Advance to Affairs
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
advance, n. (25)
DSA 1.148 16 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the
freest flow of kindness and appeal to sympathies far in advance;...
LT 1.266 12 Now and then comes...a...soul, more
informed and led by God...which is much in advance of the rest...
ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
F 6.36 4 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from
his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
Chr2 10.108 14 The mind of this age has fallen away
from theology to morals. I conceive it an advance. I conceive it an
advance.
Edc1 10.127 3 For a thousand years the islands and
forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who
made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being
fed and warmed.
Edc1 10.150 8 ...though every young man is born with
some determination in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and
delayed, and, whatever they may hereafter be, their senses are now
opened in advance of their minds.
Prch 10.233 20 Inspiration will have advance,
affirmation...
Schr 10.269 15 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth,
and perpetual advance in knowledge of it...
Schr 10.280 13 When a man begins to dedicate himself
to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius
pauses;...
GSt 10.502 27 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to
become the banker of his clients, and to furnish them money and arms in
advance of the subscriptions which he obtained.
AsSu 11.249 21 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the
North, a little in advance of all the North...
ACiv 11.308 11 Men reconcile themselves very fast to
a bold and good measure when once it is taken, though they condemned it
in advance.
FRep 11.540 7 America should affirm and establish
that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
PLT 12.60 9 So long as you are capable of advance, so
long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
II 12.78 1 ...this reminds me to add one more trait
of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
ACri 12.283 22 The decline of the privileged orders,
all over the world; the advance of the Third Estate; the transformation
of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the
thinkers to address them.
MLit 12.327 1 [Goethe] has an eye constant to the
fact of life and that never pauses in its advance.
advance, v. (9)
Lov1 2.184 18 From exchanging glances, [lovers]
advance to acts of courtesy...
OS 2.274 24 The growths of genius are of a certain
total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over
John, then Adam, then Richard...
Art1 2.354 2 Shall I now add that the whole extant
product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke
drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all
beings advance to their beatitude?
PPh 4.63 6 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato]
that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake, but
only with a view to advance himself in that one sole science which
embraces all.
ET5 5.90 1 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as
the end of a speech in debate: No, said an Englishman, but...to advance
the business.
ET6 5.111 8 Bacon told [the English], Time was the
right reformer;... Canning, to advance with the times;...
Trag 12.410 7 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our
strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
advanced, adj. (9)
Nat2 3.181 17 ...the artist still goes back for
materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced
stage;...
ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the
king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in
Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.
Chr2 10.116 14 ...the simple and free minds among our
clergy have not resisted...the advanced perceptions of the mind;...
TPar 11.287 14 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when,
to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the
most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced
period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is
a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of
knowledge with that which now exists...
advanced, v. (10)
Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the
work of a...progressive necessity, which...has advanced thus far.
Exp 3.70 1 [The individual] designed many things, and
drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all,
blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but
the individual is always mistaken.
Chr1 3.109 16 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet
Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly.
ACiv 11.310 18 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual
abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American
Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If
Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
EPro 11.317 1 The extreme moderation with which the
President [Lincoln] advanced to his design,-his long-avowed expectant
policy...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation
Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have
underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has
made an instrument of benefit so vast.
Shak1 11.452 24 ...there are some men so born to live
well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well,
and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as
much in their element as before...
advancement, n. (5)
OS 2.288 16 In these instances [the scholar and
author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his
advancement in truth.
ET13 5.217 17 ...the gradation of the clergy [in
England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to
the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered
peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
Advancement of Learning [Fr (1)
Boks 7.207 11 [The scholar] will not repent the time
he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read the Advancement of Learning...
advancements, n. (2)
UGM 4.10 22 There are advancements to numbers,
anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
Wom 11.415 4 With the advancements of society, the
position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into
light.
advancer, n. (1)
ET4 5.50 19 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide
mixture, is the most potent advancer of nations.
advances, n. (6)
NER 3.252 21 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat,
and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these
incessant advances of thine;...
Imtl 8.336 26 Nature never moves by jumps, but always
in steady and supported advances.
Edc1 10.156 1 ...as [the naturalist] is still
immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of
advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who
behaves so civilly and well.
EWI 11.142 16 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and
advances from the whites that they will be gladly received as
subscribers to the Exchange...
Humb 11.456 4 If a life prolonged to an advanced
period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is
a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in
knowledge develop themselves...
advances, v. (8)
MoS 4.181 15 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix
the believer to his last position, whilst he as inevitably advances;...
PI 8.66 4 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really
great and pure advances us...
Mem 12.93 5 [Memory] is a scripture written day by
day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which
open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances...
advancing, adj. (12)
Nat 1.77 2 As when the summer comes...the face of the
earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its
ornaments along its path...
Tran 1.357 13 ...church and old book mumble and
ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
Cir 2.320 18 The new position of the advancing man
has all the powers of the old, yet has them all new.
Cir 2.321 20 True conquest is the causing the
calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant
result in a history so large and advancing.
ET5 5.85 25 [The Englishmen's] military science
propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than
that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing
class...
PerF 10.72 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which
hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing
knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
PLT 12.5 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which
hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing
knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
Mem 12.94 16 'T is because of the believed
incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind
with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached
with living in their memory.
advancing, n. (1)
Bhr 6.176 5 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts
statesman's] irritability was a puissant will, firm and advancing...
advancing, v. (14)
LT 1.264 19 ...whatever is affirmative and now
advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
Con 1.299 5 It makes a great difference to your
figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
SR 2.47 26 ...we are...guides, redeemers and
benefactors...advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
Comp 2.125 14 ...to us...resting, not
advancing...this growth comes by shocks.
NER 3.263 27 Following or advancing beyond the ideas
of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already
been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
SwM 4.126 8 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings
which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered
that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing
continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel
appears the youngest...
Civ 7.20 13 In other races [than the Indian and the
negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his
eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret
of cumulative power, of advancing on one's self.
LLNE 10.370 5 ...I am not less aware of that
excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in
science...whose genius is...normal... and so inspires the hope of
steady strength advancing on itself...
FSLN 11.232 7 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole
ground; to hold fast and to advance. Only, one lays the emphasis on
keeping, and the other on advancing.
SMC 11.374 13 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second
Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a
grand charge...
advantage, n. (117)
Nat 1.59 23 The advantage of the ideal theory over
the popular faith is this, that it presents the world in precisely that
view which is most desirable to the mind.
MN 1.197 15 [Nature] has this advantage as a witness,
it cannot be debauched.
MR 1.232 21 ...the general system of our trade...is a
system...not of giving but of taking advantage.
Con 1.312 17 Now can your children be educated, your
labor turned to their advantage...
Tran 1.358 23 ...it may not be without its advantage
that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men...
YA 1.366 26 ...this [inclination to withdraw from
cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and
ornament which labor... could suggest.
YA 1.367 25 A garden has this advantage, that it
makes it indifferent where you live.
YA 1.368 12 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has
the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given
employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
YA 1.368 17 ...the culture of years will never make
the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more
will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a
hole...
Fdsp 2.203 12 I knew a man who...spoke to the
conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight
and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he
attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance
into true relations with him.
Art1 2.357 22 There is no statue like this living
man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual
variety.
Pt1 3.28 19 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont
to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...they were punished
for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
Chr1 3.92 27 The habit of [the natural merchant's]
mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public
advantage;...
Mrs1 3.124 3 In a good lord there must first be a
good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable
advantage of animal spirits.
Nat2 3.195 24 In these checks and
impossibilities...we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.
NR 3.240 1 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit
that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage
so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit
for a base of its triangles.
NER 3.281 9 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would
confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
NER 3.281 11 Let a clear, apprehensive
mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the
poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack...
UGM 4.21 22 I go to Boston or New York and run up and
down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the
recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.
UGM 4.31 13 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent
person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a
lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and
great benefit it is to each speaker...
PPh 4.75 22 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of
the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt
was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the
perfect art of Plato.
SwM 4.111 12 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a
pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to
the day, and tranferred them, with every advantage, from their
forgotten Latin into English...
SwM 4.139 1 Burns, with the wild humor of his
apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the
vindictive theologian.
NMW 4.228 14 It is an advantage, within certain
limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety,
gratitude and generosity;...
NMW 4.239 11 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added
the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
NMW 4.249 14 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies
are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other; a moment
of panic occurs, and that moment must be turned to advantage.
ET1 5.12 18 I took advantage of a pause to say that
[Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
ET2 5.27 15 Watchfulness is the law of the
ship,--watch on watch, for advantage and for life.
ET4 5.47 1 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or
litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches
as far as to the wit.
ET4 5.56 23 The men who have built a ship and
invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much
more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ...
Of course they...can engage [the land-nations] on shore with a
victorious advantage in the retreat.
ET5 5.78 27 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage
is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is
mortifying.
ET5 5.93 18 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial
advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy
invention, breaks out in their race.
ET6 5.114 27 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day
at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing
good [in table-talk].
ET11 5.174 6 There was this advantage of Western over
Oriental nobility, that this was recruited from below.
ET11 5.180 13 [The English lords]...call themselves
after their lands, as if the man represented the country that bred
him;... It has...the advantage of suggesting responsibleness.
ET12 5.199 3 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the
advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of
distinguished scholars.
ET12 5.200 3 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and
gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men,
though I imputed to these English an advantage in their secure and
polished manners.
ET12 5.211 2 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I
believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general
habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
ET12 5.212 1 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country...
ET14 5.247 18 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good.
ET15 5.261 14 A relentless inquisition [the
newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken
advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already
forewarned.
ET16 5.275 20 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I
return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which
the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game
with immense advantage;...
ET17 5.292 17 ...I found much advantage in the
circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.
ET18 5.305 6 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk
with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
Pow 6.56 21 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to
be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
Pow 6.58 5 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his
coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
Ctr 6.141 5 Our arts and tools give to him who can
handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended
his life...
Ctr 6.147 2 ...the phrase to know the world, or to
travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and
superiority.
Ctr 6.156 18 The high advantage of university life is
often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and
fire...
Bhr 6.170 9 Genius invents fine manners, which the
baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a
palace, better the instruction.
Bhr 6.177 26 In some respects the animals excel us.
The birds have a longer sight, beside the advantage by their wings of a
higher observatory.
Bhr 6.179 27 The eyes of men converse as much as
their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no
dictionary...
Bhr 6.183 27 What is the talent of that character so
common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and
drawing-rooms? Manners:...sense to see his advantage, and manners up to
it.
Bhr 6.196 12 We must be as courteous to a man as we
are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good
light.
CbW 6.253 7 They were the fools who cried against
me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm; aye, but the but the
fools have the advantage of numbers...
CbW 6.271 6 The success which will content [men] is a
bargain...an advantage gained over a competitor...and the like.
Elo1 7.68 27 Our Southern people are almost all
speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose
climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths
very wide.
Elo1 7.75 18 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness
sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the
disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most
solid and accumulated public service.
Elo1 7.82 16 The audience [if there be personality in
the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has
to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged
that an advantage might be gained of France...
Elo1 7.84 23 ...by making [the people] wise in that
which he knows, [the orator] has the advantage of the assembly every
moment.
WD 7.184 20 It is a fine fable for the advantage of
character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and
Phoebus.
Clbs 7.228 6 Every time we say a thing in
conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and
deliverly.
Clbs 7.249 22 A principal purpose also is the
hospitality of the club, as a means of receiving a worthy foreigner
with mutual advantage.
Clbs 7.250 2 One likes...to make in an old
acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the
advantage of an inspiring subject.
Cour 7.253 8 ...there are three qualities which
conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1.
Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and
influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it
cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private
advantage.
Cour 7.271 15 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the
record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared
to great advantage.
Suc 7.295 1 ...a few years will show the advantage of
the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of
age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
PI 8.51 25 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this
advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
QO 8.195 5 ...another's thoughts have a certain
advantage with us simply because they are another's.
QO 8.203 21 ...no man suspects the superior merit of
[Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so
much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the
first narrative appears.
Insp 8.288 10 I have found my advantage in going in
summer to a country inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
Grts 8.317 27 Goethe, in his correspondence with his
Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had
the advantage of the Olympian genius.
Dem1 10.20 15 The history of man is a series of
conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
Aris 10.38 7 How sturdy seem to us in the history,
those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly
believe...that an ague or fever...ended them. We give soldiers the same
advantage to-day.
Chr2 10.91 10 There is this eternal advantage to
morals, that...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the
mind.
Supl 10.168 9 ...I do not know any advantage more
conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the
caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
MoL 10.256 3 Sincerity is, in dangerous times,
discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
MoL 10.258 8 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our
advantage, irretrievably.
Schr 10.262 20 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly
overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...which draws by being
beautiful, and not by considerations of advantage, comes in and puts a
new face on the world.
Schr 10.286 27 Let those come [to scholarship]...who
see that there is no choice here, no advantage and no disadvantage
compared with other careers.
Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the
Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the
1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to
greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
LLNE 10.357 5 [Thoreau said] Again and again I
congratulate myself on my so-called poverty, I could not overstate this
advantage.
MMEm 10.398 11 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to
choose are such as are of the most eminent condition both for power and
employment,-not with any design towards her own particular, either of
advantage or curiosity...
Thor 10.453 22 [Surveying] had the advantage for
[Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds...
LS 11.12 15 It appears...in Christian history that
the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words
of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
HDC 11.59 12 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house,
or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of
war give them an overwhelming advantage...
HDC 11.63 2 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to
the English government, concerning the country towns; The
farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter
and cheese.
HDC 11.71 23 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise
one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition,
that those who are unable to purchase them themselves, may have the
advantage of them...
EWI 11.125 6 ...that which the head and the heart
demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest
calculator calls his advantage.
EWI 11.128 4 ...when, in 1789, the first privy
council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the
House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr.
Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took
advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the
report.
EWI 11.128 13 ...England has the advantage of trying
the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the
nuisance exists;...
FSLC 11.205 24 The people cleave to the Union,
because they see their advantage in it...
ACiv 11.304 19 On the climbing scale of progress,
[the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such
advantage as in the last twelvemonth.
SMC 11.355 11 The armies mustered in the North...had
the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher
civilization.
SMC 11.363 21 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans,
they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
FRep 11.519 19 We have seen the great party of
property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away,
for views of party fear or advantage, every principle of humanity...
FRep 11.540 13 We...shall proceed like William
Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
CInt 12.123 15 ...each talent links itself so fast
with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its
obedience...
CInt 12.124 1 ...the very highest advantage which a
young man of good mind can meet is to find such a teacher.
CW 12.177 8 This is my ideal of the power of wealth.
Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry
or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with
every advantage.
Milt1 12.253 9 The opposition to [a masterpiece of
art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of
the work, with the utmost advantage for seeing intimately its power and
beauty.
advantage, v. (1)
NER 3.278 10 We are haunted with a belief that you
[reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to
learn...
advantaged, v. (1)
Elo2 8.129 13 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument
from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers
of eloquence could have done.
advantageous, adj. (4)
SwM 4.140 3 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to
act or to find, but if he purposed to do somewhat not advantageous, it
dissuaded him.
ET18 5.303 3 [The English people's] many-headedness
is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class...
Bty 6.301 13 If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his
deformities will come to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the
whole.
advantageously, adv. (4)
ET11 5.197 27 [Titles of lordship...may be
advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and
Polynesia.
CbW 6.248 15 What quantities of fribbles, paupers,
invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of
both sexes might be advantageously spared!
Boks 7.194 23 With this pilot of his own genius, let
the student read one, or let him read many, he will read
advantageously.
advantages, n. (93)
Nat 1.12 8 Under the general name of commodity, I
rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
DSA 1.125 16 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the
capital mistake of the infant man, who...hopes to derive advantages
from another...
MN 1.217 5 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom,
preferable to all other advantages...
MR 1.236 6 ...when the majority shall admit the
necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law,
state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from
the division of labor...
MR 1.247 12 I do not wish to push my criticism on the
state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel
me...to an absolute isolation from the advantages of civil society.
Con 1.295 14 The war [between Conservatism and
Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every
hour.
Con 1.312 15 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to
insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims, when these
substantial advantages have been secured to you?
Con 1.325 18 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I
quickly come to love the protection of a strong law, because I feel no
title in myself to my advantages.
YA 1.364 18 ...in this country [the railroad]
has...anticipated by fifty years... the working of mines, and other
natural advantages.
YA 1.365 22 ...it now appears that we must estimate
the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages
opened to the human race in this country...
YA 1.394 11 The English have many virtues, many
advantages...
Hist 2.21 25 ...the nomads were the terror of all
those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build
towns.
Comp 2.117 26 Whilst [a great man] sits on the
cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.
Lov1 2.185 12 ...adding up costly
advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all
as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
Fdsp 2.197 5 No advantages, no powers, no gold or
force, can be any match for [a man who stands united with his thought].
Hsm1 2.245 11 In harmony with this delight in
personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their
plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
Chr1 3.98 26 The capitalist does not run every hour
to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the
realm;...
Chr1 3.114 22 In society, high advantages are set
down to the possessor as disadvantages.
Mrs1 3.153 2 ...the advantages which fashion values
are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
Pol1 3.213 20 The wise man [the community] cannot
find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure
the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the
government to one, who may himself select his agents.
NER 3.262 17 ...you must make me feel that you...by
your natural and supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of
[the institution]...
UGM 4.10 4 If we limit ourselves to the first
advantages, a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms,
which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
UGM 4.18 27 If a wise man should appear in our
village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new
consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved
advantages;...
PPh 4.65 27 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first
admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages
of nature.
MoS 4.159 4 ...we ought to secure those advantages
which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
MoS 4.160 4 [The skeptic] is the
considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many
advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and
unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable
popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the
other.
NMW 4.232 18 I have gained some advantages over
superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte
writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my
thoughts.
ET2 5.27 18 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in
sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.
ET3 5.41 26 ...to make these [commercial] advantages
avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from
the heart of the kingdom...
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his
advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local
wealth...
ET11 5.195 17 All advantages given to absolve the
young patrician from intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
ET11 5.198 17 ...the rich Englishman goes over the
world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which
the strongest of his kings could command.
ET12 5.211 13 I should readily concede these
[physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read
better than we, and write better.
ET16 5.275 24 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I
return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that
no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural
advantages of that country...
Pow 6.62 14 The rough-and-ready style which belongs
to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its
advantages.
Wth 6.109 7 A youth coming into the city from his
native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes
he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries
are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by
the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
Wth 6.110 6 Britain, France and Germany...send out,
attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then
their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
Ctr 6.147 3 No doubt, to a man of sense, travel
offers advantages.
Ctr 6.148 6 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to
unite the advantages of town and country life...
Wsp 6.218 11 If your eye is on the eternal...your
opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined
advantages of other men can rival.
CbW 6.275 9 ...we live...not only with the young whom
we are to...clothe with the advantages we have earned...
Bty 6.302 11 ...if a man...can take such advantages
of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate
dominion of beauty.
SS 7.13 14 In society, high advantages are set down
to the individual as disqualifications.
Civ 7.34 12 ...if there be...a country...where the
suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but
barbarous; and no advantages of soil, climate or coast can resist these
suicidal mischiefs.
Art2 7.47 26 ...all the advantages to which I have
adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
Elo1 7.70 10 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in
semi-barbarous ages, when it has some advantages in the simpler habit
of the people, show what it aims at.
DL 7.121 11 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of
Nature and of man! too happy, could they know their advantages.
Farm 7.139 20 It were as false for farmers to use a
wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy. But
if thus pinched on one side, he has compensatory advantages.
SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will
that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages
of freedom...
Elo2 8.111 10 ...all can see and understand the means
by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages
of the ground...
Elo2 8.120 9 ...there are physical advantages,--some
eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
Edc1 10.141 15 ...if circumstances do not permit the
high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
Edc1 10.154 1 The advantages of this system of
emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not
strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
SovE 10.197 13 What is this intoxicating
sentiment...that makes this doll... able to spurn all outward
advantages...
LLNE 10.360 24 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the
feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and
expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart
with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an
attempt...to share the advantages they should attain, with others now
deprived of them.
LLNE 10.365 20 ...in every instance the newcomers [to
Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the
society...
Thor 10.458 6 As soon as [Thoreau] had exhausted the
advantages of that solitude [at Walden Pond], he abandoned it.
War 11.172 3 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a
man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use
the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way,
but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order
went by the board;...
FSLC 11.206 9 The North likes the South well enough,
for it knows its own advantages.
FSLC 11.213 5 Every Englishman...in whatever
barbarous country their forts and factories have been set
up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe.
Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages
into the South.
EdAd 11.383 6 ...the territory [of America] is a
considerable fraction of the planet, and the population neither loath
nor inexpert to use their advantages.
EdAd 11.387 7 ...the right patriotism consists in the
delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate
advantages to the benefit of humanity.
Wom 11.411 22 [Women] should be found in fit
surroundings...with all advantages which the means of man collect...
Wom 11.413 24 The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of
their affection.
SHC 11.429 9 Citizens and Friends: The committee to
whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town
[Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit
to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground, now that the
new avenues make its advantages appear;...
SHC 11.431 24 ...there is no ornament, no
architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters,
where art has been employed only to... bring out the natural
advantages.
ChiE 11.473 27 It is gratifying to know that the
advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and
the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
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...
FRep 11.522 22 I think this levity is a reaction on
the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations
of their condition.
II 12.81 8 ...the real credentials by which
man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate
rank, are intellectual and moral.
CL 12.144 21 We may well enumerate what compensating
advantages we have over that country [Illinois]...
CL 12.163 8 If we should now say a few words on the
advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set
them so high as to make it a religious duty.
Bost 12.198 9 No external advantages...can bestow
that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind
accustomed to celestial conversation.
Milt1 12.256 24 For the delineation of this heroic
image of man, Milton enjoyed singular advantages.
Milt1 12.259 23 Among the advantages of his foreign
travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed
to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such
extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
ACri 12.301 7 I fell in with one of the founders [of
New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the
capabilities...
advent, n. (8)
MN 1.196 26 ...this invincible hope of a more
adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
OS 2.280 21 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And
here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to
speak with a worthier, loftier strain of that advent.
NER 3.283 3 ...the man...whose advent men and events
prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a
higher life...
Civ 7.33 4 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in
modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are
casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
Advent of Christ, n. (1)
adventitious, adj. (3)
Art2 7.46 1 One consideration more exhausts I believe
all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
This is the adventitious.
Art2 7.46 18 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be
felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than
in the poem.
EurB 12.376 1 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and
Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand
adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
adventure, n. (14)
LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting
this ancient domain [of conservatism] to embark on seas of adventure,
who engages our interest.
Hist 2.22 22 The antagonism of the two tendencies
[Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals, as the
love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate.
Hist 2.27 10 The student interprets...the days of
maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature
experiences of his own.
GoW 4.281 6 The German intellect wants...the fine
practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...
Pow 6.55 12 Where the arteries hold their blood, is
courage and adventure possible.
Insp 8.280 18 A man is spent by his work, starved,
prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and
wakes...keen for daring adventure.
Grts 8.316 14 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors
and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our
household life are wanting...
HDC 11.35 26 A march of a number of families with
their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for
those who were new to the country...a formidable adventure.
HDC 11.39 6 The majestic summits of Wachusett and
Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure
westward.
EdAd 11.387 24 Bad as it is, this freedom [in
America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art,
which is the last and endless end of Columbus's adventure.
Bost 12.201 2 There is a Columbia of thought and art
and character, which is the last and endless sequel of Columbus's
adventure.
adventurer, n. (7)
Con 1.310 27 ...in this institution of
credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and
tools and stock to the young adventurer.
ET5 5.77 8 Nobody landed on this spellbound island
[England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough
weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
Wsp 6.211 13 ...if an adventurer go through all the
forms, procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same
arts as we detest in the house-thief,-- the same gentlemen who agree to
discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and
marks of respect to the public one;...
PerF 10.84 16 Things work to their ends...and will
certainly defeat any adventurer who fights against this ordination.
adventurers, n. (10)
LT 1.284 21 I have seen the same gloom on the brow
even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived
deepest and with most success into active life.
YA 1.383 9 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be
made by these first adventurers [the Communities]...
YA 1.385 18 There really seems a progress towards
such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these
natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private
adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
NMW 4.233 17 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled,
like common adventurers, by the splendor of his own means.
CbW 6.255 19 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It
was a rush and a scramble of needy adventurers...
Boks 7.195 15 There has already been a scrutiny and
choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or
political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your
eye. All these are young adventurers...
FRep 11.516 4 ...when the adventurers [to America]
have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money
they can spare to bring their friends.
adventures, n. (12)
Hist 2.30 6 One after another [the advancing man]
comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...
ET6 5.107 25 ...with the national tendency to sit
fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house]
comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of...trophies of the
adventures and exploits of the family.
Elo1 7.70 15 It is said that the Khans or
story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a
controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours
attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
Elo1 7.71 16 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of
the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing
brilliant opportunities to his talent?
Elo1 7.77 16 The newspapers, every week, report the
adventures of some impudent swindler...
Clbs 7.247 4 [Manufacturers, merchants and
shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich
store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have
been seeking in vain for years...
PerF 10.81 11 See in a circle of school-girls one
with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that
she is never alone...
Thor 10.481 3 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired
his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes, and to
hear his adventures.
SMC 11.356 27 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of
adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...
adventurous, adj. (3)
LLNE 10.350 3 Attractive Industry would speedily
subdue, by adventurous scientific and persistent tillage, the
pestilential tracts;...
adverb, n. (2)
ACri 12.292 1 Some of these [Americanisms] are
odious. Some as an adverb...considerable as an adverb for much;...
adverbs, n. (1)
PLT 12.37 20 ...Perception is the armed eye. A
civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek.
His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.
adversaries, n. (2)
GSt 10.504 11 [George Stearns's] examination before
the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is
a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in
which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the
bitterest adversaries.
EWI 11.100 3 ...whether by the wisdom of its friends,
or by the folly of its adversaries;...[emancipation] goes forward.
adversary, n. (8)
MoS 4.182 25 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in
[the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the
adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
Clbs 7.237 25 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what plain
lies between the gods and Surtur, their adversary...
Cour 7.254 25 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes
of men, knows how to come at their end; whispers to this friend, argues
down that adversary...
FRep 11.530 18 ...the great interests of
mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
Bost 12.203 21 ...there is always [in
Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor
with but cannot silence. Some new light... some adversary of the death
penalty;...
Milt1 12.251 2 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence
of the English People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute
this adversary [Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.
adverse, adj. (7)
Pol1 3.221 23 ...there are now men...to whom no
weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear
impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each
other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
PPh 4.66 25 Socrates declares that if some have grown
wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends
not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be
benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
ET18 5.299 11 ...[the English] have earned their
vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
PC 8.231 25 The great are not tender at
being...insulted. Such only feel themselves in adverse fortune.
Plu 10.306 2 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against
Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a
rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the
day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
Plu 10.308 23 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism,
which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the
Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
JBS 11.280 5 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John
Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which, in spite of adverse
accidents, should secure, one year with another, an honest reward...
adversities, n. (2)
PI 8.59 14 Another bard in like tone says,--I am
possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is
called the 'Helper'; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief,
and all adversities.
Let 12.403 20 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce
have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.
adversity, n. (4)
Tran 1.352 7 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in
their own spirit with queries which acquaint them with all adversity...
ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too
much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even
adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
ET19 5.312 24 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood...that in prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish, but
in adversity they were grand.
advert, v. (1)
adverted, v. (2)
ShP 4.205 1 Beside some important illustration of the
history of the English stage, to which I have adverted, [the Shakspeare
Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings
in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
Art2 7.47 27 ...all the advantages to which I have
adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
adverting, v. (2)
AmS 1.106 9 ...I have already shown the ground of my
hope, in adverting to the doctrine that man is one.
MLit 12.327 8 ...without adverting to absolute
standards, we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
advertise, v. (2)
ShP 4.217 20 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels
to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his
hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the
municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns,
Very superior pyrotechny this evening?
advertised, v. (7)
ET7 5.124 21 ...when the Rochester rappings began to
be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in
the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all
somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the
number of his note should have the money.
Elo1 7.63 26 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in
Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
CL 12.147 15 When Nero advertised for a new luxury, a
walk in the woods should have been offered.
advertisement, n. (6)
Pol1 3.213 27 Every man's nature is a sufficient
advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
DL 7.120 17 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious
comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready,
Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
Suc 7.290 23 We countenance each other in this life
of show, puffing, advertisement and manufacture of public opinion;...
Suc 7.291 11 ...I think we shall agree in my first
rule for success,--that we shall drop the brag and the advertisement...
EurB 12.365 3 It was a brighter day than we have
often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a
single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by
Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
advertisements, n. (1)
Comp 2.124 20 The changes which break up at short
intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose
law is growth.
Advertiser, Boston, n. (1)
FSLC 11.197 9 Philadelphia...in this auction of the
rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And
the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same
course on the people of Massachusetts.
advertises, v. (4)
MN 1.218 27 Genius...advertises us that it flows out
of a deeper source than the foregoing silence...
Chr1 3.106 6 ...nature advertises me in such
[nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be
democratized.
SwM 4.137 15 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's
parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the
day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.
Swedenborg confounds us not less with...his own books, which he
advertises among the angels.
SMC 11.363 23 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans,
they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes.
It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second
floor...
advertising, adj. (1)
advice, n. (17)
SL 2.139 7 [The soul] has so infused its strong
enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
Exp 3.82 2 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come
out of that, as the first condition of advice.
NR 3.238 12 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she
were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful
advice.
ShP 4.190 15 The Church has reared [a great man]
amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music
gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
ET1 5.17 8 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle]
had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find
in that language what he wanted.
Elo2 8.132 20 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...
QO 8.183 22 In our own college days we remember
hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
Grts 8.315 2 [Napoleon's] advice to his
brother...was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.
SlHr 10.438 6 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw
to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by
friends. He rejected the advice...
Thor 10.460 24 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most
houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition
and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people
to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him
word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not
send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.
HDC 11.46 16 ...Concord and the other plantations
found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the
same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston, and sure of
advice and aid, on every emergency.
Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take
[women's] first advice, not the second...
MAng1 12.225 1 After an active and successful service
to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a
treachery that was ripening within the walls. He communicated it to the
government with his advice upon it;...
AgMs 12.360 19 [Farmers] could not afford to follow
such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
advices, n. (2)
Grts 8.314 27 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to
me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
ACiv 11.300 8 If the American people hesitate, it is
not for want of warning or advices.
advisable, adj. (1)
Thor 10.460 23 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most
houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition
and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people
to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him
word that it was premature, and not advisable.
advise, v. (4)
PI 8.1 7 ...From blue mount and headland dim/
Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of
heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer
bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
advised, v. (12)
MoS 4.153 19 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther
had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with
fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
NMW 4.243 2 In 1814, when advised to rely on the
higher classes, Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only
nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
ET1 5.4 8 ...my narrow and desultory reading had
inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I
suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe, when I was
ill and was advised to travel, it was mainly the attraction of these
persons.
Wth 6.118 2 The eldest son must inherit the [English]
manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to
breed him for the Church...
Wsp 6.227 26 Among the nuns in a convent not far from
Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of
inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the
wonderful powers shown by her novice.
Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his
melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre
and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
PerF 10.79 16 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded
him, advised him to give up the work...
HDC 11.46 3 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the
freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once
in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
FSLC 11.207 8 ...shall we, as we are advised on all
hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery
lie by? I fear not.
Milt1 12.265 22 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes
the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that
he does it at the cost of sight.
advisedly, adv. (1)
Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an
ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly,
the benign Providence...
adviser, n. (3)
SR 2.50 15 I remember an answer which when quite
young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...
advises, v. (5)
ET7 5.118 19 The Duke of Wellington...advises the
French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English
officer.
CbW 6.245 18 The lawyer advises the client, and tells
his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
Prch 10.235 24 A wise man advises that we should see
to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every
day...
Milt1 12.266 24 [Milton] advises that in country
places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be
maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
AgMs 12.361 14 The Commissioner [Henry Colman]
advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
advising, v. (1)
advocacy, n. (1)
GoW 4.269 22 ...how can [the writer] be
honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad
government...
advocate, n. (8)
Wsp 6.206 21 King Richard taunts God with forsaking
him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn
and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art
mine.
CbW 6.246 3 The judge...hopes he has done justice and
given satisfaction to the community; but is only an advocate after all.
Clbs 7.240 15 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play
into an ardent advocate?
Elo2 8.118 3 If the performance of the advocate
reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the
professions...
Elo2 8.130 21 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of
character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an
illustrious advocate.
LLNE 10.351 20 The ability and earnestness of the
advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and
respect.
Let 12.395 12 Another objection [to Communities]
seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.
advocate, v. (1)
WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do
any literary or professional feat, as, to...advocate a cause...for
money;...
advocates, n. (10)
LT 1.270 25 ...each of these aspirations and attempts
of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration
of its advocates...
NMW 4.228 8 The advocates of liberty and of progress
are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
Elo2 8.112 14 There are not only the wants of the
intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also
the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of
manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc. These must have their
advocates of each improvement and each interest.
EWI 11.106 9 ...[Granville Sharpe] so filled the
heads and hearts of his advocates that when he brought the case of
George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish
decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.135 24 The lives of the advocates [of
emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness...
FSLC 11.200 8 ...it is cheering to behold what
champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor
black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates
of freedom were inspired.
ACiv 11.304 12 I shall not attempt to unfold the
details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great
ability by several of its leading advocates.
EdAd 11.393 22 We rely on the talents and industry of
good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth, which is
multiplying and educating advocates for itself and friends for us.
II 12.68 1 Objection and loud denial not less prove
the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it
finds.
Aegean Sea, n. (1)
Edc1 10.145 22 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus, in the Aegean Sea, had seen a Turk point with his staff to
some carved work on the corner of a stone...
Aegina, Greece, n. (3)
Boks 7.189 8 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The
shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his
passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
MoL 10.254 6 ...now not only all the statues of
bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples
themselves...
aei, adv. (2)
ET1 5.23 23 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems
as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a
truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
Aemilius, n. (1)
Aeolian, adj. (7)
Nat2 3.175 3 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a
hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
Insp 8.287 26 Did you never observe, says Gray, while
rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a
shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp?
Edc1 10.129 18 As every wind draws music out of the
Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's]
mind.
CInt 12.130 2 My friend, stretch a few threads over a
common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it
says of times and the heart of Nature.
Trag 12.406 11 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind
in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.
Aeolus, n. (1)
ET16 5.283 2 There is also some curious coincidence
[to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus,
who married Nais.
Aeolus's, n. (1)
Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man] realizes the
fable of Aeolus's bag...
aeons, n. (3)
Wth 6.83 19 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/
(In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/
Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
Wsp 6.239 10 'T is a higher thing to confide that if
it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this
conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and
millenniums and aeons.
WD 7.180 10 ...this curious, peering, itinerant,
imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its
face. The world has no such landscape, the aeons of history no such
hour...
aequat, v. (1)
Fdsp 2.211 16 Crimen quos inquinat, aequat.
aerial, adj. (5)
Hist 2.21 7 The mountain of granite [the Gothic
cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and
delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of
vegetable beauty.
MoS 4.160 18 A theory of Saint John, and
non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
GoW 4.272 9 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one
who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies,
sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in
which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry,
astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial
and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
PLT 12.13 23 The adepts value only the pure geometry,
the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and
abutments of pure reason.
Bost 12.183 10 An aerial fluid streams all day, all
night, from every flower and leaf...
aerolites, n. (1)
ShP 4.208 13 Read the antique documents extricated,
analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read
one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences,--aerolites...and tell me if
they match;...
aeronaut, n. (2)
ET10 5.168 11 The machinery has proved, like the
balloon, unmanageable, and flies away with the aeronaut.
WD 7.161 19 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,
the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
aery, adj. (1)
PPo 8.256 3 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery
pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
Aeschines, n. (1)
Elo1 7.85 3 ...the splendid weapons which went to the
equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
Aeschylus, n. (17)
Hist 2.14 5 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a
cow, offends the imagination;...
Int 2.344 16 If Aeschylus be that man he is taken
for, he has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of
Europe for a thousand years.
Exp 3.82 13 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of
Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the
threshold.
Chr1 3.106 17 How captivating is [children's]
devotion to their favorite books, whether Aeschylus, Dante, Shakspeare,
or Scott...
Boks 7.198 3 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...
PI 8.65 19 In the world of letters how few commanding
oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek
Gnomic poets...
PI 8.67 21 We are a little civil, it must be owned,
to Homer and Aeschylus...
PC 8.213 19 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor
Aeschylus...
LLNE 10.363 14 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in
Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
Thor 10.475 11 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and
the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no
good one.
Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was
more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances,
up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for
a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
CInt 12.129 24 Bring the insight, and [the deep
observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes
of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
WSL 12.341 11 When we pronounce the names of Homer
and Aeschylus;... we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure
accessible to human nature.
WSL 12.346 17 [Landor] loves Pindar, Aeschylus,
Euripides...
WSL 12.347 14 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of
Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.
Aeschyluses, n. (1)
Aesir, n. (1)
Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but
himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son
Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant
[Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the
fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...
Aesop, n. (10)
Hist 2.30 7 One after another [the advancing man]
comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...
Pt1 3.31 22 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of
common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
PPh 4.75 13 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of
the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
ET9 5.151 19 Aesop and Montaigne, Cervantes and Saadi
are men of the world;...
CbW 6.261 4 The first-class minds, Aesop,
Socrates...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
CbW 6.261 25 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know
the realities of human life.
PI 8.3 12 The restraining grace of common sense is
the mark of all the valid minds,--of Aesop, Aristotle...
Aris 10.49 1 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold
for, or Aesop...
ALin 11.333 19 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had
ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become
mythological in a very few years, like Aesop or Pilpay...
Aesop's Fables, n. (1)
ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian
Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work
of single men.
aesthetic, adj. (10)
Tran 1.354 25 [The moral movements of the time] have
a liberal, even an aesthetic spirit.
ET18 5.303 6 [The English people's] many-headedness
is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are
always the source of letters and science. Hence the vast plenty of
their aesthetic production.
Wth 6.118 19 A farm is a good thing when it...does
not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main
link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer
leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the
cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
Ctr 6.148 5 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to
unite the advantages of town and country life...
LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a
well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they
were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door
opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so
ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
ACri 12.288 25 What traveller has not listened to the
vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I
remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North
Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college
yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they took
notes...
Let 12.397 10 Regrets and Bohemian castles and
aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...
Let 12.397 14 Especially to one importunate
correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic
village.
aesthetical, adj. (1)
NR 3.235 12 It seems not worth while to execute with
too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
aeternitatem, n. (1)
CInt 12.131 17 When the great painter was told by a
dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he
replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
aether, n. (1)
PPh 4.56 7 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether
and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
afar, adv. (6)
Mrs1 3.147 2 The theory of society supposes the
existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats]. It divines
afar off their coming.
Pol1 3.215 13 A man who cannot be acquainted with
me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go
to this or that whimsical end...
Wsp 6.238 11 The great class...the rapt, the lost,
the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to
the ages, and are heard from afar.
II 12.68 3 One often sees in the embittered acuteness
of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
affable, adj. (3)
ALin 11.332 13 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good
nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the
innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any
one else.
Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent,
relates that his deportment was affable...
affair, n. (37)
MN 1.206 17 ...when the genius comes...it is...the
power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.
Prd1 2.225 22 ...the tax, and an affair to be
transacted with a man without heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
Prd1 2.229 4 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil
much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who
deal with them.
Nat2 3.184 20 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for
the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the
balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers
were right in making much of it...
NR 3.226 15 ...the audience, who have only to hear
and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and
unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
NR 3.246 3 ...the least of [our earth's] rational
children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though
as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
UGM 4.6 2 A main difference betwixt men is, whether
they attend their own affair or not.
UGM 4.6 4 [Man's] own affair, though impossible to
others, he can open with celerity...
UGM 4.8 14 Mind thy affair, says the spirit...
GoW 4.262 23 The gardener saves every slip and seed
and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less
does the writer attend his affair.
GoW 4.271 5 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to
be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
ET4 5.70 16 [The English] walk and ride as fast as
they can, their head bent forward, as if urged on some pressing affair.
ET5 5.87 2 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous
and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand;...
ET6 5.105 4 ...not that [the Englishman] is trained
to neglect the eyes of his neighbors,--he is really occupied with his
own affair and does not think of them.
ET11 5.194 25 The education of a soldier is a simpler
affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
ET12 5.202 23 ...the committee charged with the
affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected
three thousand pounds...
ET14 5.239 5 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or
of meta-chemistry;...
Pow 6.59 22 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the
facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair
of presence of mind...
Ctr 6.161 12 ...a wise man who knows not only what
Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he
deals with to a certain majesty.
Bhr 6.184 4 [The successful man of the world] knows
that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap
secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any
affair...
Wsp 6.210 22 It is believed by well-dressed
proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper
and lower mandibles.
Wsp 6.233 26 If [the faithful student] is insulted,
he can be insulted; all his affair is not to insult.
Elo1 7.86 17 ...it is the certainty with which,
indifferently in any affair that is well handled, the truth stares us
in the face...that makes the interest of a court-room to the
intelligent spectator.
Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the
question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common
arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
PI 8.31 27 ...[men of the world] admit the general
truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the
statute.
SovE 10.194 5 [Good men] do not see that He [God],
that It, is there, next and within;...the affair of affairs;...
Prch 10.235 7 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes
such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the
same...flanked...by the resolute, simply by minding their own affair.
EzRy 10.386 23 Some of those around me will remember
one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr.
Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of
leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor,
as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for
you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will
pray myself.
HDC 11.49 11 It is the consequence of this
institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam,
hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population
of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
HDC 11.67 25 From the appearance of the article in
the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the
Representative any instructions about any important affair to be
transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace
of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike
spirit...
AgMs 12.358 15 I still remember with some shame that
in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund
Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been
looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
Let 12.404 18 A literature...is the affair of a power
which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to
behold...
affairs, n. (118)
Nat 1.32 14 Whilst we use this grand cipher to
expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not
yet put it to its use...
LT 1.273 18 What does [the wealthy man]...but
resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he
may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
YA 1.386 4 If any man has a talent...for
administering difficult affairs...let him in the county-town...put up
his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
YA 1.390 13 We have our own affairs, our own genius,
which chains each to his proper work.
Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent,
good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Prd1 2.224 15 ...the order of the world and the
distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception
of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in
events and in affairs, of low and high...disappear when nature is used
as a symbol.
Exp 3.73 22 Our life seems...not for the affairs on
which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast-flowing vigor.
Chr1 3.108 16 Character...must not...be judged from
glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
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.
NER 3.259 25 ...I will omit this conjugating [of
Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.
NMW 4.246 4 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving
and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
GoW 4.271 20 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when
Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell
the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to
prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of
man;...
GoW 4.286 21 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that
came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
ET4 5.51 4 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of
thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over
the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...
ET6 5.102 22 ...[the English] hate the practical
cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
ET6 5.113 8 [The English] value themselves...on
conciseness and going to the point, in private affairs.
ET7 5.120 2 Wellington discovered the ruin of
Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
ET8 5.139 17 No nation was ever so rich in able men
[as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose
abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the
greatest affairs of state;...
ET8 5.141 13 ...[The English] think humanely on the
affairs of France, of Turkey...
ET11 5.195 4 ...[English nobles] were expert in every
species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down
to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have
trained their sons for civil affairs.
ET12 5.208 2 ...[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.
ET15 5.268 3 Of two men of equal ability, the one who
does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will
have the higher judicial wisdom.
ET15 5.271 10 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will
convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of
each turn of public affairs.
Wth 6.92 26 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful
to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the
determined youth...gave fame by his sense and energy to the name and
affairs of the Tittleton snuff-box factory.
Ctr 6.160 24 The orator who has once seen things in
their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground...
Bhr 6.187 23 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy
of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy
ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be
entertained with large leisures, but contrariwise should be balked by
importunate affairs.
Ill 6.321 10 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a
shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
Elo1 7.70 7 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer
fast; steals away...his memory, that he shall not remember the most
pressing affairs;...
Elo1 7.75 17 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness
sometimes manifested by trained statesmen, with large experience of
public affairs, when they observe the disproportionate advantage
suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public
service.
Elo1 7.89 23 By applying the habits of a higher style
of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces
beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself
that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not
wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The
history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish
tragic examples of this fatal force.
Elo1 7.92 13 In transcendent eloquence, there was
ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the
cause he pleads...
WD 7.171 25 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should
find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched
above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now,
as I trudge the streets on my affairs.
Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to
European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived
at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
Clbs 7.244 25 The man of thought...the administrator
skilful in affairs... whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is
wishing to be found.
Cour 7.264 16 Courage is equality to the problem, in
affairs...or in action;...
Cour 7.268 7 There is a courage of a merchant in
dealing with his trade, by which dangerous turns of affairs are met and
prevailed over.
OA 7.331 14 Much wider is spread the pleasure which
old men take in completing their secular affairs...
PI 8.48 23 ...the people liked an overpowering
jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and
perfect in their daily affairs.
SA 8.102 5 I have been often impressed at our country
town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five
or six or eight or ten men, who...so easily handle the affairs of the
town.
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;...
SA 8.104 2 If [a people is] occupied in its own
affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the
notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
PPo 8.262 3 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be
all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/
But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a
thousand./
Insp 8.286 15 ...it is a primal rule to defend your
morning...and...to relieve it from any jangle of affairs...
Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful
life-the administration of large affairs...is prone to develop narrow
and special talent;...
Imtl 8.339 9 Every really able man...a man of large
affairs, an inventor... considers his work...as far short of what it
should be.
Dem1 10.15 19 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in
any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of
commerce and affairs...
Dem1 10.23 12 ...in a particular circle and knot of
affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of
Nature and time.
Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs
generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.
Chr2 10.92 27 ...justice is the application of this
good of the whole to the affairs of each one;...
Edc1 10.141 23 ...the way to knowledge and power has
ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and
possessions;...
SovE 10.193 27 ...[good men] have accepted the notion
of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain
wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where
their intelligence leaves them...
SovE 10.194 5 [Good men] do not see that He [God],
that It, is there, next and within;...the affair of affairs;...
SovE 10.197 3 ...I have never until now dreamed that
this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not
commendable.
Prch 10.232 18 We shall not very long have any part
or lot in this earth, in whose affairs we so hotly mix...
Prch 10.235 26 A wise man advises that we should see
to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day,
amid the crowd of affairs and the noise of trifles.
Prch 10.236 9 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let
us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst...our
hands work in a small knot of affairs.
Schr 10.261 2 The Athenians took an oath, on a
certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the
olive the bounds of Attica.
Schr 10.272 16 Union Pacific stock is not quite
private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in
that also. Have we less interest...in manual work or in household
affairs;...
Plu 10.295 22 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put
this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the
breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims
for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
Plu 10.298 13 Plutarch was...a self-respecting,
amiable man, who knew how to better a good education...by devotion to
affairs private and public;...
Plu 10.298 23 A man of society, of
affairs;...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
Plu 10.312 3 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living
with men of business and emulating their address in affairs...learned
to temper his philosophy with facts.
GSt 10.505 3 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's
interest in the public affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the
uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
HDC 11.64 20 From the beginning to the middle of the
eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the
tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord], either in church or in
civil affairs.
HDC 11.70 11 ...we think it our duty, at this
critical time of our public affairs, to return our hearty thanks to the
town of Boston...
HDC 11.70 16 ...we think it our duty...to return our
hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope, should the state of
our public affairs require it, that they will still remain watchful and
persevering;...
HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met
in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public
affairs...
LVB 11.95 25 A man [Van Buren] with your experience
in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of
opposition to the moral sentiment.
FSLC 11.187 20 If our resistance to this law [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right. This is not
meddling with other people's affairs: this is hindering other people
from meddling with us.
FSLN 11.223 7 [Webster]...took very naturally a
leading part in large private and in public affairs;...
FSLN 11.226 17 ...a ghastly result of all those years
of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the
foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that
Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their
conscience and become kidnappers for it.
EPro 11.318 5 ...when we see how the great stake
which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every
European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the
deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
ALin 11.337 10 The ancients believed in a serene and
beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
SMC 11.360 8 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms,
shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of...
EdAd 11.388 3 We have not been able to escape our
national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the
elections and in public affairs.
Wom 11.414 7 There is much that tends to give [women]
a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from
affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often
inflict, aids this.
Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women]
a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from
affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often
inflict, aids this.
Wom 11.417 26 There are plenty of people who believe
women to be... incapable of interest in affairs.
Wom 11.418 2 There are plenty of people who believe
that the world is governed by men of dark complexions, that affairs are
only directed by such...
Wom 11.421 15 For their want of intimate knowledge of
affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at
any town-meeting which I ever attended.
Shak1 11.447 17 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored
compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to
the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his
genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an
absolute bar to his presence with us.
Shak1 11.450 20 ...it was not history, courts and
affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons...
FRep 11.518 9 Hitherto government has been that of
the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to
resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the
government...of an inferior class of professional politicians,
who...win the posts of power and give their direction to affairs.
FRep 11.524 26 ...we know, all over this country, men
of integrity, capable of action and of affairs...
PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in
Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In
debate, in legislature, not less in action; in war or in affairs, alike
daring and effective.
CL 12.157 1 In happy hours, I think all affairs may
be wisely postponed for this walking.
Bost 12.183 8 ...it was remarked that insulary people
are versatile and addicted to change, both in religious and secular
affairs.
EurB 12.367 18 Early in life, at a crisis it is said
in his private affairs, [Wordsworth] made his election between assuming
and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a
position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly
genius;...
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