Affect to Agassiz
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
affect, v. (37)
Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward
phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power
to affect us.
Nat 1.59 1 It appears that motion...and religion, all
tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
LE 1.156 6 ...when events occur of great import, I
count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as
if I were counting nations.
LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and
affect us as the insane do.
Tran 1.346 19 We affect to dwell with our friends in
their absence, but we do not;...
OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks
who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
Gts 3.165 1 I fear to breathe any treason against the
majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we
must not affect to prescribe.
Nat2 3.178 1 Literature, poetry, science are the
homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature], concerning which no
sane man can affect an indifference or incuriosity.
UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire,
I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
SwM 4.123 25 What earnestness and weightiness [in
Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man
in the universe could affect to scorn.
MoS 4.185 27 ...throughout history, heaven seems to
affect low and poor means.
ShP 4.209 5 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded
convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every
heart...on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open,
which affect their fortunes;...
ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of
visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too
transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery
of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
Wsp 6.238 6 The great class, they who affect our
imagination...suggest what they cannot execute.
CbW 6.263 19 In dealing with the drunken, we do not
affect to be drunk.
Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for
leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the
permission reluctantly...
Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you
like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure
te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
PC 8.219 17 The artist has always the masters in his
eye, though he affect to flout them.
PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians]
affect short poems and epigrams.
Aris 10.52 19 Genius...the power to affect the
Imagination...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
Aris 10.55 12 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men
admire and which men not noble affect.
Prch 10.232 8 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance
or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our
countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
LS 11.19 3 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
War 11.173 4 We are affected...by the appearance of a
few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and
virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore
their name is a flourish of trumpets. They, at least, affect us as a
reality.
Koss 11.399 7 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and
your genius to the task. We do not, therefore, affect to thank you.
PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that
completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
II 12.67 25 ...when the eye cannot detect the
juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion,
simply by the failure to affect the spirit.
PPr 12.387 21 ...the sun and stars affect us only
grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say,
Is that all?
affectation, n. (10)
Exp 3.61 11 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without
affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to
extraordinary merit.
ET17 5.295 7 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right
poetic genius, though with some affectation.
DL 7.111 1 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his
honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all
affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.
Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school
which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
CL 12.157 22 Every acquisition we make in the science
of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what
accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of
connoisseurship.
affected, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.430 5 If one could choose, and without crime
be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away
by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and
crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy...
affected, v. (28)
Nat 1.38 6 The whole character and fortune of the
individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the
understanding;...
Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with
the Ideal theory...as if it affected the stability of nature.
Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts
not affected by the illusions of sense...
Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume
that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should
achieve the like;...
ET4 5.73 4 William the Conqueror being, says Camden,
better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and
punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
Wsp 6.203 7 Men as naturally make a state, or a
church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be
nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the
same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the
position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of
the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Elo1 7.88 4 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a
task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was
there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his
trifling talk nowise affected...
PI 8.44 7 This force of representation so plants [the
poet's] figures before him that he...is affected by them as by persons.
Comc 8.161 18 If the essence of the Comic be the
contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance,
there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
PC 8.211 17 The correlation of forces and the
polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic
inspirations.
PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was
almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by
distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not
a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the
upper class in the time of Charles II....
Chr2 10.109 16 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should
lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by
which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded
they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
LLNE 10.336 23 ...the religious nature in man was not
affected by these errors in his understanding.
EzRy 10.385 2 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope
I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this
Providence...and to be suitably affected with it.
MMEm 10.403 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep
sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none
the less, whilst she deplored and affected to denounce him.
MMEm 10.417 21 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson]
beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with
hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.
War 11.172 23 We are affected...by the appearance of
a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...
FSLC 11.180 5 There are men who are as sure indexes
of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the
air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they
snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are
more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as
painfully affected.
EPro 11.318 9 ...it became every day more apparent
what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the
decision of the President [Lincoln]...
HCom 11.341 6 ...in these last years all opinions
have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which
Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the
children of this country...
SMC 11.362 5 [George Prescott] never remits his care
of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them
cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society
which is formed in the camp. I have not had a man drunk, or affected by
liquor, since we came here.
CL 12.142 23 There is also an effect [of walking] on
beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes
affected powerfully in this respect.
affectedly, adv. (1)
Nat2 3.171 12 ...ever like a dear friend and brother
when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of
nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
affecting, adj. (14)
Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting
analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
Prd1 2.229 25 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery (the
only great affecting picture which I have seen) is the quietest and
most passionless piece you can imagine;...
MoS 4.175 2 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin
the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our
nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my
imagination;...
Pow 6.81 10 I know no more affecting lesson to our
busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories
with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
SovE 10.214 2 ...it seems as if whatever is most
affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our
losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and,
one might say, superhuman.
LS 11.20 1 ...I choose that my remembrances of
[Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.
HDC 11.33 1 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in
an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
EWI 11.140 11 Not the least affecting part of this
history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the
old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
SMC 11.363 26 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, and their own printed record is a proud and affecting narrative.
CPL 11.501 3 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts
of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and
affecting events.
FRep 11.531 1 Our national flag is not
affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United
States, but some...caucus;...
MAng1 12.231 8 ...is there not something affecting in
the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety
years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into
progressive execution...
affecting, v. (7)
YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly
Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses
and ages.
SR 2.82 8 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a
deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by
anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering
levee;...
DL 7.107 8 The events that occur [in the home] are
more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates
and academies.
PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery,
the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of
social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
Thor 10.458 16 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his
opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the
company.
affection, n. (85)
Nat 1.22 20 The intellect searches out the absolute
order of things...without the colors of affection.
Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and
providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Nat 1.46 8 We are associated in adolescent and adult
life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of
the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from
cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and
ornament which... affection for a man's home could suggest.
Lov1 2.172 11 ...what fastens attention, in the
intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two
parties?
Lov1 2.174 21 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a
parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty]
extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and
hallowed.
Lov1 2.183 14 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes
into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection
of human nature...
Lov1 2.186 14 ...that which drew [lovers] to each
other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are
there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to
attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
This repairs the wounded affection.
Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this
human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
OS 2.271 10 ...when [the soul] flows through [man's]
affection, it is love.
Cir 2.307 12 If [my friend] were high enough to
slight me, then could I... rise by my affection to new heights.
Pt1 3.15 19 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and
cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers,
grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their
choice of life and not in their choice of words.
Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking
from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade
this religion.
NR 3.226 18 When I meet a pure intellectual force or
a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
UGM 4.5 15 Our affection towards others creates a
sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
UGM 4.16 18 Genius...by acquainting us with new
fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
SwM 4.114 27 Every particular idea of man, and every
affection...is an image and effigy of him.
SwM 4.115 1 Every particular idea of man, and...every
smallest part of his affection, is an image and effigy of him.
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.
ET5 5.99 16 Is it the smallness of the country, or is
it the pride and affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or
responsibleness...
ET5 5.99 26 These private, reserved, mute family-men
[of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this
strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
ET7 5.117 21 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation
makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the
Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
ET9 5.151 11 ...whenever an abatement of their power
is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to
rely.
ET13 5.218 1 From this slow-grown [English] church
important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a
direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
F 6.29 18 ...insight is not will, nor is affection
will.
F 6.47 18 ...when a man is the victim of his fate,
has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to
rally on his relation to the Universe...
Wth 6.113 10 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure
affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
Ctr 6.135 4 ...if a man seeks a companion who can
look at objects for their own sake and without affection or
self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that
satisfaction;...
Ctr 6.158 19 Bonaparte, like Caesar...could look at
every object for itself, without affection.
Bty 6.283 25 ...we prize very humble utilities, a
prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value,
his intellect, his affection...
Ill 6.316 3 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region
of affection...
SS 7.6 20 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the
universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an
extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live
consociated...
Clbs 7.225 10 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the
bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice
in the material world.
Clbs 7.228 1 Conversation is the laboratory and
workshop of the student. The affection or sympathy helps.
Clbs 7.245 2 The man of thought...the man of manners
and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing
to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social
skill to the daylight in your company and affection;...
OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of
intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral
sentiment.
PI 8.16 14 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an
external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
PI 8.69 3 Vexatious to find poets, who are by
excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of
intellect and of affection.
SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he
might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried
ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of
life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart...
SA 8.107 4 Any other affection between men than this
geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of
materialism.
Dem1 10.9 8 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose
turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same
affection.
Aris 10.34 12 If one thinks of the interest which all
men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last
importance to the imagination and affection...certainly, if culture, if
laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it
would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were
taken...
Plu 10.310 25 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying
that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also
the inclination to society and affection to the State...
LLNE 10.325 20 It is not easy to date these eras of
activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself
remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed a war
between intellect and affection;...
HDC 11.45 6 I esteem it the happiness of this country
that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety
and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
HDC 11.76 27 ...the eye of affection and veneration
follows you [veterans of the battle of Concord].
HDC 11.77 11 William Emerson, the pastor [of
Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people...
ACiv 11.297 20 ...a man coins himself into his labor;
turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some
product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
EPro 11.324 5 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity,
through the affection of trade and the traditions of the Democratic
party, to follow Southern leading.
Wom 11.413 25 The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of
their affection.
Wom 11.418 5 There are plenty of people who...do not
see the use of contemplative men, or how ignoble would be the world
that wanted them. And so without the affection of women.
Scot 11.463 15 ...no modern writer has inspired his
readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
FRep 11.544 16 ...the height of reason, the noblest
affection...will find their home in our institutions...
PLT 12.44 22 Affection blends, intellect disjoins
subject and object.
Bost 12.198 12 ...no depth of affection that does not
rise to a religious sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of
bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
Milt1 12.254 3 There is something pleasing in the
affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred
and sixty years ago...
Milt1 12.268 8 ...the religious sentiment warmed
[Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
Trag 12.413 19 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society...
affectionate, adj. (24)
Tran 1.343 3 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish
or brute,-but joyous, susceptible, affectionate;...
Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy,
affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
Hsm1 2.257 26 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate,
does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
ET4 5.67 10 The fair Saxon man...domestic,
affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or
assassin is made...
ET4 5.67 16 [The English] are rather manly than
warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and
domestic tastes...
ET4 5.68 6 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was
of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
ET6 5.107 13 ...being of an affectionate and loyal
temper, [the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
ET6 5.108 13 ...as the [English] men are affectionate
and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
ET12 5.199 23 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and
gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge
men...
Bhr 6.194 20 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the
correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he
complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone
which had marked their childish correspondence.
DL 7.120 21 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate
delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each
one after the early separations which school or business require;...
Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise
and John Brown] would...desert their former companions. Enemies would
become affectionate.
PI 8.52 10 The best thoughts run into the best words;
imaginative and affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
Plu 10.309 7 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch]
it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and
those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict,
sincere and affectionate.
LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...in frank and
affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
EzRy 10.395 3 Not speculative, but
affectionate;...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and
catechism of the fathers...
Thor 10.456 13 ...no equal companion stood in
affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
Thor 10.465 12 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young
men of sensibility] was never affectionate, but superior...
GSt 10.501 20 Known until that time in no very wide
circle as a man...of retiring and affectionate habits;...[George
Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to
scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
GSt 10.506 17 For a year or two, the most
affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a
stranger in his beautiful home.
LS 11.7 1 ...we must suppose that the expression,
This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some
disciple who was present. What did it really signify? It is a prophetic
and affectionate expression.
TPar 11.287 15 [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, and he, with something
less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous
logic, rejected them.
CPL 11.505 15 I have found several humble men and
women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their
readings.
FRep 11.519 5 The partisan on moral...questions, will
choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest,
affectionate, noble gentleman;...
affectionately, adv. (8)
NR 3.245 23 ...each man's genius being nearly and
affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
ET16 5.290 17 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was
unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble
hands and patted them affectionately...
Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores
of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
Plu 10.310 18 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped
affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
LS 11.12 24 ...[the disciples] were bound together by
the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this
eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately
remembered by them;...
HDC 11.78 12 [Concord] spends profusely,
affectionately, in the service [of the American Revolution].
SMC 11.350 4 ...we shall cling affectionately to our
houses, our river and pastures...
affections, n. (57)
Nat 1.34 25 ...day and night...are what they are by
virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit.
Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of
matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to
wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the
affections...
Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful
thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest
affections, then will God go forth anew...
AmS 1.113 2 ...[Swedenborg] saw and showed the
connection between nature and the affections of the soul.
LE 1.177 23 [The scholar's]...affections...are keys
that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and
mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your
property...in all men's affections...
Con 1.325 12 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my
dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
SR 2.49 13 As soon as [a man] has once acted or
spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of
hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.
Fdsp 2.193 19 The moment we indulge our affections,
the earth is metamorphosed;...
Fdsp 2.195 14 It is almost dangerous to me to crush
the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
Int 2.326 9 In the fog of good and evil affections it
is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
NMW 4.223 14 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any
man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast
numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways
are little Napoleons.
NMW 4.228 23 Napoleon renounced, once for all,
sentiments and affections...
ET1 5.23 20 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems
as touched the affections, to any others;...
ET10 5.155 2 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the
higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was
not so among the lower orders.
Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it
has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.
Elo1 7.67 2 There is a tablet [in the audience] for
every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the
highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;
narrow brows expand with enlarged affections;...
Elo1 7.79 2 A supreme commander over all his passions
and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than
that.
Elo1 7.99 19 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an
elastic, unexhausted power...expanding with the expansion of our
interests and affections.
DL 7.127 4 The secret power of form over the
imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
Cour 7.265 22 Our affections and wishes for the
external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears
and outcries...
Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web
of cottage and fireside populous, important...
SA 8.80 12 The staple figure in novels is the
man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never
sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet
when occasion requires...
Imtl 8.327 5 ...Swedenborg...described the moral
faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer
describing the suns and planets of our system...
Imtl 8.340 21 Lord Bacon said: Some of the
philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit
of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might
remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not
of the affections;...
Chr2 10.119 25 There is a fear that pure truth, pure
morals, will not make a religion for the affections.
Edc1 10.128 18 ...here [in the household] labor
drudges, here affections glow...
MMEm 10.409 8 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over the apartments of social affections...
Thor 10.456 10 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first
instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient
was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a
little chilling to the social affections;...
LVB 11.89 5 Before any acts contrary to his own
judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may
look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's]
government.
War 11.165 21 The standing army, the arsenal, the
camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an
index to show where man is now;...how his affections halt;...
EdAd 11.391 27 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to
that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has
distinguished the Religious Ages?
Wom 11.412 27 The passion [of love], with all its
grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it. All these
affections are only introductory to that which is beyond, and to that
which is sublime.
Mem 12.104 25 Sampson Reed says, The true way to
store the memory is to develop the affections.
CInt 12.123 26 ...the idea of a college is an
assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought],
and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his
constitution and affections draw him.
Trag 12.414 26 ...new hopes spring, new affections
twine, and the broken is whole again.
affects, v. (19)
Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most
lively...manner.
Prd1 2.232 2 The man of talent affects to call his
transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
Mrs1 3.143 5 Fashion, which affects to be honor, is
often...only a ballroom code.
Wth 6.123 14 The farmer affects to take his orders;
but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an
opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will
rebound to you.
Art2 7.42 27 Let us now consider this [natural] law
as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of
the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely
spiritual part of a work of art.
PI 8.20 17 This power is in the image because this
power is in Nature. It so affects, because it so is.
PI 8.67 5 [A good poem] affects the characters of its
readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...
Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the
surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect
himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite
respect. It affects us oddly...
Supl 10.163 13 There is a superlative
temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a
certain desperation.
FSLN 11.217 23 My own habitual view is to the
well-being of students or scholars. And it is only when the public
event affects them, that it very seriously touches me.
Wom 11.407 5 In this ship of humanity, Will is the
rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder
is only a masked sail.
PLT 12.31 23 There is no property or relation in that
immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last
found who affects this...
affinities, n. (19)
Nat 1.54 22 The perception of real affinities between
events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Nat 1.54 23 The perception of real affinities between
events (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real),
enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Hist 2.37 13 One may say a gravitating solar system
is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the
brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities
and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
Hist 2.40 9 ...every history should be written in a
wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
SL 2.151 13 Nothing is more deeply punished than the
neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
Lov1 2.184 4 Cause and effect, real
affinities...predominate later...
Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned
his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective
affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is
only a partial or approximate statement...
Mrs1 3.151 19 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an
element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily
with a thousand substances.
SwM 4.122 23 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching
which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he
was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
Ctr 6.137 1 Culture is the suggestion...that a man
has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of
any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
SS 7.14 17 ...[people in conversation]
separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the
affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.
WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight
and hate at first sight; discern the affinities and repulsions;...
Suc 7.302 10 The world is enlarged for us, not by new
objects, but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we have.
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society
by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part
is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes
it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow
its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then new affinities
will act...
affinity, n. (31)
DSA 1.123 20 The good, by affinity, seek the good;...
DSA 1.123 21 ...the vile, by affinity, [seek] the
vile.
Hist 2.16 17 If any one will but take pains to
observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in
certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how
deep is the chain of affinity.
Comp 2.96 25 Polarity, or action and reaction, we
meet in every part of nature;...in the electricity, galvanism, and
chemical affinity.
Comp 2.102 3 The value of the universe contrives to
throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if
the affinity, so the repulsion;...
Fdsp 2.194 18 ...by the divine affinity of virtue
with itself, I find [my friends]...
Fdsp 2.195 8 ...the Genius of my life being thus
social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as
noble as these men and women...
Mrs1 3.124 19 The rulers of society must be...men of
the right Caesarian pattern, who have great range of affinity.
Mrs1 3.125 20 Money is not essential, but this wide
affinity [between power and money] is...
Mrs1 3.127 22 The strong men usually give some
allowance even to the petulances of fashion, for that affinity they
find in it.
Nat2 3.171 10 ...as water to our thirst, so is the
rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet. It is firm water; it
is cold flame; what health, what affinity!
UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral
and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the
charm of nature...the sureness of affinity...
PPh 4.67 19 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or
me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
ET7 5.125 23 What influence the English have [in
Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power; that of the French by
affinity and talent.
SS 7.14 8 Society exists by chemical affinity, and
not otherwise.
DL 7.113 15 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no
invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is
wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded of affinity,
of repose...
Farm 7.143 16 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]
the electricity, gravitation, chemic affinity...
PI 8.7 9 One of these vortices or self-directions of
thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in
all its objects...
PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity,
light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
PLT 12.63 4 Often there is so little affinity between
the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
Bost 12.197 20 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall
not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...unites itself by
natural affinity to the highest minds of the world;...
affirm, v. (45)
AmS 1.102 25 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief
that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the
earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
LT 1.276 10 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but
they do not trust it...
Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts
not affected by the illusions of sense...
YA 1.382 3 Here are Etzlers and mechanical
projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would
make every man rich;...
Fdsp 2.204 8 A friend...is a sort of paradox in
nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with
equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my
being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
OS 2.295 26 We not only affirm that we have few great
men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
Exp 3.51 16 I knew a witty physician who...used to
affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a
Calvinist...
Mrs1 3.143 3 ...I will neither be driven from some
allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief
that love is the basis of courtesy. We must obtain that, if we can; but
by all means we must affirm this.
NER 3.260 27 ...much was to be resisted, much was to
be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could
begin to affirm and to construct.
PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor
in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die,
to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I
affirm, surpasses all contests here.
MoS 4.151 11 It is not strange that these men
[predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority
of ideas.
MoS 4.182 14 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of
man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that
he shall affirm it.
ET11 5.172 16 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of
English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners...affirm it.
F 6.4 6 If we must accept Fate, we are not less
compelled to affirm liberty...
Ctr 6.166 15 ...we shall dare affirm that there is
nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
Bty 6.300 8 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that
the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being
uninteresting.
Ill 6.312 13 [The boy] has no better friend or
influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to
other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
Ill 6.320 19 We must work and affirm, but we have no
guess of the value of what we say or do.
Cour 7.274 2 As long as [the religious sentiment] is
cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some
pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not
imparted...
PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses
affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
Schr 10.263 1 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law, yet as those who should
affirm it in music and dancing;...
Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office
and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a
frequent perversity of the class itself.
Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If
gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
HDC 11.37 24 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw
Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to
the English...
War 11.167 14 Since the peace question has been
before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have
naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
FSLC 11.190 16 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh,
Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are
void].
FSLN 11.217 13 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this
want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's
watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For
they cannot affirm these from any original experience...
FSLN 11.227 3 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all
affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
FSLN 11.238 27 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but
comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but
affirm the arrival.
JBB 11.270 3 It were bold to affirm that there is
within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as
worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as
this poor prisoner [John Brown].
TPar 11.292 8 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which
for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
Koss 11.400 4 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier
of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave
your judgment; who are we that we should dictate to you? You have won
your own. We only affirm it.
FRep 11.540 6 America should affirm and establish
that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
PLT 12.31 5 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others. From
this deference comes the imbecility and fatigue of their society, for
of course they cannot affirm these from the deep life;...
II 12.78 23 ...we must affirm and affirm, but neither
you nor I know the value of what we say;...
affirmation, n. (6)
Prch 10.233 20 Inspiration will have advance,
affirmation...
LVB 11.95 3 Our counsellors and old statesmen here
say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the
affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
Milt1 12.266 9 Few men could be cited who have so
well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton],
and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic
affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
ACri 12.303 23 ...literature resounds with the music
of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
affirmations, n. (5)
Exp 3.75 17 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the
affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and
make affirmations outside of them...
PI 8.28 8 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired
soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it
is driven to say.
PPo 8.250 11 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low
rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most
unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the
world.
Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were
affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their
times.
affirmative, adj. (28)
LT 1.264 18 ...whatever is affirmative and now
advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
Con 1.298 23 Reform is affirmative, conservatism
negative;...
Exp 3.45 21 Did our birth fall in some fit of
indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire
and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the
affirmative principle...
NER 3.260 19 I conceive...the indication of growing
trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the
affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
MoS 4.177 21 ...the main resistance which the
affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
ET13 5.216 5 [The priest...translated the sanctities
of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a
certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
ET14 5.239 11 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it
is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the
lesser class with which it has been conversant. Hence, all poetry and
all affirmative action comes.
Pow 6.57 13 This affirmative force [a broad, healthy,
massive understanding] is in one and is not in another...
Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to
letters, to manners...
OA 7.324 4 All men carry seeds of all distempers
through life latent, and we die without developing them; such is the
affirmative force of the constitution;...
SA 8.90 8 The life of these persons was conducted in
the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
Imtl 8.332 15 ...the impulse which drew these minds
to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a
better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation
was negative.
Prch 10.234 27 ...the power of sympathy is always
great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain
it when argument would fail.
Prch 10.235 20 The inevitable course of remark for
us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty,
is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and
by which we live, not critical, but affirmative.
Plu 10.301 22 [Plutarch's] superstitions are poetic,
aspiring, affirmative.
LLNE 10.356 18 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times
with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
Thor 10.478 3 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions
of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an
affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
ACiv 11.305 1 ...as long as we fight without any
affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we
fight on the same side, for slavery.
ACiv 11.308 2 Why should not America be capable...of
an affirmative step in the interests of human civility...
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.
affirmative, n. (8)
Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle]
utters...on all sides; but the sacred affirmative it hides in the
deepest abyss.
Plu 10.310 20 Knowing and not knowing is the
affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend;
not knowing you, your enemy.
affirmatively, adv. (2)
HDC 11.64 26 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook,
in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one
of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now
chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively.
II 12.78 16 ...[the writer] should write
affirmatively, not polemically...
affirmatives, n. (4)
affirmed, v. (18)
MN 1.222 13 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was
opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it
not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
Con 1.299 22 ...it may be safely affirmed of these
two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a
good half, but an impossible whole.
YA 1.394 6 ...in England, the fact seems to me
intolerable, what is commonly affirmed, that such is the transcendent
honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is
received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
SL 2.138 10 Every man sees that he is that middle
point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels
affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their
hands.
NR 3.245 18 All the universe over, there is but one
thing, this old Two-Face... right-wrong, of which any proposition may
be affirmed or denied.
PPh 4.61 24 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the
earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that of which every thing
can be affirmed and denied...
PPh 4.62 7 Having paid his homage, as for the human
race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human
race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
Cour 7.273 26 ...whenever the religious sentiment is
adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.
Imtl 8.324 8 ...The Egyptians are the first of
mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
EWI 11.106 12 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the
case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the
slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.136 12 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the
judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been
affirmed by the legal authorities...
ChiE 11.472 24 When Socrates heard that the oracle
declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that
other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew
nothing. Confucius had already affirmed this of himself...
PLT 12.38 14 The thought, the doctrine, the right
hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...
affirmers, n. (1)
affirming, adj. (2)
Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing
class...
Insp 8.294 16 What is best in literature is the
affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
affirming, v. (10)
LT 1.286 15 The excellence of this class
[spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and
higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the
recommendation of low methods.
Pt1 3.12 20 Oftener it falls that this winged man,
who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as
it were from cloud to cloud, still affirming that he is bound
heavenward;...
Pt1 3.13 8 ...let us...observe how nature, by
worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of
announcement and affirming...
SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's]
contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...
SwM 4.119 21 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some
account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in
the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as
to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
PI 8.29 4 ...imagination [is] a perception and
affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
Edc1 10.135 21 In affirming that the moral nature of
man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted
in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it
should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
PLT 12.40 12 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is
it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it
sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just
connections,-sees all in God?
PLT 12.55 13 There is in all students a distrust of
truth, a timidity about affirming it;...
affirms, v. (41)
DSA 1.136 20 Where now sounds the persuasion,
that...imparadises my heart, and so affirms its own origin in heaven?
Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man
within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the
infinite army of enemies.
Hsm1 2.264 6 ...the love that will be annihilated
sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the
deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.
PPh 4.48 21 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind
returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and
affirms the necessary existence of variety...
PPh 4.74 16 When accused before the judges of
subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the
soul...
PNR 4.83 26 The eye attested that justice was best,
as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that it is profitable
throughout;...
SwM 4.119 24 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees,
with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more
clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
MoS 4.170 25 We love whatever affirms, connects,
preserves;...
F 6.26 3 A man speaking from insight affirms of
himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am
immortal;...
CbW 6.254 1 Plutarch affirms that the cruel wars
which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language
and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
Farm 7.148 24 The chemist...now affirms that this
dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...
OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of
intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral
sentiment.
PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies
itself with exceptions...
PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he
builds, adds and affirms.
Imtl 8.332 27 The skeptic affirms that the universe
is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
Chr2 10.97 15 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he
affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
Chr2 10.103 7 [The moral sentiment] affirms not only
its truth, but its supremacy.
Chr2 10.121 22 ...Henry James affirms, that to give
the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over
the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
Prch 10.230 26 ...over all, let [the young preacher]
value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that
affirms.
Schr 10.271 22 ...[genius and virtue] are the First
Good, of which Plato affirms that all things are for its sake...
HDC 11.36 26 Roger Williams affirms that he has known
[Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
EWI 11.147 24 The sentiment of Right...pronounces
Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the
heart;...
TPar 11.292 14 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms
it...
PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and
perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
II 12.66 24 I know, of course, all the grounds on
which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul.
CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...
CL 12.160 5 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them; the religious
man, going abroad, affirms them;...
CL 12.160 7 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the patriot
on his mountains or his prairie affirms them;...
CL 12.160 8 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the
contemplative man affirms them.
EurB 12.370 17 A critical friend of ours affirms that
the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition
to begin where their fathers ended;...
affix, v. (2)
Art2 7.47 4 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an
honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix
to it.
PI 8.23 2 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of
many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who
felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to
draw a moral or affix a meaning.
afflatus, n. (1)
Hist 2.27 25 ...men of God have from time to
time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the
commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess
inspired by the divine afflatus.
afflict, v. (5)
Comp 2.100 3 Has [the man of genius] all that the
world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by
faithfulness to his truth...
Ctr 6.138 6 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal
his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit
his impertinency,--here is he to afflict us with his personalities.
Prch 10.233 26 Only let there be a deep observer, and
he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict
you;...
LVB 11.95 11 ...the steps of this crime [the
relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick
time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes
until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes
shall afflict the ear of the world.
CInt 12.129 16 Only bring a deep observer, and he
will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances
that afflict you.
afflicted, adj. (2)
OA 7.324 8 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted
citizens lose their sick-headaches.
MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with
careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] spirits...
afflicted, v. (11)
Int 2.342 26 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and
Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
NMW 4.228 7 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own
sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the
worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
ET5 5.77 22 A man of that [English] brain thinks and
acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of
brain...thinks the same thing...
Ctr 6.135 7 ...most men are afflicted with a
coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with
their self-love.
Ill 6.314 6 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the
charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a
tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers
to one root.
Cour 7.263 13 [The soldier] sees how much is the
risk, and is not afflicted with imagination;...
Suc 7.287 10 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the
Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
HDC 11.65 3 The charges of education and of
legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town
[Concord];...
afflicting, v. (2)
CbW 6.263 14 I figure [sickness] as
a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings...
Bost 12.206 19 ...here [in Boston] was...a living
mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious
novelty or other;...
affliction, n. (4)
ET19 5.312 3 ...I think it just, in this time of
gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these
districts, that...you should not fail to keep your literary
anniversary.
PI 8.28 14 Lear, mad with his affliction, thinks
every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
MMEm 10.407 5 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody
Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing
who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in
secretly undermining his vanity, or trying to. Alas! never done but by
mortifying affliction.
ALin 11.332 14 ...[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.
afflictions, n. (1)
ACiv 11.309 23 This is the consolation on which we
rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that
the government of the world is moral...
affluence, n. (3)
NER 3.274 6 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty
at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.
Boks 7.211 24 Now and then out of that affluence of
[the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or
Seneca, or Boethius...
EdAd 11.382 20 ...[the elements] shove us from them,
yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet
affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/
Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia
are withheld./
affluent, adj. (4)
CbW 6.260 8 Charles James Fox said of England, The
history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in
affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which
the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the
reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
WSL 12.340 18 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready
memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor
of the reading world.
afford, v. (65)
DSA 1.148 1 ...slight [the commanders], as you can
well afford to do, by high and universal aims, and they instantly
feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
MR 1.229 13 It will afford no security from the new
ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
LT 1.278 7 You have set your heart and face against
society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
Excellent: now can you afford to forget it...
Con 1.310 17 [Existing institutions] really have so
much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same
chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was
no law and no property.
Fdsp 2.215 11 In the great days, presentiments hover
before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I
cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my
own.
Fdsp 2.215 19 ...next week I shall have languid
moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
Cir 2.312 2 The use of literature is to afford us a
platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
Chr1 3.107 4 ...some natures are too good to be
spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into
the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn
them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of
trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
Mrs1 3.154 13 The king of Schiraz could not afford to
be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
Pol1 3.218 27 If a man found himself so rich-natured
that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and
sweetness of his behavior, could he afford to circumvent the favor of
the caucus and the press, and covet relations so hollow and pompous as
those of a politician?
NR 3.235 20 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries,
that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns, which we can
well afford to let pass,...
SwM 4.119 19 ...to a reader who can make due
allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's]
peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the
sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
MoS 4.160 2 [The skeptic] is the
considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can
afford to be his own foe;...
GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and
Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
ET5 5.94 12 [England's] short rivers do not afford
water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
ET5 5.96 8 No man [in England] can afford to walk,
when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
ET7 5.117 16 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a
cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on
digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in
pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure,
as if they could afford it.
ET10 5.156 16 If [the English] cannot pay, they do
not buy;...and they say without shame, I cannot afford it.
ET11 5.183 21 ...with such interests at stake, how
can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?
ET14 5.257 1 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it
raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford some staidness or
hardness...
F 6.30 16 We can afford to allow the limitation, if
we know it is the meter of the growing man.
Pow 6.53 19 ...[a man] can well afford to let events
and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been
added to him in the shape of power.
Pow 6.63 23 The senators who dissented from Mr.
Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could
afford it;...
Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and
palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that
when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity
are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury
which few could afford...
Wth 6.92 12 He can well afford not to conciliate,
whose faithful work will answer for him.
Wth 6.119 4 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer
got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his
aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without
selling his land.
Elo1 7.69 8 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer
melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn
will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
Farm 7.141 25 We commonly say that the rich man...can
afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;...
Boks 7.193 27 The inspection of the catalogue [of the
Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard
writers who are on every private shelf; and to these it can afford only
the most slight and casual additions.
Boks 7.209 10 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
Cour 7.261 14 Each [new soldier] whispers to
himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing
myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I
cannot afford to misbehave;...
OA 7.325 15 Little by little [age] has amassed such a
fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it
will.
PI 8.5 8 ...somewhat was murmured in our
ear...that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses,
and we can afford to leave it one day.
PC 8.213 18 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor
Aeschylus...
PPo 8.259 21 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in
his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token
of his mistress.
Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare
with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he
knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in
him?
SlHr 10.447 25 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge
Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four
common men, before common men would find it out.
HDC 11.39 17 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say
with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so
great fires as New England.
HDC 11.39 19 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to
possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good
as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
HDC 11.54 21 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared,
that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large
accommodations...
JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United
States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts
that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of
Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection
at all;...
TPar 11.285 21 He whose voice will not be heard here
again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
HCom 11.343 3 [Our young men] said, It is not in me
to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall
never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can
well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
SMC 11.364 24 [George Prescott writes] I told
Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from
bringing the tent-poles...
FRep 11.514 17 In our popular politics you may note
that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the
only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the
real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and
all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate
itself to it. Our times easily afford you very good examples.
FRep 11.520 5 Our politics are full of adventurers,
who...think they can afford to join the devil's party.
PLT 12.7 11 Seek the literary circles...the men of
splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction?
ACri 12.296 6 We can't afford to take the horse out
of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.
AgMs 12.360 18 [Farmers] could not afford to follow
such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
afforded, v. (10)
AmS 1.92 9 But for the evidence thence afforded to
the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should
suppose some preestablished harmony...
Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history
has afforded no example.
Pt1 3.41 23 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with
nature, and canst not be afforded to the Capitol or the Exchange.
ET7 5.117 7 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where
strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth...
ET17 5.296 13 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth]
to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a
modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any
display.
Ctr 6.155 2 Wordsworth was praised to me in
Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of
a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without
display.
Civ 7.29 14 ...the astronomer, having by an
observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as
waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put
the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and
his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his
triangle.
Comc 8.171 10 More food for the Comic is afforded
whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are
subjects of thought with the man himself.
Thor 10.468 5 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of
the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day
after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded
him.
Bost 12.199 21 What should hinder that this
America...glimpses being afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet
the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it
as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
affording, v. (2)
NER 3.255 22 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of resistance to the government...
Ill 6.309 4 We traversed, through spacious galleries
affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead,
the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth
Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
affords, v. (13)
Nat 1.15 20 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the
sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
LE 1.178 17 This lesson is taught with emphasis in
the life of the great actor of this age, and affords the explanation of
his success.
Chr1 3.93 4 ...[the natural merchant] inspires
respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime
which the spectacle of so much ability affords.
GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung
und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with
us a Life of Goethe;...
Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture,
from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet
stain affords the eye...
Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature...
PI 8.21 15 I think the use or value of poetry to be
the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
PPo 8.244 14 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes
of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that
sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of
these bards.
PPo 8.246 12 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz]
a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral
than regulated sober life affords...
EWI 11.121 26 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The
peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population...affords a proof of
their continued comfort and prosperity.
FSLN 11.238 6 The habit of mind of traders in power
would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American
slavery affords no exception to this rule.
affray, n. (1)
HDC 11.77 9 On the second day after the affray
[battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700
soldiers.
affront, n. (2)
ET6 5.105 24 [The Englishman] does not let you meet
his eye. It is almost an affront to look a man in the face without
being introduced.
affront, v. (1)
SR 2.60 19 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth
mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
affronted, adj. (1)
Boks 7.213 11 Whilst the prudential and economical
tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such
indemnity as she may.
affronted, v. (1)
YA 1.394 21 Commanding worth and personal power must
sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be
slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
affronting, v. (1)
CbW 6.255 5 ...the glory of character is in
affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of
power;...
affronts, n. (2)
ET4 5.68 13 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was
so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on
him...
EurB 12.378 11 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is...to contrive even his civilities so that they may appear as
near as may be to affronts;...
Afghan, n. (1)
Bost 12.184 4 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite,
Christian, have all passed under this [Hindoo] influence...
a-fishing, v. (2)
MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go
a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
afloat, adj. (4)
Nat 1.49 23 The first effort of thought...shows us
nature...as it were, afloat.
Nat 1.51 27 By a few strokes [the poet]
delineates...the sun, the mountain... lifted from the ground and afloat
before the eye.
LE 1.172 11 ...the first word [a man of genius]
utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.
Int 2.342 7 He in whom the love of truth predominates
will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
afloat, adv. (1)
afoot, adv. (2)
QO 8.189 9 In literature, quotation is good only when
the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I,
gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as
to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
aforesaid, adj. (1)
Tran 1.334 8 [The idealist's] experience inclines him
to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing
perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in
himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a
subjective or relative existence, relative to that aforesaid Unknown
Centre of him.
aforesaid, adv. (1)
EWI 11.112 25 ...Be it enacted, that all and every
person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery
within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and
after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes
free...
aforetime, adv. (1)
LT 1.286 5 It almost seems as if what was aforetime
spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
afraid, adj. (45)
LT 1.290 26 Let it not be recorded in our own
memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any
fact...
Prd1 2.238 13 ...the peace of society is often kept,
because, as children say, one is afraid and the other dares not.
NER 3.268 13 A man of good sense but of little
faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and
churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark is
too honest...
PPh 4.72 6 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to
go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within
doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
MoS 4.165 24 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that
Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close
to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
ShP 4.201 11 ...the generic catholic genius who is
not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all,
stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
ET1 5.11 20 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had
hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was
lovely and excellent...
ET4 5.71 20 [The Englishman's] attachment to the
horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. The
horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
ET8 5.139 16 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;...
ET9 5.147 8 ...I am afraid that English nature is so
rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
ET13 5.230 10 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of
science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid
of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no
longer one.
ET13 5.230 11 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of
science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid
of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no
longer one.
ET13 5.230 12 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of
science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid
of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no
longer one.
Ctr 6.139 25 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French
officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he
never was afraid.
Wsp 6.201 18 I dip my pen in the blackest ink,
because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not
think the white man...afraid of heat and cold...has any advantage of
them.
DL 7.110 22 I am afraid that, so considered, our
houses will not be found to have unity...
Cour 7.261 26 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed
himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he
was afraid to do...
Cour 7.269 1 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.
Elo2 8.128 26 A few bruises and scratches will do [a
boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.
Aris 10.52 9 ...if the dressed and perfumed
gentleman, who serves the people in no wise and adorns them not, is not
even afraid of them...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them,
who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
Schr 10.281 7 We are not afraid of new truth...no,
but of a counterfeit.
RBur 11.443 1 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven
and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
Bost 12.208 4 I am afraid there are anecdotes of
poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of
New York and London.
ACri 12.290 2 Goethe...professed to point his guest
to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints
and images, and into which, he said, he should be afraid to fall
himself, lest he should be burnt up.
ACri 12.291 15 Never say, I beg not to be
misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that
what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist
on a worse;...
Let 12.392 19 To the railway, we must say,-like the
courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was
coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
Afrasiyab [Firdusi, Shah N (2)
PPo 8.242 8 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh
the annals...of Afrasiyab, strong as an elephant...
Africa, n. (22)
MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa,
and Spain, on barley.
Hist 2.21 20 In the early history of Asia and Africa,
Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
Hist 2.22 5 The nomads of Africa were constrained to
wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game
that is in nature.
Grts 8.302 25 Who can doubt the potency of an
individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;
a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa?
Plu 10.303 16 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the
deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the
forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
Plu 10.315 5 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior
virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
EWI 11.107 13 Public attention...was drawn that way
[to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the
transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
EWI 11.107 27 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of
July, 1783...to consider what step they should take...for the
discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.
EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official
documents presented to the American government by the Colonization
Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
EWI 11.124 2 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we
could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost
of whips. What if it cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of
Africa?
EWI 11.126 16 ...[British merchants] saw further that
the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern
Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
EWI 11.141 12 On sight of these [African artifacts],
says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into
[William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared
to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of
Africa...
EWI 11.145 26 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest
and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure
any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members. America is
not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
FSLC 11.186 8 There is always something in the very
advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;
England has its Ireland;...
FSLC 11.195 8 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807,
it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the
coast of Africa.
FSLC 11.211 2 Europe is little compared with Asia and
Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
FSLN 11.228 21 Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was
like Slavery in Africa or the Feejees, to me.
ACri 12.285 21 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois
of the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries
where they wander, in Europe, Asia, Africa.
Africa, South, n. (2)
Pow 6.69 13 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...
FSLC 11.213 1 Every Englishman in Australia, in South
Africa, in India... represents London...
African, adj. (7)
Mrs1 3.142 17 ...friend of the African slave,
[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
Boks 7.203 10 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and
pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the
rest of the Platonic rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun,
sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic
era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same
height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in
Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian
Nights, on the African coast.
EWI 11.103 13 ...when [the negro] sank in the
furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African
shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
EWI 11.126 24 ...the [slave] trade could not be
abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more,
bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any
mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs.
EWI 11.141 1 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made
a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of
the arts and culture of the negro;...
EPro 11.319 9 ...all men of African descent who have
faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the
protection of American law.
African, n. (1)
EWI 11.100 10 It has been in all men's experience a
marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate
an overbearing and defying spirit.
Africanization, n. (1)
ACiv 11.298 11 ...who is this who tosses his empty
head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at
his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile war
and the Africanization of the country that permits it.
Africans, n. (1)
Chr2 10.106 2 ...in the hands of hot
Africans...[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
Afric's, n. (1)
EWI 11.98 3 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning
ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./
afterlife, n. (1)
DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in
afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of
childhood!
after-nature, n. (1)
Let 12.397 21 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade
of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.
afternoon, adj. (2)
Prd1 2.229 3 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil
much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who
deal with them.
OA 7.318 10 If, on a winter day, you should stand
within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would
not indicate whether it were June or January;...
afternoon, n. (23)
Nat 1.17 20 Not less excellent, except for our less
susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm...of a January sunset.
DSA 1.137 22 Men go, thought I, where they are wont
to go, else had no soul entered the temple in the afternoon.
Hist 2.20 18 In the woods in a winter afternoon one
will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the
colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches
of the forest.
Lov1 2.175 27 In the noon and the afternoon of life
we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy
enough...
ET16 5.288 10 On the way to Winchester, whither our
host accompanied us in the afternoon, my friends asked many questions
respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
ET16 5.290 21 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was
unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble
hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave
man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New
College at Oxford. But it was growing late in the afternoon.
ET17 5.294 11 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for
a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from
her Egyptian tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal
Mount.
OA 7.335 11 [John Adams] received a premature report
of his son's election, on Sunday afternoon...
Insp 8.291 4 Allston rarely left his studio by day.
An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the
country...
LLNE 10.341 17 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr.
Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James
Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time
spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
EzRy 10.386 24 One August afternoon, when I was in
[Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him with his man to rake up his hay, I
well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when
the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
MMEm 10.414 21 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked
out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper
to me...
HDC 11.63 19 ...the country people came armed into
Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.67 15 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached
again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon;...
HDC 11.73 16 Eight hundred British soldiers...at
Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia, for which a
speedy revenge was reaped by the same militia in the afternoon.
MLit 12.325 10 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task
to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which
he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and
Paul Veronese, which one may verify in common daylight in Venice every
afternoon;...
WSL 12.342 9 From the moment of entering a library
and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What
boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects:-In the
afternoon we came unto a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon./
WSL 12.342 10 From the moment of entering a library
and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What
boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects:-In the
afternoon we came unto a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon./
AgMs 12.358 1 In an afternoon in April...I traversed
an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...
Let 12.393 23 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in
plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her
roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down
or burn their fingers.
Trag 12.409 3 After we have enumerated...mutilation,
rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper
tragic element, which is Terror...an ominous spirit which haunts the
afternoon and the night...
afternoons, n. (1)
Nat 1.19 17 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow
afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
aftersight, n. (1)
Mem 12.110 20 Now we are halves, we see the past but
not the future, but in that day [when the Great Mind enters into us]
will the hemisphere complete itself and foresight be as perfect as
aftersight.
afterthought, n. (3)
Nat 1.59 20 Children...believe in the external world.
The belief that it appears only, is an afterthought...
Comp 2.96 4 That which [men] hear in schools and
pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be
questioned in silence.
SwM 4.130 8 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the
difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is
incessantly expressed. ... But this topic suggests a sad afterthought,
that here we find the seat of his own pain.
afterward, adv. (8)
MN 1.215 11 Is it that [the disciple] attached the
value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found
himself still as wicked...in that abstinence as he had been in the
abuse?
Con 1.306 27 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot,
on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that
peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if
we find you afterward.
Pt1 3.32 7 An imaginative book renders us much more
service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards
when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
F 6.25 10 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born
and afterward we were born again...
Wth 6.113 17 Montaigne said, When he was a younger
brother, he went brave in dress and equipage, but afterward his chateau
and farms might answer for him.
MMEm 10.414 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the
early days of her solitude, sixty years afterward, on her own farm in
Maine...
EWI 11.143 7 We do not wish a world of bugs or of
birds; neither afterward of Scythians, Caraibs or Feejees.
WSL 12.339 25 Before a well-dressed company [Landor]
plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of
his hands and the jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in
water, he washes them in wine; but you are never secure from his
freaks.
afterwards, adv. (52)
Tran 1.336 14 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him
with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not
I./
SR 2.64 17 We first share the life by which things
exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature...
SR 2.68 3 ...afterwards, when [children] come into
the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they
understand them...
SR 2.76 2 If the finest genius studies at one of our
colleges and is not installed in an office within one year
afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in
being disheartened...
Comp 2.117 7 ...when the hunter came, [the stag's]
feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns
destroyed him.
Fdsp 2.196 12 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the
virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we
have ascribed this divine inhabitation.
Int 2.329 26 In every man's mind, some...facts
remain...which others forget, and afterwards these illustrate to him
important laws.
Int 2.334 4 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within
doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall
still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards.
Art1 2.357 15 When I have seen fine statues and
afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who
said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
Art1 2.367 15 [Men] eat and drink, that they may
afterwards execute the ideal.
Exp 3.46 11 In times when we thought ourselves
indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished...
Exp 3.55 20 Once I took such delight in Montaigne
that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in
Shakspeare;...afterwards in Goethe;...
Exp 3.75 21 It is very unhappy...the discovery we
have made that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever
afterwards we suspect our instruments.
Chr1 3.101 10 I read in a book of English memoirs,
Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he
had served up to it, and would have it.
NR 3.225 8 Could any man conduct into me the pure
stream of that which he pretends to be! Long afterwards I find that
quality elsewhere which he promised me.
NR 3.238 23 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to
unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only
talent;...
NR 3.242 27 It is the secret of the world that all
things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and
afterwards return again.
NER 3.251 23 The spirit of protest and of detachment
drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear
testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare
their discontent with these Conventions...
ET1 5.4 15 Besides those [writers] I have
named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold,
unless it were the Duke of Wellington, whom I afterwards saw at
Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Wilberforce.
ET1 5.14 7 ...afterwards, Montague, still talking
with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
ET7 5.124 2 A slow temperament...has given occasion
to the observation that English wit comes afterwards...
ET11 5.178 15 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey,
afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should
arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the
body of Jockey of Norfolk...
ET12 5.203 19 On proceeding afterwards to examine his
purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz
Bible, in perfect order;...
ET13 5.214 10 A youth marries in haste;
afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of
marriage...
ET14 5.244 22 Milton...used this privilege [of
generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose. For a long
interval afterwards, it is not found.
ET14 5.248 20 Sir David Brewster sees the high place
of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a
mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which
showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
ET16 5.283 27 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an
economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain]...
Elo1 7.72 26 ...when...his words fell like the winter
snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses; and [the
Trojans], beholding, wondered not afterwards so much at his aspect.
Elo1 7.78 19 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates];
if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with
hanging,--which he performed afterwards...
Elo1 7.93 22 Eloquence must be grounded on the
plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales
symbols of every kind and color...
Farm 7.141 12 He who...so much as puts a stone seat
by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long
afterwards.
PC 8.216 1 The founders of nations, the wise men and
inventors who shine afterwards as their gods, were probably martyrs in
their own time.
Imtl 8.332 1 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met
[his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw
each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at
the President's house in Washington.
LLNE 10.359 21 Mr. George Ripley was the President
[of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana
(afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune)
was the Secretary.
MMEm 10.403 23 ...certain expressions, when they
marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience,
recurred to her afterwards...
MMEm 10.420 13 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson]
reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her
old home and friends in the city, where she had lived for a while with
her brother [Mr. Emerson's father] and afterwards with his widow.
LS 11.3 23 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was
decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a
year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament
should be received three times in the year...
LS 11.9 3 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and
afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
HDC 11.40 22 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the
settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at
their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
HDC 11.58 26 A still more formidable enemy [of
Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally
of Philip, who was soon afterwards shot at Stonington.
LVB 11.91 5 The newspapers now inform us that...a
treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was
pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with
some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact
afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the
will of the nation;...
EWI 11.117 19 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord
Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith...threw
themselves on the side of the oppressed...
War 11.154 6 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at
first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.
War 11.164 21 You shall hear, some day, of a wild
fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built
great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
JBS 11.280 7 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John
Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure...an
honest reward, first to the farmer, and afterwards to the dealer.
SMC 11.363 18 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...
II 12.84 21 Men generally attempt, early in life, to
make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is
going forward in their private theatre;...
MAng1 12.221 13 When Michael Angelo would begin a
statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another
paper, the same figure clothed with muscles.
after-work, n. (1)
again, adv. (351)
Nat 1.16 23 ...the attorney comes out of the din and
craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
Nat 1.18 16 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye]
beholds, every hour, a picture which...shall never be seen again.
Nat 1.23 4 Therefore does beauty, which...comes
unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;
and then again, in its turn, of the active power.
Nat 1.32 1 At the call of a noble sentiment, again
the woods wave...
Nat 1.45 17 [The spirit] says...in such as this
[human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it; it can
speak again;...
AmS 1.87 22 The scholar of the first age received
into him the world around;...gave it the new arrangement of his own
mind, and uttered it again.
AmS 1.91 19 ...when the sun is hid and the stars
withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps
to the East again, where the dawn is.
MN 1.208 12 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office
which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy
silence and eternity...
MN 1.220 22 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some
unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to
recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these
sharers of a more sacred idea?
MR 1.229 10 Let ideas establish their legitimate sway
again in society...and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
MR 1.230 6 ...the scholar says, Cities and coaches
shall never impose on me again;...
MR 1.236 5 ...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 1.236 8 ...when the majority shall admit the
necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law,
state]...a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar
talent again, without compromise.
LT 1.280 20 Then again, how trivial seem the contests
of the abolitionist...
Con 1.296 13 ...Uranus cried, A new work, O Saturn!
the old is not good again.
Con 1.297 10 ...the word of Uranus came into
[Saturn's] mind like a ray of the sun, and he made Jupiter; and then he
feared again;...
Con 1.313 23 Then again, if the mitigations are
considered, do not all the mischiefs virtually vanish?
Tran 1.332 15 One thing at least, [the materialist]
says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again
to-morrow;...
Tran 1.353 12 ...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or
occupies his hands with some plaything, until his hour comes again.
Hist 2.5 2 Every reform was once a private opinion,
and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem
of the age.
Hist 2.11 21 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the
whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...and they live again
to the mind, or are now.
Hist 2.13 27 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to
its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it,
and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again.
Hist 2.29 9 Again, in that protest which each
considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he
repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
Hist 2.29 13 [Each considerate person] learns again
what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.
SR 2.49 15 Ah, that [a man] could pass again into his
neutrality!
SR 2.49 17 Who...having observed, [can] observe again
from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted
innocence,-must always be formidable.
SR 2.52 4 Then again, do not tell me...of my
obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
Comp 2.103 27 The ingenuity of man has always been
dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual
sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral
sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to
cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
Comp 2.125 27 We linger in the ruins of the old
tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again.
We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful.
SL 2.138 18 ...we have been ourselves that coward and
robber, and shall be again...
Lov1 2.172 13 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers]
before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a
glance...and we are no longer strangers.
Fdsp 2.189 9 ...My careful heart was free again,--/ O
friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
Fdsp 2.198 16 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to
match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in
relation to thy comings and goings.
Fdsp 2.215 22 ...next week I shall have languid
moods...then I shall...wish you were by my side again.
OS 2.289 5 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare,
Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing
soul, which through their eyes beholds again and blesses the things
which it hath made.
Cir 2.304 16 ...if the soul is quick and strong
it...expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a
high wave, with attempt again to stop and to bind.
Cir 2.308 9 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a
man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in; now, you have found his
shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.
Cir 2.309 27 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude
statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement
of the fact that all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing
and organizing itself.
Cir 2.311 19 ...literatures, cities, climates,
religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes. And yet
here again see the swift circumscription!
Cir 2.319 23 ...let [the man and woman of seventy]
behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...they are perfumed again
with hope and power.
Art1 2.361 20 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was
changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia
at Naples...
Art1 2.361 21 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was
changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia
at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome...
Art1 2.361 27 ...that which I fancied I had left in
Boston was here in the Vatican, and again at Milan and at Paris...
Pt1 3.4 5 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to
talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract, but they
prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence;...
Pt1 3.22 19 ...nature...does not leave another to
baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis
again.
Pt1 3.40 23 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes
pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again
to people a new world.
Exp 3.45 17 Ghostlike we glide through nature, and
should not know our place again.
Exp 3.55 2 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth,
or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at
one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles
with this nightmare [of science]. We...cannot again contract ourselves
to so base a state.
Exp 3.56 3 How strongly I have felt of pictures that
when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it; you shall
never see it again.
Exp 3.72 4 I am ready...be born again into this new
yet unapproachable America I have found in the West...
Exp 3.86 1 ...in the solitude to which every man is
always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage
into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never
mind the defeat; up again, old heart!--it seems to say...
Chr1 3.87 8 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/
Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
Chr1 3.102 21 ...[the hero] is again on his road,
adding new powers and honors to his domain...
Chr1 3.103 5 If your friend has displeased you, you
shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to
serve you, and ere you can rise up again will burden you with
blessings.
Chr1 3.105 5 Thence [from character] comes a new
intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of
character.
Mrs1 3.120 1 Again, the Bornoos have no proper
names;...
Mrs1 3.130 15 ...that assembly once dispersed, its
members will not in the year meet again.
Mrs1 3.135 14 ...if perchance a searching realist
comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide
ourselves...
Nat2 3.181 16 ...the artist still goes back for
materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced
stage;...
Nat2 3.185 23 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of
fairer forms, of lordlier youths...and on goes the game again with a
new whirl...
Nat2 3.196 10 Nature is the incarnation of a thought,
and turns to a thought again...
Nat2 3.196 12 The world is mind precipitated, and the
volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free
thought.
NR 3.236 23 ...when each person...would conquer all
things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another
person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
NR 3.243 1 It is the secret of the world that all
things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and
afterwards return again.
NR 3.246 13 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he
were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as
agitator.
UGM 4.15 8 What has friendship so signal as its
sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to
some purpose, and the industry of the diggers on the railroad will not
again shame us.
UGM 4.17 21 ...we are entitled to these enlargements
[of the imagination], and once having passed the bounds shall never
again be quite the miserable pedants we were.
UGM 4.26 8 Again, it is very easy to be as wise and
good as your companions.
UGM 4.27 13 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus,
even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
PPh 4.48 11 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of
many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause...
PPh 4.58 27 One would say [Plato] had read the
inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second
gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had
paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
PPh 4.68 20 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal
parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the
visible, the other the intelligible world...
PPh 4.70 24 Socrates again, in his traits and genius,
is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's
extraordinary power.
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.
PPh 4.77 10 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world
passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have
the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew
before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
SwM 4.96 18 ...the soul having heretofore known all,
nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing
only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge, and find out
again all the rest...
SwM 4.108 9 At the top of the column [the spine]
[Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself
over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...
SwM 4.112 1 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was
written...to put science and the soul, long estranged from each other,
at one again.
SwM 4.128 21 ...once abroad again, we pity those who
can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.
SwM 4.136 23 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the
indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's
son;...
MoS 4.178 25 Reason...is apprehended, now and then,
for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years,
and again found for an interval, to be lost again.
MoS 4.178 26 Reason...is apprehended, now and then,
for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years,
and again found for an interval, to be lost again.
ShP 4.194 4 The poet needs a ground in popular
tradition...which, again, may restrain his art within the due
temperance.
ShP 4.207 4 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a
famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the
tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's
question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse,
again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/
ShP 4.217 25 One remembers again the trumpet-text in
the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them,
think ye we have created them in jest?
NMW 4.231 26 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his
son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself.
NMW 4.257 15 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer,
feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be
begun again.
GoW 4.263 25 A new thought or a crisis of passion
apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is
exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does
he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light
which has shined on him...
GoW 4.275 27 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over
again some old wife' s fable that has had possession of men's faith
these thousand years.
GoW 4.290 16 We too must write Bibles, to unite again
the heavens and the earthly world.
ET2 5.30 20 ...here on the second day of our voyage,
stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself
whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to
England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and
he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means
now to come back again in the ship.
ET2 5.31 2 If sailors were contented, if they had not
resolved again and again not to go to sea any more, I should respect
them.
ET4 5.52 22 Again, as if to intensate the influences
that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits
really narrows itself to a small district.
ET4 5.56 6 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again,
the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them...
ET7 5.123 23 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the
movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which,
to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this
country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of
slavery, in American politics: and then again by the French popular
legends on the subject of perfidious Albion.
ET7 5.125 8 It is told of a good Sir John that he
heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel
for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so
unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never
listen to evidence again.
ET8 5.135 1 [The English] hide virtues under vices,
or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll
again...
ET8 5.138 18 [The English] are subject to panics of
credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself
soon and easily, as, in this temperate zone, the sky after whatever
storms clears again...
ET8 5.141 1 ...if hereafter the war of races...should
menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to
their floating castles...
ET10 5.166 16 [England's] worthies are ever
surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred
strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of
each individual...
ET10 5.167 24 ...in these crises [of political
enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable
of...the application of their talent to new labor. Then again come in
new calamities.
ET10 5.168 8 It is not, I suppose, want of probity,
so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual
competition of underselling, and that again a perpetual deterioration
of the fabric.
ET11 5.182 24 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale
gave him eight seats in Parliament. This is the Heptarchy again;...
ET12 5.208 16 Again, at the universities, it is urged
that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national
life,--a well-educated gentleman.
ET12 5.212 8 Again, the great number of cultivated
men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
ET13 5.220 10 Heats and genial periods arrive in
history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
ET16 5.279 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and
out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of
Stonehenge].
ET16 5.282 20 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was
the compass...
ET16 5.283 3 On hints like these, Stukeley builds
again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
ET16 5.285 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a
bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the
house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches,
grapes and wine.
F 6.8 20 Will you say...one need not lay his account
for cataclysms every day? Aye, but what happens once may happen
again...
F 6.15 27 ...when a race has lived its term, it comes
no more again.
F 6.25 11 We rightly say of ourselves, we were born
and afterward we were born again...
Wth 6.126 5 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and
invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense, but to capital
again.
Ctr 6.136 11 Bring any club or company of intelligent
men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some
penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a
confession of insanities would come up!
Ctr 6.155 18 There is a great deal of self-denial and
manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and
country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm, and then
goes back cheerfully to work again.
Bhr 6.179 4 ...[eyes]...intrude, and come again...
Bhr 6.194 23 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his
brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in
the Elysian Fields.
Wsp 6.229 6 If we will sit quietly, what [people]
ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not
care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking
through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim
chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior
shall speak again.
Wsp 6.236 14 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of
his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again;...
Wsp 6.241 12 There will be a new church founded on
moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again...
CbW 6.263 4 ...I will not here repeat the first rule
of economy, already propounded once and again...
CbW 6.268 23 ...there is a great dearth, this year,
of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are
just starting for Wisconsin; have letters from Bremen;--see you again,
soon.
CbW 6.272 6 Our conversation once and again has
apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet
beheld;...
Bty 6.293 8 It is necessary in music, when you strike
a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the
accord again;...
Bty 6.298 22 ...short legs which constrain us to
short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the
owner; and long stilts again put him at perpetual disadvantage...
Civ 7.17 21 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/
What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible
again/...
Civ 7.17 27 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh
start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
Civ 7.31 26 I see the immense material
prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be
repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba, and thence
westward to California again.
Art2 7.43 2 Let us now consider this [natural] law as
it affects the works that have beauty for their end, that is, the
productions of the Fine Arts. Here again the prominent fact is
subordination of man.
Art2 7.51 7 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature, again in active operation.
Art2 7.54 17 Again, [Goethe] suggested, we may see in
any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder
stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has
decomposed the rest.
Elo1 7.72 4 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove,
This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her
the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
DL 7.121 2 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained
glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of
their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again
together?
DL 7.130 19 If by love and nobleness we take up into
ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around
us.
Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and
decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
Farm 7.152 25 This crust of soil which ages have
refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and
instructed people.
WD 7.171 8 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back
to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
WD 7.181 7 The savages in the islands...delight to
play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming
out again...
Boks 7.195 18 All these [pamphlets and political
chapters] are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the
wise ear of Time, who... out of a million of pages reprints one. Again
it is judged,...
Boks 7.214 9 ...books that...distribute things...with
as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
Clbs 7.229 19 [The student] seeks intelligent
persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old
motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is
again shown him.
Clbs 7.230 15 ...a natural fact has only half its
value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then
they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story.
And that may be the reason why, when a gentleman has told a good thing,
he immediately tells it again.
Cour 7.258 6 Lord Wellington said, Uniforms were
often masks; and again, When my journal appears many statues must come
down.
Cour 7.270 5 ...I remember the old professor, whose
searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class,
when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have
never read that book; instantly the book lost credit, and was not to be
heard of again.
Cour 7.279 17 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although
his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with
wondering eye./
Suc 7.294 13 The good workman never says, There, that
will do; but, There, that is it: try it, and come again, it will last
always.
Suc 7.301 26 ...I am more interested to know that
when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand
word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
If it be not, it will never be heard of again.
OA 7.313 22 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If
Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./
OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...after
the revolt again victorious and elected at the age of ninety-six to the
throne of the Eastern Empire...
PI 8.15 13 As the bird alights on the bough, then
plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a
moment in any form.
PI 8.16 19 Mountains and oceans we think we
understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are
safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean
alembics and come out men, and then, melted again, come out words...
PI 8.20 8 And again [Swedenborg said]: Names,
countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are
in heaven;...
PI 8.31 22 [The poet] is a true re-commencer, or Adam
in the garden again.
PI 8.33 5 Homer has his own [important
passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/ and
again,--They heal their griefs, for curable are the hearts of the
noble./
PI 8.55 2 ...the masters sometimes rise above
themselves to strains...which neither any competitor could outdo, nor
the bard himself again equal.
PI 8.62 17 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be
borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak
with me again...
PI 8.63 10 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the
heavenly bread! The most they have done is to intoxicate us once and
again with its taste.
PI 8.64 21 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world
and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;...
PI 8.70 1 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image
more or less that imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of
the universe should glow again for us;...
SA 8.89 18 ...now and then we say things to our
mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power
of the parties to be strangers again.
SA 8.96 4 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter
destruction of all your logic and learning. ... Then you...will never
accept the counterfeit again.
SA 8.98 10 ...On the day of resurrection, those who
have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and
have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning
back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it,
will see it closed against them...
SA 8.98 11 ...On the day of resurrection, those who
have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and
have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning
back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it,
will see it closed against them...
Res 8.147 18 Against the terrors of the mob,
which...is...chaos come again, good sense has many arts of prevention
and of relief.
Comc 8.173 9 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is
perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the
intellect feels again the half-man.
QO 8.193 21 Every word in the language has once been
used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is
used again and again...
QO 8.193 26 ...a quick wit can at any time reinforce
[a word], and it comes into vogue again.
QO 8.195 12 A man hears a fine sentence out of
Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a
thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and
he will wonder again at his own simplicity...
QO 8.197 18 Dumont was exalted by being used by
Mirabeau, by Bentham and by Sir Philip Francis, who, again, was less
than his own Junius;...
QO 8.197 22 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate
author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of
John Wilson,-who, again, writes better under the domino of Christopher
North than in his proper clothes.
QO 8.199 7 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his
bed...sleeping again, he saw and heard the speakers as before...
QO 8.204 2 Only as braveries of too prodigal power
can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of
petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and
blushes again here in the street.
PC 8.231 10 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage,
believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
PC 8.233 4 [A man] cannot go from the good to the
evil at pleasure, and then back again to the good.
PPo 8.250 22 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters
and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution
of Fate:-I am: what I am/ My dust will be again./
pPo 8.251 13 In general what is more tedious
than...panegyrics addressed to Grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not
skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him
better....Again:-Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down...
PPo 8.253 3 Again,-I heard the harp of the planet
Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the
sweet-voiced Hafiz!
PPo 8.253 7 And again,-When Hafiz sings, the angels
hearken...
PPo 8.254 3 Again:-O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/
Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can
less repine./
PPo 8.254 21 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is
holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./
PPo 8.255 16 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now
flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of
heaven/ Nestles the bird again./
PPo 8.258 11 O'er the garden water goes the wind
alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is
quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips
brave./
Insp 8.273 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a
long darkness, then a flash again.
Insp 8.273 24 Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and
again the sea is aglow to the horizon.
Insp 8.273 27 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all
day in the window, and again it is garrulous...
Insp 8.274 26 [Plato] said again, The man who is his
own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.
Insp 8.278 23 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that
I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic
panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the
world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/ So
the fancy cools,-till when/ That brave spirit comes again./
Insp 8.279 18 We might say of these memorable moments
of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by
happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone, and passed
out of it again...
Insp 8.282 18 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert]
says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and
write;/...
Insp 8.285 26 At last it has become summer,/ And at
the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my
sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the
half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the
unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
Insp 8.291 16 What prudence again does every artist,
every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
Grts 8.317 21 The man who sells you a lamp shows you
that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade
in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again
casts a shadow in the path of the electric light.
Imtl 8.321 10 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is
permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will
meet thee again./
Imtl 8.323 17 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our
mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of
happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary
tempest from which it had escaped...
Imtl 8.326 14 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was
an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect;...
Imtl 8.332 1 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met
[his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw
each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at
the President's house in Washington.
Imtl 8.336 13 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne
of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to
build and finish and furnish a palace of snow, to melt again to water
in the first thaw.
Dem1 10.25 12 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again
that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians
and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
PerF 10.73 1 What I have said of the inexorable
persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule
applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
PerF 10.81 20 See in a circle of school-girls one
with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that
she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the
laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one
electricity; there in the centre of fellowship and joy is Scheherazade
again.
Chr2 10.112 24 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another
sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again.
Chr2 10.119 5 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more
than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his
first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but
achieves the feat, instantly tries it again...
Supl 10.170 22 ...the great official...declared that
he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He
was answered again by officials.
Supl 10.175 17 Sow grain, and it does not come up;
put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
SovE 10.189 19 Savage war gives place to that of
Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war
again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory
is wealth and the defeat poverty.
SovE 10.194 19 A man should be...a guest in his own
thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the
truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a
momentary man. Without the truth, he is a clod again.
SovE 10.207 7 ...new views of inspiration, of
miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions, and it is
vain to bring them again.
SovE 10.208 27 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and...bring
asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
Prch 10.228 23 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his
roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under
the cassock.
Prch 10.229 25 It is the old story again: once we had
wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and
wooden priests.
Prch 10.234 12 A vivid thought brings the power to
paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of
its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated...and
shall not forget to come again for new impulses.
MoL 10.257 17 We will not again disparage America,
now that we have seen what men it will bear.
Schr 10.260 3 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like
sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
Schr 10.263 24 [Intellect] is the power that makes
the world incarnated in man, and laying again the beams of heaven and
earth...
Plu 10.307 17 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist,
who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself
privation; and again, The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of
Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is
to that which appears.
Plu 10.311 19 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book,
we forget to open it again.
Plu 10.312 18 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]:
God divided man into men, that they might help each other; and again,
The good man differs from God in nothing but duration.
LLNE 10.358 11 Society in England and in America is
trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...
CSC 10.373 17 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention
debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
EzRy 10.379 8 We love the venerable house/ Our
fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their
dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the
pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their
homes again./
EzRy 10.384 22 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph
Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
MMEm 10.400 27 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had
married again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the
parish at Concord...
MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...
MMEm 10.414 26 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked
out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper
to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in
the grandeurs of winter...
Thor 10.452 3 After completing his experiments [on
lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in
Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he
returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now
opened his way to fortune. But he replied that he should never make
another pencil. Why should I? I would not do again what I have done
once.
Thor 10.472 13 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to
his most prized botanical swamp,-possibly knowing that you could never
find it again...
GSt 10.501 9 ...on the instant of [good men's] death,
we wonder at our past insensibility, when we see how impossible it is
to replace them. There will be other good men, but not these again.
HDC 11.37 1 Roger Williams affirms that he has known
[Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day, and
back again within two days.
HDC 11.67 15 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached
again at Concord...
EWI 11.105 22 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian
slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's
shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly
endeavored to get possession of him again.
EWI 11.118 24 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled
children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed,
they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find
the experiment succeeds, and they begin again.
EWI 11.122 24 [The civility] of Athens, again, lay in
an intellect dedicated to beauty.
EWI 11.138 17 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence
of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
Virtuous men will not again rely on political agents.
EWI 11.147 14 There is a blessed necessity by which
the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again,
making all crime mean and ugly.
War 11.164 20 You shall hear, some day, of a wild
fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built
great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
FSLC 11.188 6 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of
a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of
Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the
dog-hutch he fled from.
FSLC 11.200 25 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years,
words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the
people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
We know what we are doing. We have conquered you once, and we can and
will conquer you again.
FSLN 11.232 15 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in
this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
FSLN 11.237 5 The terror which the Marseillaise
struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
FSLN 11.242 17 I listened, lately, on one of those
occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons
returning from the political arena, believing that senators and
statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in
the Castalian pools.
JBB 11.272 2 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the
federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local
government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we
should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts...stained to all ages,
once and again, by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
TPar 11.285 20 He whose voice will not be heard here
again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
ACiv 11.304 27 Again, as long as we fight without any
affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we
fight on the same side, for slavery.
ACiv 11.305 5 Again, if we conquer the enemy [the
South],-what then?
ACiv 11.305 11 ...next winter we must begin at the
beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
ACiv 11.307 8 ...the North will for a time have its
full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not
last;...because Slavery will again speak through [sensible Southerners]
its harsh necessity.
ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace
is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's
[Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent,
like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
HCom 11.345 1 We shall not again disparage America,
now that we have seen what men it will bear.
SMC 11.356 5 It is an interesting part of the history
[of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were
made soldiers. That was done again on the Kansas plan.
SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant
in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
SMC 11.375 19 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil
War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you
have already trampled with your victories.
Koss 11.399 24 We [people of Concord] know the
austere condition of liberty-that it must be reconquered over and over
again;...
Shak1 11.447 13 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...again, that a well-known and honored
compatriot...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an
absolute bar to his presence with us.
Shak1 11.452 27 ...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 again preferred to selecter companions, find
no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
FRO1 11.477 16 I say again, in the phrase used by my
friend, that we began [the Free Religious Association] many years
ago...
FRep 11.513 22 Our sleepy civilization...has built
its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons
Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and
bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and
caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which
could change the art of war again...
PLT 12.25 8 In the orchard many trees send out a
moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop. They look all summer
as if they would presently burst into bud again, but they do not.
PLT 12.27 24 An individual body is the momentary
arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory
duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the
currents of the world.
PLT 12.40 3 ...the mind discovers some essential
copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or
changes, and enjoys the discovery as if coming to its own again.
PLT 12.40 22 The game of Intellect is the perception
that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition; and
contrariwise, that every general statement is poetical again by being
particularized or impersonated.
PLT 12.42 20 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the
laws of the world, adding the power to express them again in some new
form.
PLT 12.44 13 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring
the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall
attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
PLT 12.53 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a
long darkness, then a flash again.
PLT 12.54 11 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if
you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is
fast becoming sense, and we must flee again into the distance if we
would laugh.
PLT 12.57 18 The men we know, poets, wits, writers,
deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but
must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine
house he has built, and never enters it again.
II 12.65 22 ...in each man's experience, from this
spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...
II 12.68 6 Again, if you go to a gallery of pictures,
or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many
excellences.
II 12.70 16 If you press [those we call great men],
they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise...
II 12.82 19 If [a man] is wrong, increase his
determination to his aim, and he is right again.
II 12.88 22 ...there is a religion which...is
worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy
person;...
Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again
into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
Mem 12.97 15 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in
and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times
and persons...and she being gone again I search in vain for any trace
of the anecdotes?
Mem 12.103 15 The poor short lone fact dies at the
birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal
waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again...
Mem 12.103 17 In solitude, in darkness, we tread over
again the sunny walks of youth;...
Mem 12.103 19 ...confined now in populous streets you
behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you
behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the
solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
Mem 12.105 22 One of my neighbors, a grazier, told me
that he should know again every cow, ox, or steer that he ever saw.
CInt 12.128 11 Now if there be genius in the scholar,
a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world, and the power to
express them again in some new form, he is made to find his own way.
CL 12.150 24 [The man] went forth again after the
rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
CL 12.155 10 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon
the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if
relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low
country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. When I again
ascended the Alps, I revived as before.
CL 12.166 20 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are
found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which
landscape gives us, in a finer form;...
Bost 12.192 11 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops
suffered from pigeons and mice. Nature has never again indulged in
these exasperations.
Bost 12.196 16 New England lies in the cold and
hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and
heated rooms a large part of the year, and then again shuttng up the
body in flannel and leather, defrauds the human being in some degree of
his relations to external nature;...
Bost 12.206 8 A house in Boston was worth as much
again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
MAng1 12.215 23 A purity severe and even terrible
goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his
chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life...
MAng1 12.234 9 When [Michelangelo] was informed that
Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the
Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the
figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him
reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
Milt1 12.247 16 ...if the new and temporary renown of
the poet is silent again, it is nevertheless true that [Milton] has
gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
Milt1 12.270 16 ...once in the History, and once
again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his
judgment of the English genius.
Milt1 12.275 20 Again, in Paradise Regained, we have
the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind...
ACri 12.291 8 As soon as you read aloud, you will
find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find
the words that drag.
ACri 12.301 12 After Chicago had secured the
confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of
New City] again...
ACri 12.305 4 ...when I come into the pastures, I
find antiquity again.
MLit 12.320 23 The Excursion awakened in every lover
of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...and knew again the
ineffable secret of solitude.
MLit 12.321 21 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets
by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which
through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it
hath made.
MLit 12.336 1 Religion will bind again these that
were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...
Pray 12.353 26 I know that sorrow comes not at once
only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome, but again, and yet
again, its flood pours over us, and as full as at first.
AgMs 12.361 16 The Commissioner [Henry Colman]
advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and
buy again in the spring.
EurB 12.375 14 Again and again we have been caught in
that old foolish trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].
EurB 12.375 15 Again and again we have been caught in
that old foolish trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].
PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the
spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same
bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just
re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a
little business.
PPr 12.391 3 [Carlyle's style] is the first
experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so
great an achievement. It will be done again and again, sharper,
simpler;...
Trag 12.413 26 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at
once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors
appears to him universal disorder; chaos is come again.
Trag 12.414 17 As the west wind lifts up again the
heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we
let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are
dark and wet and low bent.
Trag 12.414 27 ...new hopes spring, new affections
twine, and the broken is whole again.
Agamemnon [Homer, Iliad], n (3)
Hist 2.24 27 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of
[each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful
performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer...
Elo1 7.71 22 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear
child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks
broader in his shoulders and breast.
Farm 7.153 19 ...[the farmer] stands well on the
world,--as Adam did...as Homer's heroes, Agamemnon or Achilles, do.
Agamemnon, n. (1)
Pt1 3.7 23 ...Homer's words are as costly and
admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
Agamemnon's, n. (1)
Pt1 3.7 23 ...Homer's words are as costly and
admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
agaric, n. (2)
Agassiz, Louis John, n. (1)
Agassiz, Louis John Rudolp (2)
Civ 7.17 7 We praise the guide, we praise the forest
life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts
and trained experiment,/ Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?/
PI 8.7 18 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter
a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the
poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Goethe, of
Agassiz...
Agassiz, Louis, n. (3)
EdAd 11.391 19 Here is the balance to be adjusted
between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic
theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
CL 12.164 27 Agassiz studies year after year fishes
and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But
whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
CW 12.176 26 This is my ideal of the powers of
wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer
to carry him there...
Agassiz's Museum, Harvard (1)
Res 8.151 26 ...how hungry I found myself, the other
day, at Agassiz's Museum, for [shells'] names!
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