Angrily to Apparently

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

angrily, adv. (2)

Dem1 10.4 21 ...[dreams] dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them.

JBS 11.276 9 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./

angry, adj. (17)

LE 1.168 8 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

SR 2.51 10 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...

NMW 4.240 21 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.

GoW 4.263 14 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...

F 6.44 8 The races of men rise out of the ground...and divides into parties... angry to fight for this metaphysical abstraction.

Elo1 7.72 22 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...

Clbs 7.234 4 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature...

Cour 7.259 20 ...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men who are really angry and determined.

Elo2 8.113 5 ...[the eloquent man] makes [the people] glad or angry or penitent at his pleasure;...

Elo2 8.118 27 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis.

PC 8.230 21 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians swelling with self-esteem...

PPo 8.261 7 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./

EWI 11.117 24 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature.

FSLN 11.227 24 Angry parties went from bad to worse...

CPL 11.506 11 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you are angry, I can bear it;...

II 12.81 15 ...the races of men rise out of the ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight for they know not what.

MAng1 12.236 6 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back. The Pope was angry, but the artist was immovable.

angular, adj. (5)

Nat 1.50 3 [Grace and expression]...abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects.

Exp 3.67 12 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...

SwM 4.115 7 The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.

MoS 4.160 21 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.

Bty 6.292 24 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium, not by abrupt and angular but by gradual and curving movements.

angularity, n. (1)

Hist 2.9 6 Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

angulated, v. (1)

F 6.42 17 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is...the mosaic, angulated and ground to fit into the gap he fills.

animal, adj. (86)

Nat 1.40 26 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...

Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.

Nat 1.67 6 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom...

MN 1.200 2 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...

LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?

Con 1.304 8 ...[the system of property and law] is the fruit of the same mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.

Con 1.313 12 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which, from the first pulsation in the first animal life...has advanced thus far.

Tran 1.329 23 The materialist insists...on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man;...

Comp 2.96 21 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body;...

Comp 2.97 15 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman...in each individual of every animal tribe.

Comp 2.97 18 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...

Fdsp 2.199 25 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.

Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...

Pt1 3.27 23 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine...the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other procurers of animal exhilaration.

Pt1 3.28 2 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... animal intoxication...

Chr1 3.114 17 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues...

Mrs1 3.124 3 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.

Nat2 3.182 21 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...

Nat2 3.187 1 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.

Nat2 3.191 5 ...wealth was good as it appeased the animal cravings...

Pol1 3.206 11 [A cent's] value is in the necessities of the animal man.

NER 3.252 23 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming...

UGM 4.20 26 These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...

MoS 4.151 19 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.

MoS 4.152 5 ...to the animal strength and spirits...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.

MoS 4.152 20 After dinner...a man comes to be valued by his athletic and animal qualities.

NMW 4.229 13 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization...

ET4 5.49 24 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.

ET4 5.60 9 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.

ET4 5.62 25 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature...

ET4 5.69 1 ...the animal ferocity of the quays and cockpits...[the English] know how to wake up.

ET4 5.71 15 Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts.

ET7 5.117 15 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure...

ET8 5.130 18 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...

ET14 5.260 13 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.

F 6.12 10 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...

F 6.14 17 In vegetable and animal tissue it is just alike...

F 6.36 10 The whole circle of animal life...pleases at a sufficient perspective.

F 6.38 15 The animal cell makes itself;...

Wth 6.126 16 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...

Wth 6.126 25 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation and not in augmenting animal existence.

Wth 6.127 1 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation;...

Bhr 6.172 19 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...

CbW 6.251 26 The mass are animal...

SS 7.12 19 The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal spirits.

SS 7.12 26 Animal spirits constitute the power of the present...

SS 7.13 8 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.

SS 7.13 23 ...[men] adjust themselves by their demerits,--by their love of gossip, or by sheer tolerance and animal good nature.

Civ 7.26 1 Where the banana grows the animal system is indolent...

Elo1 7.67 20 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or,--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

Elo1 7.68 4 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal spirits...

Elo1 7.68 7 I do not rate this animal eloquence very highly;...

Elo1 7.69 15 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].

Cour 7.255 21 Animal resistance...is no doubt common;...

OA 7.320 14 The vast inconvenience of animal immortality was told in the fable of Tithonus.

PI 8.5 14 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly...

PI 8.8 4 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.

PI 8.8 25 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.

PI 8.10 14 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.

PPo 8.250 24 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is not created to excite the animal appetites...

Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...

Dem1 10.21 10 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...

Dem1 10.23 24 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.

Aris 10.33 15 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...

PerF 10.73 11 The animal instincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone...

SovE 10.183 7 ...each of the great departments of Nature-chemistry, vegetation, the animal life-exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...

SovE 10.183 13 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

MoL 10.247 20 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...

Schr 10.263 5 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.

LLNE 10.337 12 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...

LLNE 10.338 17 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life...

EWI 11.104 6 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.

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.

FSLC 11.203 26 [Webster] obeys his powerful animal nature;...

FSLC 11.204 2 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.

Wom 11.422 25 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...

PLT 12.17 12 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...

PLT 12.35 11 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...

PLT 12.37 1 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.

PLT 12.59 18 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...of sluggish animal life;...

Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one to wrath and animal desire.

CL 12.138 27 [Linnaeus]...distributed the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

Milt1 12.273 26 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.

ACri 12.293 26 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself, uproarious with laughter and animal joy, on the scene...

Let 12.398 4 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which...bereaves them of animal spirits;...

Trag 12.411 13 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

Animal Kingdom [Emanuel Sw (4)

SwM 4.105 25 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.

SwM 4.111 25 The Animal Kingdom [by Swedenborg] is a book of wonderful merits.

SwM 4.115 24 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...

SwM 4.130 21 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...

Animal Magnetism [J. C. C (1)

Dem1 10.24 10 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered...

Animal Magnetism, n. (4)

Nat 1.73 10 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...

Hist 2.10 26 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before...the Animal Magnetism in Paris...

Dem1 10.25 4 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.

Dem1 10.25 8 Animal Magnetism peeps.

animal, n. (58)

Nat 1.13 15 ...the plant feeds the animal;...

Nat 1.15 7 ...the primary forms, as...the animal, give us delight in and for themselves;...

Con 1.300 21 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season, with the addition of new matter by the growth of the animal, becoming an ornamental node.

Tran 1.339 6 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him, in chemistry, and tree, and animal...

Hist 2.12 24 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause...

Hist 2.32 11 Every animal of the barn-yard, the field and the forest...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.

SR 2.71 2 ...the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.

OS 2.269 16 We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree;...

Pt1 3.10 1 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own...

Pt1 3.12 14 This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of the real.

Pt1 3.27 13 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road...

Pt1 3.27 14 As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.

Pt1 3.31 3 ...Plato calls the world an animal...

Mrs1 3.124 2 In a good lord there must first be a good animal...

Nat2 3.181 9 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth...

Nat2 3.181 11 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.

Nat2 3.181 24 The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.

UGM 4.30 6 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.

SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae...

SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river, air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...

MoS 4.151 20 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world, including the animal in the philosopher and poet also, and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.

NMW 4.258 4 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.

GoW 4.261 12 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the animal its bones in the stratum;...

ET3 5.40 18 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal.

ET4 5.71 11 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...

ET10 5.157 27 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed, without the aid of any animal.

F 6.11 11 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet looked on the woman, by the superfluity of animal...in his constitution.

F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.

F 6.14 22 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal;...

F 6.14 23 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...

F 6.35 3 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...into a...dodging animal?

F 6.37 9 The long sleep...is regulated by the supply of food proper to the animal.

F 6.37 17 There is adjustment between the animal and its food...

F 6.38 14 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...is it planet, animal or tree.

F 6.49 8 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...animal and planet...are of one kind.

Ctr 6.138 24 Each animal out of its habitat would starve.

Art2 7.53 3 The plumage of the bird...has a reaon for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.

Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.

Boks 7.212 14 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight.

Cour 7.255 22 Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common;...

OA 7.325 3 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.

PI 8.5 22 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety, be it animal, or plant, or planet...

PI 8.8 27 There is one animal, one plant, one matter and one force.

QO 8.188 27 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat,-an excellent sucking-pipe to tap another animal...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

PC 8.227 16 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.

Dem1 10.21 20 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better. It is the height of the animal; below the region of the divine.

PerF 10.73 11 The animal instincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone...

Edc1 10.127 14 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.

SovE 10.184 20 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties.

SovE 10.192 23 The strength of the animal to eat and to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.

Plu 10.316 16 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire.

Plu 10.316 21 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle, for it makes a noise and resists, like an animal dying...

AsSu 11.247 13 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...

FRep 11.542 13 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.

PLT 12.40 5 The animal, the low degrees of intellect, know only individuals.

PLT 12.54 14 What strength belongs to every plant and animal in Nature.

CInt 12.118 14 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

CL 12.164 10 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact, as frost, or cloud, or fire, or animal;...

animalcule, n. (2)

Comp 2.101 20 The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.

CL 12.138 20 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...

animalcules, n. (3)

Pt1 3.22 7 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...

Wth 6.111 14 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...

EWI 11.143 4 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water.

animalized, n. (1)

PLT 12.24 7 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...

animals, n. (86)

Nat 1.8 5 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...

Nat 1.13 25 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country...

Nat 1.22 26 ...[the intellectual and the active powers] are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals;...

Nat 1.36 6 Space...the animals...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.

Nat 1.67 20 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...

DSA 1.119 24 ...in its animals;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.

Tran 1.338 17 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life]...

YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...

YA 1.395 7 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here animals, here men abound...

Comp 2.96 20 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals;...

SL 2.137 14 The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward.

Prd1 2.230 26 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...

Hsm1 2.253 24 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals...

Cir 2.314 5 ...these metals and animals...are means and methods only...

Int 2.337 20 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms...of animals...

Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...

Pt1 3.27 2 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.

Pt1 3.29 10 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...the animals...which should be their toys.

Pt1 3.31 4 ...Timaeus affirms that the plants also are animals;...

Pt1 3.41 15 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...

Chr1 3.94 8 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.

Pol1 3.218 21 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.

UGM 4.8 23 ...plants convert the minerals into food for animals...

UGM 4.30 7 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.

UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be milder...

PPh 4.50 27 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu; and animals and stars are transient paintings;...

PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature.

NMW 4.248 12 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.

GoW 4.275 17 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].

ET4 5.60 12 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...

ET4 5.71 16 Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts.

ET7 5.117 3 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...

F 6.15 20 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...

F 6.37 5 ...it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...

F 6.39 27 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and the food it eats...

Pow 6.62 5 The huge animals nourish huge parasites...

Pow 6.69 8 The young English are fine animals...

Wth 6.89 23 ...animals of all habits;...are [man's] natural playmates...

Bhr 6.177 25 In some respects the animals excel us.

Wsp 6.218 25 We have learned the manners...of plants and animals.

CbW 6.247 26 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements.

Bty 6.292 22 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of...the locomotion of animals.

Civ 7.21 18 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost...

Art2 7.41 26 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain, the size of men and animals, and such like, have more to say than he.

Farm 7.143 7 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals...

Farm 7.143 8 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.

Farm 7.143 9 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.

Farm 7.144 7 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.

Farm 7.154 1 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...

Cour 7.256 24 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Cour 7.256 26 ...the animals have great advantage of us in precocity.

PI 8.9 7 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature, the animals, the mountain...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...

PI 8.19 25 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...

Comc 8.158 14 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained. The same rule holds true of the animals.

QO 8.200 5 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...

PC 8.215 6 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...

Grts 8.305 8 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...

Imtl 8.335 25 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession, as plants and animals do.

Dem1 10.4 2 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us...

Dem1 10.6 9 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature.

Aris 10.39 8 I wish...men...who know the beauty of animals and the laws of their nature...

Edc1 10.126 19 The animals that accompany and serve man make no progress as races.

SovE 10.184 6 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...

SovE 10.184 10 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does;...

SovE 10.184 15 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.

SovE 10.187 8 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.

Prch 10.221 18 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything better;...

Plu 10.310 19 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.

LLNE 10.348 17 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women...

Thor 10.472 2 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.

HDC 11.66 2 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...

War 11.160 6 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals...

FSLC 11.188 23 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...

JBS 11.279 24 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown] learned the manners of animals...

JBS 11.279 25 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]...knew the secret signals by which animals communicate.

FRep 11.513 5 ...it is not the plants or the animals...that can give the sum of power...

PLT 12.5 5 It is not then...animals, or globes that any longer commands us, but only man;...

PLT 12.12 26 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects, as...natural history, ships, animals, chemistry,-in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...

CL 12.137 23 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow...and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance, and had evidently been cropped plentifully by the animals in feeding.

CL 12.142 15 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...

CL 12.153 27 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...

CL 12.159 15 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert, and, if they liked, to associate with wild animals.

CL 12.161 18 How startling are the hints of wit we detect...in the wild animals!

CW 12.177 23 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in the night even, because the woods exhibit a whole new world of nocturnal animals;...

CW 12.178 20 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.

WSL 12.348 27 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.

animate, adj. (1)

Dem1 10.17 10 I believed that I discovered in nature, animate and inanimate...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...

animate, v. (19)

AmS 1.86 12 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...

LT 1.285 26 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall animate labor by love and science...

Hist 2.18 26 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...

Exp 3.50 9 We animate what we can...

Exp 3.50 10 ...we see only what we animate.

ET13 5.220 20 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities...

F 6.39 13 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize, then animate beasts and men,-will not stop but will work into finer particulars...

Wth 6.97 7 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions.

Wsp 6.242 3 ...the good Laws themselves are alive...they animate [man] with the leading of great duty...

Civ 7.32 7 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...

Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.

Prch 10.224 10 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to...animate man to central and entire action.

Schr 10.273 3 The scholar, when he comes, will be known by an energy that will animate all who see him.

Thor 10.476 25 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism, and the intellectual subtility it could animate.

War 11.160 1 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast societies of men...

TPar 11.285 2 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.

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...

Mem 12.92 27 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life; and by recording to animate you to uplift it.

MLit 12.335 15 ...[man's] thought can animate the sea and land.

animated, adj. (5)

UGM 4.11 22 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine...

SwM 4.107 25 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings find their place...

Bhr 6.169 3 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.

Supl 10.176 18 ...in the East [the superlative] is animated...

SovE 10.184 18 I see the unity of thought and of morals running through all animated Nature;...

animated, v. (12)

Pt1 3.11 4 These stony moments are still sparkling and animated!

Pt1 3.12 8 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...

ET3 5.39 6 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock, and the shores are animated by water-birds.

ET13 5.218 3 The carved and pictured chapel--its entire surface animated with image and emblem--made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.

Bhr 6.187 12 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...before the creatures they have animated.

CbW 6.248 19 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...

CbW 6.264 18 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things...is animated to great desires and endeavors.

DL 7.104 2 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity: the body is all animated.

PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated.

Chr2 10.114 25 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient, as if it furnished a rule only, and not the spirit by which the rule is animated.

LS 11.22 14 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...

FSLN 11.223 1 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...

animates, v. (16)

Nat 1.55 1 ...thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts...

Nat 1.64 23 This [spiritual] view...animates me to create my own world...

AmS 1.108 22 [The universal mind] is one soul which animates all men.

AmS 1.112 2 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.

SL 2.139 20 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats...

OS 2.270 17 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs;...

Chr1 3.96 11 [A man] animates all he can...

Chr1 3.96 12 ...[a man] sees only what he animates.

PPh 4.57 5 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.

Bhr 6.169 1 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure...of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.

PI 8.29 11 Fancy aggregates; imagination animates.

PerF 10.85 19 [A survey of cosmical powers]...animates exertion;...

SovE 10.188 24 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea which animates either party...

Prch 10.222 9 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him.

Mem 12.99 21 ...only what the affection animates can be remembered.

CL 12.142 1 Walking, said Rousseau, has something which animates and vivifies my ideas.

animating, adj. (1)

NER 3.273 11 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...

animating, v. (2)

NMW 4.246 4 [Napoleon's] capacious head...animating such multitudes of agents;...

EdAd 11.385 27 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...animating the youth...

animation, n. (8)

LE 1.168 12 ...indeed any vegetation, any animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].

Pt1 3.21 10 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation...

SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].

ET1 5.22 17 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.

Suc 7.299 22 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture.

Aris 10.56 17 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment. In this impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a wolf.

PLT 12.20 15 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry, vegetation, animation, intellection possible.

Trag 12.405 14 How slender the possession that yet remains to us; how faint the animation!...

animosities, n. (2)

PI 8.38 2 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in personal animosities...

MMEm 10.422 26 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...

animum, n. (1)

SlHr 10.437 19 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief. All was conquered praeter atrocem animum Catonis.

animus, n. (1)

PLT 12.61 25 Quantus amor tantus animus.

aniquity, n. (1)

PC 8.224 25 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Ann, Cape, Massachusetts, n (1)

EWI 11.131 8 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection, as much as within the arms of Cape Ann or Cape Cod.

Ann, Mother [Ann Lee], n. (1)

Bost 12.207 2 From...Ann Hutchinson, and Whitfield, and Mother Ann, the first Shaker, down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Ann, n. (1)

CL 12.165 9 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

Anna Matilda, n. (1)

Ill 6.319 11 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself. 'T is these which the lover loves, and Anna Matilda gets the credit of them.

Anna, North, River, Virgin (1)

SMC 11.372 4 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.

annals, n. (19)

MR 1.251 4 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Hist 2.9 3 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where... poetry and annals are alike.

Hist 2.35 5 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord...

Hist 2.40 5 ...what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man?

Hist 2.40 20 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...

Fdsp 2.211 9 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.

UGM 4.32 21 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals.

Boks 7.201 14 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.

Boks 7.209 10 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...

PPo 8.241 24 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...

Plu 10.303 16 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.

HDC 11.59 15 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.

HDC 11.83 27 I find our annals [of Concord] marked with a uniform good sense.

War 11.152 14 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...

War 11.159 3 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.

TPar 11.288 7 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.

ChiE 11.471 19 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...

Bost 12.188 18 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...

MLit 12.335 21 [The Genius of the time] will write the annals of a changed world...

Annapolis, Maryland, n. (1)

Res 8.144 2 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.

Anne, Empress of Russia, n. (1)

Imtl 8.336 11 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...

Anne, of England, n. (1)

Shak1 11.452 19 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as the wits of Anne...

Anne's, Queen, of England, (1)

Schr 10.266 21 ...the wits of Queen Anne's...have not much helped us.

annexation, n. (1)

ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national prosperity, in the annexation of countries;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...

annexed, v. (3)

Wth 6.107 11 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;--any variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the prices annexed.

Aris 10.29 17 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./

CPL 11.496 13 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not...rest until it has annexed Concord to the city.

annexes, v. (1)

ET18 5.303 8 ...[Englishmen's] colonization annexes archipelagoes and continents...

annexing, v. (1)

Elo1 7.82 23 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.

annihilate, v. (2)

MoS 4.168 27 Montaigne...does not wish to...annihilate space or time...

NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron... to annihilate all defence.

annihilated, v. (3)

YA 1.363 22 Not only is distance annihilated...

Hsm1 2.264 5 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...

PPo 8.264 2 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./

annihilates, v. (2)

DSA 1.148 6 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence...

Schr 10.282 12 [Truth] shines backward and forward, diminishes and annihilates everybody...

annihilation, n. (2)

EWI 11.140 12 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.

Trag 12.405 17 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain... leaving its planted fields to erasure and annihilation.

anniversaries, n. (3)

MN 1.193 14 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...

PI 8.48 25 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and fulfilment, anniversaries...

CInt 12.115 16 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries...

anniversary, n. (15)

AmS 1.81 2 Our anniversary is one of hope...

LE 1.155 12 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.

LE 1.158 2 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.

MN 1.191 3 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.

NMW 4.246 18 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz, which was the anniversary of his inauguration as Emperor, presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.

ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...

ET19 5.312 5 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.

WD 7.169 7 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...

OA 7.315 1 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.

LS 11.7 15 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.

HDC 11.29 5 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.

EWI 11.99 3 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...

SMC 11.349 3 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.

RBur 11.439 15 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.

Scot 11.463 7 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...

annotator, n. (1)

ET14 5.250 13 Wilkinson...the annotator of Fourier...has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...

announce, v. (18)

AmS 1.82 7 ...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...

Con 1.304 1 You are welcome...if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...

SR 2.54 20 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.

Prd1 2.231 4 ...the boldest lyric inspiration...should announce and lead the civil code and the day's work.

Exp 3.83 6 I can very confidently announce one or another law...

Chr1 3.100 26 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good; for these announce the instant presence of supreme power.

Chr1 3.111 20 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.

PPh 4.63 13 I announce to men the Intellect.

PPh 4.63 13 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature...

SwM 4.119 10 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.

ET10 5.164 23 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.

F 6.44 19 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first...

F 6.44 20 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first, but all will announce it a few minutes later.

Wsp 6.205 10 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths...

PI 8.73 24 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.

Dem1 10.22 12 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.

Thor 10.460 24 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.

ACiv 11.300 9 The telegraph has been swift enough to announce our disasters.

announced, v. (19)

Fdsp 2.192 8 A commended stranger is expected and announced...

PPh 4.70 20 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...

SwM 4.119 18 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.

MoS 4.183 26 Charles Fourier announced that the attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies;...

ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture...

ET10 5.157 20 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...

ET15 5.264 5 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.

ET16 5.288 2 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.

ET19 5.309 18 Mr. Jerrold, who had been announced [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], did not appear.

OA 7.336 3 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced;...

PC 8.215 1 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...

PC 8.222 1 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...

Imtl 8.327 24 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable...

LLNE 10.337 18 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...was a leading to a truth which had not yet been announced.

EWI 11.141 14 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...

War 11.160 25 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand;...

ALin 11.330 27 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.

Scot 11.465 9 The tone of strength in Waverley at once announced the master...

EurB 12.365 4 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

announcement, n. (9)

AmS 1.109 26 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...

SR 2.88 20 ...with each new uproar of announcement...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.

Cir 2.311 2 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!

Art1 2.365 20 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...

Pt1 3.13 8 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...

SwM 4.124 5 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...

ET14 5.242 16 ...the very announcement of the theory of gravitation...finds a sudden response in the mind...

ALin 11.329 9 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...

RBur 11.439 13 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.

announcements, n. (3)

OS 2.280 27 We distinguish the announcements of the soul...by the term Revelation.

ET15 5.269 17 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...

ET18 5.308 9 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous...for the announcements of original right which make the stone tables of liberty.

announces, v. (12)

DSA 1.127 4 What [another soul] announces, I must find true in me, or reject;...

YA 1.388 25 ...who announces to us in journal, or in pulpit...the secret of heroism?

Pt1 3.8 22 The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.

Pt1 3.11 19 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.

Pt1 3.30 23 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.

UGM 4.22 3 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little...of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...

SwM 4.113 12 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas.

GoW 4.265 3 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine. Every thought which dawns on the mine, in the moment of its emergence announces its own rank...

Wth 6.102 13 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of social storms, and announces revolutions.

Comc 8.158 1 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

EPro 11.316 18 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...

EPro 11.317 10 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

announcing, v. (12)

Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...

Tran 1.345 25 ...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had departed?

Comp 2.95 14 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing the presence of the soul;...

PNR 4.82 7 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.

ShP 4.213 16 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...as announcing new eras and ameliorations.

ET10 5.165 25 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him.

Bhr 6.177 12 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles and announcing to the curious how it is with them.

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.

Dem1 10.10 8 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring (yes, distinctly announcing) his fate...

EPro 11.326 6 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet...

EdAd 11.386 1 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy...

FRep 11.540 20 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.

annoy, n. (1)

Suc 7.305 7 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.

annoy, v. (7)

SR 2.72 11 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.

PPh 4.67 16 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be; if not...you will only annoy me.

ET6 5.105 1 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion, only careful not to interfere with them or annoy them;...

DL 7.113 22 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...

Aris 10.35 13 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are not superficial...

Prch 10.227 14 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims.

HDC 11.75 8 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the east quarter of the town [Concord], to waylay the enemy, and annoy his retreat.

annoyance, n. (3)

Insp 8.289 23 ...in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.

Thor 10.458 11 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year.

SMC 11.374 6 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold, added to the annoyance of the artillery fire.

annoyances, n. (5)

Nat 1.37 8 ...what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas;...

Mrs1 3.140 21 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.

ET2 5.29 9 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances at last [at sea]...

Ctr 6.153 17 ...in cities [the gods] have betrayed you to a cloud of insignificant annoyances...

MAng1 12.236 7 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.

annoyed, v. (3)

Exp 3.83 26 ...I am not annoyed by receiving this or that superabundantly.

ET1 5.16 4 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.

ET16 5.280 18 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...

annoying, adj. (2)

Ctr 6.133 4 One of [egotism's] annoying forms is a craving for sympathy.

Insp 8.286 5 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/ And I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./

annoying, v. (1)

EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...

annoys, v. (1)

SA 8.106 14 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.

annual, adj. (11)

ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...

ET19 5.312 9 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.

F 6.32 23 The annual slaughter from typhus far exceeds that of war;...

Pow 6.61 4 When [children] are hurt by us...or miss the annual prizes...they have a serious check.

Bty 6.294 1 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the annual wave of vegetation...

Boks 7.193 9 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes, with an annual increase of twelve thousand volumes;...

Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the Emperor of China.

EWI 11.113 11 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and coffee, at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...

CPL 11.502 5 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests, after the annual extinction of the household fires of their land, to procure in the temple fire from the sun...

CInt 12.124 22 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...

CW 12.179 7 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...

Annual Register, n. (1)

Pol1 3.217 6 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character]; the Annual Register is silent;...

annually, adv. (3)

OA 7.324 10 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...

CW 12.173 24 In the orchard, we build monuments to Van Mons annually.

Bost 12.196 10 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.

annuities, n. (2)

MoL 10.246 12 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.

FRep 11.512 13 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages; the life-assurance, its table of annuities.

annul, v. (2)

MN 1.221 4 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.

Clbs 7.240 6 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not...overstep and annul.

annular, adj. (1)

Dem1 10.10 17 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light have become...annular...

annulling, v. (1)

LE 1.164 12 Concede to [the man of letters] genius, which is a sort of Stoical plenum annulling the comparative, and he is content;...

annuls, v. (1)

F 6.23 9 Intellect annuls Fate.

annum, n. (3)

Elo1 7.80 4 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.

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.

EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...

annunciation, n. (1)

SwM 4.105 16 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and annunciation of one of the laws of nature.

Annursnuc, Mount, Massachus (1)

Thor 10.468 5 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded him.

anodynes, n. (1)

Con 1.320 6 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...mitigations of pain by pillows and anodynes;...

anoint, v. (1)

Mrs1 3.151 3 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see?

anointed, v. (1)

LS 11.10 8 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment.

anomalies, n. (3)

AmS 1.85 21 ...[the young mind] goes on...diminishing anomalies...

ET5 5.94 9 ...from first to last [England] is a museum of anomalies.

Supl 10.175 2 You shall not catch [Nature] in any anomalies...

anomalous, adj. (6)

Tran 1.331 3 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.

OS 2.288 18 [Genius] is not anomalous...

Art1 2.366 5 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

NR 3.234 23 Anomalous facts...are of ideal use.

SwM 4.139 14 For the anomalous pretension of Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any serious regard.

Wsp 6.207 1 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.

anomaly, n. (2)

Wsp 6.220 27 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly...

FRO2 11.489 22 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but an exhibition, a wonder, an anomaly...

anon, adv. (7)

LT 1.289 18 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface...

Pt1 3.8 10 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse...

ET1 5.24 13 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse...

OA 7.329 26 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...

EzRy 10.391 22 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment, softening ever and anon into elegancy, which make the distinction of the scholar...

MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.

PPr 12.389 15 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

answer, n. (40)

LE 1.183 22 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question...to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.

SR 2.50 14 I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...

SR 2.55 22 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on...in answer to conversation which does not interest us.

OS 2.283 9 An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

OS 2.283 10 An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

OS 2.284 15 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin. God has no answer for them.

OS 2.284 15 No answer in words can reply to a question of things.

OS 2.284 23 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...

OS 2.285 2 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition, and the question and the answer are one.

Exp 3.82 8 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people;...

Exp 3.82 11 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous. This is a divine answer, and leaves no appeal...

Chr1 3.94 19 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici; and the answer was, Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one.

NER 3.282 24 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer...

SwM 4.112 19 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.

ShP 4.199 16 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that?

ShP 4.209 1 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...

NMW 4.239 4 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence...no longer required an answer.

NMW 4.247 18 To what heaps of cowardly doubts is not that man's [Napoleon's] life an answer.

ET17 5.295 5 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge. Mrs. W[ordsworth]. had the Editor's answer in her possession.

Wsp 6.229 7 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...

Wsp 6.229 11 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.

Wsp 6.233 11 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and having explained his errand and received his answer, the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?

CbW 6.252 7 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils.

DL 7.114 22 ...[wealth] cannot be the right answer; there are objections to wealth.

Clbs 7.235 17 He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.

Clbs 7.238 17 Best is he who gives an answer that cannot be answered again.

Clbs 7.239 22 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.

Suc 7.307 25 We know the answer that leaves nothing to ask.

QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.

PPo 8.264 29 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./ There came an answer without tongue.-/

LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer...to the theories of the socialists.

EzRy 10.386 15 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered, and his own entire faith that these petitions were...entitled to a favorable answer.

HDC 11.66 16 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.

HDC 11.66 20 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.

HDC 11.68 6 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...

Wom 11.418 21 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...

PLT 12.16 12 Who are we, and what is Nature, have one answer in the life that rushes into us.

MAng1 12.236 15 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...

Pray 12.350 16 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes, which are the answer to the prayer...

Let 12.394 2 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

answer, v. (70)

Nat 1.32 27 The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.

Nat 1.75 24 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect...

AmS 1.82 22 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.

MN 1.219 17 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade. But if the Puritans could rise from the dust they could not answer.

MR 1.247 5 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served;...

LT 1.288 13 Over all [the sailors'] speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us; not in Time.

Con 1.310 13 ...[existing institutions] do answer the end...

Tran 1.352 2 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...

Hist 2.32 22 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive.

Hist 2.32 27 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.

Comp 2.98 11 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life.

SL 2.136 19 ...it is time enough to answer questions when they are asked.

SL 2.137 8 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.

OS 2.276 20 I live...with persons who answer to thoughts in my own mind...

OS 2.282 23 [Revelations] do not answer the questions which the understanding asks.

Exp 3.56 15 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy question to say, Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular?

Chr1 3.107 13 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?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?

NER 3.282 17 What if I cannot answer your questions?

UGM 4.7 1 ...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.

UGM 4.7 5 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question.

SwM 4.140 21 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.

ShP 4.209 21 ...let Antonio the merchant answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.

ET6 5.102 22 ...[the English] hate the practical cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.

ET9 5.150 2 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh!...

ET12 5.213 5 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons.

ET16 5.288 13 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses,--my house, for example. It is not easy to answer these queries well.

F 6.45 5 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...

Wth 6.92 13 He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Wth 6.113 17 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage, but afterward his chateau and farms might answer for him.

Wth 6.123 22 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you. These are matters on which I neither know nor need to know anything. These are questions which you and not I shall answer.

Wsp 6.201 8 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.

Wsp 6.230 19 Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer an objection to it?

Art2 7.53 5 The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful.

Elo1 7.96 19 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...

Boks 7.215 23 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does...

Boks 7.215 27 A person of less courage, that is of less constitution, will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...

Clbs 7.235 3 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot.

Clbs 7.235 16 He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.

Clbs 7.237 14 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.

Clbs 7.237 19 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall, and told that he cannot go out thence unless he can answer every question Wafthrudnir shall put.

Clbs 7.238 2 At last [Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer...

Clbs 7.239 12 To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man...

Suc 7.285 17 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua. Let them answer and say if they know where Veragua lies.

SA 8.84 15 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read there?

Elo2 8.115 19 [The true orator]...must answer all comers.

Res 8.148 6 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.

Aris 10.38 18 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive...ready to answer for their actions with their life.

Aris 10.48 19 Slavery had mischief enough to answer for, but it had this good in it,-the pricing of men.

Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the child's nature? I answer,- Respect the child, respect him to the end, but also respect yourself.

SovE 10.196 1 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?

SovE 10.199 20 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world. I answer: Other world! there is no other world.

SovE 10.209 11 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions? I answer for one that the inspirations we catch of this law are not continuous and technical...

Schr 10.284 10 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off.

Schr 10.284 18 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you help any soul? Can he answer these questions?...

Schr 10.284 19 Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the order and disposition of your life!

Schr 10.284 22 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...

MMEm 10.407 8 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism. To which I can only answer that, in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.

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), or begin to answer the questions which we ask.

War 11.160 18 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate? Would not love answer the same end...

War 11.162 19 In the first place, we answer that we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...

FSLC 11.210 23 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true.

AsSu 11.248 14 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill. It is only when they cannot answer your reasons, that they wish to knock you down.

AKan 11.260 18 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so? Let Mr. Underwood of Virginia answer.

Wom 11.409 5 What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

FRep 11.519 5 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...

PLT 12.7 5 ...these questions which really interest men, how few can answer.

Mem 12.95 2 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words? I answer, Yes, always;...

CInt 12.131 9 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself...

ACri 12.285 6 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.

ACri 12.292 19 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...nothing would answer but;...

answerable, adj. (3)

LE 1.158 19 When [the scholar] has seen that [the intellectual power]...is the soul which made the world...he will know that he...may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

PPh 4.67 13 As if [Socrates] had said, I have no system. I cannot be answerable for you.

Elo2 8.130 2 Speak what you do know and believe;...and are answerable for every word.

answered, v. (41)

Nat 1.41 9 Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part [of nature], [discipline] is its public and universal function...

Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...

DSA 1.121 10 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then is the end of the creation answered...

Tran 1.349 19 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.

Tran 1.352 9 When I asked them concerning their private experience, [Transcendentalists] answered somewhat in this wise...

Comp 2.96 7 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.

Comp 2.114 21 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind...

SL 2.164 10 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?

Chr1 3.90 17 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.

Chr1 3.105 27 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity...

Nat2 3.186 6 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.

Pol1 3.220 17 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of institutions of art and science can be answered.

MoS 4.185 21 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.

ET5 5.82 6 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered;...

Wth 6.85 3 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?

Wth 6.110 14 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages. Then we refuse to employ these poor [immigrant] men. But they will not be so answered.

Bty 6.285 14 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death.

Elo1 7.71 27 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...

Boks 7.191 20 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of. If not, he has no right to our time. Let him go and find himself answered there.

Boks 7.215 19 What made the popularity of Jane Eyre, but that a central question was answered in some sort?

Boks 7.215 20 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.

Clbs 7.237 27 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun... etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily. Then it is his turn to interrogate, and he is answered well for a time by the Jotun.

Clbs 7.238 17 Best is he who gives an answer that cannot be answered again.

OA 7.324 17 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose...

PI 8.61 14 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well...

SA 8.97 2 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac, who only answered, It may be so, there's no arguing against facts and experiments.

Elo2 8.121 21 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all.

Comc 8.172 24 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?

PPo 8.262 2 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./

Edc1 10.130 1 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.

Supl 10.170 21 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials.

Prch 10.227 15 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches. They answered to their times the same need as your rejection of them does to ours.

SlHr 10.443 18 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...and, of course also, having answered our end, we passed him by...

SlHr 10.445 26 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to [Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you out of the Revised Statutes.

Thor 10.455 9 When asked at table what dish he preferred, [Thoreau] answered, The nearest.

Thor 10.476 13 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken...describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to.

HDC 11.81 23 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State? The town answered No.

HDC 11.81 27 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State? The town answered No, by a unanimous vote.

FSLN 11.221 24 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...and the whole occasion was answered by his presence.

FSLN 11.230 20 [Reasonably men] answered that they had no confidence in their strength to resist the Democratic party;...

AKan 11.255 16 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.

answering, adj. (4)

ET6 5.103 18 The mechanical might and organization [in England] requires in the people constitution and answering spirits;...

WD 7.171 6 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...and the answering brain and nervous structure replying to these;...are given immeasurably to all.

PC 8.207 17 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent; the answering facility of immigration...

CL 12.154 17 ...the variety of our moods has an answering variety in the face of the world...

answering, v. (5)

Nat 1.46 8 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...

AmS 1.87 1 ...nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part.

MoS 4.161 15 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life;...

Clbs 7.235 22 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.

SlHr 10.441 9 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man, answering as sovereign state to sovereign state;...

answers, n. (6)

OS 2.283 3 In past oracles of the soul the understanding seeks to find answers to sensual questions...

Wsp 6.230 15 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.

WD 7.159 22 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery.

Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers...

PC 8.221 9 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers.

Plu 10.313 17 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./

answers, v. (20)

Nat 1.62 19 The first of these questions only [What is matter?], the ideal theory answers.

LE 1.163 1 The soul answers-Behold [Charles V's] day is here!

MR 1.255 24 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...

SL 2.156 12 ...your silence answers very loud.

OS 2.282 24 The soul answers never by words...

Pt1 3.15 3 ...every thing in nature answers to a moral power...

NER 3.282 8 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit.

UGM 4.7 2 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated.

GoW 4.279 8 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name;...

Pow 6.56 6 ...health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare...

Bty 6.289 10 We ascribe beauty to that...which exactly answers its end;...

DL 7.115 5 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.

Clbs 7.237 26 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun... etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily.

SA 8.80 5 He...who answers you without any supplication in his eye...that man rules.

PC 8.221 19 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth...

SovE 10.213 8 Now science and philosophy recognize...how each [Spirit and Matter] reflects the other as face answers to face in a glass...

LLNE 10.326 22 The public speaker disclaims speaking for any other; he answers only for himself.

CL 12.160 27 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry...which perfectly answers its end...

CL 12.165 16 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.

CL 12.166 17 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.

ant, n. (4)

Nat 1.28 23 The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's;...

PPo 8.241 17 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass...

PPo 8.241 19 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass: Solomon did not despise the gift of the ant.

Mem 12.90 16 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we.

Antaeus, n. (1)

Hist 2.31 14 Antaeus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules...

antagonism, n. (23)

LE 1.184 15 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.

MR 1.236 22 We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties...

LT 1.281 27 Other times have had...a barbarism, domestic or bordering, as their antagonism.

Con 1.295 19 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.

Con 1.296 1 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is the primal antagonism...

Con 1.299 16 Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance...

Hist 2.22 20 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals...

Fdsp 2.208 18 I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.

Prd1 2.221 13 We write from aspiration and antagonism...

Prd1 2.239 12 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries], assume an identity of sentiment...

SwM 4.106 24 ...[Swedenborg] held, in exact antagonism to the skeptics, that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.

NMW 4.223 18 In our society there is a standing antagonism between the conservative and the democratic classes;...

ET1 5.6 14 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture, notwithstanding the antagonism in their views of the history of art.

ET4 5.67 26 The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness.

ET15 5.261 3 In England, [the power of the newspaper] stands in antagonism with the feudal institutions...

F 6.20 9 If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

F 6.22 13 Man is...a stupendous antagonism...

CbW 6.254 27 Nature is upheld by antagonism.

Thor 10.479 8 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings...

FSLN 11.231 18 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...

Wom 11.416 4 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.

EurB 12.368 27 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age...

Let 12.402 3 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

antagonisms, n. (7)

Fdsp 2.199 13 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms...

GoW 4.285 17 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered...

ET5 5.94 7 ...England subsists by antagonisms and contradictions.

SS 7.15 12 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms...

Civ 7.25 14 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.

Plu 10.312 11 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.

PLT 12.53 26 The world stands by balanced antagonisms.

antagonist, adj. (3)

Hist 2.21 21 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.

Hist 2.36 23 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.

Chr2 10.94 1 The antagonist nature is the individual...

antagonist, n. (6)

Cir 2.305 5 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. His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.

Pow 6.59 26 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.

Elo1 7.61 11 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a third needs an antagonist, or a hot indignation;...

Dem1 10.18 4 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world, though not an antagonist, yet a transverse element...

War 11.157 1 Trade...is the antagonist of war.

CL 12.163 20 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man. This is that which is the saliency, or principle of levity, the antagonist of matter and gravitation...

antagonistic, adj. (2)

ET4 5.50 22 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements.

Wth 6.116 11 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic...

antagonists, n. (5)

Con 1.299 23 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.

Hsm1 2.251 9 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.

NMW 4.251 24 I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other antagonists;...

Elo1 7.95 1 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...made nothing of their antagonists...

Cour 7.273 20 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

antagonized, v. (4)

Wth 6.94 10 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he.

PerF 10.69 9 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...

Koss 11.398 21 [The sympathy of Americans] is, in every expression, antagonized.

PLT 12.19 3 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...

antagonizes, v. (1)

F 6.22 7 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes Fate.

antagonizing, v. (1)

Exp 3.68 11 ...the mind goes antagonizing on...

Antarctic, adj. (2)

ShP 4.190 4 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...

Suc 7.283 12 We have discovered the Antarctic continent.

antecedent, adj. (2)

Int 2.346 11 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...

FSLC 11.190 24 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...

antecedents, n. (1)

Prch 10.234 21 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...

antechambers, n. (1)

NMW 4.246 24 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers...

antedate, v. (1)

Hist 2.38 5 No man can antedate his experience...

antedating, v. (2)

AmS 1.96 21 Observe too the impossibility of antedating this act.

Imtl 8.328 19 Cease from this antedating of your experience.

antediluvian, adj. (3)

Nat 1.40 25 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth...to the...antediluvian coal-mine...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...

ET4 5.50 8 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.

PerF 10.71 6 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.

Ante-Homeric, adj. (1)

LLNE 10.332 15 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses...on the Orphic and Ante-Homeric remains,-yet this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

antelopes, n. (1)

EPro 11.314 15 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./

Antenor [Homer, Iliad], n. (1)

Elo1 7.72 3 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.

anterior, adj. (4)

Int 2.325 10 Intellect is the simple power anterior to all action or construction.

Chr1 3.110 4 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

PPo 8.240 10 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.

Milt1 12.248 14 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.

anthem, n. (3)

NER 3.271 23 The Iliad...the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him.

ET13 5.218 27 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

EWI 11.145 4 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...

Anthem, National, n. (1)

Bost 12.204 7 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no National Anthem have we yet contributed.

anthems, n. (1)

DSA 1.134 23 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in anthems of indefinite music;...

ant-hills, n. (2)

ET10 5.167 14 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed like ant-hills...

CL 12.150 3 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...

anthology, n. (3)

ShP 4.200 5 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...

ET4 5.52 5 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...as it is an anthology of temperaments out of them all.

Insp 8.295 7 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.

anthracite, adj. (1)

CL 12.139 26 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...

anthracite, n. (2)

Exp 3.80 6 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good...anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Elo1 7.92 18 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be...beds of ignited anthracite at the centre.

anthropometer, n. (1)

Aris 10.49 13 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.

Anthropomorphism, n. (1)

MAng1 12.222 3 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...

anthropomorphists, n. (1)

SovE 10.202 24 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!

anthropomorphized, v. (1)

PI 8.23 9 The world is thoroughly anthropomorphized...

anthropomorphous, adj. (1)

Dem1 10.11 17 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral...

Anthropophagi, n. (1)

ET4 5.64 14 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst, and worthy of the Anthropophagi.

antic, adj. (1)

Dem1 10.4 4 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures.

anticipate, v. (19)

MN 1.218 14 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions...

Hist 2.37 14 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac... anticipate the laws of organization.

SR 2.54 19 If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

OS 2.276 15 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the universe...

Pt1 3.5 26 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars...

Nat2 3.195 13 We anticipate a new era from the invention of a locomotive...

UGM 4.13 19 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind...and on each occurrence we anticipate his thought.

PNR 4.82 3 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.

MoS 4.170 23 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.

ET4 5.46 20 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...

ET8 5.138 8 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...

ET18 5.305 18 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.

CbW 6.267 2 ...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? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for? until at last the party...anticipate the question at the gates of each town.

DL 7.124 15 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises.

Cour 7.265 7 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility anticipate it...

SovE 10.210 9 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.

Prch 10.221 4 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things, and to anticipate the same victories.

CSC 10.376 17 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man...who does not anticipate his own action...

CPL 11.495 22 In the details of this munificence, we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library..

anticipated, v. (15)

Con 1.312 8 ...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of the whole population of each country.

YA 1.364 15 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land...

SwM 4.102 2 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...

SwM 4.102 4 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet...

SwM 4.102 6 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...

MoS 4.164 26 ...[Montaigne] has anticipated all censure by the bounty of his own confessions.

ET16 5.287 9 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance, and anticipated the objections and the fun...

F 6.18 10 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes, had anticipated them;...

Boks 7.198 23 The well-informed man finds himself anticipated [by Plato].

PC 8.222 7 ...if we should analyze Newton's discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it would not have been found.

Imtl 8.327 18 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg...

HDC 11.51 5 Thomas Hooker anticipated the opinion of Humboldt, and called [the Indians] the ruins of mankind.

EPro 11.318 1 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...

ChiE 11.472 6 ...China...had anticipated Linnaeus's nomenclature of plants;...

MLit 12.318 9 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been known in recent ages.

anticipates, v. (4)

Lov1 2.169 5 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.

OS 2.276 2 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.

Pow 6.57 8 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery;...

Clbs 7.240 10 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you, anticipates you...

anticipating, v. (2)

EWI 11.115 4 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder.

PPr 12.385 10 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea of poetic and humane conservatism...

anticipation, n. (4)

MN 1.211 20 [This ecstatic state] respects...the anticipation of all things by the intellect...

SA 8.98 4 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...

Comc 8.159 15 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation;...

LVB 11.89 7 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.

antics, n. (1)

MoS 4.168 27 Montaigne...does not wish to...play any antics...

antidote, n. (7)

Pol1 3.215 22 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character...

UGM 4.26 21 A foreign greatness is the antidote for cabalism.

Pow 6.64 1 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal. But it brings its own antidote;...

Cour 7.262 18 Knowledge is the antidote to fear,--Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Insp 8.295 19 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize...as antidote to verbiage and false poetry.

Aris 10.36 25 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...

Bost 12.197 7 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.

antidotes, n. (4)

ET10 5.170 3 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. But the antidotes are frightfully inadequate...

ET11 5.195 13 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city, learning receipts to make perfumes, sweet powders, pomanders, antidotes...preparing for a private life thereafter...

Ctr 6.139 3 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...

CL 12.149 24 [The Indian] can draw...food and antidotes from a hundred plants.

anti-duelling, adj. (1)

War 11.170 13 In some of our cities they choose noted duellists as presidents and officers of anti-duelling societies.

Antietam, Maryland, n. (1)

SMC 11.368 8 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service...at Antietam...

anti-feudal, adj. (1)

YA 1.370 16 ...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.

Antigone, n. (1)

Trag 12.407 5 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.

Antigone [Sophocles, Antigo (1)

Plu 10.313 8 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...

Antigone [Sophocles], n. (1)

Nat 1.55 18 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?

Antigua, n. (2)

EWI 11.114 11 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...

EWI 11.115 11 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.

anti-masonry, n. (1)

War 11.164 12 Observe the ideas of the present day...popular education, temperance, anti-masonry, anti-slavery;...

Anti-masonry, n. (1)

LT 1.270 8 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong...

antinomian, adj. (1)

Exp 3.79 4 ...there is no crime to the intellect. That is antinomian or hypernomian, and judges law as well as fact.

Antinomian, n. (1)

Bost 12.207 1 From...Wheelright the Antinomian...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

antinomianism, n. (3)

Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.

SR 2.74 8 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is... mere antinomianism;...

NER 3.253 17 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.

Antioch, Syria, n. (1)

GoW 4.274 3 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he...was not a whit less vivacious or rich in Liverpool or the Hague than once in Rome or Antioch.

Antiochus, n. (1)

Wsp 6.239 3 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle.

antipapist, n. (1)

EzRy 10.389 18 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether colonizationist or antipapist...who went by.

antipathy, n. (1)

FRep 11.527 24 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the antipathy to secret societies...

Antiphanes, n. (1)

QO 8.187 3 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...

Antiphon, n. (1)

Elo1 7.63 24 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.

antipodes, n. (1)

Bty 6.283 6 ...[a man] feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood;...

antiquarian, adj. (3)

ET5 5.90 22 Private persons [in England] exhibit, in scientific and antiquarian researches, the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...

ET14 5.251 10 ...much of [English] aesthetic production is antiquarian and manufactured...

Ctr 6.158 27 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn of Lord Fairfax, the Long Parliament's general, his passion for antiquarian studies;...

Antiquarian Society [Englan (1)

ET17 5.292 18 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.

antiquaries, n. (5)

ShP 4.201 14 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

ET11 5.190 1 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the anecdotes preserved by the antiquaries Fuller and Collins;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

CbW 6.248 14 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!

SMC 11.353 18 War civilizes, rearranges the population, distributing by ideas,-the innovators on one side, the antiquaries on the other.

Scot 11.464 10 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides, and written down from their lips by antiquaries;...

antiquary, n. (7)

Hist 2.41 5 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

ET4 5.69 26 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.

ET11 5.177 11 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing;...

ET11 5.188 18 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...

ET16 5.280 23 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...

ET16 5.281 19 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...

Scot 11.463 4 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.

antiquated, adj. (3)

YA 1.392 20 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.

PC 8.207 23 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.

War 11.175 22 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...

antique, adj. (17)

AmS 1.111 13 Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.

SwM 4.101 16 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig...

ShP 4.208 10 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...

GoW 4.274 19 [Goethe] has explained the distinction between the antique and the modern spirit and art.

ET15 5.261 19 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted;...

ET16 5.284 24 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...

Bty 6.290 15 The lesson taught by the study...of antique and of Pre-Raphaelite painting, was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...

Bty 6.306 2 ...I find the antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antoninus;...

PI 8.34 15 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's, but to convert those of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.

QO 8.203 23 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...

Prch 10.237 5 Truth is simple, and will not be antique;...

Plu 10.301 27 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to...the religion and history of antique heroes.

EzRy 10.395 16 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart...

HDC 11.48 23 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...

FRep 11.516 21 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to...the removal of absurd restrictions and antique inequalities.

Milt1 12.266 4 To this antique heroism, Milton added the genius of the Christian sanctity.

Trag 12.408 11 ...the antique tragedy, which was founded on this faith [in destiny], can never be reproduced.

antique, n. (4)

Hist 2.25 24 Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Art1 2.366 4 The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

ACri 12.304 26 ...there is anything but time in my idea of the antique.

ACri 12.305 1 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.

antiques, n. (1)

PI 8.13 13 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!

antiquities, n. (6)

ET5 5.100 26 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities.

ET16 5.274 14 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].

Cour 7.272 22 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its antiquities and organic slavery...

MoL 10.253 18 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt...

HDC 11.29 15 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear!

CInt 12.126 11 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it...antiquities, art, rhetoric.

Antiquities, Northern [Davi (1)

Boks 7.206 23 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to Mallet's Northern Antiquities...

antiquity, n. (26)

Nat 1.73 2 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are, the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations;...

AmS 1.82 18 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...

LE 1.157 15 ...men here...prefer any antiquity...to the unproductive service of thought.

LE 1.159 20 ...a complaisance...to the wisdom of antiquity, must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.

LE 1.179 20 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...

MN 1.213 19 ...we have, out of the deeps of antiquity...a statement of this fact...

LT 1.275 12 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...

Hist 2.11 5 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...

Hist 2.27 14 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...

Hist 2.28 6 How easily these old worships of Moses...of Socrates, domesticate themselves in the mind. I cannot find any antiquity in them.

ET4 5.61 3 Such...is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...

ET5 5.78 1 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs...

ET6 5.110 8 Antiquity of usage is sanction enough [in England].

ET12 5.212 20 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

ET16 5.289 6 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer...

Bhr 6.177 15 The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul...

Clbs 7.243 14 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...would be an important chapter in history.

PI 8.35 1 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity...

QO 8.199 11 ...does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...

PC 8.212 20 The oldest empires,-what we called venerable antiquity,- now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.

Imtl 8.335 14 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...

Plu 10.296 8 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].

Plu 10.297 7 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.

LLNE 10.329 9 Experiment is credible; antiquity is grown ridiculous.

TPar 11.287 9 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...

ACri 12.305 4 ...when I come into the pastures, I find antiquity again.

Antiquity, n. (1)

QO 8.175 3 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.

anti-slave, n. (1)

EWI 11.144 15 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this,-is a poor squeamishness and nervousness...here is the anti-slave...

anti-slavery, adj. (4)

NER 3.254 8 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...

EWI 11.104 17 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...

EWI 11.138 1 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...

EWI 11.138 4 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the anti-slavery chapel.

Anti-Slavery, adj. (1)

Thor 10.460 13 ...[Thoreau] paid the tribute of his uniform respect to the Anti-Slavery party.

anti-slavery, n. (2)

EWI 11.144 12 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this...

War 11.164 12 Observe the ideas of the present day...popular education, temperance, anti-masonry, anti-slavery;...

Anti-Slavery, n. (1)

MN 1.214 23 The reforms whose fame now fills the land with...Anti-Slavery... are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.

Anti-Slavery Society, Amer (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.

Anti-Slavery Society, n. (2)

FSLN 11.244 9 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society.

FSLN 11.244 17 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year.

anti-spiritual, n. (1)

GoW 4.267 14 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual.

Antoine, M., Le Peche de [ (1)

Boks 7.214 12 Lucrezia Floriani, Le Peche de M. Antoine...are great steps from the novel of one termination...

Antoine, St., Faubourg, Pa (1)

NMW 4.245 13 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...

Antommarchi [Antonomarchi], (1)

NMW 4.251 2 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed...with Antonomarchi at St. Helena.

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, (16)

Ctr 6.163 6 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...

Wsp 6.240 11 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

CbW 6.255 13 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.

CbW 6.260 1 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...

Bty 6.306 3 ...I find the antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antoninus;...

Boks 7.218 27 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Sentences of Epictetus; of Marcus Antoninus;...

Grts 8.312 23 Say with Antoninus, If the picture is good, who cares who made it?

Imtl 8.329 14 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Chr2 10.92 20 He is moral, we say it with Marcus Aurelius and with Kant, whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...

Chr2 10.110 9 Socrates and Marcus Aurelius are allowed to be saints;...

Chr2 10.115 16 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom;...

Chr2 10.122 8 [Character] asks, with Marcus Aurelius, What matter by whom the good is done?

SovE 10.209 4 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus.

Plu 10.296 27 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same journal;...

MMEm 10.402 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later, Plato, Plotinus, Marcus Antoninus...

ChiE 11.473 9 [Confucius's] ideal of greatness predicts Marcus Antoninus.

Antonio [Goethe, Torquato (1)

Prd1 2.232 18 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.

Antonio [Shakespeare, Merch (1)

ShP 4.209 21 ...let Antonio the merchant answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.

Antony, Hermit, n. (1)

SR 2.61 17 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony;...

Antony, n. (2)

Tran 1.356 20 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse...

Tran 1.356 21 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to assert his rights...

Antony [Shakespeare, Antony (1)

Art2 7.47 10 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.

Antony, St., n. (1)

MAng1 12.220 16 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

antres, n. (1)

ShP 4.207 18 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

ants, n. (5)

UGM 4.4 17 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting... like hills of ants or of fleas...

ET5 5.83 10 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.

Cour 7.266 24 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...ants...

PPo 8.265 7 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/

Plu 10.310 26 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State, which continue even in ants and bees to the very last.

ant's, n. (1)

Nat 1.28 24 The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's;...

anxieties, n. (4)

OA 7.326 12 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights. What a lust of appearance, what a load of anxieties that once degraded him he is thus rid of!

PI 8.37 27 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions...

SovE 10.184 21 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties.

GSt 10.506 20 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...

anxiety, n. (7)

LT 1.284 24 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.

Wsp 6.202 12 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation...

OA 7.332 26 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.

Prch 10.225 7 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.

MMEm 10.412 24 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery...

ACiv 11.298 24 The state of the country fills us with anxiety and stern duties.

Let 12.401 27 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...

anxious, adj. (21)

DSA 1.146 12 Not too anxious to visit periodically all families...in your parish connection, - when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...

MR 1.239 23 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and who...is made anxious by all that endangers those possessions...

NER 3.284 6 ...the good globe...carries us securely through the celestial spaces anxious or resigned, we need not interfere to help it on;...

DL 7.125 17 ...[the men we see] are harried, wrinkled, anxious;...

Insp 8.268 8 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.

Chr2 10.105 5 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...

MoL 10.245 15 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life...greedy, careful anxious;...

Plu 10.314 8 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

LLNE 10.335 7 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer, no marks of late hours and anxious, unfinished study...

MMEm 10.414 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine...anxious, and wrapped in others...

Thor 10.476 16 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

GSt 10.501 22 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics, then growing more anxious year by year, engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.

LVB 11.92 5 We have inquired if this [rumored relocation of the Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the government and anxious to blacken it with the people.

FSLN 11.238 13 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.

ALin 11.331 4 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...

ALin 11.333 7 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...

SMC 11.361 11 Always devoted, sometimes anxious...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.

SHC 11.432 7 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us, anxious, overdriven Americans...

RBur 11.442 10 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.

MLit 12.334 18 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?

Let 12.401 10 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...

anxiously, adv. (1)

Bost 12.197 3 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...

anyhow, adv. (2)

Int 2.345 10 Anyhow, when at last it is done, you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.

NER 3.275 14 ...a naval and military honor...and, anyhow procured, the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.

anyway, adv. (1)

SMC 11.362 27 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday; told him I would not stand it anyway.

anywhere, adv. (24)

LE 1.172 4 A profound thought, anywhere, classifies all things...

LE 1.174 27 Inspiration makes solitude anywhere.

Hist 2.6 17 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere lose our ear, anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...

Hist 2.6 17 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...

Comp 2.121 18 ...[the criminal]...does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature.

OS 2.294 11 ...not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature...

Exp 3.59 16 Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

Exp 3.60 3 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere.

Mrs1 3.120 21 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.

NR 3.230 7 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not anywhere the Englishman who made the good speeches...

MoS 4.168 9 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays].

ET4 5.53 27 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.

Wth 6.95 2 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...

Wth 6.104 27 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched;...

Ctr 6.146 1 What is true anywhere is true everywhere.

CbW 6.266 11 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick...and that of the traveller, who says, Anywhere but here.

DL 7.125 1 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.

PPo 8.257 6 We may open anywhere [in the poetry of Hafiz] on a floral catalogue.

SovE 10.191 16 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.

HDC 11.48 8 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.

FSLN 11.236 1 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich; and here the optimist must find, if anywhere, the benefit of Slavery.

SMC 11.369 7 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion; he will go anywhere you say...

PLT 12.34 2 Each man has a feeling that what is done anywhere is done by the same wit as his.

MLit 12.316 25 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been exhibited;...literature is far the best expression.

apace, adv. (1)

Nat 1.54 13 Again; The charm dissolves apace/...

apart, adv. (21)

MR 1.232 13 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system of selfishness;...

MR 1.236 10 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.

MR 1.252 19 See this wide society of laboring men and women. We allow ourselves to be served by them, we live apart from them...

Tran 1.348 17 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...

Hist 2.31 7 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous. It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator, and live apart from him and independent of him.

Mrs1 3.137 10 Let us sit apart as the gods...

UGM 4.25 22 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like, and if they should live long enough we should not be able to know them apart.

ET1 5.23 2 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...

Ctr 6.147 10 ...nature has put fruits apart in latitudes...

Bhr 6.183 19 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions, it is then the enthusiast's turn...

CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.

SS 7.12 4 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 caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.

Boks 7.210 4 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...

Cour 7.271 27 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader...if their nation and circumstance did not keep them apart, would run into each other's arms.

PC 8.205 2 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...

Prch 10.229 16 The clergy are as like as peas. I cannot tell them apart.

Thor 10.459 23 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other, and on a small mould. Why can they not live as far apart as possible, and each be a man by himself?

Thor 10.467 7 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart...

HDC 11.52 3 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...

HDC 11.77 1 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart...

CInt 12.120 23 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.

apartment, n. (7)

MR 1.246 1 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.

Nat2 3.191 8 ...wealth was good as it...kept the children and the dinner-table in a different apartment.

NMW 4.252 9 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies, in a dim-lighted apartment, by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.

ET1 5.14 2 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me in the next apartment, a picture of Allston's...

Wsp 6.228 11 ...as soon as [the nun] came into the apartment, Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired her to draw off his boots.

CbW 6.269 18 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves; one after another slips out, and the apartment is at his disposal.

EWI 11.142 5 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity...that he could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...

apartments, n. (4)

MR 1.244 10 Why must [any man] have...handsome apartments...

ET16 5.284 20 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...

DL 7.112 18 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... If the hours of meals are punctual, the apartments are slovenly.

MMEm 10.409 7 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...

apathetic, adj. (1)

ACiv 11.301 24 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

apathies, n. (2)

Fdsp 2.199 24 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by sudden, unseasonable apathies...in the heydey of friendship and thought.

Let 12.403 22 Apathies and total want of work...are like seasickness...

apathy, n. (8)

Fdsp 2.200 14 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.

ET11 5.192 12 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.

ET14 5.237 19 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all contemporary panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.

PC 8.231 13 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies. And who are the allies? Rude opposition, apathy, slander,-even these.

SovE 10.207 9 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented, and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism.

MMEm 10.404 4 I like that kind of apathy that is a triumph to overset.

LVB 11.90 15 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...

MAng1 12.238 27 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied attention as from jealousy.

ape, n. (2)

Civ 7.19 3 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,--a dweller...on trees, like an ape...is called Civilization.

PerF 10.73 16 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity. We call it temperament, and it seems to be the remains of wolf, ape, and rattlesnake in him.

ape, v. (5)

Cir 2.322 11 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.

Chr1 3.105 13 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it.

Wsp 6.209 6 Not knowing what to do, we ape our ancestors;...

Ill 6.310 7 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes, making... chemistry to ape vegetation.

Cour 7.276 23 I do not wish to...urge [any man] to ape the courage of his comrade.

apercus, n. (1)

Plu 10.298 9 ...[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.

apert, adv. (1)

Aris 10.29 6 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./

aperture, n. (2)

Wth 6.92 23 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...

II 12.82 14 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture.

apes, n. (1)

ET13 5.220 21 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find apes and players rustling the old garments.

apes, v. (1)

SL 2.151 6 The scholar...apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...

aphelion, n. (1)

NR 3.239 25 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... not hurled into aphelion by hatred, could not have seen.

aphides, n. (2)

F 6.41 18 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed...

QO 8.177 2 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...

aphis, n. (1)

QO 8.188 25 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

aphorism, n. (3)

SwM 4.107 10 In the old aphorism, nature is always self-familiar.

FSLN 11.224 5 ...there is...not an aphorism that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.

EPro 11.324 24 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...

aphorisms, n. (1)

GoW 4.288 6 ...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's] works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.

aping, v. (2)

ALin 11.330 12 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...no aping of foreigners...

FRep 11.533 20 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country...

apiologist, n. (1)

Thor 10.472 3 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.

aplomb, n. (6)

ET6 5.104 18 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...

ET8 5.134 10 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of aplomb and reserves...

Pow 6.59 23 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb...

SA 8.80 10 The staple figure in novels is the man of aplomb...

LLNE 10.363 7 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius...yet with an aplomb like a general...

Carl 10.497 26 This aplomb [of Carlyle] cannot be mimicked;...

apocalypse, n. (1)

Nat 1.48 7 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.

Apocalypse, n. (2)

Pt1 3.31 19 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse, the ruin of the world through evil...

Wsp 6.205 1 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.

Apollo Belvedere, n. [Apollo] (2)

Bty 6.295 22 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...

Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece?

Apollo, n. (18)

DSA 1.131 7 ...the language that describes Christ...paints a demigod, as the Orientals or the Greeks would describe Osiris or Apollo.

Hist 2.31 11 Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets.

Fdsp 2.195 2 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...Apollo and the Muses chanting still.

Exp 3.82 14 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.

Chr1 3.108 23 I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.

Nat2 3.175 5 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses.

PPh 4.54 20 ...whether his mother or his father dreamed that the infant man-child was the son of Apollo;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.

Wsp 6.205 17 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo...does not hesitate to menace them...

Ill 6.313 17 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion...is stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo.

WD 7.176 3 In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus...

WD 7.184 24 Phoebus challenged the gods, and said, Who will outshoot the far-darting Apollo? Zeus said, I will.

WD 7.184 25 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and that of Apollo leaped out first.

WD 7.184 26 Apollo stretched his bow and shot his arrow into the extreme west.

Boks 7.188 4 Unless to Thought be added Will/ Apollo is an imbecile./

PI 8.25 22 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.

Comc 8.163 3 [Wit] is a true shaft of Apollo...

Plu 10.307 19 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.

Thor 10.475 12 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.

Apollo [Phidias], n. (1)

MAng1 12.222 18 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias, to the Apollo, the Jove...

Apollodorus, n. (1)

ET16 5.283 1 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.

Apollonia, Greece, n. (1)

Ill 6.324 6 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.

Apollonius, n. (1)

Plu 10.319 8 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Aratus, Apollonius and Apuleius.

Apollo's, n. (1)

Pt1 3.1 6 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ They overleapt the horizon's edge,/ Searched with Apollo's privilege;/...

apologetic, adj. (3)

SR 2.67 1 Man is timid and apologetic;...

Bhr 6.196 1 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control; you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky...

FSLN 11.226 9 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was...no longer feeble and apologetic and proposing soon to end itself...

apologetically, adv. (1)

SR 2.78 24 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man]...

apologies, n. (7)

MR 1.228 8 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world...escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can...

SL 2.161 1 Common men are apologies for men;...

SL 2.163 5 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my unseasonable apologies...

Chr1 3.102 26 New actions are the only apologies and explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to receive.

Gts 3.161 10 Rings and other jewels are...apologies for gifts.

Schr 10.281 14 Plotinus makes no apologies, he says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.

MAng1 12.225 10 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence].

apologize, v. (5)

SR 2.60 14 Let us never bow and apologize more.

SL 2.160 18 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him...

Exp 3.50 23 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he apologize?...

Bhr 6.186 18 ...[some men] bend and apologize...

EWI 11.99 19 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...but I shall not apologize for my weakness.

apologized, v. (1)

MMEm 10.410 26 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The man...having found them apologized for calling thus...

apologizing, v. (4)

LT 1.271 18 ...we find ourselves apologizing for our employments;...

Con 1.298 5 ...conservatism...is always apologizing...

PI 8.33 12 ...We detect at once by [style]...whether [the writer] has one eye apologizing, deprecatory, turned on his reader.

Chr2 10.100 25 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.

apologue, n. (3)

Hist 2.31 10 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism. Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.

SR 2.66 26 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.

PNR 4.83 5 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;...

apologues, n. (2)

PNR 4.83 6 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;...

TPar 11.286 25 [Theodore Parker]...often amused himself with throwing his meaning into pretty apologues;...

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