Artesian to Asiatic
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Artesian, adj. (1)
MN 1.196 3 Here comes by a great inquisitor with
auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our
conventions and theories...
artful, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.228 23 We need not much mind what people please
to say, but what...their natures say, though their busy, artful, Yankee
understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
arthmetic, n. (1)
WD 7.179 16 ...if a man is at once acquainted with
the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his
poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
Arthur, King [Malory, Mort (3)
PI 8.61 8 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I
served King Arthur, I was well known by you...
PI 8.62 13 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that
whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me
free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful,
and so will King Arthur, my uncle, be...
PI 8.62 26 Now then go in the name of God [said
Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur...
Arthur, King, n. (7)
ET4 5.55 19 ...[The Celts] made the best popular
literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and
delicious mythology of Arthur.
ET7 5.117 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King
Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
ET12 5.200 22 [Oxford's] foundations date...from
Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary
here.
OA 7.317 12 ...in our old British legends of Arthur
and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a
babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
Insp 8.295 17 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay,
Welsh and British mythology of Arthur...
Plu 10.318 6 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of Arthur, Saxon Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit
as...laureate of the ancient world.
Arthur, Morte d' [Thomas M (2)
PI 8.60 12 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing
so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
Insp 8.291 11 ...the wise student will remember the
prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight
in the hours when his strength increased;...
Arthur, n. (1)
ShP 4.193 3 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a
shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur,
down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly;...
Arthur, Romance of, n. (1)
PC 8.213 24 ...each European nation...had its
romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the
same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur,
in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de
Roland, in France;...
Arthur's, King [Malory, Mo (1)
Arthur's, Prince, n. (1)
DL 7.123 3 In the old fables we used to read of a
cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in
Prince Arthur's court.
artichoke, n. (1)
SwM 4.121 6 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object
to a theologic notion;...a cat means this; and ostrich that; an
artichoke this other;...
article, n. (21)
MN 1.202 16 ...one can hardly help asking if this
planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it
be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so
poor an article.
MR 1.231 23 ...in the Spanish islands...no article
passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened.
Tran 1.349 7 Each cause as it is called...say
Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop, where the
article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
Int 2.334 18 ...our wiser years still run back to the
despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some
wonderful article out of that pond;...
Pol1 3.200 20 The statute stands there to say,
Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
UGM 4.4 26 The student of history is like a man going
into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new
article.
ET5 5.84 25 Every article of cutlery [in England]
shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
ET8 5.133 24 The common Englishman is prone to forget
a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a
right to his own ears.
ET12 5.202 13 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed
for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to
leave behind him some article of plate;...
Pow 6.71 24 We say...that [success] is of main
efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right
state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or
excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be
spared...
Wsp 6.209 20 When Paul Leroux offered his article
Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La
question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
Clbs 7.234 22 ...I am to say that there may easily be
obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are
in search of...
Cour 7.255 23 ...the pure article, courage with eyes,
courage with conduct... is the endowment of elevated characters.
Insp 8.269 2 It was Watt who told King George III.
that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
PerF 10.79 20 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and
after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for
commerce...
LLNE 10.345 24 [The pilgrim] thought every one should
labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than
enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant,
and in turn go to his neighbor for any article which he had to spare.
HDC 11.65 18 It is an article in the selectmen's
warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in
for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
HDC 11.67 22 From the appearance of the article in
the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord]
Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
EWI 11.102 6 From the earliest time, the negro has
been an article of luxury to the commercial nations.
EWI 11.131 10 ...the fourth article of the
Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens
of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of
citizens in the several States.
Shak1 11.449 26 I see, among the lovers of this
catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper
knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
articles, n. (18)
MR 1.231 15 ...it is only necessary to ask a few
questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the
fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and
drink and wear perjury and fraud...
Prd1 2.219 4 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/
Fair to old and foul to young;/ Scorn not thou the love of parts,/ And
the articles of arts./
NMW 4.251 14 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief
articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
ET15 5.267 7 The tone of [the London Times's]
articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official
organs of the continental courts...
ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who
does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will
have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to
proceed from a single will.
Wth 6.97 26 There are many articles good for
occasional use, which few men are able to own.
DL 7.131 21 I wish to find in my own town a library
and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this
precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and
prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such
donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever
articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a
private property.
Res 8.143 21 The emancipation has brought a whole
nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their
few masters bought...
Comc 8.166 13 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to
our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held
forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both
churches, his and ours/...
Supl 10.177 11 The costume [of the East], the
articles in which wealth is displayed, are in the same extremes.
HDC 11.80 11 [The people of Concord] fell into a
common error...that the remedy was...to prescribe by law the prices of
articles.
HDC 11.82 3 In 1780, a constitution of the State
[Massachusetts]...was accepted by the town [Concord], with the
reservation of some articles.
EWI 11.109 24 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons
in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West
Indian] island produce.
EWI 11.124 18 [The negroes] seemed created by
Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine
articles.
JBB 11.268 18 [John Brown] believes in two
articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the
Declaration of Independence;...
Articles, n. (1)
ET13 5.214 8 ...English life...does not grow out of
the Athanasian creed, or the Articles...
articulate, adj. (6)
MN 1.218 22 Nature is a mute, and man, her
articulate, speaking brother, lo! he also is a mute.
Lov1 2.176 19 Every bird on the boughs of the tree
sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul. The notes are almost
articulate.
Bhr 6.169 4 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.
SHC 11.435 16 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote
century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have
made the air timeable and articulate.
MLit 12.334 5 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of
Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.
articulate, n. (1)
PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or
progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms,
the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from
radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
articulate, v. (5)
SL 2.157 14 It was this conviction which Swedenborg
expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world
endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not
believe;...
Int 2.343 5 ...a true and natural man contains and is
the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent
man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to
reside...
Pt1 3.20 2 The world being thus put under the mind
for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.
Wsp 6.228 25 We need not much mind what people please
to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try
to...articulate something different.
SS 7.14 21 I know that my friend can talk eloquently;
you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in
different company.
articulated, v. (3)
DSA 1.142 2 What a cruel injustice it is to that
Law...that it is behooted and behowled, and not a trait, not a word of
it articulated.
GoW 4.264 6 Whatever can be thought...still rises for
utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass
it, it waits and works, until at last it moulds them to its perfect
will and is articulated.
ALin 11.335 20 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before
[the American people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his
heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.
articulately, adv. (2)
Pol1 3.201 3 ...as fast as the public mind is opened
to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering. It
speaks not articulately, and must be made to.
OA 7.317 16 ...in our old British legends of Arthur
and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the
Wise...though an infant of only a few days, speaks articulately to
those who discover him...
articulates, v. (2)
Int 2.343 4 ...a true and natural man contains and is
the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
FRep 11.515 13 When the cannon is aimed by
ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon
articulates its explosions with the voice of a man...and the better
code of laws at last records the victory.
articulating, adj. (1)
PLT 12.35 5 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the
cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth
or tongue;...
articulation, n. (5)
PPh 4.46 7 If the tongue had not been framed for
articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
SwM 4.126 26 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the
sound of the voice, know a man's love; from the articulation of the
sound, his wisdom;...
GoW 4.282 2 What signifies...that [the writer's]
method or his tropes are inadequate? That message will find method and
imagery, articulation and melody.
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction
has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a
certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of
articulation.
Milt1 12.252 25 We think we have heard the recitation
of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself
would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every
articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment
possible;...
artifex, n. (1)
ET1 5.16 12 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis
artifex pereo! better than most history.
artifice, n. (2)
Wth 6.106 9 ...artifice or legislation punishes
itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.
Artificer, Divine, n. (1)
Elo2 8.130 14 ...such practical chemistry as the
conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in
Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons
that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
artificer, n. (2)
PPh 4.69 24 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the
fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according
to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea
and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be
beautiful.
Edc1 10.134 10 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a
cunning artificer...society has need of all these.
artificers, n. (2)
PPh 4.66 6 Such as were fit to govern, into their
composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...iron and brass for
husbandmen and artificers.
ET3 5.42 23 ...there is such an artificial
completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a
design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
artifices, n. (1)
Thor 10.481 27 [Thoreau]...became very jealous of
cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with
man and his dwelling.
artificial, adj. (32)
Nat 1.31 14 These facts may suggest the advantage
which the country-life possesses...over the artificial and curtailed
life of cities.
YA 1.381 24 On one side is agricultural
chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to
turn a sandbank into corn;...
Pt1 3.18 25 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to
nature and the Whole,--re-attaching even artificial things and
violation of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,--disposes very
easily of the most disagreeable facts.
Nat2 3.182 19 We talk of deviations from natural
life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
Pol1 3.219 9 The tendencies of the times...leave the
individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own
constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we
depend on artificial restraints.
Pol1 3.220 25 There is not, among the most religious
and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a
sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society
can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar
system;...
NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier,
artificial, unbelieving, worldly,--I took up this book of Helena, and
found him an Indian of the wilderness...
NER 3.258 8 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the
firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
ET3 5.42 23 ...there is such an artificial
completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a
design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
ET5 5.94 1 A proof of the energy of the British
people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.
ET5 5.95 2 The native [English] cattle are extinct,
but the island is full of artificial breeds.
ET5 5.97 3 The nearer we look, the more artificial is
[the Englishmen's] social system.
ET10 5.169 13 What befalls from the violence of
financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial
legislation.
ET11 5.189 8 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland,
Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the
artificial replenishment of lakes and ponds with fish...
ET14 5.251 8 ...the artificial succor which marks all
English performance appears in letters also...
Wth 6.110 10 ...in the artificial system of society
and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there
come presently checks and stoppages.
Art2 7.42 7 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what
is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
Art2 7.44 13 In sculpture and in architecture the
material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure
quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
Farm 7.154 5 Cities force growth and make men
talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Suc 7.297 24 'T is the bane of life that natural
effects are continually crowded out, and artificial arrangements
substituted.
Elo2 8.114 2 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty
of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and
perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the
lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the
pine-woods...
Comc 8.169 17 The multiplication of artificial wants
and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling
forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the
man and his appearance] to expose itself.
SovE 10.210 18 Such experiments as we recall are
those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral
principle], and that was an artificial element, which chilled and
checked the union.
SovE 10.210 27 ...is it quite impossible to believe
that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each
man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who,
underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like
to serve somebody...
CW 12.178 24 Cities force the growth and make [the
man] talkative and entertaining, but they make him artificial.
MAng1 12.216 26 The ancient Greeks called the world
kosmos, Beauty; a name which, in our artificial state of society,
sounds fanciful and impertinent.
artificially, adv. (1)
ET5 5.95 10 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in
England]...are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and
herring.
artillerists, n. (1)
artillery, adj. (2)
SMC 11.365 22 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery
company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...
SMC 11.374 7 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.
artillery, n. (11)
NMW 4.234 12 Sire, every regiment that approaches the
heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
NMW 4.234 14 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery,
gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
NMW 4.257 12 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's]
vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe? It came to no
result. All passed away like the smoke of his artillery...
Civ 7.23 1 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax
or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes
to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon
as a fine meter of civilization.
War 11.163 16 This vast apparatus of artillery...this
incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an
imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble,
deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
MAng1 12.224 16 Michael [Angelo] made such good
resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to
demolish the tower [at San Miniato].
artisan, n. (2)
Wsp 6.225 7 The way to conquer the foreign artisan
is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
Wsp 6.231 7 What is vulgar...but the avarice of
reward? 'T is the difference of artisan and artist...
artisans, n. (3)
ShP 4.191 4 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all
have worked for [the great man]...
Clbs 7.246 23 ...when the manufacturers, merchants
and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have
come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning
artisans of his craft;...
FRep 11.511 16 The manufacturers rely on turbines of
hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius, who
draw the wages of artists, not of artisans.
artist, adj. (1)
artist, n. (100)
DSA 1.147 22 There are...persons...to whom all we
call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
MN 1.210 10 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by
forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine
overflowings...
Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
SR 2.82 25 ...if the American artist will study...the
precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which
[beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves
fitted...
Comp 2.108 13 That is the best part of each writer
which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single
artist you might not easily find...
SL 2.157 8 This is that law whereby a work of
art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he
made it.
Prd1 2.222 24 Another class live above this mark to
the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and
man of science.
Int 2.336 8 ...all [men] have some art or power of
communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend
into the hand.
Art1 2.352 22 As far as the spiritual character of
the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so
far it will retain a certain grandeur...
Art1 2.357 2 ...as I see many pictures and higher
genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the
artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
Art1 2.357 26 No mannerist made these varied groups
and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself
improvising...
Art1 2.359 24 [The traveller who visits the Vatican
galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful
remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary
workshop of one artist...
Art1 2.360 5 In proportion to his force, the artist
will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
Art1 2.363 26 Art should exhilarate...awakening in
the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the
work evinced in the artist...
Art1 2.366 7 The old tragic Necessity,
which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous
figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist
was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist...no longer
dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
Pt1 3.6 7 Every man should be so much an artist that
he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
Pt1 3.38 23 Art is the path of the creator to his
work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever
see them; not the artist himself for years, or for a lifetime, unless
he come into the conditions.
Exp 3.56 24 That immobility and absence of elasticity
which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
Exp 3.66 7 You who see the artist, the orator, the
poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for
man, but are disease.
Exp 3.66 23 ...if one remembers how innocently he
began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
Mrs1 3.144 18 The artist, the scholar, and, in
general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion]
and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
NR 3.234 2 Art, in the artist, is proportion...
NR 3.234 11 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry,
the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there and at all
points...
NR 3.234 14 Beautiful details we must have, or no
artist;...
PNR 4.81 4 With this artist [nature], time and space
are cheap...
SwM 4.141 3 [The scenery and circumstance of the
newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known
works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and
writes the moral law.
GoW 4.268 27 A master likes a master, and does not
stipulate whether it be orator, artist, craftsman, or king.
ET1 5.3 8 ...I remember the pleasure of that first
walk on English ground, with my companion, an American artist...
Pow 6.74 18 ...the step from knowing to doing is
rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into
fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all;...
Bhr 6.176 15 Every man--mathematician, artist,
soldier or merchant--looks with confidence for some traits and talents
in his own child...
Bhr 6.178 19 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must
have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
Wsp 6.223 9 If the artist succor his flagging spirits
by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of
opium and wine.
Wsp 6.231 8 What is vulgar...but the avarice of
reward? 'T is the difference of artisan and artist...
Bty 6.295 10 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or
figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued
from danger...
Bty 6.299 19 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman
possesses such a figure that wherever she...sits for a portrait to the
artist, she confers a favor on the world.
Art2 7.44 15 The art [in sculpture and architecture]
resides in the model, in the plan; for it is on that the genius of the
artist is expended...
Art2 7.44 23 There is a still larger deduction to be
made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet
specified.
Art2 7.45 27 One consideration more exhausts I
believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given
work.
Art2 7.46 22 It is a curious proof of our conviction
that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his
work...that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of
art to the author.
Art2 7.47 27 ...all the advantages to which I have
adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
Art2 7.48 15 The artist who is to produce a work
which is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...
Art2 7.53 11 We feel, in seeing a noble building,
which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was
one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only
discovered and executed by the artist...
Elo1 7.65 9 Him we call an artist who shall play on
an assembly of men as a master on the keys of the piano...
Cour 7.268 16 There is a courage in the treatment of
every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in
poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the
artist.
Suc 7.290 27 There was a wise man, an Italian artist,
Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to
understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of
worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Suc 7.294 14 If the artist...is well at work on his
own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or
customers.
Suc 7.304 14 ...it has happened that the artist has
often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not
yet seen.
OA 7.328 19 ...age...finishes its works, which to
every artist is a supreme pleasure.
PI 8.49 16 There is under the seeming poverty of
metres an infinite variety, as every artist knows.
Insp 8.289 5 Novelty, surprise, change of scene,
refresh the artist...
Insp 8.291 16 What prudence again does every artist,
every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
Grts 8.317 8 William Blake the artist frankly says, I
never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
Dem1 10.12 26 In the hands of poets...nothing in the
line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
But we should look for the style of the great artist in it...
Aris 10.52 20 Genius...the power to affect the
Imagination, as possessed by the orator, the poet, the novelist or the
artist,-has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
Mem 12.105 11 Michael Angelo, after having once seen
a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it
pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
CW 12.176 2 There are two companions, with one or
other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp. One is an artist,
that is, who has an eye for beauty.
CW 12.176 10 ...if one is so happy as to find the
company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
Bost 12.181 2 We are citizens of two fair cities,
said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a
Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
Bost 12.181 3 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not
Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied
the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
Bost 12.181 5 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not
Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied
the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
Bost 12.187 18 Astronomers come [to Paris] because
there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist,
artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their
patronage, appreciators and patrons.
MAng1 12.216 8 Above all men whose history we know,
Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
MAng1 12.219 26 ...to the artist it belongs by a
better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought,
to acquire the power of true drawing.
MAng1 12.221 19 Those who have never given attention
to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much
to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human
body.
MAng1 12.224 17 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed
the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist
[Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the
attack...
MAng1 12.225 20 The excellence of the [defense] works
constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
MAng1 12.232 18 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an
artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has
conceived;...
MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III.
first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to
assume the charge of this great work...
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.
Milt1 12.260 16 Michael Angelo calls him alone an
artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
ACri 12.297 3 We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this
merit of which I speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with
these celebrities.
Let 12.400 16 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius...
Let 12.401 22 ...where the divine nature and the
artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...
Artist, n. (3)
Art2 7.40 11 We find that the question, What is Art?
leads us directly to another,--Who is the Artist?
MLit 12.332 25 ...they have served [humanity] better,
who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a
Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe]...
Artist, Supreme, n. (1)
artista, n. (1)
MAng1 12.214 1 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun
concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio,
e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M.
Angelo, Sonneto primo.
artistes, n. (1)
ET11 5.194 16 With the tribe of artistes, including
the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms,
but excludes them.
artistic, adj. (1)
artists, n. (31)
MN 1.210 11 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by
forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine
overflowings...
Art1 2.354 25 It is the habit of certain minds to
give an all-excluding fulness to the object, the thought, the word,
they alight upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the
world. These are the artists, the orators, the leaders of society.
Pt1 3.30 24 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.
ET1 5.5 16 At Florence, chief among artists I found
Horatio Greenough...
ET10 5.163 19 The taste and science of thirty
peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists,
Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in
England]...
ET10 5.169 25 A part of the money earned [in England]
returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers,
chemists and artists with;...
ET14 5.254 26 ...having attempted to domesticate and
dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the
English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will
sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the
scholars have become unideal.
ET14 5.256 23 ...the grave old [English] poets, like
the Greek artists, heeded their designs, and less considered the
finish.
Ctr 6.133 14 This distemper [egotism] is the
scourge...of artists, inventors and philosophers.
CbW 6.267 12 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to
be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and
happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this
was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly
wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
Bty 6.301 27 The lives of the Italian artists...prove
how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than
their own.
Art2 7.50 17 The whole language of men, especially of
artists...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to
its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
DL 7.130 8 ...let the creations of the plastic arts
be...yielded as freely as the sunlight to all. Meantime, be it
remembered, we are artists ourselves...
QO 8.203 19 ...no man suspects the superior merit of
[Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or
Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
PC 8.216 3 All the transcendent writers and artists
of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast
into mythology;...
Insp 8.290 21 ...the experience of some good artists
has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
Schr 10.271 13 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or
bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...
LLNE 10.348 8 [Fourier] took his measure of that
which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the
wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
Thor 10.451 21 After completing his experiments [on
lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in
Boston...
Wom 11.412 11 ...[women] could not be such excellent
artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give
themselves to it.
FRep 11.511 15 The manufacturers rely on turbines of
hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius, who
draw the wages of artists...
II 12.73 25 ...when we consider who and what the
professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls
accidentally and superficially on its artists?
MAng1 12.218 8 The Italian artists sanction this view
of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno, the many in one...
MAng1 12.221 7 The depth of [Michelangelo's]
knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
MAng1 12.239 2 It has been supposed that artists more
than others are liable to this defect [lack of appreciation of the
talents of others].
Let 12.401 15 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...
artist's, n. (7)
LE 1.159 19 The sense of spiritual independence is
like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its
old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last
touch of the artist's hand.
Art1 2.353 16 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to
have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
Art1 2.355 6 This...power to fix the momentary
eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and
in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of
that object he contemplates.
MoS 4.151 5 Picture, statue, temple, railroad,
steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for
talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
Insp 8.287 18 Tie a couple of strings across a board,
and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's
harp can rival.
artless, adj. (2)
JBB 11.268 14 ...every one who has heard [John Brown]
speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined
with his sublime courage.
RBur 11.442 19 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius
to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and
astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...
Arts, Fine, n. (4)
Art2 7.43 2 Let us now consider this [natural] law as
it affects the works that have beauty for their end, that is, the
productions of the Fine Arts.
Art2 7.43 9 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting,
Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
arts, n. (230)
Nat 1.13 17 The useful arts are reproductions or new
combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
Nat 1.67 19 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in
details, so long as there is...no ray upon the metaphysics...of the
arts...to the mind...
MN 1.191 15 We hear something too much of the results
of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
MN 1.191 20 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the
community acquire... by the incessant expansions of our population and
arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
Tran 1.333 25 ...[the idealist] does not
respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves;...
Tran 1.349 20 ...as no great ends are answered by the
men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
YA 1.367 24 ...the whole force of all the arts goes
to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
Hist 2.30 17 Beside its primary value as the first
chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling
authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration
of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of
religion...
SR 2.75 21 ...our arts, our occupations, our
marriages, our religion we have not chosen...
SL 2.139 27 If we would not be mar-plots with our
miserable interferences...the society, letters, arts, science, religion
of men would go on far better than now...
Prd1 2.219 4 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/
Fair to old and foul to young;/ Scorn not thou the love of parts,/ And
the articles of arts./
OS 2.275 27 Those who are capable of humility, of
justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that
commands the sciences and arts...
Art1 2.351 5 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the
useful and fine arts...
Art1 2.351 7 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but
creation is the aim.
Art1 2.353 3 No man can...produce a model in which
the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time
shall have no share.
Art1 2.353 25 ...the whole extant product of the
plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
Art1 2.362 23 ...when we have said all our fine
things about the arts, we must end with a frank confession that the
arts, as we know them, are but initial.
Art1 2.362 24 ...the arts, as we know them, are but
initial.
Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness
the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Pt1 3.3 11 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the
fine arts is some study of rules and particulars...
Exp 3.56 23 That immobility and absence of elasticity
which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
Exp 3.66 13 You who see the artist, the orator, the
poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for
man, but are disease.
Nat2 3.190 12 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them
how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty, after the stomach is full.
It is the same with all our arts and performances.
Pol1 3.210 21 ...[the conservative party] does not
build, nor write, nor cherish the arts...
UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early
belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of
health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and
prophecy.
PPh 4.41 26 What is a great man but one of great
affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all
knowables, as his food?
PPh 4.45 5 I am struck...with the extreme modernness
of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know
so well, in its long history of arts and arms;...
PPh 4.52 19 ...[Europe] is a land of arts,
inventions, trade, freedom.
PNR 4.80 16 [The human being's] arts and
sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant
brain of ox...
SwM 4.102 24 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as
from a tower, over nature and arts...almost realizes his own
picture...of the original integrity of man.
MoS 4.151 13 Having at some time seen that the happy
soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say,
Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
GoW 4.272 8 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one
who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies,
sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in
which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all
Cyclopean arts;...
GoW 4.284 20 [Goethe] is the type of culture, the
amateur of all arts and sciences and events;...
GoW 4.285 8 ...his penetration of every secret of the
fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in
sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a
purpose;...
ET4 5.46 6 ...[the English] are still aggressive and
propagandist, enlarging the dominion of their arts and liberty.
ET4 5.60 6 History rarely yields us better passages
than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein
his brother, on their respective merits,--one the soldier, and the
other a lover of the arts of peace.
ET5 5.79 11 ...[Kenelm Digby] was skilled in six
tongues, and master of arts and arms.
ET5 5.83 21 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts,
but adroit at the coarse;...
ET5 5.84 25 [The English] secure the essentials in
their diet, in their arts and manufactures.
ET7 5.116 5 The German name has a proverbial
significance of sincerity and honest meaning. The arts bear testimony
to it.
ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe
show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its
activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
ET10 5.170 21 [England's] success strengthens the
hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when
mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
ET11 5.190 23 ...often [English nobles] have been the
friends and patrons of genius and learning, and especially of the fine
arts;...
ET13 5.223 26 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is
hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
ET13 5.225 6 ...[the English] have not been able to
congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and
sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their
own pace.
ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when
he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research
into the law of nature...
ET14 5.248 2 The critic [in England] hides his
skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason,
to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to
the ground.
ET14 5.255 20 ...we have [in England] the factitious
instead of the natural; tasteless expense, arts of comfort...
ET18 5.303 25 ...who would see...the explosion of
their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now
for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon
seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought...
ET19 5.313 11 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the
port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her
banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...I feel in regard to
this aged England...pressed upon by...new and all incalculable modes,
fabrics, arts, machines and competing populations.
Pow 6.71 17 ...the compression and tension of these
stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest
arts...
Pow 6.77 12 ...the galvanic stream, slow but
continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark, and is, in our
arts, a better agent.
Pow 6.79 20 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning,
by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
Wth 6.84 9 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/
The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
Wth 6.89 5 Wealth requires...the benefits of science,
music and fine arts...
Wth 6.95 1 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 6.97 25 The socialism of our day has done good
service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing
benefits...can be enjoyed by all. For example, the providing to each
man the means and apparatus of science and of the arts.
Wth 6.98 13 There is a refining influence from the
arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of
music...
Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts,
cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges,
constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
Ctr 6.134 18 ...the student we speak to must have a
mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of
intercourse...
Ctr 6.141 4 Our arts and tools give to him who can
handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended
his life...
Ctr 6.147 5 As many languages as [a man] has, as many
friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
Ctr 6.160 18 ...culture must reinforce from higher
influx the empirical skills of eloquence...or of trade and the useful
arts.
Bhr 6.170 7 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon
the arts of behavior.
Bhr 6.195 3 How much we forgive to those who yield us
the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of
books, of arts...
Wsp 6.202 7 If the Divine Providence...has stated
itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice
that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
Wsp 6.210 22 It is believed by well-dressed
proprietors...that the solid portion of society exist for the arts of
comfort;...
Wsp 6.211 16 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to
be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the
house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the
private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect
to the public one;...
Wsp 6.225 20 In every variety of human employment, in
the mechanical and in the fine arts...there are the working men, on
whom the burden of the business falls;...
CbW 6.254 3 ...the cruel wars which followed the
march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece
into the savage East;...
CbW 6.271 20 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of
living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest
life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts
and trained experiment/...
Civ 7.19 17 ...after many arts are invented or
imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little
complaisant to call them civilized.
Civ 7.20 25 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco
Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner
importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.
Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of
peace...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
Civ 7.24 18 The ship, in its latest complete
equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We
cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our
jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with
the greatest pleasure.
Civ 7.34 7 ...if there be...a country...where the
arts, such as they have, are all imported, having no indigenous
life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Art2 7.39 24 The useful arts comprehend not only
those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical
chemistry...
Art2 7.40 15 I hasten to state the principle which
prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
Art2 7.40 21 ...to make anything useful or beautiful,
the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first
place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
Art2 7.43 13 It will be seen that in each of these
[fine] arts there is much which is not spiritual.
Art2 7.47 21 ...the power of Nature predominates over
the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
Art2 7.49 3 In speaking of the useful arts, I pointed
to the fact that we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular
strength...
Art2 7.49 8 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine
arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
Art2 7.52 11 Herein is the explanation of the
analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the reappearance of
one mind, working in many materials...
Art2 7.56 23 In this country, at this time...the
arts...do not flourish.
Elo1 7.97 5 He who will train himself to mastery in
this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education, not on
popular arts, but on character and insight.
DL 7.130 4 ...let the creations of the plastic arts
be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the
people...
Farm 7.135 8 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each
bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each
stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts
withal./
Farm 7.137 22 ...the tranquillity and innocence of
the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts...all men
acknowledge.
Farm 7.140 26 The men in cities who are...the
driving-wheels of trade, or politics or practical arts...are the
children or grandchildren of farmers...
WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying
before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half
their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future...
WD 7.162 1 Another result of our arts is the new
intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the
embarrassing political problems.
WD 7.166 1 Of course we resort to the enumeration of
his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
WD 7.166 2 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a
felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as
the measure of worth.
WD 7.166 6 What have these arts done for the
character, for the worth of mankind?
WD 7.180 12 ...this curious, peering, itinerant,
imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its
face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second
opportunity. Now let poets sing! now let arts unfold!
Boks 7.213 6 Without the great arts which speak to
the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering
creature.
Clbs 7.228 12 I prize the mechanics of conversation.
'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and
send it jingling down, a good boulder,--a block of quartz and gold, to
be worked up at leisure in the useful arts of life,--is a wonderful
relief.
Clbs 7.246 23 ...when the manufacturers, merchants
and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have
come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning
artisans of his craft;...
Clbs 7.249 1 I need only hint the value of the club
for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their
views...
Suc 7.286 18 ...there is no limit to these varieties
of talent. These are arts to be thankful for...
Suc 7.288 3 These [boasted arts] are local
conveniences, but how easy to go now to parts of the world where not
only all these arts are wanting, but where they are despised.
Suc 7.306 26 What delights, what emancipates...is
wise and good in speech and in the arts.
PI 8.40 15 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his
condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a
perception...of feats and fine arts...hitherto utterly unknown to
him...
PI 8.43 19 ...a being whom we have called into life
by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently
of the master's impulse...
PI 8.66 24 The philosophy which a nation receives,
rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
PI 8.74 22 We too shall know how to take up...this
Western civilization, into thought, as easily as men did when arts were
few;...
SA 8.79 13 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and
picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
SA 8.101 3 Every human society wants to be officered
by a best class, who shall be masters instructed in all the great arts
of life;...
Res 8.140 15 The marked events in history...the
arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race, with
new arts:--each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it
befalls;...
Res 8.153 16 Resources of Man,--it is...the roll of
arts and sciences;...
QO 8.178 25 We quote...arts, sciences, religion,
customs and laws;...
QO 8.179 8 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so
also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
QO 8.179 9 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so
also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
PC 8.215 9 Even the races that we still call savage
or semi-savage, and which preserve their arts from immemorial
traditions, vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make
their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century
has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The
benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and
immense.
PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the
victims of our own arts and implements...
Insp 8.274 9 ...where is the Franklin with kite or
rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off
electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life...
Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have
suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts...
Imtl 8.325 9 The chief end of man being to be buried
well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome,
and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
Imtl 8.336 16 Will you...educate your children to be
adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce
a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
Imtl 8.337 25 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all
this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
Aris 10.31 24 It is not to be a man of rank, but a
man of honor, accomplished in all arts and generosities, which seems to
[the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern
society.
Aris 10.54 14 In the fine arts, I find none in the
present age who have any popular power...
Edc1 10.125 23 ...the poor man...is allowed to put
his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate
me...in the languages, in sciences, in the useful and in elegant arts.
SovE 10.191 9 Humanity sits at the dread loom and
throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable
ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom,
virtuous examples, symbols of useful and generous arts...
MoL 10.245 12 Our industrial skill, arts ministering
to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
MoL 10.252 17 Thought...is the prolific source of all
arts, of all wealth, of all delight, of all grandeur.
LLNE 10.329 7 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of
matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are
gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics; the
like in all arts, modes.
LLNE 10.369 27 ...I am not less aware of that
excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in
science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country
to-day...
MMEm 10.421 18 Our civilization is not always mending
our poetry. It is sauced and spiced with our complexity of arts and
inventions...
MMEm 10.425 23 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo
earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when
dignified with arts and industry...
MMEm 10.431 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that
the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence
on the arts and sciences.
HDC 11.59 11 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house,
or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of
war give them an overwhelming advantage...
HDC 11.82 11 From that time [1788] to the present
hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress
in...the arts of peace.
LVB 11.90 14 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the
painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and
domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
EWI 11.122 26 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an
intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and
arts;...
EWI 11.141 2 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made
a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of
the arts and culture of the negro;...
War 11.153 6 The strong tribe...attack and conquer
their neighbors, and teach them their arts and virtues.
War 11.153 21 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the
sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
War 11.153 24 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.
FSLC 11.189 25 All arts, customs, societies, books,
and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual
element...
FSLC 11.209 19 By new arts the earth is subdued,
roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...
AsSu 11.247 11 In [the free state], [life] is adorned
with education...with arts...
ALin 11.329 11 ...I doubt if any death has caused so
much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on
its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern
arts brought so closely together...
EdAd 11.383 8 ...this energetic race [Americans]
derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...
Wom 11.408 7 ...in general, no mastery in either of
the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery
of men in the same.
Wom 11.408 8 ...in general, no mastery in either of
the fine arts-which should, one would say, be the arts of women-has yet
been obtained by them, equal to the mastery of men in the same.
SHC 11.430 15 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old
arts of preserving.
FRep 11.512 26 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have not yet been discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand
probably yet to be of utility in the arts.
FRep 11.513 26 ...if this is true in all the useful
and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior
source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social
and civil life?
FRep 11.539 24 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed
in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
PLT 12.34 16 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the
great night. Yet a spark at which all the illuminations of human arts
and sciences were kindled.
II 12.65 20 Consciousness is...the taper at which all
the illumination of human arts and sciences was kindled.
II 12.72 20 It is this employment of new means...that
denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious in all the fine
arts;...
II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that
denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well
as in fine arts.
II 12.80 26 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank,
where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and
covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves. Not less are the
arts and institutions of men created out of thought.
CInt 12.113 23 Archimedes disdained to apply himself
to the useful arts, only to the liberal or the causal arts.
MAng1 12.221 19 Those who have never given attention
to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much
to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human
body.
MAng1 12.223 11 There is a closer relation than is
commonly thought between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
MAng1 12.223 15 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is
made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
MAng1 12.230 15 Slighting the secondary arts of
coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed
exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern
designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are
odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is
written, graphic arts and oral arts...but is used as if it meant
descriptive...
ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are
odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is
written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as
if it meant descriptive...
ACri 12.292 5 Some of these [Americanisms] are
odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is
written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as
if it meant descriptive...
MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the
magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and
intercourse and skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.
PPr 12.388 23 How well-read, how adroit, that
thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...
Arts..., On the Vanity of [ (1)
Boks 7.211 15 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of
Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to
be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
Arts, Useful, n. (1)
Art2 7.39 22 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at
use or at beauty, and hence Art divides itself into the Useful and the
Fine arts.
Arundel, adj. (1)
ET11 5.188 13 I pardoned high park-fences [in
England], when I saw that... these have preserved Arundel marbles...
Arundel, Thomas, n. (1)
ET13 5.216 20 Latimer, Wicliffe, Arundel...are the
democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
Arundels, n. (1)
ET13 5.220 13 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams,
Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.
Arundo arenaris, n. (1)
CL 12.137 12 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo
arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
Aryan, adj. (3)
QO 8.187 14 ...now it appears that [English and
American nursery-tales]... are the property of all the nations
descended from the Aryan race...
Plu 10.297 3 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored
from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman
descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
Aryan, n. (1)
QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in
a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets,
inventors and wits, men and women, English, German, Celts, Aryan,
Ninevite, Copt...
Aryans, n. (1)
Asaph, n. (1)
PPo 8.241 19 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time,
lost the seal of Solomon...
ascend, v. (19)
Nat 1.56 21 We ascend into their region, and know
that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
Pt1 3.20 26 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within
the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a
higher form;...
Pt1 3.34 1 ...all books of the imagination endure,
all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him,
and uses it as his exponent.
NER 3.270 12 We must go up to a higher platform, to
which we are always invited to ascend;...
UGM 4.10 25 There are advancements to numbers,
anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by
union with intellect and will, they ascend into life...
UGM 4.11 12 Each material thing...has its
translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere
where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these,
their ends, all things continually ascend.
UGM 4.13 9 We must not be sacks and stomachs. To
ascend one step,--we are better served through our sympathy.
UGM 4.33 21 If the disparities of talent and position
vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary
to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice
disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the
individuals...
PPh 4.68 12 All things are in a scale; and begin
where we will, ascend and ascend.
SwM 4.126 14 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings
which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always
ascend as nature descends.
ET14 5.240 13 [Bacon] held this element [prima
philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be
made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
Wth 6.125 26 The merchant's economy is a coarse
symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to
say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras...of
its life, and still to ascend in its investment.
Schr 10.289 6 ...if I could prevail to communicate
the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as
you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature
and history...
Wom 11.413 22 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But
nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou
dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./ The
further it doth downward tend,/ The higher up it doth ascend./
Milt1 12.276 21 ...the genius and office of Milton
were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a
higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
ascendancy, n. (1)
FSLN 11.221 2 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of
aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his
contemporaries.
ascendant, n. (3)
ET4 5.70 9 [The English] think...that manly exercises
are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature
ascendant over another;...
Res 8.147 18 Against the terrors of the mob,
which...once suffered to gain the ascendant, is diabolic...good sense
has many arts of prevention and of relief.
QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an
almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
ascended, v. (10)
Tran 1.343 24 ...to behold in another the expression
of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me
against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are
degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists]
have ascended;...
Exp 3.45 5 ...there are stairs below us, which we
seem to have ascended;...
GoW 4.284 1 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to
the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
Elo1 7.83 22 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which
overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with
more than his usual alacrity...
QO 8.192 18 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness
that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has
ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
QO 8.202 17 A phrase or a single word is adduced,
with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding
all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke
not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended
to this lofty platform...
PC 8.225 19 The highest flight to which the muse of
Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the
souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
CL 12.155 10 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon
the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if
relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low
country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. When I again
ascended the Alps, I revived as before.
ascendency, n. (10)
MN 1.207 3 A man, a personal ascendency, is the only
great phenomenon.
LT 1.263 13 A personal ascendency,-that is the only
fact much worth considering.
Pow 6.58 5 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his
coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
Wth 6.101 15 Political Economy is as good a book
wherein to read...the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile
influences, as any Bible which has come down to us.
CSC 10.376 22 ...not [the Chardon Street
Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure
ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
EWI 11.128 20 The extent of the [British] empire, and
the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep
this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from obtaining that
ascendency...which a question of property tends to acquire.
War 11.166 8 ...the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel
that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as
left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this
feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
FSLC 11.197 23 ...here are gentlemen whose believed
probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who, by the
fear of public opinion, or through the dangerous ascendency of Southern
manners, have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the
Fugitive Slave Law].
ascendent, n. (1)
ET3 5.35 26 A nation considerable for a thousand
years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the
ascendent...
ascending, adj. (9)
F 6.35 21 No statement of the Universe can have any
soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.
Wth 6.127 2 Nor is the man enriched...unless through
new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual
experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
Bty 6.289 13 It is the most enduring quality, and the
most ascending quality.
Elo2 8.129 22 These are ascending stairs [to
eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech,
chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
Elo2 8.132 18 Here [in the United States] is room for
every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages...
ascending, v. (11)
OS 2.276 10 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...
UGM 4.34 22 All that respects the individual is
temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is
ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence.
SwM 4.143 13 Some minds are for ever restrained from
descending into nature; others are for ever prevented from ascending
out of it.
SwM 4.145 23 ...ascending by just degrees from events
to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the
harmonies he felt...
PI 8.42 12 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the
poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest
in that which they signify...
SovE 10.184 1 ...this unity exists in the
organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
Prch 10.215 1 Ascending through just degrees/ To a
consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching
all souls like the sun./
FRep 11.540 20 [The Constitution and the law in
America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect
ascending the throne...
PLT 12.13 24 The adepts value only the pure geometry,
the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and
abutments of pure reason.
PLT 12.21 24 ...there is development...from lower to
superior function... steadily ascending to man.
ascends, v. (9)
Lov1 2.182 26 ...separating in each soul that which
is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the
lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Farm 7.135 22 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/
Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with
bees;/...
PLT 12.35 20 The Instinct begins...at the surface of
the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then
ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the
intellectual and moral laws.
II 12.68 18 The Instinct begins at this low point at
the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to
suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral
laws.
CW 12.170 3 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/
Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant
with bees;/...
ascension, n. (8)
Pt1 3.24 8 ...nature has a higher end, in the
production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
SwM 4.127 13 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love]
had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law
stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of
things requires.
MoS 4.174 8 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable
friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly
insight...
Ill 6.320 14 ...what avails it that...our pretension
of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at
last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing
and ascension reach these also...
LS 11.15 8 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive
Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world
would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples, during the
life and after the ascension of Christ, to receive the idea which we
receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
ascensions, n. (2)
F 6.21 18 In its last and loftiest ascensions,
insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient
members.
ascent, n. (9)
Nat 1.37 1 Our dealing with sensible objects is a
constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of ascent from particular
to general;...
Nat 1.69 15 All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In
their descent and being; to our mind,/ In their ascent and cause./
PNR 4.80 12 Modern science...has learned to indemnify
the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and
ascent in races;...
SwM 4.109 8 ...every thing at the end of one use is
lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into
daemonic and celestial natures.
Bty 6.306 19 Wherever we begin, thither our steps
tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the
perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger
apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the
temple of the Mind.
SS 7.16 3 ...a sound mind will derive its principles
from insight, with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute
right...
PI 8.7 27 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or
progessive ascent in each kind;...
PI 8.24 21 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind
sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the
tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
ascents, n. (4)
ET14 5.234 13 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in
their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
Ill 6.319 23 The intellect sees...that, in the
endless striving and ascents, the metamorphosis is entire...
PI 8.73 23 ...even partial ascents to poetry and
ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.
SHC 11.428 19 ...Rather to those ascents of being
turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the
incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
ascertain, v. (2)
WD 7.174 27 ...to ascertain the discoverers of
America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
ascertained, adj. (3)
GoW 4.280 23 In England and in America there is a
respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or
intelligible interest or party...the public is satisfied.
Insp 8.278 7 The depth of the notes which we
accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to
our taught and ascertained faculty...
LS 11.16 3 We ought to be cautious in taking even the
best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our
own.
ascertained, v. (3)
YA 1.381 17 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages
and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time
to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained
who is the fool.
MMEm 10.433 8 It is essential to the safety of every
mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically
ascertained;...
EWI 11.130 24 ...the private interference of two
excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several
natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
ascertaining, v. (2)
ShP 4.201 15 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.
Thor 10.453 15 A natural skill for mensuration,
growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances
of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the
territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of
land-surveyor.
ascetic, adj. (4)
LT 1.283 16 ...the current literature and poetry with
perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
This could well be borne...if the men were ravished by their thought,
and hurried into ascetic extravagances.
Tran 1.339 19 This [Transcendental] way of
thinking...falling...on popish times, made protestants and ascetic
monks...
Prd1 2.231 23 Genius is always ascetic, and piety,
and love.
ET4 5.69 24 The extremes of poverty and ascetic
penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
ascetic, n. (2)
PPo 8.248 21 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the
dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which
makes the ascetic and the saint;...
Insp 8.296 26 I value literary biography for the
hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what
ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
asceticism, n. (8)
LE 1.176 1 ...we have need of...such an
asceticism...as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself
can enforce.
Comp 2.112 11 The terror of cloudless noon...the
instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a
noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the
balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
Hsm1 2.261 17 ...to live with some rigor of
temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism
which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in
plenty...
Chr2 10.103 13 ...the acts which [the moral
sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or
some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the
homage we render to this sentiment...
SovE 10.208 26 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and...bring
asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
ascetics, n. (3)
Exp 3.64 6 ...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters,
[nature] does not distinguish by any favor.
Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe
of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the
Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand
martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
Asclepias Viminalis, n. (1)
CW 12.174 20 Plant...the Soma of the Vedas,-Asclepias
Viminalis...
Ascot, England, n. (1)
ET4 5.73 24 Every [English] inn-room is lined with
pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the
heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...
ascribe, v. (12)
SR 2.45 15 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,
Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
OS 2.267 6 ...there is a depth in those brief moments
[of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to
all other experiences.
Exp 3.77 1 By love on one part and by forbearance to
press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we
will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon, and ascribe to him
the properties that will attach to any man so seen.
Chr1 3.98 19 The covetousness or the malignity which
saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
NMW 4.231 21 Nothing has been more simple than my
elevation [said Bonaparte], 't is in vain to ascribe it to intrigue or
crime;...
GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and
prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the
belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment,
which they themselves give it.
Dem1 10.15 8 It is not the tendency of our times to
ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...
ascribed, v. (9)
MN 1.213 19 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to
the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact...
Comp 2.106 11 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme
Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they
involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a
god.
Fdsp 2.196 13 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the
virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we
have ascribed this divine inhabitation.
NMW 4.231 11 [Bonaparte] respected the power of
nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority...
LS 11.20 11 The importance ascribed to this
particular ordinance [the Lord' s Supper] is not consistent with the
spirit of Christianity.
FSLN 11.226 23 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was
like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue,
I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
ascribes, v. (1)
ET3 5.43 20 It is a singular coincidence to this
geographic centrality [of England], the spiritual centrality which
Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to the people.
ascribing, v. (4)
PNR 4.82 6 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.
Bhr 6.186 11 Society...if you do not belong to it,
resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon
enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the
date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow
old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the
solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any cause but the right
one.
QO 8.196 5 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant
writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary
person...
Aris 10.42 17 The ancients were fond of ascribing to
their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
ascription, n. (1)
Asdrubal, n. (1)
Hist 2.5 9 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is
as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what
has befallen us.
Asgard, n. (1)
Ill 6.320 23 That story of Thor, who was set to drain
the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to
run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking
up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with
Thought,--describes us...
ash, n. (3)
Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of
the ash, for nothing ill.
Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the
ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts.
ashamed, adj. (31)
SR 2.72 2 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not
for that will I adopt their petulance or folly, even to the extent of
being ashamed of it.
Hsm1. 2.252 11 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost
ashamed of its body.
Chr1 3.105 10 ...character passes into thought, is
published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
Mrs1 3.146 10 ...there is still...some youth ashamed
of the favors of fortune and impatiently casting them on other
shoulders.
Gts 3.162 27 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then
I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I
love his commodity, and not him.
ShP 4.201 11 ...the generic catholic genius who is
not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all,
stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
ET8 5.139 17 No nation was ever so rich in able men
[as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose
abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the
greatest affairs of state;...
CbW 6.256 9 In America...the inventions are
excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Cour 7.269 25 When a confident man comes into a
company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company
grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
SA 8.98 1 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance
cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go
away hollow and ashamed.
Comc 8.169 4 If the man is not ashamed of his
poverty, there is no joke.
PPo 8.264 1 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./
MMEm 10.418 24 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so
much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed.
MMEm 10.423 15 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson]
of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing (of
whose love of life I am ashamed), what of a few days of
agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished
away?
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.
FSLC 11.180 19 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must
bow its ancient honor in the dust, and make us irretrievably ashamed.
AsSu 11.251 6 When the same reproach [of writing his
speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some
caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one
unconsidered word before such an assembly.
SMC 11.363 10 [The West Point officer] looked rather
ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath.
ash-colored, adj. (1)
ET3 5.34 8 Under an ash-colored sky, [English] fields
have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with
a pencil instead of a plough.
ashes, n. (8)
ET11 5.180 24 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from
England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the
aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be
spilt in torrents.
Bty 6.281 23 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is
no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which
his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
PPo 8.255 13 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now
flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of
heaven/ Nestles the bird again./
Thor 10.460 5 In every part of Great Britain,
[Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the
Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on
any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the foundations of our houses on
the ashes of a former civilization.
Thor 10.473 15 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of
clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.
JBS 11.276 22 But though they slew him with the
sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be
o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future
harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each
grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
ALin 11.336 24 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the
term;...that...what remained to be done required...a new spirit born
out of the ashes of the war;...
HCom 11.340 17 ...They followed [Truth] and found
her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out
mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
Ashley, William James, n. (2)
ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a
good worker, and when they find one, like...Ashley, Burke,
Thurlow...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
Elo2 8.129 4 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a
premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he
was not able to proceed;...
Ashmole, Elias, n. (1)
ET12 5.201 13 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum,
whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, (1)
ashore, adv. (3)
Res 8.145 5 ...[the old forester] draws his boat
ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with
cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his
comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout
roof.
Res 8.145 10 The boat is full of water, and resists
all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it.
War 11.166 11 ...the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel
that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as
left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this
feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the
men-of-war would rot ashore;...
Ashton, Lucy [Scott, ...La (1)
Ashton, William [Scott, ... (1)
Asia Minor, n. (3)
PPh 4.73 9 ...under his hypocritical pretence of
knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine
philosophers of Athens, whether natives or strangers from Asia Minor
and the islands.
WD 7.175 11 ...that flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou
heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek
in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor,
Egypt and England.
EWI 11.122 26 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an
intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and
arts;...
Asia, n. (36)
LE 1.159 14 ...the new man must feel that he...has
not come into the world mortgaged to the opinions and usages
of...Asia...
MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa,
and Spain, on barley.
YA 1.367 5 Public gardens, on the scale of such
plantations in Europe and Asia, are now unknown to us.
Hist 2.9 22 I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and
the Islands...in my own mind.
Hist 2.21 20 In the early history of Asia and Africa,
Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
Hsm1 2.257 14 Why should these words, Athenian,
Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?
PPh 4.52 15 The country...of men faithful in doctrine
and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is
Asia;...
PPh 4.54 8 Metaphysics and natural philosophy
expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of
Asia, as the base.
ET3 5.41 22 As America, Europe and Asia lie, these
Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole
planet...
ET4 5.70 25 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island to America, to Asia...to hunt with fury...all the game that
is in nature.
ET9 5.146 3 I suppose that all men of English blood
in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are
not French natives.
ET14 5.254 20 As they trample on nationalities to
reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English]
fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
Cour 7.272 21 The best act of the marvellous genius
of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae, held Asia at
bay...
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...
Suc 7.292 19 ...because we cannot shake off from our
shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
PC 8.212 15 Our towns are still rude...and the whole
architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of
medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
Grts 8.302 25 Who can doubt the potency of an
individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;
a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa?
Plu 10.303 16 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the
deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the
forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
Plu 10.314 24 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants
of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to
pronounce one syllable; which is, No.
Plu 10.315 5 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior
virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
War 11.154 3 [Alexander's conquest of the
East]...sowed the Greek customs and humane laws over Asia...
FSLC 11.211 1 Europe is little compared with Asia and
Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
FSLC 11.211 2 Europe is little compared with Asia and
Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
ACri 12.285 20 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois
of the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries
where they wander, in Europe, Asia, Africa.
MLit 12.333 12 When one of these grand monads is
incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her
bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial
forms of daily life will now end...
Asiatic, adj. (3)
PPh 4.53 27 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and
the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking,
opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...
Boks 7.220 2 Is there any geography in these things
[sacred thoughts]? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval;...
MLit 12.326 24 ...[Goethe's] thinking is...not a
succession of summits, but a high Asiatic table-land.
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