Nat 1.73 23 The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
    MR 1.243 15 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
    MR 1.248 20 If there are inconveniences and what is called ruin in the way...yet it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy...recesses of life.
    YA 1.373 7 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled a cruel kindness, serving the whole even to the ruin of the member;...
    Pt1 3.31 19 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse, the ruin of the world through evil...
    Exp 3.66 3 ...to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Nat2 3.181 18 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage; otherwise all goes to ruin.
    Nat2 3.196 7 The reality is more excellent than the report. Here is no ruin...
    Pol1 3.204 27 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors can not go.
    NER 3.283 12 Pitiless, [the Law] avails itself of our success when we obey it, and of our ruin when we contravene it.
    UGM 4.24 3 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life, ignorant of the ruin...
    NMW 4.236 16 [Napoleon] came, several times, within an inch of ruin;...
    GoW 4.285 15 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what experience will accrue from your ruin.
    ET4 5.61 2 ...[the Normans] burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed, until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin.
    ET5 5.91 15 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...
    ET5 5.97 10 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
    ET7 5.120 2 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
    ET9 5.151 3 America is the paradise of the [English] economists; is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin;...
    ET10 5.169 9 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin.
    ET15 5.261 18 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states.
    ET16 5.281 20 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley], charmed with the geometric perfections of his ruin, connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    F 6.47 20 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe, which his ruin benefits.
    Pow 6.61 21 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin.
    Wth 6.117 2 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin...
    Wth 6.126 10 The way to ruin is short and facile.
    Insp 8.275 5 What is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but this daring of ruin for its object?
    Imtl 8.341 20 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruin.
    SovE 10.195 13 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
    SovE 10.195 26 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders...
    SovE 10.206 10 You cannot impoverish man by taking away these objects above him without ruin.
    EWI 11.101 1 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    FSLN 11.231 10 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength, wherewith to resist a little longer this general ruin.
    ACiv 11.308 20 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations.
    ALin 11.335 27 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?
    HCom 11.342 9 The revolutions carry their own points, sometimes to the ruin of those who set them on foot.
    SMC 11.352 18 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years...brought the alternative of extirpation of the poison or ruin to the Republic.
    CPL 11.505 3 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which gives them to us approaches its ruin.
    II 12.77 10 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
    Bost 12.205 10 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...and that his ruin is to live for pleasure and for show.

ruin, v. (6)

    MN 1.202 10 When we...look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever...to... ruin [your rival] with this solemn fop in wig and stars,-the king;-one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    LT 1.266 8 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel, laid up on the shelf in some village to rust and ruin.
    Pow 6.75 26 If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me [said Rothschild], I should ruin myself very soon.
    Dem1 10.19 8 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit, the exposures which follow, and which would ruin any other man, are strangely overlooked...
    CW 12.175 20 I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
    MAng1 12.236 19 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...

ruined, adj. (6)

    Hist 2.23 25 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in...the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas.
    ET7 5.125 14 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge.
    ET11 5.193 6 Dismal anecdotes abound...of ruined dukes and earls living in exile for debt.
    PPo 8.246 14 I will be drunk and down with wine;/ Treasures we find in a ruined house./
    Imtl 8.326 20 I read at Melrose Abbey the inscription on the ruined gate...
    Plu 10.303 6 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...

ruined, v. (11)

    Tran 1.359 12 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined by war...
    SR 2.75 27 If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined.
    Exp 3.82 3 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.
    PPh 4.72 17 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    NMW 4.258 15 It was...the eternal law of man and of the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
    ET9 5.148 17 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient metre of character, since a little man would be ruined by the vexation.
    ET10 5.167 21 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals...
    ET15 5.272 17 ...no journal is ruined by wise courage.
    Suc 7.284 26 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    CL 12.137 11 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually...ruined by blowing sand.
    AgMs 12.362 15 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources; otherwise his farm had ruined him long since;...

ruining, v. (2)

    EWI 11.125 13 It was shown to the planters...that their estates were ruining them, under the finest climate;...
    FRep 11.533 14 We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men; and mainly the expensiveness which is ruining that country.

ruinous, adj. (5)

    YA 1.381 23 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture and ruinous expense of manures...
    Exp 3.78 18 Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it;...
    Chr1 3.93 16 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly... how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others would have uttered ruinous yeas.
    ET10 5.168 25 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing. They congratulated each other on ruinous expedients.
    SS 7.9 27 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.

ruins, n. (17)

    Nat 1.71 4 A man is a god in ruins.
    LE 1.169 6 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up from the ruins of the trees of the last millenium;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    YA 1.378 25 We complain...of [trade's] building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed.
    SR 2.81 21 [The traveller] carries ruins to ruins.
    Comp 2.125 24 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...
    Comp 2.126 4 We cannot stay amid the ruins.
    Prd1 2.231 8 We have violated law upon law until we stand amidst ruins...
    Cir 2.302 19 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    ET16 5.290 14 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    F 6.8 23 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    Wsp 6.204 18 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    DL 7.108 22 We live ruins amidst ruins.
    Thor 10.460 4 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on any Roman ruins.
    HDC 11.51 6 Thomas Hooker anticipated the opinion of Humboldt, and called [the Indians] the ruins of mankind.
    HDC 11.51 22 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    Koss 11.397 17 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    MAng1 12.220 23 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins;...

ruins, v. (2)

    Exp 3.77 5 The great and crescive self...ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
    Imtl 8.343 13 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought...

Rule, Golden, n. [RULE,] (3)

    JBB 11.268 19 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    JBB 11.270 15 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man who loves the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
    ChiE 11.472 25 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.

rule, n. (138)

    Nat 1.44 13 A rule of one art...holds true throughout nature.
    LE 1.173 15 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    LE 1.176 1 ...we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...
    MR 1.254 5 ...the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share...
    YA 1.394 19 That there are mitigations and practical alleviations to this rigor [of English aristocracy], is not an excuse for the rule.
    Hist 2.10 8 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    Hist 2.10 10 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    SR 2.52 23 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.
    SR 2.53 21 This rule [of self-reliance]...may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.57 6 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone...
    Prd1 2.230 24 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
    Int 2.341 17 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Int 2.341 18 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Exp 3.74 2 It is for us to believe in the rule, not in the exception.
    Chr1 3.104 9 ...the rule and hodiurnal life of a good man is benefaction.
    Mrs1 3.129 24 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.
    Mrs1 3.140 6 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    Gts 3.161 4 ...the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    NR 3.242 17 Your turn now, my turn next, is the rule of the game.
    NER 3.257 22 The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
    NER 3.257 24 The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.
    MoS 4.160 12 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    MoS 4.178 12 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    MoS 4.181 23 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy to agree where you can...
    ShP 4.198 11 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    ShP 4.213 5 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air...
    ET1 5.17 22 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET2 5.31 12 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET5 5.79 23 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET5 5.80 10 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule.
    ET5 5.86 20 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET6 5.103 11 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET8 5.140 21 The wrath of London...has a long memory, and, in its hottest heat, a register and rule.
    ET11 5.172 13 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions.
    ET14 5.234 26 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words...
    ET14 5.242 8 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...
    ET14 5.243 26 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
    ET14 5.249 10 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET16 5.286 2 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is...
    ET17 5.296 21 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house.
    F 6.17 5 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events...become matter of fixed calculation.
    Pow 6.68 8 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
    Pow 6.78 16 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year.
    Wth 6.104 10 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the pulpit will betray it, in a laxer rule of life.
    Wth 6.105 21 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.
    Wth 6.116 26 Nature goes by rule...
    Wth 6.118 5 It is a general rule in that country [England] that bigger incomes do not help anybody.
    Wth 6.120 22 Help comes in the custom of the country, and the rule of Impera parendo.
    Wth 6.120 22 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
    Wth 6.125 7 ...the royal rule of economy is that it should ascend...
    Wth 6.125 27 The merchant has but one rule...
    Bhr 6.171 10 Every day bears witness to [manners'] gentle rule.
    Bhr 6.189 18 No carpenter's rule...will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    Bhr 6.191 15 ...the rule is,--What man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us.
    Wsp 6.220 18 ...all things go by number, rule and weight.
    Wsp 6.222 20 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    CbW 6.252 2 The rule is, we are used as brute atoms until we think...
    CbW 6.263 3 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    Bty 6.290 9 It is a rule of largest application...that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Bty 6.293 20 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    SS 7.10 25 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law. Nor is the rule otherwise for literature.
    Civ 7.27 5 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Civ 7.27 8 Everything good in man leans on what is higher. This rule holds in small as in great.
    Civ 7.29 20 It is a peremptory rule with [the heavenly powers] that they never go out of their road.
    Civ 7.33 8 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life.
    DL 7.110 19 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses. Another is a farmer...another is a chemist, and the same rule holds for all.
    Farm 7.139 12 ...[the farmer's] rule is that the earth shall feed and clothe him;...
    WD 7.176 12 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size.
    WD 7.182 25 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking. The same rule holds in science.
    Boks 7.192 10 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
    Boks 7.194 5 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature...
    Boks 7.215 25 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does... magnifying the exception into a rule, dwarfing the world into an exception.
    Clbs 7.245 13 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
    Clbs 7.250 14 When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
    Cour 7.263 14 [The soldier]...knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    Suc 7.288 22 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause; after the Rob Roy rule, after the Napoleon rule, to be the strongest to-day...
    Suc 7.291 10 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success...
    PI 8.30 12 It is a rule in eloquence, that the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
    PI 8.72 26 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    SA 8.84 27 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    SA 8.86 10 'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
    SA 8.86 23 Self-control is the rule.
    Elo2 8.121 2 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious. I think the like rule holds of the good reader.
    Comc 8.158 13 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained. The same rule holds true of the animals.
    Comc 8.160 8 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    QO 8.184 2 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
    QO 8.185 21 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
    QO 8.192 14 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
    PPo 8.250 26 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds...it speaks to the intelligent;...
    Insp 8.270 3 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...he is everywhere near his game. But the favorable conditions are rather the exception than the rule.
    Insp 8.286 13 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...
    Insp 8.291 7 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days.
    Insp 8.294 27 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans; neither by...rule of three or rule of thumb.
    Insp 8.295 1 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans; neither by...rule of three or rule of thumb.
    Grts 8.309 2 ...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;...
    Grts 8.310 21 ...if the first rule is to obey your native bias...the second rule is concentration...
    Grts 8.310 23 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
    Dem1 10.11 14 Not a mathematical axiom but is a moral rule.
    PerF 10.72 27 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    Chr2 10.92 21 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
    Chr2 10.99 7 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person: his whole duty is to this rule and teaching.
    Chr2 10.103 11 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight...or an entertainment...but it is a sovereign rule...
    Chr2 10.114 24 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient, as if it furnished a rule only...
    Chr2 10.114 25 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient, as if it furnished a rule only, and not the spirit by which the rule is animated.
    Edc1 10.153 17 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it;...
    Supl 10.169 1 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...
    Supl 10.175 6 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish, but ever the strictest regard to rule...
    Supl 10.175 13 [Nature's] communication obeys the gospel rule, yea or nay.
    SovE 10.192 21 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed. It was an early discovery of the mind,- this beneficent rule.
    Plu 10.311 5 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence...his rule of life...
    LLNE 10.361 8 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm]...
    EzRy 10.389 5 [Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and ran fine to the last.
    SlHr 10.448 6 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
    War 11.162 17 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule.
    FSLN 11.238 7 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American slavery affords no exception to this rule.
    TPar 11.285 16 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
    TPar 11.285 17 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
    HCom 11.342 4 It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the players...
    Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not the second...
    Shak1 11.453 11 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule;...
    FRep 11.511 1 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.
    FRep 11.533 5 Corpora non agunt nisi soluta; the chemical rule is true in mind.
    FRep 11.535 15 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
    PLT 12.45 15 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
    PLT 12.60 13 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is...no rule of life or art or science, on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    PLT 12.61 20 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    II 12.79 6 It is a sort of rule in Art that you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence;...
    II 12.79 9 It is not less the rule of this kingdom [of thought] that you shall not speak of the mount except on the mount;...
    Mem 12.99 19 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion? the rule being that for every fact added to the memory, one is crowded out...
    Mem 12.100 11 ...if [men of great presence of mind] cannot remember the rule they can make one.
    Mem 12.107 10 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Mem 12.107 13 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    CInt 12.124 26 ...genius...must be a little impatient and rebellious to this rule [of classification in college]...
    CInt 12.131 19 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task...
    Milt1 12.274 12 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./
    ACri 12.292 11 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    ACri 12.304 12 The classic draws its rule from the genius of that which it does, and not from by-ends.

Rule of Three, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which adores the Rule of Three...

rule, v. (26)

    YA 1.376 27 ...as long as war lasts, the nobles, who must be soldiers, rule very well.
    YA 1.386 24 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise.
    Lov1 2.188 15 There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man...
    Chr1 3.114 16 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues...
    Mrs1 3.138 26 Moral qualities rule the world...
    NR 3.239 4 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place...other talents take place, and rule the hour.
    NER 3.252 5 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had a realm to rule...
    NER 3.268 15 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
    ET5 5.75 24 Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy...
    ET10 5.166 22 ...a man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
    ET10 5.168 18 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...
    ET10 5.170 6 At present [England] does not rule her wealth.
    ET11 5.196 19 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty. Who now will work and dare, will rule.
    F 6.27 10 We sit and rule...
    F 6.30 24 Every brave youth is in training to ride and rule this dragon.
    Wsp 6.219 10 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    CbW 6.264 6 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    Elo1 7.81 12 A man who has tastes like mine, but in greater power, will rule me any day...
    Elo1 7.87 20 The judge was forced at last to rule something...
    WD 7.185 8 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;...
    PC 8.229 5 Great men are they who see...that thoughts rule the world.
    PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person... competent to rule...
    PerF 10.87 26 ...the courts snatch...at any vicious form of law to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...
    Chr2 10.121 15 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    ACiv 11.309 15 ...the laws by which the universe is organized reappear at every point, and will rule it.
    Bost 12.209 23 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.

ruled, v. (7)

    MR 1.253 13 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base.
    ET5 5.75 7 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom.
    F 6.6 8 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./
    Bty 6.301 1 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    Thor 10.464 23 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    ALin 11.333 17 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
    EurB 12.377 14 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian...rules longer.

ruler, n. (6)

    F 6.35 14 The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
    Elo1 7.81 13 A man who has tastes like mine, but in greater power, will rule me any day, and make me love my ruler.
    Elo2 8.117 22 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman, so that he is at once...a ruler of men.
    Chr2 10.121 8 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    HDC 11.54 6 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town, where a Christian worship was established under an Indian ruler and teacher.
    EPro 11.321 6 If the ruler has duties, so has the citizen.

rulers, n. (9)

    SR 2.88 11 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which does not wait the beck of rulers...
    Mrs1 3.124 16 The rulers of society must be up to the work of the world...
    Pol1 3.217 4 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    PPh 4.55 4 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good, which rules rulers, and judges the judge.
    ET8 5.141 15 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Schleswig Holstein, though overborne by the statecraft of the rulers at last.
    F 6.35 14 The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
    Civ 7.23 18 The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    SovE 10.211 7 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world; there are rulers that will at any moment make these forgotten.
    Bost 12.209 24 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.

rules, n. (63)

    MN 1.222 4 If you ask, How can any rules be given for the attainment of gifts so sublime? I shall only remark that the solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
    Tran 1.336 6 ...[the Transcendentalist] resists all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
    SL 2.132 27 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
    Prd1 2.237 8 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.
    Cir 2.304 9 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance...rules of an art...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Int 2.330 10 A true man never acquires after college rules.
    Art1 2.358 24 The best of beauty is a finer charm than...rules of art can ever teach...
    Art1 2.359 19 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    Pt1 3.3 11 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars...
    Mrs1 3.143 22 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission...
    Gts 3.165 6 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them. This is prerogative, and not to be limited by our municipal rules.
    NMW 4.247 14 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each emergency, instead of abiding by rules and customs.
    ET9 5.151 2 America is the paradise of the [English] economists; is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin;...
    ET11 5.178 8 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    ET14 5.239 2 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known.
    ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    F 6.31 22 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.
    Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Ctr 6.129 1 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/
    Ctr 6.142 16 You like the strict rules and the long terms [of the Latin class]; and [your boy] finds his best leading in a by-way of his own...
    Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior impressed on young people in their school-days.
    Bhr 6.173 23 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print... among the rules of the house, that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Bhr 6.197 9 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down.
    Bhr 6.197 10 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
    CbW 6.246 20 What we have...to say of life, is rather description...than available rules.
    CbW 6.263 3 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    CbW 6.275 11 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting...the rules of household thrift and of hospitality.
    Boks 7.196 21 The three practical rules [for reading]...which I have to offer, are,--1. Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Clbs 7.240 3 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    Clbs 7.243 23 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher; its Rules are preserved...
    Suc 7.296 26 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. Therein are the rules and formulas by which the whole empire of matter is worked.
    Res 8.143 4 America is...such a magazine of power, that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    QO 8.183 11 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
    PC 8.231 3 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...
    PPo 8.243 7 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed in a lively image...were always current in the East;...
    Insp 8.274 15 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration?
    Aris 10.60 23 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested. The rules and discipline are ordered for that.
    Edc1 10.135 17 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...
    Edc1 10.145 11 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.157 21 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
    SovE 10.181 1 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    Prch 10.225 24 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...
    EzRy 10.394 22 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer... which defied all the rules of all the rhetoricians.
    Thor 10.458 22 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    Thor 10.459 3 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the library was useless, yes, and President and College useless, on the terms of his rules...
    Thor 10.459 10 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    Thor 10.463 7 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence...
    HDC 11.52 24 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules...
    ACiv 11.302 13 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    Koss 11.400 11 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College). We admit you to the same degree, without new trial. We suspend all rules before so paramount a merit.
    Shak1 11.448 23 All criticism is only a making of rules out of [Shakespeare's] beauties.
    FRep 11.536 26 There never was such a combination as this of ours, and the rules to meet it are not set down in any history.
    PLT 12.45 13 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they...make a distinction in favor of themselves from the rules they apply to the human race.
    II 12.72 2 No practical rules for the poem, no working-plan was ever drawn up.
    II 12.78 13 ...the practical rules of literature ought to follow from these views, namely, that all writing is by the grace of God;...
    II 12.85 3 The source of thought evolves its own rules, its own virtues, its own religion.
    Milt1 12.261 27 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...
    ACri 12.288 7 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...though clean contrary to our grammar rules...
    ACri 12.293 17 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
    ACri 12.305 11 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...can't be compounded by the best rules...
    ACri 12.305 12 Don't rattle your rules in our ears;...

rules, v. (21)

    Mrs1 3.129 27 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    UGM 4.7 8 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
    PPh 4.55 4 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good, which rules rulers, and judges the judge.
    ET6 5.112 11 A severe decorum rules the court and the cottage [in England].
    ET10 5.153 7 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;...
    ET15 5.270 16 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    F 6.31 17 ...in war, [men] believe a malignant energy rules.
    F 6.44 7 The races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    F 6.49 21 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence;...
    Pow 6.76 21 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who...rules something intelligible for the guidance of suitors.
    Elo1 7.66 9 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn.
    PI 8.66 23 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    SA 8.80 8 He...who draws his determination from within, and draws it instantly,--that man rules.
    PC 8.217 25 If [a man] can converse better than any other, he rules the minds of men...
    PerF 10.73 17 While the reason is yet dormant, [temperament] rules;...
    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.
    FSLC 11.211 8 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    ALin 11.337 10 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
    ALin 11.337 17 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations...
    II 12.81 14 ...the races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    EurB 12.377 15 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian...rules longer.

rulest, v. (1)

    PPo 8.244 22 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.

ruling, adj. (7)

    Mrs1 3.124 4 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these...
    SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
    ET7 5.122 9 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug.
    F 6.10 1 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars,-some ruling quality in each son or daughter of the house;...
    Art2 7.56 24 The genuine offspring of our ruling passions we behold.
    Plu 10.308 18 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius...
    Mem 12.96 8 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...

ruling, v. (5)

    Elo1 7.64 17 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art of ruling the minds of men.
    Elo1 7.79 3 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
    PC 8.209 17 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that the day of ruling by scorn and sneers is past;...
    Shak1 11.453 1 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but...being again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
    Bost 12.189 9 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

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