Templars to Testify

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

Templars, n. (1)

    Aris 10.32 18 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...

temple, adj. (5)

    SR 2.79 9 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors...
    SwM 4.144 19 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    ShP 4.194 13 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall...
    GoW 4.269 11 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls.
    Edc1 10.138 8 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art which the Greeks left on their temple walls.

Temple Church, London, Eng (1)

    ET4 5.66 5 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

Temple, Delphi, Greece, n. (1)

    Cour 7.266 18 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.

Temple, ...Heliodorus from t (1)

    Comc 8.170 24 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...

Temple, Henry John [Lord (1)

    FSLN 11.240 12 ...all the statesmen, Guizot, Palmerston, Webster, Calhoun, are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.

Temple, Henry [Lord Palmer (1)

    ET5 5.86 5 Lord Palmerston told the House of Commons that more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...

temple, n. (48)

    Nat 1.21 22 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    DSA 1.126 24 ...the doors of the temple stand open...
    DSA 1.137 22 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to go, else had no soul entered the temple in the afternoon.
    DSA 1.143 20 Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.
    DSA 1.150 21 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple...
    MR 1.244 24 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...
    LT 1.263 22 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would; and not only in ours but in any church, mosque, or temple on the planet;...
    Hist 2.19 16 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    Lov1 2.186 27 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows...
    Fdsp 2.196 19 Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple?
    OS 2.271 1 A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
    OS 2.277 18 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought...
    Cir 2.317 24 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Art1 2.355 15 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...the plan of a temple...
    Pt1 3.17 6 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with emblems...of the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.37 24 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    SwM 4.129 2 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought...
    MoS 4.151 4 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    MoS 4.172 5 The ground occupied by the skeptic is the vestibule of the temple.
    ShP 4.194 10 ...the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.
    ShP 4.194 23 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
    ET16 5.276 16 On the top of a mountain, the old temple [Stonehenge] would not be more impressive.
    ET16 5.276 21 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.277 24 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge], and soon knew as much as any man can suddenly know of the inscrutable temple.
    ET16 5.277 26 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered...
    ET16 5.281 4 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.
    ET16 5.283 7 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    Wsp 6.204 18 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Bty 6.285 18 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death;...
    Bty 6.292 6 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    Bty 6.306 25 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Art2 7.44 16 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan; for it is on that the genius of the artist is expended, not on the statue or the temple.
    Art2 7.46 2 ...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple.
    Art2 7.46 3 ...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple.
    DL 7.102 2 Thou shalt make thy house/ The temple of a nation's vows./
    DL 7.111 9 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    QO 8.185 15 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    PPo 8.254 12 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    PPo 8.254 13 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    Chr2 10.112 19 The walls of the temple are wasted and thin...
    MoL 10.254 3 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Thor 10.482 16 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    EWI 11.131 2 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand. It should be as sacred as the temple of God.
    FRO1 11.479 7 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    CPL 11.502 7 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    MAng1 12.225 26 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi leading to the church once the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus;...
    MAng1 12.234 4 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
    Let 12.398 6 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides to uphold the temple of conventions.

Temple, n. (2)

    Hist 2.39 7 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the building of the Temple...
    PPr 12.391 12 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle, Temple and Tower...

Temple of Fame, n. (1)

    Hist 2.38 25 A man shall be the Temple of Fame.

Temple of Vesta, Rome, Ita (1)

    Bty 6.295 23 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Temple of Vesta?

temple-gods, n. (1)

    PI 8.59 20 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme. He and his temple-gods were called song-smiths.

temples, n. (25)

    Hist 2.11 19 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...
    Hist 2.12 2 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples...
    Hist 2.19 19 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    SR 2.66 7 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom... means, teachers, texts, temples fall;...
    Mrs1 3.145 3 Let there be grotesque sculpture about the gates and offices of temples.
    ET10 5.163 16 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET13 5.226 5 The wise legislator will spend on temples, schools, libraries, colleges...
    ET16 5.278 3 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast, as all the gates of the old cavern temples are.
    ET16 5.281 17 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    Wth 6.84 8 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    Bty 6.285 5 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]?
    Ill 6.318 25 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up...
    Art2 7.53 18 The Iliad of Homer...the Doric temples...were made...in grave earnest...
    Boks 7.192 22 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples.
    Boks 7.202 27 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he... like one walking in the noblest of temples, will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
    QO 8.178 27 ...we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
    Imtl 8.342 26 [A belief in the laws] communicates...an asylum in temples to the loyal soul.
    Chr2 10.105 10 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
    Chr2 10.117 15 We must have days and temples and teachers.
    SovE 10.209 2 ...Stoicism...has now no temples...
    Prch 10.220 2 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns.
    MoL 10.254 6 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
    MoL 10.254 7 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
    EWI 11.101 26 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    Milt1 12.267 2 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

tempora, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 23 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

temporal, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.58 8 ...The things that are seen, are temporal;...
    LS 11.15 16 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    Pray 12.350 7 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare.

temporality, n. (1)

    ET14 5.246 23 Bulwer...is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...

temporary, adj. (24)

    Nat 1.12 9 [Commodity]...is a benefit which is temporary and mediate...
    Nat 1.76 24 ...disagreeable appearances...are temporary and shall be no more seen.
    AmS 1.104 11 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...
    Lov1 2.185 25 The union which is thus effected [by love]...is yet a temporary state.
    Nat2 3.190 6 Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary;...
    UGM 4.34 20 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective...
    SwM 4.128 2 ...Swedenborg, after his mode, pinned his theory [of marriage] to a temporary form.
    ET4 5.46 9 ...slavery does not exist under [the English]. What oppression exists is incidental and temporary;...
    ET14 5.246 20 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and local in his aims.
    Art2 7.52 13 [The arts] are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends.
    Cour 7.274 1 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish to succor some partial and temporary interest...it is not imparted...
    OA 7.325 2 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.
    PI 8.5 7 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    Chr2 10.96 11 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for...any temporary pleasures...
    Chr2 10.99 9 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child,-temporary, gestative...
    Prch 10.235 10 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject; seeing that opinions are temporary, but convictions uniform and eternal...
    MoL 10.247 13 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
    Schr 10.266 11 I am not disposed to magnify temporary differences...
    LLNE 10.363 18 There [at Brook Farm] too was Hawthorne, with his cold yet gentle genius, if he failed to do justice to this temporary home.
    HDC 11.34 1 [The pilgrims'] first temporary accommodation was rude enough.
    War 11.152 15 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    War 11.156 24 Nothing is plainer than that the sympathy with war is a juvenile and temporary state.
    JBB 11.269 18 It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with history, which plays such pranks with temporary reputations.
    Milt1 12.247 15 ...if the new and temporary renown of the poet is silent again, it is nevertheless true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.

tempt, v. (3)

    OS 2.272 7 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures...tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.
    Exp 3.59 1 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    ACri 12.293 13 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...

temptation, n. (11)

    LE 1.183 21 Hence the temptation to the scholar to mystify...
    LT 1.278 14 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    Hist 2.35 13 Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation...
    Comp 2.118 20 ...we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
    SL 2.133 19 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
    Civ 7.23 8 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
    Elo1 7.77 7 Face to face with a highwayman who has every temptation and opportunity for violence and plunder, can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    DL 7.121 24 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...
    PPo 8.249 1 A law or statute is to [Hafiz] what a fence is to a nimble school-boy,-a temptation for a jump.
    Edc1 10.153 21 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    PLT 12.31 9 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.

temptations, n. (7)

    LT 1.283 10 ...talents bring their usual temptations...
    SR 2.72 17 ...let us at least resist our temptations;...
    Fdsp 2.195 26 [Our friend's] goodness seems better than our goodness...his temptations less.
    EzRy 10.393 8 The usual experiences of men...the common temptations... [Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    SlHr 10.446 14 [Samuel Hoar] had...a native temperance, which left him no temptations...
    Thor 10.454 22 [Thoreau] had no temptations to fight against...
    Let 12.395 26 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

tempted, v. (13)

    DSA 1.137 19 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.146 18 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...
    Tran 1.355 15 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    Lov1 2.174 8 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
    Wth 6.88 24 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Cour 7.253 7 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Suc 7.298 21 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods]; and his eye and step are tempted on by what hazy distances to happier solitudes.
    Aris 10.61 5 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    Edc1 10.152 23 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted to adopt violent means...
    Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Thor 10.484 13 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter, tempted by its beauty...climbs the cliffs to gather...
    PLT 12.56 22 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...
    Milt1 12.255 26 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.

tempting, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.186 13 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs, with as many and as tempting rewards to toil;...

tempts, v. (1)

    ShP 4.214 22 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...

ten, adj. (108)

    MR 1.232 6 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations, and one dies in ten every year...to yield us sugar.
    LT 1.270 2 The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    Tran 1.343 6 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    YA 1.383 14 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour.
    Prd1 2.230 3 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression than the contortions of ten crucified martyrs.
    Prd1 2.241 5 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
    NER 3.257 13 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
    NER 3.259 6 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin...
    NER 3.259 13 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand. I never met with ten.
    NER 3.265 6 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages himself to two or ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
    NER 3.266 4 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    UGM 4.17 12 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
    PPh 4.44 1 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates...remained for ten years his scholar...
    PPh 4.65 23 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes...
    SwM 4.109 12 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated...
    SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...
    MoS 4.153 2 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
    MoS 4.157 10 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    ShP 4.205 15 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    NMW 4.234 23 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice! The order remained unexecuted for ten minutes.
    GoW 4.266 14 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    GoW 4.286 18 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years...after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
    ET1 5.11 24 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET1 5.14 10 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old...
    ET1 5.17 7 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle] had learned German...
    ET2 5.30 22 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys;...
    ET4 5.52 7 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England, say eight or ten or twenty varieties...
    ET4 5.52 8 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    ET4 5.55 22 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET5 5.101 26 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.
    ET6 5.111 10 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...and Wellington, that habit was ten times nature.
    ET8 5.135 4 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who...threshes The corn/ That ten day-laborers could not end,/ but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    ET9 5.150 19 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET11 5.192 10 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the sneer at the childish indiscretion of quarrelling with ten thousand a year;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET18 5.307 8 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    ET18 5.307 9 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    F 6.7 19 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    Pow 6.75 24 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild], and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
    Wth 6.104 1 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Ctr 6.135 19 In Boston the question of life is the names of some eight or ten men.
    Ctr 6.135 27 In New York the question [of life] is of some other eight, or ten, or twenty [men].
    Ctr 6.136 11 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Ctr 6.141 6 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life, ten, fifty, or a hundred years.
    Ctr 6.144 27 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Wsp 6.225 11 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Wsp 6.235 15 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country.
    CbW 6.245 11 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul; if of two, if of ten, 't is a signal success.
    CbW 6.275 1 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Civ 7.23 11 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus becomes.
    Elo1 7.63 25 Antiphon the Rhamnusian, one of Plutarch's ten orators, advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
    DL 7.121 27 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    DL 7.124 19 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals, ten, twenty years after they had left the halls, returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    Boks 7.192 2 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.192 8 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
    Boks 7.195 17 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who sits and weighs, and, ten years hence, out of a million of pages, reprints one.
    Boks 7.210 1 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford].
    Boks 7.210 17 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford].
    Clbs 7.223 6 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten, or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
    Suc 7.285 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...
    Suc 7.293 23 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...ten per cent., a hundred per cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
    Suc 7.306 5 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
    PI 8.65 23 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    SA 8.91 8 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 8.102 4 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...
    Elo2 8.121 5 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Res 8.141 16 Life is always rapid here [in America], but what acceleration to its pulse in ten years...
    Res 8.147 1 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is not only better than ten men or a hundred men, but victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Res 8.147 14 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes...
    Grts 8.308 19 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Aris 10.42 19 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength. The hero must have the force of ten men.
    Aris 10.46 20 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    Chr2 10.96 10 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    Prch 10.224 23 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or twenty less men than himself, acting at discord with one another...
    EzRy 10.384 13 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    MMEm 10.419 22 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity...
    MMEm 10.419 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned...
    Thor 10.449 8 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    Thor 10.458 25 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.
    GSt 10.505 18 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.50 9 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
    HDC 11.50 20 The interest of the Puritans in the natives was heightened by a suspicion at that time prevailing that these were the lost ten tribes of Israel.
    HDC 11.65 15 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...for which service, the town is to pay Captain Minott ten pounds.
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither, and 210 cords of wood were carried.
    LVB 11.95 1 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    EWI 11.100 1 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice;...if one man cannot speak, ten others can;...
    EWI 11.109 11 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.109 13 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters.
    EWI 11.111 11 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...
    EWI 11.117 2 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.133 9 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    EWI 11.135 6 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies], on this day, ten years ago.
    War 11.172 14 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
    SMC 11.360 17 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.
    SMC 11.368 19 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.369 17 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for in ten minutes after he was killed the rebels occupied the ground...
    SMC 11.371 4 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia, where they were drawn up in battle order for ten days successively...
    Scot 11.463 2 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society, of which he was for ten years an honorary member.
    FRep 11.528 22 We have eight or ten religions in every large town...
    PLT 12.8 1 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    CL 12.138 5 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water...
    CL 12.141 27 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...or, taking their famed constitutionals, walks of eight and ten miles.
    CL 12.159 3 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know all the good points within ten miles...these we call professors.
    CL 12.159 25 ...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent., twenty per cent....are all more or less mad...
    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...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
    Bost 12.191 4 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands. But it took ten years to find this out.
    MAng1 12.228 18 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...
    Trag 12.407 18 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you count ten stars you will fall down dead;...

Ten Commandments, n. (3)

    Nat 1.41 2 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall... echo the Ten Commandments.
    Chr2 10.119 11 ...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten Commandments...
    FSLC 11.194 21 ...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.

Ten, Councils of, n. (1)

    PC 8.218 15 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions...

Ten Thousand, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 13 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it;...

Ten Thousand, Retreat of th (1)

    Hist 2.25 3 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand.

tenacious, adj. (10)

    Cir 2.314 4 These manifold tenacious qualities...are means and methods only...
    Mrs1 3.129 19 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it is tenacious of life...
    NER 3.282 13 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...so tenacious, that although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    ET4 5.72 11 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET7 5.121 6 [The English] are tenacious of their belief...
    Pow 6.76 7 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
    PI 8.25 23 See how tenacious we are of the old names.
    Chr2 10.117 1 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions], as Calvinism has a more tenacious vitality;...
    MoL 10.244 5 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius, its tenacious belief;...
    Mem 12.94 17 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.

tenaciously, adv. (2)

    Bhr 6.195 4 How tenaciously we remember [those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners]!
    CbW 6.267 20 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon.

tenaciousness, n. (1)

    PI 8.27 7 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image...

tenacity, n. (11)

    Mrs1 3.129 21 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it...is one of the estates of the realm. I am the more struck with this tenacity, when I see its work.
    SwM 4.145 10 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].
    ET5 5.88 27 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    ET5 5.99 21 [The English] embrace their cause with more tenacity than their life.
    ET14 5.233 20 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...
    ET18 5.304 20 Such is their tenacity and such their practical turn, that [the English] hold all they gain.
    Wth 6.100 15 [The right merchant] knows...that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
    Elo1 7.90 20 ...selection, tenacity of memory...are keys which the orator holds;...
    QO 8.187 17 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    Aris 10.58 21 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
    EWI 11.137 25 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It gave that tenacity to their point which has insured ultimate triumph...

tenant, n. (6)

    ET5 5.77 26 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant...
    ET11 5.175 7 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET11 5.180 26 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents. The English tenant would defend his lord to the last extremity.
    Wth 6.107 19 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one;...
    Wth 6.107 22 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
    Bty 6.282 19 All our science lacks a human side. The tenant is more than the house.

tenantry, n. (3)

    ET4 5.53 20 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but... small tenantry and an inferior or misplaced race.
    ET5 5.98 21 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    ET11 5.189 10 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...

tenants, n. (8)

    Pt1 3.42 15 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders.
    Exp 3.63 26 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man, and are just such superficial tenants of the globe.
    MoS 4.167 5 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my father, my wife and my tenants;...
    ET10 5.162 6 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land, fills it with tenants;...
    ET11 5.181 3 As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they do not conciliate them...
    Schr 10.270 26 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
    Wom 11.417 16 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all...such satire as might be written on the tenants of a hospital or on an asylum for idiots.
    SHC 11.435 21 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants.

tend, v. (20)

    Nat 1.59 1 It appears that motion...and religion, all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    DSA 1.120 15 Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that...
    MR 1.229 2 What if...the reformers tend to idealism?
    MR 1.247 23 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs...
    LT 1.287 26 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is...the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What we are? and Whither we tend?
    Comp 2.98 23 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    SL 2.140 16 ...the action which I in all my years tend to do, is the work for my faculties.
    Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Chr1 3.96 8 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses all nature that he can reach; nor does he tend to lose himself in vastness...
    Pol1 3.216 1 That which all things tend to educe;...is character.
    MoS 4.185 12 Things seem to tend downward...
    ET14 5.246 25 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student. His romances tend to fan these low flames.
    Wth 6.107 4 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they always tend to do...
    Bty 6.306 18 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    QO 8.201 10 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...and tend always to form, not a partisan, but a possessor of truth.
    Plu 10.306 8 The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
    LS 11.15 18 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    Wom 11.413 21 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./ The further it doth downward tend,/ The higher up it doth ascend./
    Bost 12.196 24 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    Milt1 12.272 12 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press], the practical issues to which they tend, are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.

tended, v. (3)

    Tran 1.337 20 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness.
    SovE 10.214 3 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    ACiv 11.309 12 An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us Stoics or Christians.

tendencies, n. (26)

    Nat 1.4 6 ...nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design.
    LT 1.261 10 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England... these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    LT 1.287 5 Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies...
    YA 1.395 7 Here...the vast tendencies concur of a new order.
    Hist 2.22 21 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals...
    SL 2.162 6 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled, detecting many unlike tendencies...
    Hsm1 2.258 27 The magic [many extraordinary young men] used was the ideal tendencies...
    Exp 3.62 6 I accept the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies.
    Pol1 3.219 5 The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government...
    NR 3.245 21 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit, preventing the tendencies to religion and science;...
    UGM 4.19 10 We are tendencies, or rather, symptoms...
    ET8 5.138 5 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    ET11 5.172 3 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET15 5.261 6 In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.
    F 6.12 6 At last these hints and tendencies are fixed in one or in a succession.
    Suc 7.300 25 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which stream through things...
    Comc 8.162 3 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    PC 8.233 13 ...I draw new hope...from the avowed aims and tendencies of the educated class.
    Supl 10.178 25 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    SovE 10.213 13 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
    Schr 10.278 16 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    Plu 10.304 21 Another [sentence] gives an insight into [Plutarch's] mystic tendencies...
    Plu 10.306 7 The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
    LLNE 10.357 23 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society; one which the tendencies of nature lead unto...
    PLT 12.27 14 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication...open to us the tendencies and duties of men of thought in the present time.
    MLit 12.322 12 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.

tendency, n. (104)

    Nat 1.26 4 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children.
    LE 1.165 11 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.171 1 As yet we have nothing but tendency and indication.
    MN 1.194 23 ...the wit of man...his tendency...is the grace and presence of God.
    MN 1.203 7 ...tendency appears on all hands...
    MN 1.204 6 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole is oppressed by one superincumbent tendency...
    MN 1.209 7 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man] to transfer his thought from the life to the ends...
    MN 1.211 18 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard...to the tendency and not to the act.
    MN 1.215 15 ...the soul can be appeased not by a deed but by a tendency.
    LT 1.265 11 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.267 27 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.
    LT 1.282 26 Then there is what is called a too intellectual tendency.
    LT 1.287 2 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
    Con 1.306 4 ...when this great tendency [conservatism] comes to practical encounters, and is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
    Tran 1.340 17 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Tran 1.340 24 ...the history of genius and of religion in these times...will be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
    Tran 1.355 8 ...the justice which is now claimed for the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the beneficiary. I say this is the tendency, not yet the realization.
    Tran 1.359 1 Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.366 21 ...this [inclination to cultivate the soil] seemed a happy tendency.
    YA 1.375 14 The history of commerce is the record of this beneficent tendency.
    YA 1.379 8 This beneficent tendency...exists and works.
    SR 2.59 4 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of...at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all.
    SR 2.59 8 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
    SL 2.161 21 This revisal or correction is a constant force, which, as a tendency, reaches through our lifetime.
    OS 2.281 27 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    OS 2.282 12 Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency to enthusiasm.
    Art1 2.363 4 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power; billows or ripples they are of the stream of tendency;...
    Pt1 3.12 9 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
    Pt1 3.28 6 These [stimulants] are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man...
    Exp 3.70 19 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
    Exp 3.73 27 ...in particulars, our greatness is always in a tendency or direction...
    Mrs1 3.136 25 I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
    NR 3.239 12 ...there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    NR 3.239 17 Each man...is a tyrant in tendency...
    NER 3.254 1 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...a tendency to the adoption of simpler methods...
    NER 3.255 6 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
    NER 3.260 7 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
    UGM 4.29 27 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop...
    PPh 4.49 10 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    PPh 4.51 25 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    MoS 4.172 3 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
    MoS 4.179 5 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little, which never...discover the smallest tendency to converge.
    MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ShP 4.191 6 Choose any other thing, out of the line of tendency...and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...
    NMW 4.224 20 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material...
    GoW 4.276 11 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    GoW 4.277 9 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied,--as always there is a tendency,--to the service of the senses...
    ET4 5.65 14 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome;...and there is a tendency to stout and powerful frames.
    ET6 5.107 22 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET6 5.114 26 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
    ET8 5.136 27 After running each tendency to an extreme, [the English] try another tack with equal heat.
    ET14 5.239 22 The Platonic is the poetic tendency;...
    ET14 5.259 21 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating...every hint of tendency.
    ET15 5.262 10 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable...
    F 6.19 11 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...
    F 6.36 9 ...where [man's] endeavors do not yet fully avail, they tell as tendency.
    F 6.42 1 The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Ctr 6.133 3 [Egotism] is a tendency in all minds.
    CbW 6.254 20 There is a tendency in things to right themselves...
    Bty 6.281 1 The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also.
    Ill 6.314 6 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.
    Civ 7.25 14 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Clbs 7.247 13 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    QO 8.182 16 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.
    PPo 8.262 12 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Grts 8.301 12 [Greatness] is the fulfilment of a natural tendency in each man.
    Dem1 10.15 8 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...
    Aris 10.63 7 By tendency, like all magnanimous men, [the man of honor] is a democrat.
    Aris 10.65 1 It is the interest of society that good men should govern, and there is always a tendency so to place them.
    Chr2 10.95 13 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...but in the purpose and tendency;...
    Chr2 10.114 3 The Church...clings to the miraculous, in the vulgar sense, which has even an immoral tendency...
    Chr2 10.118 11 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Chr2 10.119 21 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.
    Edc1 10.127 12 [Man's] continual tendency...is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher...
    Supl 10.164 11 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers.
    Prch 10.218 2 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.219 24 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    Prch 10.233 12 The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
    MoL 10.243 10 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...
    Schr 10.280 22 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Schr 10.284 16 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you see tendency in your life?
    LLNE 10.328 20 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
    LLNE 10.329 25 The young men were born with...a tendency to introversion...
    LLNE 10.339 4 ...the tendency even of Punch's caricature, was all on the side of the people.
    LLNE 10.355 12 There is...to every theory a tendency to run to an extreme...
    EzRy 10.384 8 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
    MMEm 10.407 12 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.
    Thor 10.479 17 The tendency to magnify the moment...is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    HDC 11.70 19 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.
    EWI 11.139 17 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
    War 11.163 3 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.
    ACiv 11.300 22 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live;...
    FRO2 11.485 15 I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the tendency of society...
    FRep 11.534 4 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is to make all men alike;...
    PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of truth, tendency to be in the right...
    II 12.87 13 ...perception that the tendency of the whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
    Mem 12.108 11 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    CInt 12.127 13 You all well know the downward tendency in literature...
    Bost 12.208 10 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone; a tendency to be in the right or in the wrong;...
    MAng1 12.222 1 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    MLit 12.313 3 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    MLit 12.314 21 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    MLit 12.316 18 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    MLit 12.319 1 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency;...

Tendency, n. (1)

    Aris 10.64 2 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit...to hide from him the current of Tendency;...

tender, adj. (60)

    MN 1.194 6 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...
    MR 1.233 23 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success.
    Lov1 2.169 8 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one...
    Lov1 2.170 12 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden...
    Lov1 2.174 11 ...the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
    Prd1 2.224 22 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    OS 2.294 7 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    Exp 3.48 7 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
    Nat2 3.174 10 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
    Pol1 3.201 6 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    Pol1 3.219 25 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    NER 3.255 3 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.
    PPh 4.58 11 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him tender for the superstitions of the people.
    MoS 4.153 13 Are you tender and scrupulous,--you must eat more mince-pie.
    ET4 5.55 19 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur.
    ET6 5.109 2 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife. Every class [in England] has its noble and tender examples.
    Wth 6.111 12 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it...
    Ctr 6.129 7 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye/...
    Ctr 6.155 4 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
    Ctr 6.162 14 Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then.
    Bhr 6.175 20 Tender men sometimes have strong wills.
    Wsp 6.232 6 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    CbW 6.260 4 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
    Bty 6.292 9 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they...become tender or sublime with expression.
    SS 7.13 19 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
    DL 7.105 8 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
    Boks 7.209 5 Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections [toward favorite books].
    Boks 7.209 8 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
    Cour 7.261 4 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    Cour 7.274 16 The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets...
    OA 7.325 6 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable.
    Res 8.153 2 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
    PC 8.231 23 The great are not tender at being obscure...
    PPo 8.247 22 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life, at once tender and bold... this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    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/...
    Grts 8.299 3 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    MoL 10.258 3 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes. Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
    Schr 10.262 10 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which forms itself in tender natures...
    LLNE 10.347 15 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    SlHr 10.441 19 So cautious was [Samuel Hoar], and tender of the truth, that he sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
    SlHr 10.444 2 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    Thor 10.455 27 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature...rarely tender...
    Thor 10.477 17 ...[Thoreau] was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.484 4 You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them.
    Thor 10.484 5 You can only ask of the metals that they be tender to the fire that melts them. To nought else can they be tender.
    HDC 11.40 17 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and tender hearts;...
    EWI 11.100 22 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.
    EWI 11.104 3 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men, to tender women;... we too should wince.
    War 11.166 4 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he could be inspired with a tender kindness to the souls of men...
    HCom 11.343 4 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    HCom 11.344 16 These [Harvard] men, thus tender, thus high-bred, thus peaceable, were always in the front and always employed.
    SMC 11.359 5 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men;...
    SMC 11.361 5 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...
    SHC 11.429 15 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words which the serious and tender occasion inspires.
    SHC 11.430 21 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    FRep 11.538 22 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...tender...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.541 7 Humanity asks that government shall not be ashamed to be tender and paternal...
    Mem 12.104 8 ...Passing sweet are the domains of tender memory/.
    Bost 12.203 12 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some tender minister hospitable to Whitfield against the counsel of all the ministers;...
    Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...

tender, n. (1)

    PI 8.72 20 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.

tender, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.205 1 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am, and tender myself least to him to whom I am the most devoted.

tendered, v. (1)

    Hist 2.7 23 Praise is looked, homage tendered...from mute nature...

tenderest, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.42 3 ...thou [O poet] shalt be known only to thine own, and they shall console thee with tenderest love.

tender-hearted, adj. (4)

    ET8 5.138 11 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted...
    ET18 5.299 13 England is tender-hearted.
    SA 8.105 3 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity...
    EWI 11.107 18 ...[the Quakers] were religious, tender-hearted men and women;...

tenderly, adv. (6)

    MN 1.222 7 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly, they woo and court us from every object in nature...
    Ctr 6.133 21 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism...
    Bhr 6.188 16 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly...
    Suc 7.301 6 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities...
    PerF 10.78 21 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...
    EWI 11.103 27 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter...

tenderness, n. (36)

    DSA 1.129 27 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations to the hour and the man that now is;...
    DSA 1.141 6 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who, sometimes accepting with too great tenderness the tenet of the elders, have not accepted from others...the genuine impulses of virtue...
    LE 1.177 15 How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets of tenderness...
    LT 1.263 3 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    YA 1.373 5 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration, though rumors exist of its secret tenderness.
    SR 2.51 17 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
    Lov1 2.179 6 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency...
    Fdsp 2.195 11 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point [of friendship].
    Fdsp 2.204 13 The other element of friendship is tenderness.
    Fdsp 2.204 21 Can another be so blessed and we so pure that we can offer him tenderness?
    Int 2.338 1 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us...with tenderness...
    Art1 2.365 10 The sweetest music is...in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
    Mrs1 3.142 2 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Nat2 3.182 8 The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.
    ET4 5.68 1 The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
    ET4 5.68 19 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito.
    Bty 6.295 24 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Temple of Vesta? These are objects of tenderness to all.
    Bty 6.296 12 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
    Ill 6.315 15 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary;...
    Farm 7.143 21 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
    Suc 7.305 11 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...
    PI 8.67 10 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern, and impart a tenderness and mystery to matters of fact.
    Aris 10.46 16 ...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering.
    SovE 10.188 13 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness...
    Plu 10.315 14 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes on Friendship...
    LLNE 10.325 2 There grew a certain tenderness on the people...
    LLNE 10.327 6 [The new race] have a neck of unspeakable tenderness;...
    Thor 10.476 23 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...
    EWI 11.129 4 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLN 11.238 7 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    TPar 11.287 19 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions. Perhaps more tenderness would have been graceful;...
    ALin 11.332 20 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.
    SHC 11.430 25 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.
    Mem 12.103 22 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.
    MLit 12.331 2 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses, or cheered with an infinite tenderness...
    PPr 12.379 9 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and, with a heart full of manly tenderness, offers his best counsel to his brothers.

tenders, n. (1)

    ET6 5.103 9 ...the machines [in England] require punctual service, and as they never tire, they prove too much for their tenders.

tending, v. (5)

    YA 1.369 16 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
    Hist 2.22 16 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    Comp 2.108 21 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period...
    ET11 5.187 19 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
    ET13 5.224 26 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as tending extremely to the dishonor of the Christian religion...

tendril, n. (1)

    Hist 2.18 1 In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...

tendrils, n. (3)

    MR 1.234 19 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil...
    Comp 2.92 2 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine/...
    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...

tends, v. (27)

    Nat 1.49 20 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    Nat 1.59 5 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    Nat 1.59 13 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man, wherein to establish man all right education tends;...
    AmS 1.84 7 ...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...
    AmS 1.113 14 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    AmS 1.113 18 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    LE 1.156 15 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect.
    MN 1.203 12 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    Con 1.299 8 Conservatism tends to universal seeming and treachery...
    Hist 2.8 15 Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to [each man].
    SL 2.142 7 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit.
    OS 2.269 3 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
    Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
    Mrs1 3.139 7 ...[the spirit of the energetic class] respects everything which tends to unite men.
    NR 3.245 5 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous, as each denies and tends to abolish the other.
    PPh 4.51 7 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    PPh 4.51 8 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    PPh 4.52 5 By religion, [each student] tends to unity;...
    PPh 4.67 26 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    ET4 5.52 16 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America...
    ET11 5.187 15 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    Art2 7.37 15 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    LLNE 10.327 10 The age tends to solitude.
    LS 11.17 6 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    LS 11.20 7 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought...an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    EWI 11.128 22 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from...being urged with that intemperance which a question of property tends to acquire.
    Wom 11.414 5 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain.

tenement, n. (2)

    SwM 4.97 16 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It o'erinforms the tenement of clay,/ and drives the man mad;...
    AKan 11.257 7 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...live in a smaller tenement...

tenements, n. (4)

    MR 1.245 4 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements...
    Supl 10.168 2 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
    EzRy 10.379 5 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
    CW 12.170 8 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/...

tenet, n. (10)

    DSA 1.141 6 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who, sometimes accepting with too great tenderness the tenet of the elders, have not accepted from others...the genuine impulses of virtue...
    SwM 4.96 3 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which...is implied by the Bramins in the tenet of Transmigration.
    F 6.13 11 Now and then a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.
    Cour 7.274 2 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not imparted...
    PI 8.20 7 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    Grts 8.307 13 A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet that every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
    Dem1 10.20 2 [Belief in the demonological] is a midsummer madness, corrupting all who hold the tenet.
    Supl 10.176 27 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    Prch 10.227 27 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet.
    Bost 12.193 7 The common eye cannot tell...the pure truth from the grotesque tenet which sheathes it.

tenets, n. (1)

    ET14 5.259 11 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.

tenfold, adj. (2)

    Imtl 8.341 12 A thousand years,-tenfold, a hundredfold [the thinker's] faculties, would not suffice.
    CInt 12.112 7 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./

Tennemanns, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 18 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of...the Tennemanns, who give us the story of men or of opinions.

Tenner, Mrs., n. (1)

    MMEm 10.406 25 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?

Tennessee, n. (1)

    ALin 11.336 10 [Lincoln] had seen Tennessee, Missouri and Maryland emancipate their slaves.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, n. (14)

    ET14 5.256 11 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic; only now and then, as in Wordsworth, conscientious;...or in Tennyson, factitious.
    ET14 5.257 13 Tennyson is endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted.
    ET17 5.292 24 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson...
    ET17 5.295 6 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right poetic genius, though with some affectation.
    ET17 5.295 8 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet...
    ET17 5.295 9 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet, but must now reckon Alfred the true one.
    Farm 7.140 3 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man; not...by soldiers...nor readers of Tennyson;...
    PC 8.219 19 Tennyson would give his fame for a verdict in his favor from Wordsworth.
    Insp 8.290 11 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    Schr 10.271 1 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for...Canning or Tennyson.
    Wom 11.417 7 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... down to English Comedy, and, in our day, to Tennyson...
    EurB 12.365 5 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
    EurB 12.371 16 Tennyson is always fine...
    EurB 12.372 1 Perhaps Tennyson is too quaint and elegant. What then?

Tennyson's, Alfred, Lord, n (3)

    EurB 12.370 1 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    EurB 12.371 2 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...
    EurB 12.371 18 ...Jonson's beauty is more grateful than Tennyson's.

tenon, n. (1)

    ET16 5.278 19 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how to cut a well-wrought tenon and mortise...

tenor, n. (1)

    PPh 4.57 26 With the palatial air there is [in Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works and running through the tenor of them all, a certain earnestness...

tens, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.186 25 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...that tens may live to maturity;...
    Boks 7.195 10 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.
    Suc 7.303 12 The keen statist reckons by tens and hundreds;...
    EdAd 11.384 3 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...

tense, adj. (5)

    ET5 5.77 11 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him.
    ET6 5.108 9 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
    F 6.18 11 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain...
    SS 7.1 20 [Seyd] stood before the tumbling main/ With joy too tense for sober brain;/...
    PerF 10.82 13 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense. It is a stroke on a loose or tense cord.

tense, n. (2)

    Exp 3.64 16 We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath...
    WD 7.172 3 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...

ten-shilling, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.48 3 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

tension, n. (7)

    Chr1 3.95 8 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    SwM 4.128 10 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    ET8 5.139 10 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    Pow 6.54 15 The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
    Pow 6.71 15 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    Wsp 6.208 20 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...
    Res 8.137 7 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck;...

tent, n. (14)

    Nat 1.12 22 What angels invented...this tent of dropping clouds...
    Hist 2.19 19 The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.
    Comp 2.125 24 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...
    Prd1 2.223 6 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    Exp 3.65 19 ...know that thy life is...a tent for a night...
    ET10 5.167 5 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating. A man should not be a silk-worm, nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
    SovE 10.202 23 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
    Plu 10.296 7 Saint-Evremond read Plutarch to the great Conde under a tent.
    Plu 10.318 24 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    FSLC 11.199 2 [Webster's] final settlement has dislocated the foundations. The state-house shakes like a tent.
    AKan 11.262 8 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].
    SMC 11.354 6 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
    Wom 11.413 18 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/
    MLit 12.321 8 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.

tentative, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 27 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative...

tent-cord, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 4 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...

tenth, adj. (7)

    ET4 5.61 11 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries...
    ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET11 5.184 1 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
    ET15 5.264 10 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists and make them ridiculous on the 10th April.
    OA 7.324 12 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;...
    PI 8.24 22 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    SMC 11.374 4 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth...

tenth, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.211 7 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.

Tenths, Leo, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 8 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Leo Tenths...or whatever great proprietors.

tenths, n. (1)

    Pow 6.78 4 Practice is nine tenths.

tent-like, adj. (1)

    PC 8.212 13 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like...

tent-maker, n. (1)

    CPL 11.501 21 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter, and Saint Paul as a tent-maker.

tent-poles, n. (2)

    SMC 11.364 5 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons, but only three came. On these they loaded all the canvas of the tents, but took no tent-poles.
    SMC 11.364 25 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...

tents, n. (9)

    Lov1 2.188 11 ...we are often made to feel that our affections are but tents of a night.
    SS 7.1 7 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can paint on steel,/ And huts and tents;.../
    Suc 7.298 15 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks through tents of gold...
    Thor 10.474 2 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank.
    War 11.166 10 ...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 tents would be struck;...
    SMC 11.364 4 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons, but only three came. On these they loaded all the canvas of the tents, but took no tent-poles.
    SMC 11.364 11 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.365 7 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to see the whole regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
    ACri 12.301 9 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.

tenure, n. (8)

    ET4 5.55 13 [The Celts] had no violent feudal tenure...
    ET5 5.75 18 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual that a feudal or military tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war.
    ET6 5.110 2 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English].
    ET11 5.175 6 ...I make no doubt that feudal tenure was no sinecure...
    ET16 5.287 25 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
    ACiv 11.298 26 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.299 2 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    EPro 11.324 26 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...

tenures, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.204 7 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...

teredo, n. (1)

    QO 8.188 25 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

Terence, n. (2)

    Boks 7.195 27 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Terence...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    PI 8.56 18 Newton may be permitted to call Terence a playbook...

term, n. (34)

    DSA 1.143 2 In the country, neighborhoods, half parishes are signing off, to use the local term.
    LT 1.272 10 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that term where speech becomes silence...
    Tran 1.339 27 ...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
    Hsm1 2.264 3 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    OS 2.281 2 We distinguish the announcements of the soul...by the term Revelation.
    Exp 3.77 3 ...the longest love or aversion has a speedy term.
    SwM 4.135 7 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    GoW 4.276 11 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    ET10 5.153 22 The last term of insult [in England] is, a beggar.
    ET14 5.245 2 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    F 6.15 27 ...when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.
    Wsp 6.216 5 What a day dawns when we...have come to know that justice will be done to us; and if our genius is slow, our term will be long.
    Civ 7.20 1 The term [Civilization] imports a mysterious progress.
    Art2 7.49 23 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.
    WD 7.172 1 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    Boks 7.211 1 Another class [of books] I distinguish by the term Vocabularies.
    PI 8.17 19 The term genius, when used with emphasis, implies imagination;...
    PI 8.18 17 What is the term of the ever-flowing metamorphosis?
    PI 8.43 24 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry, in the literal sense of the term...
    Imtl 8.339 5 ...the man must have new motives, new companions, new condition and another term.
    Imtl 8.344 1 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill...a longer term than Nature here allows him.
    Aris 10.31 20 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but the middle term...they find in the idea of gentleman.
    Edc1 10.154 7 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...and tutor or schoolmaster in his first term can apply it,-that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Schr 10.268 18 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those lower activities.
    SlHr 10.442 5 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex...
    SlHr 10.443 19 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...and, of course also...we elected somebody else at the next term.
    EWI 11.112 18 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons; and at the end of the term of years fixed, he should be free.
    FSLC 11.178 7 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...
    ALin 11.336 19 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...
    SMC 11.366 3 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans, where they were employed in guard duty during their term of service.
    II 12.83 26 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
    MLit 12.313 18 There is a pernicious ambiguity in the use of the term subjective.
    EurB 12.372 7 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.
    Let 12.398 13 As soon as [American youths] have arrived at this term, there are no employments to satisfy them...

terminal, adj. (1)

    SL 2.148 22 [A man] is like...an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic.

terminate, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.95 21 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes, there where all the wires terminate which hold the world in magnetic unity...

terminates, v. (1)

    Comp 2.126 18 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed...

terminating, v. (1)

    NR 3.242 5 ...whilst I fancied I was criticising [a man], I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.

termination, n. (4)

    MN 1.205 1 The termination of the world in a man appears to be the last victory of intelligence.
    ET1 5.8 22 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...and did not even omit to remark the similar termination of their names.
    Bty 6.285 10 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days; at the termination of that period I shall put thee to death.
    Boks 7.214 14 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination...

termini, n. (2)

    Cir 2.310 14 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    PLT 12.13 26 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason. I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini.

terminology, n. (2)

    SR 2.79 25 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    SwM 4.104 8 The robust Aristotelian method...opening, by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers.

terminus, n. (3)

    Nat 1.34 27 The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
    Wth 6.121 23 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...
    PLT 12.59 11 [A fact] is the terminus of a past thought...

terms, n. (65)

    MN 1.221 11 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
    Comp 2.93 21 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Fdsp 2.206 21 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms...
    Fdsp 2.211 16 There is at least this satisfaction in crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Fdsp 2.214 27 We must have society on our own terms...
    Prd1 2.240 19 Every man's imagination hath its friends; and life would be dearer with such companions. But if you cannot have them on good mutual terms, you cannot have them
    Art1 2.349 26 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    Pt1 3.1 9 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./
    Pt1 3.35 5 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must...be very willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use.
    Mrs1 3.125 25 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman...he is not to be feared.
    SwM 4.116 9 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 10 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 20 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    MoS 4.161 13 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    GoW 4.285 16 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. Enemy and welcome, but enemy on high terms.
    ET1 5.4 25 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
    ET1 5.15 9 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
    ET2 5.25 10 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland. I was invited, on liberal terms, to read a series of lectures in them all.
    ET5 5.75 12 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...forced the baron to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings;...
    ET5 5.75 17 The island [England] is lucrative to free labor, but not worth possession on other terms.
    ET6 5.110 5 Terms of service and partnership [in England] are lifelong, or are inherited.
    ET11 5.174 10 ...the terms of admission to this club [English aristocracy] are hard and high.
    ET11 5.194 18 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    F 6.19 6 These [laws of repression] are...hints of the terms by which our life is walled up...
    Wth 6.90 9 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as...the degree in which he takes up things into himself. The strong race is strong on these terms.
    Wth 6.91 17 ...if [a man] wishes...having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.92 15 The mechanic at his bench...deals on even terms with men of any condition.
    Wth 6.98 27 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Ctr 6.142 17 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 6.183 21 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms.
    CbW 6.260 19 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring: supply it, and let me be like the rest...and on good terms with them.
    CbW 6.276 6 ...nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
    CbW 6.276 20 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    CbW 6.277 3 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted, which nature never pardons. The happy conditions of life may be had on the same terms.
    SS 7.3 22 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
    SS 7.11 23 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    WD 7.169 5 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    Clbs 7.232 16 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they give information...
    Clbs 7.237 14 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.
    Elo2 8.124 25 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Elo2 8.128 17 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even terms with boys...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Res 8.140 5 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker, reducing it to the lowest possible terms...improves the national tongue.
    QO 8.204 6 ...the sole terms on which [the Past] can become ours are its subordination to the Present.
    Dem1 10.20 13 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation. Life is also a dream on the same terms.
    Chr2 10.98 9 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Edc1 10.147 4 The very definition of the intellect is Aristotle's: that by which we know terms or boundaries.
    Supl 10.164 27 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best I ever saw; I never in my life! One wishes these terms gazetted and forbidden.
    SovE 10.190 11 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.
    MoL 10.244 27 Our profoundest philosophy (if it were not a contradiction in terms) is skepticism.
    Plu 10.307 6 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions...
    MMEm 10.401 6 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter, on some terms embracing a care of her future interests.
    SlHr 10.448 21 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him...
    Thor 10.455 2 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation, wishing to meet his companion on the simplest terms.
    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...
    Carl 10.490 9 [Carlyle]...can see society on his own terms.
    EWI 11.112 22 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
    EWI 11.121 3 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...
    EWI 11.131 11 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    ChiE 11.472 26 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    PLT 12.9 20 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.15 24 [Intellect] is as the light, public and entire to each, and on the same terms.
    II 12.77 7 I think this pathetic,-not to have any wisdom at our own terms...
    MAng1 12.219 10 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric; as wide, namely, as the terms of the proposition admit.
    ACri 12.285 12 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?

terms, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.140 27 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature...

terra cottas, n. (1)

    PI 8.13 12 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!

terraces, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.9 19 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...with well-bred men and women standing and sitting in the walks and terraces.

terram, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 23 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...

terrene, adj. (1)

    ET3 5.40 11 Sir John Herschel said, London is the centre of the terrene globe.

terrestrial, adj. (3)

    NR 3.229 20 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    SwM 4.115 7 The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.
    SwM 4.120 10 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added...that these, when they saw terrestrial objects, did not think at all about them, but only about those which they signified.

terrible, adj. (38)

    AmS 1.100 1 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.
    LE 1.157 7 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty...
    Tran 1.347 2 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    YA 1.373 7 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist...
    SL 2.131 7 Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    Pt1 3.18 12 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
    Chr1 3.102 4 Had there been something latent in the man, a terrible undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had watched for its advent.
    PPh 4.73 26 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas...
    SwM 4.109 20 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    ET4 5.68 15 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most terrible determination.
    ET6 5.103 14 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
    ET11 5.175 23 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it, hour by hour, against a terrible enemy.
    ET15 5.261 13 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance, so as to make the public a more terrible spy than any foreigner;...
    Wsp 6.215 18 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    Ill 6.318 23 What terrible questions we are learning to ask!
    SS 7.4 2 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite...
    Elo1 7.93 9 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
    Elo1 7.93 17 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    Suc 7.307 22 There is no such critic and beggar as this terrible Soul.
    Grts 8.311 26 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's...
    Imtl 8.328 26 The name of death was never terrible/ To him that knew to live./
    Dem1 10.8 10 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man...
    Dem1 10.9 10 Sleep...arms us with terrible freedom...
    Aris 10.33 9 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature.
    Thor 10.465 7 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
    Thor 10.478 27 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau...
    TPar 11.290 18 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he denounced the public crime...
    SMC 11.359 20 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal, however stern and terrible the occasion grew...
    SMC 11.371 25 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
    SMC 11.375 19 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.
    Wom 11.416 7 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician.
    PLT 12.55 6 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    CL 12.138 18 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    MAng1 12.215 21 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...
    MAng1 12.232 27 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    ACri 12.286 10 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...
    MLit 12.328 8 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
    Trag 12.407 3 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies at the foundation of the old Greek tragedy...

terrible, n. (1)

    PI 8.72 21 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.

terribly, adv. (2)

    UGM 4.14 5 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.
    Grts 8.311 10 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.

terriers, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 4 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers...

terrific, adj. (22)

    MN 1.193 23 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
    LT 1.284 14 This Ennui...this word of France has got a terrific significance.
    Comp 2.100 15 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen...
    SL 2.148 9 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant, so that every gesture of his hand is terrific.
    Mrs1 3.143 18 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Nat2 3.182 27 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns, as if that terrific or benefic force did not find us there also...
    PPh 4.51 7 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    NMW 4.232 5 [Bonaparte] is...terrific to all talkers and confused truth-obscuring persons.
    F 6.8 14 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt...
    F 6.29 7 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.
    Bhr 6.179 18 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes...make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there. The revelations are sometimes terrific.
    Elo1 7.95 3 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...became sometimes exquisitely provoking and sometimes terrific to [their antagonists].
    Boks 7.195 20 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;...
    Cour 7.263 21 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    SA 8.94 21 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,--a terrific thunder-storm...
    PerF 10.74 3 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    SovE 10.188 10 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops-but her interiors are terrific...
    LVB 11.96 12 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    PLT 12.42 16 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...over terrific pits right and left, it were a wide prairie.
    MAng1 12.234 17 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    Let 12.394 24 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...
    Trag 12.407 9 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish, and there is no overgod to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that...snatches them up into its terrific system.

terrified, adj. (2)

    Supl 10.165 15 Thousands of people live and die who were never...furious or terrified.
    II 12.78 6 Truth indeed! We talk as if we...knew anything about it,-that terrified re-agent.

terrified, v. (1)

    Grts 8.303 25 There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot...be terrified or bought off from.

terrify, v. (3)

    LT 1.264 23 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which chill, benumb, and terrify them.
    OA 7.334 22 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but a greater esteem, as he became more known. He did not terrify, but was admired.
    PLT 12.36 10 [Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics.

terris, n. (2)

    SwM 4.113 23 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...
    OA 7.331 12 ...Et tunc magna mei sub terris ibit imago.

territorial, adj. (2)

    Schr 10.262 6 We have strayed from the territorial monuments of Attica...
    CInt 12.126 4 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.

territories, n. (4)

    Nat 1.72 22 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
    YA 1.371 18 From Washington...through all its...territories, [America] is a country of beginnings...
    Pow 6.63 7 ...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.
    War 11.159 14 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.

Territories, n. (1)

    SA 8.101 26 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories.

territory, n. (29)

    YA 1.364 24 The bountiful continent is ours...territory on territory...
    YA 1.380 21 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the territory of other States.
    ET3 5.38 13 The territory [England] has a singular perfection.
    ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory large enough for independence...
    ET4 5.44 23 The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.
    ET4 5.45 5 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America, which reckon...20,000,000 of people, on a territory of 3,000,000 square miles...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.53 25 Only a hardy and wise people could have made this small territory [England] great.
    Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    DL 7.108 8 It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    Suc 7.283 5 We have the power of territory and of seacoast...
    Suc 7.283 15 ...we are adding to an already enormous territory.
    MoL 10.244 4 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...
    Schr 10.261 4 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica. The territory of scholars is yet larger.
    Thor 10.453 20 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    HDC 11.40 27 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord]; and copies of some of the doings of the town in regard to territory, of the same date.
    HDC 11.54 14 ...Concord increased in territory and population.
    HDC 11.62 20 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.64 3 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
    LVB 11.91 1 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    EWI 11.131 1 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    War 11.153 7 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues...
    FSLC 11.209 18 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
    FSLN 11.233 21 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States...
    AKan 11.257 20 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    EPro 11.322 5 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    EdAd 11.383 4 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet...
    Scot 11.462 8 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    CL 12.136 1 The nomads wander over vast territory, to find their pasture.
    Bost 12.189 11 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

terror, n. (76)

    Nat 1.31 23 Long hereafter, amidst agitation and terror in national councils...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    DSA 1.140 22 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain, than that [the poor preacher] can face a man of wit and energy and put the invitation without terror.
    DSA 1.149 16 ...[Massena] put on terror and victory as a robe.
    LE 1.169 14 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.177 15 How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets...of terror...
    MR 1.251 18 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
    LT 1.282 2 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented...the terror of the Day of Judgment.
    YA 1.390 24 ...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
    Hist 2.21 24 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    SR 2.56 23 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency;...
    Comp 2.112 8 The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates...are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    Hsm1 2.262 3 Times of heroism are generally times of terror...
    Cir 2.317 1 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...
    Int 2.337 27 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us with terror...
    Pt1 3.36 9 There was this perception in [Swedenborg] which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
    Pt1 3.37 2 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Chr1 3.91 19 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
    Pol1 3.211 11 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    SwM 4.97 2 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror.
    SwM 4.97 14 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes in terror...
    MoS 4.180 14 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    NMW 4.249 2 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage...
    NMW 4.252 25 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    GoW 4.277 3 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added...
    GoW 4.282 15 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men; his force and terror inundate every word;...
    ET2 5.29 13 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror...
    ET7 5.122 10 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug.
    ET8 5.132 26 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
    ET13 5.221 23 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror.
    ET15 5.267 11 What would The [London] Times say? is a terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
    F 6.5 6 Great men, great nations, have...been...perceivers of the terror of life...
    F 6.34 8 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world...
    F 6.34 21 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    F 6.35 9 A man must...stand in some terror of his talents.
    Bhr 6.175 12 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
    Wsp 6.238 21 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    SS 7.5 5 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot...
    Elo1 7.59 4 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...
    Elo1 7.77 3 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    DL 7.106 14 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    DL 7.123 12 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal. All drew back with terror from the garment.
    Cour 7.257 21 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more.
    Cour 7.258 24 The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity...
    Cour 7.262 26 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
    Cour 7.271 7 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.
    Cour 7.278 22 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    OA 7.324 21 To keep man in the planet, [Nature] impresses the terror of death.
    PI 8.44 12 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images...
    Res 8.147 23 The natural offset of terror is ridicule.
    PC 8.225 17 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
    PC 8.228 7 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has...a private despatch, which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    Grts 8.318 26 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
    Imtl 8.330 17 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Dem1 10.21 12 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...
    Aris 10.58 16 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown; then he will not be haunted any longer by the terror that he shall tumble...
    Supl 10.161 1 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    Supl 10.165 19 ...much of the rhetoric of terror...most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
    MoL 10.242 10 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    EzRy 10.386 12 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...against sickness and insanity;... that we have not been a terror to ourselves and others,-are well remembered...
    HDC 11.54 18 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637.
    LVB 11.92 12 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped...that [the Indians'] remonstrance was premature, and will turn out to be a needless act of terror.
    FSLC 11.181 10 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.237 4 The terror which the Marseillaise struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
    AsSu 11.251 22 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    AKan 11.261 26 I am glad to see that the terror at disunion and anarchy is disappearing.
    JBB 11.272 20 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    ACiv 11.308 23 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?
    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?
    CPL 11.507 22 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    PLT 12.36 14 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence.
    Bost 12.192 26 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    ACri 12.284 25 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators...
    Trag 12.407 11 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.
    Trag 12.407 24 ...this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...
    Trag 12.408 10 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind...
    Trag 12.411 3 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

Terror, n. (1)

    Trag 12.409 1 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

Terror, Reign of, n. (1)

    Hist 2.10 24 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a French Reign of Terror...

terrors, n. (24)

    LT 1.282 3 These terrors [of Sin and the Day of Judgment] have lost their force...
    SL 2.145 17 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
    Prd1 2.237 23 The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor and the cabin.
    Chr1 3.98 17 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
    MoS 4.173 20 ...I mean honestly by [doubts and negations],--that justice shall be done to their terrors.
    ShP 4.211 17 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind...
    NMW 4.252 9 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
    ET2 5.31 4 ...the inconveniences and terrors of the sea are not of any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
    ET11 5.187 24 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions...
    ET12 5.209 27 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...
    Bhr 6.182 2 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
    Wsp 6.212 24 In spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    Cour 7.255 7 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will, which no terrors can shake...
    Cour 7.257 13 The terrors of the child are quite reasonable...
    Cour 7.275 18 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.
    SA 8.90 1 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...
    Res 8.147 16 Against the terrors of the mob...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Comc 8.173 23 We must learn by laughter, as well as by tears and terrors;...
    Imtl 8.328 12 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
    Imtl 8.329 6 A man of affairs is afraid to die, is pestered with terrors...
    FRep 11.528 22 Here heresy has lost its terrors.
    II 12.75 26 ...in spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    Bost 12.192 25 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts] terrors of witchcraft, terrors of evil spirits, and a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Trag 12.411 7 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs,-are terrors that make the knees knock... but are no tragedy...

terse, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.392 2 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable; so neat, so natural, so terse, his words fell like stones;...

Tesse, Madame de, n. (1)

    SA 8.95 5 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I should command Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.

test, n. (24)

    Nat 1.4 19 [A true theory's] test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
    DSA 1.136 27 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    GoW 4.284 15 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me?
    ET3 5.35 11 If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success;...
    ET4 5.44 9 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds;...the popular test of the theory.
    ET14 5.253 12 [English science] wants the connection which is the test of genius.
    CbW 6.273 7 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz, who indicates this relation as the test of mental health...
    Civ 7.31 16 ...the true test of civilization is...the kind of man the country turns out.
    Clbs 7.239 13 To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man...
    Suc 7.286 23 For success, to be sure we esteem it a test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
    PI 8.34 12 The test or measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
    PI 8.35 8 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.37 15 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
    PC 8.221 7 The chief value [of devotion to natural science] is not the useful powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
    PPo 8.252 8 It is itself a test of skill, as this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy.
    Dem1 10.24 6 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Dem1 10.26 21 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with.
    Chr2 10.114 16 Men will learn...to make morals the absolute test...
    Prch 10.228 21 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment. I put it to this simple test: Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    LLNE 10.328 27 In science the French savant...with barometer, crucible, chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all nooks and islands...
    SMC 11.358 9 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
    EdAd 11.385 4 Where [in America] are the works of the imagination,-the surest test of a national genius?
    Koss 11.398 19 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    II 12.71 12 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...

test, v. (7)

    Nat 1.47 14 In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    SL 2.155 4 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor; the light of the public square will test its value.
    Chr1 3.109 10 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.
    Boks 7.199 5 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race; to test their understanding, and to express their reason.
    PerF 10.87 15 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    SovE 10.211 1 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like...to test his own reality by making himself useful and indispensable?
    JBS 11.276 15 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/

testament, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.226 14 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...

Testament, New, n. (7)

    SwM 4.120 2 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    ET13 5.224 7 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England. The first leaf of the New Testament it does not open.
    Chr2 10.115 14 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament...
    Chr2 10.116 4 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    LS 11.8 23 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
    LS 11.17 3 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression. But if you read the New Testament as I do, you do not believe he did.
    FRO2 11.489 7 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...

Testament, Old, n. (2)

    SwM 4.120 2 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    ET13 5.224 5 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England.

testator, n. (2)

    ET9 5.144 7 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.
    Farm 7.143 19 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...

tested, adj. (1)

    Pray 12.350 1 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...

tested, v. (4)

    Aris 10.60 22 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested.
    JBS 11.276 3 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    ALin 11.334 24 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was.
    SMC 11.354 8 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;-the strength is now to be tested by the eternal facts.

tester, n. (1)

    Cir 2.311 12 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning...of chair and clock and tester, is manifest.

testified, v. (2)

    ET13 5.221 15 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    PI 8.64 13 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...

testifies, v. (2)

    MN 1.197 17 When man curses, nature still testifies to truth and love.
    HDC 11.30 23 ...the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to [Bulkeley's] blood.

testify, v. (11)

    Con 1.325 6 Sooner or later all men will be my friends, and will testify in all methods the energy of their regard.
    SR 2.46 26 The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.
    SL 2.163 25 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
    Int 2.347 5 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.
    ET16 5.280 4 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God and in the immortality of the soul, as their abbeys and cathedrals testify...
    Pow 6.82 11 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.
    Cour 7.256 13 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
    PI 8.13 3 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    EzRy 10.390 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    TPar 11.292 3 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him; and history, nature and all souls testify to the same.
    CPL 11.498 5 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

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