Aside to Assiduously
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
aside, adv. (32)
AmS 1.101 8 ...[the scholar] must betray often an
ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of
the able who shoulder him aside.
LE 1.179 2 Napoleon...putting aside the guns of those
nearest him, walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went
through the motions in the French mode.
MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil
customs...
SR 2.69 23 This one fact the world hates; that the
soul becomes; for that... shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
Fdsp 2.209 18 Of course [your friend] has
merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your
person. Stand aside;...
Fdsp 2.210 27 Let [your friend] be to thee for
ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
Prd1 2.237 22 Examples are cited by soldiers of men
who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have
stepped aside from the path of the ball.
NR 3.247 15 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
NER 3.260 10 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical
movements...the wish, namely, to cast aside the superfluous...
SwM 4.132 21 An ardent and contemplative young
man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them
aside for ever.
NMW 4.228 3 Bonaparte wrought...for power and
wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means.
All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he
set aside.
ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside
the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
ET11 5.183 12 All over England...are the paradises of
the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by
the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity, out of which you
have stepped aside.
Ill 6.310 13 On arriving at what is called the
Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the
guide and extinguished or put aside...
Art2 7.49 10 So much as we can shove aside our
egotism...and bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before
us, so perfect is the work [of art].
Clbs 7.240 5 What can you do with an eloquent man? No
rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable
will not set aside...
Cour 7.253 7 ...there are three qualities which
conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1.
Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and
influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it
cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private
advantage.
Cour 7.263 8 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing
the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
PI 8.63 18 There is something...the eminent scholars
of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included,
might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and
planting itself.
Aris 10.54 26 The manners of course must have that
depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of
the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine.
In the presence of this nobility even genius must stand aside.
Plu 10.310 3 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very
crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that
Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some
of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them
aside as memoranda for future revision...
LLNE 10.356 19 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times
with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
Thor 10.478 4 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions
of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an
affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
LVB 11.93 23 We will not have this great and solemn
claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees]
huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
EWI 11.106 12 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the
case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the
slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
ALin 11.328 5 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World
moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of
the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise,
steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
ALin 11.337 21 There is a serene Providence which
rules the fate of nations, which...thrusts aside enemy and
obstruction...
CPL 11.508 4 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes,
all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the
august presence of the creator.
PLT 12.16 27 Leaving aside the question which was
prior, egg or bird, I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
asides, n. (2)
Suc 7.296 19 ...in every book [a good reader] finds
passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and
unmistakably meant for his ear.
Edc1 10.138 23 I like...boys...putting nobody on his
guard, but seeing the inside of the show,-hearing all the asides.
asinine, adj. (2)
ask, v. (166)
DSA 1.140 7 Would [the poor preacher] ask
contributions for the missions, foreign or domestic?
DSA 1.143 27 ...you will ask, What in these
desponding days can be done by us?
LE 1.163 17 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable,
obliterated past, what it cannot tell...
LE 1.163 20 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable,
obliterated past, what it cannot tell...but ask it of the enveloping
Now;...
LE 1.185 17 What is this Truth you seek? What is this
Beauty? men will ask, with derision.
LE 1.187 2 Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that
systematically retreats?...
MN 1.222 3 If you ask, How can any rules be given for
the attainment of gifts so sublime? I shall only remark that the
solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
MR 1.231 14 ...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...
Con 1.307 16 [The youth says] Like the Persian noble
of old, I ask that I may neither command nor obey.
Tran 1.331 18 ...how easy it is to show [the
materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily
questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before
his sense.
Tran 1.332 17 ...ask [the materialist] why he
believes that an uniform experience will continue uniform...
Tran 1.335 16 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel
like other men my relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken...
Tran 1.341 21 ...every one must do after his kind, be
he asp or angel, and these [Transcendentalists] must. The question
which a wise man and a student of modern history will ask, is, what
that kind is?
Tran 1.344 5 Love me, [Transcendentalists] say, but
do not ask who is my cousin and my uncle.
Tran 1.345 9 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to
life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
Tran 1.352 25 ...I ask, When shall I die and be
relieved of the responsibility of seeing an Universe which I do not
use?
YA 1.384 23 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords...
YA 1.392 17 [Imaginative persons in this country]
ask, who would live in a new country that can live in an old?...
Comp 2.106 27 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her
lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
Comp 2.113 5 [The borrower] may soon come to
see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it.
SL 2.136 22 Do not shut up the young people against
their will in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an
hour against their will.
Fdsp 2.192 19 Having imagined and invested [the
commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation
and action with such a man...
Prd1 2.230 22 We must...ask why health and beauty and
genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human
nature?
OS 2.279 19 Foolish people ask you, when you have
spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and
not an error of your own?
Cir 2.322 10 ...[men] ask the aid of wild
passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the
heart.
Exp 3.47 11 ...the men ask, What's the news? as if
the old were so bad.
Exp 3.73 8 I fully understand language, [Mencius]
said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you
call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
Exp 3.83 14 Let who will ask, Where is the fruit? I
find a private fruit sufficient.
Exp 3.83 16 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask
for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
Chr1 3.97 19 Men of character like to hear of their
faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship
events; secure to them...a certain chain of circumstances, and they
will ask no more.
Mrs1 3.134 10 ...do we not insatiably ask, Was a man
in the house?
Mrs1 3.138 1 I pray my companion, if he wishes for
bread, to ask me for bread...
Mrs1 3.138 3 I pray my companion...if he wishes for
sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them...
Mrs1 3.150 13 Certainly let [woman] be as much better
placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can
ask...
SwM 4.95 25 If one should ask the reason of this
intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato
denoted as Reminiscence...
SwM 4.118 7 One would say that as soon as men had the
first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a
picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties...that each
man would ask of all objects what they mean...
ShP 4.199 14 Is there at last in [the writer's]
breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether
it be verily so, yea or nay?...
NMW 4.242 24 ...even when the majority of the people
had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the
exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the
whole talent of the country...took his part...
ET1 5.13 18 ...on learning that I had been in Malta
and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating
what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that
country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for,
in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted,
and reverse that, to know what ought to be done;...
ET8 5.137 27 [The English] are...churlish as men
sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they
like with their own.
ET9 5.145 19 A much older traveller...says... ...
...whenever [the English] partake of any delicacy with a foreigner,
they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country.
ET11 5.187 4 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what
use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use
is a baby?
ET13 5.224 12 [The English] put up no Socratic
prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind; ask neither
for light nor right...
ET16 5.275 12 I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed
to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
ET16 5.286 12 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not
ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us...
ET16 5.289 9 Just before entering Winchester we
stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of
bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in
1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the
gate.
F 6.9 16 ...ask the doctors, ask Quetelet if
temperaments decide nothing?
F 6.47 3 ...hence the high caution, that since we are
sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
Wth 6.123 15 The farmer affects to take his orders;
but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an
opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will
rebound to you.
Bhr 6.179 1 [Eyes]...ask no leave of age, or rank;...
Wsp 6.236 7 If [the thought] can spare me [said
Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my
friends. I will never woo the loveliest. I will not ask any friendship
or favor.
Wsp 6.236 23 Mira came to ask what she should do with
the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...
Wsp 6.237 1 Mira came to ask what she should do with
the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now
sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her,
or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask?
CbW 6.260 15 ...what we ask daily, is to be
conventional.
CbW 6.272 3 Ask what is best in our experience, and
we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
Art2 7.45 6 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured, who
do not ask a fine spiritual delight, almost as much pleasure as a
statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
Elo1 7.79 10 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a
man. It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of
Sparta for generals.
Elo1 7.94 6 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is
[the speaker] driving at?...
DL 7.114 17 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist.
But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem,
and therefore no solution. Give us wealth. You ask too much.
DL 7.117 25 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly
descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not
ask your house how theirs should be kept.
Farm 7.147 16 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in
Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants, like a colonnade of
Thebes. Ask the tree how it was done.
WD 7.178 18 We ask for long life, but 't is deep
life, or grand moments, that signify.
WD 7.181 13 I dare not go out of doors and see the
moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are
finished since I saw them last.
Boks 7.191 17 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to
be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is
familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have
once for all been disposed of.
Clbs 7.228 23 We remember the time when the best gift
we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a
ship's cabin...
Cour 7.260 17 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is
not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it
will not stay;...
Cour 7.272 8 The troop of Virginian infantry that had
marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their
respects to the prisoner.
Suc 7.285 15 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told
the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him
where is Veragua.
Suc 7.288 20 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is
victory, without regard to the cause;...
Suc 7.302 2 Ah! if one could...find the day and its
cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you...
PI 8.67 24 We must...ask whether, if we sit down at
home, and do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
SA 8.85 3 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment
of a debt on the day when you have no other resource.
SA 8.85 9 Wait till your affairs go better, and you
have other means at hand; you will then ask in a different tone, and
[your debtor] will treat your claim with entire respect.
Comc 8.173 12 ...when the men appear who ask our
votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of
countenance.
QO 8.177 18 Of a large and powerful class we might
ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
QO 8.178 5 If we encountered a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he read.
Grts 8.309 14 If we should ask ourselves what is this
self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems.
Grts 8.310 1 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect],
it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of
conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot
account for. ... You ask me to describe it. I cannot describe it.
Imtl 8.326 3 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs,
ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
Imtl 8.347 7 Let any master simply recite to you the
substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws
themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning
immortality].
Imtl 8.350 18 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those
desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those
ask thou at thy pleasure;...
Imtl 8.350 23 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those
desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those
ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of
them are not to be gained by men. I will give them to thee, but do not
ask the question of the state of the soul after death.
Aris 10.50 14 It is curious how negligent the public
is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if
a man is a Republican, a Democrat?
Chr2 10.97 13 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried:
Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and
sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between
thee and me; deal THOU with me; let me know it is thy will, and I ask
no more.
Chr2 10.107 25 ...the distinctions of the true
clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a
sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
Chr2 10.113 5 [Morals] does not ask whether you are
wrong or right in your anecdotes of [past teachers and witnesses];...
Chr2 10.122 13 [Character]...does not ask, in the
absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.
Edc1 10.127 22 This apparatus of wants and faculties,
this craving body, whose organs ask all the elements and all the
functions of Nature for their satisfaction, educate the wondrous
creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
SovE 10.199 25 When we ask simply, What is true in
thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private
heart to the Divine mind...
MoL 10.246 4 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer,
a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his
domain could support. ... I suppose posterity will ask how many rats
and mice it will feed.
EzRy 10.388 25 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently
said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to
take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very
well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break
bread with us.
MMEm 10.406 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently
of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the
visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the
friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
MMEm 10.427 26 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely
now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the
atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
MMEm 10.432 22 It is frivolous to ask,-And was [Mary
Moody Emerson] ever a Christian in practice?
Carl 10.490 15 ...though no mortal in America could
pretend to talk with Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner
satisfy us (Americans), or begin to answer the questions which we ask.
LS 11.11 13 I ask any person who believes the
[Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated
forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
LS 11.17 14 I appeal now to the convictions of
communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they
have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought
between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
HDC 11.44 3 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty,
their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of
the General Court, immunities...
LVB 11.91 26 ...the American President and the
Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are
contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast
distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army
order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
In the name of God, sir [Van Buren], we ask you if this be so?
LVB 11.92 3 Men and women with pale and perplexed
faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if
this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.
EWI 11.108 14 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself
if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true;
and if they were, he could no longer rest.
War 11.171 27 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a
man] should not ask of the state protection;...
War 11.171 27 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a
man]...should ask nothing of the state;...
War 11.172 9 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a
man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if
government, law and order went by the board;...because he...never needs
to ask another what in any crisis it behooves him to do.
War 11.176 5 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed
of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope; but in this broad America...here, where not a family, not a few
men, but mankind, shall say what shall be; here, we ask, Shall it be
War, or shall it be Peace?
FSLC 11.193 4 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly
Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the
hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of
his escape, and he would lend it.
FSLN 11.225 27 ...the question which History will ask
is broader. In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great
principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
AKan 11.256 22 In these calamities under which they
suffer...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
ACiv 11.298 16 In every house...the children ask the
serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
EdAd 11.382 17 The injured elements say, Not in us;/
And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say,
Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade
them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly
ask their pottage, not their love./
Koss 11.399 22 Far be from [the people of Concord],
Sir [Kossuth], any tone of patronage; we ought rather to ask yours.
Wom 11.420 19 We may ask, to be sure,-Why need you
[women] vote?
PLT 12.26 25 ...no wine, music or exhilarating
aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is
mute, is dull; there is no genius. Ask of your flowers to open when you
have let in on them a freezing wind.
PLT 12.34 12 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we
have little to say.
PLT 12.51 13 If you ask what compensation is made for
the inevitable narrowness, why, this, that in learning one thing well
you learn all things.
II 12.65 15 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we
have little to say;...
II 12.71 19 We brood on the words or works of our
companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.
II 12.74 10 When a young man asked old Goethe about
Faust, he replied, What can I know of this? I ought rather to ask you,
who are young, and can enter much better into that feeling.
II 12.86 6 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously
whither.
Mem 12.94 2 We can tell much about [memory], but you
must not ask us what it is.
CW 12.179 9 ...when [the man] sees this annual
reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry
of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the
hieroglyphic...
MAng1 12.217 21 ...because the understanding in the
presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that
reason it is so.
MLit 12.315 26 Would you know the genius of the
writer? Do not enumerate his talents or his feats, but ask thyself,
What spirit is he of?
MLit 12.328 12 ...that we may not seem to dodge the
question which all men ask...let us honestly record our thought upon
the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
Pray 12.352 24 ...O my Father...thou dost not steal
my time by foolishness. I always ask in my heart, where can I find
thee?
Pray 12.354 6 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner
pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may
soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
PPr 12.387 6 ...if you should ask the contemporary,
he would tell you...that he had [no superstitions].
askance, adv. (1)
asked, v. (70)
MR 1.253 15 ...the people do not wish to be
represented or ruled by the ignorant and base. They only vote for
these, because they were asked with the voice and semblance of
kindness.
Con 1.322 12 ...if it still be asked in this
necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims
on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
Tran 1.352 8 When I asked them concerning their
private experience, [Transcendentalists] answered somewhat in this
wise...
YA 1.387 6 If society were transparent, the
noble...would not be asked for his day's work...
Hsm1 2.253 19 When I was in Sogd I saw a great
building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the
wall with large nails. I asked the reason...
Chr1 3.94 17 What means did you employ? was the
question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of
Mary of Medici;...
Gts 3.160 26 In our condition of universal dependence
it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity,
and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
NER 3.256 21 ...if I had not that commodity
[money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only
certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each
asked of the other.
NER 3.270 24 You remember the story of the poor woman
who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which
Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished,
asked to whom she appealed...
SwM 4.126 2 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in
good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were
not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to
merit heaven.
MoS 4.157 21 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who
asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...
ET11 5.183 17 I was surprised to observe the very
small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and
seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are
they? I asked.
ET13 5.214 11 A youth marries in haste;
afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of
marriage...
ET15 5.263 15 I asked one of [the London Times's] old
contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he
said;...
ET16 5.274 25 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of
Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the
sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy,
how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't
know and did n't care.
ET16 5.286 23 My friends asked, whether there were
any Americans?--any with an American idea...
ET16 5.288 11 On the way to Winchester...my friends
asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
Wsp 6.236 9 If [the thought] can spare me [said
Benedict], I am sure I can spare it. It shall be the same with my
friends. I will never woo the loveliest. I will not ask any friendship
or favor. When I come to my own, we shall both know it. Nothing will be
to be asked or to be granted.
CbW 6.249 12 The worst of charity is that the lives
you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
CbW 6.263 22 I once asked a clergyman in a retired
town, who were his companions?...
CbW 6.266 27 ...who provoke pity like that excellent
family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far
from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked
successively, What are they here for?...
CbW 6.275 19 A man of wit was asked, in the train,
what was his errand in the city.
CbW 6.276 11 When I asked an ironmaster about the
slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron
to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder
in the pay.
Elo1 7.71 20 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear
child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks
broader in his shoulders and breast.
Elo1 7.73 4 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of
Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied,
When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very
spectators to believe him.
Clbs 7.239 14 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked
Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business
in England in a month?
Cour 7.270 1 ...I remember the old professor, whose
searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class,
when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have
never read that book;...
OA 7.333 1 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy]
Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him.
Elo2 8.121 20 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a
disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man,
passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend.
PC 8.226 11 The poet Wordsworth asked, What one is,
why may not millions be? Why not?
Imtl 8.351 12 [Yama said to Nachiketas] That
knowledge for which thou hast asked [concerning immortality] is not to
be obtained by argument.
MoL 10.251 14 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet,
Who makes your bed? I do.
MoL 10.251 26 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl
Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on
the measures of the Radicals.
LLNE 10.346 25 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is
your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will
remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his
reply.
MMEm 10.406 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently
of dull conversations, and asked to be read to...
MMEm 10.406 21 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion
were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on
which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop
the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
SlHr 10.442 26 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the
conscience of the community in which he lived. And in many a town it
was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this?...
Thor 10.455 8 When asked at table what dish he
preferred, [Thoreau] answered, The nearest.
Thor 10.457 9 ...a young girl...sharply asked
[Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
LS 11.9 20 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus
make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body
which is broken for you. Take; eat.
HDC 11.53 2 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired
a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?
HDC 11.59 19 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to
death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers,
during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet
as sugar was to Englishmen.
HDC 11.77 26 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained
of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to
the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
HDC 11.81 25 The General Court...draughted a
constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether
they would have it for the law of the State?
EWI 11.104 24 ...a good man or woman...once in a
while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the
indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds
blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and
great friends if it was true...
SMC 11.363 2 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point
officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked
me to look after them...
SMC 11.369 8 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had
several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which
the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion; he
will go anywhere you say, and no questions asked;...
Wom 11.418 25 The answer that lies, silent or spoken,
in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's
rights], is this: that...they are asked for by people who
intellectually seek them, but who have not the support or sympathy of
the truest women;...
FRO2 11.485 22 ...as my friend, your presiding
officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at
least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to
give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
II 12.74 8 When a young man asked old Goethe about
Faust, he replied, What can I know of this?
Mem 12.100 16 ...if [Newton] was asked why things
were so or so, he could find the reason on the spot.
CInt 12.118 14 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The
seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the
farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not
lie that he had been abused.
CL 12.162 15 The true naturalist can go wherever
woods or waters go;... and no man is asked for leave.
MAng1 12.243 14 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you
see that statue of Saint George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not
speak.
MAng1 12.243 25 Whilst he was yet alive,
[Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa
Croce]...
ACri 12.285 8 ...if I were asked how many masters of
English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
ACri 12.301 17 Where is the town [New City]? Was
there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a
guzzle out of a sand-bank.
EurB 12.366 21 In the debates on the Copyright
Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in
derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons what that meant...
Let 12.400 22 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster
the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he
sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters
shouted in the hall and asked, Who brought the ragamuffin here?
asketh, v. (1)
PI 8.51 21 The traveller as he paceth through those
deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]?...
asking, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.181 4 There are asking eyes, asserting eyes,
prowling eyes;...
asking, v. (13)
MN 1.202 12 ...one can hardly help asking if this
planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
Exp 3.62 13 If we will take the good we find, asking
no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Chr1 3.111 27 ...if we could abstain from asking
anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the
virtue of the eldest laws!
Chr1 3.112 1 ...if we could abstain from asking
anything of [men], from asking their praise, or help, or pity, and
content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
NER 3.263 4 When we see...a special reformer, we feel
like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
ET17 5.297 2 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the
story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and
slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and
one day passing with Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the
landlord's asking him if he had come for his porter.
Boks 7.196 7 Do not read what you shall learn,
without asking, in the street and the train.
Insp 8.272 11 The toper finds, without asking, the
road to the tavern...
Plu 10.304 22 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas
about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him
as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
Thor 10.474 5 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking
questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
Carl 10.497 19 [Carlyle] has stood for scholars,
asking no scholar what he should say.
Wom 11.413 26 The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of
their affection. Women make light of these, asking only love.
asks, v. (48)
Tran 1.330 7 [The idealist]...asks the materialist
for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent
them.
Tran 1.345 19 In looking at the class of
counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they
who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to
these?
Lov1 2.185 1 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet],
has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
Prd1 2.223 16 The world is filled with the proverbs
and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but
one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?
Cir 2.317 15 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort
of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration...
Exp 3.56 11 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like
the story as well as when you told it me yesterday?
Mrs1 3.132 19 ...we excuse in a man many sins if he
will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no
leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.
SwM 4.135 17 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows
itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign
rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with jasper and
sardonyx...
MoS 4.149 19 [A man] builds his fortunes...cherishes
his children; but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the
creative age...gives way to a new age, which sees the works and asks in
vain for a history.
GoW 4.281 8 ...[the German intellect] has a certain
probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks
steadily, To what end?
ET11 5.185 9 If one asks...what service this class
[English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have
perished long ago.
ET11 5.187 2 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what
use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use
is a baby?
Wsp 6.205 24 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to
Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which
burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in
excellent faith.
Wsp 6.240 1 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from
sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed
from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death
help them?
WD 7.174 16 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I
study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
Boks 7.212 21 The child asks you for a story, and is
thankful for the poorest.
Boks 7.212 23 The man asks for a novel,--that is,
asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
Boks 7.212 24 The man asks for a novel,--that is,
asks leave for a few hours to be a poet...
PI 8.58 22 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is
there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is
there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
PC 8.227 27 To know in each social crisis how men
feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads
no telegrams. He asks his own heart.
Imtl 8.349 19 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks
that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him;...
Chr2 10.122 8 [Character] asks, with Marcus Aurelius,
What matter by whom the good is done?
Schr 10.281 5 We have seen to weariness what you
[idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the
practical man...
SMC 11.368 4 How would Concord people, [George
Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear
the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
PLT 12.61 16 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of
souls led hither and thither by affections...and in the confusion asks
the polarity of intellect.
Mem 12.97 10 One sometimes asks himself, Is it
possible that [Memory] is only a visitor, not a resident?
MLit 12.320 1 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was
this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as
well;...
Trag 12.412 21 All that life demands of us through
the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands.
Society asks this, and truth, and love, and the genius of our life.
ask'st, v. (1)
FRO2 11.484 5 ...Thou ask'st in fountains and in
fires,/ He is the essence that inquires./
asleep, adj. (9)
Clbs 7.226 14 Some talkers excel in the precision
with which they formulate their thoughts...others lay criticism asleep
by a charm.
Schr 10.267 21 The action of these [busy] men I
cannot respect, for they do not respect it themselves. They were better
and more respectable abed and asleep.
Plu 10.316 10 It would be generous to lend our eyes
and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst
we are idle or asleep.
HDC 11.27 6 Where are these men? asleep beneath their
grounds:/ And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
HDC 11.60 9 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's]
captors were asleep, she plucked a saddle from under the head of one of
them, took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
CL 12.163 2 ...the very time at which [my naturalist]
used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout
everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.
asleep, adv. (1)
Exp 3.50 22 Who cares what sensibility or
discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his
chair?...
Asmodeus, n. (2)
Bhr 6.173 14 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus,
who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist;...
Res 8.149 1 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted
without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in
the fire. The children never suspect... that this unfailing fertility
has been rehearsed a hundred times, when the necessity came of finding
for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.
asp, n. (1)
Tran 1.341 19 ...every one must do after his kind, be
he asp or angel...
Aspasia, n. (2)
ET14 5.237 6 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes
works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
Bhr 6.187 6 Euripides, says Aspasia, has not the fine
manners of Sophocles;...
aspect, n. (39)
AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the
elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in
literature...as benign an aspect.
LE 1.170 23 The moment a man of genius pronounces the
name...of the Roman people, we see their state under a new aspect.
LT 1.261 9 The reason and influence of wealth, the
aspect of philosophy and religion...these and other related topics will
in turn come to be considered.
LT 1.261 12 The reason and influence of wealth...the
tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and
New England; the aspect of poetry, as the exponent and interpretation
of these things;...these and other related topics will in turn come to
be considered.
YA 1.391 20 ...the development of our American
internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are
to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
Comp 2.126 16 The death of a dear friend, wife,
brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later
assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
Int 2.339 4 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes distorted...
Art1 2.368 20 Is not the selfish and even cruel
aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the
mercenary impulses which these works obey?
Pt1 3.4 27 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains
whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are
intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the
nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the
general aspect of the art in the present time.
Pt1 3.24 20 [The sculptor] rose one day...before
dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to
express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of
marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such
that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
Pt1 3.36 11 ...the same man or society of men may
wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different
aspect to higher intelligences.
Pt1 3.36 12 ...the same man or society of men may
wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different
aspect to higher intelligences.
Mrs1 3.155 17 Minerva said...[men] were only
ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had
a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
NER 3.270 13 We must go up to a higher platform, to
which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of
things changes.
GoW 4.288 17 Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris;
and Madame de Stael said she was only vulnerable on that side (namely,
of Paris). It has its favorable aspect.
ET4 5.67 6 On the English face are combined decision
and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid
aspect.
ET16 5.277 1 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round
the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them, to wont ourselves
with their strange aspect...
Elo1 7.72 26 ...when...his words fell like the winter
snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses; and [the
Trojans], beholding, wondered not afterwards so much at his aspect.
OA 7.318 22 ...looking at age under an aspect more
conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age,
I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
PI 8.53 16 Poetry being an attempt to express...the
beauty and soul in [the hero's] aspect...runs into fable, personifies
every fact...
Aris 10.40 16 It only needs to look at the social
aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which
original practical talent commands.
Edc1 10.131 6 ...always the mind contains in its
transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory
phenomena, of depriving them of all casual and chaotic aspect...
Supl 10.163 15 There is a superlative
temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a
certain desperation. Their aspect is grimace.
Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion,
with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect...
LS 11.7 7 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his
disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect
to your eyes.
FSLN 11.221 3 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of
aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his
contemporaries.
FSLN 11.226 8 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and
that, when the aspect of the institution was no longer doubtful...
FSLN 11.243 20 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name
and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in
this age and country...
Milt1 12.248 3 The aspect of Milton, to this
generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.
Milt1 12.252 5 It is the aspect which [Milton]
presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.
Trag 12.413 5 When two strangers meet in the highway,
what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm
mind...
aspects, n. (19)
MN 1.214 18 ...a man never sees the same object
twice: with his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects.
LT 1.259 2 ...the present aspects of our social
state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
LT 1.259 5 To appear in these aspects, [the present
aspects of our social state] must first exist...
LT 1.287 23 The main interest which any aspects of
the Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through
them...
LT 1.289 5 To a true scholar the attraction of the
aspects of nature...is simply the information they yield him of this
supreme nature which lurks within all.
SR 2.75 7 If any man consider the present aspects of
what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these
ethics.
Exp 3.81 5 ...we cannot say too little of our
constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
SwM 4.119 6 To a right perception...of the order of
nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their
widest social aspects;...
ET1 5.20 25 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to
cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
ET16 5.273 13 I was glad...to exchange a few
reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I
set a very high value [Carlyle]...
MoL 10.257 10 War, seeking for the roots of strength,
comes upon the moral aspects at once.
EWI 11.135 11 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme,
to the bright aspects of the occasion.
PLT 12.38 2 At a moment in our history the mind's eye
opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a
thousand faces of one essence. We call the essence Truth; the
particular aspects of it we call thoughts.
Milt1 12.248 15 The reputation of Milton had already
undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
Milt1 12.273 8 [Milton] would...support preachers by
voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have
faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life,
scorning to take thought for the aspects of prudence and expediency.
PPr 12.383 25 ...when the political aspects are so
calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the
poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
PPr 12.387 17 The revelation of Reason is this of the
unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective
aspects;...
aspen, n. (1)
SHC 11.428 3 ...Here the green pines delight, the
aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of
the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our
tombs./
aspens, n. (1)
CL 12.150 5 [The Indian] consults by way of natural
compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3)
aspens...
asperities, n. (1)
ET8 5.138 3 [The English] are...churlish as men
sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they
like with their own. With education and intercourse, these asperities
wear off...
asphodel, n. (1)
ACri 12.293 13 A list might be made of showy words
that tempt young writers: asphodel, harbinger, chalice, flamboyant...
Asphodel, n. (1)
CW 12.174 21 Plant...Dittany, Asphodel, Nepenthe...
asphyxia, n. (1)
ET14 5.249 19 In the decomposition and asphyxia that
followed all this materialism [in England], Carlyle was driven by his
disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
aspirant, n. (10)
YA 1.393 16 It is a questionable compensation to the
embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is
himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from
higher circles...
Hist 2.7 16 A true aspirant therefore never needs
look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
Grts 8.301 7 ...every aspirant, by his success in the
pursuit [of greatness], does not hinder but helps his competitors.
Grts 8.320 13 With self-respect...there must be in
the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men
of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
Aris 10.59 13 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant
that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young
men;...
FRep 11.514 4 In our popular politics you may note
that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is
by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real
power is gained...
aspirants, n. (6)
LT 1.267 12 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact,
that we who were pupils or aspirants are now society...
Tran 1.345 15 ...we...inquire...where are they who
represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few
happy aspirants suggest to ours?
SA 8.80 10 The staple figure in novels is the
man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates, quite sure
and compact...
Plu 10.322 9 It is a service to our Republic to
publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the
Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the
secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might
confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the
victory over all competitors.
MLit 12.329 21 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] Fierce churchmen and effeminate aspirants will chide and hate
my name, but every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in
Wilhelm Meister]...
aspiration, n. (23)
DSA 1.127 25 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy
life, exist as ancient history merely; they are not...in the aspiration
of society;...
MR 1.232 25 [The general system of our trade] is not
that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour
of love and aspiration;...
OS 2.275 26 Those who are capable of humility, of
justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that
commands the sciences and arts...
OS 2.285 18 We know...whether that which we teach or
behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also.
Cir 2.316 14 For me...love, faith, truth of
character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;...
Pt1 3.25 2 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the
aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate
copy of their essence on his mind.
Pol1 3.201 17 The history of the State...follows at a
distance the delicacy of culture and of aspiration.
MoS 4.169 7 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms,
no aspiration;...
MoS 4.177 1 ...is no community of sentiment
discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power
of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law and must
reconcile it with aspiration the best I can.
GoW 4.267 9 The fiery reformer embodies his
aspiration in some rite or covenant, and he and his friends cleave to
the form and lose the aspiration.
DL 7.109 7 Do you see the man,--his form, genius and
aspiration,--in his economy?
Chr2 10.107 11 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an
exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of
clergymen. And one sees with some pain the disuse of rites so charged
with humanity and aspiration.
LLNE 10.341 12 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing
opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited
a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present.
Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between
[this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began
to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
MMEm 10.408 17 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary
Moody Emerson] would listen like a child. Her aspiration and prayer
would begin...
War 11.170 2 The question naturally arises, How is
this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made
visible and real?
MLit 12.319 15 Nothing certifies the prevalence of
this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the
poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The only unity is in the
subjectiveness and the aspiration common to the three writers.
Let 12.396 20 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve
society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in
vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...
aspirations, n. (14)
DSA 1.146 16 ...when you meet one of these men or
women...let their timid aspirations find in you a friend;...
LE 1.155 18 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly
into the holy ground, where other men's aspirations only point.
MN 1.219 9 What is all history but...a record of the
incomputable energy which his infinite aspirations infuse into man?
LT 1.270 23 ...each of these aspirations and attempts
of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration
of its advocates...
LT 1.285 18 No man can compare the ideas and
aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former
periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
Hsm1 2.259 6 The lesson [many extraordinary young
men] gave in their first aspirations is yet true;...
DL 7.126 4 ...Certainly this was not the intention of
Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in
the heart after the good and true teach us better...
PI 8.73 22 Time will be...when what are now glimpses
and aspirations shall be the routine of the day.
Prch 10.218 22 I see movement, I hear aspirations,
but I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the
new order of things.
SlHr 10.445 22 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or
aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to
keep men out of prison...
Wom 11.423 4 If the wants, the passions, the vices,
are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
MLit 12.318 19 The music of Beethoven is said...to
labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted
before.
aspire, v. (11)
AmS 1.107 15 Men...very naturally seek money or
power;...the spoils, so called, of office. And why not? for they aspire
to the highest, and this...they dream is highest.
LE 1.161 27 ...I will thank my great brothers so
truly for the admonition of their being, as...to aspire and to speak.
Tran 1.346 26 ...[these youths] aspire, they severely
exact...
Hist 2.28 2 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual
people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with
themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live
holily, their own piety explains every fact...
SL 2.140 13 ...that which I call heaven, and inwardly
aspire after, is the state or circumstance desirable to my
constitution;...
Cir 2.320 26 The simplest words,--we do not know what
they mean except when we love and aspire.
PC 8.215 24 If [your public] know what is good, and
require it, you will aspire and burn until you achieve it.
Milt1 12.256 9 [Milton] declared that he who would
aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be
a true poem;...
WSL 12.344 18 ...there is a noble nature within
[Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare
all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance,
aspire to the office of delineating character.
aspired, v. (2)
ET15 5.271 27 I wish I could add that this journal
[the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...
Scot 11.462 1 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to
be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
aspires, v. (7)
SwM 4.129 17 ...I adore the greater worth in another,
and so become his wife. He aspires to a higher worth in another spirit,
and is wife or receiver of that influence.
Elo1 7.99 14 If [eloquence]...aspires to be somewhat
of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
MLit 12.317 19 There is that in us which mutters, and
that which groans, and that which triumphs, and that which aspires.
aspiring, adj. (7)
Tran 1.345 7 ...this masterpiece is the result of
such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will
neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
Comp 2.95 26 [Men's] daily life gives [their
theology] the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the
doctrine behind him in his own experience...
Cir 2.319 13 Infancy, youth, receptive,
aspiring...counts itself nothing...
Art1 2.351 24 In a portrait [the painter]...must
esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or
likeness of the aspiring original within.
ET11 5.186 21 [The English upper classes] have the
sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which
disgusts in the aspiring classes...
Plu 10.301 22 [Plutarch's] superstitions are poetic,
aspiring, affirmative.
aspiring, n. (1)
Chr1 3.115 26 ...when that love...which has vowed to
itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner
than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets
and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
asps, n. (1)
SwM 4.130 5 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the
difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is
incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...asps...
asquint, adj. (1)
SL 2.156 26 When [a man] has base ends and speaks
falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
ass, n. (4)
MoS 4.154 13 With a little more bitterness, the cynic
moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being
carried before him;...
FSLC 11.211 3 Europe is little compared with Asia and
Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
Assacombuit, n. (1)
War 11.159 6 I read in Williams's History of Maine,
that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was
remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...
assailant, n. (2)
NER 3.263 2 When we see an eager assailant of one of
these wrongs...we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to
your one virtue?
assailants, n. (2)
EWI 11.110 1 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the
abolition of the trade...
assailed, v. (5)
MR 1.229 1 What if some of the objections whereby our
institutions are assailed are extreme and speculative...
Comp 2.117 24 The indignation which arms itself with
secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely
assailed.
EWI 11.109 17 These debates [on West Indian slavery]
are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed
and defended.
FSLN 11.224 25 ...the appeal is sure to be made to
[Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
assailing, adj. (1)
Art2 7.41 6 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the
model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to
resist a constant assailing force.
assails, v. (1)
Aris 10.35 6 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself
to each malignant party that assails what is eminent.
assassin, n. (4)
ET4 5.67 11 The fair Saxon man...is not the wood out
of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
Pow 6.63 5 ...let these rough riders--legislators in
shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends, half
orator, half assassin...drive as they may, and the disposition of
territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and
reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of
manners.
Chr2 10.92 14 It were an unspeakable calamity if any
one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.
That is the part of a striker, an assassin.
War 11.168 9 Will you stick to your principle of
non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered
in your sight? If you say yes, you only invite the robber and
assassin;...
assassinate, v. (3)
Tran 1.337 4 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless
person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of
calculation...would assassinate like Timoleon;...
NMW 4.255 11 [Napoleon] would steal, slander,
assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.
ET5 5.78 16 [The English] neither poison, nor waylay,
nor assassinate;...
assassination, n. (1)
ET5 5.82 18 ...in France, fraternity, equality, and
indivisible unity are names for assassination.
assassinations, n. (1)
ET4 5.58 23 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks
are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming
aptitude for assassinations.
assassins, n. (3)
SwM 4.131 23 [Swedenborg] was let down through a
column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend
safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear
there...their lamentations;...he saw the hell of the jugglers, the hell
of the assassins...
Pow 6.70 16 ...who cares for fallings-out of
assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?
AsSu 11.252 3 ...if our arms at this distance cannot
defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a
life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
assault, n. (5)
Chr1 3.98 10 What have I gained...that I do not
tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the
threat of assault...
NER 3.261 5 ...in the assault on the kingdom of
darkness [many reformers] expend all their energy on some accidental
evil...
NMW 4.236 13 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no
more spared himself.
assault, v. (2)
Aris 10.52 12 ...if the dressed and perfumed
gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill
examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...assault his
person...
assaulted, v. (1)
MAng1 12.225 12 On the 21st of March, 1530, the
Prince of Orange assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.
assaults, n. (2)
SR 2.87 24 Men...have come to esteem the religious,
learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they
deprecate assaults on these...
SR 2.87 25 Men...have come to esteem the religious,
learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they
deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on
property.
assayeth, v. (1)
assays, v. (1)
MLit 12.331 22 Poetry is with Goethe thus
external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to
vibrate the sun and the moon...
assemblage, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.148 3 ...although excellent specimens of
courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the
individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe],
in particulars we should detect offence.
assemble, v. (2)
Chr1 3.109 14 When the Yunani sage arrived at
Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country
should assemble...
HDC 11.43 8 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay]
removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the
first year, and it was found inconvenient to assemble them all.
assembled, adj. (3)
MN 1.207 18 ...the union of foreign constitutions in
him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled
human race could not have sufficed to do.
Elo1 7.72 10 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with
the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose
above the other;...
LLNE 10.336 7 ...the paramount source of the
religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who
destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the
earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus
fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was
played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...
assembled, v. (10)
LE 1.155 11 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the
meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my
own College assembled at their anniversary.
Hsm1 2.256 24 Simple hearts...would appear, could we
see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking
together...
Boks 7.200 14 [Plutarch's] memory is like the
Isthmian Games, where all that was excellent in Greece was
assembled;...
MoL 10.245 18 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has
thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the
occasion;...
CSC 10.373 2 In the month of November, 1840, a
Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon
Street Chapel in Boston...
SlHr 10.438 13 ...when the mob of Charleston was
assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered
his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
HDC 11.71 9 In September [1774], incensed at the new
royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants
[of Concord] assembled on the common...
HDC 11.73 17 When [British troops] entered Concord,
they found the militia and minute-men assembled...
EWI 11.116 6 The [West Indian] planters informed us
that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their
own people were assembled...
Assemblee, La Belle, n. (1)
Boks 7.214 20 These stories [novels] are to the plots
of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
assemblies, n. (17)
NER 3.251 13 [The observer of New England's]
attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious
party...is appearing... in very significant assemblies called Sabbath
and Bible Conventions;...
ET10 5.154 9 ...one of [England's] recent writers
speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty
exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied...in
biography and in the votes of public assemblies...
Clbs 7.243 9 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet
who first...piqued the emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival
assemblies...
Cour 7.268 1 There is...a courage of manners in
private assemblies, and another in public assemblies;...
Suc 7.303 10 Who is he...who does not like to hear of
those sensibilities which...send wonderful eye-beams across
assemblies...
PI 8.34 23 'T is easy to repaint the
mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out
where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and
public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.
HDC 11.47 18 In these assemblies [New England
town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion,
were heard;...
HDC 11.54 13 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and
sixty-seven praying Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers,
and eighteen assemblies.
EWI 11.128 26 There are causes in the composition of
the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and
injurious in other legislative assemblies.
EWI 11.138 13 It is notorious that the political,
religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most
occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and
daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
FRep 11.529 2 We...are are defended from shocks now
for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies
every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
Milt1 12.271 18 [Milton] proposed to establish a
republic, of which...the substantial power should remain with primary
assemblies.
assemblings, n. (1)
SovE 10.209 6 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not
now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity with
assemblings and holy-days...
Assembly, General, n. (2)
Elo2 8.117 24 A worthy gentleman...listening to the
debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in
Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand
pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in
public.
HDC 11.79 5 In June [1776], the General Assembly of
Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
assembly, n. (63)
LE 1.166 9 A man of cultivated mind but reserved
habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in
the man addressing an assembly;...
MR 1.252 22 We do not greet [the laborers']
talents...nor in the assembly of the people vote for what is dear to
them.
SL 2.157 25 ...into every assembly that a man enters,
in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
Art1 2.357 16 When I have seen fine statues and
afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who
said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
Pt1 3.39 5 [Artists] found or put themselves in
certain conditions, as...the orator into the assembly of the
people...and each presently feels the new desire.
Pt1 3.40 7 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings
in the orator, at the door of the assembly, to the end namely that
thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
Chr1 3.109 17 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet
Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly.
Mrs1 3.130 13 ...that assembly once dispersed, its
members will not in the year meet again.
Mrs1 3.142 21 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James
Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the
Tuileries.
NR 3.238 18 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public
assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own...
PPh 4.58 6 ...the anecdotes that have come down from
the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his
master's behalf, since even the savage cry of the assembly to Plato is
preserved;...
ET13 5.229 23 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies]
the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked
around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...
Bhr 6.195 18 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness
and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus
alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus
Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
Utri creditis, Quirites? When he had said these words he was absolved
by the assembly of the people.
SS 7.13 27 Conversation will not corrupt us if we
come to the assembly in our own garb and speech...
Elo1 7.62 25 Of all the musical instruments on which
men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and
variety...
Elo1 7.63 7 No one can survey the face of an excited
assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in
fire human thought...
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...
Elo1 7.67 13 This range of many powers in the
consummate speaker, and of many audiences in one assembly, leads us to
consider the successive stages of oratory.
Elo1 7.67 21 When each auditor feels himself to make
too large a part of the assembly...mere energy and mellowness [in the
orator] are then inestimable.
Elo1 7.68 4 When each auditor...shudders...with fear
lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and
mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning
would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of
harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal
spirits...
Elo1 7.82 1 In the assembly, you shall find the
orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
Elo1 7.83 11 ...if one of [the debaters] have
anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will
find vent for it, and with the applause of the assembly!
Elo1 7.84 23 ...by making [the people] wise in that
which he knows, [the orator] has the advantage of the assembly every
moment.
Elo1 7.85 16 ...in any public assembly, him who has
the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...
Elo1 7.90 11 A popular assembly...is commanded by
these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
Elo1 7.96 16 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went
through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in
the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any...
Boks 7.210 16 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the
assembly.
Elo2 8.111 20 Who knows before the debate
begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons,
the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy
of will which is presently to be let loose...on this miscellaneous
assembly gathered from the streets,--all are invisible and unknown.
Elo2 8.113 19 The orator is he whom every man is
seeking when he goes... into any popular assembly...
Elo2 8.114 19 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being
the person in the assembly who has the most to say...
Elo2 8.116 15 When a good man rises in the cold and
malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to
be silent;...
Elo2 8.119 11 The most...thought-paralyzing companion
sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and
effective orator.
PC 8.230 5 I know well to what assembly of educated,
reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
Dem1 10.7 13 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to
see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...
Aris 10.53 8 A man who has that possession of his
means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions
of a public assembly, we must respect...
Edc1 10.147 27 By many steps...the hesitating
collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full,
secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
LLNE 10.340 22 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's
house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to
open. He found a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously
distinguished;...
CSC 10.374 9 The composition of the assembly [at the
Chardon Street Convention] was rich and various.
CSC 10.374 19 If the assembly [at the Chardon Street
Convention] was disorderly, it was picturesque.
CSC 10.375 7 The assembly [at the Chardon Street
Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain,
sylvan strength and earnestness...
GSt 10.501 14 ...the painful surprise which the last
week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns,
opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the
citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
HDC 11.46 9 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the
freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once
in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General
Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from
the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same
assembly they are to this day.
EWI 11.114 24 On the night of the 31st July [1834],
[the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and
chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly
became men;...
EWI 11.117 26 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at
constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing
can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of the addresses of this
assembly.
FSLN 11.218 22 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical
sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the
entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their
breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
AsSu 11.251 8 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.
AKan 11.258 19 Next to the private man, I value the
primary assembly...
AKan 11.258 25 First, the private citizen, then the
primary assembly, and the government last.
EPro 11.316 22 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly...
SMC 11.361 13 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain
the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
SMC 11.375 13 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly,
speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
CPL 11.508 23 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak
entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to
the new Library...
CInt 12.123 23 ...the idea of a college is an
assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought]...
Assembly, n. (2)
NMW 4.226 18 Mirabeau read [Dumont's
peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue
to-morrow, to the Assembly.
EWI 11.121 2 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new
governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself
to that late exasperated body in these terms...
assent, n. (4)
Dem1 10.6 14 In a dream we have...the same torpidity
of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as
these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
Prch 10.234 27 ...the power of sympathy is always
great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain
it when argument would fail.
GSt 10.506 15 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring
his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness
the next best measure which could secure their assent.
assent, v. (2)
NER 3.279 6 I suppose considerate observers...will
assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is
fidelity.
assented, v. (1)
ET1 5.22 14 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested
in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines. I gladly
assented...
Asser's, John, n. (1)
Boks 7.206 24 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred...
assert, v. (10)
Nat 1.54 26 The perception of real affinities between
events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Tran 1.356 22 ...[these old guardians] have but one
mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is
quite as much as Antony can do to assert his rights...
YA 1.363 5 America is beginning to assert herself to
the senses and to the imagination of her children...
NR 3.245 22 ...I...now further assert, that, each
man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified
in his individuality...
Clbs 7.241 2 Conversation is the Olympic games
whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
Suc 7.285 18 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I
assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went
to lands where there was abundance of gold...
PerF 10.87 17 The illusion that strikes me as the
masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the
timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
Schr 10.271 3 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to
shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
asserted, v. (5)
PPh 4.65 8 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the
highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented
and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the
circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those
of our own minds...
ET5 5.81 23 There is on every question [in England]
an appeal from the assertion of the parties to the proof of what is
asserted.
Supl 10.172 8 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the
late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring
on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken
the whole English language three times over in his speech.
EWI 11.121 16 It may be asserted...that the former
slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn
Britons.
FRep 11.518 1 Hitherto government has been that of
the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to
resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the
government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
asserter, n. (1)
asserting, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.181 4 There are asking eyes, asserting eyes,
prowling eyes;...
asserting, v. (3)
PPh 4.73 13 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was
willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly
confuted others asserting what was false;...
Suc 7.302 24 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting
that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters
of love;...
assertion, n. (9)
Gts 3.159 16 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that
a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
NER 3.254 2 ...in each of these [reform] movements
emerged...an assertion of the sufficiency of the private man.
ET5 5.81 22 There is on every question [in England]
an appeal from the assertion of the parties to the proof of what is
asserted.
OA 7.323 7 Under the general assertion of the
well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that
condition.
SMC 11.370 20 ...Word was sent by General Barnes,
that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was
then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order
to retire then, he replied...I can hold this place; and he made good
his assertion.
Mem 12.101 26 Who, [can judge] the new assertion? He
who has heard many the like.
Bost 12.206 1 ...there was never, I suppose, a more
rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power,
and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of
it, than was exhibited here.
assertions, n. (2)
asserts, v. (4)
SwM 4.142 25 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some
sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the
thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
MoS 4.176 20 As far as [the power of moods] asserts
rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy,
namely in the record of larger periods.
PI 8.27 22 William Blake...writes thus... The painter
of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely
more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his
mortal eye.
asses, n. (3)
NMW 4.239 17 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his
contempt...for the hereditary asses, as he coarsely styled the
Bourbons.
SA 8.95 14 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice,
fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of
Intellect, the king.
MoL 10.253 11 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when
the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the
grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the
hollow square.
assess, v. (1)
HDC 11.46 5 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the
freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once
in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
assessed, v. (3)
HDC 11.42 12 ...this first recorded political act of
our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the
most important event in their civil history...
HDC 11.44 25 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is
Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose
their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of
constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early
assessed taxes;...
HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was
1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
assessing, v. (1)
CPL 11.495 4 The people of Massachusetts prize the
simple political arrangement of towns, each...assessing its taxes...
assessor, n. (1)
NER 3.255 26 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary
nullifiers...who reply to the assessor and to the clerk of court that
they do not know the State...
Assessor, n. (2)
SwM 4.99 13 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg]
was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.
SwM 4.100 11 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office
of Assessor...
assessors, n. (1)
Wsp 6.226 16 ...the divine assessors who came up with
[a man] into life... walk with him, step for step...
assez, v. (1)
NMW 4.258 10 ...the universal cry of France and of
Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
assiduity, n. (1)
LLNE 10.349 14 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large
Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with
laudable assiduity.
assiduous, adj. (2)
LE 1.164 24 ...we must...pass...by assiduous love and
watching, into the visions of absolute truth.
ShP 4.208 11 Read the antique documents extricated,
analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read
one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
assiduously, adv. (1)
MAng1 12.228 5 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so
assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that,
for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding
it over his head.
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