Beheld to Belts

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

beheld, v. (27)

    Nat 1.3 4 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face;...
    Nat 1.45 16 [The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found and beheld myself;...
    LE 1.158 13 [The scholar] cannot know [his resources] until he has beheld with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the intellectual power.
    Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared...
    Int 2.329 6 [Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture...and repeat as truly as we can what we have beheld.
    Chr1 3.90 19 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle...
    Chr1 3.94 12 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...
    NR 3.226 1 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    UGM 4.32 3 Each is uneasy until he has...beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.
    PNR 4.80 18 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    SwM 4.96 6 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    ShP 4.218 27 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...
    ET8 5.139 21 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    CbW 6.272 8 Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
    Ill 6.319 15 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    PPo 8.264 16 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./
    Dem1 10.11 2 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
    Chr2 10.113 23 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Prch 10.234 6 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
    GSt 10.507 4 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    HDC 11.38 22 ...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
    TPar 11.287 25 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    CInt 12.129 25 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
    Bost 12.190 6 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
    MAng1 12.233 16 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines...
    Milt1 12.259 12 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld the remains of ancient art...
    MLit 12.324 19 This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what they are.

behemoth, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.36 4 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...clinging to his behemoth ways.

behemoth, n. (3)

    SwM 4.135 23 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn?
    FSLC 11.211 14 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
    EPro 11.314 16 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./

Behemoth, n. (1)

    PLT 12.35 5 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth, disdaining speech, disdaining particulars;...

behind, adv. (7)

    SS 7.1 14 ...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil scale behind/...
    Art2 7.55 1 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe...
    Elo2 8.117 4 [The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
    Chr2 10.112 21 ...the mind of our culture has already left our liturgies behind.
    EWI 11.136 21 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...
    War 11.162 13 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    MLit 12.328 1 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.

behind-hand, adv. (1)

    Let 12.392 2 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence;...

Behmen [Bohme], Jacob, n. (4)

    Chr2 10.111 22 ...Behmen, George Fox,-these speak originally;...
    SovE 10.203 22 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg;...
    II 12.70 11 Lord Bacon begins; Behmen begins;...
    CL 12.165 11 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this hieroglyphic [of Nature]...

Behmen [Bohme], Jakob, n. [Behmen] (15)

    OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the aurora of Behmen...are of this kind.
    Pt1 3.34 23 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen...
    Nat2 3.187 27 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    NER 3.279 26 A religious man, like Behmen...is not irritated by wanting the sanction of the Church...
    UGM 4.8 18 Behmen and Swedenborg saw that things were representative.
    PPh 4.40 4 St. Augustine...Behmen...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    SwM 4.97 10 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Behmen...will readily come to mind.
    SwM 4.117 5 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.
    SwM 4.135 11 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol...
    SwM 4.142 22 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's procession. How different is Jacob Behmen!...
    SwM 4.143 1 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise...
    ET14 5.241 21 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker, even to Van Helmont and Behmen...
    PI 8.27 14 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in Behmen, Swedenborg and William Blake the painter.
    QO 8.181 3 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
    Insp 8.277 17 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...

Behmenism, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.203 20 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church,--Calvinism, or Behmenism, or Romanism, or Mormonism,--there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.

behold, v. (86)

    Nat 1.57 15 Whilst we behold unveiled the nature of Justice and Truth, we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
    Nat 1.64 14 ...being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    Nat 1.67 11 When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Nat 1.75 7 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels. We behold the real higher law.
    AmS 1.104 27 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance...
    AmS 1.106 18 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    DSA 1.120 13 Behold these out-running laws...
    DSA 1.120 16 Behold these infinite relations, so like, so unlike;...
    LE 1.163 2 The soul answers-Behold [Charles V's] day is here!
    LE 1.163 10 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LE 1.163 11 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Chatham' s...day...
    MN 1.196 6 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    MN 1.200 21 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law.
    MN 1.201 12 When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not reckon individuals.
    MN 1.218 18 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks;...
    MR 1.230 7 ...the scholar says...behold every solitary dream of mine is rushing to fulfilment.
    MR 1.230 12 Behold, State Street thinks...
    MR 1.244 26 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...which none but a Spartan may enter or so much as behold.
    Con 1.298 25 Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
    Tran 1.334 2 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    Tran 1.343 14 To behold the beauty of another character...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.343 16 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.343 19 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.358 6 ...Society...must behold [Transcendentalists] with what charity it can.
    YA 1.375 18 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    SL 2.147 9 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them...
    Lov1 2.177 7 Behold there in the wood the fine madman [the lover]!
    Fdsp 2.204 8 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Hsm1 2.246 12 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell;.../
    OS 2.270 1 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
    OS 2.285 18 We know...whether that which we teach or behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also.
    OS 2.296 17 Behold, [the soul] saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind.
    Cir 2.319 21 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...
    Int 2.327 6 We behold [a truth separated by the intellect] as a god upraised above care and fear.
    Int 2.332 22 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.
    Art1 2.354 8 We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted, as students of the mystery of Form.
    Pt1 3.11 6 ...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have been streaming.
    Pt1 3.31 18 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Exp 3.66 19 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors?
    Exp 3.71 23 ...every insight from this realm of thought...promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and behold what was there already.
    Exp 3.79 12 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience...
    Chr1 3.97 13 [The feeble souls] never behold a principle until it is lodged in a person.
    Pol1 3.215 15 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end,--not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence.
    UGM 4.29 9 [Children] shed their own abundant beauty on the objects they behold.
    PNR 4.86 3 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...
    MoS 4.183 21 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
    ET1 5.4 14 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold...
    F 6.3 14 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return and reconcile their opposition.
    Wth 6.98 25 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
    Bty 6.296 21 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
    Art2 7.55 6 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
    Art2 7.56 25 The genuine offspring of our ruling passions we behold.
    DL 7.119 7 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold.
    DL 7.125 19 How seldom do we behold tranquillity!
    WD 7.171 19 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.181 20 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    Suc 7.300 11 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new world of dream-like glory.
    PI 8.27 26 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do not behold the outward creation...
    Comc 8.169 27 ...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat, and behold on the back of his waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
    QO 8.188 8 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that multitudes of men do not live with Nature, but behold it as exiles.
    Imtl 8.323 18 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped, and we behold it no more.
    Imtl 8.351 17 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Aris 10.29 13 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;/...
    Chr2 10.98 8 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Chr2 10.120 8 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Edc1 10.129 21 Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    SovE 10.202 23 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
    Prch 10.221 19 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
    Prch 10.222 25 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
    Prch 10.237 16 ...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
    LLNE 10.336 12 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we behold.
    HDC 11.72 16 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain...
    LVB 11.91 15 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us.
    FSLC 11.200 3 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...
    PLT 12.59 6 ...we behold [the universe] shooting the gulf from the past to the future.
    Mem 12.98 15 We hate this fatal shortness of Memory, these docked men whom we behold.
    Mem 12.103 19 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CW 12.169 11 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    MAng1 12.216 20 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    MAng1 12.222 4 ...behold the effect of this familiar object [the human form] every day!
    MAng1 12.243 6 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened, which no profane eye and no indolent eye can behold...
    MLit 12.313 11 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...
    MLit 12.314 6 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
    MLit 12.319 6 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life...descending into Nature to behold itself reflected there.
    Let 12.398 9 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...
    Let 12.404 20 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...

beholden, v. (4)

    AmS 1.85 2 Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and beholden.
    Lov1 2.171 3 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
    ShP 4.197 17 ...more recently not only Pope and Dryden have been beholden to [Chaucer], but, in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt is easily traced.
    Boks 7.204 13 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech...

beholder, n. (20)

    MN 1.212 16 Ever [the stars] woo and court the eye of every beholder.
    Hist 2.15 16 Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
    SL 2.162 5 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled...
    Lov1 2.180 20 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness;...
    Hsm1 2.259 25 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    Art1 2.363 25 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    Pt1 3.8 26 [The poet] is a beholder of ideas...
    Pt1 3.30 3 The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
    Chr1 3.113 24 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    UGM 4.18 20 It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to blind the beholder.
    Bhr 6.179 25 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
    Wsp 6.223 13 If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it.
    Bty 6.291 8 Every necessary or organic action pleases the beholder.
    DL 7.125 22 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    Edc1 10.158 25 By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable.
    Schr 10.264 9 [The scholar] is here to be the beholder of the real;...
    FSLC 11.193 24 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
    MAng1 12.229 19 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf. The majestic wrath of the figure daunts the beholder.
    MAng1 12.231 7 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
    MLit 12.329 22 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...

beholders, n. (9)

    LE 1.157 8 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud...emit lightnings on all beholders.
    Art1 2.352 25 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future beholders the Unknown...
    Art1 2.365 17 A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
    Chr1 3.96 17 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun...
    Nat2 3.176 17 The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is great difference in the beholders.
    Bhr 6.186 25 The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and good nature to all beholders.
    Cour 7.265 11 ...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than the victims.
    SlHr 10.443 26 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.
    Wom 11.411 15 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who charmed beholders by this new expression...

beholdeth, v. (1)

    MLit 12.321 20 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it hath made.

beholding, adj. (2)

    SR 2.77 19 [Prayer] is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
    PI 8.24 20 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...

beholding, n. (2)

    LT 1.283 4 The genius of the day does not incline to a deed, but to a beholding.
    Mem 12.95 11 This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.

beholding, v. (14)

    AmS 1.85 2 Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and beholden.
    MN 1.202 18 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    Con 1.296 8 Saturn grew weary of sitting...with none but the great Uranus or Heaven beholding him...
    Tran 1.334 11 From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Lov1 2.181 15 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.182 23 ...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty... the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Fdsp 2.196 6 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
    Hsm1 2.257 6 If we dilate in beholding the Greek energy...it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
    Cir 2.318 2 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good...
    Pt1 3.5 10 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Ill 6.307 24 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Elo1 7.72 25 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses; and [the Trojans], beholding, wondered not afterwards so much at his aspect.
    Mem 12.91 8 Memory...holds together past and present, beholding both...
    MLit 12.316 2 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love?

beholds, v. (21)

    Nat 1.10 19 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.18 14 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before...
    Nat 1.60 4 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
    MN 1.198 17 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    MR 1.250 23 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
    SR 2.69 5 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation...
    SL 2.148 7 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    Lov1 2.184 20 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
    OS 2.289 4 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholds again and blesses the things which it hath made.
    Cir 2.316 1 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.
    Int 2.327 1 Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy.
    NR 3.243 26 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it...
    PPh 4.58 20 ...[Plato] beholds the penal metempsychosis...
    PPh 4.70 2 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful. But when he beholds that which is born and dies, it will be far from beautiful.
    MoS 4.150 25 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    GoW 4.262 23 Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture.
    OA 7.328 10 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency...
    PI 8.9 19 Every object [the student] beholds is the mask of a man.
    PI 8.11 16 The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its thought, projects it outward on whatever it beholds.
    PI 8.17 1 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    Milt1 12.274 9 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden...

behoof, n. (2)

    AmS 1.84 15 ...do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
    Dem1 10.19 19 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle, which chooses favorites and works in the dark for their behoof;...

behooted, v. (1)

    DSA 1.142 1 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and behowled...

behooves, v. (7)

    LT 1.260 5 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it behooves us to understand.
    Hsm1 2.261 24 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    Cir 2.315 1 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...
    Bty 6.300 23 Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it behooves that I be bold.
    Aris 10.46 15 ...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering.
    War 11.172 9 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...because he...never needs to ask another what in any crisis it behooves him to do.
    CInt 12.115 10 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...

behowled, v. (1)

    DSA 1.142 1 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and behowled...

Behring [Bering], Vitus Jo (1)

    SR 2.86 15 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...

Behring's Strait [Straits], (1)

    ET5 5.91 13 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits...

Being and Seeming [Ralph W (1)

    Scot 11.462 9 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory. Lecture, Being and Seeming, 1838.

Being, Divine, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.127 21 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.

being, n. (160)

    Nat 1.27 26 ...a ray of relation passes from every other being to [man].
    Nat 1.41 21 ...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end is essential to any being.
    Nat 1.52 8 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast; the [poet], as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.
    Nat 1.55 23 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul...
    Nat 1.62 22 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
    Nat 1.62 23 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
    Nat 1.63 9 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections in denying substantive being to men and women.
    Nat 1.69 14 All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In their descent and being;.../
    AmS 1.95 18 So much only of life as I know by experience...so far have I extended my being...
    AmS 1.106 19 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    DSA 1.120 24 [Man] learns that his being is without bound;...
    DSA 1.122 21 If a man dissemble...he...goes out of acquaintance with his own being.
    DSA 1.124 18 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...his being shrinks out of all remote channels...
    DSA 1.128 1 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    DSA 1.128 23 ...ravished by [the soul's] beauty, [Jesus Christ]...had his being there.
    DSA 1.132 5 There is no longer a necessary reason for my being.
    DSA 1.133 20 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.136 25 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
    DSA 1.150 21 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests...the dignity of spiritual being.
    LE 1.161 26 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being...
    LE 1.165 13 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.166 9 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;-a state of being and power how unlike his own!
    LE 1.176 14 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
    LE 1.176 25 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is...the seeming that unmakes our being.
    LE 1.183 10 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    MN 1.207 13 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...
    MN 1.207 27 Did [a man] not come into being because something must be done which he and no other is and does?
    Con 1.305 1 You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    Tran 1.333 22 [The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of being;...
    Tran 1.337 12 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    Tran 1.343 17 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Hist 2.36 4 [Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.
    Hist 2.40 16 What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?
    SR 2.47 20 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was...predominating in all their being.
    SR 2.58 7 All the sallies of [a man's] will are rounded in by the law of his being...
    SR 2.64 11 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...
    SR 2.64 15 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...from man, but...proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.
    SR 2.66 19 Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being?
    SR 2.66 27 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    Comp 2.122 5 There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being.
    SL 2.160 9 [Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming...
    SL 2.161 24 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction...
    SL 2.162 10 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage...that form of being assigned to us?
    Lov1 2.178 20 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...
    Fdsp 2.204 9 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Prd1 2.224 27 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world, whereby man's being is conditioned, as they are...
    Prd1 2.225 5 There revolve, to give bound and period to [man's] being on all sides, the sun and moon...
    Prd1 2.236 4 ...let [a man] likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Hsm1 2.259 20 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being...
    Hsm1 2.264 8 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.
    OS 2.268 3 Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
    OS 2.268 23 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained...
    OS 2.270 23 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie...
    OS 2.271 22 We know that all spiritual being is in man.
    OS 2.284 25 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live...
    OS 2.293 9 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
    Cir 2.320 10 We do not guess to-day...the power, of to-morrow, when we are building up our being.
    Int 2.342 9 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will...recognize all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung.
    Int 2.342 13 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates]...respects the highest law of his being.
    Exp 3.53 5 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being;...
    Exp 3.62 17 The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
    Exp 3.77 11 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.
    Chr1 3.95 14 Truth is the summit of being;...
    Chr1 3.115 10 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?...
    Nat2 3.195 27 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    Pol1 3.221 9 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.
    NR 3.243 25 Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if they did not subsist, and does not once suspect their being.
    NER 3.277 27 ...we hold on to our little properties...although they confess that our being does not flow through them.
    UGM 4.16 6 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    UGM 4.17 8 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    UGM 4.28 22 ...every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature...
    PPh 4.48 16 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.49 9 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    PPh 4.51 4 That which the soul seeks is resolution into being above form...
    PPh 4.51 15 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is being; the other, intellect...
    PPh 4.64 15 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with real being.
    PNR 4.80 15 The human being has the saurian and the plant in his rear.
    PNR 4.86 13 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real...
    SwM 4.95 3 The realms of being to no other bow,/ Not only all are thine, but all are Thou./
    SwM 4.95 10 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as following in the train of this.
    SwM 4.121 14 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    SwM 4.138 16 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
    SwM 4.146 3 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...
    SwM 4.146 8 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
    Pow 6.53 4 Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Pow 6.54 10 A belief in causality, or strict connection between every pulse-beat and the principle of being...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.74 22 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not.
    Wth 6.90 3 ...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
    Wth 6.124 25 It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is a being of degrees;...
    Ctr 6.166 15 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Wsp 6.213 27 ...we are never without a hint...that we are one day to deal with real being...
    Wsp 6.231 23 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being...as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    CbW 6.246 15 That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound secret to every other being in the world...
    Art2 7.50 14 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being...
    Elo1 7.73 14 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    DL 7.132 14 Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever; that his private being is a part of it;...
    WD 7.165 6 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    PI 8.43 18 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
    SA 8.87 11 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
    SA 8.100 8 It is the sense of every human being that man should have this dominion of Nature...
    Elo2 8.115 3 [Eloquence] instructs...that a man is...to the extent of his being, a power;...
    QO 8.199 24 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...
    PPo 8.265 20 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
    Grts 8.301 4 Every human being has a right to [greatness]...
    Imtl 8.330 22 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Imtl 8.338 19 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    Imtl 8.344 3 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...
    Aris 10.47 25 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    PerF 10.83 17 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
    PerF 10.86 3 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim...
    Chr2 10.91 22 ...the reason we must give for the existence of the world is, that it is for the benefit of all being.
    Chr2 10.94 22 We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this [general mind]. It is the basis of thought, it is the basis of being.
    Chr2 10.95 7 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Chr2 10.122 11 [Character] extols humility,-by every self-abasement lifted higher in the scale of being.
    Edc1 10.129 23 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Edc1 10.129 25 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
    Edc1 10.142 1 ...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.
    Supl 10.174 16 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature, or real being.
    SovE 10.193 26 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.197 15 ...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.
    SovE 10.197 21 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?
    Prch 10.218 20 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Schr 10.281 18 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being happens in a greater degree.
    LLNE 10.353 19 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    MMEm 10.407 27 [Mary Moody Emerson] could keep step with no human being.
    MMEm 10.414 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
    MMEm 10.425 9 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    MMEm 10.427 10 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...
    LS 11.18 5 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    LS 11.18 18 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.
    LS 11.18 23 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers, and which an exalted being will accept, are not compliments, commemorations...
    HDC 11.30 7 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason that we should give to our being what permanence we can;...
    EWI 11.118 14 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of holding a human being in his absolute control.
    War 11.155 7 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
    War 11.167 10 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as one engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men.
    War 11.169 25 A wise man will never impawn his future being and action...
    AsSu 11.250 21 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being were not an abolitionist...
    Wom 11.409 12 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns]...
    SHC 11.428 19 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    SHC 11.434 21 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward, under which our busy being is whirled, is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    SHC 11.436 18 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
    CPL 11.501 25 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    FRep 11.542 4 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    PLT 12.16 10 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    PLT 12.35 20 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...
    II 12.68 18 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...
    II 12.77 16 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
    Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
    Mem 12.97 3 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...mind, being, in their own method and law.
    Mem 12.101 19 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?
    Bost 12.196 17 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.205 9 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination...that intelligent being exists to the utmost use;...
    MAng1 12.217 16 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim of the human being.
    Milt1 12.255 9 Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak few and faint words.
    Milt1 12.276 11 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they...did not blend with their own being?
    MLit 12.314 8 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness, until we hate their being.
    MLit 12.324 13 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.
    MLit 12.328 7 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    WSL 12.343 6 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.
    Trag 12.415 3 Our human being is wonderfully plastic;...

Being, n. (14)

    Comp 2.121 1 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    Comp 2.121 3 Being is the vast affirmative...
    Fdsp 2.197 19 Thou [my friend] art not Being...
    Pt1 3.14 13 We stand before the secret of the world, there where Being passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.
    Pt1 3.14 21 The earth and the heavenly bodies...we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.
    Exp 3.73 17 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    PPh 4.49 9 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    PPh 4.62 2 [Plato] even stood ready, as in the Parmenides, to demonstrate that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
    GoW 4.284 17 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only; rank, privileges, health, time, Being itself.
    Chr2 10.98 15 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls, but because he is inviolable, anchored at the centre of Truth and Being?
    LLNE 10.363 10 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life; all hinging on the thought of Being or Reality as opposed to consciousness;...
    MMEm 10.426 11 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life!
    MMEm 10.431 20 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
    PLT 12.40 17 In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with all other natures.

Being, Supreme, n. (6)

    Nat 1.56 23 We...know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
    Nat 1.64 5 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us...
    Hsm1 2.257 24 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
    SwM 4.140 6 The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the Internal Check.
    Art2 7.39 9 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have.
    HDC 11.86 21 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord].

Being, Universal, n. (1)

    Nat 1.10 10 ...the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;...

beings, n. (41)

    Nat 1.25 12 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    Nat 1.27 24 [Man] is placed in the centre of beings...
    Nat 1.51 2 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least...seen as apparent, not substantial beings.
    MN 1.204 7 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
    Hist 2.6 13 ...involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
    SL 2.149 22 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?
    SL 2.158 16 ...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings.
    Int 2.327 16 What is addressed to us for contemplation...makes us intellectual beings.
    Art1 2.354 2 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
    Exp 3.77 21 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point...
    Pol1 3.221 25 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.234 7 Proportion is almost impossible to human beings.
    UGM 4.28 8 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    SwM 4.107 26 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings find their place...
    SwM 4.118 4 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.134 20 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.
    ShP 4.214 19 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
    NMW 4.245 20 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
    ET1 5.18 21 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings.
    Civ 7.27 6 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Elo1 7.91 22 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.
    Farm 7.145 17 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature, rank over rank into sentient beings.
    PI 8.43 27 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature.
    QO 8.200 24 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature;...
    Imtl 8.338 26 ...it is the nature of intelligent beings to be forever new to life.
    Aris 10.52 16 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He eats their bread...and after breakfast he cannot remember that there are human beings.
    Aris 10.65 12 ...it suffices...that the interest of intellectual and moral beings is paramount with [the man of generous spirit]...
    Chr2 10.92 22 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule, binding on all intelligent beings;...
    Chr2 10.95 23 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...and so converts us into universal beings.
    Chr2 10.120 8 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    SovE 10.188 6 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence over nations, intelligent beings...
    MMEm 10.415 7 I am not infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and imprisoned, the tool of mind, even of the beings I feed and adorn.
    MMEm 10.421 23 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means; a few pulsations of created beings...
    Carl 10.493 2 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
    LS 11.18 12 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    FSLC 11.188 13 The resistance of all moral beings is secured to [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.188 23 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certaan experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see...what makes the essence of rational beings...
    ACiv 11.297 2 Use, labor of each for all, is the health and virtue of all beings.
    SMC 11.354 14 ...justice is really desired by all intelligent beings;...
    Wom 11.413 6 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./
    MLit 12.317 16 ...these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.

being's, n. (1)

    SwM 4.95 13 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./

belated, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.200 15 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].

beleaguered, v. (2)

    ShP 4.219 7 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
    HDC 11.60 16 Beleaguered in his own country...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip' s] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.

Belgian, n. (1)

    ET9 5.149 12 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing, which a Frenchman or Belgian could not carry.

Belgium, n. (2)

    ET10 5.159 1 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by...the emigration of the spinners to Belgium and the United States.
    II 12.76 5 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.

Belgravia, London, England, (1)

    ET11 5.181 23 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.

belie, v. (1)

    Hist 2.39 20 ...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

belied, v. (1)

    Pow 6.65 24 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.

belief, n. (122)

    Nat 1.49 15 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    Nat 1.59 20 Children...believe in the external world. The belief that it appears only, is an afterthought...
    AmS 1.102 23 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun...
    AmS 1.106 7 I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in stating my own belief.
    DSA 1.127 25 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely; they are not in the belief...of society;...
    MR 1.235 19 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    LT 1.284 4 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur...
    Tran 1.354 5 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
    SL 2.139 1 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    Hsm1 2.259 8 ...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize [many extraordinary young men's] belief.
    Pt1 3.5 9 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Exp 3.45 8 ...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Mrs1 3.143 1 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
    Gts 3.163 9 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Pol1 3.220 23 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things...
    NER 3.255 7 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
    NER 3.271 14 ...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    NER 3.278 9 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...
    NER 3.278 14 Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth.
    NER 3.278 20 Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
    NER 3.280 2 ...the Church feels the accusation of [the religious man's] presence and belief.
    UGM 4.3 13 Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society [of good men];...
    UGM 4.7 26 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
    PNR 4.83 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially...in Socrates' belief that the laws below are sisters of the laws above.
    SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    MoS 4.176 14 Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no deeper than a stomach evidence?
    MoS 4.180 19 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul;...
    MoS 4.181 16 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the believer.
    MoS 4.182 26 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
    NMW 4.223 5 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    NMW 4.247 19 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief of all military men that there could be nothing new in war;...
    NMW 4.247 20 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...
    NMW 4.247 24 ...it is at all times the belief of society that the world is used up.
    GoW 4.276 8 ...what [Goethe] says...of periods of belief...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET1 5.5 4 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET2 5.29 4 ...I waked every morning [at sea] with the belief that some one was tipping up my berth.
    ET4 5.51 25 I incline to the belief that, as water, lime and sand make mortar, so certain temperaments marry well...
    ET5 5.81 20 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides...
    ET5 5.85 11 In trade, the Englishman believes...that if he do not make trade everything, it will make him nothing; and acts on this belief.
    ET7 5.116 7 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    ET7 5.118 23 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
    ET7 5.121 6 [The English] are tenacious of their belief...
    ET7 5.124 16 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
    ET10 5.168 22 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET14 5.252 24 ...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET15 5.267 21 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
    F 6.42 3 The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Pow 6.54 8 A belief in causality...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.54 11 A belief in causality...and, in consequence, belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Bhr 6.171 6 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Wsp 6.201 11 I have...no belief that it is of much importance what I or any man may say...
    Wsp 6.216 10 All the great ages have been ages of belief.
    Wsp 6.224 1 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast?
    Wsp 6.237 11 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief...
    Ill 6.311 16 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    Art2 7.50 18 The whole language of men...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Elo1 7.70 7 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.
    Elo1 7.76 17 We have a half belief that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.
    Elo1 7.92 22 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Cour 7.270 23 [John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are silent concerning themselves.
    Suc 7.292 25 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
    Suc 7.304 4 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
    PI 8.14 20 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.19 12 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times...
    PI 8.63 12 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it: they betray their belief that such discourse is possible.
    Grts 8.308 27 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Imtl 8.324 2 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Imtl 8.324 12 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.334 2 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
    Imtl 8.342 3 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns. Belief in its future is a reward kept only for those who use it.
    Imtl 8.342 24 Nothing seems to me so excellent as a belief in the laws.
    Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears...
    Imtl 8.343 22 As soon as thought is exercised, this belief [in immortality] is inevitable;...
    Imtl 8.343 23 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself.
    Dem1 10.15 13 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Dem1 10.16 17 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe...
    Dem1 10.16 23 This faith in a doting power, so easily sliding into the current belief everywhere...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence; the art of compelling belief...
    PerF 10.85 22 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends, in the belief that Heaven always succors us in working for these.
    Chr2 10.121 18 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    Edc1 10.139 14 [Boys]...have no pedantry, but entire belief on experience.
    SovE 10.204 21 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    SovE 10.206 2 We delight in children...because of their reverence for their seniors, and for their objects of belief.
    SovE 10.206 14 All ages of belief have been great;...
    Prch 10.217 9 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
    Prch 10.219 20 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief, of heroic action...
    MoL 10.243 25 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
    MoL 10.244 5 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius, its tenacious belief;...
    MoL 10.255 21 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist...
    LLNE 10.326 7 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
    LLNE 10.342 14 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    LLNE 10.345 16 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    LLNE 10.356 15 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.
    EzRy 10.390 5 ...I am not sure that [Ezra Ripley] did not die in the belief in the reality of Major Downing.
    SlHr 10.437 18 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief.
    SlHr 10.439 5 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...promptly withdrew, but with unaltered belief.
    SlHr 10.443 13 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    Thor 10.453 2 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.
    Thor 10.465 9 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    LS 11.15 1 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    LVB 11.89 12 In this belief and at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    FSLN 11.244 24 ...I hope we...have come to a belief that there is a divine Providence in the world...
    ACiv 11.306 14 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    SMC 11.354 27 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist...
    Wom 11.405 11 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
    Wom 11.405 16 [Women] are the best index of the coming hour. I share this belief.
    SHC 11.436 7 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul? Here will burn for us...the sublime belief.
    SHC 11.436 10 I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man, we pronounce the belief of immortality.
    FRO2 11.486 3 ...I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    FRO2 11.489 17 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    FRep 11.528 6 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief that as the people have made a government they can make another;...
    PLT 12.6 11 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
    PLT 12.12 19 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt is unnatural...
    PLT 12.12 21 I share the belief that the natural direction of the intellectual powers is from within outward...
    PLT 12.56 12 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural...will surely lead us out safely;...
    II 12.81 17 [Men] all share, to the rankest Philistines, the same belief.
    Mem 12.92 3 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    CL 12.159 16 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...
    CL 12.165 16 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.
    ACri 12.303 3 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    Trag 12.406 23 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
    Trag 12.406 24 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor man to that...

Belief, n. (1)

    LT 1.285 6 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief;...

beliefs, n. (7)

    Exp 3.75 18 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs.
    MoS 4.175 16 There is the power of moods, each setting at nought all but its own tissue of facts and beliefs.
    MoS 4.175 19 The beliefs and unbeliefs appear to be structural;...
    Wsp 6.203 14 A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
    Ill 6.319 2 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
    PI 8.6 18 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own...
    MoL 10.256 15 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.

believe, v. (234)

    Nat 1.3 22 We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.7 13 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
    Nat 1.18 11 I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as by the genial influences of summer.
    Nat 1.30 15 Hundreds of writers may be found...who...believe and make others believe that they see and utter truths...
    Nat 1.59 19 Children, it is true, believe in the external world.
    AmS 1.106 10 I believe man has been wronged;...
    AmS 1.109 9 ...I believe each individual passes through all three [epochs].
    DSA 1.135 23 ...you will infer the sad conviction, which I share, I believe, with numbers, of the universal decay...of faith in society.
    LE 1.155 9 ...I believe I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    LE 1.167 12 Do not believe the past.
    LE 1.169 23 Men believe in the adaptations of utility, always...
    LE 1.169 25 ...in the mountains, [men] may believe in the adaptations of the eye.
    MN 1.193 14 I sometimes believe that our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
    LT 1.282 7 ...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity (which we all at last believe in) is fair and beneficent.
    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.
    Hist 2.9 22 I believe in Eternity.
    SR 2.45 7 To believe your own thought...that is genius.
    SR 2.45 7 ...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,--that is genius.
    SR 2.66 16 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
    SR 2.90 2 ...you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it.
    Comp 2.125 20 We do not believe in the riches of the soul...
    Comp 2.125 22 We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.
    Comp 2.125 26 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again.
    SL 2.157 2 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    SL 2.157 4 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...
    SL 2.157 9 That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say...
    SL 2.157 15 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    SL 2.165 26 Let a man believe in God...
    Fdsp 2.204 18 ...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
    Prd1 2.228 7 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    OS 2.287 22 Jesus speaks always from within, and in a degree that transcends all others. In that is the miracle. I believe beforehand that it ought so to be.
    OS 2.293 27 O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
    Cir 2.306 18 Our moods do not believe in each other.
    Cir 2.312 21 In my daily work I...do not believe in remedial force...
    Int 2.330 8 By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
    Pt1 3.3 24 ...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Exp 3.45 3 Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
    Exp 3.74 2 It is for us to believe in the rule, not in the exception.
    Exp 3.74 5 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Exp 3.74 7 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Exp 3.74 17 [Just persons] believe that we communicate without speech and above speech...
    Exp 3.78 8 We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others.
    Chr1 3.109 21 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...
    Mrs1 3.150 15 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    Pol1 3.199 24 Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city...
    Pol1 3.204 24 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
    Pol1 3.219 9 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
    NR 3.226 18 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
    NR 3.227 19 I believe that if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
    NR 3.244 12 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all...
    NER 3.265 9 ...the men of less faith could not thus believe, and to such, concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    NER 3.268 2 Men do not believe in a power of education.
    NER 3.268 5 We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
    NER 3.268 22 We do not believe that any education...will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    NER 3.270 15 I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.
    NER 3.270 20 I do not believe in two classes.
    NER 3.270 27 I believe not in two classes of men...
    NER 3.281 15 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.
    NER 3.283 14 ...[men] believe that the best is the true;...
    UGM 4.3 1 It is natural to believe in great men.
    UGM 4.8 4 Churches believe in imputed merit.
    UGM 4.34 24 We have never come at the true and best benefit of any genius so long as we believe him an original force.
    PPh 4.54 12 The reason why we do not at once believe in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience.
    SwM 4.134 1 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;...
    MoS 4.153 8 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...
    MoS 4.155 13 You believe yourselves rooted and grounded on adamant;...
    MoS 4.170 20 Seen or unseen, we believe the tie exists [between all things in life].
    MoS 4.176 3 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
    MoS 4.180 10 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    MoS 4.182 18 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...
    MoS 4.182 21 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make believe them?
    MoS 4.185 6 The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours;...
    NMW 4.251 2 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said to the last [Antonomarchi], we had better leave off all these remedies...
    NMW 4.255 2 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me...I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
    ET1 5.11 2 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves,--passages, too, which, I believe, are printed in the Aids to Reflection.
    ET5 5.87 6 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
    ET7 5.123 15 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET7 5.125 11 I knew a very worthy man,--a magistrate, I believe he was, in the town of Derby,--who went to the opera to see Malibran.
    ET8 5.127 7 [The English], too, believe that where there is no enjoyment of life there can be no vigor and art in speech or thought;...
    ET8 5.131 7 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    ET12 5.203 12 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz (I believe in 1450);...
    ET14 5.259 25 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England;...
    ET19 5.313 19 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
    F 6.24 22 If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it at least for your good.
    F 6.24 23 If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it at least for your good.
    F 6.28 25 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth...
    F 6.29 3 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.
    F 6.31 2 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?
    F 6.31 3 The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
    F 6.31 15 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a Providence.
    F 6.31 17 ...in war, [men] believe a malignant energy rules.
    F 6.34 25 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his skull...all the vices of a Saxon...race...
    F 6.40 21 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Pow 6.61 18 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Wth 6.93 2 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Wth 6.100 10 Men...believe in magic, in all parts of life.
    Ctr 6.150 10 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Bhr 6.191 7 There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...
    Bhr 6.195 16 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Wsp 6.205 24 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.
    Wsp 6.205 27 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
    Wsp 6.208 6 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe in nothing.
    Wsp 6.217 7 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.220 6 Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...
    Wsp 6.220 10 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
    Bty 6.283 11 'T is curious that we only believe as deep as we live.
    Ill 6.309 10 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto...called, I believe, Serena' s Bower.
    Art2 7.45 26 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
    Art2 7.47 7 Even Shakspeare, of whom we can believe everything, we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    Elo1 7.73 7 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Elo1 7.76 18 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...
    Elo1 7.94 9 A good upholder of anything which they believe...[the people] will long follow;...
    DL 7.110 19 We must not make believe with our money...
    Farm 7.144 27 Our senses...believe only the impression of the moment...
    Farm 7.145 1 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    WD 7.165 16 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    WD 7.171 21 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    Cour 7.263 3 They can conquer who believe they can.
    Suc 7.290 15 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through making believe you are powerful...
    Suc 7.292 7 We do not believe our own thought;...
    OA 7.318 15 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
    PI 8.5 11 Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry...
    PI 8.10 25 Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty [of imagination].
    PI 8.26 24 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn, and it is part of religion to believe its possible incarnation.
    PI 8.29 18 [My poet] must believe in his poetry.
    PI 8.36 12 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    PI 8.37 23 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PI 8.46 22 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
    PI 8.47 10 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing, as we believe of all marriage, that matches are made in heaven...
    SA 8.106 23 ...those people, and no others, interest us, who believe in their thought...
    SA 8.107 11 ...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
    Elo2 8.113 4 By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all...
    Elo2 8.121 15 I believe that some orators go to the assembly as to a closet where to find their best thoughts.
    Elo2 8.122 16 I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams]. I can easily believe it...
    Elo2 8.125 13 ...I believe it to be true that when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
    Elo2 8.130 1 Speak what you do know and believe;...
    Res 8.146 22 ...they can conquer who believe they can.
    PC 8.223 9 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...
    PC 8.225 15 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin; impossible to deny, impossible to believe.
    PC 8.229 1 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry;...
    PC 8.231 7 We wish...to ordain free trade, and believe that it will not bankrupt us;...
    PC 8.231 10 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
    PC 8.233 25 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
    Insp 8.271 11 I believe that nothing great and lasting can be done except by inspiration...
    Insp 8.281 18 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.286 20 I believe that in our good days a well-ordered mind has a new thought awaiting it every morning.
    Grts 8.314 22 Whatever they may tell you [said Napoleon], believe that one fights with cannon as with fists;...
    Grts 8.318 16 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him.
    Imtl 8.330 7 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    Imtl 8.346 26 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other?...
    Imtl 8.351 18 [Yama said] Thee, O Nachiketas! I believe a house whose door is open to Brahma.
    Dem1 10.14 6 ...says Plutarch...we cannot believe that men are sacred and favorites of Heaven.
    Dem1 10.26 13 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe they were all such speedy shadows as we;...
    Aris 10.64 23 ...I believe in the closest affinity between moral and material power.
    PerF 10.88 2 Every new asserter of the right surprises us...and we hardly dare believe he is in earnest.
    Chr2 10.105 4 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Edc1 10.143 13 I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    Supl 10.165 18 ...I believe that much of the rhetoric of terror...most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
    Supl 10.167 6 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    SovE 10.195 16 We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.
    SovE 10.205 9 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    SovE 10.206 15 The Orientals believe in Fate.
    SovE 10.206 27 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.
    SovE 10.209 8 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it left all for this...
    SovE 10.210 19 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
    Prch 10.225 23 ...there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.
    MoL 10.252 19 Men are as they believe.
    Schr 10.277 9 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
    Plu 10.302 25 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages...
    Plu 10.309 27 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
    Plu 10.314 8 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    LLNE 10.362 16 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 5 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community.
    LLNE 10.368 18 The society at Brook Farm existed...about six or seven years, and then broke up, the Farm was sold, and I believe all the partners came out with pecuniary loss.
    MMEm 10.413 15 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction? But that is not the case, I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe.
    MMEm 10.429 2 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    MMEm 10.431 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
    MMEm 10.432 25 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    Thor 10.457 15 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother...
    Thor 10.458 13 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax...I believe he ceased to resist.
    Thor 10.458 16 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
    LS 11.7 21 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...
    LS 11.17 4 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression. But if you read the New Testament as I do, you do not believe he did.
    LS 11.18 3 ...I believe the human mind can admit but one God...
    HDC 11.86 14 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    LVB 11.92 9 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it.
    EWI 11.105 24 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it;...
    War 11.161 16 ...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace...
    FSLN 11.217 19 [Intellectual people who take their ideas from others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    FSLN 11.239 20 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish. They believe only in Anglo-Saxons.
    FSLN 11.244 14 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.
    JBB 11.269 13 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
    JBB 11.270 24 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.
    JBB 11.272 18 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    ACiv 11.301 27 Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience that we...make believe they are gold.
    SMC 11.350 5 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...
    SMC 11.354 20 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    SMC 11.354 22 Every man was an abolitionist by conviction, but did not believe that his neighbor was.
    EdAd 11.388 6 ...we believe politics to be nowise accidental or exceptional...
    EdAd 11.392 13 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    Koss 11.398 17 I believe I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    Wom 11.412 13 [Women] are poets who believe their own poetry.
    Wom 11.417 24 There are plenty of people who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook...
    Wom 11.417 27 There are plenty of people who believe that the world is governed by men of dark complexions...
    Scot 11.464 2 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    FRO2 11.486 22 I believe that not only Christianity is as old as the Creation...but more, that a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea in numberless conversations.
    FRO2 11.490 22 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    FRO2 11.491 2 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.
    CPL 11.494 4 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
    CPL 11.508 12 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,- but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
    FRep 11.523 2 [Americans] believe that what they have enacted they can repeal if they do not like it.
    FRep 11.539 15 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this cannot be accomplished by dunces or idlers...
    PLT 12.5 14 I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real...
    PLT 12.17 1 ...I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
    PLT 12.31 2 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others.
    PLT 12.31 6 ...[intellectual persons who believe in the ideas of others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    PLT 12.43 26 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.62 1 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power...
    II 12.69 14 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona...in itself...
    II 12.70 13 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we, credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.
    II 12.74 12 ...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.
    II 12.75 20 ...your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip...and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality. You will do as you can. Why then cumber yourself about it, and make believe be better than you are?
    II 12.80 11 It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.
    Mem 12.108 26 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed...
    CInt 12.122 12 The poet does not believe in his poetry.
    CInt 12.130 5 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle of Nature is less...
    CL 12.157 4 Can you hear what the morning says to you, and believe that?
    Bost 12.184 13 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air...
    Bost 12.184 15 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
    Bost 12.184 20 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    AgMs 12.364 1 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...
    EurB 12.373 9 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    Let 12.394 23 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...

believed, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.31 4 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists...
    FSLC 11.197 20 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    Mem 12.94 15 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.

believed, v. (53)

    LE 1.179 19 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    LE 1.179 27 ...whilst he believed in number and weight, [Napoleon] believed also in the freedom...of the soul.
    LE 1.180 1 ...[Napoleon] believed...in the freedom...of the soul.
    LT 1.286 15 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that they have believed;...
    Tran 1.341 25 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know... what the Reformers believed...
    Fdsp 2.196 6 Friendship...is too good to be believed.
    Chr1 3.95 27 ...it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.
    NMW 4.254 5 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
    GoW 4.266 11 It is believed, the ordering a cargo of goods from New York to Smyrna...is practical and commendable.
    ET1 5.5 24 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities...
    ET3 5.40 19 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal. The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre.
    ET5 5.95 18 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET12 5.210 16 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    ET12 5.211 1 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    ET15 5.266 19 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police, whose omniscience made it believed that the Empress Josephine must be in his pay.
    ET16 5.280 2 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God...
    Pow 6.54 5 [All successful men] believed that things went not by luck, but by law;...
    Ctr 6.132 10 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    Wsp 6.210 19 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors that there is no more virtue than they possess;...
    Bty 6.287 14 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
    Ill 6.318 25 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up...
    Clbs 7.248 12 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    OA 7.331 20 It must be believed that there is a proportion between the designs of a man and the length of his life...
    Elo2 8.109 10 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
    Res 8.146 15 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    QO 8.183 7 ...the whole cyclopaedia of [a great man's] table-talk is presently believed to be his own.
    PC 8.225 12 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...
    Dem1 10.17 10 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    Edc1 10.134 25 We do not give [boys] a training as if we believed in their noble nature.
    Prch 10.225 21 ...there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.
    LLNE 10.326 10 The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual...
    LLNE 10.353 6 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
    LLNE 10.357 21 [The Fourierists] were not the creators they believed themselves...
    EzRy 10.394 25 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon, for he had no literature and no art; but he believed, and therefore spoke.
    SlHr 10.442 14 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.442 18 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    Carl 10.497 4 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    LS 11.19 20 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    EWI 11.146 10 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has believed there was no vindication of right;...
    FSLC 11.183 16 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    FSLC 11.184 17 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    JBB 11.270 21 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
    JBB 11.270 24 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.
    TPar 11.285 9 It is only what [a man] tells of himself that comes to be known and believed.
    ALin 11.337 9 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
    SMC 11.365 10 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    Mem 12.100 21 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    CL 12.165 18 If we believed that Nature was foreign and unrelated...we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    Bost 12.183 4 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
    Bost 12.191 24 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
    MAng1 12.227 7 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.
    MAng1 12.235 11 Michael Angelo, who believed in his own ability as a sculptor, but distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
    Milt1 12.258 3 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...

believer, n. (18)

    LE 1.179 16 [Napoleon] was not a believer in luck;...
    MR 1.250 23 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
    YA 1.371 13 ...the land...of the believer...[America] should speak for the human race.
    SwM 4.106 26 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy...
    MoS 4.181 14 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position...
    MoS 4.181 16 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the believer.
    QO 8.182 1 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...
    QO 8.182 2 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...
    PC 8.233 20 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it.
    Imtl 8.330 21 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Imtl 8.346 1 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    Chr2 10.110 4 Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and persecutes the true believer.
    SovE 10.185 21 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
    LS 11.3 21 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...
    AsSu 11.250 22 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being were not...a believer that all men should be free.
    FRO2 11.488 1 ...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all churches are churches of one member.
    Milt1 12.273 13 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent...believer in the omnipotence of spiritual laws.
    PPr 12.380 25 Though...more than most philosophers a believer in political systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...

believers, n. (15)

    OS 2.295 1 Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.
    Chr1 3.108 27 ...we are born believers in great men.
    NER 3.283 13 Men are all secret believers in [the Law]...
    MoS 4.170 8 We are natural believers.
    MoS 4.181 9 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    MoS 4.181 10 The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some minds]...
    MoS 4.181 17 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...
    ET8 5.131 3 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion...
    F 6.23 27 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    Pow 6.54 15 The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
    Imtl 8.346 2 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    SovE 10.200 13 Certainly it is human to value...a fraternity of believers...
    LLNE 10.346 10 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice, but did not enlarge his church of believers.
    EzRy 10.384 2 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...
    FRO2 11.487 12 We are all believers in natural religion;...

believes, v. (66)

    AmS 1.115 26 ...each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
    Con 1.299 9 Conservatism...believes in a negative fate;...
    Con 1.299 10 Conservatism...believes that men's temper governs them;...
    Tran 1.331 13 The materialist...believes that his life is solid...
    Tran 1.332 18 ...ask [the materialist] why he believes that an uniform experience will continue uniform...
    Tran 1.335 22 [The Transcendentalist] believes in miracle...
    Tran 1.335 24 ...[the Transcendentalist] believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy.
    Comp 2.118 18 ...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
    OS 2.293 13 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He believes that he cannot escape from his good.
    OS 2.295 20 [The soul] believes in itself.
    Cir 2.306 16 ...every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
    Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    Pt1 3.34 24 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader.
    Exp 3.78 27 No man at last believes that he can be lost...
    Chr1 3.93 20 [The natural merchant] too believes that none can supply him...
    Mrs1 3.132 1 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    NR 3.248 8 Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable partialist, and himself a universalist?
    NER 3.282 9 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit.
    UGM 4.5 5 [Man] believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought.
    UGM 4.8 3 The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom.
    PPh 4.58 12 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
    MoS 4.150 12 Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...
    MoS 4.151 24 The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
    MoS 4.152 15 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more...
    GoW 4.262 27 [The writer] believes that all that can be thought can be written...
    ET5 5.85 8 In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who ought not to break;...
    ET7 5.119 19 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English.
    ET10 5.155 12 The Englishman believes that every man must take care of himself...
    ET13 5.221 4 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET13 5.224 7 [England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with levity a pound sterling.
    F 6.5 10 The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf... rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    F 6.6 19 ...now and then an amiable parson, like...Robert Huntington, believes in a pistareen-Providence...
    Wth 6.109 3 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
    Wth 6.116 5 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.
    CbW 6.270 3 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right.
    Bty 6.283 14 A deep man believes in miracles...
    Bty 6.283 15 A deep man...believes in magic...
    Bty 6.283 15 A deep man...believes that the orator will decompose his adversary;...
    Bty 6.283 17 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither...
    Suc 7.292 1 ...it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
    PI 8.3 16 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.23 7 [A man] does after what he believes.
    SA 8.106 3 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health.
    Res 8.138 3 A philosophy which...believes neither in virtue nor in genius;... dispirits us;...
    Comc 8.170 12 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes in nothing but hunger...
    QO 8.201 17 Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history;...
    PC 8.219 15 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    Dem1 10.27 2 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where everybody believes only after his humor...
    Aris 10.55 3 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
    Aris 10.61 1 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...and each believes himself alone.
    Chr2 10.99 19 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it...no longer believes because of thy saying, but because it has recognized them in itself.
    Chr2 10.101 7 In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul.
    Edc1 10.144 22 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Edc1 10.144 24 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    SovE 10.202 7 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    SovE 10.206 3 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    MoL 10.252 6 ...the politician believes in his arts and combinations;...
    Schr 10.266 27 ...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks;...
    Plu 10.300 27 [Plutarch] believes in witchcraft and the evil eye...
    Plu 10.313 21 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
    Plu 10.314 5 [Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately into a better and more divine state.
    LS 11.11 14 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    FSLC 11.204 2 [Webster] believes...that government exists for the protection of property.
    FSLN 11.225 1 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    JBB 11.268 18 [John Brown] believes in two articles...the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    JBB 11.268 26 [John Brown] believes in the Union of the States...

believeth, v. (1)

    DSA 1.144 20 None believeth in the soul of man...

believing, adj. (9)

    SL 2.139 1 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    Hsm1. 2.252 20 ...the little man...works in [the world] so headlong and believing...
    Art2 7.56 3 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
    Cour 7.270 16 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Imtl 8.334 20 ...the naturalist works not for himself, but for the believing mind...
    Edc1 10.156 15 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.
    MoL 10.243 17 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing ages.
    FSLN 11.236 21 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is no Church for him but his believing prayer;...then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...

believing, v. (31)

    AmS 1.89 11 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
    LE 1.178 11 Believing...in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    MR 1.256 6 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which, believing in a vast future...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    Mrs1 3.124 20 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
    Mrs1 3.152 7 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing...that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble.
    MoS 4.160 1 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
    MoS 4.175 25 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
    ET5 5.86 2 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    ET7 5.120 12 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the rhodomontade of Europe.
    ET14 5.240 11 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    F 6.34 16 The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it was a power...
    F 6.49 17 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed...
    Wth 6.122 2 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    Wsp 6.203 14 We are born believing.
    SS 7.4 3 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite, believing that he whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from whom kings have the most to fear.
    PI 8.47 10 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing, as we believe of all marriage, that matches are made in heaven...
    PC 8.231 5 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
    PC 8.231 9 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
    Imtl 8.330 11 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I delight in believing myself as immortal as God himself.
    Imtl 8.351 9 Believing this world exists, and not the other, the careless youth is subject to my [Death's] sway.
    LLNE 10.356 16 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing in them than any of his company...
    EzRy 10.394 2 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point, believing himself entitled to a full explanation...
    Thor 10.451 18 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use.
    FSLN 11.242 15 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.
    ACiv 11.302 8 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature is its ally...
    SMC 11.352 11 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant.
    EdAd 11.389 21 ...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of men.
    PLT 12.6 25 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.14 23 ...[the poet] is believing;...
    PLT 12.14 24 ...[the poet] is believing; the philosopher, after some struggle, having only reasons for believing.
    Let 12.404 7 We must refer our clients back to themselves, believing that every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.

Belisarius, n. (2)

    SL 2.165 10 The poet uses the names...of Bonduca, of Belisarius;...
    PC 8.218 7 If [a man] has a military genius, like Belisarius...he is the king's king.

Bell, Charles, n. (2)

    CL 12.157 24 The facts disclosed by Winkelmann, Goethe, Bell...are joyful possessions...
    Trag 12.415 27 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

bell, n. (12)

    Nat 1.38 11 A bell and a plough have each their use...
    Lov1 2.177 5 ...A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    OS 2.271 24 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
    CbW 6.267 15 In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon, as by a glass bell...
    CbW 6.267 20 On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless common, sheltered by no glass bell.
    Elo1 7.69 27 The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together...
    Clbs 7.226 18 ...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
    Suc 7.299 11 Does that deep-toned bell...render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    PI 8.55 19 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon/...
    SHC 11.428 14 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    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;...
    Trag 12.411 17 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

Bellarmine, Robert, n. (1)

    ShP 4.203 15 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Abraham Cowley, Bellarmine...

bell-astronomy, n. (1)

    CbW 6.267 21 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon.

Belle Assemblee, La, n. (1)

    Boks 7.214 20 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.

belle, n. (1)

    Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.

Belleisle, n. (2)

    WD 7.181 15 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last. Not so, as I told you, was it in Belleisle.
    WD 7.181 16 The days at Belleisle were all different...

Bellerophon, n. (1)

    LE 1.178 25 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.

bell-glass, n. (1)

    OA 7.318 9 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...

bellies, n. (1)

    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...

bellows, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 22 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.

bellows, v. (1)

    CL 12.148 27 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.

bells, n. (5)

    Clbs 7.226 17 ...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
    Imtl 8.336 9 If not to be, how like the bells of a fool is the trump of fame!
    MMEm 10.407 11 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.
    AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    RBur 11.443 18 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat [Burns's songs], and the chimes of bells ring them in the spires.

belly, n. (4)

    F 6.22 11 Man is not order of nature...belly and members...
    Wsp 6.205 23 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    Insp 8.281 1 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Mem 12.107 5 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.

Belly, n. (1)

    MoS 4.177 18 I can reason down or deny every thing, except this perpetual Belly...

Belmore, Lord, n. (1)

    EWI 11.117 19 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith...threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...

belong, v. (67)

    AmS 1.115 16 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong;...
    MR 1.233 3 The sins of our trade belong to no class...
    Hist 2.6 11 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the foundation...of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self-reliance.
    Hist 2.26 11 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man...
    SR 2.52 9 ...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SR 2.52 10 ...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
    SR 2.88 6 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it does not belong to him...
    SL 2.151 19 Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce.
    Hsm1 2.254 16 ...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
    Cir 2.314 14 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you...
    Exp 3.50 11 Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
    Chr1 3.96 23 ...men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
    Chr1 3.113 23 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    Nat2 3.182 4 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    NR 3.240 25 ...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he wishes to occupy us.
    ET7 5.125 26 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman.
    ET10 5.166 1 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET11 5.196 8 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    ET11 5.197 26 [Titles of lordship] belong...to an earlier age...
    ET11 5.198 15 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    F 6.4 23 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    Wth 6.88 15 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then...she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Ctr 6.144 5 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries. They are as if they belong to one club.
    Ctr 6.162 8 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Bhr 6.186 2 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    Bhr 6.186 4 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you...
    Bhr 6.186 17 Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste.
    Wsp 6.213 18 To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden enlargements of power.
    Wsp 6.221 5 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
    CbW 6.272 7 Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
    SS 7.10 1 [The ends of thought]...belong to the immensities and eternities.
    DL 7.125 21 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man]...
    Boks 7.207 21 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together, and to the land to which they belong.
    OA 7.335 22 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these.
    PI 8.5 20 ...we see that things wear different names and faces, but belong to one family;...
    PI 8.37 5 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet]...
    Elo2 8.121 9 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
    QO 8.200 9 ...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was yesterday another's, is to-day his and will belong to a third to-morrow.
    PC 8.209 15 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
    PPo 8.258 7 This picture of the first days of Spring, from Enweri, seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Aris 10.57 20 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Chr2 10.93 17 We belong to [the sense of Right and Wrong], not it to us.
    Chr2 10.95 20 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...
    Chr2 10.105 23 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Chr2 10.113 22 All the victories of religion belong to the moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.115 24 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    SovE 10.185 20 ...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral sensibility.
    SovE 10.206 21 We in America are charged...that reverence does not belong to our character;...
    Prch 10.236 6 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe...
    MoL 10.241 16 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters,-the power and joy that belong to it...
    Schr 10.277 2 These shrewd faculties belong to man.
    Schr 10.281 16 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity...
    MMEm 10.406 4 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    LS 11.20 17 ...an importance is given by Christians to [the Lord's Supper] which never can belong to any form.
    HDC 11.72 1 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
    LVB 11.89 10 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to the chief magistrate;...
    EWI 11.123 12 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade.
    FSLN 11.241 13 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong.
    SHC 11.430 20 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    PLT 12.20 8 Not only man puts things in a row, but things below in a row.
    PLT 12.24 11 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they do not properly belong to you...
    CL 12.145 25 Yonder pear has every property which should belong to a tree.
    CL 12.149 14 What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what countless uses that we know not!
    CL 12.163 8 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    CL 12.163 13 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know.
    Bost 12.198 14 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    EurB 12.377 9 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume...

belonged, v. (18)

    DSA 1.128 19 Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.
    LE 1.179 13 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class fast growing in the world...
    Tran 1.352 18 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
    Gts 3.161 6 ...we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    ET17 5.297 10 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton...
    Wth 6.93 21 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it.
    Wth 6.98 24 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
    Ill 6.319 15 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    Boks 7.201 23 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    PI 8.56 4 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day, any more than a right Gothic cathedral. It belonged to a time and taste which is not in the world.
    SA 8.90 6 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility of the parties...
    Elo2 8.122 21 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    QO 8.193 21 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.
    Thor 10.477 20 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    Thor 10.484 21 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant [the Edelweisse], which belonged to him of right.
    Humb 11.458 12 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    ChiE 11.474 18 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    MAng1 12.244 20 [Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any country; he belonged to the human race;...

belonging, v. (3)

    Pol1 3.208 26 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    ET9 5.145 13 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET9 5.147 25 ...[the Englishman] thinks every circumstance belonging to him comes recommended to you.

belongings, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.133 7 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...
    ET6 5.107 10 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET7 5.119 17 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    F 6.37 27 There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his food.

belongs, v. (95)

    Nat 1.49 15 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    AmS 1.114 7 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.
    MN 1.207 10 ...what strikes us in the fine genius is that which belongs of right to every one.
    MR 1.227 5 ...the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
    Tran 1.340 13 ...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    Hist 2.3 18 ...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody... every emotion which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
    Hist 2.23 20 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    SR 2.60 25 ...a true man belongs to no other time or place...
    Comp 2.102 25 If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
    SL 2.132 8 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him...
    SL 2.133 12 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
    SL 2.145 7 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...
    OS 2.273 2 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
    OS 2.294 4 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    Int 2.344 12 Entire self-reliance belongs to the intellect.
    Art1 2.368 21 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Chr1 3.97 25 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Mrs1 3.139 19 ...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.
    Pol1 3.206 8 ...to every particle of property belongs its own attraction.
    PPh 4.62 26 ...to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to it.
    MoS 4.171 20 ...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have reason, and every man, at some time, belongs to it.
    ShP 4.215 21 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
    GoW 4.289 7 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth.
    ET4 5.54 18 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution.
    ET13 5.228 7 If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
    F 6.16 7 We know in history what weight belongs to race.
    F 6.41 8 We know what madness belongs to love...
    Pow 6.62 12 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
    Wth 6.113 18 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    Bhr 6.171 13 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    Bhr 6.187 11 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please, on the world that belongs to them...
    Wsp 6.203 15 A self-poise belongs to every particle...
    Wsp 6.237 17 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them.
    Bty 6.286 19 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    Bty 6.290 7 ...beauty is only an invitation from what belongs to us.
    Bty 6.293 25 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has;...
    Ill 6.310 2 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    Art2 7.46 11 The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
    Elo1 7.98 12 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs...
    Farm 7.139 11 The farmer...acquires that livelong patience which belongs to [Nature].
    Farm 7.154 1 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
    WD 7.178 4 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Cour 7.268 18 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Cour 7.272 1 See too what good contagion belongs to [courage].
    Suc 7.307 20 What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our constitution?...
    OA 7.330 12 The day comes...when the admirable verse finds the poet to whom it belongs;...
    PI 8.7 3 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.33 18 Great design belongs to a poem...
    PI 8.43 26 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet...
    SA 8.97 20 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it...
    Res 8.138 16 ...if you tell me...that this world belongs to the energetic;...I am invigorated...
    Res 8.144 9 The world belongs to the energetic man.
    Res 8.153 24 ...the world belongs to the energetic, belongs to the wise.
    Comc 8.168 13 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science].
    PPo 8.244 15 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
    PPo 8.247 17 An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
    PPo 8.256 24 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/ Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose./
    Grts 8.301 19 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all...
    Imtl 8.333 18 Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it? Who put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you; it is elemental,-belongs to thought and virtue...
    Aris 10.38 27 ...to [aristocracy] belongs without assertion a proper influence.
    Aris 10.47 20 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Aris 10.49 10 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs...
    PerF 10.83 8 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    PerF 10.85 24 This world belongs to the energetical.
    SovE 10.192 11 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art. But it ought to come; it belongs to the human intellect...
    SovE 10.203 2 Our religion...belongs to our time and place;...
    SovE 10.205 27 We delight in children because of that religious eye which belongs to them;...
    SovE 10.212 21 ...what divination or insight belongs to [ethical truth]!
    MoL 10.242 1 [The scholar] belongs to a superior society...
    Schr 10.275 7 Beauty belongs to the [moral] sentiment...
    LLNE 10.354 27 Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
    MMEm 10.421 19 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
    Thor 10.471 13 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me: and they do not wish what belongs to it.
    HDC 11.77 3 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons.
    EWI 11.145 18 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens, but which belongs to more abstract views than we are now taking...
    FSLN 11.222 2 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs...we shall not soon find again.
    EdAd 11.390 25 Will [a journal] cope with the allied questions of Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?
    SHC 11.434 25 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];...
    PLT 12.46 7 Will is the advance to that which rightly belongs to us...
    PLT 12.54 13 What strength belongs to every plant and animal in Nature.
    PLT 12.57 23 There is a conflict...between wisdom and the habit and necessity of repeating itself which belongs to every mind.
    PLT 12.59 20 ...wit...puts together what belongs together...
    PLT 12.63 8 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion. It is in one, it belongs to all; yet how to impart it?
    II 12.75 9 [The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it?
    CInt 12.121 8 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of truth.
    CW 12.178 20 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    Bost 12.205 19 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
    MAng1 12.215 14 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    MAng1 12.219 26 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
    WSL 12.343 19 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class;...
    EurB 12.372 12 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other. And Godiva is a parable which belongs to the same gospel.
    EurB 12.372 17 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...
    PPr 12.380 15 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...
    PPr 12.388 8 [Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who knows what belongs to him...
    Trag 12.413 16 ...all melancholy, as all passion, belongs to the exterior life.

beloved, adj. (20)

    DSA 1.149 11 There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    LE 1.187 16 ...[Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar beloved of earth and heaven.
    MN 1.217 17 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved...
    Lov1 2.171 18 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy, and cover every beloved name.
    Lov1 2.175 20 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Lov1 2.177 25 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
    Lov1 2.185 15 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Fdsp 2.193 23 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    Hsm1 2.258 5 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
    Chr1 3.109 15 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly.
    ET14 5.243 22 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so beloved;...
    Ill 6.319 8 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
    Suc 7.304 1 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    Insp 8.286 2 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
    Chr2 10.114 1 The Church, in its ardor for beloved persons, clings to the miraculous...
    LS 11.6 1 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially, the beloved disciple...has quite omitted such a notice.
    HDC 11.60 24 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...
    FSLC 11.190 1 ...all men are beloved as they raise us to [the spiritual element];...
    SMC 11.372 25 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    EdAd 11.382 22 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./

beloved, n. (1)

    Nat 1.52 27 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...

beloved, v. (4)

    MN 1.200 23 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but gladly beloved and enjoyed.
    Elo1 7.72 6 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    Plu 10.313 24 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    Plu 10.313 26 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.

Belsham, Thomas, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.330 5 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham...

belt, n. (12)

    Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    Pt1 3.19 26 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
    Exp 3.62 22 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life...a narrow belt.
    ET2 5.30 17 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock, with a knife in his belt...
    ET3 5.40 22 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    ET3 5.40 23 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    ET18 5.303 23 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire...
    F 6.5 25 Wise men feel that there is...a strap or belt which girds the world...
    F 6.22 27 ...here they are, side by side...belt and spasm...
    Elo1 7.99 24 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    PC 8.225 3 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    SovE 10.204 6 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind...

belted, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.225 9 Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws...
    Edc1 10.128 4 Here is a world pierced and belted with natural laws...

belting, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.279 12 Oft peeled for [Seyd] a lofty tone/ From nodding pole and belting zone./

belting, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 9 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...belting for mill-wheels...

belts, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.9 14 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...
    Wth 6.98 1 Every man wishes to see...the satellites and belts of Jupiter and Mars...yet how few can buy a telescope!...

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