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Joseph Coolidge Wheeler Papers, 1896-[2010]
…subseries. Biography: Born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1926 to Caleb Henry and Ruth Robinson Wheeler (the former a farmer, the latter a local historian and journalist), Joseph Coolidge Wheeler spent his working life away from his native town, in international development and humanitarian aid. He entered Bowdoin College in 1944…
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Emerson Concordance
…without permission from the Concord Free Public Library Revised edition, December 2005 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Key to Abbreviations Used throughout the Concordance Numerals Aa to Absolute…
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Numerals
…had been organized [in Concord] in 1636. 1637. (1) HDC 11.54 19 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637. 1638. (4) HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop… HDC 11.54 20 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of…
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Incantation to Indian-Rubber
Incantation to Indian-Rubber A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo EmersonCompiled by Eugene F. Irey incantation, n. (1) DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house? Let us read the incantation backward. incantations, n. (3) Pt1 3.31 1 ...Socrates…tells us that…
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Compliance to Conducts
…University. With these requirements Concord… complied… MAng1 12.235 13 Michael Angelo, who…distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter’s] and then reluctantly complied. compliment, n. (33) LT 1.291 12 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and…
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Charlatan to Chiffinch, William
…after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;... FSLN 11.235 3 To make good…
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Acclimate to Acta Sanctorum
…plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations… accommodations, n. (2) ET14 5.249 7 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too strong for the philosopher, and he fell into accommodations;... F 6.41 11 ...insane persons are indifferent to their dress, diet, and other accommodations… accompanied, v. (11) Nat…
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Energetic to Englishwomen
…Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again… Let 12.404 2 Apathies and total want of work…never will obtain any sympathy if…
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Affect to Agassiz
…of the battle of Concord]. HDC 11.77 11 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people… ACiv 11.297 20 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the…
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Fable for Critics to Fact-Speaker
…manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town…being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow, of a black color, with a white face, unto said Pellit, for his present supply. EWI 11.111 5 Looking in the face of his…
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Human to Hundredth
…race. Art1 2.353 22 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols] denote the height of the human soul in that hour… Art1 2.356 9 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last…the opulence of human nature… Art1 2.358 19 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to…
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Meal to Mechi
…7.278 8 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter’s joy,/ The hunter’s meal to share./ EzRy 10.389 12 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a meal of…
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Deaf to Declaring
…hundred persons… inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other…neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain, nor to deal with those who do. HDC 11.84 11 ...for the most part, [our fathers] deal generously by their minister… FSLC 11.203 6 ...as the…
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Minder to Mitissimus
…minds of men the testimony of a few inspired souls has had such weight and penetration. Dem1 10.12 24 In the hands of poets, of devout and simple minds, nothing in the line of [the occult sciences’] character and genius would surprise us. Dem1 10.23 23 The fault of most…
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Age to Aikin’s, John
…of age, inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant… HDC 11.77 26 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson’s] almanac of 1775…and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age. EWI 11.122…
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Amazed to Amounts
…...the secret of [the Indian’s] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew. amazingly, adv. (1) Edc1 10.130 5 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a new…
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Moves to Much-Travelled
…HDC 11.40 11 [The Concord settler’s pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things;... HDC 11.49…
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Document to Dramatizing
…some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God. ET4 5.70 27 The more vigorous [Englishmen]…
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Hipparchus to Holdship
…1 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town. EWI 11.102 3 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots. Bost 12.201 8 The future historian will regard the detachment of…
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Hole to Hooted
…15 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch… EWI 11.102 10 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been. SMC 11.369 4 [George Prescott writes] Our colors…
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