Amazed to Amounts
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
amazed, adj. (2)
Int 2.347 6 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers]
ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of
their amazed auditory.
PPo 8.265 16 You as three birds are amazed,/
Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am
in act Simorg./
amazed, v. (2)
Cour 7.279 13 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked
[the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with
slackening pace./
PPo 8.264 11 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest
light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/
As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were
either this or that./
amazement, n. (2)
Exp 3.71 25 I clap my hands in infantine joy and
amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
Dem1 10.25 2 Men who had never wondered at
anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the
disclosures of the somnambulist.
amazing, adj. (1)
HDC 11.50 27 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing
skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts
of the beasts he slew.
amazingly, adv. (1)
Edc1 10.130 5 Whatever the man does, or whatever
befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a
new feeling, a new thought, a new organ. Do we not see how amazingly
for this end man is fitted to the world?
ambassador, n. (9)
YA 1.376 2 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul
of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting
himself in some matter...
YA 1.393 25 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador
for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point
of honor with the French ambassador;...
YA 1.393 27 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your
Majesty's self is but a ceremony.
Mrs1 3.144 13 ...here is...Spahi, the Persian
ambassador;...
ET18 5.301 9 [The foreign policy of England] has a
principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the
aristocratic bias of the ambassador...
EWI 11.139 1 What happened notoriously to an American
ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to
disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
PLT 12.5 27 [When I look at the tree or the river] I
feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his
king...
ambassadors, n. (4)
ET2 5.32 18 It has been said that the King of England
would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in
the cabin of a man-of-war.
ChiE 11.474 19 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to
Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of
foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr.
Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir
Frederic Bruce. It appears that the ambassadors were emulous in their
magnanimity.
ambassador's, n. (1)
ET13 5.220 25 When you see on the continent the
well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his
face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help
feeling how much national pride prays with him...
amber, n. (3)
Lov1 2.175 10 ...no man ever forgot the visitations
of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial
circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
ET5 5.94 25 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/
The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those
precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees
adorn./
PPo 8.244 8 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of
Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the
tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices,
every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest
moon is there./
ambient, adj. (1)
ambiguity, n. (1)
ambition, n. (64)
LE 1.173 15 Having thus spoken of the resources and
the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the
rule of his ambition and life.
MN 1.194 9 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting
heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or
sell,-so large is thy love and ambition...
YA 1.381 8 ...[these communists] thought that the
farm, as we manage it, did not satisfy the right ambition of man.
SR 2.51 16 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable
ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand
miles off.
SR 2.75 18 ...we see that most natures...have an
ambition out of all proportion to their practical force...
Prd1 2.240 21 If not the Deity but our ambition hews
and shapes the new relations, their virtue escapes...
Int 2.339 1 The intellect...demands integrity in
every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single
thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
Pol1 3.217 15 The gladiators in the lists of power
feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and
ambition is confession of this divinity;...
NER 3.275 25 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will
his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...
PPh 4.78 13 No power of genius has ever yet had the
smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
But there is an injustice in assuming this ambition for Plato.
MoS 4.183 22 [The man of thought] can behold with
serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of
performance...
NMW 4.237 12 My ambition, [Napoleon] says, was great,
but was of a cold nature.
ET8 5.141 25 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words
familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
ET10 5.156 19 [In England] An economist, or a man who
can proportion his means and his ambition...without embarrassing one
day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
ET11 5.185 23 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... and, when men of any ability or ambition, have
been consulted in the conduct of every important action.
ET14 5.245 11 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of
European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great
ambition...
ET16 5.282 23 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was
the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in
the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition
of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to
obtain possession of this wise stone.
F 6.42 14 As once [man] found himself among toys, so
now...his growth is declared in his ambition...
Wsp 6.218 1 The bias of errors of principle carries
away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control
their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final
wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.
DL 7.119 21 There was never a country in the
world...where intellectual entertainment is so within reach of youthful
ambition.
Clbs 7.241 7 ...it is not this class, whom the
splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the
vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
Suc 7.302 4 Ah! if one could...find the day and its
cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no
strained exertion and cankering ambition...
OA 7.319 8 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted
dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science...
Elo2 8.126 4 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every
nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and
principles of its respective language as to remain settled and
unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life
among those who speak...without ambition of elegance.
Elo2 8.133 1 Is it not worth the ambition of every
generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of
knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a
constituency [as the United States]"
PC 8.232 25 We have suffered our young men of
ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without
loss of caste...
Insp 8.276 27 See how the passions augment our
force,-anger, love, ambition!...
Dem1 10.23 17 ...the main ambition and genius being
bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids
within [a man's] sphere will follow.
Aris 10.59 14 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant
that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young
men;...
Prch 10.218 16 ...elegance of taste and of manners
and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in
whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
Schr 10.279 9 Talent is commonly developed at the
expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for
genius...ambition for greatness...
LLNE 10.343 11 ...perhaps those persons who were
mutually the best friends...had no ambition of publishing their
letters, diaries or conversation.
LLNE 10.360 11 Many persons, attracted by the beauty
of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the
community, joined them as boarders...
LLNE 10.368 8 People cannot live together in any but
necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be
those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and
have failed;...
SlHr 10.446 19 No person was more keenly alive to the
stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the
commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his
large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or
profession...
FSLC 11.196 11 No government ever found it hard to
pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of
the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich. Vanity can
buy some, ambition others, and money others.
FSLN 11.241 11 Possession is sure to throw its stupid
strength for existing power, and appetite and ambition will go for
that.
Scot 11.464 18 Just so much thought, so much
picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad
required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to
write a high poem after a classic model.
FRO2 11.485 17 I am glad...that we are likely one day
to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in
good works.
FRep 11.542 1 I hope America will come to have its
pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served. How can men
have any other ambition where the reason has not suffered a disastrous
eclipse?
PLT 12.26 20 No ambition, no opposition...avail at
all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
CInt 12.130 15 ...know that, next to being
[intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy,
without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
Bost 12.186 10 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to
be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood...
ACri 12.284 12 This [national] style is probably to
be sought...among those who speak only to be understood, without
ambition of elegance.
WSL 12.341 4 In these busy days of avarice and
ambition...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
EurB 12.370 19 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;...
Ambition, n. (1)
Bty 6.279 24 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/
In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in
vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
ambitions, n. (4)
Tran 1.341 9 ...[many intelligent and religious
persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the
degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can
propose to them.
QO 8.200 14 Our country, customs, laws, our
ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made...
EzRy 10.393 8 The usual experiences of men...the
common ambitions,- [Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
TPar 11.289 25 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that
the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you
combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...it is a hypocrisy...
ambitious, adj. (19)
Mrs1 3.152 15 The constitution of our society makes
it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their
names enrolled in its Golden Book...
Nat2 3.171 4 We come to our own [in the woods], and
make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools
would persuade us to despise.
ET11 5.186 20 [The English upper classes] have the
sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which
disgusts in the aspiring classes...
ET14 5.251 16 ...literary reputations have been
achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and
modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this
moment, every ambitious young man studies geology...
ET18 5.301 5 The foreign policy of England, though
ambitious and lavish of money, has not often been generous or just.
Bhr 6.172 4 When we reflect on...how manners make the
fortune of the ambitious youth;...we see what range the subject has...
Bhr 6.175 16 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he
has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners
are commanding.
Elo1 7.63 17 Who can wonder at the
attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men...
WD 7.177 2 Do not refuse the employment which the
hour brings you, for one more ambitious.
Suc 7.310 22 Which of [the most sanguine] has
not...blundered where they were most ambitious of success?...
Plu 10.304 5 Many examples might be cited [in
Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion, that indicate a
poet and an orator, though he is not ambitious of these titles...
Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to
publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic
Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
MMEm 10.406 21 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion
were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on
which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop
the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
EWI 11.134 16 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious
class of young men and political men have found out that these
neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens
in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very
ground...
ambitious, n. (2)
GoW 4.265 10 The ambitious and mercenary bring their
last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a
glare;...
Prch 10.228 16 Of course a hero so attractive to the
hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into
his train...
Ambleside, England, n. (1)
ET17 5.294 8 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a
couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau...
Ambresbury, England, n. (1)
ET16 5.282 4 ...here is the high point of the theory:
the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal
points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the
variations of the compass.
ambrosia, n. (2)
EdAd 11.382 23 ...[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./
CL 12.149 5 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins
(Waters)...harness your car! Ambrosia is in you...
Ambrosia, n. (1)
Thor 10.468 21 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave
names, too,- Ambrosia, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Amaranth, etc.
ambrosial, adj. (1)
Aris 10.35 27 If a few grand natures should come to
us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our
bread ambrosial.
Ambrosian Libraries, n. (1)
ambush, n. (2)
Cour 7.262 22 The child is as much in danger from...a
cat, as the soldier from...an ambush.
Amelanchier, n. (1)
Thor 10.468 21 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave
names, too,- Ambrosia, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Amaranth, etc.
amelioration, n. (7)
LT 1.281 16 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction
that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but
can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
YA 1.372 25 Remark the unceasing effort throughout
nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes
amelioration in mankind.
PNR 4.81 2 It seems as if nature, in regarding the
geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had
turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was
no wise discontented with the result. ... These were a clear
amelioration of trilobite and saurus...
ameliorations, n. (1)
ShP 4.213 17 This [power of expression] is that which
throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...as announcing new eras and
ameliorations.
amenable, adj. (1)
amend, v. (1)
YA 1.382 15 [The Associations]...proposed to amend
the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
amended, v. (1)
Res 8.142 16 ...we have seen the most healthful
revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only
amended, but construed in a new spirit.
amendment, n. (3)
LT 1.272 7 It is the interior testimony to a fairer
possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with
the offer of some new amendment.
Exp 3.51 10 Of what use to make heroic vows of
amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them?
DL 7.113 1 The difficulties to be overcome [in
housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are
they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars
taken one at a time...
amends, n. (9)
Comp 2.106 13 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme
Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they
involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a
god.
Pol1 3.217 16 ...successes in those fields [of trade
and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed
soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
Elo1 7.94 3 The orator is thereby an orator, that he
keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No
gifts...will make any amends for want of this.
Boks 7.213 21 [Men's] education is neglected; but the
circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.
LLNE 10.332 27 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends
to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's
chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent
fancy.
RBur 11.441 20 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear
society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for
want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
Trag 12.415 5 Our human being is wonderfully plastic;
if it cannot win this satisfaction here, it makes itself amends by
running out there and winning that.
amenities, n. (2)
ET10 5.170 2 A part of the money earned [in England]
returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers,
chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this
intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics'
Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
ET14 5.251 6 ...there is no end to the graces and
amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in
England].
amenity, n. (1)
America, Central, n. (2)
AKan 11.259 23 ...the adding of Cuba and Central
America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
America, English, n. (1)
Bost 12.190 15 ...Dr. Mather writes of
[Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be
the metropolis of the whole English America.
America, History of [Willia (1)
ET1 5.17 5 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's]
first books after Robinson Crusoe, and Robertson's America an early
favorite.
America, n. (185)
Nat 1.21 1 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore
of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
DSA 1.131 3 ...the language that describes Christ to
Europe and America is not the style of friendship...
DSA 1.142 18 The Puritans in England and America
found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere
piety...
LE 1.156 18 ...the importunity, with which society
presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth
in respect to the culture of the intellect. Hence the historical
failure, on which Europe and America have so freely commented.
MN 1.191 13 ...it is a common calamity if [the
scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest
is so predominant as it is in America.
MN 1.206 22 England, France, and America read
Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...
LT 1.268 27 The actors constitute that great army of
martyrs who, at least in America...compose the visible church of the
existing generation.
Tran 1.340 12 The extraordinary profoundness and
precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his
nomenclature, in Europe and America...
YA 1.363 4 America is beginning to assert herself to
the senses and to the imagination of her children...
YA 1.371 10 It seems so easy for America to inspire
and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...
YA 1.388 3 In America, out-of-doors all seems a
market;...
YA 1.391 23 ...here in America, is the home of man.
YA 1.394 27 ...Let us live in America, too thankful
for our want of feudal institutions.
Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain,
America, lie folded already in the first man.
Hist 2.22 2 ...in these late and civil countries of
England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still
fight out the old battle...
Art1 2.368 6 Beauty will not come at the call of a
legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in
Greece.
Pt1 3.19 27 The chief value of the new fact is to
enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of
wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
Pt1 3.37 15 We have yet had no genius in
America...which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
Exp 3.72 5 I am ready...be born again into this new
yet unapproachable America I have found in the West...
Chr1 3.100 13 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man] puts
America and Europe in the wrong...
Chr1 3.106 7 ...nature advertises me in such
[nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be
democratized.
Chr1 3.107 11 I remember the thought which occurred
to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America,
was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
NR 3.230 10 It is even worse in America, where, from
the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is
more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
ShP 4.211 7 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man of England
and Europe; the father of the man in America;...
NMW 4.224 13 [The democratic class] desires to keep
open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues:
the class of business men in America...
GoW 4.282 19 In England and America, one may be an
adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic
taste or fire.
GoW 4.289 5 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very
truth...
ET1 5.12 19 I took advantage of a pause to say that
[Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
ET1 5.20 1 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a
paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the
necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.
ET1 5.20 3 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in
America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important.
ET1 5.20 15 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know
not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
ET1 5.20 18 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel
Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures
me that the newspapers are atrocious...
ET3 5.41 22 As America, Europe and Asia lie, these
Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole
planet...
ET4 5.70 25 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island to America, to Asia...to hunt with fury...all the game that
is in nature.
ET5 5.98 23 A landlord who owns a province [in
England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep. He
unroofs the houses and ships the population to America.
ET6 5.114 18 English stories, bon-mots and the
recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the
French. In America, we are apt scholars...
ET9 5.146 2 I suppose that all men of English blood
in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are
not French natives.
ET9 5.147 3 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no
taxation without representation;--for that is British law; but not a
hobnail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in
England;--for that also is British law;...
ET9 5.147 6 ...the fact that British commerce was to
be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by
surprise.
ET10 5.153 2 In America there is a touch of shame
when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...
ET10 5.156 12 Every [English] household exhibits an
exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure
which families use in America.
ET12 5.205 16 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain
in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to
study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
ET14 5.249 15 But for Coleridge...one would say that
in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly
respected.
ET15 5.262 11 The tendency in England towards social
and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable...
ET16 5.275 19 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I
return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which
the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game
with immense advantage;...
ET16 5.287 2 My friends asked, whether there were any
Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus
challenged, I bethought myself...neither of presidents nor of
cabinet-ministers, nor of such as would make of America another Europe.
ET16 5.288 14 There, I thought, in America, lies
nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
F 6.16 9 We see the English, French, and Germans
planting themselves on every shore and market of America and
Australia...
Pow 6.69 6 There are Oregons, Californias and
Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of
this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to
eat.
Wth 6.99 11 ...in America, where democratic
institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years,
the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors,
and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
Wsp 6.210 13 Let a man attain the highest and
broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by
sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has
happened to him;...
Wsp 6.210 15 Let a man attain the highest and
broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by
sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education
has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to
put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
CbW 6.256 7 In America the geography is sublime, but
the men are not...
Bty 6.284 14 Science in England, in America, is
jealous of theory...
Civ 7.32 23 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores
of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with
great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue and in the
symmetry and force of their qualities,--I see what cubic values America
has...
Elo1 7.70 21 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the
Arabian Nights] to save her life, and the delight of young Europe and
young America in them proves that she fairly earned it.
Elo1 7.70 27 ...who does not remember in childhood
some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of
telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens,
was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in
England or America is now?
Elo1 7.78 2 A greater power of carrying the thing
loftily...might...abrogate any constitution in Europe and America.
Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself
that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not
wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The
history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish
tragic examples of this fatal force.
WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America
and Australia crave to be peopled;...
WD 7.180 6 ...this curious, peering, itinerant,
imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...
Boks 7.214 6 ...books that...distribute things, not
after the usages of America and Europe but after the laws of right
reason...put us on our feet again...
PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax
America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.
PI 8.73 10 The high poetry which shall...bring in the
new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer
postponed than was America or Australia...
SA 8.100 19 There is in America a general conviction
in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty
and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
SA 8.101 20 In America, the necessity of clearing the
forest...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
SA 8.103 24 The young men in America at this moment
take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.
Res 8.141 8 Here in America are all the wealth of
soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a
people who wield all these wonderful machines...
Res 8.142 8 Resources of America! why, one thinks of
Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
Res 8.143 2 America is such a garden of plenty...that
at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
Res 8.154 5 ...the resources of America and its
future will be immense only to wise and virtuous men.
QO 8.187 10 It is only within this century that
England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German
and Scandinavian stories;...
Dem1 10.16 24 This faith...in the particular of lucky
days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith
in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the
recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
Aris 10.40 17 It only needs to look at the social
aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which
original practical talent commands.
Aris 10.41 11 ...the effect of freer institutions in
England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
Aris 10.62 24 In America [the gentleman] shall find
deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and
of social customs...
Chr2 10.111 17 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers,
George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only
using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not
England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland
and America.
Chr2 10.112 15 ...in America, where are no legal ties
to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.
MoL 10.242 18 ...nothing has been able to resist the
tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has
beat down the hope of youth...
MoL 10.246 6 Dickens complained that in America, as
soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on
him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
MoL 10.248 19 You [scholars] are here as the carriers
of the power of Nature...as Columbus, with America in his log-book;...
MoL 10.257 18 We will not again disparage America,
now that we have seen what men it will bear.
Schr 10.277 17 I delight in men...who could alone, or
with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our
civilization.
Schr 10.277 27 Perhaps I value power of achievement a
little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in
this respect.
Plu 10.314 16 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and
young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.
LLNE 10.358 11 Society in England and in America is
trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...
CSC 10.375 27 If there was not parliamentary order
[at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that
constitutional love for religion and religious liberty
which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
EzRy 10.383 17 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals
seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans,
which...in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated
America.
Thor 10.467 23 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...
Thor 10.480 20 ...instead of engineering for all
America, [Thoreau] was the captain of a huckleberry-party.
HDC 11.39 13 ...if...[the settlers of Concord] found
the air of America very cold, they might say with
Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great
fires as New England.
HDC 11.69 10 ...the British parliament have empowered
the East India Company to export their tea into America...
HDC 11.69 16 ...we will not, in this town
[Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or
any other tea, whilst there is a duty for raising a revenue thereon in
America;...
HDC 11.69 23 ...in conjunction with our brethren in
America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of
his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
EWI 11.136 7 I was a slave, said the counsel of
[George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
EWI 11.145 25 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.
War 11.159 18 This valuable person [Assacombuit], on
his return to America, took to killing his own neighbors and kindred...
War 11.175 26 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed
of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope; but in this broad America of God and man...
FSLC 11.186 11 ...America, the most prosperous
country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe,
negro slavery.
FSLC 11.194 16 You can commit no crime, for [men] are
created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless
you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the
English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
FSLC 11.195 12 By law of Congress September, 1850, it
is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment,
to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
FSLN 11.239 22 In 1825 Greece found America deaf,
Poland found America deaf...
TPar 11.292 12 ...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 winds of Italy murmur the same truth over
your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...
ACiv 11.307 26 Why should not America be capable of a
second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
EPro 11.315 18 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of
America...
EPro 11.320 6 The President [Lincoln] by this act
[the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in
America;...
ALin 11.329 14 ...I doubt if any death has caused so
much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on
its announcement; and this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears
which, in the present day, are connected with the name and institutions
of America.
HCom 11.345 2 We shall not again disparage America,
now that we have seen what men it will bear.
SMC 11.349 17 We are thankful...that the heroes of
old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were
not rare or solitary growths...
EdAd 11.385 5 At least as far as the purpose and
genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no
genius.
Koss 11.401 1 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth]
preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed
men.
Koss 11.401 5 ...as the shores of Europe and America
approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all
instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
ChiE 11.474 17 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to
Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of
foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr.
Burlingame in New York, in his last visit to America, that the whole
merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
FRep 11.515 27 At every moment some one country more
than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None
will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of
nations...
FRep 11.531 8 I wish to see America, not like the old
powers of the earth...
FRep 11.535 18 They who find America insipid-they for
whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to
return to those cities.
FRep 11.536 3 [The class of which I speak] complain
of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance.
FRep 11.540 6 America should affirm and establish
that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
FRep 11.541 26 I hope America will come to have its
pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served.
CL 12.138 12 When Kalm returned from America,
Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.
Bost 12.189 11 On the 3d of November, 1620, King
James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the
planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.
Bost 12.199 10 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or
fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...
Bost 12.209 24 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her
liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of
[material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the
rulers of America.
Milt1 12.253 21 ...no man can be named whose mind
still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an
energy comparable to that of Milton.
ACri 12.298 17 ...one would think...a sympathizing
and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister
extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England
in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick
II];...
MLit 12.312 12 [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, reacting with great energy on England and
America.
EurB 12.369 25 ...[Wordsworth's influence's] effect
may be traced on all the poetry both of England and America.
EurB 12.373 7 We have heard it alleged with some
evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's
romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of
young men in England and America.
PPr 12.390 21 Carlyle's style is the first emergence
of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child
so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been
conquered in literature.
America, North, n. (3)
YA 1.371 1 A heterogeneous population crowding...to
the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the
legislation of this country should become more catholic and
cosmopolitan than that of any other.
Wth 6.94 2 ...how did North America get netted with
iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all
the prudent men in?
Bost 12.188 25 ...Boston commands attention as the
town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the
civilization of North America.
America, South, n. (3)
Pow 6.69 15 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...riding alligators in South America with Waterton;...
America, Spanish, n. (1)
FSLN 11.227 13 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the
question...whether the Negro shall be, as the Indians were in Spanish
America, a piece of money?
America, United States of, (1)
ET4 5.45 3 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps
forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of
America...and you have a population of English descent and language of
60,000,000...
America [Yacht], n. (1)
PC 8.215 15 The war-proa of the Malays in the
Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the
yacht America.
American, adj. (128)
AmS 1.94 3 ...our American colleges will recede in
their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
LE 1.156 27 ...the mark of American merit in
painting...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
LE 1.169 3 The noonday darkness of the American
forest...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
LT 1.261 7 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding
a feature of...the American republic as of old Rome...
LT 1.274 18 ...the compromise made with the
slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American
constitution.
Con 1.314 6 ...in the darlings of the selectest
circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat
with love of mankind...
YA 1.364 8 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of
these improvements in creating an American sentiment.
YA 1.364 11 An unlooked-for consequence of the
railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people
with the boundless resources of their own soil.
YA 1.391 16 ...the development of our American
internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial
system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
SR 2.82 25 ...if the American artist will study...the
precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which
[beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves
fitted...
Prd1 2.228 14 Our American character is marked by a
more than average delight in accurate perception...
Hsm1 2.245 5 In the elder English dramatists...there
is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as
easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American
population.
Cir 2.312 8 We...install ourselves the best we
can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English
and American houses and modes of living.
NER 3.273 3 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote
which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley, when he was preparing to leave
England with his plan of planting the gospel among the American
savages.
PPh 4.44 21 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself
in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the
European and American nations...
GoW 4.281 6 The German intellect wants...the fine
practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...
ET1 5.3 8 ...I remember the pleasure of that first
walk on English ground, with my companion, an American artist...
ET1 5.5 17 At Florence, chief among artists I found
Horatio Greenough, the American sculptor.
ET1 5.16 18 Landor's principle was mere rebellion;
and that [Carlyle] feared was the American principle.
ET3 5.36 10 The American is only the continuation of
the English genius into new conditions, more or less propitious.
ET4 5.48 12 ...I found abundant points of resemblance
between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers,
and Badgers of the American woods.
ET4 5.53 5 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the
public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are
distinctive English and not American...
ET7 5.119 14 In comparing [the English] ships' houses
and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they
spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
ET7 5.123 22 [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...
ET12 5.211 4 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.
ET16 5.286 25 My friends asked, whether there were
any Americans?--any with an American idea...
ET16 5.288 11 On the way to Winchester...my friends
asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
ET17 5.295 18 I told [Wordsworth] it was not
creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas
Taylor, the Platonist, whilst in every American library his
translations are found.
Pow 6.66 3 The communities hitherto founded by
socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook
Farm...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.
Wth 6.109 18 When the European wars threw the
carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms,
a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.
Wth 6.109 20 When the European wars threw the
carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms,
a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.
Ctr 6.136 7 All conversation is at an end when we
have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our
American existence.
Ctr 6.150 16 It is the foible especially of American
youth,--pretension.
Ctr 6.152 16 Can it be that the American forest has
refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
Bhr 6.174 3 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly
undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable
particulars.
Wsp 6.212 22 It has been charged that a want of
sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American
society.
Wsp 6.225 11 The American workman who strikes ten
blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is
as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and
told on his person.
CbW 6.275 16 Do not make life hard to any. This point
is acquiring new importance in American social life.
Civ 7.31 3 What a benefit would the American
government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost
to the point of prohibition!
WD 7.163 18 [Man] sees the skull of the English race
changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
Clbs 7.238 26 It happened many years ago that an
American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of
Manchester, England...
Suc 7.283 1 Our American people cannot be taxed with
slowness in performance or in praising their performance.
Suc 7.289 19 I could point to men in this country, of
indispensable importance to the carrying on of American life, of this
[egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
Suc 7.292 24 ...because we cannot shake off from our
shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature
a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every
American brow.
PI 8.35 3 American life storms about us daily, and is
slow to find a tongue.
SA 8.104 21 We have come...to know...the good will
that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages
of...education and religious culture, and their determination to hold
these fast, and, by them, to hold fast the country and penetrate every
square mile of it with this American civilization.
Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has
sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
PC 8.208 12 I will not say that American institutions
have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
SovE 10.205 2 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by
an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of
which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least
religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but
the fact must be conceded...and never more evident than in our American
church.
Plu 10.322 15 ...as it was the desire of these old
patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we
hasten to offer them to the American people.
LLNE 10.332 17 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the
highest place to our imagination in our unoccupied American Parnassus.
LLNE 10.335 19 ...[Everett] made a beginning of
popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at
least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I
am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first
importance to the American mind.
LLNE 10.340 9 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men
who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
LLNE 10.342 26 ...there was no concert, and only here
and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone,
with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon
Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and
sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading...had the American
superficialness...
LLNE 10.365 1 In the American social communities, the
gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
LLNE 10.369 20 I please myself with the thought that
our American mind is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...
MMEm 10.400 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as
chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga...
HDC 11.38 23 ...[the settlers of Concord] beheld,
with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
HDC 11.68 17 ...We cannot possibly view with
indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob
us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven,
for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises
of the first settlers of these American colonies.
LVB 11.90 9 In common with the great body of the
American people, we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of
these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of
eternal inferiority...
LVB 11.91 16 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand
up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake
that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the
Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear
these men nor see them...
LVB 11.94 10 ...[the question of currency and trade]
is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether
all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of
mercy, shall be put off by the American people...
EWI 11.108 3 [The English Quakers] made friends and
raised money for the slave; they interested their Yearly Meeting; and
all English and all American Quakers.
EWI 11.110 11 In 1821, according to official
documents presented to the American government by the Colonization
Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore
and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West
Indies]...
EWI 11.139 1 What happened notoriously to an American
ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to
disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
EWI 11.144 12 ...now, the arrival in the world of
such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in
Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and
American humanity.
War 11.159 3 ...our American annals have preserved
the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
FSLC 11.183 17 The popular assumption that all men
loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow
American brag;...
FSLC 11.187 9 It is not easy to parallel the
wickedness of this American law [the Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.194 23 ...unless you can draw a sponge over
those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and
American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
FSLN 11.226 18 ...a ghastly result of all those years
of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the
foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that
Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their
conscience and become kidnappers for it.
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.
ACiv 11.300 7 If the American people hesitate, it is
not for want of warning or advices.
ACiv 11.303 14 ...there have been days in American
history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been
blocked...
ACiv 11.307 18 Now, [the Southern people's] interest
is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they
must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if
they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.
EPro 11.319 11 ...all men of African descent who have
faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the
protection of American law.
ALin 11.334 4 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other
American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a
part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each
other...
HCom 11.345 7 We see...a new era...worth to the world
the lives of all this generation of American men, if they had been
demanded.
SMC 11.350 11 ...the virtues we are met to honor were
directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American
citizen...
EdAd 11.388 10 We see that reckless and destructive
fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...
Koss 11.397 16 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all
your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen
with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers
opened our Revolution.
Wom 11.411 6 ...how should we better measure the gulf
between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our
American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers
of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just
this department of taste or comeliness?
Wom 11.417 8 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had
its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this
subject; from Aristophanes... down to English Comedy, and, in our day,
to Tennyson, and the American newspapers.
Shak1 11.447 15 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored
compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to
the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his
genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an
absolute bar to his presence with us.
FRO1 11.478 21 ...the statistics of the American, the
English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population
is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the
Church should always be new and extemporized...
FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost
ideal perfection.
FRep 11.533 10 If a temperate wise man should look
over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite
his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
FRep 11.536 10 The felon is the logical extreme of
the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in
one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal. But my
point now is, that this spirit is not American.
Bost 12.200 20 The American idea, Emancipation,
appears in our freedom of intellection...
Bost 12.201 17 There is a little formula, couched in
pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the
Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of
Independence.
ACri 12.292 9 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared
before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the
American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked
well; made the debate short and graphic.
MLit 12.318 26 This new love of the vast, always
native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
WSL 12.337 9 When Mr. Bull rides in an American
coach, he speaks quick and strong;...
Let 12.397 26 There is an American disease, a
paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this
country as soon as they have finished their college education...
Let 12.403 24 Apathies and total want of work, and
reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like
seasickness...
Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of
Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle
passage;...
American Anti-Slavery Soci (1)
EWI 11.115 10 I will not repeat to you the well-known
paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent
out...by the American Anti-Slavery Society, describe the occurrences of
that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
American Church, n. (1)
LLNE 10.339 17 Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the
star of the American Church...
American Congress, n. (2)
Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly, like...the American
Congress, is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by
skill of statement.
Milt1 12.249 3 [Milton's tracts] are not
effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several
masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.
American Constitution, n. (1)
Art2 7.39 2 ...from the simplest expedient of private
prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary
use and combination of things to serve its end.
American Continent, n. (1)
FSLN 11.221 12 I think [people] looked at [Webster]
as the representative of the American Continent.
American Executive, n. (1)
ACiv 11.310 15 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual
abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American
Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.
American Independence, Decl (2)
ET12 5.202 7 I do not know whether this learned body
[at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American
Independence...
EPro 11.315 20 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Declaration of
American Independence in 1776...
American Isthmus, n. (1)
WD 7.160 15 What of the grand tools with which we
engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...canalling the American
Isthmus...
American Literature, n. (2)
Let 12.404 11 As far as our correspondents have
entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature,
we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.
Let 12.404 15 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere
there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.
American Minister, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 10 My visit [to England] fell in the
fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in
London...
American, n. (32)
Nat 1.67 26 The American...is surprised on entering
York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these
structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
LT 1.284 17 ...before the young American is put into
jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw
before...
YA 1.365 9 ...prudent men have begun to see that
every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
YA 1.367 7 There is no feature of the old countries
that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the
beautiful gardens of Europe;...
YA 1.370 18 ...the uprise and culmination of the new
and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most
significance to the American at this hour.
YA 1.393 6 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy,
we commend to the study of the travelling American.
YA 1.393 9 The English...are not sensible of the
restraint [of aristocracy], but an American would seriously resent it.
ET7 5.121 24 ...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, as it would instantly to an American.
ET8 5.138 7 If anatomy is reformed according to
national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in
the Englishman, not found in the American...
ET11 5.179 17 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is
red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to
an American...
ET12 5.206 2 If a young American...were offered a
home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical
palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
ET12 5.211 10 No doubt much of the power and
brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or
hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American
would arrives at as robust exegesis...
ET19 5.311 1 That which lures a solitary American in
the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the
Saxon race...
Wsp 6.210 11 Let a man attain the highest and
broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by
sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has
happened to him;...
Suc 7.288 7 The Arabian sheiks...do not want
[American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the
American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient
man.
SA 8.103 2 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long
ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of.
Aris 10.66 2 ...the American who would serve his
country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
MoL 10.249 25 Nature says to the American: I
understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of
attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally
the powers you need.
FSLC 11.202 17 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent
American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of
Nature.
AKan 11.263 13 I wish we could send the
sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the
country.
Koss 11.400 15 ...I speak the sense not only of every
generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those
who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think
and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
FRep 11.516 17 ...the nature and habits of the
American, may well occupy us...
CInt 12.119 7 ...I too am an American, and value
practical talent.
American Republic, n. (1)
American Revolution, n. (12)
MN 1.219 21 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement]
was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein
the sequent Revolution...
ET5 5.87 26 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American
Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his
dinner...
Swp 6.204 2 The stern old faiths have all pulverized.
... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which
existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...
HDC 11.67 20 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay]
colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the
fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.
HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the
most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.
HDC 11.76 13 ...we see what manner of persons they
were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
FSLC 11.180 15 ...The Boston of the American
Revolution...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the
mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that
uprising which worked politically in the American and French
Revolutions...
Bost 12.210 12 We praised with a certain adulation
the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the
Revolution.
Bost 12.211 4 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems
compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so
long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady
breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
American Scholar, n. (2)
AmS 1.82 12 ...I accept the topic which not only
usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day,
- the AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
American Slavery, n. (1)
FSLN 11.219 2 I have lived all my life without
suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.
American State, n. (2)
AKan 11.258 21 That is the theory of the American
State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...
Bost 12.207 15 The Massachusetts colony grew and
filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American
State...
American Union, n. (2)
FRep 11.528 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the
American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into
atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
American, Young, n. (1)
YA 1.387 27 Who should lead the leaders, but the
Young American?
Americanism, n. (1)
Americanisms, n. (1)
ACri 12.291 26 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of
Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our
universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of
books might repair, and learn...to gazette those Americanisms which
offend us in all journals.
Americanized, v. (1)
Ctr 6.147 9 One use of travel is to recommend the
books and works of home,--we go to Europe to be Americanized;...
Americanizing, adj. (1)
Americans, n. (39)
MR 1.231 26 In the Spanish islands, every agent or
factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
MR 1.240 14 Only such persons interest
us...Americans, who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their
own wit and might extricated themselves...
MR 1.249 18 The Americans have many virtues, but they
have not Faith and Hope.
SR 2.80 25 It is for want of self-culture that the
superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated
Americans.
Pol1 3.206 5 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of
all proportion to their means; as...the Americans...have done.
ET1 5.20 26 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to
cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
ET3 5.35 19 ...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.
ET4 5.54 19 I found plenty of well-marked English
types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that
constitution. Others who might be Americans...
ET4 5.65 11 I suppose a hundred English taken at
random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
ET8 5.128 7 As compared with the Americans, I think
[the English] cheerful and contented.
ET8 5.138 22 Our swifter Americans, when they first
deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...
ET9 5.151 4 America is the paradise of the [English]
economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander
forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
ET16 5.273 23 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of
the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.
ET16 5.275 3 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle
complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the
English...
ET16 5.286 24 My friends asked, whether there were
any Americans?--any with an American idea...
Ctr 6.152 3 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans
that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
WD 7.168 3 Czar Alexander...wished to call the
Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts
to make it a close sea.
SA 8.100 2 In every million of Europeans or of
Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on
the globe.
Aris 10.40 24 ...the conclusion which Roman
Senators...and great Americans inculcate...is, that the radical and
essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
Thor 10.466 8 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with
such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town,
that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
Carl 10.490 14 ...though no mortal in America could
pretend to talk with Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner
satisfy us (Americans)...
HDC 11.74 10 ...when the smoke began to rise from the
village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military
stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
HDC 11.74 12 The English beginning to pluck up some
of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their
pace...
HDC 11.74 23 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground,
and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry
by all his men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded
eight.
FSLC 11.180 14 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent
people in England told me they could always distinguish by their
culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the
dust...
FSLN 11.224 16 It is remarked of the Americans that
they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American
Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for
political independence.
SHC 11.432 7 ...how much more are [parks] needed by
us, anxious, overdriven Americans...
FRep 11.536 5 [The class of which I speak] complain
of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance.
They have no perception of its destiny. They are not Americans.
American's, n. (1)
ET6 5.104 7 [The Englishman's] elocution is
stomachic,--as the American' s is labial.
Americans, Young, n. (1)
Farm 7.150 14 These [drainage] tiles are political
economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young
Americans announcing a better era,--more bread.
Ames, Fisher, n. (1)
Amesbury, England, n. (3)
ET16 5.273 19 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and
Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury,
where we found a carriage to convey us to Amesbury.
ET16 5.276 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train
at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...
ET16 5.276 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a
carriage to Amesbury... and, arriving at Amesbury, stopped at the
George Inn.
amethyst, n. (1)
ACri 12.293 14 A list might be made of showy words
that tempt young writers...golden, diamond, amethyst...
amiable, adj. (27)
Pt1 3.14 7 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And
hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth
procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace
and amiable sight./
ET9 5.150 16 In a tract on Corn, a most
amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain,
according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass
ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of
the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of men
makes Nemesis amiable...the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
ET17 5.297 6 ...[in London] you will hear from
different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend, that he
was not amiable...
Pow 6.66 9 The most amiable of country gentlemen has
a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his
orchard.
Cour 7.261 4 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly
drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
Dem1 10.13 9 For Spiritism, it shows that no man,
almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere
among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest
them on any legends.
Prch 10.231 7 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual
averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ...
The others are very amiable and promising, but they are only neuters in
the hive...
Plu 10.298 7 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the
illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most
amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus
like Goethe's.
Plu 10.298 11 Plutarch was...a self-respecting,
amiable man...
LLNE 10.346 21 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held
conversations wherever he found listeners; the most amiable, sanguine
and candid of men.
MMEm 10.401 26 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes
about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read
her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
EWI 11.133 23 ...whilst our very amiable and very
innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and
merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
EWI 11.134 12 ...the reader of Congressional debates,
in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and
patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the
minority of slave-holders. What if we should send thither
representatives who were a particle less amiable and less innocent?
FSLC 11.187 24 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law]
is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it
is alleged, are very comfortable where they are:-that amiable argument
falls to the ground...
TPar 11.292 24 ...amiable and blameless at home,
feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has
gone down in early glory to his grave...
ACiv 11.304 7 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy,
puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
HCom 11.342 14 [The war] charged with power,
peaceful, amiable men...
SMC 11.358 26 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... the most amiable, sensible, unpretending of
men;...
FRep 11.536 20 ...I dread to hear of well-born,
gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing
them to this despair.
amiableness, n. (1)
amicable, adj. (2)
NR 3.245 3 The end and the means...life is made up of
the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
DL 7.129 19 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal,
parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the
beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
Amici, Giovanni Battista, n (1)
ET1 5.8 27 I had visited Professor Amici, who had
shown me his microscopes...
amiss, adv. (2)
amity, n. (5)
Fdsp 2.205 21 I much prefer the company of ploughboys
and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its
days of encounter by a frivolous display...
Chr1 3.111 4 What is so excellent as strict relations
of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
Dem1 10.11 12 Head with foot hath private amity,/ And
both with moons and tides./
Schr 10.261 10 ...the society of lettered men is a
university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its
strictest amity.
Ammonius, n. (1)
Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace
or home of...Ammonius, Jamblichus...
ammunition, n. (5)
NMW 4.235 17 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared
nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops...
Grts 8.314 24 ...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.
PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating
to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this
arsenal, and see how many rounds of ammunition...we can bring to bear.
HDC 11.71 21 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise
one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition...
Amomum, n. (1)
CW 12.174 22 Plant...Haemony, Moly, Spikenard,
Amomum.
amor, n. (1)
amount, n. (53)
Nat 1.42 18 The moral influence of nature upon every
individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
AmS 1.87 17 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of
this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
MR 1.241 14 ...the amount of manual labor which is
necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies
for intellectual exertion.
Con 1.302 2 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off
into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the
denial of an equal amount of truth.
Con 1.302 3 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off
into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the
denial of an equal amount of truth.
Tran 1.333 5 The materialist respects sensible
masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers...or amount of
objects...
Hsm1 2.249 17 Unhappily no man exists who has not in
his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
Exp 3.75 26 ...we have no means of correcting these
colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount
of their errors.
Chr1 3.103 15 We know who is benevolent, by quite
other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
Mrs1 3.151 13 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of
his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force, and astonished me by her
amount of life...
Pol1 3.213 3 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect
agreement, and only in these; not in what...what amount of land or of
public aid each is entitled to claim.
NER 3.264 10 The scheme [of the new communities]
offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property
that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
NER 3.281 17 I believe it is the conviction of the
purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.
SwM 4.98 21 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg]
seemed, by the variety and amount of his powers, to be a composition of
several persons...
SwM 4.124 13 That slow but commanding influence which
[Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses,
must...have its tides, before it subsides into a permanent amount.
ShP 4.195 8 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in
regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
ET12 5.204 16 [The English] know the use of a tutor,
as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of
benefit out of both.
F 6.38 20 Life is freedom,-life in the direct ratio
of its amount.
Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength, wrestling,
fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
Pow 6.60 23 ...we have a certain instinct that where
is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with
moral laws.
Pow 6.74 13 ...you shall take what your brain can,
and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force
accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.
Pow 6.77 14 ...in human action, against the spasm of
energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of
force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.
Wth 6.104 2 If you take out of State Street the ten
honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same
amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
Wth 6.108 16 You may not see that the fine pear costs
you a shilling, but it costs the community so much. The shilling
represents the number of enemies the pear has, and the amount of risk
in ripening it.
Wth 6.110 16 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and
though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of
taxes.
Wth 6.110 23 The cost of education of the posterity
of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross
amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net
gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
Wsp 6.211 20 ...the same gentlemen who agree to
discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and
marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his
crimes will prevent them giving him ovations...
Wsp 6.217 21 ...the heart is at once aware of the
state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of
sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of...the amount
of facts...
CbW 6.251 5 I once counted in a little neighborhood
and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen
persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently
decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in
one way or another be brought home to him.
SS 7.7 27 ...each of these potentates [Dante,
Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary
was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of
brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the
world.
WD 7.173 7 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances
vary, the amount of happiness does not...
WD 7.185 11 ...this is the progress of every earnest
mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of
production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of
what is done...
Boks 7.196 18 If you should transfer the amount of
your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard
authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
Cour 7.260 14 ...the measure of our sincerity and
therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we
will hazard in the defence of our right.
PI 8.17 17 The poet squanders on the hour an amount
of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that
stands next him.
SA 8.102 14 ...in every town or city is always to be
found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a
great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of
schools...
PerF 10.71 4 The coal on your grate gives out in
decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was
taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of
the antediluvian tree.
PerF 10.77 2 Our stock in life, our real estate, is
that amount of thought which we have had...
LLNE 10.354 14 The Fourier marriage was a calculation
how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of
human constitution admitted.
LLNE 10.360 21 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the
feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and
expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart
with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
GSt 10.502 6 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized
the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large
amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...
JBS 11.280 10 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he
was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the
protection of the interests confided to him.
II 12.81 19 The haberdashers and brokers and
attorneys are idealists and only differ in the amount and clearness of
their perception.
Mem 12.100 22 A man would think twice about learning
a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed the magnetism
was only a constant amount, and that he lost a word or a thought for
every word he gained.
Mem 12.110 2 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge
calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime
hint...that there must be a proportion between the power of memory and
the amount of knowables;...
Milt1 12.255 15 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson,
students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together,
make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's
inspirations.
Milt1 12.273 25 Learn to estimate great characters
[wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the
habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
amount, v. (1)
SwM 4.110 24 I own with some regret that
[Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
amounted, v. (2)
HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before
the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum,
amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
HDC 11.82 15 The public expenses [of Concord], for
the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
amounting, v. (2)
ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the
English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain,
amounting in 1852 to more than a thousand a day.
HDC 11.73 26 The British following [the minute-men]
across the bridge, posted two companies, amounting to about one hundred
men, to guard the bridge...
amounts, n. (11)
Nat 1.28 19 The motion of the earth round its axis
and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain
amounts of brute light and heat.
ET5 5.90 11 The high civil and legal offices [in
England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
ET8 5.139 7 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's]
constitution, as if they...could perform vast amounts of work without
damaging themselves.
Pow 6.73 15 ...a man cannot return into his mother's
womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...
Chr2 10.96 24 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/
There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/
When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the
action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is
enthusiasm, and the other more or less amounts of horse-power.
FSLC 11.209 20 By new arts the earth is subdued,
roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor
disused;...
FSLC 11.210 12 ...grant that the heart of
financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the
embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
Let 12.402 14 A new perception...is a victory won to
the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare
and false social position.
amounts, v. (2)
F 6.19 12 The force with which we resist these
torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or
protest made by a minority of one...
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