Autograph to Azure
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
autograph, n. (4)
Exp 3.63 8 A collector recently bought at public
auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an
autograph of Shakspeare;...
MoS 4.163 22 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which
the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare
autograph...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the
fly-leaf.
MoS 4.163 23 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned
out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
autographs, n. (2)
MoS 4.163 15 I heard with pleasure that one of the
newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of
Florio's translation of Montaigne.
automaton, n. (1)
Edc1 10.153 18 A rule is so easy that it does not
need a man to apply it; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a
school so.
autumn, adj. (4)
MR 1.254 19 Have you not seen in the woods, in a late
autumn morning, a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing,
manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
MoS 4.167 10 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like
gray days, and autumn and winter weather.
Bty 6.281 17 We should go to the ornithologist with a
new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they
sit in the autumn council...
MMEm 10.414 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the
early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by
the rich autumn landscape around her...
autumn, n. (6)
LE 1.168 6 ...the fall of swarms of flies, in
autumn...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted
[by poets].
Nat2 3.171 25 There is...the wood-fire to which the
chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of
autumn and of noon.
Wth 6.119 5 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a
hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
Mem 12.104 15 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a
bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
CL 12.151 10 ...the oak and maple are red with the
same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is
ripe.
Autumn, Presiding Spirit of (1)
MMEm 10.421 9 High, solemn, entrancing noon,
prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.
autumnal, adj. (5)
SwM 4.141 7 [The scenery and circumstance of the
newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing
with...the rising and setting of autumnal stars.
MoS 4.167 11 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like
gray days, and autumn and winter weather. I am gray and autumnal
myself...
ET14 5.237 4 The country gentlemen [in England] had a
posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint,
knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...
Milt1 12.258 4 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein
only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...
MLit 12.310 6 I have just been reading poems which
now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
Auvergne, Pierre d', n. (1)
PI 8.60 2 The Crusades brought out the genius of
France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will
sing a new song which resounds in my breast...
auxiliaries, n. (9)
DSA 1.124 18 In so far as [a man] roves from these
[good] ends, he bereaves himself of...auxiliaries;...
Nat2 3.174 8 I do not wonder that the landed interest
should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of
nature].
ShP 4.218 4 ...when the question is, to life and its
materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me?
GoW 4.289 12 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized
time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of
books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this
mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
Wth 6.87 24 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by
tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
EurB 12.374 4 It is implied in all superior culture
that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
avail, n. (5)
Fdsp 2.212 17 Late,--very late,--we perceive
that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to
establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
Wth 6.118 15 A system must be in every economy, or
the best single expedients are of no avail.
Schr 10.284 9 ...the sure months are bringing [the
scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no
lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
Milt1 12.273 21 [Milton] admonished his friend not to
admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
avail, v. (31)
Con 1.316 18 What you say of your...world is true
enough, and I gladly avail myself of its convenience;...
Hist 2.9 8 No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to
keep a fact a fact.
SR 2.86 4 ...nor can all the science, art, religion,
and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men
than Plutarch's heroes...
Lov1 2.181 13 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth
before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids
to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
Fdsp 2.212 7 Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait
until...day and night avail themselves of your lips.
Int 2.344 21 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his
office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also. If he
cannot do that, all his fame shall avail him nothing with me.
Pt1 3.27 23 All men avail themselves of such means as
they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
Mrs1 3.148 7 There must be romance of character, or
the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.
MoS 4.171 22 Every superior mind...will know how to
avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
ET3 5.41 26 ...to make these [commercial] advantages
avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from
the heart of the kingdom...
F 6.36 9 ...where [man's] endeavors do not yet fully
avail, they tell as tendency.
Ill 6.317 11 Men who make themselves felt in the
world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which
they know how to use.
SS 7.12 16 'T is not new facts that avail, but the
heat to dissolve everybody' s facts.
DL 7.116 22 Another age may...make the labors of a
few hours avail to the wants and add to the vigor of the man.
Aris 10.35 11 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob,
nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to
outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
Aris 10.50 23 ...[the public] forgot to ask the
fourth question...without which the others do not avail.
PerF 10.83 27 ...if you wish to avail yourself of
[the world's energies'] might...you must take their divine direction...
Chr2 10.120 11 What would it avail me, if I could
destroy my enemies?
Edc1 10.156 27 No discretion that can be lodged with
a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and
perplexities [in education]...
LLNE 10.365 21 ...in every instance the newcomers [to
Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of
instruction;...
EWI 11.144 26 All the songs and newspapers and money
subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will
avail nothing against a fact.
FSLC 11.211 24 The immense power of rectitude is apt
to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong
[the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They
avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to
endorse the statute.
JBS 11.276 13 And since they could not so avail/ To
check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/
How real is our jail!/
CPL 11.495 10 That town is attractive to its native
citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the
Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment
of a public library.
PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating
aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
MAng1 12.222 9 ...not the most swinish compost of mud
and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us
from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or
surpassing beauty in human clay.
available, adj. (14)
Int 2.335 16 ...to make [the thought] available it
needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.
Chr1 3.95 7 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there
never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot
these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner
overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
NR 3.226 20 When I meet a pure intellectual force or
a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently
mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to
his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
PPh 4.61 7 ...men see in [Plato] their own dreams and
glimpses are made available and made to pass for what they are.
SwM 4.135 3 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a
chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in
education.
Wth 6.95 11 [The rich] include...the Far West and the
old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.
CbW 6.246 20 What we have...to say of life, is rather
description...than available rules.
PC 8.223 25 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass
and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little
creature that walks on the earth!
Chr2 10.110 9 One service which this age has rendered
is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and
available to all.
PLT 12.20 2 There is in Nature a parallel unity which
corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available.
CInt 12.124 21 The necessity of a mechanical system
[of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and
employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual
results;...
available, n. (1)
availableness, n. (1)
Con 1.318 21 ...[the conservative party] goes for
availableness in its candidate, not for worth;...
availably, adv. (1)
availed, v. (9)
LE 1.180 25 ...when all tactics had come to an end
then [Napoleon]... availed himself of the mighty saltations of the most
formidable soldiers in nature.
Pt1 3.11 17 Mankind in good earnest have availed so
far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost
watchman on the peak announces his news.
PPh 4.40 10 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy,
Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon
nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.
ET15 5.267 25 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the
London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by
older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled
views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy
and eloquence to plead the cause.
F 6.33 23 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and
Fulton bethought themselves that where was power...was God; that it
must be availed of, and not by any means let off and wasted.
Ctr 6.141 18 ...though we must not omit any jot of
our system, we can seldom be sure that it has availed much...
FSLN 11.233 10 You relied on the constitution. It has
not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with
provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be
availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing
of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
availing, n. (1)
PLT 12.10 8 ...there is a certain beatitude...to
which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in
every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something
very different has to be done,-the availing ourselves of every impulse
of genius...
availing, v. (1)
ET14 5.260 11 ...the two complexions, or two styles
of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical
finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one
studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful
pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge
for gain;...
avails, v. (17)
SR 2.69 15 Life only avails, not the having lived.
SL 2.149 27 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails
how high, how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners...
SL 2.159 4 Concealment avails [a man] nothing,
boasting nothing.
Int 2.331 20 ...a man explores the basis of civil
government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in
one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing.
Exp 3.52 16 Some modifications the moral sentiment
avails to impose, but the individual texture holds its dominion, if not
to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of
enjoyment.
NER 3.283 10 Pitiless, [the Law] avails itself of our
success when we obey it, and of our ruin when we contravene it.
MoS 4.183 17 This faith avails to the whole emergency
of life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
ET1 5.9 24 The thing done avails [to Landor], and not
what is said about it.
ET4 5.47 23 Race avails much, if that be true which
is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are
Protestants;...
Ill 6.320 8 ...what avails it that science has come
to treat space and time as simply forms of thought...
Ill 6.323 11 At the top or at the bottom of all
illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for
appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is
what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with
fate or fortune.
Aris 10.56 9 Others I meet...who denude and strip one
of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you
have, as much land, as much house-room and dinner, avails.
JBB 11.272 8 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them
as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration?
FRep 11.512 8 The theatre avails itself of the best
talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the
ensemble of dramatic effect.
avalanche, n. (1)
Nat 1.20 23 ...when Arnold Winkelried...under the
shadow of the avalanche, gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears
to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to
add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
avalanches, n. (1)
NMW 4.248 22 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the
most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is
then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches...
avarice, n. (14)
MN 1.191 16 Avarice, hesitation, and following, are
our diseases.
Wth 6.126 24 The true thrift is always to spend on
the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice...
SA 8.95 13 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice,
fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of
Intellect, the king.
SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men,
lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.
SlHr 10.446 19 No person was more keenly alive to the
stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the
commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
War 11.165 24 He who loves the bristle of bayonets
only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is
avarice and hatred;...
WSL 12.341 4 In these busy days of avarice and
ambition...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
Avarice, n. (1)
Pol1 3.197 9 Fear, Craft and Avarice/ Cannot rear a
State./
avenge, v. (1)
Elo1 7.61 21 The eloquence of one [man]
stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and
conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by
increased loquacity on their return to the fireside.
avenged, v. (4)
Comp 2.111 21 ...all unjust accumulations of property
and power, are avenged in the same manner.
SwM 4.131 3 ...though aware that truth is not
solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry,
[Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...and, on all occasions, traduces
and blasphemes it. The violence is instantly avenged.
SwM 4.137 7 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who
avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs;...
ET14 5.250 2 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no
nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic
beauty of the laws of decay.
Avenger, n. (1)
FSLN 11.238 25 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries
and ages, and will tax the faith of short-lived men. Slowly, slowly the
Avenger comes, but comes surely.
avengers, n. (2)
ET7 5.117 5 Nature has endowed some animals with
cunning...but it has provoked the malice of all others, as if avengers
of public wrong.
SMC 11.356 15 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with
rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most
determined avengers.
avenges, v. (1)
aventures, n. (1)
F 6.46 7 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so
parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come,/ And that he warneth
all and some/ Of everiche of hir aventures/...
Avenue, Fifth, New York C (1)
avenue, n. (8)
ET2 5.32 20 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic
ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the
English]...
ET10 5.165 5 An Englishman hears that the Queen
Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod
forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile
to the avenue.
SovE 10.185 23 The believer says to the skeptic:-One
avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal
truth./
SovE 10.185 25 The believer says to the skeptic:-One
avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal
truth./ Humility is the avenue.
FSLC 11.182 6 ...real estate, every kind of wealth,
every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from
the Fugitive Slave Law]...
avenues, n. (9)
NMW 4.224 12 [The democratic class] desires to keep
open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...
ET14 5.241 16 A few generalizations always circulate
in the world... which...appear to be avenues to vast kingdoms of
thought...
MMEm 10.409 6 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over the apartments of social affections...
Wom 11.416 24 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to
education, to avenues of employment...
SHC 11.429 9 Citizens and Friends: The committee to
whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town
[Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit
to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground, now that the
new avenues make its advantages appear;...
II 12.74 18 ...I believe it is true in the experience
of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them,
and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can;
for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by
which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
PPr 12.387 19 The revelation of Reason is this of the
unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective
aspects; that to the cowering it always cowers, to the daring it opens
great avenues.
average, adj. (9)
SR 2.59 8 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient
distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a
more than average delight in accurate perception...
Mrs1 3.121 14 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the
character and faculties universally found in men.
SS 7.6 3 Those constitutions which can bear in open
day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average
structure such as iron and salt...
Boks 7.196 2 ...I know beforehand that
Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect.
Aris 10.64 19 The habit of directing large affairs
generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.
average, n. (4)
Mrs1 3.121 16 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the
character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain
permanent average;...
Wth 6.100 4 The right merchant is one who has the
just average of faculties we call common-sense;...
PPo 8.238 3 Oriental life and society...stand in
violent contrast with...the vast average of comfort of the Western
nations.
averaged, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.232 3 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated
from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and
soils.
averaged, v. (1)
PNR 4.87 22 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the
centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so
modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this
rhythmic structure...
averages, n. (4)
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.
Prch 10.231 3 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual
averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it.
averaging, v. (1)
ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is
540, averaging 200 pounds a year...
avers, v. (1)
ET2 5.30 21 The mate avers that this is the history
of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys;...
aversation, n. (1)
Thor 10.459 16 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English
and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
averse, adj. (5)
Hist 2.16 16 If any one will but take pains to
observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in
certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how
deep is the chain of affinity.
SwM 4.101 12 [Swedenborg] is described, when in
London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit, not averse to tea and
coffee...
Elo1 7.97 14 Men are averse and hostile, to give
value to their suffrages.
LLNE 10.365 24 ...in every instance the newcomers [to
Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of
instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but
they became in that proportion averse to labor...
ACiv 11.301 20 ...there is no one owner of the state,
but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to
each of these to make any change...and those less interested
are...averse to innovation.
aversion, n. (4)
SR 2.56 4 If this aversion had its origin in contempt
and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home
with a sad countenance;...
SwM 4.103 16 Our books are false by being
fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or
pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their
petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
aversions, n. (1)
avert, v. (4)
Lov1 2.173 5 ...who can avert his eyes from the
engaging, half-artful, half-artless ways of school-girls...
NER 3.269 4 We adorn the victim [of education] with
manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners. So have we
cunningly hid the tragedy of limitation and inner death we cannot
avert.
LVB 11.96 11 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray
with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated
power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the
terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
Trag 12.414 6 If any perversity or profligacy break
out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert
the mischief...
averted, v. (1)
FSLC 11.196 19 But worse, not the officials alone are
bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is
solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the
mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet:
no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
avidity, n. (1)
avisions, n. (1)
F 6.46 8 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so
parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come,/ And that he warneth
all and some/ Of everiche of hir aventures,/ By avisions or
figures;/...
avoid, v. (23)
Nat 1.32 20 ...we cannot avoid the question whether
the characters are not significant of themselves.
YA 1.394 17 ...[the English] need all and more than
all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that
country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of
society, and which seem to impose the alternative to resist or to avoid
it.
Int 2.339 20 Is it any better if the student, to
avoid this offence [single-mindedness]... aims to make a mechanical
whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall
within his vision.
Exp 3.65 17 Thy sickness, they say, and thy puny
habit require that thou do this or avoid that...
Chr1 3.112 17 When each the other shall avoid,/ Shall
each by each be most enjoyed./
ET8 5.128 17 [The English]...even if disposed to
recreation, will avoid an open garden.
ET9 5.149 3 Their culture generally enables the
travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this
self-pleasing...
ET14 5.247 10 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly
teaches...that [modern philosophy's] merit is to avoid ideas and avoid
morals.
Cour 7.257 20 Every moment as long as [the child] is
awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning
how to meet and avoid his dangers...
Supl 10.171 2 Men of the world value truth...not by
its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of
diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the
lie if they must comply with the form.
SovE 10.206 18 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on
their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
Plu 10.313 5 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.
MMEm 10.409 1 It is so universal with all classes to
avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
HDC 11.32 27 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes
cut a road for their teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid
hills and swamps.
PLT 12.7 23 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his
tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an
unprofitable companion.
Mem 12.90 20 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the
same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their
senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
Pray 12.351 11 Among the remains of Euripides we have
this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men,
whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their
evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.
EurB 12.378 9 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners, as little polished
as will suffice to avoid castigation...
avoidable, adj. (1)
Mrs1 3.127 8 [Manners] aid our dealing and
conversation as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all
avoidable obstructions of the road...
avoidance, n. (4)
Art1 2.353 8 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work
every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew. The very avoidance
betrays the usage he avoids.
Wsp 6.213 6 The religion of the cultivated class
now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was
once their religion to assume.
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. But this avoidance will yield
spontaneous forms in their due hour.
avoided, v. (5)
MoS 4.153 10 [The men of the senses] believe that
mustard bites the tongue...revolvers are to be avoided...
DL 7.116 16 I see not how...the labor of all, and
every day, is to be avoided;...
QO 8.193 24 Every word in the language has once been
used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is
used again and again, as if the charm belonged to the word and not to
the life of thought which so enforced it. These profane uses, of
course, kill it, and it is avoided.
War 11.151 21 As far as history has preserved to us
the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war
could be avoided...
EPro 11.323 23 The [Civil] war was formidable, but
could not be avoided.
avoiding, v. (8)
NER 3.275 27 ...instead of avoiding these men who
make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him...
MoS 4.156 8 [The skeptic says] I know that human
strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding extremes.
Wsp 6.232 13 It is strange that superior persons
should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera
than avoiding green peas and salads.
Clbs 7.230 20 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding
personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
Dem1 10.16 18 In the popular belief, ghosts are a
selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one.
Thor 10.455 20 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the
present purpose, walking hundreds of miles, avoiding taverns...
avoids, v. (6)
SL 2.148 23 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids
another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
Art1 2.353 8 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work
every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew. The very avoidance
betrays the usage he avoids.
avoirdupois, adj. (2)
PI 8.5 12 I believe this conviction makes the charm
of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic,
without a vestige of the old form;...
avoirdupois, n. (2)
PI 8.53 14 Poetry being an attempt to express, not
the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and
soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
PerF 10.70 10 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks
which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
Avon, Stratford upon, Engla (4)
ShP 4.192 21 At the time when [Shakespeare] left
Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all
dates and writers existed in manuscript...
ShP 4.205 14 About the time when [Shakespeare] was
writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers, in the borough-court at
Stratford, for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to
him at different times;...
ShP 4.207 15 Did Shakspeare confide to
any...sacristan, or surrogate in Stratford, the genesis of that
delicate creation [A Midsummer Nights' Dream]?
avow, v. (3)
Imtl 8.330 7 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.
avowal, n. (5)
Tran 1.336 9 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily
incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the
Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every
written commandment.
SL 2.159 27 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold
the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
Hsm1 2.251 4 [Heroism] is the avowal of the
unschooled man...that his will is higher and more excellent than all
actual and possible antagonists.
ET6 5.106 5 If [an Englishman] give you his private
address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship;...
Bty 6.282 12 However rash and however falsified by
pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine,
the soul's avowal of its large relations...
avowals, n. (1)
avowed, adj. (3)
Nat2 3.191 4 Conversation, character, were the avowed
ends [of wealth];...
MoS 4.163 27 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that
Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with
avowed satisfaction.
avowed, v. (3)
Bhr 6.180 13 How many furtive inclinations avowed by
the eye, though dissembled by the lips!
QO 8.203 24 ...no man suspects the superior merit of
[Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so
much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the
first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet
should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse, as if he
avowed want of insight.
Koss 11.398 26 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win
[from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued
through;...it may be avowed;...
avowedly, adv. (1)
Pol1 3.221 13 I do not call to mind a single human
being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple
ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained
except avowedly as air-pictures.
avows, v. (2)
PI 8.56 12 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse
as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made
on it.
await, v. (10)
Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or
even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite
Counsels?
Hsm1 2.264 2 Who does not sometimes...await with
curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite
nature?
Pt1 3.37 12 Time and nature yield us many gifts, but
not yet the timely man...the reconciler, whom all things await.
ET5 5.89 3 [The English] spend largely on their
fabric, and await the slow return.
Bty 6.288 17 ...the beauty which certain objects have
for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought and acquaints
the prisoner that liberty and power await him.
PI 8.70 7 In a cotillon some persons dance and others
await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
PerF 10.72 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which
hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing
knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
PLT 12.5 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which
hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing
knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
awaited, v. (1)
PC 8.228 18 ...[science] does not surprise the moral
sentiment. That was older, and awaited expectant these larger insights.
awaiting, v. (7)
ET2 5.25 21 ...the proposal [to lecture in England]
offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and
Scotland, by means of a home and a committee of intelligent friends
awaiting me in every town.
ET17 5.291 20 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my
Manchester correspondent awaiting me...
F 6.37 24 [Man's] food is cooked when he
arrives;...his companions arrived...awaiting him with love...
Elo1 7.87 14 ...the horrible shark of the district
attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must
define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
EPro 11.315 15 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in
rare conditions, as if awaiting a culture of the race which shall make
it organic and permanent.
awaits, v. (3)
Lov1 2.183 7 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer
unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which
presides at marriages...
CSC 10.376 17 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of
it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which
accompanies...a man...who...awaits confidently the new emergency for
the new counsel.
awake, adj. (13)
OS 2.279 23 We know truth when we see it, from
opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
NR 3.235 24 I wish to speak with all respect of
persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake and preserve
the due decorum.
MoS 4.169 4 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes
him feel himself and realize things; as we pinch ourselves to know that
we are awake.
DL 7.119 12 Honor to the house where they are simple
to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and
reads the laws of the universe...
Cour 7.257 18 Every moment as long as [the child] is
awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
SA 8.88 9 If the intellect were always awake...the
man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...
Insp 8.285 16 ...the love-filled singers
[nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet
melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my
lately touched bosom/...
Dem1 10.5 16 The very landscape and scenery in a
dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and
encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us
how accurately Nature fits man awake.
Dem1 10.8 20 [Dreams] are the maturation often of
opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we
already possessed the elements. Thus, when awake, I know the character
of Rupert, but do not think what he may do.
AKan 11.262 18 ...the Saxon man, when he is well
awake, is not a pirate but a citizen...
CL 12.163 6 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist]
went up and down to survey his possessions, and passed onward and left
them, before the second owners, as he called them, were awake.
awake, v. (10)
Nat 1.62 26 ...the world is a divine dream, from
which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
Nat 1.71 6 When men are innocent, life...shall pass
into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.
Exp 3.54 27 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth,
or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at
one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles
with this nightmare [of science].
NMW 4.238 19 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his
secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night,
enter my chamber as seldom as possible. Do not awake me when you have
any good news to communicate;...
Cour 7.255 9 The third excellence is courage, the
perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile
armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a
pure flame...
PerF 10.78 1 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...
HDC 11.53 27 Their forefathers, the Indians told
[John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep
sleep, and when they did awake, they quite forgot him.
Milt1 12.264 25 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to
the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning
haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter,
often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
awaked, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.197 1 The oldest and the most deserving person
should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...
awaked, v. (2)
ET8 5.130 10 [The English] are...in all things very
much steeped in their temperament, like men hardly awaked from deep
sleep, which they enjoy.
Dem1 10.4 23 When newly awaked from lively
dreams...give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
awaken, v. (10)
Nat 1.7 19 The stars awaken a certain reverence,
because though always present, they are inaccessible;...
Nat 1.31 27 Long hereafter...these solemn images
shall reappear in their morning lustre, as fit symbols and words of the
thoughts which the passing events shall awaken.
Hist 2.15 18 A particular picture or copy of verses,
if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the
same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
Comp 2.117 23 The indignation which arms itself with
secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely
assailed.
SL 2.153 7 If [writing] awaken you to think...then
the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
ET3 5.37 6 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession
of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing
with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek,
the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard; if only by means of the
very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent
minds.
Dem1 10.6 18 Our thoughts in a stable or in a
menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams. What compassion do these
imprisoning forms awaken!
Chr2 10.98 17 In the ever-returning hour of
reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the
sympathies I can awaken and share...
Edc1 10.132 12 Whilst thus the world exists for the
mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to
the knowledge of this fact.
LS 11.20 7 ...any act or meeting which tends to
awaken a pure thought...an original design of virtue, I call a worthy,
a true commemoration [of Jesus].
awakened, v. (8)
Nat 1.4 1 ...whatever curiosity the order of things
has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
Nat 1.53 1 ...the scents and dyes of flowers
[Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...the suspicion she
has awakened, is her ornament;...
SlHr 10.444 1 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and
touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a
certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our
homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
LVB 11.96 8 I write thus, sir [Van Buren], to inform
you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have awakened here...
HCom 11.341 10 ...in these last years all opinions
have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which
Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the
children of this country,-that slept and have awakened.
MLit 12.328 26 ...we may here set down...the
impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.
awakening, adj. (2)
Boks 7.212 17 ...in this rag-fair neither the
Imagination, the great awakening power, nor the Morals...are addressed.
HCom 11.340 20 Where faith made whole with deed/
Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw
[Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And
all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration
Ode.
awakening, v. (4)
Hist 2.17 7 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
Art1 2.363 24 Art should exhilarate...awakening in
the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the
work evinced in the artist...
ET16 5.282 22 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was
the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in
the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition
of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to
obtain possession of this wise stone.
MAng1 12.241 6 [Michelangelo's] poems themselves
cannot be read without awakening sentiments of virtue.
awakenings, n. (1)
awakens, v. (10)
DSA 1.124 22 The perception of this law of laws
awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious
sentiment...
Hist 2.17 11 ...a profound nature awakens in us by
its actions and words... the same power and beauty that a gallery of
sculpture or of pictures addresses.
Hist 2.34 1 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the
reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
Prd1 2.230 2 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is
the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of
saints who worship the Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression
than the contortions of ten crucified martyrs.
GoW 4.283 18 However excellent [Goethe's] sentence
is, he has somewhat better in view. It awakens my curiosity.
Pow 6.62 11 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew
the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than
they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it
awakens.
Dem1 10.7 12 ...in varieties of our own species where
organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are
sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and
animal]; and sometimes too the sharpwitted prosperous white man awakens
it.
CL 12.163 14 What truth, and what elegance belong to
every fact of Nature, we know. And the study of them awakens the like
truth and elegance in the student.
MAng1 12.226 19 Versatility of talent in men of
undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...
Milt1 12.255 2 ...we think it impossible to recall
one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the
same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in
beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.
awakes, v. (2)
CL 12.147 23 ...the forest awakes in [the man growing
old against his will] the same feeling it did when he was a boy...
awaking, v. (2)
Ctr 6.136 25 ...our talents are as mischievous as if
each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias,
and only when he was now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws
and he awaking to sober perceptions.
award, n. (2)
GoW 4.278 16 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius,
and the just award of the laurel to its toils and denials, have also
reason to complain.
ET12 5.206 22 Whatever luck there may be in this or
that award, an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...
awarded, v. (2)
Supl 10.173 12 ...to the most expressive man that has
existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
AgMs 12.363 19 These [poor farmers] should be holden
up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very
uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these
premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I
describe must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.
awarding, v. (1)
Bhr 6.171 16 Your manners are always under
examination, and by committees little suspected...who are awarding or
denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
aware, adj. (35)
MR 1.231 17 ...it is only necessary to ask a few
questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the
fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and
drink and wear perjury and fraud...
LT 1.288 17 ...where but in that Thought through
which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware
that...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we
learn the Truth?
Tran 1.352 16 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my
faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware that I had
played the fool with fools all this time...
OS 2.270 26 From within or from behind, a light
shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing,
but the light is all.
OS 2.277 14 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal
level in all bosoms...
Chr1 3.115 13 Is there any religion but this, to know
that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish
has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...I am aware, if I alone,
of the greatness of the fact.
NR 3.243 7 ...according to our nature [things and
persons] act on us not at once but in succession, and we are made aware
of their presence one at a time.
UGM 4.30 11 Children think they cannot live without
their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment
has taken place.
SwM 4.130 25 ...though aware that truth is not
solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry,
[Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
ShP 4.198 25 Show us the constituency, and the now
invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their
wishes;...
ET7 5.119 26 Madame de Stael says that the English
irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite
success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her
foreign readers would give to the remark.
Wsp 6.229 22 Physiognomy and phrenology
are...declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources
of information.
Cour 7.271 24 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader,
become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
Comc 8.161 20 We have no deeper interest than...that
we should be made aware by joke and by stroke of any lie we entertain.
Insp 8.271 5 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power
to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual
facts.
SovE 10.185 8 ...presently...[the man down in Nature]
is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good
member of this universe.
Prch 10.233 12 The author...sees the sweep of a more
comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
LLNE 10.326 4 The key to the period [1820 and
following] appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself.
LLNE 10.369 26 ...I am not less aware of that
excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in
science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country
to-day...
HDC 11.60 7 The Indians stole upon [Mary Shepherd]
before she was aware, and her brothers were slain.
EWI 11.138 14 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence
of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
SMC 11.349 6 We are all pretty well aware that the
facts which make to us the interest of this day are in a great degree
personal and local here;...
PLT 12.17 12 ...as man is conscious of the law of
vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which
overhangs his consciousness...
PLT 12.37 25 At a moment in our history the mind's
eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
II 12.83 16 Him we account the fortunate man whose
determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
I am aware that Nature does not always pronounce early on this point.
CL 12.143 14 ...De Quincey prefixes to this
description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has
not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the
magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness
of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits
in this point altered greatly for the better.
Milt1 12.276 12 Like prophets, [Homer and
Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own
utterances.
ACri 12.299 16 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has
sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...
away, adv. (242)
Nat 1.44 6 The granite is differenced in its laws
only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
DSA 1.147 18 ...the instant effect of conversing with
God will be to put [society's easy merits] away.
LE 1.160 14 ...God gave me this crown, and the whole
world shall not take it away.
LE 1.172 19 ...any particular portraiture...when
considered by the soul, warps and shrinks away.
LE 1.172 20 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away
before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
LE 1.173 1 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and
Milton, beside the infinite Reason. It carries them away as a flood.
LE 1.186 25 Make yourself necessary to the world, and
mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property
in all men's possessions...
MN 1.200 16 Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou
in nature the cause?
MN 1.220 26 And what is to replace for us the piety
of that race [the Puritans]? We cannot have theirs; it glides away from
us day by day;...
MN 1.222 17 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph,
calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
MR 1.238 21 What [a man] gets only as fast as he
wants for his own ends, does not...take away his sleep with looking
after.
LT 1.263 27 ...there is [no fact] that will not
change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the
person which the fact in question represents.
LT 1.283 12 ...the current literature and poetry with
perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
Con 1.305 9 ...you are under the necessity...to live
by [the Actual order of things], whilst you wish to take away its life.
Con 1.316 27 ...the gravity and sense of some slave
Moses who leads away his fellow slaves from their masters;...sufficed
to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the
sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Con 1.317 16 Rich and fine is your dress, O
conservatism!...but every one of these goods steals away a drop of my
blood.
Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with
it...
Tran 1.332 17 One thing at least, [the materialist]
says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again
to-morrow;-but for these thoughts, I know not whence they are. They
change and pass away.
Tran 1.342 8 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk
the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away
without leaving its mark.
Tran 1.342 9 ...whoso knows...these talkers who talk
the sun and moon away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away
without leaving its mark.
Hist 2.11 8 All inquiry into antiquity...is the
desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
Hist 2.26 20 I admire the love of nature in the
Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks,
mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
SR 2.66 6 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a
divine wisdom, old things pass away...
SR 2.81 17 He who travels...to get somewhat which he
does not carry, travels away from himself...
SR 2.87 21 Men have looked away from themselves and
at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned
and civil institutions as guards of property...
SR 2.88 8 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what
he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels
that...it...merely lies there because...no robber takes it away.
Comp 2.113 27 Beware of too much good staying in your
hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some
sort.
Comp 2.122 25 Material good...if it came without
desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it
away.
SL 2.141 2 [Each man] is like a ship in a river; he
runs against obstructions on every side but one, on that side all
obstruction is taken away...
Lov1 2.179 22 What else did Jean Paul Richter
signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of
things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not
find.
Fdsp 2.216 16 If [your companion] is unequal, he will
presently pass away;...
OS 2.272 2 ...as there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall
in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
The walls are taken away.
OS 2.273 20 Before the revelations of the soul, Time,
Space and Nature shrink away.
OS 2.280 8 To the bad thought which I find in [the
book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and
lops it away.
OS 2.293 11 [God's presence] inspires in man an
infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is
overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all
cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its
flood.
Int 2.328 24 We do not determine what we will think.
We only...clear away as we can all obstruction from the fact, and
suffer the intellect to see.
Int 2.329 8 As far as we can recall these ecstasies
[of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
Pt1 3.23 14 ...when the soul of the poet has come to
ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems
or songs...
Pt1 3.32 11 If a man is inflamed and carried away by
his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments
and histories and criticism.
Pt1 3.37 25 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same
foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and
are as swiftly passing away.
Exp 3.49 7 ...something which I fancied was a part of
me, which could not be torn away without tearing me...falls off from me
and leaves no scar.
Exp 3.65 7 Right to hold land, right of property, is
disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
Exp 3.82 5 In this our talking America we are ruined
by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes
away the power of being greatly useful.
Nat2 3.172 4 The blue zenith is the point in which
romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all
that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would
remain of our furniture.
NR 3.247 27 How sincere and confidential we can be,
saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is
yet unsaid...
NER 3.263 1 ...the street is as false as the church,
and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have
not got away from the lie.
NER 3.277 12 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to
be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present
fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom
may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
UGM 4.34 1 The genius of humanity is the right point
of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have
now more, now less, and pass away;...
PPh 4.71 17 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after
leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had
happened...
SwM 4.125 24 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived
themselves of charity, wander and flee: the societies which they
approach discover their quality and drive them away.
SwM 4.134 3 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle
seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and
with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to
believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome
and eloquence have ebbed away...
SwM 4.136 7 Of all absurdities, this of some
foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his
own...seems the most needless.
ShP 4.200 25 The translation of Plutarch gets its
excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time
when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are
kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
NMW 4.257 12 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's]
vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe? It came to no
result. All passed away like the smoke of his artillery...
GoW 4.263 25 A new thought or a crisis of passion
apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is
exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does
he throw away the pen?
GoW 4.270 12 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is
Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the
reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual
works of the period.
GoW 4.277 5 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in
every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over
the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and
terror by every thing he added and by every thing he took away.
ET1 5.9 14 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me
that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
ET4 5.48 15 Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away
the old traits.
ET4 5.68 20 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John
Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for
he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that
tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito.
ET5 5.97 9 The last Reform-bill [in England] took
away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
ET5 5.98 3 For the administration of justice [in
England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of
business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from
his court.
ET8 5.131 13 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an
invincible stoutness: they have extreme difficulty to run away...
ET8 5.132 25 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and
send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering
Bramins;...
ET9 5.148 8 [This little superfluity of self-regard
in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
ET10 5.155 3 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the
higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was
not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from
those who might deprave them.
ET10 5.158 26 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt
[in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these
interruptions [of labor]...
ET10 5.168 11 The machinery has proved, like the
balloon, unmanageable, and flies away with the aeronaut.
ET13 5.220 19 The spirit that dwelt in this [English]
church has glided away to animate other activities...
ET14 5.254 26 ...having attempted to domesticate and
dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the
English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will
sweep their system away.
ET15 5.261 22 No antique privilege, no comfortable
monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are
familiarized with the reason of reform, and, one by one, take away
every argument of the obstructives.
ET15 5.265 5 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small
share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he
said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from
this office when you will;...
ET16 5.275 5 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle
complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the
English, and run away to France and go with their countrymen and are
amused...
ET16 5.288 24 There, in that great sloven continent
[America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long
since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden
of England.
ET18 5.308 8 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged
should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous
for immortal laws...
F 6.33 20 Every pot made by any human potter or
brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he
should...carry the house away.
Pow 6.72 24 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the
Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres,
red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and
having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders,
and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.
Wth 6.83 2 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away
in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and
suns?/
Wth 6.88 11 ...[nature]...takes away warmth,
laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way
to his own loaf.
Wth 6.117 17 In England...I was assured...that great
lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
Wth 6.119 21 [A farm] requires as much watching as if
you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with
it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it
all leaks away.
Ctr 6.134 22 He only is a well-made man who has a
good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all
impediment and mixture...
Ctr 6.136 21 ...our talents are as mischievous as if
each had been seized upon by some bird of prey which had whisked him
away from fortune, from truth...
Bhr 6.178 1 A cow can bid her calf, by secret
signal...to run away...
Bhr 6.180 14 One comes away from a company in which,
it may easily happen, he has said nothing...
Bhr 6.193 8 In all the superior people I have met I
notice directness, truth spoken more truly, as if everything of
obstruction, of malformation, had been trained away.
Wsp 6.210 6 What [proof of infidelity], like the
externality of churches that...now have perished away till they are a
speck of whitewash on the wall?
Wsp 6.211 12 If a pickpocket intrude into the society
of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have, and he finds
himself uncomfortable and glad to get away.
Wsp 6.217 24 The bias of errors of principle carries
away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control
their passion or talent.
Wsp 6.238 21 The race of mankind have always offered
at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the
terror of its being taken away;...
CbW 6.250 4 What a vicious practice is this of our
politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong
going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going
away;...
CbW 6.250 5 What a vicious practice is this of our
politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong
going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going
away;...
CbW 6.268 19 ...there is a great dearth, this year,
of friends;...they are just going away;...
CbW 6.270 9 ...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,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is
forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the
vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
Bty 6.291 26 In the midst of...a festal procession
gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on
the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most
elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated
procession by this startling beauty.
Bty 6.305 21 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase
of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his
approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...
Ill 6.316 1 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck
away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women]
live.
SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such
great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into
the back stars...
Civ 7.17 1 We flee away from cities, but we bring/
The best of cities with us/...
Civ 7.20 11 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,--childish illusions passing daily away...is made
by tribes.
Civ 7.22 20 There was once a giantess who had a
daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then
she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort
of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother
said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these
people will dwell in it.
Elo1 7.70 4 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer
fast; steals away his feet, that he shall not depart;...
Elo1 7.74 1 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in
Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place
with opium and brandy.
Elo1 7.77 23 ...any swindlers we have known are
novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power
of face would...with the rest of their takings, take away the bad name.
Elo1 7.83 27 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which
overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite
lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the
impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.
Elo1 7.87 12 ...all this flood not serving the
cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney
being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
Elo1 7.90 10 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the
memory, which carries away the image and never loses it.
Elo1 7.91 10 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have
an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator. His
talents are too much for him, his horses run away with him;...
Elo1 7.91 17 ...we...might well go round the world,
to see a man who drives, and is not run away with,--a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas...
Elo1 7.91 27 There is for every man a statement
possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a
statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away
from it...
DL 7.124 21 I have seen finely endowed men at college
festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
Farm 7.141 11 He who...so much as puts a stone seat
by the wayside... makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with
him...
WD 7.168 16 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days]
bring, they carry them as silently away.
WD 7.175 9 ...that flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou
heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek
in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor,
Egypt and England.
Cour 7.258 15 ...I remember when a pair of Irish
girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said
that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not
see the horse.
Cour 7.258 21 Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we
cannot see the horse that is running away with us;...
Cour 7.262 8 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of
an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied
Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to
attack...I was ready to faint away.
Cour 7.263 23 The terrific chances which make the
hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away
by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
Cour 7.279 22 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor
yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved
away./
Suc 7.305 20 An Englishman of marked character and
talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a
library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible
interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away.
PI 8.5 16 I believe this conviction makes the charm
of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic,
without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not
less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away
from its old into new form...
PI 8.34 3 No matter what [your subject] is...if it
has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart
of it...
PI 8.62 19 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be
borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak
with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it; for you
yourself, when you have turned away, will never be able to find the
place...
SA 8.96 10 Let our eyes not look away, but meet.
SA 8.97 27 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance
cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go
away hollow and ashamed.
PC 8.227 1 There is anything but humiliation in the
homage men pay to a great man; it is...the expression of their hope of
what they shall become when the obstructions of their mal-formation and
mal-education shall be trained away.
PC 8.228 13 Science...sweeps away, with every new
perception, our infantile catechisms...
PPo 8.247 2 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the
Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./
Grts 8.305 17 ...there is the boy who is born with a
taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his
father's house to the forecastle;...
Grts 8.309 27 As [the Quakers] express
[self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey
or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind
that I cannot account for. Very well,-I let it lie, thinking it may
pass away, but if it do not pass away I yield to it, obey it.
Grts 8.315 17 How many men, detested in contemporary
hostile history, of whom, now that the mists have rolled away, we have
learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
Imtl 8.338 11 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing
the angel who beckons me away...
Aris 10.38 23 These distinctions [in men] exist,
and...not to be talked or voted away.
Aris 10.54 1 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain
come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round
him...interested the whole village...in his facts; the iron boundary
lines had all faded away;...
Chr2 10.98 22 If all things are taken away, I have
still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
Chr2 10.108 18 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that,
in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and
rested in morals.
Chr2 10.112 14 In England, the gentlemen, the
journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away
from the Anglican Church.
Chr2 10.115 9 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration
of him runs away with their reverence for the human soul...
Chr2 10.120 22 Ke Kang, distressed about the number
of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with
them.
Edc1 10.131 21 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is
at last to import, fetching away moon, and planet...by comprehending
their relation and law.
Edc1 10.141 27 ...the way to knowledge and power has
ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial
and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken
away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
Edc1 10.145 25 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on
the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes scraped away
the dirt...
Edc1 10.155 12 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the
river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away...
Edc1 10.158 8 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from
his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is
inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the
medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the
brave rescuer.
SovE 10.201 9 ...up comes a man with...a knotty
sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of
your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it. You say: Cut away;
my tree is Ygdrasil-the tree of life.
SovE 10.201 27 It is a necessity of the human mind
that he who looks at one object should look away from all other
objects.
Prch 10.222 9 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you
take away the purpose that animates him.
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...
Schr 10.286 24 Dissuade all you can from the lists
[of scholarship]. Sift the wheat, frighten away the lighter souls.
Plu 10.302 1 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us
away from the disgust of the passing hour.
Plu 10.316 24 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who,
when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take
away the nourishment they had given...
EzRy 10.395 17 ...in his old age, when all the
antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra
Ripley] too should depart...
MMEm 10.423 18 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson]
of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier,
tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a
bed and wished away?
MMEm 10.429 13 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious
indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool,
sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet. Away with
knowledge;-God alone.
MMEm 10.429 21 O dear worms,-how they will at some
sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the
science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it.
MMEm 10.430 1 If one could choose, and without crime
be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away
by age without mentality or devotion?
SlHr 10.447 15 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those
formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of
the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing
away...
SlHr 10.448 8 ...I have heard that the only verse
that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When
the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
Thor 10.454 25 A fine house, dress, the manners and
talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
Thor 10.465 19 There was nothing so important to
[Thoreau] as his walk; he had no walks to throw away on company.
Carl 10.497 2 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for
in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with
his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who
believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
LS 11.18 6 ...I believe...that every effort to pay
religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right
ideas.
HDC 11.40 16 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said]
if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable
people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel, and suffer
not this crown to be taken away from us.
HDC 11.52 15 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you
have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher
sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your
kettles and your wampum...
HDC 11.52 20 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you
have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher
sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your
kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded. But you may
see the English...instead of taking away, are ready to give to you.
HDC 11.63 25 ...nothing would satisfy [the country
people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put
in a more secure place, and that they would see done before they went
away;...
War 11.164 2 It is really a thought that built this
portentous war-establishment, and a thought shall also melt it away.
War 11.167 5 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness; passion has passed away from him;...
War 11.173 10 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in
their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word,
peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that
principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.
FSLC 11.188 2 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave
Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of
being shot...to get away from his driver...
FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a
week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once
and forever out of the world.
FSLN 11.229 15 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law]
showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation,
our bellies had run away with our brains...
FSLN 11.235 20 Everything may be taken away; he may
be poor, he may be houseless, yet [the self-reliant man] will know out
of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.
FSLN 11.237 18 ...as well-doing makes power and
wisdom, ill-doing takes them away.
FSLN 11.237 21 A man who steals another man's labor
steals away his own faculties; his integrity, his humanity is flowing
away from him.
FSLN 11.237 25 The habit of oppression cuts out the
moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as
before, its sanity is gradually destroyed. It takes away the
presentiments.
FSLN 11.244 23 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many
members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join
it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at
last, the slave states will join it. But...whoever comes or stays away,
I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
JBB 11.268 23 [John Brown] believes in two
articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the
Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in
conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of
men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that
one word of either should be violated in this country.
JBB 11.272 27 ...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...
TPar 11.290 23 [Theodore Parker] took away the
reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the
indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these
outrages were done, the stern protest.
ALin 11.336 3 ...who does not see, even in this
tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of
the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far
happier this fate than to have lived to be wished away;...
SMC 11.360 5 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains
and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched
away from their families and their business...
SMC 11.362 16 One day [George Prescott] writes, I
expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point
who drills us. He is very profane, and I will not stand it. If he does
not stop it, I will march my men right away when he is drilling them.
SHC 11.436 7 I have heard that death takes us away
from ill things, not from good.
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!
Humb 11.458 9 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain
and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain
system...
CPL 11.498 17 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to
number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the
poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot
excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we
come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people
under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to excel, and suffer not this
crown to be taken away from us.
CPL 11.506 9 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over
mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of
the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the
confines of Egypt.
FRep 11.519 18 We have seen the great party of
property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering
away...every principle of humanity...
FRep 11.520 4 Our politics are full of adventurers,
who...break away from the law of honesty...
FRep 11.521 25 The American marches with a careless
swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can
have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human
race...gambling them all away for a paltry selfish gain.
FRep 11.523 4 [Americans] stay away from the polls,
saying that one vote can go no good!
FRep 11.523 14 ...if [Americans] should come to be
interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay
away from the election than from their own counting-room...
PLT 12.8 25 ...if you like to run away from this
besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism
by running into society...
PLT 12.29 23 ...every man is furnished, if he will
heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat,-if he will not
look away from his own to see how his neighbor steers his.
PLT 12.47 19 Sometimes the patience and love [of
intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last
opened; but sometimes they pass away dumb, to find it where all
obstruction is removed.
II 12.86 22 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
CInt 12.126 20 ...all the youth come out [of Harvard
College] decrepit citizens; not a prophet, not a poet, not a daimon,
but is gagged and stifled or driven away.
CW 12.171 20 ...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.
MAng1 12.228 27 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say,
Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when
the scaffolding is taken away.
MAng1 12.229 26 In the church called the Minerva, at
Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the
people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to
prevent it from being kissed away.
MLit 12.314 27 The great man, even whilst he relates
a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to
an universal experience.
Pray 12.351 22 Wacic the Caliph...ended his
life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity
one whose dignity is so transient.
Let 12.400 3 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field,
where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the
life-blood runs away into the sand?
awe, n. (35)
Nat 1.51 17 Hence arises a pleasure mixed with
awe;...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is
hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
AmS 1.92 4 There is some awe mixed with the joy of
our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own
soul...
DSA 1.141 9 What life the public worship retains, it
owes to the scattered company of pious
men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine
impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe...
LE 1.158 13 [The scholar] cannot know [his resources]
until he has beheld with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the
intellectual power.
MN 1.219 27 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and
dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the
chain of events.
LT 1.279 9 With so much awe, with so much fear let
[the sanctuary of the heart] be respected.
Tran 1.347 3 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in
this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without
end, then are they terrible friends, whereof poet and priest cannot
choose but stand in awe;...
Comp 2.112 9 The terror of cloudless noon...the awe
of prosperity...are the tremblings of the balance of justice through
the heart and mind of man.
SL 2.145 18 All the terrors of the French Republic,
which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
OS 2.281 8 Every distinct apprehension of this
central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
OS 2.282 18 The rapture of the Moravian and
Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of
that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always
mingles with the universal soul.
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.
Pt1 3.36 9 There was this perception in [Swedenborg]
which makes the poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
Pt1 3.42 22 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and
love,--there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
ET12 5.203 23 On proceeding afterwards to examine his
purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his
Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of
his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for
the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the
reunited parts to be re-bound.
ET15 5.268 19 ...by making the paper everything and
those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal
[the London Times] gain.
Grts 8.308 12 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It
seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
Chr2 10.119 27 Whenever the sublimities of character
shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and
insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
Supl 10.173 2 The arithmetic of Newton...the
inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in
every company of men.
SovE 10.198 27 While the immense energy of the
sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable
influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
SovE 10.199 3 While the immense energy of the
sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable
influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and the tradition
received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
Plu 10.306 19 The central fact is the superhuman
intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be received
with religious awe...
Plu 10.307 2 ...we expect this awe and reverence of
the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet...
MMEm 10.417 1 If more liberal views of the divine
government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which
carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing
and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
HDC 11.45 9 ...[the settlers of Concord] stood in awe
of each other, as religious men.
PLT 12.53 6 I must think...this thrill of awe with
which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness
to exert the like power.
Bost 12.192 18 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts
colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which
every new object was magnified.
Bost 12.193 17 [The Massachusetts colonists] read
Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and
delight...
MLit 12.320 22 The Excursion awakened in every lover
of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine, we felt the awe of
mountains...
awed, v. (3)
Elo1 7.66 21 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now
listens, and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the
understanding are all silenced and awed.
MMEm 10.412 20 ...in dead of night, nearer morning,
when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with...a lustre which
penetrates the spirit with wonder and curiosity,-then, however awed,
who can fear?
awe-struck, adj. (1)
SwM 4.142 23 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with
the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
awful, adj. (16)
Nat 1.60 20 ...[the soul] accepts from God the
phenomenon [Christianity]... as the pure and awful form of religion in
the world.
Hist 2.16 7 There are men whose manners have the same
essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of
the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
Lov1 2.186 1 Not always can...even home in another
heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
SwM 4.136 23 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest
symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs
resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
Bty 6.283 13 We do not think heroes can exert any
more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
Dem1 10.27 12 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the
unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
FSLC 11.178 3 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily
wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
ALin 11.329 22 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the
coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets
forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent,
and suffer the awful voices of the time to thunder to us.
SMC 11.372 16 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the
command;...
PLT 12.35 17 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the
approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born
child to the breast. There is somewhat awful in that first approach.
Mem 12.106 5 Talk of memory and cite me these fine
examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that
power...
MLit 12.315 16 The great lead us...in our age to
metaphysical Nature, to the invisible awful facts...
awhile, adv. (1)
awkward, adj. (15)
Prd1 2.225 24 ...an affair to be transacted with a
man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an
injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
Int 2.345 2 ...whosoever propounds to you a
philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of
things in your consciousness...
Mrs1 3.150 9 A certain awkward consciousness of
inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of
Woman's Rights.
Pol1 3.213 9 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor
to make application of to...the protection of life and property. Their
first endeavors, no doubt, are very awkward.
Pol1 3.213 14 The wise man [the community] cannot
find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his
government by contrivance;...
Civ 7.27 14 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder
with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam. How awkward!...
Elo1 7.72 21 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and
stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward, but held it
still, like an awkward person, you would say it was some angry or
foolish man;...
Suc 7.310 23 Which of [the most sanguine] has
not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study...
TPar 11.284 7 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands,
looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward,
not graceful at least;/...
FRep 11.527 2 ...here that same great body [of the
people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man awkward and restless
if he have not something to do...
Bost 12.197 13 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall
not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit
of society can bestow;...
awkwardly, adv. (1)
Chr1 3.90 25 Man, ordinarily...only half attached,
and that awkwardly, to the world he lives in, in these examples [of men
of character] appears to share the life of things...
awkwardness, n. (6)
Int 2.337 23 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw
[in unconscious states] has no awkwardness or inexperience...
Ctr 6.160 2 When our higher faculties are in
activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and
agreeable movements.
Ctr 6.160 12 I have heard that stiff people lose
something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious
halls.
SS 7.5 15 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but
awkwardness has no forgiveness...
awning, n. (1)
HDC 11.29 18 Who can tell how many thousand years,
every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple
awning?
awoke, v. (6)
DSA 1.149 15 ...then, when the dead began to fall in
ranks around him, awoke [Massena's] powers of combination...
ET13 5.216 7 [The priest...translated the sanctities
of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a
certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races. Man
awoke refreshed by the sleep of ages.
HDC 11.51 24 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached
his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban,
Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart
heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
MLit 12.312 20 The poetry and speculation of the age
are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from
the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...What music
a sunbeam awoke in the groves...
axe, n. (19)
AmS 1.94 9 There goes in the world a notion that the
scholar should be...as unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a
penknife for an axe.
Hist 2.25 7 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an
axe, began to split wood;...
Hsm1 2.262 9 [Culture] will not now run against an
axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
GoW 4.289 20 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as
being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally
set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and
for all time.
ET14 5.233 5 [The Englishman] loves the axe, the
spade, the oar, the gun, the steam-pipe;...
Pow 6.68 3 ...the energy for originating and
executing work deforms itself by excess, and so our axe chops off our
own fingers...
Wth 6.85 19 Wealth has its source in applications of
the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the
last secrets of art.
SS 7.1 5 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a
rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/
Or gleam which use can paint on steel/...
Civ 7.27 17 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground,
dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the
force of gravity brings down the axe;...
Art2 7.42 23 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves
in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the
spade or the axe we wield.
Art2 7.49 6 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar.
DL 7.117 11 ...our social forms are very far from
truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is
to raise our aim.
WD 7.157 22 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an
Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a
wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log,
are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can
expose];...
Cour 7.274 8 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe
of the tyrant...
SovE 10.201 7 ...up comes a man with...a knotty
sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of
your tree.
HDC 11.62 14 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is
o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the
wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale
man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their
floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
ALin 11.335 22 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which
in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved
under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm
to the picture.
axes, n. (2)
ET6 5.104 21 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which
results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the
axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the
trunk.
axiom, n. (1)
axiomatic, adj. (1)
PLT 12.55 8 The natural remedy against...this
desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for
sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws
which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a
little too true.
axioms, n. (2)
ET14 5.240 6 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to
ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or
prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations
and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts
of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
axis, n. (15)
Nat 1.28 17 The motion of the earth round its axis
and round the sun, makes the day and the year.
Nat 1.52 2 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea,
makes them revolve around the axis of his primary thought...
YA 1.372 16 The sphere is flattened at the poles and
swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the
protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis
of the earth.
SR 2.81 1 They who made...Greece, venerable in the
imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of
the earth.
Exp 3.81 11 We must hold hard to this poverty...and
by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess
our axis more firmly.
Nat2 3.182 25 The smoothest curled courtier in the
boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh
mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.
NR 3.245 27 ...our earth, whilst it spins on its own
axis, spins all the time around the sun...
SwM 4.117 19 ...[Correspondence] required such
rightness of position that the poles of the eye should coincide with
the axis of the world.
GoW 4.264 15 ...nature has more splendid endowments
for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of
scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order,
and so to supply the axis on which the frame of things turns.
ET5 5.83 19 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the
English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the
poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the
world.
ET5 5.83 20 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the
English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the
poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the
world.
SA 8.96 27 When Molyneux fancied that the
observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's
theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
axle, n. (1)
axles, n. (2)
SwM 4.112 7 [Swedenborg] saw nature wreathing through
an everlasting spiral, with wheels that never dry, on axles that never
creak...
ay, adv. (1)
Aris 10.29 14 Take fire and beare it into the derkest
hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the
dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As
twenty thousand men might it behold;/ His office natural ay wol it
hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./
azonic, adj. (1)
Boks 7.203 7 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and
pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men, of the azonic
and the aquatic gods...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
azote, n. (5)
Nat 1.49 9 It is the uniform effect of culture on the
human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular
phenomena, as of...azote;...
PNR 4.85 2 [Plato] saw...that the world was
throughout mathematical; the proportions are constant of oxygen, azote
and lime;...
Wsp 6.204 6 Nature has self-poise in all her works;
certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine...
Farm 7.145 26 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a
perpetual tempering... atmospheres of azote...to check the fury of the
conflagration;...
Schr 10.276 13 There is plenty of wild azote and
carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into
loaves and soup.
azure, adj. (4)
Res 8.135 2 Go where he will, the wise man is at
home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
PPo 8.253 18 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The
songs I sung, the pearls I bored./
War 11.149 2 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but
unto Victory born./
azure, n. (1)
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