Almoners to Altered
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
almoners, n. (1)
Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities,-as in...appointing almoners to the helpless...
almost, adj. (2)
DSA 1.135 24 ...you will infer the sad
conviction...of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in
society.
SlHr 10.440 8 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a
plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...
almost, adv. (199)
AmS 1.90 6 ...[the active soul] every man contains
within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
AmS 1.92 22 ...great and heroic men have existed who
had almost no other information than by the printed page.
DSA 1.135 26 The Church seems to totter to its fall,
almost all life extinct.
MR 1.229 27 There is not the most bronzed and
sharpened money-catcher who does not, to your consternation almost,
quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new
ideas.
MR 1.243 27 I ought to be armed by every part and
function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to
any of these things.
LT 1.267 5 How great were once Lord Bacon's
dimensions! he is now reduced almost to the middle height;...
LT 1.286 4 It almost seems as if what was aforetime
spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
Tran 1.332 1 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which rounds off to an almost perfect sphericity...
YA 1.383 27 Whether...the objection almost
universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an
associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
Comp 2.123 24 Look at those who have less faculty,
and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their
eye;...
Lov1 2.174 3 I have been told that in some public
discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly
cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the
remembrance of such disparaging words.
Lov1 2.176 19 Every bird on the boughs of the tree
sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul. The notes are almost
articulate.
Lov1 2.176 22 The trees of the forest, the waving
grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover]
almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite.
Lov1 2.184 25 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in
her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,/ That one might almost say her
body thought./
Fdsp 2.192 10 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings
fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
Fdsp 2.195 12 It is almost dangerous to me to crush
the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
Hsm1. 2.252 11 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost
ashamed of its body.
OS 2.288 14 In these instances [the scholar and
author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue,
but almost of vice;...
Exp 3.47 24 ...in this great society wide lying
around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
It is almost all custom and gross sense.
Mrs1 3.131 14 There is almost no kind of
self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it
the freedom of its saloons.
Nat2 3.169 2 There are days which occur in this
climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches
its perfection;...
Nat2 3.170 16 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks
almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
Nat2 3.173 3 ...I go with my friend to the shore of
our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a
delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted
man to enter without novitiate and probation.
Pol1 3.209 24 Of the two great parties which at this
hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has
the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
UGM 4.29 3 Nothing is more marked than the power by
which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where
almost all men are too social and interfering.
PPh 4.44 27 [Plato]...has almost impressed language
and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.
PPh 4.45 14 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and
philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
PPh 4.47 5 [Philosophy's] early records, almost
perished, are of the immigrations from Asia...
PPh 4.76 4 It is almost the sole deduction from the
merit of Plato that his writings have not...the vital authority which
the screams of prophets... possess.
SwM 4.102 25 [Swedenborg's] superb
speculation...almost realizes his own picture...of the original
integrity of man.
SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined
to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can
almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
SwM 4.123 27 Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though
of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe...
SwM 4.126 18 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim
to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the
human body and mind.
SwM 4.132 8 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just
apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.
MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were
written to one sex only, and almost all were written in Latin;...
ShP 4.191 10 Great genial power, one would almost
say, consists in not being original at all;...
NMW 4.230 21 That common-sense which no sooner
respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence
with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make
[Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from
its extent, the modern party.
GoW 4.283 5 ...almost all the valuable distinctions
which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from
Germany.
ET4 5.71 10 I suppose the dogs and horses [in
England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost
as tough and supple as their own.
ET5 5.92 27 [The English] have made...London...such a
city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one
time or other forced to visit it.
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most
fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
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.
ET8 5.139 25 The following passage from the
Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern
Englishman...
ET10 5.167 26 England is aghast at the disclosure of
her fraud in the adulteration...of almost every fabric in her mills and
shops;...
ET11 5.190 24 ...at this moment, almost every great
house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.
ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so
many benefactors.
ET12 5.202 11 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed
for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to
leave behind him some article of plate;...
ET13 5.221 4 So far is [the English gentleman] from
attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have
done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in
him to pray to God.
ET13 5.225 15 The chatter of French politics...and
the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends
out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern
congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
ET13 5.227 3 ...a bishop [in England] is only a
surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of
the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a
premium on felony.
ET14 5.243 1 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period
almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord
Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits
that could honor a nation, or help study.
ET14 5.244 16 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful
at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not
go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his
countrymen in that faculty;...
ET15 5.263 27 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law
system, and almost alone lifted it through.
ET15 5.264 15 [The London Times] has entered into
each municipal, literary and social question, almost with a controlling
voice.
ET16 5.278 10 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge]
we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer
and chisel.
ET16 5.288 15 There, I thought, in America, lies
nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
Wth 6.91 13 ...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...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
Wth 6.116 23 Sir David Brewster gives exact
instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and
hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more
the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt
concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he
consumes...
Ctr 6.162 2 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to
the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost
all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than
thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Ctr 6.163 27 All that class of the severe and
restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
Bhr 6.177 17 It almost violates the proprieties if we
say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to
utter to every street passenger.
Wsp 6.231 11 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on
the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office,
or fame, is almost equally low.
CbW 6.274 9 ...it counts much whether we have had
good companions in that time [the past five years],--almost as much as
what we have been doing.
Civ 7.31 6 What a benefit would the American
government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost
to the point of prohibition!
Art2 7.45 6 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the
uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture
of Titian.
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction
has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a
certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of
articulation.
DL 7.105 8 The child realizes to every man his own
earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious
history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
DL 7.105 10 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful
curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
Farm 7.144 10 ...the earth is a machine which yields
almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.
Farm 7.145 14 The earth burns, the mountains burn and
decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the
generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
Clbs 7.241 6 ...it is not this class, whom the
splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the
vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
Cour 7.253 9 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an
over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference
of the general good to his own;...
Cour 7.274 7 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack
of the inquisitor...
OA 7.321 25 Beranger said, Almost all the good
workmen live long.
PI 8.15 5 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics
for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost
be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
PI 8.52 26 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that
allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the
mental eye.
SA 8.80 1 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating
eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are
central...
SA 8.87 2 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions
the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse
nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
SA 8.104 3 If [a people is] occupied in its own
affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the
notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
SA 8.105 20 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit
is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise.
SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to
better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal
laws], are made incapable of conceit, which destroys almost all the
fine wits.
Elo2 8.122 1 ...there are persons of natural
fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their
style;...
Elo2 8.122 2 ...there are persons of natural
fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;
like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was
wholesome;...
Res 8.152 22 You cannot tell when [the willows] do
bud and blossom, these vivacious trees, so ancient, for they are almost
the oldest of all.
Comc 8.173 3 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast
only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to
contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face
every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep? Therefore have I
wept. Timur almost split his sides with laughing.
QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an
almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
PC 8.233 18 ...in France, at one time, there was
almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by
distinction, society...
PC 8.233 20 ...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.
PPo 8.239 18 When the bard improvised an amatory
ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond
control.
PPo 8.245 11 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences
which might be engraved on a sword-blade and almost on a ring.
PPo 8.252 5 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or
shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his
name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the
piece.
PPo 8.252 18 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz]
the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes almost
in the fun of Falstaff...
PPo 8.263 24 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird
Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and
difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out.
Insp 8.283 12 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness
that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
Insp 8.288 14 ...it is almost impossible for a
house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude
interruptions...
Imtl 8.341 17 Montesquieu said, The love of study is
in us almost the only eternal passion.
Dem1 10.6 1 In sleep one shall travel certain
roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road
or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of
dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to
that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person
confesses in daylight...
Dem1 10.12 8 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as
much demand on our faith as miracles do.
Dem1 10.13 8 For Spiritism, it shows that no man,
almost, is fit to give evidence.
Aris 10.57 5 I will not protract this discourse by
describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture
to name one, and the same is almost the sole condition on which
knighthood is to be won;...
Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on
the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil.
Edc1 10.150 23 [In colleges] You have to work for
large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental,
routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
Prch 10.228 11 An era in human history is the life of
Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and
superstition almost harmless.
Schr 10.270 4 'T is wonderful, 't is almost
scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
Schr 10.284 9 ...the sure months are bringing [the
scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no
lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
Plu 10.295 18 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put
this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the
breast.
Plu 10.316 27 I can almost regret that the learned
editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not
preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
LLNE 10.326 18 This perception [that the individual
is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and
detaches bone and marrow, soul and body, yea, almost the man from
himself.
LLNE 10.327 5 ...[the new race] hate...hierarchies,
governors, yea, almost laws.
LLNE 10.331 1 There was an influence on the young
people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that
of Pericles in Athens.
LLNE 10.337 10 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in
the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.
LLNE 10.344 15 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere
fact, almost offended you...
LLNE 10.347 24 Fourier, almost as wonderful an
example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon,
turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a
practical answer, almost a refutation, to the theories of the
socialists.
LLNE 10.356 23 [Thoreau] required no Phalanx, no
Government, no society, almost no memory.
EzRy 10.386 27 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his
pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust
was coming up to spoil his hay.
MMEm 10.398 8 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and
dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any
creature.
MMEm 10.402 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for
young people who pleased her was almost passionate...
MMEm 10.407 10 ...in the country, we converse so much
more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
SlHr 10.439 20 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic
might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural
reverence, which made him modest and courteous, though his courtesy had
a grave and almost military air.
Thor 10.459 17 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English
and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
Thor 10.460 8 ...idealist as he was, standing for
abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of
government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost
equally opposed to every class of reformers.
Thor 10.460 11 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau]
found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost
equally opposed to every class of reformers.
Thor 10.467 22 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...
Thor 10.478 8 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a
friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as
their confessor and prophet...
Thor 10.481 23 ...[Thoreau]...said [echoes] were
almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard.
GSt 10.506 18 For a year or two, the most
affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a
stranger in his beautiful home.
GSt 10.507 7 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
HDC 11.83 22 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a
pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
LVB 11.91 13 It now appears that the government of
the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and
are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation
stand up and say, This is not our act.
EWI 11.99 10 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was
the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question
on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record
his vote;...
EWI 11.100 18 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that
none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the
facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your
grave, the universe has no need of you!
War 11.154 15 ...[war] is at this moment the delight
of half the world, of almost all young and ignorant persons;...
FSLC 11.211 4 Europe, the least of all the
continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and
power of them all.
FSLN 11.241 2 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery
with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its
downfall, I own that the patience it requires is almost too sublime for
mortals...
JBB 11.270 14 ...we are here to think of relief for
the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and
very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man who loves the
Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on
you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an
oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a
preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're
not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's
sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
EdAd 11.387 2 We hesitate to employ a word so much
abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its
popular sense.
Scot 11.465 3 [Scott] apprehended in advance the
immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the
era of his books...
Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was
more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances,
up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for
a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
FRO1 11.480 26 I wish that the various beneficent
institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all
be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free
Religious Association],-almost all of them are represented here...
CPL 11.497 6 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a
shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...
FRep 11.517 18 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost
ideal perfection.
FRep 11.526 22 ...instead of the doleful experience
of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the
condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here
that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
CInt 12.118 2 Never was pure valor-and almost I might
say, never pure ability-shown in a bad cause.
CL 12.145 25 [The pear] is hardy, and almost
immortal.
CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever
woods or waters go; almost where a squirrel or a bee can go, he can;...
Bost 12.194 3 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of
Saint Augustine, a man of as clear a sight as almost any other; of
Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a
culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
Bost 12.198 3 We can show [in New England] native
examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never
crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
Milt1 12.267 12 ...who is there, almost [wrote
Milton], that measures wisdom by simplicity...
Milt1 12.269 11 Milton...was set down in England in
the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
MLit 12.312 6 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost
alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity
which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual
influence of the world...
MLit 12.320 27 ...the interest of the poem
[Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the
influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
WSL 12.345 18 What is the quality of the persons
who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history,
almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?
WSL 12.346 4 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living
English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
EurB 12.366 13 The poet must not only converse with
pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses.
PPr 12.386 9 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes,
to the very mountains and stars almost...
Let 12.403 12 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land
is fenced in and builded over, almost like New England itself...
alms, n. (3)
SR 2.52 16 ...alms to sots, and the thousand-fold
Relief Societies;- though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a
wicked dollar...
Wth 6.105 26 Give no bounties, make equal laws,
secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
almshouse, n. (1)
Art1 2.365 27 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we
are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
almshouses, n. (1)
PC 8.209 4 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 improved almshouses;...
aloe, n. (1)
Edc1 10.152 5 In these judgments one needs that
foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was
said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the
end of a hundred years.
Aloes, Century, n. (1)
CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century
Aloes...
aloft, adv. (8)
OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That
diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
Exp 3.48 6 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads
walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
ET2 5.27 12 Our good master keeps his kites up to the
last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft...
PPo 8.251 15 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike
down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
PerF 10.78 7 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the
Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
Chr2 10.101 14 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where
Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the
tread of the jubilant soul./
HDC 11.34 4 After [the pilgrims] have found a place
of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter,
under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a
fire against the earth, at the highest side.
AsSu 11.246 4 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he
prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red
right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
alone, adj. (218)
Nat 1.7 5 ...if a man would be alone, let him look at
the stars.
Nat 1.9 10 Not the sun or the summer alone, but every
hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
Nat 1.46 1 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the
unfathomed sea of thought and virtue whereto they alone...are the
entrances.
AmS 1.87 18 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of
this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
AmS 1.103 3 ...let [the scholar]...bide his own time,
- happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has
seen something truly.
DSA 1.135 6 The man...through whom the soul speaks,
alone can teach.
DSA 1.141 24 What a cruel injustice it is to that
Law...which alone can make thought dear and rich;...that it is
travestied and depreciated...
DSA 1.145 18 Let me admonish you, first of all, to go
alone;...
LE 1.174 24 Think alone, and all places are friendly
and sacred.
LE 1.175 7 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may
be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they
deal...with ideas. They are alone with the mind.
MN 1.212 11 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and
overpower each the nature of every other creature, and itself alone in
all modes and throughout space and spirit to prevail and possess.
MN 1.213 7 By piety alone, by conversing with the
cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
LT 1.277 1 I think that the soul of reform;...the
feeling that then are we strongest when most most private and alone.
LT 1.278 17 To the youth...the temptation is always
great to lend himself to public movements, and as one of a party
accomplish what he cannot hope to effect alone.
LT 1.281 11 By new infusions alone of the spirit by
which he is made and directed, can [man] be re-made and reinforced.
Con 1.323 6 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne
alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk
alone, accuses the whole world;...
Tran 1.347 10 [Transcendentalists] say to themselves,
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
Tran 1.357 27 ...the path which the hero travels
alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
YA 1.372 24 Remark the unceasing effort throughout
nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes
amelioration in mankind.
Comp 2.117 17 Has [a man] a defect of temper that
unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain
himself alone...
SL 2.151 13 Nothing is more deeply punished than the
neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
Lov1 2.173 2 Among the throng of girls [the village
boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him;...
Lov1 2.185 6 When alone, [the lovers] solace
themselves with the remembered image of the other.
Fdsp 2.189 11 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through
thee alone the sky is arched,/...
Fdsp 2.193 26 Let the soul be assured that somewhere
in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content
and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
Fdsp 2.202 4 ...he alone is victor who has truth
enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from
the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
Fdsp 2.204 6 A friend...is a sort of paradox in
nature. I who alone am... behold now the semblance of my
being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
Fdsp 2.207 11 In good company there is never such
discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave
them alone.
Fdsp 2.208 15 Let me be alone to the end of the
world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
OS 2.279 25 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel
Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's
perception,--It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to
affirm whatever he pleases;...
OS 2.296 9 The soul gives itself, alone, original and
pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...
Int 2.339 5 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes distorted...
Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry,
vegetation and animation...
Pt1 3.27 9 The poet knows that he speaks adequately
then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express
themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated
by nectar.
Exp 3.71 8 ...if at any time being alone I have good
thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions...
Chr1 3.90 7 [Character] is conceived of as a certain
undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is
company for him, so that such men...can entertain themselves very well
alone.
Chr1 3.99 13 I revere the person who is riches; so
that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or
a client...
Chr1 3.115 13 Is there any religion but this, to know
that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish
has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...I am aware, if I alone,
of the greatness of the fact.
Mrs1 3.143 23 Fashion has many classes and many rules
of probation and admission, and not the best alone.
NR 3.228 19 The magnetism which arranges tribes and
races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
NER 3.260 13 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical
movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I
suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all
emergencies alone...
NER 3.267 10 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in
every hour and place the secret soul;...
PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and
weep, write verses and walk alone...
PPh 4.65 24 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each
of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and
reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since
truth is perceived by this alone.
SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined
to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can
almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
SwM 4.136 17 The parish disputes in the Swedish
church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon,
concerning faith alone and works alone, intrude themselves into
[Swedenborg's] speculations...
SwM 4.139 10 ...we feel the more generous spirit of
the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways
are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just
man;...
MoS 4.152 7 ...to the men of practical power, whilst
immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone
have reason.
MoS 4.170 9 Truth, or the connection between cause
and effect, alone interests us.
ShP 4.192 1 ...as we could not hope to suppress
newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king,
prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was
ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the
same time.
ShP 4.202 13 There is somewhat touching in the
madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching
Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the
founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to
be remembered...
NMW 4.227 15 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts
the best measures... and not these alone, but on every happy and
memorable expression.
GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama
or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides,
and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal
refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties,
leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left
that will not find any place. This the bookbinder alone can give any
cohesion to;...
ET1 5.11 26 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge],
that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone,
than to love the good for itself alone.
ET1 5.11 27 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge],
that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone,
than to love the good for itself alone.
ET4 5.59 22 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in
battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with
his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller
shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some
tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
ET8 5.129 10 The [English] club-houses were
established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than
two eat together, and oftenest one eats alone.
ET8 5.134 20 ...here [in England] exists the best
stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they
alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for
dominion;...
ET8 5.143 5 [The English] choose that welfare which
is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is
stable;...
ET10 5.164 24 High stone fences and padlocked
garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be
alone.
ET13 5.223 24 If you let [the Anglican Church] alone,
it will let you alone.
ET14 5.235 3 It is a tacit rule of the [English]
language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when
elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;
nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
ET15 5.263 27 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law
system, and almost alone lifted it through.
ET16 5.287 19 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun
that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can
effect a clean revolution.
ET17 5.298 4 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that,
alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
Ctr 6.164 16 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on
ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give
imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their
esteem.
Bhr 6.191 6 ...Whatever is known to thyself alone,
has always very great value.
Bhr 6.197 11 As respects the delicate question of
culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid
down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
Wsp 6.208 13 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims
are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them
together...
CbW 6.278 20 The secret of culture is to learn that a
few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be
regarded;...
Ill 6.325 11 The young mortal enters the hall of the
firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone...
SS 7.4 6 For himself [my new friend] declared that he
could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
SS 7.10 18 Now and then a man exquisitely made can
live alone, and must;...
SS 7.12 5 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard
the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned
himself a boor; but whenever he...had one to himself alone, then they
were the boors and he the better man.
SS 7.14 7 I cannot go to the houses of my nearest
relatives, because I do not wish to be alone.
Civ 7.17 24 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/
What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible
again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame
of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone/...
DL 7.120 16 ...who can see unmoved...the first
solitary joys of literary vanity...sitting alone near the top of the
house;...
WD 7.177 5 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near
from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native
to thyself alone.
Clbs 7.223 7 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten,
or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
Clbs 7.229 26 If men are less when together than they
are alone, they are also in some respects enlarged.
Suc 7.284 22 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon,
which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone
who have arranged the finances, as you know
Suc 7.294 4 Is there no loving...of our design, for
itself alone?
OA 7.318 6 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he
is not sensible of the inroads of time...
OA 7.320 27 ...he who has accomplished something in
any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
PI 8.33 12 We detect at once by [style] whether the
writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought,--exists at the moment
for that alone...
PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts
of boys, who recite the rhymes to their hoops or their skates if
alone...
PI 8.70 24 Every man may be...lifted to a platform
whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that
mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought. The success with
which this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration.
SA 8.80 4 ...a few natures are central and forever
unfold, and these alone charm us.
Comc 8.159 4 Separate any object...from the
connection of things, and contemplate it alone...it becomes at once
comic;...
PC 8.212 2 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad
enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new
hope of mankind.
PPo 8.240 21 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the
all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and
now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf.
PPo 8.258 8 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./
PPo 8.258 23 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain
the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of
royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
Grts 8.300 1 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who,
in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still
revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
Grts 8.302 5 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to
hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above
all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
Grts 8.307 9 ...none of us will ever accomplish
anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper
which is heard by him alone.
Grts 8.309 1 ...I think it an essential caution to
young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one
thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you
hold alone, have free course.
Imtl 8.347 11 He has [immortality], and he alone, who
gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes.
Aris 10.56 18 Rather let us be alone whilst we live,
than encounter these lean kine.
Aris 10.61 2 The Golden Table never lacks members;
all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the
members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...and each believes
himself alone.
PerF 10.81 12 See in a circle of school-girls one
with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that
she is never alone...
PerF 10.83 18 The last revelation of intellect and of
sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he
is to deal absolutely in the world, as if he alone were a system and a
state...
Edc1 10.155 13 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the
river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone.
Prch 10.219 26 ...the sentiment that pervades a
nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by
that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what
should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
Prch 10.237 17 ...when we go alone, or come into the
house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused
of appearances...
MoL 10.254 20 The country complains loudly of the
inefficiency of the army. It was badly led. But, before this, it was
not the army alone, is was the population that was badly led.
Schr 10.269 12 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but
truth...
Schr 10.277 15 I delight in men...who could alone, or
with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our
civilization.
Plu 10.302 23 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and
these embalmed fragments, through his loving selection alone, have come
to be proverbs of later mankind.
LLNE 10.342 21 ...there was no concert, and only here
and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone,
with unusual vivacity.
LLNE 10.351 11 Aladdin and his magician, or the
beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the
[Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in
the Golden Horn].
MMEm 10.403 15 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone
been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
MMEm 10.407 1 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody
Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing
who lives in society alone...
MMEm 10.421 10 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I
[Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...
MMEm 10.429 14 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious
indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool,
sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet. Away with
knowledge;-God alone.
MMEm 10.433 12 Very rightly...the Christian ages,
proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
SlHr 10.444 10 ...was it only the lot of excellence,
that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of
life alone...
Thor 10.457 27 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a
small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two
years alone...
Carl 10.492 6 [Young men] go for free institutions,
for letting things alone...[Carlyle] for stringent government...
LS 11.6 8 This material fact, that the occasion [the
Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not
present.
LS 11.8 15 ...it should be granted us that, taken
alone, [the words This do in remembrance of me] do not necessarily
import so much as is usually thought...
LS 11.18 13 I appeal, brethren, to your individual
experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do
you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from
your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God...
LS 11.19 16 Most men find the bread and wine [of the
Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful
impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I
think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is
alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance.
HDC 11.46 13 ...Concord and the other plantations
found themselves separate and independent of Boston, with certain
rights of their own, which, what they were, time alone could fully
determine;...
HDC 11.60 26 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down
by an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning...
EWI 11.110 14 In 1821, according to official
documents presented to the American government by the Colonization
Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were
landed in the port of Havana alone.
War 11.155 27 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's
ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone
has been developed.
War 11.162 18 All admit that [peace] would be the
best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule. But it is absurd
for one nation to attempt it alone.
War 11.165 7 ...when a truth appears,-as, for
instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in
the Western Sea; though he alone of all men has that thought, and they
all jeer,-it will build ships;...
FSLC 11.196 16 But worse, not the officials alone are
bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is
solicited.
FSLN 11.216 8 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for
us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He
alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear
and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
FSLN 11.216 9 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for
us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He
alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear
and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
FSLN 11.221 14 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic
capacity, as if he alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and the
ear...
AKan 11.259 3 Who doubts that Kansas would have been
very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
AKan 11.261 18 A very remarkable speech from a
Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to
concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and
determine.
JBS 11.278 15 ...[John Brown] was much considered in
the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of
twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
SHC 11.431 21 ...there is no ornament, no
architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
Scot 11.463 10 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial
anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he
alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
FRO2 11.487 23 I think wise men wish their religion
to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
FRep 11.543 8 Justice satisfies everybody, and
justice alone.
PLT 12.40 14 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 12.61 14 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of
souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind
guides and thriftless workmen...
II 12.66 3 'T is very certain that a man's whole
possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on
all objects. Here alone is the field of metaphysical discovery...
Bost 12.203 24 ...there is always [in
Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor
with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant,
who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone...
MAng1 12.220 21 Cardinal Farnese one day found
[Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...
MAng1 12.227 22 ...not only was this discoverer of
Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of
practical skill, which...must be learned by practice alone, but he was
one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
MAng1 12.228 25 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say,
Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when
the scaffolding is taken away.
MAng1 12.232 18 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an
artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has
conceived;...
Milt1 12.252 6 It is the aspect which [Milton]
presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.
Milt1 12.260 16 Michael Angelo calls him alone an
artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
Milt1 12.277 25 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not
the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...
MLit 12.312 6 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost
alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity
which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual
influence of the world...
WSL 12.346 4 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living
English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
Pray 12.353 7 At whatever price, I must be alone with
thee [My Father];...
AgMs 12.362 21 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a
single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.
PPr 12.387 11 ...after a short time, down go [the
age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them; its virtues alone
remain...
Let 12.395 24 But to be prudent in all the
particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously
forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide
ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
alone, adv. (7)
DSA 1.126 14 This [moral] thought dwelled always
deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not
alone in Palestine...
DSA 1.136 8 ...this moaning of the heart because it
is bereaved of the consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of
the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
Wsp 6.241 26 ...the super-personal Heart,--[man]
shall repose alone on that.
Edc1 10.125 20 ...the poor man...is allowed to put
his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate
me...not alone in the elements, but... in the languages...
Edc1 10.130 17 If Newton come and...perceive that not
alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all
bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the
power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
II 12.69 23 Where is the yeast that will leaven this
lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent
lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile? That force
or flame is alone to be considered;...
alone, n. (1)
SwM 4.97 7 All religious history contains traces of
the trance of saints...the flight, Plotinus called it, of the alone to
the alone;...
alongshore, adv. (1)
Civ 7.31 25 I see the immense material
prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be
repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
alongside, adv. (1)
ET5 5.87 8 ...[the English] fundamentally believe
that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close
alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
Alonzo [Shakespeare, The T (1)
aloof, adj. (8)
Int 2.342 6 He in whom the love of truth predominates
will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
DL 7.132 4 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to
beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
Comc 8.158 24 The perpetual game of humor is to look
with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
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, so aloof was it from any will of ours.
LLNE 10.333 27 [Everett]...speaking, walking,
sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
aloof, adv. (2)
Ctr 6.133 16 Eminent spiritualists shall have an
incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...
SovE 10.186 20 All forces are found in Nature united
with that which they move...light is not massed aloof...
aloud, adv. (9)
Pol1 3.201 8 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and
prays, and paints to-day, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall
presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
OA 7.335 16 [John Adams] received a premature report
of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for
it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on
repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the
congregation...
Elo2 8.121 19 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a
disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for
Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his
dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
ACri 12.285 26 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of
this Romany, but cannot be read aloud, and so far fall short.
ACri 12.291 7 As soon as you read aloud, you will
find what sentences drag.
Trag 12.410 14 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable
load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always
another person who is tormented.
alow, adv. (1)
ET2 5.27 12 Our good master keeps his kites up to the
last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft...
Alph River, England, n. (1)
ET16 5.285 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a
bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which
the gardener did not know the name (Qu. Alph?);...
alphabet, n. (5)
Comc 8.168 7 I think there is malice in a very
trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not
suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural
History Society. It is of a boy who was learning his alphabet.
PC 8.224 14 As language is in the alphabet, so is
entire Nature...in one atom.
CW 12.179 13 ...there is a general sense which the
best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves
unexplained.
alphabetic, adj. (1)
Mem 12.93 12 There is no book like the memory, none
with such a good index, and that of every kind, alphabetic,
systematic...
alphabets, n. (1)
Plu 10.303 14 ...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
upturning of the alphabets of old races...
Alphonso X, of Leon and Ca (1)
NR 3.238 11 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she
were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful
advice.
alpine, adj. (1)
CL 12.144 12 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not
like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on
three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the
choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way
back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our
slopes in Massachusetts, undulating...but without this alpine
inconveniency.
Alpine, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.216 20 It is true that genius takes its rise
out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men
covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
Alps Mountains, n. (12)
Nat 1.20 22 ...when Arnold Winkelried, in the high
Alps...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line
for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of
the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let
his faculties find...no Alps to climb...and he would beat the air, and
appear stupid.
Fdsp 2.200 20 Respect the naturlangsamkeit
which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as
rainbows.
NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon]
said;...
NMW 4.246 9 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible
resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange
situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
NMW 4.248 16 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense
is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
NMW 4.248 23 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the
most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is
then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and
only danger to be apprehended in the Alps.
ET11 5.183 18 I was surprised to observe the very
small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and
seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are
they? I asked. At home on their estates...or in the Alps...
WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we
engineer, like kobolds and enchanters, tunnelling Alps...
WSL 12.347 1 ...it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape
is commanded...
Alps, Norway, Mountains, n. (3)
CL 12.155 5 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon
the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
CL 12.155 11 ...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 12.155 17 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst
I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these
two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the
inconveniences of the road...
already, adv. (198)
Nat 1.31 11 [This imagery] is the working of the
Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
Nat 1.41 25 It has already been illustrated, that
every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
Nat 1.45 18 [The spirit] says...in such as this
[human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it;...it
can yield me thought already formed and alive.
Nat 1.56 9 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of
arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
Nat 1.62 13 ...we see that the views already
presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
AmS 1.81 14 Perhaps the time is already come when
[our holiday] ought to be, and will be, something else;...
AmS 1.97 6 ...many another fact that once filled the
whole sky, are gone already;...
AmS 1.105 2 ...what overgrown error you behold is
there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and
you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
AmS 1.110 15 I read with some joy of the auspicious
signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and
art...
DSA 1.135 21 From the views I have already expressed,
you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay...of faith
in society.
DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate
character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
LE 1.164 18 ...the soul has assurance...of all power
in the direction of its ray, as well as of the special skills it has
already acquired.
LE 1.186 1 When you shall say...I must eat the good
of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once
more perish the buds of art...as they have died already in a thousand
thousand men.
MR 1.250 24 ...the believer not only beholds his
heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
Con 1.308 25 ...I am very peaceable, and on my
private account could well enough die, since it appears...that I have
been missent to this earth, where all the seats were already taken...
Con 1.321 10 [Religious institutions] have already
acquired a market value as conservators of property;...
YA 1.363 19 This rage of road building is beneficent
for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention
is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the
mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such
tedious distances...
YA 1.379 24 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must
give way to somewhat broader and better, whose signs are already
dawning in the sky.
YA 1.380 3 ...Government in our times is beginning to
wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance. We have already seen our way to
shorter methods.
YA 1.383 1 ...agricultural association must, sooner
or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into
association in self-defence; as the great commercial and manufacturing
companies had already done.
Hist 2.4 3 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain,
America, lie folded already in the first man.
Hist 2.9 9 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even
early Rome are passing already into fiction.
Hist 2.19 27 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns,
already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge
shapes and masses...
Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system
is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
Hist 2.40 26 Broader and deeper we must write our
annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to
which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us...
SR 2.76 15 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no
shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life,
but lives already.
Lov1 2.169 5 Nature...anticipates already a
benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general
light.
Fdsp 2.197 21 Thou [my friend] hast come to me
lately, and already thou art seizing thy hat and cloak.
Fdsp 2.212 22 ...we perceive that no
arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations
with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us
to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with
water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for
we are already they.
Fdsp 2.213 13 Only be admonished by what you already
see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
Hsm1 2.257 8 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman
pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
Hsm1 2.263 23 Who that sees the meanness of our
politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already
wrapped in his shroud...
Hsm1 2.264 5 ...the love that will be annihilated
sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
OS 2.275 26 Those who are capable of humility, of
justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that
commands the sciences and arts...
OS 2.276 2 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude
already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
OS 2.284 5 The moment the doctrine of the immortality
[of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
OS 2.297 15 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the
negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already
the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
Cir 2.301 9 One moral we have already deduced in
considering the circular or compensatory character of every human
action.
Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters...are already passing
under the same sentence and tumbling into the inevitable pit which the
creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses
[the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
Cir 2.305 2 Lo! on the other side rises also a man
and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline
of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a
first speaker.
Int 2.332 21 Each truth that a writer acquires is a
lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in
his mind...
Art1 2.361 10 When I came at last to Rome and saw
with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact
I had met already in so many forms...
Art1 2.361 14 When I came at last to Rome and saw
with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me
I...had left at home in so many conversations. I had had the same
experience already in a church at Naples.
Art1 2.364 1 Already History is old enough to witness
the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Exp 3.71 23 ...every insight from this realm of
thought...promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and
behold what was there already.
Exp 3.75 8 ...the elements already exist in many
minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any
written record we have.
Chr1 3.99 6 The same transport which the occurrence
of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to
taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour
meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Chr1 3.102 18 [Men] must...make us feel that they
have a controlling happy future opening before them, whose early
twilights already kindle in the passing hour.
Chr1 3.103 3 If your friend has displeased you, you
shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory
of the passage...
Mrs1 3.125 27 ...if the man of the people cannot
speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall
perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be
feared.
Mrs1 3.138 4 I pray my companion...if he wishes for
sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate
as if I knew already.
Mrs1 3.140 27 ...society demands in its patrician
class another element already intimated, which it significantly terms
good-nature...
Nat2 3.181 27 The men, though young, having tasted
the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
NR 3.238 26 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to
unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he...accounts
himself already the fellow of the great.
NER 3.264 2 Following or advancing beyond the ideas
of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already
been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
UGM 4.9 17 Justice has already been done to steam, to
iron...
PPh 4.45 5 I am struck...with the extreme modernness
of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know
so well, in its long history of arts and arms; here are all its traits,
already discernible in the mind of Plato...
SwM 4.117 13 ...[Correspondence] was involved, as we
explained already, in the doctrine of identity and iteration...
SwM 4.135 7 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself
in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at
its natural term...
SwM 4.137 11 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's
parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the
day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.
SwM 4.141 2 [The scenery and circumstance of the
newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known
works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and
writes the moral law.
SwM 4.141 20 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the
same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human
souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his
ideal life.
MoS 4.151 17 Having at some time seen that the happy
soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men
predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were
already substantiated.
ShP 4.195 3 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already
wonted...
ShP 4.200 13 Grotius makes the like remark in respect
to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed
were already in use in the time of Christ...
ET3 5.35 21 ...an American has more reasons than
another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the
Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a
civilization already settled and overpowering.
ET3 5.37 13 ...the English interest us a little less
within a few years; and hence the impression that the British
power...is in solstice, or already declining.
ET5 5.74 17 The Phoenician, the Celt and the Goth had
already got in [to England].
ET5 5.95 18 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been
drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and
drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this
new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
ET10 5.156 22 [In England] An economist, or a man who
can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his
character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a
master of life, and a freeman.
ET10 5.159 23 England already had this laborious
race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
ET11 5.195 8 Already...the English noble and squire
were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his
peaceable expense.
ET11 5.197 25 Whilst the privileges of nobility are
passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are
getting musty and cumbersome. I wonder that sensible men have not been
already impatient of them.
ET12 5.203 3 ...the committee charged with the affair
[the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three
thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon.
... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can
spare; I can as well give the rest...
ET12 5.211 2 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I
believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general
habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
ET15 5.261 16 A relentless inquisition [the
newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken
advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already
forewarned.
ET15 5.265 8 The proprietors [of the London Times],
who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing
were excessive, found that they were in his power...
ET16 5.280 9 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had
lived in England than any of her writers; and, in fact, about the time
when those writers appeared, the last of these were already gone.
ET19 5.310 1 On being introduced to the meeting
[Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It
is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly
pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this
platform. But I have known all these persons already.
F 6.11 3 So [a man] has but one future, and that is
already predetermined...
Wth 6.127 4 Nor is the man enriched...unless through
new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual
experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
CbW 6.263 4 ...I will not here repeat the first rule
of economy, already propounded once and again...
CbW 6.266 24 Already, who provoke pity like that
excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage,
as far from home and any honest end as ever?
Elo1 7.73 16 In these examples [of eloquence], higher
qualities have already entered...
Elo1 7.84 21 If [the orator] should attempt to
instruct the people in that which they already know, he would fail;...
Elo1 7.90 7 Condense some daily experience into a
glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they
already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can
detach...
DL 7.102 6 I detected many a god/ Forth already on
the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
Boks 7.191 10 College education is the reading of
certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will
represent the science already accumulated.
Boks 7.193 23 ...I can seldom go there [to the
Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it
all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
Boks 7.195 11 There has already been a scrutiny and
choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or
political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your
eye.
Boks 7.198 10 You find in [Plato] that which you have
already found in Homer, now ripened to thought...
Boks 7.219 26 [The communications of the sacred
books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form
of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter
and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures
which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo.
Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already
long before him.
Clbs 7.231 18 Among the men of wit and learning, [the
lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But
when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either
that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or
that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
OA 7.317 7 If we look into the eyes of the youngest
person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what
you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
Elo2 8.125 6 You say, If [the man in the street]
could only express himself; but he does already...
QO 8.183 16 ...[young men] are none the worse for
being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;...
QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the
preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
PC 8.222 3 When the correlation of the sciences was
announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were
found already prepared for it.
Insp 8.274 2 In June the morning is noisy with birds;
in August they are already getting old and silent.
Grts 8.314 25 ...one fights with cannon as with
fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition
renders what you have done already useless.
Dem1 10.8 19 [Dreams] are the maturation often of
opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we
already possessed the elements.
Dem1 10.8 26 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in
certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is
a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later. But it was already in
my mind as character...
Aris 10.45 11 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he
is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too
early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already
arrived, his seat is reserved.
Chr2 10.102 8 A man is already of consequence in the
world when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him.
Chr2 10.117 24 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities...
Edc1 10.125 9 We have already taken...the initial
step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand
into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Supl 10.169 9 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and
gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres.
As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them,
softening of the brain has already begun.
MoL 10.241 9 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of
you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare
gift of poetry already sparkles...
Schr 10.261 6 A stranger but yesterday to every
person present, I find myself already at home...
Schr 10.269 25 Why need [the poet] meddle with
politics? His idlest thought, his yesternight's dream is told already
in the Senate.
Schr 10.283 12 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books,
but knew it all already;...
Plu 10.317 23 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece
[Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes
were already scattered in his works.
LLNE 10.335 21 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had
already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic
criticism.
LLNE 10.358 2 The large cities are phalansteries; and
the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place
in our experience.
MMEm 10.424 7 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley
work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T
is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom
are shaken.
LS 11.10 17 The reason why St. John does not repeat
[Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he
had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum
more at length already...
LS 11.24 6 My brethren...have recommended,
unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I
have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to
administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has
already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my
determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a
Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
HDC 11.37 17 ...the peace was made, and the ear of
the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of
Musketaquid...
HDC 11.39 2 The maple, which is already making the
forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the
settlers of Concord].
HDC 11.54 27 The country [around Concord] already
began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
HDC 11.59 13 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house,
or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we
already hear the flourish of victory.
EWI 11.132 26 ...the Union already is at an end when
the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
EWI 11.141 15 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to
the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have
obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition
of their human nature...
FSLC 11.204 10 What [Webster] finds already written,
he will defend.
JBB 11.269 23 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must
drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable, of which
they have already some disagreeable forebodings.
ALin 11.336 1 ...who does not see, even in this
tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of
the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?
SMC 11.365 18 It happened...that the Fifth
Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the
day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the
adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...
SMC 11.366 5 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant
in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in
Captain Prescott's company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...
SMC 11.375 20 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.
EdAd 11.387 15 ...though it may not be easy to define
[America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
Koss 11.401 9 ...when the crisis arrives it will find
us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary, and
parties already to her freedom.
Shak1 11.449 16 ...we have already seen the most
fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the
authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
ChiE 11.472 23 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...
FRO2 11.486 21 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is
now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the
planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which
time the true religion which already existed began to be called
Christianity.
FRO2 11.490 3 I submit that in sound frame of mind,
we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other
men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us, and
that these words would have no weight with us if we had not the same
conviction already.
CPL 11.502 18 The very language we speak thinks for
us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its
words...
CPL 11.508 22 ...I am pleading a cause which in the
event of this day [opening of the Concord Library] has already won...
FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and
the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they
remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
FRep 11.538 10 It is not a question whether we shall
be a multitude of people. No, that has been conspicuously decided
already;...
PLT 12.50 9 One would say [Shakespeare] must have
been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly
is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly
worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become
one.
Mem 12.96 3 We are told that Boileau having recited
to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing,
Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
Mem 12.101 10 The damages of forgetting are more than
compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give
to what we already know.
CInt 12.128 6 This, then, is the theory of Education,
the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has
already made the passage from the centre forth...
CL 12.166 6 We know already what matter is, and more
or less of it does not signify.
MAng1 12.220 14 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to
a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him
shows him to be already on the right road.
MAng1 12.235 21 [Michelangelo] required...that he
should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to
depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already
done.
MAng1 12.241 27 At the age of eighty years,
[Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he sees it is
already twenty-four o'clock...
Milt1 12.248 13 The reputation of Milton had already
undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
Milt1 12.251 25 ...deeply as that peculiar state of
society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in
the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes
everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on
which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are
fast passing, into oblivion.
ACri 12.294 19 ...Shakspeare must have been a
thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his
thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a
proverb...
MLit 12.313 14 Accustomed always to behold the
presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to
look at any new part as a stranger, but saith,-I know all already and
what art thou?
WSL 12.344 6 [Landor's appreciation of character] is
the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality, to which
we have already alluded.
Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in
the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...
Trag 12.414 8 [The man who is centred] sees already
in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.
Alsager [Alsiger], Thomas, (1)
ET15 5.266 13 The staff of The [London] Times has
always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Barnes, Alsiger, Horace
Twiss...have contributed to its renown...
altar, n. (8)
DSA 1.149 25 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle
the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
ET16 5.290 11 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried
at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were
removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the
northern quarter of the city, and laid under the high altar.
SMC 11.351 25 'T is certain that a plain stone like
this [the Concord Monument]...becomes...an altar where the noble youth
shall in all time come to make his secret vows.
FRO1 11.479 8 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen
centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
FRep 11.539 2 Here is the post where the patriot
should plant himself; here the altar where virtuous young men...should
bind each other to loyalty;...
MAng1 12.230 19 Upon the wall [of the Sistine
Chapel], over the altar, is painted the Last Judgment.
altar-flame, n. (1)
SovE 10.209 21 [The moral law] has not yet its first
hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages
must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into
broad and steady altar-flame.
altars, n. (7)
SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have
built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some
cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...
ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of
men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to
heroism...
CInt 12.116 26 ...[the scholars] were traders and
left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...
alter, adj. (2)
Pt1 3.24 24 The poet also resigns himself to his
mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed, but alter idem,
in a manner totally new.
Wth 6.125 11 ...it is a maxim that money is another
kind of blood, Pecunia alter sanguis...
alter, v. (9)
AmS 1.105 14 Not he is great who can alter matter,
but he who can alter my state of mind.
MR 1.249 16 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a
juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect
and obedience, though it go to alter my whole way of life.
OS 2.295 17 The position men have given to Jesus...is
a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter
the eternal facts.
Elo1 7.64 21 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter in
a pair of hours...the convictions and habits of years.
LS 11.15 26 ...it does not appear that the opinion of
St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists
[concerning the Lord's Supper].
PLT 12.19 3 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;-these are the ponderous
instrumentalities into which the nimble thoughts pass, and which they
animate and alter...
MAng1 12.235 21 [Michelangelo] required...that he
should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to
depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already
done.
alterable, adj. (2)
Pol1 3.199 8 ...we ought to remember...that [the
State's institutions] all are imitable, all alterable;...
Schr 10.283 10 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...somewhat... not altered or alterable;...
alteration, n. (5)
Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local
position, apprizes us of a dualism.
ET1 5.23 12 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in
haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal, and every
alteration is ungraciously received after printing;...
ET6 5.110 24 As soon as [the English] have rid
themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice,
they...never wish to hear of alteration more.
QO 8.193 8 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the
thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration
of temperature...betrays the foreign interpolation.
HDC 11.53 23 It is piteous to see [the Indians']
self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be
their Recorder, being very solicitous that what they did agree upon
might be faithfully kept without alteration.
alterations, n. (1)
alterative, n. (1)
Ctr 6.147 20 ...there is in every constitution a
certain solstice...when there is required...some diversion or
alterative to prevent stagnation.
altered, adj. (4)
ET7 5.121 21 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had
really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate
and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an
illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to
him...
Bhr 6.178 10 ...in its altered mood by beams of
kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
LS 11.7 7 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his
disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect
to your eyes.
Milt1 12.247 21 It was very easy to remark an altered
tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen
years ago...
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