Adequate to Adults
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
adequate, adj. (25)
MN 1.196 25 ...this invincible hope of a more
adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
Tran 1.350 4 Unless the action is necessary, unless
it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it.
Prd1 2.239 18 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out
your paradoxes, in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt. So
at least shall you get an adequate deliverance.
Int 2.336 5 ...in our happy hours we should be
inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into
adequate rhyme.
Art1 2.360 10 ...through his necessity of imparting
himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow
an adequate communication of himself...
Art1 2.368 24 When its errands are noble and
adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
PPh 4.68 5 Plato...attempted as if on the part of
human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...
ShP 4.204 3 ...not until two centuries had passed,
after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate
begin to appear.
ShP 4.204 19 Coleridge and Goethe are the only
critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any
adequate fidelity...
GoW 4.265 8 Society has, at all times, the same want,
namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up
each object of monomania in its right relations.
Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want
of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
Elo1 7.95 9 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers,
like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to
their fame remains.
Boks 7.197 13 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and
adequate germ of Greece...
PI 8.22 19 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the
forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.
PI 8.29 23 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know
that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they
can penetrate,-- defying adequate expression;...
PI 8.65 2 The poet who shall use Nature as his
hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.
PI 8.71 18 The poet is representative...in him the
world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.
SA 8.100 22 There is in America a general conviction
in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty
and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
AsSu 11.249 22 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the
North, a little in advance of all the North, and therefore without
adequate support.
CPL 11.495 9 That town is attractive to its native
citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town
hall, good churches...
CPL 11.495 15 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these
advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
adequately, adv. (10)
Pol1 3.214 11 ...whenever I find my dominion over
myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my
neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so
much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately
his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
SwM 4.120 23 This design of exhibiting such
correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately
executed, would be the poem of the world...was narrowed and defeated by
the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries
took.
Cour 7.273 25 ...whenever the religious sentiment is
adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.
Dem1 10.28 2 [Man] is sure that intimate relations
subsist...between him and his world; and until he can adequately tell
them he will tell them wildly and fabulously.
MLit 12.320 19 More than any poet [Wordsworth's]
success has been...that of the idea which he shared with his coevals,
and which he has rarely succeeded in adequately expressing.
adequateness, n. (2)
SwM 4.104 3 The robust Aristotelian method, with its
breadth and adequateness...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
MMEm 10.402 27 When I read Dante...and his
paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom
do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent
theology?
Adhem, Abou ben [Leigh Hun (1)
EurB 12.372 7 The poem of all the poetry of the
present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of
Leigh Hunt.
adhere, v. (8)
Pt1 3.38 13 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the
poet, we have our difficulties even with Milton and Homer.
PerF 10.71 19 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all
have certain properties which adhere to them...
LS 11.20 23 ...to adhere to one form a moment after
it is outgrown, is unreasonable...
adhered, v. (2)
F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this
constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic
atoms;...
Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my
first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single
topic...
adherence, n. (15)
Hist 2.12 2 We remember the forest-dwellers, the
first temples, the adherence to the first type...
Exp 3.67 6 In the street and in the newspapers, life
appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the
multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
ET7 5.121 25 [The English] require the same
adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.
ET7 5.122 12 The ruling passion of Englishmen in
these days is a terror of humbug. In the same proportion they value
honesty, stoutness, and adherence to your own.
ET15 5.263 19 [The London Times] has shown those
qualities which are dear to Englishmen, unflinching adherence to its
objects...
Wth 6.100 21 The problem [in commerce] is to combine
many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the
facts...
CbW 6.277 6 There must be fidelity, and there must be
adherence.
Cour 7.255 25 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in
lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
GSt 10.504 2 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense,
courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all
gainsayers.
LS 11.24 2 My brethren...have recommended,
unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].
adheres, v. (9)
LT 1.273 19 To [some divine, the wealthy man]
adheres...
UGM 4.10 5 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral
and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the
charm of nature...
PPh 4.52 3 Each student adheres, by temperament and
by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind
[unity or diversity].
SwM 4.145 12 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in
all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave
choice [of goodness].
F 6.16 4 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres
to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition
of strata.
Wth 6.103 24 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced
by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote, or
adheres to some odious right, he makes so much more equity in
Massachusetts;...
Mem 12.99 2 ...[the loadstone] gains new particles
all the way as you move it, but one falls off for every one that
adheres.
adhering, v. (1)
adhesion, n. (4)
ET19 5.311 15 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American to England], and the other is that loyal
adhesion...running through all classes...
PC 8.221 27 ...the first measure of a mind is...its
capacity of truth, and its adhesion to it.
FSLN 11.222 23 [Webster] worked with that closeness
of adhesion to the matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
EPro 11.321 4 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has
resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment,
he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].
adhesions, n. (1)
HCom 11.341 18 War passes the power of all chemical
solvents, breaking up the old adhesions...
adhesive, adj. (2)
AmS 1.97 1 So is there...no event, in our private
history, which shall not... lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish
us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
adhesiveness, n. (1)
ET5 5.75 4 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land
[England]...with German truth and adhesiveness.
adipocere, n. (1)
Adirondack, adj. (1)
Boks 7.213 19 [Men's] education is neglected; but the
circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the Adirondack
country...make such amends as they can.
adjacent, adj. (2)
Nat2 3.192 26 This or this [in nature] is but
outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has
passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in
the neighboring fields, or, if you stand in the field, then in the
adjacent woods.
HDC 11.41 22 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to
Governor Winthrop, and 1000 to Thomas Dudley, of the lands adjacent to
the town [Concord]...
adjective, n. (1)
ACri 12.292 3 Some of these [Americanisms] are
odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is
written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
adjoined, v. (1)
MMEm 10.428 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted
herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening
on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the
house.
adjoining, adj. (3)
ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall]
is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube...
SlHr 10.442 7 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar]
was at the head of the bar in Middlesex, practising, also, in the
adjoining counties.
adjoining, v. (1)
SHC 11.432 10 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]
fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...
adjourn, v. (3)
OS 2.293 6 [God's presence] inspires in man an
infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and
may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the
solution of his private riddles.
Pow 6.80 13 I adjourn what I have to say on this
topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the
chapters on Culture and Worship.
adjourned, v. (4)
Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness,
but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages.
CSC 10.373 10 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]...
HDC 11.65 23 It is an article in the selectmen's
warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in
for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was
chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town
for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
adjourning, v. (1)
AKan 11.263 11 ...I think the towns should hold town
meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into
permanent sessions, adjourning from week to week...
adjournment, n. (1)
Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of
Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might
recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
adjourns, v. (1)
ET4 5.73 24 Every [English] inn-room is lined with
pictures of races;...and the House of Commons adjourns over the Derby
Day.
adjudge, v. (1)
FSLC 11.191 9 Lord Coke held that where an Act of
Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall
control it, and adjudge it to be void.
adjudged, v. (1)
WD 7.185 4 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared
the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space
left. So the bowman's prize was adjudged to him who drew no bow.
adjust, v. (5)
SL 2.149 20 What avails it to fight with the eternal
laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by
the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?
Exp 3.67 2 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we
might...adjust ourselves... to the perfect calculation of the kingdom
of known cause and effect.
NR 3.229 17 We adjust our instrument for general
observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single
figure in the terrestrial landscape.
Ctr 6.160 20 There is a certain loftiness of thought
and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from
an insight of their whole connection.
adjusted, v. (3)
Nat 1.9 2 The lover of nature is he whose inward and
outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
Suc 7.295 21 How often it seems the chief good to be
born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race.
EdAd 11.391 16 Here is the balance to be adjusted
between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic
theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
adjusting, v. (2)
NMW 4.235 22 ...if fighting be the best mode of
adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in
making it thorough.
Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte,
have performed vast achievements...by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
adjustment, n. (9)
Pt1 3.3 21 We were put into our bodies...but there is
no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ...
SwM 4.130 12 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to
depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
ET6 5.104 19 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which
results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...
Bty 6.290 22 'T is the adjustment of the size and of
the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline
and the finer grace of movement.
Imtl 8.334 7 After science begins, belief of
permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the
secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive
generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance
and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
Aris 10.43 22 In a thousand cups of life, only one is
the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements.
Aris 10.46 2 Dull people think it Fortune that makes
one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the
balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and
the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
FSLC 11.198 24 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive
Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of
conciliation and adjustment.
adjustments, n. (3)
F 6.37 25 These are coarse adjustments, but the
invisible are not less.
Imtl 8.334 9 After science begins, belief of
permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the
secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive
generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance
and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation; all
these adjustments becoming perfectly intelligible to our study,-and the
contriver of it all forever hidden!
adjusts, v. (3)
LE 1.166 18 ...[the speaker] only adjusts himself to
the free spirit which gladly utters itself through him;...
MMEm 10.416 2 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me
[Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
adjutant, n. (1)
SMC 11.365 18 It happened...that the Fifth
Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the
day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the
adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...
Admetus, n. (2)
Hist 2.31 11 Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said
the poets.
WD 7.176 4 In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with
the shepherds of Admetus...
administer, v. (12)
ET8 5.137 9 ...[the English] administer, in different
parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...
ET11 5.196 23 This is the charter, or the chartism,
which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that industry
and administrative talent should administer;...
Bty 6.285 9 The king...conferred the sovereignty on
[Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days;...
DL 7.122 19 I honor that man whose ambition it
is...to administer the offices of master or servant...
SA 8.103 9 It is of course that [the American to be
proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well,
administer affairs well;...
Aris 10.65 3 ...for the day that now is, a man of
generous spirit will not need to administer public offices...
MoL 10.250 8 [Nature says to the American] See to it
that you hold and administer the continent for mankind.
LS 11.24 4 My brethren...have recommended,
unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I
have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to
administer it.
LS 11.24 15 I have no hostility to this institution
[the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it.
Neither should I ever have obtruded this opinion upon other people, had
I not been called by my office to administer it.
LS 11.24 23 As it is the prevailing opinion and
feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of
the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I
am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided
to me.
II 12.81 23 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church,
or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants,
lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea
fashioned them...
administered, v. (6)
MoS 4.184 11 ...to each man is administered a single
drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
FSLC 11.205 17 [The destiny of this country] is to be
administered according to what is, and is to be...
AKan 11.262 16 Every man throughout the country
[California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that
instant justice would be administered to each offence...
EdAd 11.386 6 It is a poor consideration...that
political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by
little men...
administering, v. (4)
YA 1.386 3 If any man has a talent...for
administering difficult affairs...let him in the county-town...put up
his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
PI 8.6 3 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws
show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest
is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This
hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which
are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical
mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
LS 11.16 26 If the view which I have taken of the
history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the
claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
JBB 11.273 5 I hope...that, in administering relief
to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate
concerns...
administrari, v. (1)
administration, n. (20)
DSA 1.128 17 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to
you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian
church's] administration...
Prd1 2.236 22 ...the proper administration of outward
things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and
origin;...
Mrs1 3.129 22 [Aristocracy] respects the
administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for
any durability in its rule.
Pol1 3.208 12 The same benign necessity and the same
practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of
the administration of the government.
NER 3.255 13 ...the country is full of kings. Hands
off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration
of the affairs of this kingdom of me.
ET5 5.98 1 For the administration of justice [in
England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of
business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from
his court.
ET13 5.227 12 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?
Pow 6.75 14 During the whole period of his
administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.
Ctr 6.165 1 ...in an old community a well-born
proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the
estate shall suffer no harm by his administration...
Suc 7.284 22 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon,
which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone
who have arranged the finances, as you know
PC 8.210 12 Consider...what genius of science, what
of administration...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful
life-the administration of large affairs...is prone to develop narrow
and special talent;...
LS 11.23 23 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the
Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in
the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
ACiv 11.307 3 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men
from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate
more moderate and fair administration of the government...
EPro 11.319 21 Done, [The Emancipation Proclamation]
cannot be undone by a new administration.
CInt 12.115 15 ...if the intellectual interest be, as
I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to
give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting
down...every dignified blunder that has crept into its administration.
administrative, adj. (3)
ET11 5.196 23 This is the charter, or the chartism,
which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that industry
and administrative talent should administer;...
Elo2 8.132 23 Here [in the United States] is room for
every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending
stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and
persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best
thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.
administrator, n. (1)
Clbs 7.244 24 The man of thought...the administrator
skilful in affairs... whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is
wishing to be found.
admirable, adj. (67)
LE 1.162 11 ...you must come to know that each
admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of
pearls is all your own.
MN 1.223 3 Who shall dare think he has...missed
anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of
possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
Tran 1.342 6 ...whoso knows...these admirable
radicals...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without
leaving its mark.
Fdsp 2.197 11 I hear what you say of the admirable
parts and tried temper of the party you praise...
Prd1 2.233 5 The scholar shames us by his bifold
life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable;
when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Hsm1 2.247 11 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/
With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has
captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul
hath subjugated Martius' soul./
Pt1 3.7 22 ...Homer's words are as costly and
admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
Exp 3.61 8 ...we should...do broad justice where we
are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic
officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
If these are mean and malignant, their contentment...is a more
satisfying echo to the heart than... the casual sympathy of admirable
persons.
NR 3.238 20 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public
assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own, and
in their way admirable.
NR 3.244 16 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious
steps in the admirable science of universals...
PPh 4.54 12 The reason why we do not at once believe
in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience.
SwM 4.103 24 ...Swedenborg is systematic and
respective of the world in every sentence;...and this admirable writing
is pure from all pertness or egotism.
SwM 4.111 19 The admirable preliminary discourses
with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg],
throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
SwM 4.145 8 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor
health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude
only...
MoS 4.162 13 ...I will...offer...a word or two to
explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip
[Montaigne].
MoS 4.174 7 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable
friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly
insight...
ShP 4.218 11 Other admirable men have led lives in
some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in
wide contrast.
NMW 4.226 16 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration],
pronounced it admirable...
GoW 4.268 23 Be real and admirable, not as we know,
but as you know.
GoW 4.288 9 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's]
tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the
infirmity of an admirable scholar...
ET5 5.77 18 All the admirable expedients or means hit
upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots
of the expanding mind of the race.
ET5 5.83 10 ...in high departments [the English] are
cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the
choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and
bees.
ET12 5.207 27 ...[English students] make those
eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain
puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the
world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
ET13 5.222 4 Wellington esteems a saint only as far
as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct
and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among
the soldiers and once among the officers.
F 6.40 20 ...of all the drums and rattles by which
men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable
is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
Ctr 6.147 23 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect
of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
Bty 6.302 23 ...[the human form] is not only
admirable in singular and salient talents, but also in the world of
manners.
Art2 7.51 12 ...a study of admirable works of art
sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
Elo1 7.93 8 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the
words and sentences uttered by him, however admirable, fall from him as
unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
DL 7.131 11 I wish to bring home to my children and
my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and
prophets]...
WD 7.175 3 ...that flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian,
nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
OA 7.329 25 We have an admirable line worthy of
Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
PI 8.40 20 These successes are not less admirable and
astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
Comc 8.157 16 ...[Aristotle's] definition [of the
ridiculous], though by an admirable definer, does not satisfy me...
QO 8.196 25 ...it is not rare to find...people who
copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
Imtl 8.337 20 I have known admirable persons, without
feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.
Edc1 10.157 6 The will, the male power...makes that
military eye which controls boys as it controls men; admirable in its
results...
MoL 10.255 18 It is not enough that the work [of art]
should show... admirable polish and finish;...
SlHr 10.446 3 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's]
respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural
ability...that it was admirable...
Carl 10.489 8 [Carlyle] is...a practical
Scotchman...and then only accidentally and by a surprising addition,
the admirable scholar and writer he is.
HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met
in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public
affairs, and published an admirable report.
HDC 11.81 13 In 1787, the admirable instructions
given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument
to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
EWI 11.134 8 ...the reader of Congressional debates,
in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and
patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the
minority of slave-holders.
FSLC 11.184 3 What is the use of admirable law-forms,
and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination
of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
TPar 11.285 1 At the death of a good and admirable
person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by
the recollection of his virtues.
CPL 11.496 14 Our founder [of the Concord Library]
has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the
country...
CPL 11.504 23 Napoleon's reading could not be large,
but his criticism is sometimes admirable...
CPL 11.506 4 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen
months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the
unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze on, burst upon me.
FRep 11.532 16 ...as soon as the success stops and
the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...
PLT 12.8 4 Go into the scientific club and harken.
Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only,
knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
PLT 12.25 16 I never hear a good speech at caucus or
at cattle-show but it helps me...by apprising me of admirable uses to
which what I know can be turned.
II 12.82 22 [A man] has a facility, which costs him
nothing, to do somewhat admirable to all men.
MLit 12.327 27 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the
feeling that the thing itself was so admirable as to leave all comment
behind, went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from
every one, and did no more.
Admirable Crichton [James (1)
Admirable Crichtons, n. (1)
NR 3.237 19 [Nature] would never get anything done,
if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.
admirably, adv. (2)
Pt1 3.25 27 ...a summer, with its harvest sown,
reaped and stored, is an epic song, subordinating how many admirably
executed parts.
QO 8.196 13 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself
in an extemporary Latin sentence...and which told admirably well.
admiral, n. (3)
ET3 5.40 8 England resembles a ship in its shape, and
if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored
it in a more judicious or effective position.
Suc 7.285 12 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the
wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
Grts 8.308 11 Montluc...says of the Genoese admiral,
Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
Admiral, n. (1)
admirals, n. (1)
Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in
his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best
generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him
for success;...
Admiralty, Board of, n. (1)
admiralty, n. (1)
Admiralty, n. (1)
ET5 5.91 10 The [English] Admiralty sent out the
Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...
admiration, n. (38)
DSA 1.130 26 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with
expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...
LE 1.162 16 The youth, intoxicated with his
admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his
own soul which he admires.
Hist 2.25 23 Our admiration of the antique is not
admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Hist 2.25 24 Our admiration of the antique is not
admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Comp 2.100 2 Has [the man of genius] all that the
world loves and admires and covets?--he must cast behind him their
admiration...
Hsm1 2.248 9 ...Simon Ockley's History of the
Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration
all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think
that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper
protestations of abhorrence.
OS 2.276 27 ...these other souls, these separated
selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions
we call passion; of love, hatred, fear, admiration, pity;...
OS 2.291 15 Souls such as these treat you as gods
would...accepting without any admiration your wit...
ET7 5.119 22 [The English] confide in each
other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of
this probity. The Englishman is not springing a trap for his
admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
Ctr 6.135 12 Though [men] talk of the object before
them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.
DL 7.120 13 ...who can see unmoved...the warm
sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the
school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home, sometimes to the
fatigue, sometimes to the admiration of sisters;...
Clbs 7.247 15 I remember a social
experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he
was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all
found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other.
Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a
club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when
the club was broken up by new combinations.
Cour 7.253 14 ...when [men] see [the preference to
the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of
life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life...[poets']
admiration of heroes and benefactors...are hosts of ideals...
SA 8.86 14 In man or woman, the face and the person
lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
Grts 8.318 27 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most
remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have
seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror
that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
Imtl 8.347 25 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong
will, arms us above fear.
PerF 10.82 2 ...when the soldier comes home from the
fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of
the great parliamentary debater.
Chr2 10.115 9 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration
of him runs away with their reverence for the human soul...
Supl 10.164 20 From want of skill to convey quality,
we hope to move admiration by quantity.
SovE 10.211 5 Man does not live by bread alone, but
by faith, by admiration, by sympathy.
LLNE 10.354 24 It is the worst of community that it
must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor
continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd
of men and women seeking they know not what.
SlHr 10.447 20 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration
was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
Koss 11.397 5 The people of this town [Concord] share
with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
PLT 12.3 9 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's
explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one
could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the
attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts...
CInt 12.114 23 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the
people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of
highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning,
reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration,
things not before discoursed or written...
CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration,
I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my
conductor, the other, my interpreter.
MAng1 12.237 1 A natural fruit of the nobility of
[Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante...
Milt1 12.276 5 Shall we say that in our admiration
and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have
even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...
WSL 12.339 8 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn
Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...
admirations, n. (1)
Ill 6.312 3 We live by our imaginations, by our
admirations, by our sentiments.
admire, v. (56)
Nat 1.65 18 ...you cannot freely admire a noble
landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.
MN 1.192 18 ...I will not be deceived into admiring
the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the
result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical
class.
MN 1.193 4 If I see nothing to admire in the unit,
shall I admire a million units?
MN 1.193 5 If I see nothing to admire in the unit,
shall I admire a million units?
MN 1.199 13 The wholeness we admire in the order of
the world is the result of infinite distribution.
LT 1.265 20 Could we indicate the indicators...we
should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages
the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done
there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
Lov1 2.182 1 ...if...the soul passes through the body
and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate
one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to
the true palace of beauty...
Fdsp 2.211 17 To those whom we admire and love, at
first we cannot [speak on even terms].
Hsm1 2.258 21 ...when we hear [many extraordinary
young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their
superiority;...
Art1 2.364 25 I do not wonder that Newton...should
have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
Pt1 3.12 23 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in
perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his
skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
Gts 3.163 27 It is a very onerous business, this of
being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A
golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your
benefactors.
NR 3.246 24 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair
girl...making the commonest offices beautiful by the energy and heart
with which she does them; and seeing this we admire and love her and
them...
NER 3.272 4 From the triumphs of his art [the master]
turns with desire to this greater defeat. Let those admire who will.
UGM 4.25 1 ...in the midst of this chuckle of
self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and
admire.
SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best
acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
NMW 4.251 20 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear
narrative of his battles;...
ET1 5.16 5 When too much praise of any genius annoyed
[Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
ET12 5.201 7 Albert Alaskie...who visited England to
admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth, was entertained with stage-plays
in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
CbW 6.260 19 ...what we ask daily, is to be
conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes,
which puts me a little out of the ring: supply it, and let me be like
the rest whom I admire...
Civ 7.28 17 I admire still more than the saw-mill the
skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and
grind corn...
Elo1 7.88 14 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of
common sense. It is the same quality we admire in Aristotle...
DL 7.130 18 If by love and nobleness we take up into
ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around
us.
Farm 7.153 27 That uncorrupted behavior which we
admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
Boks 7.216 4 We admire parks, and high-born
beauties...
Cour 7.254 1 Men admire the man who can organize
their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
Grts 8.301 14 ...we admire eminent men, not for
themselves, but as representatives.
Aris 10.55 11 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men
admire...
PerF 10.87 9 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who
said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes
atheism better.
SovE 10.183 12 That convertibility we so admire in
plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are
subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this
self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which
works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
SovE 10.206 27 We in America are
charged...that...we...do exceedingly applaud and admire ourselves...
Plu 10.301 19 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the
sages and warriors he reports, as one having a native right to admire
and recount these stirring deeds and speeches.
MMEm 10.426 22 The idea of being no mate for those
intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain.
Carl 10.491 12 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist
in political economy;...
PLT 12.13 16 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the
harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.
CL 12.150 10 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled
flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
CW 12.178 3 I admire in trees the creation of
property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
CW 12.178 19 That uncorrupted behavior which we
admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man
who lives in the presence of Nature.
Milt1 12.273 20 [Milton] admonished his friend not to
admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
admired, adj. (3)
Pt1 3.3 3 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are
often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or
sculptures...
Bty 6.301 16 This is the triumph of
expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and
intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
II 12.87 24 ...the whole moral of modern science is
the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired
arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
admired, v. (17)
ShP 4.200 4 The Liturgy, admired for its energy and
pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...
ET12 5.208 8 It is contended by those who have been
bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their
playgrounds, courage is universally admired...
SS 7.5 17 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much
his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...
SS 7.7 4 ...no man is fit for society who has fine
traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is
a cripple.
Art2 7.48 16 The artist who is to produce a work
which is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...
Clbs 7.232 17 Some men love only to talk where they
are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering
people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they...please
themselves by sallies and chat which are admired by the idlers;...
OA 7.334 22 We asked if at Whitefield's return the
same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...but
a greater esteem, as he became more known. He did not terrify, but was
admired.
SA 8.88 11 If the intellect were always awake...the
man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...
Imtl 8.339 12 Every really able man...considers his
work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
FSLN 11.220 12 I saw that a great man [Webster],
deservedly admired for his powers and their general right direction,
was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.
admirer, n. (2)
QO 8.198 23 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow
me to introduce to you my only admirer.
admirers, n. (4)
GoW 4.277 21 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every
sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern
society...
Supl 10.167 4 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best
friend...speaking of him in a circle of his admirers, said...I believe
him capable of virtue.
Thor 10.478 26 Such dangerous frankness was in
[Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible
Thoreau...
admires, v. (10)
LE 1.162 18 The youth, intoxicated with his
admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his
own soul which he admires.
LE 1.166 7 A man of cultivated mind but reserved
habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of free...speech, in the
man addressing an assembly;...
Pt1 3.37 19 We have yet had no genius in
America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times,
another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in
Homer;...
DL 7.123 20 ...every man is provided in his thought
with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily,
not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of
the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do the select
individuals whom he admires...
Grts 8.316 19 We must have some charity for the sense
of the people, which admires natural power...
admiring, adj. (4)
PPh 4.43 16 If you would know [great geniuses']
tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most
resembles them.
Pow 6.67 24 ...[Boniface] introduced the new
horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that
Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.
SA 8.88 23 ...I have heard with admiring submission
the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being
perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which
religion is powerless to bestow.
Thor 10.465 21 Admiring friends offered to carry
[Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...
admiring, v. (6)
Nat 1.23 13 Others have the same love [of nature] in
such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in
new forms.
ET12 5.212 25 ...I should as soon think of
quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile
sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not
admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and
Aristotle...
Ill 6.311 11 In admiring the sunset we do not yet
deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.
PLT 12.3 7 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's
explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one
could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the
attitude of the naturalist;...
EurB 12.367 11 ...Wordsworth...though...taking the
public to task for not admiring his poetry, is really a master of the
English language...
admission, n. (16)
LT 1.286 12 The spiritualist wishes this only, that
the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate
itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual...
Tran 1.336 2 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the
spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without
the admission of anything unspiritual;...
UGM 4.33 13 ...the union of all minds appears
intimate; what gets admission to one, cannot be kept out of any
other;...
MoS 4.161 13 The terms of admission to this spectacle
[of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and
intelligible way of living of his own;...
Wth 6.94 20 To be rich is to have a ticket of
admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.
Ctr 6.143 15 These minor skills and
accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of
mankind...
Ctr 6.144 25 Balls, riding, wine-parties and
billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which
they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would
be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
Ill 6.317 22 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and
railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission
that there are illusions...
PI 8.6 4 The admission, never so covertly, that this
[material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...
Edc1 10.138 16 I like...boys, who have the same
liberal ticket of admission to all shops...as flies have;...
FRO2 11.490 5 I find something stingy in the
unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our
churchmen...
PLT 12.9 20 Ever since the Norse heaven made the
stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with
his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
CInt 12.130 27 ...the examination for admission and
the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and
severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder
before us...
admissions, n. (1)
SA 8.91 1 [The highly organized person] of all men
would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the
admissions...
admit, v. (43)
Nat 1.12 4 Whoever considers the final cause of the
world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that
result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following
classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.
AmS 1.110 7 If there is any period one would desire
to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side
and admit of being compared;...
MN 1.222 2 If you say, The acceptance of the vision
is also the act of God... I admit the force of what you say.
MR 1.236 3 ...when the majority shall admit the
necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state],
their abuses will be redressed...
Nat2 3.188 22 After some time has elapsed, [the young
person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience
[of keeping a diary]...
PPh 4.56 27 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer]
wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of
the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
ShP 4.205 21 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and
shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished
from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this
information.
ET5 5.99 19 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of
a dye which is more lasting than the cloth.
F 6.35 21 No statement of the Universe can have any
soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.
Pow 6.58 11 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal ascendency...then...all his coadjutors and
feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
Wsp 6.216 23 ...we very slowly admit in another man a
higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...
Elo1 7.70 7 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer
fast; steals away...his belief, that he shall not admit any opposing
considerations.
Clbs 7.235 17 He that can define, he that can answer
a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.
Clbs 7.239 12 To answer a question so as to admit of
no reply, is the test of a man...
Clbs 7.245 14 A right rule for a club would
be,--Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
PI 8.31 26 ...[men of the world] admit the general
truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the
statute.
PI 8.32 5 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very
well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
PI 8.32 7 Eternal laws are very well, which admit no
violation...
PI 8.32 9 ...so extreme were the times and manners of
mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a
case.
Insp 8.284 17 The fine influences of the morning few
can explain, but all will admit.
Schr 10.270 6 'T is wonderful, 't is almost
scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets. I do not mean
to excuse it. I admit the enormous partiality.
LS 11.8 20 ...many persons are apt to imagine that
the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking
[at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal
purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might
probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under
consideration in the New Testament.
LS 11.16 15 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the
Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?
HDC 11.68 2 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the
[Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit, so bold
from the first as hardly to admit of increase.
War 11.162 14 All admit that [peace] would be the
best policy, if the world were all a church...
War 11.162 22 ...we never make much account of
objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this
moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence
of the project.
Koss 11.400 8 You [Kossuth] have earned your own
nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at
College).
Koss 11.400 9 You [Kossuth] have earned your own
nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at
College). We admit you to the same degree, without new trial.
SHC 11.432 17 I suppose all of us will readily admit
the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education
of the people...
SHC 11.433 1 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is
happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the
Past and the Present.
CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you
when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested
you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all
towns equal...
PLT 12.30 3 ...our deep conviction of the riches
proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over
into one another's virtues.
MAng1 12.219 11 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien
de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric; as
wide, namely, as the terms of the proposition admit.
admits, v. (21)
Tran 1.330 6 [The idealist]...admits the impressions
of sense, admits their coherency...
Comp 2.124 25 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its
beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth...
SL 2.164 3 ...the least [action] admits of being
inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Nat2 3.180 21 The whirling bubble on the surface of a
brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
ShP 4.207 13 Can any biography shed light on the
localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
ET5 5.99 10 ...the intellectual organization of the
English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them
all.
ET10 5.164 13 ...the provisions to lock and transmit
[English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession
which never admits a fool.
ET12 5.208 21 The German Huber, in describing to his
countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that
in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
F 6.46 19 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful
constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.
Wth 6.125 12 ...the estate of a man is only a larger
kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily
circulations.
Insp 8.287 19 Tie a couple of strings across a board,
and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's
harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear; if you have sensibility, it
admits you to sacred interiors;...
Supl 10.175 26 The men whom [Nature] admits to her
confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
FSLC 11.190 23 Blackstone admits the sovereignty
antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
SHC 11.433 7 On the other side of the ridge [in
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in
full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved for
secular purposes;...
admitted, adj. (2)
Con 1.310 1 ...precisely the defence which was set up
for the British Constitution, namely that with all its admitted
defects...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing
institutions.
Pol1 3.203 16 It was not...found easy to embody the
readily admitted principle that property should make law for
property...
admitted, v. (30)
Nat 1.64 14 ...being admitted to behold the absolute
natures of justice and truth...we learn that man has access to the
entire mind of the Creator...
Hsm1 2.260 25 A simple manly character...should
regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted
that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his
dissuasion from the battle.
Pol1 3.221 7 ...there never was in any man sufficient
faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of
renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who
have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy
of the bad State.
PPh 4.65 25 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first
admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages
of nature.
PPh 4.78 16 Men, in proportion to their intellect,
have admitted [Plato's] transcendent claims.
SwM 4.95 10 The Koran makes a distinct class of
those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this
class to be the aim of creation: the other classes are admitted to the
feast of being, only as following in the train of this.
SwM 4.95 14 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of
this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's
banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
SwM 4.118 24 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted
the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...
SwM 4.138 19 To what a painful perversion had Gothic
theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil
spirits!
MoS 4.180 26 Once admitted to the heaven of thought,
[some minds] see no relapse into night...
ET9 5.147 12 ...it must be admitted, the island
[England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
ET12 5.200 15 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford]
is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted
after that hour [nine o'clock].
ET12 5.201 11 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to
Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.
Wsp 6.219 14 ...though the new element of freedom and
an individual has been admitted, yet the primordial atoms are
prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
Clbs 7.239 26 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress
against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter,
the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but
by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the
benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
PPo 8.254 26 ...[Hafiz's] claim [as a bard and
inspired man of his people] has been admitted from the first.
LLNE 10.340 16 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr.
John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people
together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid
him in making the experiment.
LLNE 10.354 16 The Fourier marriage was a calculation
how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of
human constitution admitted.
Carl 10.498 2 ...in England, where the morgue of
aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle]
has carried himself erect...
LS 11.3 14 Without considering the frivolous
questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men
should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been
settled differently in every church, who should be admitted to the
feast, and how often it should be prepared.
LS 11.10 10 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed,
declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his
disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions.
HDC 11.43 7 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay]
removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the
first year...
ACiv 11.301 9 A democratic statesman said to
me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the
slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction. Is this new? No, everybody
knows it. As a general economy it is admitted.
CL 12.161 5 ...Goethe...said no man should be
admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
PPr 12.381 15 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be
admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...
Let 12.402 5 The steep antagonism between the
money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...
Trag 12.416 2 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell,
to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient
admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with
the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.
admitting, v. (4)
Prd1 2.224 12 The true prudence limits this
sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
Exp 3.78 6 The soul...is of a fatal and universal
power, admitting no co-life.
SHC 11.430 19 We will not jealously guard a few atoms
under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from
the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting
the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make
one spot tender to our children...
MAng1 12.221 11 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his
contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on
copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of
correction.
admixture, n. (1)
admonish, v. (2)
DSA 1.132 9 [The divine bards] admonish me that the
gleams which flash across my mind are not mine...
admonished, v. (12)
LE 1.185 11 ...I thought that...you would not be
sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
SR 2.71 15 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is
his genius admonished to stay at home...
SR 2.78 4 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the
mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our
endeavours;/...
Fdsp 2.213 13 Only be admonished by what you already
see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
ET10 5.167 18 The incessant repetition of the same
hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or
any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when
cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by
landlords. Then society is admonished of the mischief of the division
of labor...
LLNE 10.353 24 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce
schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly
aims [as Fourier's]...
HDC 11.56 3 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from
removing, and admonished them to increase their faith with their
griefs.
HDC 11.67 12 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used
the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;
but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some
would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss
of some improprieties of expression...
LVB 11.94 16 One circumstance lessens the reluctance
with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my
conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new
historical fact...
Milt1 12.273 19 [Milton] admonished his friend not to
admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
Pray 12.356 8 And being admonished to reflect upon
myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy
conduct;...
admonishes, v. (4)
Nat 1.64 18 This [spiritual] view, which admonishes
me where the sources of wisdom and power lie...carries upon its face
the highest certificate of truth...
Chr2 10.118 23 How many people are there in Boston?
Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each
poor soul loses all his old stays;...no class-leader admonishes him of
absences...
MAng1 12.242 14 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]
that a man ought not to smile, when all those around him weep;...
admonishing, adj. (1)
Nat 1.7 17 ...every night come out these envoys of
beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
admonition, n. (7)
LE 1.167 11 The perpetual admonition of nature to us,
is, The world is new...
Prd1 2.236 3 ...let [a man] likewise feel the
admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting
forces...
MAng1 12.223 2 Seeing these works [of art], we
appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo, against the taste and
against the admonition of his patrons, to cover the walls of churches
with unclothed figures...
Let 12.396 15 How joyfully we have felt the
admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...
admonitions, n. (2)
Chr1 3.107 6 I remember the indignation of an
eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...
WD 7.167 16 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works
and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the
sailor might launch his boat in security from storms, and what
admonitions of the planets he must heed.
ado, n. (3)
SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our
praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
Bost 12.203 8 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot
silence. Some new light, some new doctrinaire who makes an unnecessary
ado to establish his dogma;...
adolescent, adj. (1)
adopt, v. (24)
MN 1.209 21 If the man will exactly obey [that
well-known voice], it will adopt him...
SR 2.72 1 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not
for that will I adopt their petulance or folly...
Exp 3.52 12 Men resist the conclusion in the morning,
but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over
everything of time, place and condition...
Mrs1 3.131 16 There is almost no kind of
self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it
the freedom of its saloons.
UGM 4.12 17 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by
our proxies. How easily we adopt their labors!
GoW 4.283 9 ...men distinguished for wit and
learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with
a certain levity...
ET2 5.28 11 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by
which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all
champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.
ET5 5.87 5 [The English] adopt every improvement in
rig, in motor, in weapons...
ET5 5.99 24 These private, reserved, mute family-men
[of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...
Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband
reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at
home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
PI 8.49 17 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt
conventional metre...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out
of conventionality...
SA 8.96 4 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter
destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will adopt the art
of war that has defeated you.
Aris 10.41 23 In the Norse Edda it appears as the
curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war,
to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a
first-rate man...
Edc1 10.152 23 Whatever becomes of our method [of
teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or
a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily,
and in this distress the wisest are tempted to adopt violent means...
Edc1 10.153 1 Whatever becomes of our method [of
teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or
a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily,
and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main
strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential
influence they had hoped...to adopt.
LLNE 10.346 24 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt
that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism, or that all mankind
would adopt it.
GSt 10.506 13 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring
his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness
the next best measure which could secure their assent.
LS 11.12 25 ...[the disciples] were bound together by
the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that
they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...
LS 11.19 25 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was
enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was
disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
adopted, adj. (1)
adopted, v. (24)
Chr1 3.101 25 I knew an amiable and accomplished
person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find
in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear...
Mrs1 3.126 21 The manners of this class [of doers]
are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association
of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their
merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating. The good forms, the
happiest expressions of each, are repeated and adopted.
Pol1 3.219 15 [The movement toward self-government]
was never adopted by any party in history, neither can be.
NER 3.254 18 Every project in the history of
reform...is...very dull and suspicious when adopted from another.
SwM 4.120 1 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.
ET10 5.168 21 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their
Parliaments and their whole generation adopted false principles, and
went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country
which they were impoverishing.
ET15 5.263 24 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the
cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.
ET15 5.263 26 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law
system, and almost alone lifted it through.
ET15 5.264 3 [The London Times] adopted the League
against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it
announced his triumph.
Wth 6.110 11 ...in the artificial system of society
and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there
come presently checks and stoppages.
Bhr 6.193 27 ...when [the monk Basle] came to
discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing
him, they...adopted his manners;...
QO 8.192 19 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness
that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has
ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
Plu 10.310 1 Except as historical curiosities, little
can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions
of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very
crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that
Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
Plu 10.317 22 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of
Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of
Plutarch; but the matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius,
that if he had found it, he would have adopted it.
GSt 10.505 21 These interests, which [George Stearns]
passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication
with patriotic persons holding the same views...
HDC 11.71 27 This body [the Provincial
Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue
belong to the history of the nation.
EWI 11.114 14 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual
discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had
such weight that the legislature... adopted absolute emancipation.
EWI 11.129 25 I could not see the great vision of the
patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...
EPro 11.322 24 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for
what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed
up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger, but
through it was the sole safety. The measure he has adopted was
imperative.
Wom 11.411 13 There is...no style adopted into the
etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some
brilliant woman...
adopting, v. (3)
FSLC 11.197 14 Nothing remains in this race of
roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting
slavery into its constitution.
EdAd 11.393 7 ...a few friends of good letters have
thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this
form of a Review...
adoption, n. (8)
NER 3.254 1 ...in each of these [reform] movements
emerged...a tendency to the adoption of simpler methods...
NMW 4.226 27 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things
which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said
them, and that his adoption of them gave them their weight.
PI 8.32 3 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is
very well as a principle, but it is never quite the time for its
adoption without prejudicing actual interests.
Edc1 10.154 10 ...the adoption of simple discipline
and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the
time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
LLNE 10.354 4 It argued singular courage, the
adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...
ALin 11.333 14 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude
of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they
had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later, by the very
acceptance and adoption they find in the mouths of millions, turn out
to be the wisdom of the hour.
Bost 12.211 17 Let every child that is born of her
and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as
clean as the sun;...
adopts, v. (11)
Tran 1.337 19 ...if there is...any presentiment, any
extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
Mrs1 3.120 19 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way
into...countries where man... establishes a select
society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or
extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
QO 8.197 15 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning
at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a
thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given
at second hand by Sheridan. I never like my own bon-mots until he
adopts them.
Aris 10.34 1 ...I notice also that [the finer
qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and
repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts
them...
LS 11.13 21 It was only too probable that among the
half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor,
whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of
Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has
seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the
Lord's Supper].
MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new
editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...which the
age adopts by quoting them.
adorable, adj. (1)
Chr2 10.98 8 ...I may easily speak of that adorable
nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such
terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
adoration, n. (6)
OS 2.284 6 ...in the adoration of humility, there is
no question of continuance.
SwM 4.139 8 ...we feel the more generous spirit of
the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... They who serve me
with adoration,--I am in them, and they in me.
Chr2 10.117 11 There will always be a class of
imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the
adoration of the moral sentiment...
Prch 10.218 13 ...[those persons in whom I am
accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their
convictions; they hate cant; but more than this I do not readily find.
The gracious motions of the soul,- piety, adoration,-I do not find.
Prch 10.222 18 [Religion] does not grow thin or
robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains
forever unhurt and identical.
FSLN 11.243 14 Having...professed his adoration for
liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded
with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
adore, v. (8)
Nat 1.7 14 If the stars should appear one night in a
thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
OS 2.296 19 [The soul saith] I, the imperfect, adore
my own Perfect.
SwM 4.129 16 You love the worth in me; then I am your
husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that
worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I
adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
SA 8.105 15 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an
intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...
MMEm 10.419 8 It was the choice of the Eternal that
gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my
vile imprisonment. I adore Him.
ACiv 11.296 5 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/
Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The
white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
adored, adj. (1)
LLNE 10.365 4 In the American social communities, the
gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic. The institutions
were whispering-galleries, in which the adored Saxon privacy was lost.
adored, v. (4)
SR 2.57 18 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of
little minds, adored by little statesmen...
PPh 4.61 22 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the
earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be
numbered...
Ill 6.307 2 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed,
adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
adorer, n. (3)
UGM 4.14 12 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I
know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are
Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an
adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to
steal, as to dissemble.
Grts 8.320 19 The man...in whom no regard of self
degraded the adorer of the laws...he it is whom we seek...
adores, v. (8)
DSA 1.122 22 A man in the view of absolute goodness,
adores, with total humility.
Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs
and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which adores the
Rule of Three...
MoS 4.172 2 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the
student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which
he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
Suc 7.308 9 I fear the popular notion of success
stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome
success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...
SovE 10.195 14 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he
see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
MMEm 10.425 4 When the dreamy pages of life seem all
turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who
fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other
worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and
casteth down...
adoring, adj. (2)
SA 8.81 21 Who teaches manners...of grace, of
humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young
child?
CInt 12.112 9 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when
they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When
they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The
riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
adorn, v. (21)
YA 1.387 12 I think I see place and duties for a
nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the
multitude by forethought...
YA 1.388 18 ...the college, the church, the hospital,
the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever
goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
Art1 2.349 11 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/
Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make
each morrow a new morn./
Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its
estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to
purify the air and his house to adorn the landscape and strengthen the
laws.
UGM 4.12 11 In one of those celestial days when
heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we
can only spend it once...
PPh 4.57 20 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic
elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
ET5 5.94 27 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/
The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those
precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees
adorn./
ET13 5.219 17 The [English] national temperament
deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the
sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with
history, which adorn it.
ET17 5.293 14 Nor am I insensible to the courtesy
which frankly opened to me some noble mansions [in England], if I do
not adorn my page with their names.
DL 7.106 12 [The child's] imaginative life dresses
all things in their best. His fears adorn the dark parts with poetry.
Boks 7.213 9 [The great arts] are [man's] becoming
draperies, which warm and adorn him.
Clbs 7.230 12 ...a natural fact has only half its
value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then
they confirm and adorn each other;...
SA 8.106 15 Would we codify the laws that should
reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
PPo 8.251 23 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating
disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had
conquered nations.
MMEm 10.415 7 I am not infinite, nor have I power or
will, but bound and imprisoned, the tool of mind, even of the beings I
feed and adorn.
CInt 12.126 9 Everything will be permitted there [at
Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism...
CL 12.135 13 Plant [the land], adorn it, study it, it
will develop in the cultivator the talent it requires.
adorned, v. (18)
Hist 2.20 21 In the woods in a winter afternoon one
will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which
the Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky
seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
Pt1 3.9 17 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics]
is the landscape-garden of a modern house, adorned with fountains and
statues...
Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is
adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...
ET11 5.176 10 In the same line of Warwick, the
successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of
Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose
heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
Bhr 6.169 24 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish
with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
Clbs 7.231 17 Among the men of wit and learning, [the
lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But
when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either
that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or
that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
PI 8.51 11 Of their living habitations they made
little account, conceiving of them but as hospitia, or inns, while they
adorned the sepulchres of the dead...
SA 8.93 6 If every one recalled his experiences, he
might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried
ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection, as easily as the wit
with which it was adorned.
SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered
by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men,
adorned with dignity and accomplishments.
Aris 10.38 16 ...we wish to see those to whom
existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for
their object...
LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere
beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the
highest place to our imagination...
MMEm 10.404 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her
nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.
AsSu 11.247 10 In [the free state], [life] is adorned
with education, with skilful labor...
adorner, n. (2)
Wom 11.412 22 Beautiful is the passion of love,
painter and adorner of youth and early life...
Wom 11.425 11 Let us have the true woman, the
adorner...
adorning, v. (2)
YA 1.366 25 ...this [inclination to withdraw from
cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and
ornament which labor... could suggest.
adornments, n. (1)
Wom 11.410 26 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and
adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of
society.
adorns, v. (6)
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love,
as an aim adorns an action.
Pt1 3.10 2 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making
argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive
that...it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new
thing.
ET15 5.267 18 The daily paper [London Times] is the
work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University,
and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic
elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.
Aris 10.52 8 ...if the dressed and perfumed
gentleman, who serves the people in no wise and adorns them not...go
about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if
they burn his barns...
Adrastia, n. (1)
Exp 3.84 21 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that
every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until
another period.
Adriatic Sea, n. (1)
Con 1.311 19 ...for thee the fair Mediterranean, the
sunny Adriatic;...
adrift, adj. (1)
Trag 12.413 21 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is
adrift and not moored;...
adroit, adj. (5)
GoW 4.282 5 Though [the writer] were dumb [his
message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the
man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
ET5 5.83 22 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts,
but adroit at the coarse;...
PPr 12.388 22 How well-read, how adroit, that
thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...
adroitly, adv. (3)
Exp 3.57 9 ...each [man] has his special talent, and
the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves
where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
PPh 4.55 26 ...the experience of poetic creativeness,
which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in
transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly
managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this
command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
Insp 8.289 14 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the
experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home
nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which
must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional
surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power
[of novelty].
adroitness, n. (1)
Cir 2.321 1 The difference between talents and
character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power
and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
Adsched of Meru, n. (1)
PPo 8.244 5 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of
Meru...
adulation, n. (2)
MN 1.195 1 Not exhortation...becomes our lips, but
paeans of joy and praise. But not of adulation...
Bost 12.210 10 We praised with a certain adulation
the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the
Revolution.
adulatory, adj. (1)
PPh 4.59 27 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery,
and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial
service still.
adult, adj. (11)
Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see
nature.
Con 1.318 10 ...beside that charity which should make
all adult persons interested for the youth...we are bound to see that
the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the
formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
Nat2 3.182 4 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that
we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern
not us...
PPh 4.45 24 In adult life, while the perceptions are
obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
PPh 4.47 3 There is a moment in the history of every
nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That
is the moment of adult health...
SS 7.9 23 Such is the tragic necessity which strict
science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly
driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
Aris 10.49 9 I should like to see...every man made
acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen...
FRO2 11.487 24 I think wise men wish their religion
to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult,
self-searching soul...
adult, n. (2)
AmS 1.109 11 The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic;
the adult, reflective.
adulterate, adj. (1)
adulterated, adj. (1)
adulteration, n. (1)
ET10 5.167 25 England is aghast at the disclosure of
her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...
adulterer, n. (1)
adulterers, n. (1)
ET7 5.121 4 On the king's birthday, when each bishop
was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry
VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge;...
adulterous, adj. (1)
MN 1.221 5 It is the office...of this age to annul
that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has
effected between the intellect and holiness.
adultery, n. (2)
F 6.11 9 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath
committed adultery.
EWI 11.124 8 If any mention was made of homicide,
madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let
the church-bells ring louder...
adults, n. (5)
Pow 6.55 25 With adults, as with children, one class
enter cordially into the game...
Ill 6.313 12 Children, youths, adults and old men,
all are led by one bawble or another.
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