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.

    Boks 7.209 16 For an autograph of Shakspeare one hundred and fifty-five guineas were given.

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.

    ShP 4.196 7 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII]...are like autographs.

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].

    Con 1.298 21 ...in autumn and winter we stand by the old;...

    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;...

    Pt1 3.28 5 These [stimulants] are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man...

    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;...

    Bhr 6.181 14 A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

    CbW 6.247 26 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him...

    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.

    Ctr 6.144 15 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little 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)

    AmS 1.93 26 Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing.

    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...

    SL 2.150 8 ...the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us;...

    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.

    PPh 4.75 19 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...

    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.

    Wth 6.89 6 He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.

    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.

    Dem1 10.18 21 All united moral powers avail nothing against [demonic individuals].

    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)

    LT 1.266 8 ...how many [men] seem not quite available for that idea which they represent?

    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.

    LLNE 10.331 27 ...all [Everett's] learning was available for purposes of the hour.

    FRep 11.518 19 We do not choose our own candidate...only the available candidate...

    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)

    FRep 11.518 22 We...grope after the practicable and available.

availableness, n. (1)

    Con 1.318 21 ...[the conservative party] goes for availableness in its candidate, not for worth;...

availably, adv. (1)

    Tran 1.348 16 ...genius is the power to labor better and more availably.

availed, v. (9)

    LE 1.155 13 Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me...

    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.

    ET12 5.199 9 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford...

    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)

    Con 1.299 11 Conservatism...believes...that for me it avails not to trust in principles...

    SR 2.69 15 Life only avails, not the having lived.

    SL 2.149 19 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind...

    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.

    OS 2.279 9 In my dealing with my child...as much soul as I have avails.

    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)

    AmS 1.114 13 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.

    MN 1.191 16 Avarice, hesitation, and following, are our diseases.

    Pt1 3.5 16 In love...in avarice...we study to utter our painful secret.

    F 6.41 23 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...fretting and avarice.

    Wth 6.126 24 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice...

    Wsp 6.231 6 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward?

    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.

    Schr 10.273 4 The labor of ambition and avarice will appear fumbling beside [the scholar's].

    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].

    EWI 11.118 2 ...[slavery] is not founded solely on the avarice of the planter.

    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;...

    CL 12.135 15 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...

    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)

    SwM 4.121 16 Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves.

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)

    CbW 6.260 24 A Fifth Avenue landlord...is not the highest style of man;...

avenue, n. (8)

    NMW 4.224 11 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all...

    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]...

    CL 12.147 27 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood;...

    CW 12.175 21 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;...

avenues, n. (9)

    OS 2.286 13 Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open...

    OS 2.286 15 ...thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

    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.

    Mrs1 3.139 3 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense...

    PPh 4.61 4 [Plato] is a great average man;...

    ET12 5.208 25 [An English gentleman] must have average opulence...

    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;...

    NR 3.244 20 What is best in each kind is an index of what should be the average of that thing.

    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)

    MoS 4.161 3 We are golden averages...

    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.

    FRep 11.512 12 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages;...

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 2.50 5 Self-reliance is [society's] aversion.

    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;...

    Exp 3.77 3 ...the longest love or aversion has a speedy term.

    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)

    SR 2.73 12 I will not hide my tastes or aversions.

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)

    Milt1 12.248 22 [Milton's] prose writings...seem to have been read with avidity.

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.

    SR 2.49 16 Who can thus avoid all pledges...must always be formidable.

    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./

    ET6 5.112 19 [The English] avoid every thing marked.

    ET6 5.112 27 [The English] avoid pretension and go right to the heart of the thing.

    ET8 5.128 17 [The English]...even if disposed to recreation, will avoid an open garden.

    ET8 5.130 3 ...the [English] gentry avoid the taverns...

    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...

    SA 8.86 10 'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

    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)

    MN 1.215 18 You shall love rectitude...and not...the avoidance of trade;...

    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)

    DSA 1.144 24 All men go in flocks...avoiding the God who seeth in secret.

    Prd1 2.221 3 My prudence consists in avoiding and going without...

    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.

    ET7 5.118 25 An Englishman...avoids the superlative...

    Ctr 6.150 19 ...[the man of the world]...avoids all brag...

    Grts 8.304 6 A sensible man...avoids introducing the names of his creditable companions...

    PLT 12.14 15 The poet sees wholes and avoids analysis;...

avoirdupois, adj. (2)

    F 6.14 2 Probably the election goes by avoirdupois weight...

    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 9 It appears...that [Shakespeare] lived in the best house in Stratford;...

    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)

    LT 1.264 22 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow...

    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.

    AKan 11.255 19 The printed letters of border ruffians avow the facts.

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)

    Lov1 2.185 5 The lovers delight...in avowals of love...

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.

    PC 8.233 13 ...I draw new hope...from the avowed aims and tendencies of the educated class.

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)

    LE 1.171 9 ...[French Eclecticism] avows great pretensions.

    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.

    Ctr 6.129 2 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/

    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.

    Chr2 10.113 15 No man can tell what religious revolutions await us in the next years;...

    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 6.32 22 ...the ductility of metals...the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.

    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.

    Insp 8.286 21 ...in our good days a well-ordered mind has a new thought awaiting it every morning.

    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...

    F 6.1 13 ...the foresight that awaits/ Is the same Genius that creates./

    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.

    Dem1 10.20 7 There is one world common to all who are awake...

    AKan 11.262 18 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen...

    Mem 12.106 27 ...we remember best...when we are thoroughly awake.

    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].

    Exp 3.62 10 In the morning I awake and find the old world...not far off.

    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...

    Suc 7.310 5 To awake in man and to raise the sense of worth...that is the only aim.

    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;...

    Plu 10.295 5 In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.

    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 12.320 20 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling.

    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)

    Nat 1.50 8 The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers...

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)

    Cour 7.272 3 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

    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)

    NER 3.266 19 The world is awaking to the idea of union...

    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)

    Nat 1.52 22 We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative...

    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 1.279 13 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them...

    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 6.217 17 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease...

    Wsp 6.229 22 Physiognomy and phrenology are...declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources of information.

    Bty 6.286 5 ...we are aware of a perfect law in nature...

    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.

    Imtl 8.328 4 ...we are all aware of a revolution in opinion [concerning immortality].

    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.

    Mem 12.94 2 On seeing a face I am aware that I have seen it before...

    Mem 12.94 5 On hearing a fact told I am aware that I knew it already.

    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.

    Nat 1.53 17 Take those lips away/ Which so sweetly were forsworn;/...

    Nat 1.65 11 The fox and the deer run away from us;...

    DSA 1.142 22 ...[the Puritans'] creed is passing 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 1.209 9 ...the tools run away with the workman...

    MN 1.209 26 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is borne away as with a flood...

    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.

    OS 2.295 23 Before the immense possibilities of man...all past biography... shrinks away.

    Cir 2.302 9 The Greek sculpture is all melted away...

    Cir 2.317 2 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...

    Cir 2.320 21 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge...

    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...

    Art1 2.358 3 Away with your nonsense of oil and easels...

    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.

    Chr1 3.106 10 It was only this morning that I sent away some wild flowers of these wood-gods.

    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...

    PPh 4.74 21 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place...

    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 4.233 20 To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.

    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 6.5 25 Wise men feel that there is something which cannot be talked or voted away...

    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.

    F 6.33 27 [Steam] could be used to lift away...other devils far more reluctant...

    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.

    Pow 6.74 4 Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more...

    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...

    Ctr 6.141 15 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.

    Ctr 6.145 2 ...men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own...

    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 6.249 21 Away with this hurrah of masses...

    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.

    Ill 6.318 7 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...

    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 7.87 17 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court...

    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 7.159 17 [Steam]...drags away a mountain.

    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.

    WD 7.175 24 Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes...

    Clbs 7.249 12 We know that l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn;...

    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.

    OA 7.323 11 ...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds of fear.

    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 8.17 8 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away...

    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...

    PI 8.65 16 Literature warps away from life...

    PI 8.65 21 Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his fierce hatreds.

    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 8.325 16 [The Greek] drove away the embalmers;...

    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...

    Dem1 10.27 9 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away all which appeals to the imagination...

    Aris 10.37 26 How is it that the sword runs away with all the fame from the spade and the wheel?

    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;...

    PerF 10.75 10 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house...

    Chr2 10.98 22 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.

    Chr2 10.108 13 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals.

    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.

    SovE 10.206 9 You cannot impoverish man by taking away these objects above him without ruin.

    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;...

    EWI 11.147 1 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass 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 20 A man who steals another man's labor steals away his own faculties;...

    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.

    EdAd 11.384 1 ...the train...darts away into the interior...

    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.

    PPr 12.380 20 Every reader [of Carlyle's Past and Present] shall carry away something.

    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 1.193 5 Men stand in awe of the city...

    MN 1.217 10 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object...

    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;...

    SR 2.71 15 Man does not stand in awe of man...

    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]...

    SwM 4.93 18 Others may build cities; [the philosopher] is to understand them and keep them in awe.

    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.

    Wsp 6.226 15 I cannot see without awe that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone...

    Bty 6.306 7 ...character gives...awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

    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.

    OA 7.316 23 ...the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.

    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 4.124 2 ...this mystic [Swedenborg] is awful to Caesar.

    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;...

    ET10 5.164 20 Vested rights are awful things...

    Bty 6.283 13 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.

    PI 8.43 6 ...the fascination of genius for us is this awful nearness to Nature' s creations.

    Insp 8.297 13 [The human soul] is the dictator; the mind itself the awful oracle.

    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)

    SR 2.80 15 Let [unbalanced minds] chirp awhile and call [the light] their own.

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;...

    ET3 5.36 3 The Turk and Chinese also are making awkward efforts to be English.

    Ctr 6.152 25 A gorgeous livery [in England] indicates new and awkward city wealth.

    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...

    SA 8.82 5 An awkward man is graceful when asleep...

    SA 8.82 15 ...we are awkward for want of thought.

    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...

    ShP 4.198 17 A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts;...

    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.

    Bty 6.298 1 [Women] heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks.

    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...

    Fdsp 2.194 1 I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends...

    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.

    Boks 7.217 6 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke;...

    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.

    MoS 4.171 15 ...men rightly...reject the reformer so long as he comes only with axe and crowbar.

    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.

    Thor 10.482 1 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest.

    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.

    HDC 11.32 24 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...

axiom, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.11 14 Not a mathematical axiom but is a moral rule.

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)

    Nat 1.33 3 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.

    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...

    Nat 1.73 25 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things...

    Nat 1.73 26 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things...

    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 4.110 6 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins...

    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)

    DL 7.127 12 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world...

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...

    ET10 5.158 7 Two centuries ago...the carriage wheels ran on wooden axles;...

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)

    Nat 1.42 23 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky...

    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)

    Bhr 6.196 25 Come out of the azure.


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