Yacht to Yemen's Tale

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

yacht, n. (1)

    PC 8.215 15 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.

yachting, v. (2)

    Pow 6.69 16 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...yachting among the icebergs of Lancaster Sound;...
    Farm 7.139 3 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...

yacht-race, n. (1)

    ET4 5.53 26 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.

Yale University, n. (1)

    ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.

Yama, n. (6)

    Imtl 8.349 11 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    Imtl 8.349 17 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Through my favor, Gautama will remember thee with love as before.
    Imtl 8.349 21 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows...
    Imtl 8.349 27 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods;...
    Imtl 8.350 9 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...
    Imtl 8.351 2 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant.

yam-cloths, n. (1)

    PC 8.215 11 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...

yams, n. (1)

    MoS 4.179 9 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo...

Yankee, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.235 4 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
    Wsp 6.228 23 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their busy, artful, Yankee understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
    JBB 11.266 1 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./

Yankee, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.235 11 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Let 12.395 17 The Buddhist is a practical Necessitarian; the Yankee is not.

Yankees, n. (1)

    Pow 6.57 20 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.

yard, n. (12)

    SL 2.158 1 In every troop of boys that whoop and run in each yard and square, a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Lov1 2.183 25 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the house and yard and passengers...
    Pt1 3.36 19 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    Ill 6.315 11 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    Ill 6.321 11 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    DL 7.112 20 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.
    PI 8.13 8 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.
    Comc 8.173 24 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...
    CL 12.143 22 There is no good walk in that state [Illinois]. The reason is, a square yard of it is as good as a hundred miles.
    Bost 12.201 14 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear...in the yard of the dame's school, from very little republicans: I ' m as good as you be...
    ACri 12.288 25 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...
    Let 12.403 26 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is a wood-pile in the yard...

yards, n. (8)

    PPh 4.53 15 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of a new ship at the Medford yards...
    PPh 4.79 7 ...it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
    SwM 4.141 26 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch, skulking like a dog about the outer yards and kennels of creation.
    ET6 5.110 15 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    Pow 6.81 26 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    Wth 6.116 6 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and drivelling.
    CbW 6.247 8 Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or dissolve friendship.
    ACri 12.294 24 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's, and he can turn off a hundred yards to their one.

yard-stick, n. [yardstick,] (2)

    YA 1.364 22 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
    Thor 10.462 10 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.

yarns, n. (1)

    ET10 5.159 15 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.

Yarrow, Braes of [William (1)

    PI 8.48 17 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow,/ Hamilton.

yawning, adj. (4)

    MN 1.207 14 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...
    MoS 4.183 22 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
    Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    EPro 11.322 11 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.

yawning, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.133 26 A treatise on education...affects us with a slight paralysis and a certain yawning of the jaws.

yawning, v. (1)

    Nat 1.48 1 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end - deep yawning under deep...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?

yawns, v. (2)

    DSA 1.145 15 ...the chasm yawns to that breadth, that men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.

yeaning, v. (1)

    SA 8.77 8 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./

year, n. (233)

    Nat 1.13 1 What angels invented...this fourfold year?
    Nat 1.18 9 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year.
    Nat 1.18 13 To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty...
    Nat 1.18 27 The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other, and the year has room for all.
    Nat 1.28 18 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year.
    Nat 1.31 19 The poet...bred in the woods...year after year...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.31 20 The poet...bred in the woods...year after year...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.37 6 What tedious training...year after year...to form the common sense;...
    Nat 1.37 7 What tedious training...year after year...to form the common sense;...
    Nat 1.71 19 ...the periods of [man's] actions externized themselves...into the year and the seasons.
    Nat 1.74 27 What is a year?
    AmS 1.81 2 I greet you on the recommencement of our literary year.
    AmS 1.82 13 Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of [the American Scholar's] biography.
    AmS 1.94 5 ...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
    DSA 1.145 13 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    LE 1.158 23 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor...
    LE 1.169 7 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where...from year to year, the eagle and the crow see no intruder;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.181 9 Let [the scholar] know that...in the sedulous inquiry, day after day, year after year, to know how the thing stands;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    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.
    MR 1.233 18 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.
    MR 1.238 1 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round...
    MR 1.238 23 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.249 24 We use these words as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen. And yet they have...the most cogent application to Boston in this year.
    Con 1.300 7 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century, and grows every year like a sapling;...
    Con 1.300 18 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life;...
    Con 1.320 10 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...to bring the week and year about...
    YA 1.369 3 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is to remain half the year on their estates...
    Hist 2.2 2 I am owner of the sphere,/ Of the seven stars and the solar year/...
    SR 2.76 2 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    SR 2.85 15 ...the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in [the man in the street's] mind.
    SR 2.87 16 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die...
    Lov1 2.187 20 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...
    Fdsp 2.189 6 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    OS 2.272 25 We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth.
    Cir 2.317 13 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Int 2.340 5 ...year after year our tables get no completeness...
    Exp 3.45 24 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about...
    Exp 3.51 14 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    Exp 3.52 9 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    Exp 3.83 19 I should feel it pitiful to demand...an overt effect on the instant month and year.
    Chr1 3.109 27 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
    Mrs1 3.129 1 In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.
    Mrs1 3.130 3 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man...
    Mrs1 3.130 14 ...that assembly once dispersed, its members will not in the year meet again.
    Mrs1 3.144 23 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square...
    Nat2 3.169 2 There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
    Nat2 3.170 21 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Nat2 3.180 25 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
    Pol1 3.206 18 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.
    NR 3.233 6 Shakspeare's passages of passion...are in the very dialect of the present year.
    NER 3.259 11 Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges in this country every year...
    PPh 4.43 27 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    SwM 4.101 10 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29, 1772, of apoplexy, in his eighty-fifth year.
    SwM 4.104 16 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SwM 4.118 23 In his fifty-fourth year these thoughts [about Correspondence] held [Swedenborg] fast...
    SwM 4.130 23 ...after his fiftieth year, [Swedenborg] falls into jealousy of his intellect;...
    ShP 4.205 4 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...
    GoW 4.269 23 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government, or must bark, all the year round, in opposition;...
    ET1 5.10 3 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET1 5.17 13 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
    ET1 5.20 18 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...
    ET3 5.38 16 ...there is no hour in the whole year when one cannot work [in England].
    ET3 5.38 22 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    ET3 5.40 2 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.
    ET4 5.45 4 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 (in the same year), exclusive of slaves, 20,000,000...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET5 5.74 23 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy, and worse and worse, every year;...
    ET5 5.81 10 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
    ET5 5.91 10 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...
    ET5 5.91 11 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...
    ET10 5.155 26 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.156 15 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy; for they have no presumption of better fortunes next year...
    ET10 5.156 20 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET10 5.157 9 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    ET10 5.157 20 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...measured the length of the year;...
    ET10 5.160 24 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET10 5.163 4 Some English private fortunes reach, and some exceed a million of dollars a year.
    ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET11 5.192 11 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.
    ET11 5.193 19 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    ET11 5.193 24 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    ET12 5.205 2 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET12 5.205 6 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.205 8 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.206 5 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
    ET12 5.206 18 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET12 5.210 10 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848 [at Oxford]...
    ET13 5.217 3 [The English Church]...names every day of the year...
    ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET15 5.263 14 [The London Times] has risen, year by year, and victory by victory, to its present authority.
    ET15 5.270 22 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement, year by year;...
    ET16 5.277 20 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    ET16 5.289 16 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    ET19 5.311 19 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support, from year to year...
    ET19 5.312 13 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round...
    F 6.30 20 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house and notch their height from year to year.
    F 6.46 21 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    Pow 6.78 18 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year.
    Wth 6.83 11 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.108 8 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    Wth 6.114 2 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Wth 6.117 25 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year;...
    Wth 6.120 18 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed;...
    Ctr 6.148 15 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to...drag the most improbable hermit within its walls some day in the year.
    Bhr 6.176 22 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    Wsp 6.216 1 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...the year to the day;...
    Wsp 6.216 2 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...the life to the year;...
    Wsp 6.237 21 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance, from year to year, if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    CbW 6.244 1 Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and virtues here/...
    CbW 6.253 24 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    CbW 6.254 15 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century...
    CbW 6.268 18 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...
    Bty 6.288 26 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of vain travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
    Ill 6.318 18 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion, the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor, must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
    Ill 6.322 3 A sudden rise in the road shows us...all the summits, which have been just as near us all the year, but quite out of mind.
    SS 7.4 15 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself. Set a hedge here; set oaks there,--trees behind trees; above all, set evergreens, for they will keep a secret all the year round.
    Elo1 7.95 27 [The woods and mountains] send us every year some piece of aboriginal strength...
    Farm 7.135 14 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements/...
    Farm 7.138 25 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out...
    Farm 7.147 11 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year...
    Farm 7.148 1 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home, where every year...his forlorn trees pined like suffering virtue.
    Farm 7.148 22 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
    Farm 7.150 1 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
    WD 7.167 12 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days, in which he marked the changes of the Greek year...
    WD 7.170 9 There are days which are the carnival of the year.
    WD 7.175 19 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    WD 7.178 15 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable.
    Boks 7.196 23 ...Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Clbs 7.227 11 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk.
    Cour 7.262 4 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...a midshipman in his fourteenth year, accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
    Suc 7.283 9 ...we survey our map, which becomes old in a year or two.
    Suc 7.286 4 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
    OA 7.323 15 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    OA 7.328 22 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings.
    OA 7.329 15 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks...
    OA 7.331 6 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age, and received a stroke in every month or year.
    PI 8.12 2 Note our incessant use of the word like...like thunder, like a bee, like a year without a spring.
    Imtl 8.323 1 In the year 626 of our era, when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Dem1 10.8 26 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later.
    PerF 10.82 8 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn...each of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the year the crowner.
    Chr2 10.96 9 ...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...
    Edc1 10.141 3 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
    Plu 10.293 9 It is agreed that [Plutarch] was born about the year 50 of the Christian era.
    CSC 10.373 11 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841]...
    EzRy 10.382 15 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.
    EzRy 10.384 11 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...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year 1735.
    MMEm 10.400 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's father] died at Rutland, Vermont, of army-fever, the next year...
    MMEm 10.419 22 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity...
    MMEm 10.429 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying.
    SlHr 10.441 12 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he was a consul from whom the fasces did not depart with the year...
    Thor 10.458 11 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year.
    Thor 10.466 22 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.470 13 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.
    Thor 10.481 17 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he visited every year when it bloomed...
    Carl 10.492 11 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    GSt 10.501 23 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics, then growing more anxious year by year, engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.506 17 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
    LS 11.3 22 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...
    LS 11.4 2 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year...
    HDC 11.34 19 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground, which, the first year, yielded them a lean crop...
    HDC 11.43 8 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year...
    HDC 11.43 18 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    HDC 11.46 5 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    HDC 11.55 3 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year...
    HDC 11.58 25 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed, in the same year [1676], by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    HDC 11.63 8 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England, with Mr. Stoughton, as agent for the Colony;...
    HDC 11.65 10 ...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;...
    HDC 11.79 1 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 15 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars; for the present year, 5040 dollars.
    HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.82 21 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor;...
    HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor; the last year it expended 900 dollars.
    LVB 11.93 26 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.109 2 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.109 12 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.115 9 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year 1837... describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    EWI 11.117 8 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    EWI 11.122 16 [Our] well-being consists in having...the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
    FSLC 11.179 5 The last year has forced us all into politics...
    FSLC 11.184 16 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
    FSLC 11.186 17 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLN 11.244 18 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year.
    JBS 11.280 6 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure, one year with another, an honest reward...
    ACiv 11.298 21 ...boys and girls find their education, this year, less liberal and complete.
    ACiv 11.298 22 All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant are deferred.
    ACiv 11.310 15 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year.
    EPro 11.319 2 ...one midsummer day seems to repair the damage of a year of war.
    EPro 11.325 2 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
    SMC 11.348 8 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    SMC 11.371 12 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.
    EdAd 11.386 20 ...who can see the continent with...its west-wind breathing vigor through all the year...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    EdAd 11.391 6 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.
    SHC 11.428 20 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    Shak1 11.452 10 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
    CPL 11.503 17 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    CPL 11.503 18 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    FRep 11.511 7 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year...
    FRep 11.522 3 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day, year by year;...
    PLT 12.11 19 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action, though I should get only one new fact in a year.
    PLT 12.13 16 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want only a teaspoonful in a year.
    PLT 12.26 16 A subject of thought to which we return...from year to year, has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    Mem 12.102 9 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day.
    Mem 12.107 15 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next, and drive it this year and clinch it the next.
    CL 12.137 18 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year.
    CL 12.138 6 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days, at that time of the year [April], the logs should be immersed under the water...
    CL 12.139 27 ...a little coal indoors, during much of the year, and thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
    CL 12.140 8 ...we cannot overpraise the comfort and the beauty of the [Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
    CL 12.159 1 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...these we call professors.
    CL 12.165 1 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CW 12.173 12 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself by proofs of every kind, and show them to others. Our people are learning that lesson year by year.
    CW 12.173 20 ...there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    CW 12.174 23 Make a calendar...of the year, that you may never miss your favorites [among the plants] in their month.
    CW 12.176 22 A man...should know the hour of the day or night, and the time of the year, by the sun and stars;...
    Bost 12.183 23 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.
    Bost 12.185 5 Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates of the globe.
    Bost 12.187 16 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris; so that a fortune falls into the massive wealth of that city every day in the year.
    Bost 12.196 15 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.199 15 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    Bost 12.206 16 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing. In Boston they were sure to see something going forward before the year was out.
    MAng1 12.235 3 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
    Milt1 12.258 8 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
    MLit 12.310 23 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year...
    MLit 12.311 21 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...
    AgMs 12.359 12 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year...
    AgMs 12.362 14 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...
    Let 12.402 1 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...

Year, New, n. (1)

    Gts 3.159 7 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...

yearly, adv. (3)

    ET12 5.210 22 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    War 11.164 27 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    Bost 12.199 10 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...

Yearly Journal, Daily and [ (1)

    GoW 4.287 1 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal, his Italian Travels... have the same interest.

Yearly Meeting, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 2 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave; they interested their Yearly Meeting;...

yearn, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.420 14 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston?

yearned, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.429 16 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him. Science, Nature,-O, I 've yearned to open some page;-not now, too late.

yearning, n. (2)

    Supl 10.176 22 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    ChiE 11.470 1 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...

years, n. (535)

    Nat 1.7 13 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
    Nat 1.9 23 In the woods, too, a man casts off his years...
    Nat 1.10 2 ...the guest sees not how he should tire of [these plantations of God] in a thousand years.
    Nat 1.51 13 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!
    Nat 1.71 9 Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years.
    AmS 1.82 9 Who can doubt that poetry will...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?
    AmS 1.91 8 The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
    AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived...two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.98 2 Years are well spent in country labors;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    DSA 1.142 11 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good...
    DSA 1.147 2 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and sin, with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    LE 1.155 12 Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me...
    LE 1.158 23 ...over [the scholar] streams Time, scarcely divided into months and years.
    MN 1.222 25 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    MR 1.234 15 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money, which is the selling [oneself] for a number of years...
    MR 1.251 6 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who, in a few years...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
    MR 1.252 7 Our age and history, for these thousand years, has not been the history of kindness...
    LT 1.263 15 I remember, some years ago, somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    LT 1.269 20 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    LT 1.275 15 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...in twenty years will get all printed anew.
    LT 1.277 2 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...
    Con 1.297 7 ...Saturn...went on making oysters for a thousand years.
    Con 1.300 11 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...
    Con 1.300 27 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Con 1.308 2 I have...toiled honestly and painfully for very many years.
    Con 1.320 27 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore, some years ago, found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    Tran 1.351 13 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
    YA 1.364 16 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land...
    YA 1.366 8 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment, which in the recent years, has interrogated every institution...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.368 6 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    YA 1.368 15 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...
    YA 1.381 14 All this drudgery...for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...
    Hist 2.27 7 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I count Egyptian years?
    Hist 2.32 18 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.
    SR 2.69 10 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.
    SR 2.76 11 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...in successive years...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SR 2.86 24 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    Comp 2.103 9 The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a long time and so does not become distinct until after many years.
    Comp 2.126 12 ...the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
    Comp 2.126 25 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains...the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years;...
    SL 2.133 3 ...the years of academical and professional education have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    SL 2.140 15 ...the action which I in all my years tend to do, is the work for my faculties.
    SL 2.161 18 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years, like menials, serve and wait on this...
    Lov1 2.170 23 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    Lov1 2.174 14 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
    Lov1 2.187 26 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Fdsp 2.191 24 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought...
    Fdsp 2.193 27 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Fdsp 2.200 20 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which hardens the ruby in a million years...
    Prd1 2.226 6 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years.
    Prd1 2.233 20 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Prd1 2.236 9 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    Hsm1 2.247 22 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Hsm1 2.253 21 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. I asked the reason, and was told that the house had not been shut, night or day, for a hundred years.
    Hsm1 2.256 20 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
    OS 2.267 23 The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.
    Cir 2.315 9 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes; Aaron never thinks of such a peril. In many years neither is harmed by such an accident.
    Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
    Int 2.338 19 ...I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
    Int 2.340 2 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
    Int 2.344 19 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
    Pt1 3.38 24 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them; not the artist himself for years, or for a lifetime, unless he come into the conditions.
    Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.49 3 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.67 11 ...presently comes a day...which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!
    Exp 3.69 19 The years teach much which the days never know.
    Exp 3.83 13 I am not the novice I was fourteen, nor yet seven years ago.
    Chr1 3.103 22 ...when [your friends]...must suspend their judgment for years to come, you may begin to hope.
    Chr1 3.104 17 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings for fifty years back, have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    Mrs1 3.128 22 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
    Pol1 3.201 12 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years...
    NR 3.230 22 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    NER 3.251 3 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.257 14 ...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 11 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NER 3.259 17 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
    NER 3.279 21 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    UGM 4.7 22 ...the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his own shoes.
    UGM 4.25 20 It is observed in old couples, or in persons who have been housemates for a course of years, that they grow like...
    PPh 4.39 16 The Bible of the learned for twenty-two hundred years, every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    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 4.44 8 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three,--some say thirteen years.
    PPh 4.44 13 [Plato]...died, as we have received it, in the act of writing, at eighty-one years.
    SwM 4.99 15 In 1716, [Swedenborg] left home for four years...
    SwM 4.99 24 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    SwM 4.100 1 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began.
    SwM 4.107 2 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor...
    SwM 4.111 4 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...
    SwM 4.111 15 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg, after a hundred years...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
    SwM 4.120 4 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.
    SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young man, at eighteen or twenty years, might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    MoS 4.154 4 Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
    MoS 4.162 18 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book...
    MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830, aged sixty-eight years...
    MoS 4.163 3 Some years later, I became acquainted with an accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...
    MoS 4.163 9 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and, after two hundred and fifty years, had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.164 4 In 1571...Montaigne, then thirty-eight years old, retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    MoS 4.178 25 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years...
    MoS 4.178 27 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    MoS 4.185 7 The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours;...
    MoS 4.185 27 Through the years and the centuries...a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ShP 4.203 8 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after Shakspeare...
    ShP 4.203 9 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after Shakspeare, and died twenty-three years after him;...
    NMW 4.243 19 In later years...[Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.
    NMW 4.247 9 I should cite [Napoleon], in his earlier years, as a model of prudence.
    GoW 4.272 16 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    GoW 4.276 2 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years.
    GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    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.
    GoW 4.289 27 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years...
    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...
    ET1 5.19 12 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago;...
    ET2 5.29 22 ...the registered observations of a few hundred years find [the land] in a perpetual tilt...
    ET2 5.31 20 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    ET2 5.32 21 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years claimed the strict sovereignty of the sea...
    ET2 5.33 18 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests; but the curse of eight hundred years we could not discern.
    ET3 5.35 24 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET3 5.37 11 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years;...
    ET3 5.38 3 ...to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    ET4 5.55 22 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET4 5.60 17 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET4 5.66 7 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals, which are seven hundred years old, are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET4 5.72 25 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
    ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven years in the vat.
    ET5 5.91 4 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
    ET5 5.91 6 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;...
    ET5 5.91 8 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed...
    ET6 5.106 19 These people [the English] have sat here a thousand years, and here they will continue to sit.
    ET6 5.110 5 [Englishmen's] leases run for a hundred and a thousand years.
    ET6 5.110 7 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
    ET6 5.110 13 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET6 5.110 17 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    ET6 5.113 13 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat,--and has been for many hundred years.
    ET7 5.120 10 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...
    ET7 5.121 19 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot;...
    ET8 5.128 25 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    ET8 5.133 14 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET10 5.154 14 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET10 5.157 16 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
    ET10 5.158 5 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon. The six hundred years have not yet fulfilled his words.
    ET10 5.158 14 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam. The great strides were all taken within the last hundred years.
    ET10 5.159 21 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET10 5.159 25 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England] rich...
    ET10 5.160 9 [Steam] makes the motor of the last ninety years.
    ET10 5.160 20 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET10 5.161 7 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET10 5.162 25 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    ET11 5.177 8 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET11 5.178 5 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...
    ET11 5.178 6 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years; at a hundred miles, two hundred years; and so on;...
    ET11 5.178 12 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years...
    ET11 5.178 20 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...
    ET11 5.178 24 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    ET11 5.181 22 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.
    ET11 5.188 10 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.192 2 ...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors, who, having been cheated of their pay for years by the king, enlisted with the enemy.
    ET11 5.197 2 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and so has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET12 5.201 19 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.203 26 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET12 5.204 24 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET12 5.204 25 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing. This three years is about twenty-one months in all.
    ET12 5.205 7 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of three years and a half.
    ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
    ET13 5.215 9 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower, which is eight hundred years old, This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.219 11 ...the clergy for a thousand years have been the scholars of the nation [England].
    ET14 5.232 3 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.247 24 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    ET14 5.252 5 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory...
    ET16 5.277 21 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.278 24 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen hundred years.
    ET16 5.279 7 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
    ET16 5.279 23 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;...
    ET16 5.283 19 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago.
    ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
    ET16 5.290 5 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    ET17 5.291 2 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET17 5.294 13 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    ET18 5.301 21 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws in unbroken sequence for a thousand years.
    ET18 5.302 23 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    ET18 5.303 20 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    ET18 5.307 5 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...
    ET18 5.308 4 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    ET19 5.313 6 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...with the infirmities of a thousand years gathering around her...
    F 6.3 1 It chanced during one winter a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
    F 6.7 19 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    F 6.10 26 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son for a hundred years.
    F 6.13 14 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself, during all his years of health, on the side of progress...
    F 6.14 14 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    F 6.32 16 ...after cooping [the Saxon race] up for a thousand years in yonder England, [nature] gives a hundred Englands...
    Pow 6.55 17 If Eric...is at the top of his condition, and thirty years old, at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.67 1 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
    Pow 6.78 7 Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater.
    Wth 6.86 14 Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but is put to better use.
    Wth 6.90 11 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race...
    Wth 6.99 13 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.102 17 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    Wth 6.102 22 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
    Wth 6.112 16 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Wth 6.114 22 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    Ctr 6.136 12 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 6.140 15 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    Ctr 6.141 7 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 6.141 9 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Ctr 6.162 13 Fear not a revolution which will constrain you to live five years in one.
    Ctr 6.164 12 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Ctr 6.164 15 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Ctr 6.164 21 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Wsp 6.210 26 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    CbW 6.262 7 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    CbW 6.274 2 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
    Bty 6.282 21 Bugs and stamens and spores, on which we lavish so many years, are not finalities;...
    Bty 6.286 8 At the birth of Winckelmann, more than a hundred years ago, side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.295 7 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    Bty 6.301 2 Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
    Bty 6.302 19 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Ill 6.309 1 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    SS 7.9 6 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
    Civ 7.17 28 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    Elo1 7.64 23 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    DL 7.111 4 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
    DL 7.124 12 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement, and all the after years and actions only derive interest from their relation to that.
    DL 7.124 20 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.
    DL 7.127 17 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him...
    DL 7.131 8 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years inflamed the imagination...of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Farm 7.147 6 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
    Farm 7.149 27 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in every five years perambulated the boundaries...
    WD 7.158 23 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    WD 7.160 21 Egypt, where no rain fell for three thousand years, now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    WD 7.169 6 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...
    WD 7.169 14 The old Sabbath...white with the religions of unknown thousands of years, when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    WD 7.173 22 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    WD 7.183 27 There are people who...after years of activity, say, We knew all this before;...
    Boks 7.190 15 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Boks 7.193 14 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
    Boks 7.193 17 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    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 7.195 21 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;...
    Boks 7.205 8 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down...through fourteen hundred years of time.
    Boks 7.210 25 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of five hundred years...
    Boks 7.214 15 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination, which we all read twenty years ago.
    Clbs 7.229 4 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...people became...more intimate in a day than if they had been neighbors for years.
    Clbs 7.237 8 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.238 25 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    Clbs 7.247 6 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
    Clbs 7.248 26 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all...agreed in one thing,--that they had not eaten better for three years.
    Cour 7.256 3 What an ado we make through two thousand years about Thermopylae and Salamis!
    Suc 7.292 14 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...
    Suc 7.295 1 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    OA 7.317 21 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
    OA 7.317 27 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    OA 7.320 12 We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.
    OA 7.322 7 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo, elected doge at eighty-four years...
    OA 7.322 24 We still feel the force...of Newton, who made an important discovery for every one of his eighty-five years;...
    OA 7.323 1 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France to be guarded with the utmost care for a hundred years;...
    OA 7.324 7 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
    OA 7.325 17 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    OA 7.325 21 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    OA 7.325 23 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    OA 7.325 26 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    OA 7.327 19 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    OA 7.329 1 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...which we may keep for twice seven years before they shall be wanted.
    OA 7.329 20 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    OA 7.331 22 ...there is a calendar of [a man's] years, so of his performances.
    OA 7.333 27 [Mr. Lechmere] was Collector of the Customs for many years under the Royal Government.
    OA 7.335 24 ...the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years...
    PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.14 3 ...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years.
    PI 8.17 18 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.24 1 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    PI 8.40 7 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;...
    PI 8.47 25 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
    SA 8.84 20 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    Elo2 8.122 24 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Elo2 8.127 9 Dr. Charles Chauncy was, a hundred years ago, a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.
    Res 8.141 16 Life is always rapid here [in America], but what acceleration to its pulse in ten years...
    Res 8.141 16 Life is always rapid here [in America], but what acceleration to its pulse in ten years,--what in the four years of the war!
    Res 8.142 5 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn...for a vast number of years.
    QO 8.179 14 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    QO 8.179 24 In a hundred years...not a hundred lines of poetry...
    QO 8.182 12 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.
    QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    QO 8.185 4 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    QO 8.185 8 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    QO 8.187 16 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.
    QO 8.190 6 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons...
    PC 8.211 2 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    PC 8.212 23 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    PC 8.214 24 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
    PPo 8.242 3 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Jamschid, the binder of demons, whose reign lasted seven hundred years;...
    PPo 8.263 20 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    Insp 8.271 22 Every real step is...by lyrical facility, and never by main strength and ignorance. Years of mechanic toil will only seem to do it; it will not so be done.
    Insp 8.278 3 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    Insp 8.282 9 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse, darkening months or years, the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Insp 8.282 13 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Insp 8.290 9 Some of us may remember, years ago...the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
    Insp 8.297 7 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain, a new thought intoxicate and hold them prisoners for years perhaps.
    Imtl 8.328 4 Sixty years ago, the books read...were all directed on death.
    Imtl 8.331 10 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
    Imtl 8.332 1 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Imtl 8.332 15 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
    Imtl 8.335 6 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Imtl 8.338 24 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not, after millions of years, on the verge of still newer existence?...
    Imtl 8.341 12 A thousand years,-tenfold, a hundredfold [the thinker's] faculties, would not suffice.
    Imtl 8.347 27 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear. It makes a day memorable. We say we lived years in that hour.
    Imtl 8.350 10 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...
    Imtl 8.350 13 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth.
    Dem1 10.5 20 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated, and that too, it would seem, for years.
    Dem1 10.7 4 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years?
    Aris 10.59 22 A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself as a Pharos through long dark years, does not exist...
    PerF 10.75 11 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house, for five hundred years.
    PerF 10.79 19 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
    PerF 10.81 1 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    Chr2 10.95 7 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Chr2 10.106 13 Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years...
    Chr2 10.106 15 The older see two generations, or sixty years.
    Chr2 10.106 16 ...what has been running on through three horizons, or ninety years, looks to all the world like a law of Nature...
    Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
    Chr2 10.113 16 No man can tell what religious revolutions await us in the next years;...
    Edc1 10.126 27 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages...
    Edc1 10.129 6 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts. Thus a man may well spend many years of life in trade.
    Edc1 10.146 16 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument, fifty years older than the Parthenon of Athens...
    Edc1 10.152 6 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
    Supl 10.175 3 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw a winged dragon...
    SovE 10.191 19 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries...
    SovE 10.200 10 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter. What narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years ought to charm his attention like this?
    SovE 10.204 5 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind...
    Prch 10.231 2 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people,-though some of them are seven, and some of them seventy years old,-wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    Prch 10.235 13 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...seeing that a sentiment...is youthful after a thousand years.
    MoL 10.242 19 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
    MoL 10.251 21 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England...
    MoL 10.253 2 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering. These are the moments that balance years.
    Schr 10.270 18 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Schr 10.270 19 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Plu 10.304 17 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...
    Plu 10.311 10 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who, born fifty years earlier, was for many years his contemporary...
    Plu 10.311 11 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary...
    LLNE 10.325 19 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.
    LLNE 10.330 3 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians, which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism, sixty years ago;...
    LLNE 10.330 16 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett returned from his five years in Europe...
    LLNE 10.343 26 ...The Dial...enjoyed its obscurity for four years.
    LLNE 10.346 8 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice...
    LLNE 10.346 24 [Robert Owen] was then seventy years old...
    LLNE 10.360 13 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders, and lived there for years.
    LLNE 10.362 1 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.368 17 The society at Brook Farm existed, I think, about six or seven years...
    LLNE 10.368 20 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years.
    EzRy 10.381 14 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age...
    EzRy 10.381 21 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college by the time he should be twenty-one years of age...
    EzRy 10.382 6 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    EzRy 10.385 22 ...if [Ezra Ripley] made his forms a strait-jacket to others, he wore the same himself all his years.
    EzRy 10.389 8 [Ezra Ripley] claimed privilege of years, was much addicted to kissing;...
    MMEm 10.401 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after...
    MMEm 10.401 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it...give much piquancy to her letters in after years.
    MMEm 10.401 15 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years.
    MMEm 10.411 8 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.411 22 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    MMEm 10.414 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude, sixty years afterward, on her own farm in Maine...
    MMEm 10.416 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;...
    MMEm 10.419 25 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.
    MMEm 10.423 18 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    MMEm 10.423 20 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
    MMEm 10.428 15 For years [Mary Moody Emerson] had her bed made in the form of a coffin;...
    MMEm 10.431 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I cowering in the nest of quiet for so many years;...
    MMEm 10.431 27 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a day is a thousand years...
    MMEm 10.432 3 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
    MMEm 10.432 6 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
    SlHr 10.442 6 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex...
    SlHr 10.448 2 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his later years.
    Thor 10.457 27 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone...
    Thor 10.461 12 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect,-his face covered in the late years with a becoming beard.
    Thor 10.466 13 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years...
    Thor 10.466 17 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments, several years earlier.
    Thor 10.470 21 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he...had been in search of twelve years...
    Thor 10.477 6 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Thor 10.480 23 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, is it still only beans!
    Carl 10.494 12 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    GSt 10.501 16 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
    GSt 10.506 1 [George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
    LS 11.4 16 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
    LS 11.7 10 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    LS 11.8 7 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...
    HDC 11.29 4 ...the people of New England, for a few years past, as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.29 17 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
    HDC 11.29 23 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.30 19 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years;...
    HDC 11.31 9 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy, in the course of two years and a half.
    HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...two hundred years ago this day, leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.40 24 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    HDC 11.40 25 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...
    HDC 11.41 12 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges...
    HDC 11.47 8 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.50 9 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
    HDC 11.57 9 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.
    HDC 11.57 13 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more than twenty years from 1654 to 1676.
    HDC 11.58 5 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.
    HDC 11.60 5 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    HDC 11.61 15 The worst feature in the history of those years [of King Philip's War], is, that no man spake for the Indian.
    HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons, upwards of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.73 2 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...
    HDC 11.79 23 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid.
    HDC 11.84 24 Of late years, the growth of Concord has been slow.
    HDC 11.85 10 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    LVB 11.90 16 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...
    LVB 11.95 2 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 11.99 12 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
    EWI 11.106 4 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    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 11.112 14 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    EWI 11.112 15 ...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.
    EWI 11.112 19 ...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.
    EWI 11.119 27 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved to throw up the two remaining years of apprenticeship, and to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.127 25 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying all the facts which the London Committee had been engaged for years in collecting...) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.128 6 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...
    EWI 11.133 17 There is a scandalous rumor that has been swelling louder of late years...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    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 11.164 21 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    War 11.165 3 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    FSLC 11.189 9 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...that these moments counterbalance the years of drudgery...
    FSLC 11.189 13 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    FSLC 11.200 20 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    FSLC 11.202 27 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
    FSLC 11.203 19 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLC 11.207 24 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's.
    FSLC 11.210 2 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work, and are every moment stronger. In twenty-five years they will be fifty millions.
    FSLN 11.224 7 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.226 16 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    FSLN 11.234 1 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled. This eternal monument of his fame and of the Union is rotten in four years.
    FSLN 11.244 11 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago;...
    AsSu 11.247 3 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    AsSu 11.247 22 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    AsSu 11.250 9 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    AKan 11.258 26 In this country for the last few years the government has been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
    AKan 11.259 6 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years...
    AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago...had the best government that ever existed.
    JBS 11.277 17 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio...
    JBS 11.278 14 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    JBS 11.278 22 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not...a plot of two years or of twenty years...
    JBS 11.278 24 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was...the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years before. Forty-seven years at least...
    JBS 11.279 1 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    JBS 11.280 3 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool, and that for a course of years.
    TPar 11.288 6 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.
    TPar 11.290 10 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery broke over its old banks...
    TPar 11.292 10 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    ACiv 11.299 9 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.
    ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years ago.
    ACiv 11.308 1 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race, as eighty or ninety years ago she was for the first...
    EPro 11.318 21 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.
    EPro 11.324 19 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    ALin 11.330 21 All of us remember-it is only a history of five or six years-the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    ALin 11.333 19 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
    ALin 11.335 7 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
    ALin 11.335 8 In four years,-four years of battle-days,-[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
    HCom 11.341 6 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    SMC 11.352 15 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    SMC 11.354 16 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    SMC 11.355 26 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    SMC 11.362 24 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    SMC 11.366 20 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    SMC 11.367 5 Enlisting for three years, and remaining to the end of the war, these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    Wom 11.418 10 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...
    Wom 11.424 8 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    Wom 11.425 10 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer, is rushing to be the history of a thousand years.
    SHC 11.431 11 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...
    SHC 11.433 25 This spot for twenty years has borne the name of Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.434 7 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    SHC 11.435 9 ...we must look forward also, and make ourselves a thousand years old;...
    Shak1 11.447 16 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    Shak1 11.449 15 ...at the short distance of three hundred years [Shakespeare] is mythical...
    Shak1 11.452 5 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...
    Shak1 11.453 15 The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakspeare were not published until three years later.
    Scot 11.463 3 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society, of which he was for ten years an honorary member.
    ChiE 11.472 26 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    FRO1 11.477 17 ...we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago,-yes, and many ages before that.
    CPL 11.497 15 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three and four thousand years old...
    CPL 11.498 26 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the college;...
    CPL 11.500 6 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.
    CPL 11.506 15 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
    FRep 11.538 15 ...if the spirit which years ago armed this country against rebellion...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    PLT 12.4 14 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
    PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    PLT 12.50 6 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    PLT 12.60 1 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
    PLT 12.60 6 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child...
    II 12.71 17 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius! In five hundred years we shall not have a second.
    Mem 12.94 9 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    Mem 12.101 24 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.
    Mem 12.109 7 The opium-eater says, I sometimes seemed to have lived seventy or a hundred years in one night.
    CInt 12.125 11 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
    CL 12.144 13 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
    CL 12.145 18 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
    CL 12.155 18 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    CL 12.155 21 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    CL 12.155 25 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.
    CW 12.175 3 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come, and on some years drop into your house-yard like sky-rockets.
    CW 12.175 15 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
    Bost 12.185 23 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said, three hundred years ago, of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    Bost 12.188 7 London now for a thousand years has been in an affirmative or energizing mood;...
    Bost 12.190 8 In sixty-eight years after the foundation of Boston, Dr. Mather writes of it, The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.190 13 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.
    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 12.216 2 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years, had not yet become old...
    MAng1 12.221 4 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years;...
    MAng1 12.226 16 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built...
    MAng1 12.229 1 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
    MAng1 12.231 10 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MAng1 12.231 16 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's].
    MAng1 12.235 9 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    MAng1 12.241 23 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Milt1 12.247 23 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
    Milt1 12.254 5 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
    Milt1 12.260 7 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    Milt1 12.268 24 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.
    ACri 12.294 16 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    MLit 12.312 5 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.
    MLit 12.327 17 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man, to eighty years...
    MLit 12.329 8 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual, as, after years of dreams, it will still appear and reappear to wise men.
    WSL 12.337 16 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years;...
    WSL 12.340 11 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    AgMs 12.362 10 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    EurB 12.372 5 Godiva is a noble poem that will tell the legend a thousand years.
    PPr 12.379 14 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...
    Let 12.394 20 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.
    Let 12.397 2 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...
    Let 12.398 5 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides...
    Let 12.398 26 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years...
    Let 12.400 25 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about like ghosts...
    Let 12.403 3 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.
    Let 12.403 8 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer...
    Trag 12.406 12 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

years', n. [year's,] (6)

    ET5 5.91 17 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    ET12 5.204 22 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree.
    ET12 5.204 24 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET16 5.289 13 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    Boks 7.219 6 All these [sacred] books...are more to our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
    Let 12.399 4 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work, with the additional disadvantage of a two years' vacation.

Year's, New, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.472 9 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.

Years' War, Thirty, n. (1)

    CbW 6.254 8 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.

yeas, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.93 16 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly... how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others would have uttered ruinous yeas.

yeast, n. (4)

    NER 3.252 14 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast...
    Pow 6.60 18 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
    Insp 8.271 25 Inspiration is like yeast.
    II 12.69 19 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]?

yeer, n. (1)

    F 6.6 5 Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...

yellow, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.19 4 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies...
    Nat 1.19 17 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
    Prd1 2.233 15 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day, yellow, emaciated, ragged, sneaking; and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    Pt1 3.10 25 Plutarch and Shakspeare were in the yellow leaf...
    ShP 4.201 26 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    Pow 6.72 21 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Elo1 7.70 23 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Suc 7.286 4 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
    ACiv 11.308 27 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white man, red man, yellow man and black man.
    FRep 11.541 21 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every race and skin, white men, red men, yellow men, black men;...
    CL 12.139 14 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and days that are like ice-blinks, we have also yellow days, and crystal days...

yellow, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 8 By lamplight [the nestler] delights in shadows on the wall; by daylight, in yellow and scarlet.

Yellowstone River, Wyoming, (1)

    Thor 10.465 22 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...

yelp, n. (1)

    F 6.36 11 The whole circle of animal life...a yelp of pain and a grunt of triumph ...pleases at a sufficient perspective.

Yeman's Tale, Canon [Geoff (1)

    Ctr 6.132 8 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's

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