Assign to Atlas Mountains
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
assign, v. (1)
LT 1.259 7 Beside all the small reasons we assign,
there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact;...
assigned, v. (12)
SL 2.162 10 Why should we make it a point with our
false modesty to disparage...that form of being assigned to us?
PPh 4.70 16 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the
greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift.
SwM 4.120 18 A man is in general and in particular an
organized... selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony
[Swedenborg] assigned in the Arcana...
ET4 5.72 20 Two centuries ago the English horse never
performed any eminent service beyond the seas; and the reason assigned
was that the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to
foot-service...
Wth 6.83 10 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the
strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To
build in matter home for mind./
Cour 7.276 17 ...we must have a scope as large as
Nature's to...detect what scullion function is assigned [beast-like
men]...
MMEm 10.419 16 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must
finger the very farthing candle-ends,-the duty assigned to my pride;...
TPar 11.286 10 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of
duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution.
SMC 11.367 14 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at
last...to an excellent reputation, attested...by the important position
usually assigned them in the field.
FRep 11.542 16 A fruitless plant, an idle animal,
does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...in the province
assigned to them...
WSL 12.340 9 ...we love the man [Landor], from
sympathy as well as for reasons to be assigned;...
assigns, v. (3)
ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely
assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple
[Stonehenge].
War 11.152 24 On its own scale, on the virtues it
loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the
place its specific gravity assigns it.
WSL 12.339 15 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his
license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the
work-tables of ladies...
assimilate, v. (5)
ET8 5.137 6 [The English] assimilate other races to
themselves, and are not assimilated.
PI 8.58 27 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He
will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
Imtl 8.336 22 We are driven by instinct to hive
innumerable experiences which are of no visible value, and we may
revolve through many lives before we shall assimilate or exhaust them.
assimilated, v. (6)
SwM 4.96 22 ...by being assimilated to the original
soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
ET4 5.45 7 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps
forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of
America...in which the foreign element, however considerable, is
rapidly assimilated, and you have a population of English descent and
language of 60,000,000...
ET8 5.137 7 [The English] assimilate other races to
themselves, and are not assimilated.
QO 8.201 10 ...however received, these elements pass
into the substance of [the individual's] constitution, will be
assimilated...
Imtl 8.339 24 After we have found our depth [on a new
planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer
us to a new scene.
PLT 12.33 3 A mind does not receive truth as a chest
receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food
into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated.
assimilates, v. (2)
WD 7.178 3 ...though many creatures eat from one
dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the
elements what belongs to it...
assimilating, adj. (6)
Bost 12.183 23 Such is the assimilating force of the
Indian climate that Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the
Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that
all take a Hindoo tint.
assimilating, v. (2)
SwM 4.108 24 Here in the brain is all the process of
alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting and
assimilating of experience.
Bost 12.184 11 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to
the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the
property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance
introduced into its bosom.
assimilation, n. (5)
YA 1.364 4 ...when...the locomotive and the
steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of
national descent and employment... an hourly assimilation goes
forward...
PNR 4.83 13 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and ulterior senses. His...doctrine of assimilation;...
assist, v. (7)
Art1 2.354 7 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes
have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to
assist and lead the dormant taste.
PPh 4.46 17 In a month or two, through the favor of
their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so
related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication
being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
GoW 4.280 2 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm
Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy]...
ET6 5.113 19 ...[the English] would sooner give five
or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to
assist him in any distress.
ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the
cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in
their choice [of a Bishop];...
FRO2 11.487 25 I think wise men wish their religion
to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult,
self-searching soul, brave to assist or resist a world...
assistance, n. (7)
Hist 2.20 2 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns,
already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge
shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it
could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
Civ 7.28 20 I admire still more than the saw-mill the
skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and
grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...
Edc1 10.146 7 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied
ancient art to explain his stones;...he invoked the assistance of the
English Government;...
Plu 10.307 25 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander
invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his
father Philip.
HDC 11.52 23 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and
Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to
twenty-nine rules...
JBB 11.273 1 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in
which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and
not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on
himself, and the natural assistance of his friends and fellow
citizens...
assistances, n. (1)
Edc1 10.154 15 ...the adoption of simple discipline
and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the
time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use,
insight, event, all the great lessons and assistances of God;...
assistant, n. (2)
ET15 5.266 4 Our entertainer [at the London Times]
confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
PC 8.222 14 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an
assistant to finish the computation.
Assistants, Council of, n. (1)
HDC 11.43 1 The charter gave to the freemen of the
Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council
of Assistants.
assistants, n. (2)
Pt1 3.8 3 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will
and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries
also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants
who bring building-materials to an architect.
Bost 12.207 9 With all their love of his person, [the
people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and
deputy and assistants...
assisted, v. (7)
SL 2.160 24 ...why need you torment yourself and
friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted
him...heretofore?
ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have
wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the
Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.
ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the
movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET12 5.206 12 ...[the young men at Oxford] pointed
out to me a paralytic old man, who was assisted into the hall.
Chr2 10.119 6 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more
than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his
first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but
achieves the feat...and never wishes to be assisted more.
Prch 10.234 10 A vivid thought brings the power to
paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of
its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated,
assisted each in our own work...
assisting, v. (1)
Mem 12.100 26 In reading a foreign language, every
new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words and so assisting
the memory.
assists, v. (3)
Wth 6.111 4 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant]
people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has
become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of
the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.
associate, adj. (1)
YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally
felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate
life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
associate, n. (2)
LLNE 10.353 8 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's]
design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be
trusted...
associate, v. (15)
Nat 1.22 5 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion,
associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate
of Greece.
DSA 1.123 20 As we are, so we associate.
Tran 1.335 12 As I am, so shall I associate, and so
shall I act;...
SwM 4.125 7 [To Swedenborg] The marriages of the
world are broken up. Interiors associate all in the spiritual world.
Bhr 6.171 19 We talk much of utilities, but 't is our
manners that associate us.
DL 7.126 16 There is no face, no form, which one
cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with
generosity of soul.
Boks 7.220 20 ...let each scholar associate himself
to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
Suc 7.297 21 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered
to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber, though he should
associate the Dialogues ever after with a woollen smell.
EzRy 10.383 20 I am sure all who remember both will
associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the
old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
EdAd 11.393 4 ...a few friends of good letters have
thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
CL 12.159 15 ...it was the practice...of the
Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the
towns, into the desert, and, if they liked, to associate with wild
animals.
MLit 12.322 4 With the name of Wordsworth rises to
our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage
Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser
criticism than we have yet seen applied to them, and the rather that
his name does not readily associate itself with any school of writers.
associated, adj. (2)
NER 3.264 8 The scheme [of the new communities]
offers, by the economies of associated labor and expense, to make every
member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families,
would leave every member poor.
MoS 4.158 14 Remember the open question between the
present order of competition and the friends of attractive and
associated labor.
associated, v. (10)
Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most
lively...manner.
Hist 2.20 6 What would...neat porches and wings have
been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi
could sit as watchmen...
Lov1 2.175 9 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of
that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial
circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
OS 2.283 22 To truth, justice, love...the idea of
immutableness is essentially associated.
Gts 3.161 7 ...we might convey to some person that
which...was easily associated with him in thought.
QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours
when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his
views.
Edc1 10.146 21 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct,
in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic
trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by
iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task
he had...become associated with distinguished scholars...
associates, n. (16)
MN 1.215 4 To every reform...early disgusts are
incident...so that [the disciple] shuns his associates...
SL 2.148 25 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids
another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly
seeking himself in his associates...
SL 2.151 15 Nothing is more deeply punished
than...the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.
Chr1 3.109 24 I should think myself very unhappy in
my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
Mrs1 3.133 3 [A man] should preserve in a new company
the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily
associates draw him to...
WD 7.177 14 That is good which commends to me my
country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates.
SA 8.89 26 One of my friends said in speaking of
certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any
moment.
Dem1 10.15 15 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in
any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who
take part in political and military projects...
Aris 10.60 13 The solitariest man who shares [a
certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is
he who prefers these associates to profane companions.
LLNE 10.364 18 There is agreement in the testimony
that [Brook Farm] was, to most of the associates, education;...
EzRy 10.385 18 The same faith [in particular
providence] made what was strong and what was weak in Dr. Ripley and
his associates.
GSt 10.506 13 ...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.
Mem 12.104 6 In low or bad company you...recall and
surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your
life...
associates, v. (3)
Hist 2.23 1 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow,
[a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as
beside his own chimneys.
SovE 10.190 17 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not
the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the
mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of
equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
associating, v. (4)
LT 1.273 23 To [some divine, the wealthy man]
adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence
and commendatory of his own piety.
PPh 4.66 22 Socrates declares that if some have grown
wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
PPh 4.66 26 Socrates declares that if some have grown
wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends
not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be
benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
PPh 4.67 4 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon]
does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited
by associating with me.
Association, British, n. (2)
Boks 7.220 17 ...it would be well for sincere young
men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British
Association...
Clbs 7.249 6 ...in the sections of the British
Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated,
in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
Association, Mechanics', n. (1)
SL 2.152 15 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will
deliver an oration on the Fourth of July, and Mr. Hand before the
Mechanics' Association...
association, n. (49)
AmS 1.82 11 ...I accept the topic which not only
usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this
day...
MR 1.227 4 ...the aim of each young man in this
association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
Tran 1.343 26 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment
[Love] which has made common association distasteful to
[Transcendentalists.]
YA 1.382 24 At least an economical success seemed
certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural
association must...fix the price of bread...
YA 1.382 26 ...agricultural association must, sooner
or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into
association in self-defence;...
YA 1.384 5 Whether...the objection almost universally
felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate
life...setting a higher value on the private family, with poverty, than
on an association with wealth, will not prove insuperable, remains to
be determined.
SR 2.77 7 It is easy to see that a greater
self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations
of men;...in...their association;...
Lov1 2.169 19 The natural association of the
sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in
order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
Exp 3.55 13 ...health of body consists in
circulation, and sanity of mind in variety or facility of association.
Mrs1 3.126 16 The manners of this class [of doers]
are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association
of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their
merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
Mrs1 3.130 11 ...come from year to year and see how
permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or
New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over
and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a professional
association...
Pol1 3.209 1 A party is perpetually corrupted by
personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we
cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.
NR 3.228 4 The men of fine parts protect themselves
by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best
can his incapacity for useful association...
NER 3.264 19 ...it may easily be questioned...whether
those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and
power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
PPh 4.67 5 Such, O Theages, is the association with
me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and
rapid proficiency...
MoS 4.172 27 [The wise skeptic] is a reformer; yet he
is no better member of the philanthropic association.
GoW 4.279 6 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo],
who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of
the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own
titled name;...
ET4 5.57 18 ...the solid material interest
predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...wherein the association is logical,
between merit and land.
SS 7.7 9 One protects himself [from society] by
solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he
can...his incapacity for strict association.
Civ 7.20 14 In other races [than the Indian and the
negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his
eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies a facility of
association...
Civ 7.26 23 There can be no high civility without a
deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but
sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other
association of friends.
PC 8.233 1 We have suffered our young men of ambition
to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of
caste,-to come and go without rebuke. But that kind of loose
association does not leave a man his own master.
Aris 10.37 2 From the folly of too much association
we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
LLNE 10.327 13 The association [of the time] is for
power, merely,-for means;...
LLNE 10.333 24 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will
be remembered by any who heard him, with inseparable association with
his voice and genius.
LLNE 10.358 7 One merchant to whom I described the
Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that
agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
LLNE 10.358 8 One merchant to whom I described the
Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that
agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and
drive single farmers into association in self-defence...
GSt 10.506 3 ...this sudden association now with the
leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the
nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
LS 11.19 4 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and
strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this
repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by
any of us.
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...
FSLC 11.203 17 ...very unexpectedly to the whole
Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education,
association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty
years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery
party in this country.
Wom 11.416 21 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights
of all kinds...
FRO1 11.480 12 What is best in the ancient religions
was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the
relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions
probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound
the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...
FRep 11.524 15 [The election of a rogue and a
brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible,
best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been
scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate
with the interest of their trade or of their property.
Mem 12.96 12 This is the high difference, the quality
of the association by which a man remembers.
Bost 12.198 11 ...no association with the
elegant...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong
only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
EurB 12.376 25 ...a perception of beauty was the
equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm
Meister]...
Let 12.394 18 [The correspondents] do not wish a
township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...
Association, n. (1)
NER 3.263 18 If partiality was one fault of the
movement party, the other defect was their reliance on Association.
Association, West Roxbury, (1)
associations, n. (12)
Hsm1 2.257 11 The first step of worthiness will be to
disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
OS 2.281 26 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the
individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The
character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the
individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion,
in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men...
Mrs1 3.130 8 ...come from year to year and see how
permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or
New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over
and under and through it...
NER 3.264 12 These new associations are composed of
men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
NER 3.265 4 [One man]...in his natural and momentary
associations, doubles or multiplies himself;...
Art2 7.56 18 Who cares, who knows what works of art
our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere
flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books
and galleries.
Comc 8.167 6 The physiologist Camper humorously
confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary
associations.
Aris 10.45 5 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism.
Plu 10.298 4 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the
poet in the...speed of his mental associations...
LLNE 10.358 12 Society in England and in America is
trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in
cooperative associations...
WSL 12.341 14 When we pronounce the names of...Ben
Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we pass at once out of
trivial associations...
Associations, n. (1)
YA 1.382 11 The science is confident, and surely the
poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two
together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations
which are now making their first feeble experiments.
assort, v. (1)
SS 7.14 22 Assort your party, or invite none.
assume, v. (35)
LE 1.185 9 ...I thought that standing...girt and
ready to go and assume tasks...in your country, you would not be sorry
to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
MR 1.227 3 I shall assume that the aim of each young
man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational
mind.
MR 1.243 17 The duty that every man should assume his
own vows...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
Tran 1.330 14 ...I, [the idealist] says,
affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native
superiority to material facts...
YA 1.385 18 There really seems a progress towards
such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these
natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private
adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
Hist 2.10 27 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume
that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should
achieve the like;...
SR 2.71 24 Why should we assume the faults of our
friend, or wife... because they sit around our hearth...
Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature
engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume
pleasing forms...
SL 2.163 3 The fact that I am here certainly shows me
that the soul had need of an organ here. Shall I not assume the post?
Prd1 2.239 13 Though your views are in straight
antagonism to [your contemporaries], assume an identity of sentiment...
Prd1 2.239 13 Though your views are in straight
antagonism to [your contemporaries]...assume that you are saying
precisely that which all think...
Exp 3.83 2 Illusion, Temperament, Succession,
Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of
life. I dare not assume to give their order...
Pol1 3.214 23 ...when a quarter of the human race
assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the
circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
UGM 4.31 17 ...if any appear never to assume the
chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the
company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts
to come about.
SwM 4.107 17 The whole art of the plant is still to
repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light,
moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
MoS 4.151 16 Having at some time seen that the happy
soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men
predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were
already substantiated.
ET9 5.149 14 ...[the English] feel themselves at
liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of English
merits.
Bhr 6.197 12 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a
maid, to perfect manners?...
Wsp 6.213 8 The religion of the cultivated class
now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was
once their religion to assume.
CbW 6.270 11 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates
[of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one
malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away
with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous
attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
WD 7.166 3 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a
felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as
the measure of worth.
Suc 7.296 6 We assume that there are few great men,
all the rest are little;...
Edc1 10.157 14 I assume that you [teachers] will keep
the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order;...
Schr 10.278 27 [The scholar] is to forge out of
coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents assume an
independence...they cannot serve him.
Schr 10.279 25 These gifts, these senses, these
facilities are...all wasted and mischievous when they assume to lead
and not obey.
CL 12.142 26 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are
not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a
long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the
most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to
wear.
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...
assumed, adj. (1)
assumed, v. (17)
AmS 1.110 20 ...the same movement which effected the
elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in
literature a very marked...aspect.
MN 1.200 6 In all animal and vegetable forms, the
physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be
assumed...
MN 1.201 21 ...if...it be assumed that the final
cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see
that it has not succeeded.
YA 1.382 21 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to
distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band, by whom whatever
duties were disagreeable and likely to be omitted, were to be assumed.
Hist 2.19 26 The custom of making houses and tombs in
the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal
character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form
which it assumed.
Comp 2.95 20 I find a similar base tone in the
popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by
the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
Mrs1 3.122 7 There is something equivocal in all the
words in use to express the excellence of manners and social
cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the
cause.
MoS 4.171 26 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by
the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but
which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
GoW 4.275 10 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that
one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the
skeleton...
Elo1 7.64 7 Among the Spartans, the art [of
eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
PI 8.10 10 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or
mollusk, and isolated it...
QO 8.182 17 What divines had assumed as the
distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has
matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and
Rome.
Supl 10.176 7 The firmest and noblest ground on which
people can live is truth;...a ground on which nothing is assumed...
HDC 11.71 11 In September [1774]...the inhabitants
[of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This
little town then assumed the sovereignty.
EPro 11.323 18 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and
they would have assumed the army and navy...
Milt1 12.267 26 [Milton] returned into his
revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task...
assumes, v. (16)
SR 2.51 11 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful
cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy
infant;...
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;...
Pt1 3.7 14 Criticism is infested with a cant of
materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first
merit of all men...
Gts 3.162 9 We can receive anything from love, for
that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who
assumes to bestow.
SwM 4.107 26 A poetic anatomist, in our own
day...assumes the hair-worm, the span-worm, or the snake, as the type
or prediction of the spine.
ET15 5.269 25 Every slip of an Oxonian or
Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the
earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
Comc 8.158 10 ...if there be phenomena in botany
which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the
like completeness with the further function to which in different
circumstances it had attained.
PC 8.217 8 I find the single mind equipollent to a
multitude of minds...and under this view the problem of culture assumes
wonderful interest.
Prch 10.221 3 ...this examination [of religion]
resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered
understanding assumes to judge all things...
PPr 12.387 12 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the
poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight
clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
assuming, v. (8)
Hsm1 2.261 22 ...not only need we breathe and
exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence...
PPh 4.78 13 No power of genius has ever yet had the
smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
But there is an injustice in assuming this ambition for Plato.
GoW 4.272 9 [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...geology, chemistry,
astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial
and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
ET4 5.61 7 ...decent and dignified men now existing
boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed
a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their
types the swine, goat, jackal...
ET12 5.208 24 A gentleman [in England] must
possess...an independent and public position, or at least the right of
assuming it.
Aris 10.57 19 ...a soul on which elevated duties are
laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in
danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong
to it.
EPro 11.320 25 ...we are assuming the firmness of the
policy thus declared [in the Emancipation Proclamation].
EurB 12.367 19 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his
election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the
chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward
promptings of his heavenly genius;...
assumption, n. (8)
DSA 1.144 12 The stationariness of religion; the
assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the
falsehood of our theology.
LE 1.164 2 An intimation of these broad rights is
familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any
man to limit their possible progress.
LE 1.167 8 We assume that...what we say we only throw
in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature. A very
shallow assumption.
Pol1 3.214 14 ...whenever I find my dominion over
myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my
neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and
nature cannot maintain the assumption;...
NR 3.248 8 My companion assumes to know my mood and
habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until
all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at
first, because of that vicious assumption.
Thor 10.479 26 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a
certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended
completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected
to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
FSLC 11.183 15 The popular assumption that all men
loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow
American brag;...
PPr 12.381 25 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and
nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old
nobilities.
Assurance Company, Hospital (1)
MoL 10.246 11 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when
he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that
he should make their tables of annuities.
assurance, n. (37)
Nat 1.62 24 Idealism acquaints us with the total
disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the
world's being. The one is perfect; the other, incapable of any
assurance;...
DSA 1.125 8 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on
the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all
natures;...
Tran 1.330 8 [The idealist]...asks the materialist
for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent
them.
Tran 1.337 10 ...I have assurance in myself that in
pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the
sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
SR 2.53 17 ...I actually am, and do not need for my
own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
SR 2.53 18 ...I actually am, and do not need for my
own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Comp 2.118 13 As long as all that is said is said
against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
Nat2 3.169 13 These halcyons may be looked for with a
little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish
by the name of the Indian summer.
ET2 5.25 12 The request [to lecture in England] was
urged...with...every assurance of aid and comfort...
ET5 5.101 18 The charm in Nelson's history is the
unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost
by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this
kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of
the existence of matter;...
ET15 5.263 21 [The London Times] has shown those
qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance...
Wsp 6.238 18 If there ever was a good man, be certain
there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that
spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night, at our table by
day,--the apprehension, the assurance of a coming change.
CbW 6.245 12 ...[the priest] walked to the church
without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or
could heal it.
Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing
loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker,
judge...
PI 8.30 5 When [the poet] sings, the world listens
with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
Grts 8.307 23 [A man] is never happy nor strong until
he...learns...to have the entire assurance of his own mind.
Imtl 8.330 17 I was lately told of young children who
feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
Imtl 8.340 5 I know not whence we draw the assurance
of prolonged life... by so many claims as from our intellectual
history.
Imtl 8.343 27 ...[the belief in immortality] must
have the assurance of a man's faculties that they can fill a larger
theatre...than Nature here allows him.
Imtl 8.344 10 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being
quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and
live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality,
and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will
grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward
assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
Dem1 10.15 19 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in
any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of
commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals
so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a
boundless self-trust.
Chr2 10.122 14 [Character]...does not ask, in the
absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.
Prch 10.218 4 I see in those classes and those
persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of
to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
CSC 10.375 24 If there was not parliamentary order
[at the Chardon Street Convention] there was...assurance of that
constitutional love for religion and religious liberty
which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
MMEm 10.427 10 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary
Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the
name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic
dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author
of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she
incessantly invokes...
HDC 11.49 4 ...so be [the town-meeting] an
everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground
of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
HDC 11.79 8 The numbers [of of men for the
Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are
large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their
brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
EWI 11.135 3 ...as an omen and assurance of success,
I point to you the bright example which England set you [in
emancipation in the West Indies]...
FSLN 11.241 26 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that
better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to
his own and the next age. Without this assurance, he will sooner sink.
CPL 11.508 23 ...I am happy in the assurance that the
whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of
this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
ACri 12.297 3 [Herrick] has, and knows that he
has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric
delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm
footing. This flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of
fame.
assurances, n. (5)
MoS 4.156 12 [The skeptic says] What is the use of
pretending to assurances we have not, respecting the other life?
Wsp 6.231 26 ...as soon as the man is right,
assurances and previsions emanate from the interior of his body and his
mind;...
LLNE 10.352 3 ...in spite of the assurances of
[Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from
all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it
from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
SMC 11.373 13 On his death-bed, [George Prescott]
received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more
than all his duty...
assure, v. (7)
OA 7.321 2 A man of great employments and excellent
performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth
anything until he was sixty;...
OA 7.323 23 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner
marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee
threatens mortification.
OA 7.324 11 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted
citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as
movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the
horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear
on the tenth of July;...
Insp 8.287 27 Did you never observe, says Gray, while
rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a
shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp? I do
assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Plu 10.320 1 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I
myself am invited as a shadow, I assure you I refuse to go.
Let 12.396 6 It is not for nothing, we assure
ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better
social state...
assured, adj. (2)
SlHr 10.447 10 It seemed as if the New England church
had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend of its
parish by-laws...
assured, n. (1)
Chr1 3.100 25 The wise man not only leaves out of his
thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved,
the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the
primary,--they are good;...
assured, v. (28)
Nat 1.56 14 Turgot said, He that has never doubted
the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for
metaphysical inquiries.
SR 2.62 16 That popular fable of the sot...laid in
the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious
ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been
insane...symbolizes...the state of man...
Fdsp 2.193 24 Let the soul be assured that somewhere
in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content
and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
Fdsp 2.206 17 Friendship may be said to require
natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its
satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
Hsm1 2.245 24 ...Sophocles will not ask his life,
although assured that a word will save him...
Int 2.338 10 ...when we write with ease...we seem to
be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication
at pleasure.
Int 2.346 25 Well assured that their speech is
intelligible...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
GoW 4.279 23 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get
what good from it we can, assured that it has only begun its office...
Wth 6.117 15 In England...I was assured...that great
lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
Wsp 6.230 13 I am well assured that the Questioner
who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
SS 7.3 3 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who
had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me
that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a
misnomer...
Suc 7.305 18 An Englishman of marked character and
talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was
left in England...
Suc 7.306 4 The very law of averages might have
assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five
good heads.
PI 8.62 29 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and
sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen
to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.
Elo2 8.124 13 ...in your struggles with the
world...seek refuge...and be assured you shall find it...in the
precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
Res 8.146 10 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if
they should provoke him he would burn up their rivers and their
forests;...
Imtl 8.328 23 ...spend yourself on the work before
you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will
be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
LLNE 10.361 21 ...a few grave sanitary influences of
character were happily there [at Brook Farm], which, I was assured,
were always felt.
Thor 10.459 7 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books, and
assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper
custodian of these.
EWI 11.116 1 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were
assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath.
War 11.169 11 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites
injury;...
EPro 11.319 10 ...all men of African descent who have
faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the
protection of American law.
EPro 11.326 8 Incertainties now crown themselves
assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./
SMC 11.350 8 ...we...believe that our visitors will
pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest
neighbors as in a family party;-well assured, meantime, that the
virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the
sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
PLT 12.12 7 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system
as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he
clearly sees...and waits for a new opportunity, well assured that these
observed arcs will consist with each other.
Milt1 12.267 2 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the
gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may
be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger
disdains not to be preached in a barn.
MLit 12.332 23 ...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]...
assuredly, adv. (1)
ET15 5.262 7 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of
Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly
write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
assures, v. (7)
Tran 1.343 21 ...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;...
YA 1.372 13 The sphere is flattened at the poles and
swelled at the equator;...the form, the mathematician assures us,
required to prevent the protuberances of the continent...from
continually deranging the axis of the earth.
Mrs1 3.134 6 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight
forward, and he assures the other party...that he has been met.
ET1 5.20 18 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel
Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures
me that the newspapers are atrocious...
Prch 10.230 16 The simple fact...that all over this
country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that
opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology,
for those large liberties.
LS 11.20 18 ...the Apostle well assures us that the
kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and
joy in the Holy Ghost.
SHC 11.429 16 ...this concourse of friendly company
assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.
assuring, v. (2)
OA 7.330 25 We remember our old Greek Professor at
Cambridge...ever... assuring himself he should retire from the
University and read the authors.
SA 8.86 19 The attitude is the main point, assuring
your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind...
Assyria, n. (4)
War 11.153 23 [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.
EdAd 11.383 17 A scholar who has been reading of the
fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a
railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still
wet from Liverpool and Havre...
Astaboras River, n. (1)
Hist 2.22 13 In America and Europe the nomadism is of
trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of
Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
asteroid, n. (3)
Comp 2.91 12 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That
hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/
Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the
neutral Dark./
PC 8.224 13 The asteroids are the chips of an old
star, and a meteoric stone is a chip of an asteroid.
asteroids, n. (2)
Humb 11.457 21 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to
law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses
and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!
asters, n. (1)
SHC 11.428 5 ...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./
Astley, John, n. (1)
Comc 8.169 21 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. Such is the story told of the
painter Astley...
astonish, v. (15)
AmS 1.97 1 So is there...no event, in our private
history, which shall not... astonish us by soaring from our body into
the empyrean.
DSA 1.121 16 ...this homely game of life we play,
covers...principles that astonish.
SR 2.71 6 Let us stun and astonish the intruding
rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
SR 2.86 16 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in
their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
ET14 5.236 5 The ardor and endurance of [English]
study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish...
ET15 5.270 26 ...when [the editors of the London
Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established
their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch, astonish those
whom they succor as much as those whom they desert...
Elo1 7.98 27 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's]
perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal
scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men
the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great
great, and the small small, which is the true way to astonish and
reform mankind.
PC 8.227 9 There is not a person here present to whom
omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
RBur 11.442 18 ...[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...
astonished, adj. (4)
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...
Suc 7.298 19 [The city boy in the October woods] is
the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson,
porphyry and topaz...with so many hints to his astonished senses;...
FSLN 11.226 14 [Webster]...left, with much
complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to
the astonished State of Massachusetts...
MAng1 12.231 6 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the
Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast
cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability,
over the astonished beholder.
astonished, v. (13)
OS 2.297 4 ...man will come to see that the world is
the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at
particular wonders;...
Art1 2.356 12 ...what astonished and fascinated me in
the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
Mrs1 3.151 13 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of
his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force, and astonished me by her
amount of life...
WD 7.161 7 What shall we say of the ocean
telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind....
PC 8.225 12 ...time and space,-what are they? Our
first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed,
astonished the gods themselves;...
Dem1 10.9 18 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth.
The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may
have astonished us.
Wom 11.407 15 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in
the glory of their husbands and children. Man stands astonished at a
magnanimity he cannot pretend to.
Shak1 11.449 11 Men were so astonished and occupied
by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face
and condition...
Mem 12.96 5 We are told that Boileau having recited
to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing,
Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set
himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much
distressed, until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.
astonishes, v. (8)
Lov1 2.180 11 ...of poetry the success is not
attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires
us with new endeavors after the unattainable.
ET14 5.258 21 For a self-conceited modish
life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes
and disconcerts English decorum.
Elo2 8.118 15 ...this power [of eloquence] which so
fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a
talent which is universal.
PLT 12.50 4 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in
every play, act, scene or line.
astonishing, adj. (5)
NER 3.273 10 Berkeley, having listened to the many
lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan
with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and
enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
SwM 4.116 1 ...In our doctrine of Representations and
Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing
things which occur... throughout nature...
astonishing, v. (2)
Bty 6.302 18 The radiance of the human form, though
sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a
few months at the perfection of youth...
PI 8.40 20 These successes are not less admirable and
astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
astonishment, n. (18)
DSA 1.141 22 ...historical Christianity destroys the
power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral
nature of man;...where are the resources of astonishment and power.
OS 2.292 20 ...for ever and ever the influx of this
better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and
astonishment.
Int 2.347 1 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to
thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the
human race below...
Nat2 3.176 6 In every landscape the point of
astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...
Nat2 3.189 1 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a
young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to
conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with
astonishment and vexation.
NER 3.260 1 To the astonishment of all, the self-made
men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular
graduates...
NER 3.267 13 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in
every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the
works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all,
the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of
society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and
selfishness of their contemporaries.
MoS 4.149 10 Nothing so thin but has these two faces
[sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he
turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this
penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is
still a slight shudder of astonishment at the exhibition of the other
face...
MoS 4.178 18 ...The astonishment of life is the
absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and
practice of life.
Ill 6.310 18 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth
Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and
even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched
with astonishment and pleasure.
Comc 8.170 5 The same astonishment of the intellect
at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all
the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
PC 8.209 14 To his astonishment [the coxcomb] has
found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal
persuasion;...
Dem1 10.10 4 It is no wonder that particular dreams
and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy
consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired
with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the
economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of
his being a man.
PLT 12.42 13 Each soul...walking in its own path
walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not
its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a
wide prairie.
Astor, John Jacob, n. (1)
F 6.39 24 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the
times?--...Astor...and the rest.
astounding, adj. (4)
LE 1.163 23 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its
astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this
hero...
YA 1.381 12 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt,
like the merchant. This result might well seem astounding.
SovE 10.200 27 You have perceived in the first fact
of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust
wonder...
CInt 12.129 23 Bring the insight, and [the deep
observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes
of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
astounding, v. (1)
PC 8.224 1 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more
astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a
manageable rod or wedge...
astounds, v. (1)
Civ 7.20 21 The occasion of one of these starts of
growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to
dare to change.
astringency, n. (1)
Pow 6.71 8 Everything good in nature and the world is
in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow
plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out
by ethics and humanity.
astringent, adj. (1)
F 6.45 20 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has
more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
astrologer, n. (1)
OA 7.331 7 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never
applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars
consented.
astrology, n. (5)
Pt1 3.32 20 All the value which attaches to...Oken,
or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony,
as...magic, astrology...is the certificate we have of departure from
routine, and that here is a new witness.
Bty 6.282 7 Astrology interested us, for it tied man
to the system.
Dem1 10.12 15 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved sciences, of mesmerism, of astrology...need not reproach
us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
LLNE 10.327 24 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long
gone.
astronomer, n. (17)
Nat 1.56 4 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on
their irrefragable analysis...
SL 2.165 8 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same
way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good
player.
Cir 2.312 13 The astronomer must have his diameter of
the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
Bty 6.282 27 The human heart...is larger than can be
measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
Civ 7.29 8 ...the astronomer, having by an
observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as
waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put
the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and
his second...
PC 8.217 11 Culture implies all which gives the mind
possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic, telescope to
the astronomer.
Grts 8.305 20 ...there is the boy who is born with a
taste for the sea... another will be a lawyer; another, an
astronomer;...
Imtl 8.327 6 ...Swedenborg...described the moral
faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer
describing the suns and planets of our system...
PerF 10.74 23 [Man] is...a geometer, an astronomer, a
persuader of men... and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or
series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material
elements.
Supl 10.172 15 The astronomer shows you in his
telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is
esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
Schr 10.264 21 The men committed by profession as
well as by bias to study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer,
the metaphysician...talk hard and worldly...
Schr 10.281 10 The astronomer is not ridiculous
inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an
astronomer.
Schr 10.281 11 The astronomer is not ridiculous
inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an
astronomer.
Schr 10.281 12 The astronomer is not ridiculous
inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an
astronomer.
MAng1 12.244 7 There [in Santa Croce], near the
tomb...of Galileo, the great-hearted astronomer;...stands the monument
of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
astronomers, n. (11)
AmS 1.82 7 ...the star in the constellation
Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...
DSA 1.120 5 ...the astronomers, the builders of
cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and
a little motion and we will construct the universe.
Nat2 3.184 20 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for
the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the
balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers
were right in making much of it...
ET5 5.96 19 [The English] make...telescopes for
astronomers, cannons for kings.
ET10 5.169 24 A part of the money earned [in England]
returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers,
chemists and artists with;...
ET11 5.190 20 In the roll of [English] nobles are
found poets, philosophers, chemists, astronomers...
Grts 8.318 10 ...degrees of intellect interest only
classes of men who pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers,
mathematicians or linguists...
Supl 10.166 11 Think how much pains astronomers and
opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
astronomic, adj. (5)
SwM 4.103 23 ...Swedenborg is systematic and
respective of the world in every sentence;...his faculties work with
astronomic punctuality...
PI 8.42 8 There was as much creative force then as
now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth
and wine-glasses.
Chr2 10.109 15 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should
lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by
which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded
they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
astronomical, adj. (10)
DSA 1.139 21 The prayers and even the dogmas of our
church are like...the astronomical monuments of the Hindoos...
DSA 1.141 26 What a cruel injustice it is to...that
Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that
it is travestied and depreciated...
ET5 5.94 11 This foggy and rainy country [England]
furnishes the world with astronomical observations.
ET16 5.280 25 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr.
Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...and show us
what he knew of the astronomical and sacrificial stones.
ET16 5.280 27 I stood on the last [the sacrificial
stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or
rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice
that its top ranged with the sky-line.
ET16 5.281 5 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises
exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at
the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in
the same relative position.
F 6.18 21 ...there will, in a dozen millions
of...Mahometans, be one or two astronomical skulls.
Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want
of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
PI 8.24 5 Slowly...there dawned on some mind a theory
of the sun,--and we found the astronomical fact.
astronomically, adv. (2)
ET16 5.277 27 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and
uncovered, and the situation fixed astronomically...
MMEm 10.433 7 It is essential to the safety of every
mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically
ascertained;...
astronomies, n. (1)
Bty 6.284 8 These geologies, chemistries,
astronomies, seem to make wise...
astronomy, n. (76)
Nat 1.68 12 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so
long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which
subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because
he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of astronomy...
MN 1.201 24 Read alternately...a treatise of
astronomy...with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.
MN 1.202 13 ...one can hardly help asking if this
planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
Hist 2.10 13 Ferguson discovered many things in
astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
Int 2.346 14 This band of grandees...Synesius and the
rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to
be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry,
vegetation and animation...
NR 3.231 15 ...morning and night, solstice and
equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature
play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
NR 3.232 10 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Indian
astronomy...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the
planet.
NR 3.240 2 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit
that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage
so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit
for a base of its triangles.
UGM 4.10 24 There are advancements to numbers,
anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
UGM 4.18 13 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of
Aristotle, the Ptolemaic astronomy...are in point.
PPh 4.62 19 As there is a science of stars, called
astronomy;...so there is a science of sciences,--I call it
Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the
true.
PPh 4.62 27 The sciences, even the best,--mathematics
and astronomy, are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even
without being able to make any use of it.
PNR 4.82 3 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to
require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
SwM 4.99 9 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying
into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy...
SwM 4.102 4 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated
much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the
discovery of the seventh planet...
SwM 4.102 7 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated
much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of
modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
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...geology, chemistry,
astronomy;...
ET12 5.202 8 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the
Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the
novelties of Copernicus.
ET14 5.247 20 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it
creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine
to the London grocer.
F 6.18 5 No one can read the history of astronomy
without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
Pow 6.54 3 ...the education of the will is the
flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
Ctr 6.160 5 ...the consideration of the great periods
and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference
to death.
WD 7.164 12 ...we must look deeper for our salvation
than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus]
proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one
who understands it.
OA 7.331 2 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central
figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into
solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
PI 8.35 13 The test of the poet is the power to take
the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees
it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of
the world.
Res 8.139 24 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she
is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity,
millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our
astronomy is built;...
Res 8.149 6 See how [Newton] refreshed himself,
resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy; from
astronomy by optics;...
Res 8.150 24 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's
romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her
correspondence.
Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the
country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little
knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants,
rocks, astronomy;...
PC 8.211 14 Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics,
have yielded grand results.
PC 8.214 22 ...[The Middle Ages']...chemistry,
algebra, astronomy;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.217 23 If a man know the laws of Nature better
than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the
secret of geometry, of algebra; on which the computations of astronomy,
of navigation, of machinery, rest.
PC 8.221 4 [The benefits of devotion to natural
science] are felt...in manufactures, in astronomy...
Insp 8.273 5 The separation of our days by sleep
almost destroys identity. Could we but turn these fugitive sparkles
into an astronomy of Copernican worlds!
Insp 8.296 1 Books of natural science...explorations
of the sea, of meteors, of astronomy,-all the better if written without
literary aim or ambition.
Imtl 8.346 15 You cannot make a written theory or
demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican
astronomy.
Dem1 10.13 16 I am content and occupied with such
miracles as I know... such as humanity and astronomy.
Chr2 10.92 4 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a
beast: but choice is born in him;...here is the Declaration of
Independence, the July Fourth of zoology and astronomy.
Edc1 10.128 3 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...geometry,
astronomy.
Edc1 10.158 11 If a child [in the school] happens to
show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and
you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may
hear.
SovE 10.195 17 We do not believe the less in
astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our
beds with rheumatism.
MoL 10.248 18 You [scholars] are here as the carriers
of the power of Nature...as Copernicus, with his secret of the true
astronomy;...
EdAd 11.382 2 The old men studied magic in the
flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in
chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
Shak1 11.448 13 ...Shakspeare taught us that the
little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces
of astronomy.
FRO1 11.479 18 ...as soon as every man...is apprised
that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of
vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a
religion that exalts...
PLT 12.4 2 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of
distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to
those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy, astronomy,
geometry...laws of the world?
PLT 12.5 8 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never
go into a foreign system.
PLT 12.53 3 'T is with us a flash of light, then a
long darkness, then a flash again. Ah, could we turn these fugitive
sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds.
PLT 12.57 25 Peter is the mould into which everything
is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French
revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
II 12.87 20 ...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word.
CInt 12.126 10 Everything will be permitted there [at
Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it geology,
astronomy, poetry...
CL 12.165 25 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy,
are all good, but 't is all a half...
CL 12.165 26 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy,
are all good, but 't is all a half, and-enlarge it by astronomy never
so far-remains a half.
CL 12.166 2 Astronomy is a cold, desert science...
CW 12.170 10 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love
of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the
miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/...
CW 12.176 16 ...it is much better to learn the
elements...of ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a
companion than dully from a book.
Astronomy, n. (2)
PI 8.49 4 Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Hydraulics
and the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
astuteness, n. (1)
asunder, adv. (5)
LE 1.156 22 Men looked, when all feudal straps and
bandages were snapped asunder, that nature...should reimburse itself by
a brood of Titans...
Wsp 6.205 23 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to
Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which
burst asunder.
Imtl 8.351 9 These two, ignorance (whose object is
what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are
known to be far asunder...
Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two
children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by
wide spaces of land and sea...
a-swinging, v. (1)
Carl 10.490 19 They keep Carlyle as a sort of
portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where
he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of
all persons...
Aswins, n. (2)
CL 12.149 3 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins
(Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness
your car!
CL 12.149 4 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins
(Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness
your car!
asylum, n. (10)
Fdsp 2.200 8 If I have shrunk unequal from one
contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I
should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum...
NER 3.264 20 ...it may easily be questioned...whether
such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum
to those who have tried and failed...
Farm 7.138 4 All men keep the farm in reserve as an
asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...
War 11.169 16 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is
looked upon as the asylum of the human race...
Wom 11.417 17 These [literary jokes on Woman] were
all...such satire as might be written on the tenants of a hospital or
on an asylum for idiots.
SHC 11.435 27 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not
displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song
the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the
hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
WSL 12.342 11 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual
life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...
asylums, n. (1)
CInt 12.118 11 Society is always taken by surprise at
any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a
wonderful discovery. Thus...at the introduction of gentleness into
insane asylums...
Ate Dea, n. (1)
ate, v. (15)
Mrs1 3.145 22 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not
wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin
Grout...what his mouth ate, his hand paid for...
UGM 4.3 8 In the legends of the Gautama, the first
men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
ET4 5.47 5 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or
litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches
as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we
care to...copy heedfully the training--what food they ate...
ET8 5.140 7 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony,
that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful
circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more
on account of them, nor ate nor drank but according to his custom.
F 6.45 23 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious
nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...
SS 7.10 20 The king lived and ate in his hall with
men, and understood men, said Selden.
Boks 7.210 4 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer
Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...
PPo 8.236 2 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he
ate, and drank the wind./
Insp 8.270 6 We are very glad that [the aboriginal
man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and
hearing...
Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no
wine, he never knew the use of tobacco;...
LS 11.4 27 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus
did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance
when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
LS 11.9 7 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate
the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed
manner.
Bost 12.192 7 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate
so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.
Athanasian, adj. (1)
Athanasius, n. (1)
atheism, n. (10)
SR 2.64 22 Here are the lungs of that
inspiration...which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism.
NER 3.278 19 The entertainment of the proposition of
depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no
scepticism, no atheism but that.
SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the
extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a
rational agent; it is atheism;...
Wsp 6.201 7 Some of my friends have complained...that
we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong
that he could not answer it.
PerF 10.87 11 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who
said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes
atheism better.
Plu 10.313 6 When you are persuaded in your mind that
you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods
than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid
superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
FSLN 11.228 17 ...if the reporters say true,
[Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
CInt 12.129 3 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...you expose your atheism.
atheist, n. (2)
Tran 1.336 25 I, [Jacobi] says, am that
atheist...who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation,
would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
Imtl 8.330 8 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I
avow that I am not so humble as the atheist; I know not how they think,
but for me, I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against
that of the beatitude of one day.
atheistic, adj. (1)
MoS 4.181 18 Great believers are always reckoned
infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic...
atheists, n. (3)
Imtl 8.340 27 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont]
said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least
but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
Chr2 10.111 3 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the
Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God,-Him whom men serve by justice
and uprightness; but they called themselves atheists.
Athenae Oxonienses [Anthony (2)
Athenaeum, Boston, Massachu (2)
Pow 6.68 15 Men of this surcharge of arterial
blood...cannot satisfy all their wants at the Thursday Lecture or the
Boston Athenaeum.
Bhr 6.174 15 It ought not to need to print in a
reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that
they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect
civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless
in the Athenaeum and City Library.
Athenaeum, London, England, [Athenaeum] (2)
ET7 5.121 16 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot
arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private
friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary
member of the Athenaeum.
ET17 5.292 15 The privileges of the [London]
Athenaeum and of the Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
Athenaeum, Manchester, Engl (1)
ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at
Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual
Banquet...
Athenian, adj. (3)
Wth 6.103 7 A dollar is rated for the corn it will
buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for
Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
Boks 7.199 13 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras,
Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and
suburban landscape.
Athenian, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.257 13 Why should these words, Athenian,
Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?
Athenians, n. (6)
Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest
all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or
Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans...
ET14 5.232 7 [The English]...never are surprised into
a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians...
MoL 10.246 27 There is an oracle current in the
world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of
thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent; as
in the loss of power of thought that followed the disasters of the
Athenians in Sicily.
Schr 10.261 1 The Athenians took an oath, on a
certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the
olive the bounds of Attica.
II 12.79 26 The thoughts which wander through our
mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news,
to our lovers and to all Athenians.
Let 12.399 7 ...this class [of over-educated youth]
is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who,
whilst they regard these young Athenians with suspicion and dislike,
educate their own children in the same courses...
Athenians...more Warlike... (1)
Plu 10.305 17 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen
appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or
Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
Athenians...more...Learned [ (1)
Plu 10.305 17 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen
appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or
Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
Athens, Greece, n. (31)
LE 1.170 21 The moment a man of genius pronounces the
name...of Athens...we see their state under a new aspect.
Hist 2.8 23 ...[each man] must transfer the point of
view from which history is commonly read, from Rome and Athens and
London, to himself...
Hsm1 2.245 21 The Roman Martius has conquered
Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of
Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
Chr1 3.105 20 Care is taken that the greatly-destined
shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to
watch and blazon every new thought...
PPh 4.44 10 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons
in the Academy...
PPh 4.52 26 European civility is...delight...in
comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in
this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of
the detriment of an excess.
PPh 4.71 16 [Socrates] can drink, too; has the
strongest head in Athens;...
PPh 4.71 25 [Socrates]...thought every thing in
Athens a little better than anything in any other place.
PPh 4.73 8 ...under his hypocritical pretence of
knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine
philosophers of Athens...
ET3 5.40 23 I have seen a kratometric chart designed
to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and
by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome
and London.
ET5 5.91 14 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent
ruin of the Greek remains...
Art2 7.56 19 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens
divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
Elo1 7.63 26 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in
Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
Boks 7.201 20 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to
learn our way in the streets of Athens...
Suc 7.286 1 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay
the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
Elo2 8.118 12 It does not surprise us...to learn from
Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of
rhetoric;...
PC 8.220 16 How much more are...the wise and good
souls...Socrates in Athens, the saints in Judea...than the foolish and
sensual millions around them!
Chr2 10.105 9 ...we read with surprise the horror of
Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were
found broken...
Edc1 10.146 16 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct,
in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument,
fifty years older than the Parthenon of Athens...
Edc1 10.149 24 Happy the natural college thus
self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens
around Socrates;...
MoL 10.251 5 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of
Athens...is that they made their own clothes and shoes.
Plu 10.301 27 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm
us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
LLNE 10.331 2 There was an influence on the young
people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that
of Pericles in Athens.
EWI 11.122 24 [The civility] of Athens, again, lay in
an intellect dedicated to beauty.
FSLC 11.212 22 It was the praise of Athens, She could
not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a
little band to defeat those who could.
Wom 11.411 6 ...how should we better measure the gulf
between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our
American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers
of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just
this department of taste or comeliness?
Mem 12.99 14 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could
recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
Bost 12.188 1 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died
without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia. With still more reason,
they praised Athens, the Violet City.
athletic, adj. (6)
SwM 4.105 25 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a
sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
GoW 4.282 17 ...through every clause and part of
speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of
men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic
and nimble...
F 6.12 2 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla
opened in his brain... an athletic frame for wide journeying...
MoL 10.250 25 ...what does the scholar represent? The
organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity,
guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his
economies heroic;...a stoic, formidable, athletic...
Atholl [Athol], Duke of [J (1)
ET11 5.189 4 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland,
Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the
rape-culture...
athwart, adv. (1)
Dem1 10.17 1 This faith...in the particular of lucky
days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the
recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
Atlantean, adj. (1)
UGM 4.15 16 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a
head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders...
Atlantic, adj. (1)
LT 1.260 11 Here is this great fact of Conservatism,
entrenched in its immense redoubt, with...the Atlantic and Pacific seas
for its ditches and trenches;...
Atlantic Ocean, adj. (10)
MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of
Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
YA 1.369 24 We in the Atlantic states, by position,
have been commercial...
Pol1 3.197 18 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues
meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard
boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for
the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at
home./
ET2 5.32 19 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic
ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the
English]...
ET6 5.114 2 The English dinner is precisely the model
on which our own are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
ET14 5.250 19 There is in the action of [James
Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest
waters...
Wth 6.91 6 ...when one observes in the hotels and
palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that
when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity
are frightfully diminished;...
AgMs 12.359 2 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling
for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the
soil...and here he stands, with Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible
still.
Let 12.398 21 ...companies of the best-educated young
men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for
Europe;...
Atlantic Ocean, n. (13)
AmS 1.106 2 The unstable estimates of men crowd to
him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the
Atlantic follow the moon.
YA 1.370 1 ...now that steam has narrowed the
Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and
continental element into the national mind...
SR 2.69 9 Vast spaces of nature, the Atlantic
Ocean...are of no account.
Art1 2.368 25 When its errands are noble and
adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New
England...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
Wth 6.95 15 The world is his who has money to go over
it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and
carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
Elo1 7.77 1 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a
storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled
by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
Supl 10.172 5 ...the gallant skipper...complained to
his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through
his ship on the passage...
Thor 10.479 23 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing
as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond.
CL 12.153 3 The history of the world,-what is it but
the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?
CW 12.171 19 ...I have a problem long waiting for an
engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that
shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles
away.
Bost 12.189 17 The [Massachusetts Bay]
territory...extended...in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Atlantic Sea, n. (1)
Chr1 3.93 6 This immensely stretched trade, which
makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea
his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
Atlantis, n. (1)
PPh 4.61 15 [Plato] has reason, as all the
philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have
not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the
appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities
to the Atlantis.
Atlantis, New, n. (1)
Bost 12.199 26 What should hinder that this
America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have its
happy ports...
Atlas Mountains, n. (1)
LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism,
entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and
Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
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