Belus to Best-Settled
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Belus, n. (1)
Belvedere Apollo, n. [Belvedere] (2)
Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the
Apollo a fancy piece?
Belvoir, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.190 5 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from
the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben
Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other
noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a
romantic style of manners.
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, (5)
Hist 2.11 11 Belzoni digs and measures in the
mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the
difference between the monstrous work and himself.
Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni,
to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live
in sepulchres...
Wth 6.95 4 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows
the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the
science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated,
and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Belzoni...
Dem1 10.10 27 Belzoni describes the three marks which
led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made
a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you
expose your atheism.
bemoan, v. (3)
Exp 3.48 8 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but
it is not half so bad with them as they say.
Nat2 3.181 23 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their
imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
bemoaning, v. (1)
OA 7.327 11 All the functions of human duty irritate
and lash [man] forward, bemoaning and chiding...
Bench, Federal, n. (1)
FSLC 11.184 9 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if
its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
bench, n. (14)
SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not
yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the
Latin School.
Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy
who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in
the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten
honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same
amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench...
Cour 7.259 17 ...the aggressive attitude of men
who...will no longer be bothered with...thieves on the bench; that
part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must
be taken by stout and sincere men...
Elo2 8.111 19 Who knows before the debate
begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons,
the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy
of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of
judges...all are invisible and unknown.
Edc1 10.158 5 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from
his bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from
the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
SlHr 10.441 4 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or
congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in
the town-house, on the plain wooden bench where honor came and sat down
beside him.
EWI 11.106 17 Very unwilling had that great lawyer
[Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he
suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George
Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
EWI 11.140 20 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into
the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is
reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was
it from necessity?
FSLC 11.198 11 What shall we say of the functionary
by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If
he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the
case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what
office is this for a reputable citizen to hold? No man of honor can sit
on that bench.
JBB 11.271 3 Great wealth, great population, men of
talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
JBB 11.272 3 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the
federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local
government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we
should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the
dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
Bench, n. (4)
EWI 11.129 16 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary
walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out
the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide
realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other
thoughts.
FSLC 11.185 19 The learning of the universities...the
majesty of the Bench...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
FSLN 11.241 18 We should not forgive...the Bench, if
it put itself on the side of the culprit;...
Bench of Bishops, n. (1)
ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with
the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
benches, n. (2)
Art2 7.55 5 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!
Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what
multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
bend, v. (23)
Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines
of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and
charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will
bend and aid you to communicate.
Con 1.299 12 Conservatism...believes...that for me it
avails not to trust in principles, they will fail me, I must bend a
little;...
Hist 2.34 23 The preternatural prowess of the hero,
the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of
the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the
mind.
OS 2.271 8 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly
call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our
knees bend.
Art1 2.349 22 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to
play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile
to his fate/...
Elo1 7.91 27 There is for every man a statement
possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a
statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away
from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.
Farm 7.138 24 [The farmer] bends to the order of the
seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend
to the wind.
Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God
hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what
multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
PerF 10.73 3 The man must bend to the law, never the
law to him.
Chr2 10.120 19 The grass must bend, when the wind
blows across it.
SovE 10.197 23 If I will stand upright, the creation
cannot bend me.
AsSu 11.249 14 His friends, I remember, were told
that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is
quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the
rest have done.
AsSu 11.249 15 His friends, I remember, were told
that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is
quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the
rest have done. Well, he did not bend.
ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained
prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten
eight.
CL 12.150 20 In January the new snow has changed the
woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals
in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the
masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
Bost 12.182 14 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred
thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/
Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each
to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal
friend./
bended, adj. (4)
Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands
with bended head...
SR 2.70 27 The genesis and maturation of a
planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are
demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
Insp 8.268 5 ...if with bended head I grope/
Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More
anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/
Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/
Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
bending, adj. (2)
AmS 1.86 16 ...to this schoolboy under the bending
dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one
root;...
PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My
oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives
back the bending heavens in dew./
bending, v. (4)
PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with
love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest
thine./
FSLN 11.218 23 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical
sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the
entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their
breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
CL 12.158 3 There are probably many in this audience
who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as
to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
bends, v. (5)
Hist 2.13 24 Through the bruteness and toughness of
matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back
to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and
babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
F 6.38 2 ...[every creature] has predisposing power
that bends and fits what is near him to his use.
MAng1 12.241 27 At the age of eighty years,
[Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he is careful
where he bends his thoughts...
benedicat, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
benedicatur, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
benedicitur, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
Benedict, XIV, Pope, n. [Benedict] (4)
Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend,
and met him on the way;...
Wsp 6.237 6.237 Mira came to ask what she should do
with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for
her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should
she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask?
MAng1 12.231 24 Benedict XIV., during one of these
panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and
examine [St. Peter's dome].
benediction, n. (2)
SL 2.160 26 ...why need you torment yourself and
friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him
with gifts and salutations heretofore? Be a gift and a benediction.
HDC 11.86 19 The benediction of [the Concord
people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
benedictions, n. (3)
Ill 6.325 12 The young mortal enters the hall of the
firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they pouring on him
benedictions and gifts...
GSt 10.507 15 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen
will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most
efficient benefactors has departed, and will cover his memory with
benedictions;...
SMC 11.376 6 A duty so severe has been discharged [in
the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though
the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear
through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
benedictus, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
benefaction, n. (2)
CbW 6.256 16 The benefaction derived in Illinois and
the great West from railroads is inestimable...
benefactor, n. (36)
MR 1.228 6 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a
benefactor...
Con 1.324 18 Whosoever hereafter shall name my name,
shall not record a malefactor but a benefactor in the earth.
Tran 1.337 25 The Buddhist...who...will not deceive
the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a
Transcendentalist.
Comp 2.118 17 In general, every evil to which we do
not succumb is a benefactor.
Chr1 3.99 15 I revere the person who is riches; so
that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron,
benefactor and beatified man.
Chr1 3.111 17 ...when men shall meet as they ought,
each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things
announce.
NER 3.256 19 ...if I had not that commodity
[money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only
certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each
asked of the other.
UGM 4.28 26 Nothing is more marked than the power by
which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every
benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his
activity into places where it is not due;...
NMW 4.225 24 [The man in the street] finds
[Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible
merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all
those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal
and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons
about him...
Civ 7.22 5 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded
and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
DL 7.128 6 Happy will that house be...in which
character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to
either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing,
inevitable benefactor to the other.
DL 7.129 6 ...when men shall meet as they
should...each a benefactor...it shall be the festival of Nature...
WD 7.165 24 ...Trade...that benefactor in spite of
itself, ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
SA 8.103 7 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long
ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was
such...good action, combined with...such modesty and persistent
preference for others. Wherever he moved, he was the benefactor.
QO 8.191 6 If we are fired and guided by these
[inspiring lessons], we know [the author] as a benefactor...
PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of
universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Chr2 10.107 27 ...the distinctions of the true
clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a
sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
Schr 10.284 21 Happy for more than yourself, a
benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of
wisdom, art or poetry;...
FSLN 11.243 19 Having...professed his adoration for
liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded
with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day,
much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his
benefactor Essex.
ALin 11.336 26 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web... that Heaven, wishing to show the world a
completed benefactor, shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more
by his death than by his life?
HCom 11.342 11 The proof that war...is a marked
benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
FRO2 11.487 21 All education is to accustom [man] to
trust himself...until he...becomes a benefactor.
CW 12.176 11 ...if one is so happy as to find the
company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
WSL 12.340 26 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
benefactors, n. (29)
Nat 1.13 19 The useful arts are reproductions or new
combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
Tran 1.337 22 The Buddhist...who says, Do not flatter
your benefactors...is a Transcendentalist.
SR 2.47 25 ...we are...guides, redeemers and
benefactors...
Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness,
offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
SL 2.164 9 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and
philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself
to my benefactors?
Gts 3.164 1 It is a very onerous business, this of
being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A
golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your
benefactors.
ShP 4.197 27 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal
poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...
ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so
many benefactors.
Ctr 6.156 14 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not
live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as
benefactors;...
CbW 6.248 17 Mankind divides itself into two
classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
CbW 6.273 27 We know that all our training is to fit
us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it. How long
shall we sit and wait for these benefactors?
Suc 7.286 26 Neither do we grudge to each of these
benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life...[poets']
admiration of heroes and benefactors...are hosts of ideals...
PC 8.234 10 ...when I...consider the sound material
of which the cultivated class here is made up...and that the most
distinguished by genius and culture are in this class of benefactors,-I
cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
Edc1 10.142 4 There is no want of example of great
men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
GSt 10.503 2 ...unlike other benefactors, [George
Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his
own pursuits...
GSt 10.507 14 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen
will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most
efficient benefactors has departed...
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our own
Hosmers, Minotts...the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
EWI 11.102 12 These men [negro slaves], our
benefactors...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how
they are kept there.
War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have
risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare
war or carry arms...you have a nation...of benefactors, of true, great
and able men.
FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and
tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
SHC 11.435 15 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote
century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have
made the air timeable and articulate.
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library]
has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the
country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and
hospitals...
Bost 12.208 25 What public souls have lived here [in
Boston], what social benefactors...
benefic, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.182 27 If we consider how much we are
nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns, as if that terrific
or benefic force did not find us there also...
beneficence, n. (6)
YA 1.374 21 ...the existing generation are conspiring
with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations,
sacrifices the passing one;...
OS 2.275 16 The soul...requires beneficence, but is
somewhat better;...
Art2 7.37 10 [All the departments of life] are
sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well
as his works in its flowing beneficence.
Prch 10.235 18 The inevitable course of remark for
us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty,
is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and
by which we live...
CPL 11.496 22 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the
utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a
library].
beneficent, adj. (32)
Con 1.313 10 Consider [the order of things] as the
work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to
edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
YA 1.371 25 ...the Genius or Destiny is not narrow,
but beneficent.
MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and
beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
ET15 5.261 5 In England...[the power of the
newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive
tendencies of a monarchy.
ET15 5.272 27 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new
millennium of beneficent power.
Ill 6.319 5 There are...the structural, beneficent
illusions of sentiment and of the intellect.
Cour 7.277 3 If you have no faith in beneficent power
above you...then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us
courage...
Suc 7.284 25 It is recorded of Linnaeus, among many
proofs of his beneficent skill, that when the timber in the shipyards
of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to
find a remedy.
SA 8.107 13 ...I believe that with all liberal and
hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we
really enjoy;...
Dem1 10.17 16 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and
therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It
was...not devilish, since it was beneficent;...
Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities...
SovE 10.189 3 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the
bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always
bringing things right;...
SovE 10.192 21 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb
the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed. It was an
early discovery of the mind,- this beneficent rule.
Prch 10.237 23 ...when we...come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that
life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences
the most immense.
Schr 10.267 11 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.
LLNE 10.350 9 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the
bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...
LLNE 10.353 14 ...it would be better to say, Let us
be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man
becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...
FSLN 11.223 25 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had
been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could
have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
ACiv 11.309 10 I hope it is not a fatal objection to
this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent
thoroughly...
FRO1 11.480 22 I wish that the various beneficent
institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all
be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free
Religious Association]...
Let 12.404 27 Many of the best must die of
consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and
fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty
and beneficent existence.
beneficently, adv. (1)
Wsp 6.215 15 I can best indicate by examples those
reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the
actor,--beneficently to the good, penally to the bad.
beneficiaries, n. (2)
Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
EzRy 10.391 3 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra
Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
beneficiary, n. (5)
Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for
the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the
beneficiary.
Tran 1.356 14 Grave seniors insist on
[Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or
beneficiary...which they resist as what does not concern them.
Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has
appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty
beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth
century Simeon the Stylite...
Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
Gts 3.163 17 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
benefit, n. (138)
Nat 1.17 2 ...in other hours, Nature
satisfies...without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
LE 1.168 9 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for
the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the
tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
MN 1.204 3 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that
impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any
one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless
benefit;...
MN 1.210 17 Are there not moments in the history of
heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals,
but...was...God rushing into multiform benefit?
MN 1.214 22 He who aims at progress should aim at an
infinite, not at a special benefit.
MR 1.228 13 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a
brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him
to go in honor and with benefit.
MR 1.247 23 ...we must clear ourselves each one by
the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the
hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
Tran 1.358 1 ...the path which the hero travels alone
is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
YA 1.366 22 ...beside all the moral benefit which we
may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw
from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
YA 1.372 8 All the facts in any part of nature shall
be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and
benefit;...
YA 1.375 1 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are
essential to the country...
YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the
little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost
[the things we do] would yield.
YA 1.386 7 If any man has a talent...for combining a
hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the
county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
YA 1.387 7 If society were transparent, the
noble...would be felt as benefit, inasmuch as he was noble.
Comp 2.112 23 Has [a man] gained by borrowing,
through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or
money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit
on the one part and of debt on the other;...
Comp 2.113 16 ...for every benefit which you receive,
a tax is levied.
SL 2.152 10 There is no teaching until the pupil is
brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a
teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite
lose the benefit.
Fdsp 2.201 5 ...I leave, for the time, all account of
subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
Fdsp 2.209 26 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a
friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure,
instead of the noblest benefit.
Cir 2.305 27 The new statement...to those dwelling in
the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets
wonted to it...then its innocency and benefit appear...
Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not
macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I
could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the
first day...
Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who
has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and
good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities;
etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look
very short.
Mrs1 3.143 19 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if
we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply
these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the
individuals actually found there.
Gts 3.164 13 Compared with that good-will I bear my
friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
Gts 3.164 18 ...we can seldom hear the
acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without
some shame and humiliation.
Gts 3.164 22 ...we seldom have the satisfaction of
yielding a direct benefit which is directly received.
Pol1 3.210 25 From neither party, when in power, has
the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all
commensurate with the resources of the nation.
NR 3.239 22 Hence the immense benefit of party in
politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the
intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
NR 3.239 27 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit
that there should be two stupidities!
NER 3.261 8 ...in the assault on the kingdom of
darkness [many reformers]...lose their sanity and power of benefit.
NER 3.277 7 The selfish man suffers more from his
selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important
benefit.
NER 3.278 3 ...we desire to be touched with that fire
which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a
benefit.
UGM 4.6 18 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to
paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit!
UGM 4.16 23 We go to the gymnasium and the
swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the
like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats
of all kinds;...
UGM 4.21 10 How to illustrate the distinctive benefit
of ideas, the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into
the general mind?...
UGM 4.31 14 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent
person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a
lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and
great benefit it is to each speaker...
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.
UGM 4.35 12 It is for man...on every side, whilst he
lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that...the germs of
love and benefit may be multiplied.
PPh 4.63 15 I announce the good of being
interpenetrated by the mind that made nature: this benefit, namely,
that it can understand nature, which it made and maketh.
PPh 4.67 9 Judge whether it is not safer to be
instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which
they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not,
just as it may happen.
ET9 5.148 26 There is also this benefit in brag, that
the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty
peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the
hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages
of owners.
ET11 5.194 1 Most of [the English noblemen] are only
chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power
of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
ET12 5.204 16 [The English] know the use of a tutor,
as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of
benefit out of both.
ET14 5.247 19 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good.
ET14 5.247 20 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it
creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine
to the London grocer.
F 6.33 5 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it
commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a
finger-pointing of Providence, always turned toward real benefit.
Pow 6.81 4 ...we infer that all success and all
conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his
reach...
Wth 6.89 8 He is the richest man who knows how to
draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel,
the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and
country life...
Ctr 6.166 19 [Man] will convert the Furies into
Muses, and the hells into benefit.
CbW 6.256 19 What is the benefit done by a good King
Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by
the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Civ 7.31 2 What a benefit would the American
government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost
to the point of prohibition!
DL 7.114 3 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is
not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff. It is the
means of freedom and benefit.
DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his
prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit...
Farm 7.150 18 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land,
make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and
will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they
are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
Clbs 7.244 12 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser
men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and
exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
OA 7.327 6 Michel Angelo's head is full...of
architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in
courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in
which some great benefit for the world is planted.
OA 7.328 17 For a fourth benefit, age sets its house
in order...
PI 8.67 22 We are a little civil, it must be
owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the
largest interpretation.
SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense
than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the
benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
SA 8.104 10 Amidst the calamities which war has
brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our
eyes...look homeward.
Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a
premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill
which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a
disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
Grts 8.315 19 How many men, detested in contemporary
hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old
estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great
benefit.
Imtl 8.329 22 Schiller said, What is so universal as
death, must be benefit.
Chr2 10.91 16 ...it is for benefit, that all
subsists.
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 10.93 3 ...love is delight in the preference of
that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own
share;...
Chr2 10.93 6 ...humility is a sentiment of our
insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
Chr2 10.94 10 The [interest of the individual] craves
a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires
him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.
Chr2 10.100 18 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born... which comes down into Nature as if only for the
benefit of souls...
Edc1 10.139 12 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and
behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the
benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
Edc1 10.159 11 Consent yourself to be an organ of
your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an
energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of
society...
SovE 10.201 25 The creeds into which we were
initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the
minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with
contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these
suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
Prch 10.228 13 Mankind have been subdued to the
acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so
pure a servant of truth and love.
Prch 10.236 26 The Sabbath changes its forms from age
to age, but the substantial benefit endures.
MMEm 10.432 4 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who
have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and
enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
Thor 10.459 3 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College
was its library...
GSt 10.507 5 ...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 11.43 14 ...when, presently...parties, with
grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians
and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen
in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade
and practices of these farmers.
EWI 11.129 17 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary
walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out
the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide
realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other
thoughts.
EWI 11.141 27 The emancipation [in the West Indies]
is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as
sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
FSLC 11.188 25 ...whilst animals have to do with
eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with
benefit, with truth...
FSLC 11.199 21 The only benefit that has accrued from
the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
FSLN 11.236 2 I conceive that thus to detach a man
and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make
him strong and rich; and here the optimist must find, if anywhere, the
benefit of Slavery.
FSLN 11.237 16 A man who commits a crime defeats the
end of his existence. He was created for benefit, and he exists for
harm;...
AKan 11.257 12 I know people who are making haste to
reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and
earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
ACiv 11.302 17 We want men...who can open their
eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
EPro 11.317 16 ...great as the popularity of the
President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have
underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has
made an instrument of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix
it impassably...
EPro 11.325 16 We think we cannot overstate the
wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation
Proclamation].
EdAd 11.384 12 [The traveller] reflects on...what
levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in
America] for the benefit of masses of men.
EdAd 11.387 7 ...the right patriotism consists in the
delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate
advantages to the benefit of humanity.
Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be,
now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on
society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the
position of Woman.
SHC 11.431 6 A grove of trees,-what benefit or
ornament is so fair and great?...
SHC 11.432 25 Certainly the living need [a garden]
more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction
of benefit on the living.
FRO1 11.478 2 ...[the Free Religious Association] has
prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious
men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite
in a movement of benefit to men...
FRO2 11.486 8 ...we find parity, identity of design,
through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
FRO2 11.489 8 It is the praise of our New Testament
that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
CPL 11.495 21 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the
act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the
Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit
conferred.
CPL 11.496 2 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library...
FRep 11.537 4 We want men...who can open their
eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
FRep 11.544 18 ...the height of reason, the noblest
affection, the purest religion will...write our laws for the benefit of
men.
PLT 12.30 22 When, moved by love, a man...joins with
his neighbor in any act of common benefit...it is not done for others,
but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
PLT 12.30 26 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at
immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is
not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper
character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by
the doer.
PLT 12.40 27 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is
a truth held not from...any accidental benefit or recommendation it has
in our trade or circumstance...is of inestimable value.
PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the
disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health
and benefit...
II 12.73 1 Certain young men or maidens are thus to
be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
Perhaps that is a benefit...
II 12.87 14 ...perception that the tendency of the
whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
II 12.88 17 Our books are full of generous
biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing
of nature.
Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its
experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one
to wrath and animal desire.
CL 12.136 22 Linnaeus, early in life, read a
discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in
one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district
were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable
of yielding immense benefit.
CL 12.156 2 ...beside their sanitary and gymnastic
benefit, mountains are silent poets...
ACri 12.304 18 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
PPr 12.382 13 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds
his property that a benefit goes from it to all.
Let 12.394 7 ...to fifteen letters on Communities,
and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated
class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the
writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with
their company. They have exhausted all its benefit...
Benefit, n. (1)
benefit, v. (1)
PPh 4.67 11 Judge whether it is not safer to be
instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which
they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not,
just as it may happen.
benefited, v. (3)
PPh 4.66 26 Socrates declares that if some have grown
wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends
not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be
benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
PPh 4.67 3 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon]
does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited
by associating with me.
benefits, n. (35)
MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil
of property] the deeper by forming connections...by benefits and debts.
LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
Hist 2.39 13 [Each man] shall...bring with him into
humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth.
SR 2.63 17 The joyful loyalty with which men have
everywhere suffered the king...to...pay for benefits not with money but
with honor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely
signified...the right of every man.
Comp 2.113 21 In the order of nature we cannot render
benefits to those from whom we receive them...
Gts 3.162 1 The law of benefits is a difficult
channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
PNR 4.80 3 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial
Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...we esteem one of the
chief benefits the cheap press has yielded...
GoW 4.279 7 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo],
who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of
the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own
titled name;...
ET18 5.307 17 ...the American people do not
yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
Wth 6.89 4 Wealth requires...the benefits of science,
music and fine arts...
Wth 6.97 22 The socialism of our day has done good
service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing
benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into
the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
Clbs 7.250 13 When we look for the highest benefits
of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the
well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that
condition.
PC 8.212 8 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein
benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century
has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The
benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and
immense.
Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising
the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the
mind.
Imtl 8.337 24 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all
this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at
first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It
would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from
military movements of later ages.
Wom 11.405 5 Among those movements which seem to be,
now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on
society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the
position of Woman.
Scot 11.465 25 [Scott] saw...in the historical
aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
FRep 11.544 3 Such and so potent is this high method
by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the
mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse
ingenuity prevent the blessing.
AgMs 12.363 26 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in
his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the
agriculture of Massachusetts.
benefits, v. (2)
F 6.47 20 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the
vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe, which
his ruin benefits.
Benegridran, n. (1)
ET11 5.175 2 He that will be a head, let him be a
bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
benevolence, n. (20)
DSA 1.124 8 So much benevolence as a man hath, so
much life hath he.
SR 2.81 13 I have no churlish objection to the
circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes...of...benevolence...
SL 2.135 19 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or
our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
Lov1 2.169 5 Nature...anticipates already a
benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general
light.
Fdsp 2.191 15 In poetry and in common speech the
emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others
are likened to the material effects of fire;...
Chr1 3.99 22 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I
shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of
benevolence and etiquette;...
Mrs1 3.142 23 We may easily seem ridiculous in our
eulogy of courtesy, whenever we insist on benevolence as its
foundation.
Ctr 6.159 19 [People] do not know the charm with
which all moments and objects can be embellished, the charm of manners,
of self-command, of benevolence.
Wsp 6.227 22 There was a wise, devout man who is
called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes
touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
Dem1 10.16 15 [The young man] observes, with
pain...that his genius, whose invisible benevolence was tower and
shield to him, is no longer present and active.
MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted
to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is
benevolence enjoins self-denial.
War 11.175 24 ...not in an antiquated appanage where
no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of
benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope;...
II 12.85 7 Is there only one courage, one gratitude,
one benevolence?
benevolences, n. (1)
MoS 4.173 6 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind
that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as
churches and school-books say. He does not wish to take ground against
these benevolences...
benevolent, adj. (8)
Tran 1.354 23 In the eternal trinity of Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the
sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the
moral movements of the time, in the religious and benevolent
enterprises.
Comp 2.122 18 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise,
is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
Chr1 3.103 14 We know who is benevolent, by quite
other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
NER 3.279 10 The reason why any one refuses...his aid
to your benevolent design, is in you...
SwM 4.141 25 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very
like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest
gentleman, benevolent but dyspeptic, into a wretch...
HDC 11.53 13 We, who see in the squalid remnants of
the twenty tribes of Massachusetts, the final failure of this
benevolent enterprise, can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness
with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to
the new hope they had conceived...
JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a
romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of
self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent
and thoughtful men we know;...
EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a
race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
Bengal, adj. (1)
Ill 6.309 20 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults
and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
benign, adj. (7)
AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the
elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in
literature...as benign an aspect.
Pol1 3.208 9 The same benign necessity and the same
practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of
the administration of the government.
Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect
of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with
love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest
thine./
Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an
ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly,
the benign Providence...
Plu 10.316 4 This courteous, gentle and benign
disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or
delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who
have it.
benignant, adj. (5)
Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all
this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to
himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing
myself and my friends and my State.
PC 8.234 2 ...when I say the educated class, I know
what a benignant breadth that word has...
HDC 11.76 9 The benignant Providence which has
prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour
gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
benison, n. (1)
Comc 8.159 1 The perpetual game of humor is to look
with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying
the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the
unrespecting All, and dismissing it with a benison.
bent, n. (2)
Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the
proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the
conversation of society.
ET17 5.297 19 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know
that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the
many, careless also of the few...
bent, v. (23)
Pt1 3.12 23 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in
perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his
skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as
they can, their head bent forward...
ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality, bent on
real service, I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went
[in England];...
F 6.28 26 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest
on a truth, or their will can be bought or bent.
Wth 6.115 4 With brow bent...the pale scholar leaves
his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol
[dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is
bent to amuse the other...
CbW 6.254 24 The sharpest evils are bent into that
periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
Boks 7.210 3 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]
stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop.
All eyes were bent on the bidders.
Dem1 10.14 26 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and
told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for
them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew
back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot
the bird to the ground.
PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn
and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
Supl 10.179 11 ...there is no question...that the
warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the
cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure
and holy soul...bent on serving, teaching and uplifting men.
LLNE 10.346 12 These [19th Century] reformers were a
new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on hanging
the Quaker...these were gentle souls...
ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace
is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's
[Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent,
like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
Milt1 12.261 4 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to
express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
Trag 12.414 18 As the west wind lifts up again the
heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we
let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are
dark and wet and low bent.
Trag 12.414 22 As the west wind...combs out the
matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so
we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which
are dark and wet and low bent.
Bentham, Jeremy, n. (3)
MR 1.228 17 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks,
Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
SR 2.79 14 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and power...a Bentham...it imposes its classification on other
men...
QO 8.197 17 Dumont was exalted by being used by
Mirabeau, by Bentham and by Sir Philip Francis...
Bentley, Richard, n. (7)
SL 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written
down by any but itself.
ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and
send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering
Bramins;...
ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Taylor, Burton,
Bentley, Brian Walton, acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
Grts 8.311 8 The world was created as an audience for
[the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read
the performance of Bentley, Gibbon...
EzRy 10.391 24 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his
fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which,
under a better discipline, might have ripened into a Bentley or a
Porson.
CInt 12.124 14 ...there is a certain shyness of
genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by
the pedants of his time...
Bentley's, Dr., Club, Lond (1)
Clbs 7.243 26 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren,
Evelyn and Locke;...
Bentleys, n. (1)
ET12 5.207 25 When born with good constitutions,
[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of
performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the
music-box;--Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys...
Benton, Thomas Hart, n. (1)
Pow 6.63 24 The senators who dissented from Mr.
Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could
afford it; not Webster, but Benton and Calhoun.
benumb, v. (2)
LT 1.264 23 ...that only is real which men love and
rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which
chill, benumb, and terrify them.
CbW 6.269 15 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his
companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
benumbs, v. (2)
Chr1 3.94 6 When the high cannot bring up the low to
itself, it benumbs it...
F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...benumbs
your feet...
benzoin, laurus, n. (1)
bequeath, v. (1)
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library]
has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the
country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and
hospitals...
bequeathed, v. (3)
ET8 5.134 25 ...here [in England] exists the best
stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and
contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the
island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his
conqueror.
ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy,
a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards,
who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of
course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the
people to whom it was bequeathed.
EWI 11.98 4 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning
ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate
his sire bequeathed/...
bequest, n. (1)
Wth 6.118 9 It is commonly observed that a sudden
wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor
family, does not permanently enrich.
bequethed, v. (1)
Aris 10.30 6 Than cometh our very gentillesse of
grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The
Knighte's Tale.
Beranger, Pierre Jean de, n (3)
OA 7.321 24 Beranger said, Almost all the good
workmen live long.
PI 8.37 12 ...we shall never understand political
economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
PC 8.218 18 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von
Arnim...is always allowed.
bereave, v. (7)
Nat 1.66 8 Empirical science is apt...by the very
knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the
manly contemplation of the whole.
Con 1.324 11 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness
of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour
and company fair and fortunate.
SR 2.72 14 What we love that we have, but by desire
we bereave ourselves of the love.
ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now
invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their
wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of
something of their impressiveness.
ET14 5.253 5 I fear the same fault [lack of
inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to
make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
CbW 6.269 10 Inestimable is he to whom we can say
what we cannot say to ourselves. Others...bereave us of the power of
thought...
Insp 8.276 19 We are waiting until some tyrannous
idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty
with which we are falling abroad.
bereaved, adj. (2)
TPar 11.292 12 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over
your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...
Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach
or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman
appetite or sleep.
bereaved, v. (5)
DSA 1.136 7 ...this moaning of the heart because it
is bereaved of the consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the
culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
Mem 12.102 23 ...when age and calamity have bereaved
[those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then
they retreat on mental faculty...
CInt 12.111 5 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of
nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion
mild./
EurB 12.370 18 A critical friend of ours affirms that
the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition
to begin where their fathers ended;...
bereavement, n. (1)
Trag 12.410 21 That which seems intolerable reproach
or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman
appetite or sleep.
bereaves, v. (9)
DSA 1.124 17 In so far as [a man] roves from these
[good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...
SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of
intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves
every agency of all freedom and character.
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction
has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a
certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of
articulation.
PC 8.225 17 ...the moral element in man counterpoises
this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
Imtl 8.335 23 ...the nebular theory threatens [the
sun's and the star's] duration also, bereaves them of this glory [of
stability]...
PPr 12.385 9 Worst of all for the party attacked,
[Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all
sympathy...
Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which...bereaves
them of animal spirits;...
bereaveth, v. (1)
Bhr 6.167 15 Little [man] says to [graceful women,
chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien
bereaveth him/ Of wit, of words, of rest./
bereaving, adj. (1)
bereaving, v. (1)
bereft, v. (1)
Bergamots, n. (1)
CL 12.146 6 It seems to me much that I have brought a
skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of
refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
beridden, adj. (1)
Berkeley, George, n. (8)
Nat 1.58 11 [Religion] does that for the unschooled,
which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.
NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that
the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner,
they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NER 3.273 7 Berkeley, having listened to the many
lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard
in his turn...
ET14 5.238 18 ...Britain had many disciples of
Plato;...Norris, Cudworth, Berkeley...
ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this
kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of
the existence of matter;...
Plu 10.307 16 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist,
who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself
privation;...
Berkeley's, George, n. (1)
ET9 5.150 18 In a tract on Corn, a most
amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain,
according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass
ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of
the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
Berkshire, Massachusetts, n. (2)
FSLC 11.212 17 We will never intermeddle with your
slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and
Berkshire.
AKan 11.256 15 Do the Committee of Investigation say
that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal
catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it
an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of
Berkshire, have been murdered?
Berkshire, n. (1)
CbW 6.268 3 [The young people] set forth on their
travels in search of a home: they reach Berkshire; they reach
Vermont;...
Berkshire Square, London, (1)
ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by
ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in
Berkshire Square...
Berlin, Germany, n. (6)
SwM 4.107 1 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the
Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly, as the dreamers of Berlin
or Boston...
GoW 4.283 3 ...the [German] professor can not divest
himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some
application to Berlin and Munich.
ET5 5.96 26 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to
be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate
drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
ET15 5.267 11 What would The [London] Times say? is a
terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
Chr2 10.105 25 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No
leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin)
to-day.
Bermudas, n. (1)
NER 3.273 7 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that
the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner,
they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste (2)
NMW 4.244 5 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and
Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his
court;...
NMW 4.253 25 [Napoleon] is unjust to his
generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from
Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
Bernard, Friar, n. (2)
Bernard, n. (1)
Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited,
easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
Bernard, St., n. (5)
Comp 2.123 12 I learn the wisdom of St.
Bernard,--Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
Elo2 8.122 9 What must have been the discourse of St.
Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his
eloquence to join the monastery.
Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his
own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard
he has felt.
Prch 10.234 23 That gray deacon or respectable matron
with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to
the march of St. Bernard...
Bost 12.193 27 In our own age we are learning to
look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which
makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bernini, Giovanni, n. (1)
Suc 7.284 8 ...Evelyn writes from Rome:
Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the
statues...
berries, n. (4)
AmS 1.97 5 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and
ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
CL 12.159 5 Those who persist [in walking] from year
to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and
nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
EurB 12.371 24 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a
harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded...with nuts
and berries...
berry, n. (2)
Exp 3.49 26 We may have the sphere for our
cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy.
Berserker, adj. (1)
Berserkers, n. (1)
berth, n. (2)
ET2 5.26 8 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship
Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
Berthollet, Claude Louis, (1)
NMW 4.250 24 [Bonaparte] delighted in the
conversation of men of science, particularly of Monge and
Berthollet;...
Bertinazzi, Carlo-Antonio [ (3)
Comc 8.174 5 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with
laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some
remedy for excessive melancholy...
Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his
melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre
and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
Comc 8.174 12 The physician endeavored to cheer [his
melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre
and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
beryl, adj. (1)
beryl, n. (1)
SwM 4.135 18 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;...
beryls, n. (1)
SlHr 10.446 5 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's]
respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural
ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals, big beryls
weighing tons...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and
only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
Berzeliuses, n. (1)
UGM 4.12 6 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the
atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
beseech, v. (2)
ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the
cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in
their choice [of a Bishop];...
Bhr 6.196 21 ...if you have headache...or
thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace...
beseeches, v. (1)
Schr 10.270 24 Genius is a poor man and has no house,
but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him
to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
beseeching, adj. (1)
DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching
weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the
mother...
beseem, v. (1)
beset, v. (4)
SwM 4.97 1 ...by being assimilated to the original
soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all
things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with
their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with
terror.
Bhr 6.167 8 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle
every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/
He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./
Thor 10.454 1 [Thoreau] could easily solve the
problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions,
which he manfully confronted.
FRep 11.539 14 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.
besetting, adj. (1)
PLT 12.8 25 ...if you like to run away from this
besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism
by running into society...
besiege, v. (1)
War 11.156 13 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity]
into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the
great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and
unhappy...
besieged, v. (1)
CInt 12.114 15 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the
people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of
highest and most important matters to be reformed...
besieging, v. (1)
Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that
whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to
him on public business came to his camp...
besmirched, v. (1)
Dem1 10.24 11 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report,
and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched.
besotted, adj. (2)
LE 1.186 10 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing
to you from every object in nature...to show the besotted world how
passing fair is wisdom.
Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...even the
poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception
of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;...
besought, v. (1)
HDC 11.52 21 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban,
besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
bespattered, v. (1)
Wsp 6.228 12 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
bespeak, v. (3)
ET14 5.259 12 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak
indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
SMC 11.375 9 I am sure I need not bespeak your
gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of
the Civil War].
bespeaking, v. (1)
Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent,
relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly,
bespeaking courage and undauntedness.
bespoken, v. (1)
EPro 11.317 11 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the
firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor
to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think
that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine
Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
best, adj. (547)
Nat 1.8 6 The flowers, the animals, the mountains,
reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
Nat 1.15 18 ...as the eye is the best composer, so
light is the first of painters.
Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To
an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well
used;...
AmS 1.91 24 It is remarkable, the character of the
pleasure we derive from the best books.
DSA 1.143 10 What was once a mere circumstance, that
the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as
fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going
thither.
LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best
literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in
philosophy.
MN 1.210 26 What is best in any work of art but that
part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
MN 1.218 26 When thought is best, there is most of
it.
MR 1.256 16 The opening of the spiritual senses
disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring
a present success...
LT 1.273 4 Milton, in his best tract, describes a
relation between religion and the daily occupations...
LT 1.276 18 The love which lifted men to the sight of
these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on
the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best
spirits...
LT 1.283 10 The inadequacy of the work to the
faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still. This
happens to the best.
LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in
the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best
institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
Con 1.301 8 If we read the world historically, we
shall say, Of all the ages... this is the best throw of the dice of
nature that has yet been, or that is yet possible.
Con 1.312 8 ...every whim is anticipated and served
by the best ability of the whole population of each country.
Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the
work of a...progressive necessity, which...up to the present high
culture of the best nations, has advanced thus far.
Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O
conservatism! your horses are of the best blood;...
YA 1.372 27 The population of the world is a
conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could
live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
YA 1.373 2 The population of the world is a
conditional population; these are not the best, but...the best that
could yet live;...
YA 1.394 9 ...in England...no man of letters, be his
eminence what it may, is received into the best society, except as a
lion and a show.
SR 2.78 7 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the
mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our
endeavours;/ Our valors are our best gods./
Comp 2.99 13 ...the President has paid dear for his
White House. It has commonly cost him...the best of his manly
attributes.
Comp 2.112 15 Experienced men of the world know very
well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
SL 2.165 2 ...let me do my work so well that other
idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of
[Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
Lov1 2.175 19 ...no man ever forgot the visitations
of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too
solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in
his new thoughts than any old friends, though the best and purest, can
give him;...
Fdsp 2.193 7 ...as soon as the stranger begins to
intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has
heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us.
Fdsp 2.200 17 [A delicate organization] would be lost
if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to
know and own it.
Fdsp 2.205 23 I much prefer the company of ploughboys
and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its
days of encounter... by...dinners at the best taverns.
Hsm1 2.257 21 ...here we are; and, if we will tarry a
little, we may come to learn that here is best.
OS 2.277 27 ...the best minds, who love truth for its
own sake, think much less of property in truth.
OS 2.293 18 If you do not find [your friend], will
you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him?...
Int 2.328 14 You cannot with your best deliberation
and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall
bring you...
Int 2.331 19 ...a man explores the basis of civil
government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in
one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing.
Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of
the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Int 2.340 12 Neither by detachment, neither by
aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works,
but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best
state to operate every moment.
Int 2.340 15 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe
in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
Art1 2.355 20 I should think fire the best thing in
the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures are rude draughts of
a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the
everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes
and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the
accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources
of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
Pt1 3.32 23 That also is the best success in
conversation, the magic of liberty...
Exp 3.57 12 We do what we must, and call it by the
best names we can...
Exp 3.62 2 I compared notes with one of my friends
who expects everything of the universe and is disappointed when
anything is less than the best...
Chr1 3.99 2 The same transport which the occurrence
of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to
taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour
meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Chr1 3.99 3 The same transport which the occurrence
of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to
taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour
meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Chr1 3.100 16 ...[the uncivil, unavailable
man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat
and drink, 't is the best we can do...
Chr1 3.105 17 This masterpiece [character] is best
where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.
Chr1 3.109 25 I should think myself very unhappy in
my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
Chr1 3.111 23 Those relations to the best
men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid
enjoyment.
Mrs1 3.120 17 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way
into...countries where man... establishes a select society, running
through all the countries of intelligent men, a...fraternity of the
best...
Mrs1 3.126 2 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are
gentlemen of the best blood...
Mrs1 3.133 4 [A man] should preserve in a new company
the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily
associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams...
Mrs1 3.143 8 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest
circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is
something necessary and excellent in it;...
Mrs1 3.143 26 There is not only the right of
conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his
natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for
the time;...
Pol1 3.209 26 Of the two great parties which at this
hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has
the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
Pol1 3.213 19 The wise man [the community] cannot
find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his
government by contrivance; as...by a selection of the best citizens;...
Pol1 3.218 24 If a man found himself so rich-natured
that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could
he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
NR 3.244 18 ...let us...infer the genius of nature
from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
NR 3.244 28 ...I would have...no speech, or action,
or thought, or friend, but the best.
NER 3.256 25 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in
the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of
poverty constitute?
NER 3.259 17 ...is not this absurd, that the whole
liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on
studies which lead to nothing?
NER 3.261 22 It is handsomer to remain in the
establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the
best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single
improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
NER 3.264 26 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the
human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
UGM 4.14 11 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I
know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are
Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be
imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal courage
equal to his best parts;--of Falkland...
UGM 4.19 23 [The great man's] class is extinguished
with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will
appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a
buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we
make a stand against our rougher masters; but against the best there is
a finer remedy.
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 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who,
to the best thinking, adds a proportion and equality in his
faculties...
PPh 4.62 27 The sciences, even the best...are like
sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to
make any use of it.
PPh 4.70 25 Socrates again, in his traits and genius,
is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's
extraordinary power.
PNR 4.83 25 The eye attested that justice was best,
as long as it was profitable;...
PNR 4.84 12 Plato affirms...that the order or
proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body, and, though a sound
body cannot restore an unsound mind, yet a good soul can, by its
virtue, render the body the best possible.
SwM 4.107 7 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates
from the oldest philosophers, and derives perhaps its best illustration
from the newest.
SwM 4.141 1 We should have listened on our knees to
any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and
circumstance of the newly parted soul. But it is certain that it must
tally with what is best in nature.
MoS 4.158 8 ...shall the young man aim at a leading
part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a
success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best
and inmost in his mind.
MoS 4.165 21 ...[says Montaigne,] I find that the
best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we
say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce
and the best citizen.
MoS 4.176 11 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we
say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce
and the best citizen.
ShP 4.192 11 The best proof of [the Elizabethan
theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into
this field;...
ShP 4.203 25 Since the constellation of great men who
appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such
society [as that in Elizabethan England];--yet their genius failed them
to find out the best head in the universe.
ShP 4.210 19 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should
have had to consider...how good a dramatist he was,--and he is the best
in the world.
ShP 4.218 23 ...it must even go into the world's
history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane
life, using his genius for the public amusement.
NMW 4.235 22 ...if fighting be the best mode of
adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in
making it thorough.
NMW 4.241 8 The best document of [Napoleon's]
relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the
battle of Austerlitz...
GoW 4.279 26 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both
words in their best sense.
ET1 5.4 25 The conditions of literary success...do
not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on
the best terms.
ET1 5.8 20 [Landor]...designated as three of the
greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our
pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for
a small orchard;...
ET1 5.15 9 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the
world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own
terms what is best in London.
ET1 5.16 18 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that
country [America] was that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
ET1 5.19 1 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals,
especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom
London had well served.
ET2 5.31 15 'T is a good rule in every journey to
provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad
weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
ET2 5.32 5 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at
sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
ET3 5.34 16 The long habitation of a powerful and
ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best
use...
ET3 5.37 8 ...if we will visit London, the present
time is the best time, as some signs portend that it has reached its
highest point.
ET3 5.40 8 England resembles a ship in its shape, and
if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored
it in a more judicious or effective position.
ET3 5.43 21 For the English nation, the best of them
are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior
intellectual light.
ET4 5.54 1 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that
if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins. Put
the best sailing-master into either boat, and he will win.
ET4 5.59 5 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string
puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...best of all, a king.
ET4 5.61 14 The continued draught of the best men in
Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted
those countries...
ET4 5.66 8 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying
cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as
the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
ET4 5.71 12 If in every efficient man there is first
a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
ET5 5.83 23 [The English] are...the best
iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.
ET5 5.87 7 ...[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...
ET5 5.95 16 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.
ET5 5.96 21 The Board of Trade [of England] caused
the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of
every manufacturing population.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres
[in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the
language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand
the best words.
ET6 5.114 17 English stories, bon-mots and the
recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the
French.
ET7 5.118 18 The Duke of Wellington, who had the best
right to say so, advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely
on the parole of an English officer.
ET7 5.124 9 The old Italian author of the Relation of
England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when
the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for
good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm
might befall them.
ET7 5.124 15 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small
fact they know, with the best faith in the world that nothing else
exists.
ET8 5.133 1 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own
strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class,
the best and the worst;...
ET8 5.134 9 ...here [in England] exists the best
stock in the world...best for depth, range and equability;...
ET9 5.152 14 ...this precious knave [George of
Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride
of the best blood of the modern world.
ET10 5.167 19 The incessant repetition of the same
hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or
any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when
cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by
landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy
is care and culture of men;...
ET11 5.185 21 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... who have...kept in every country the best
company...
ET11 5.185 27 ...when it happens that the spirit of
the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of
behavior.
ET11 5.186 8 ...if [English nobility] never hear
plain truth from men, they see the best of everything...
ET11 5.197 18 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds
of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their
best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
ET12 5.211 18 English wealth falling on their school
and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best
authors...
ET12 5.212 7 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more
and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a
book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and
reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
ET12 5.213 15 ...the best poetry of England of this
age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET14 5.239 15 Bacon, in the structure of his mind,
held...of the idealists, or (as we popularly say, naming from the best
example) Platonists.
ET14 5.249 15 But for Coleridge...one would say that
in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly
respected.
ET14 5.252 3 ...[the English] are the most
conditioned men, as if, having the best conditions, they could not
bring themselves to forfeit them.
ET14 5.258 3 The best office of the best poets has
been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
ET14 5.258 4 The best office of the best poets has
been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
ET16 5.281 19 Of all the writers [on Stonehenge],
Stukeley is the best.
ET17 5.291 18 ...what is nowhere better found than in
England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with
Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the
best.
ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours
go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom
[England]...
ET17 5.295 14 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the
best place in the world for a great capital city.
ET19 5.312 17 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood...that [Englishmen's] best parts were slowly revealed;...
F 6.16 2 The population of the world is...not the
best, but the best that could live now;...
F 6.25 18 ...the great day of the feast of life, is
that in which the inward eye...sees that what is must be and ought to
be, or is the best.
F 6.44 21 ...women, as the most susceptible, are the
best index of the coming hour.
F 6.46 23 ...year after year, we find two men, two
women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best
time within a few feet of each other.
Pow 6.58 24 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the
best heads among them take the best places.
Pow 6.58 25 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the
best heads among them take the best places.
Pow 6.59 9 When a new boy comes into school...that
happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture
where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the
best pair of horns and the new-comer...
Pow 6.67 7 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the
selectmen, served them with his best chop when they supped at his
house...
Pow 6.69 23 Strong race or strong individual rests at
last on natural forces, which are best in the savage...
Pow 6.76 9 ...in our flowing affairs a decision must
be made,--the best, if you can, but any is better than none.
Pow 6.78 1 John Kemble said that the worst provincial
company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur
company.
Wth 6.93 3 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious
that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use
of wealth...
Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in
infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of
doing...
Wth 6.108 5 You dismiss your laborer, saying,
Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you
may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him.
Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same
simple and surly market? If it is the best of its kind, it will.
Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer
twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
Wth 6.118 15 A system must be in every economy, or
the best single expedients are of no avail.
Wth 6.122 9 Every pedestrian in our pastures has
frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through
the thicket and over the hills;...
Ctr 6.136 27 Culture is the suggestion, from certain
best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he
can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning
preponderance in his scale...
Ctr 6.138 4 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal
his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit
his impertinency...
Ctr 6.141 22 The best heads that ever existed...were
well-read, universally educated men...
Ctr 6.147 22 ...as a medical remedy, travel seems one
of the best.
Ctr 6.150 7 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...
Ctr 6.150 14 I wish cities could teach their best
lesson,--of quiet manners.
Ctr 6.155 21 We can ill spare the commanding social
benefits of cities; they...will yield their best values to him who best
can do without them.
Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught
not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the
best scholars of.
Bhr 6.184 25 ...the high-born Turk who came hither
[to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and
exhausted by the deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons;...
Wsp 6.210 13 Let a man attain the highest and
broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by
sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has
happened to him;...
Wsp 6.210 16 Let a man attain the highest and
broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by
sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education
has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to
put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
Wsp 6.239 7 'T is a higher thing to confide that if
it is best we should live, we shall live...
CbW 6.246 5 We do what we must, and call it by the
best names.
CbW 6.258 21 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men
are moulded of their faults;/...
CbW 6.258 25 ...great educators and
lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best
timber.
CbW 6.269 5 ...the best fruit [travel] finds, when it
finds it, is conversation.
CbW 6.272 4 Ask what is best in our experience, and
we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
CbW 6.273 23 ...who provides wisely that he shall not
be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?
Ill 6.314 17 ...I remember the quarrel of another
youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the
best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he
could find only three flavors, or two.
Ill 6.317 21 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and
railway men have a gentleness when off duty...
Ill 6.321 10 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a
shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
SS 7.6 26 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to
weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make
an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live
consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of
heaven, because they are the best of angels.
SS 7.12 8 ...if we recall the rare hours when we
encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
SS 7.14 12 Put any company of people together with
freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place
into sets and pairs. The best are accused of exclusiveness.
Civ 7.17 2 We flee away from cities, but we bring/
The best of cities with us/...
Civ 7.30 13 It was a great instruction, said a saint
in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the
Almighty.
Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction
that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we
are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the
author.
Elo1 7.68 10 ...we must be fed and warmed before we
can do any work well,--even the best...
Elo1 7.73 4 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of
Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied,
When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very
spectators to believe him.
Elo1 7.95 10 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers,
like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to
their fame remains. Besides, what is best is lost,--the fiery life of
the moment.
Elo1 7.96 27 ...the best university that can be
recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
DL 7.110 24 I am afraid that, so considered, our
houses will not be found... to express the best thought.
DL 7.113 6 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber
to chamber and see no beauty;...
DL 7.115 24 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are
best plain-set...
DL 7.127 24 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw
from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of
this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best
relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to
form.
DL 7.129 13 In the progress of each man's character,
his relations to the best men...acquire a graver importance;...
Farm 7.150 7 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we
did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord,
which we are now getting the best crops from;...
Farm 7.151 4 There has been a nightmare bred in
England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords,
namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse
than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands;
the next, the second best;...
Farm 7.152 12 ...when...there is more skill, and
tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the
lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...
Farm 7.152 15 It needs science and great numbers to
cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
WD 7.158 3 ...such is the mechanical determination of
our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not
dulled our joy and pride in them;...
Boks 7.190 16 A company of the wisest and wittiest
men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years
have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of
their learning and wisdom.
Boks 7.193 23 ...I can seldom go there [to the
Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it
all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
Boks 7.196 12 ...good travellers stop at the best
hotels; for...there is the good company and the best information.
Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed
books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
Boks 7.197 24 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the
heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best
of all.
Boks 7.199 9 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments and manners...
Boks 7.199 10 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments and manners, by the first master, in the best
times;...
Boks 7.199 25 Plutarch cannot be spared from the
smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then
that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Phocion,
Marcellus and the rest, are what history has of best.
Boks 7.201 13 Of course a certain outline should be
obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best...
Boks 7.208 16 Another class of books closely allied
to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks:
of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan; Luther's Table-Talk;...
Boks 7.218 10 ...I might as well not have begun as to
leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
Clbs 7.225 17 ...of all the cordials known to us, the
best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...
Clbs 7.228 23 We remember the time when the best gift
we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a
ship's cabin...
Clbs 7.235 18 He that can define, he that can answer
a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.
Clbs 7.237 6 One of the best records of the great
German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first
thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by
Eckermann;...
Clbs 7.241 25 It is possible that the best
conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
Clbs 7.246 24 ...when the manufacturers, merchants
and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have
come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men.
Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in
his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best
generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him
for success;...
Cour 7.258 26 The political reigns of terror have
been...a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down, and its
best men are thought too bad to live.
Cour 7.271 3 'T is the quiet, peaceable men, the men
of principle, that make the best soldiers.
Cour 7.273 23 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some
passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a
great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the
Almighty.
Suc 7.287 13 The [Norse] mother says to her
son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which
is best of all,/...
Suc 7.291 2 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of himself: Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my
best hopes were placed, being dead, I began to understand...that to
confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the
best and safest course.
Suc 7.291 7 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in
one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and
safest course.
OA 7.313 20 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool
me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new
delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your
change and cheer the best./
OA 7.330 13 The day comes...best of all, when the
lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is
suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
OA 7.331 19 Much wider is spread the pleasure which
old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist
his experiments, and all old men in...leaving all in the best posture
for the future.
PI 8.6 23 Suppose there were in the ocean certain
strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that
no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or
sails, or steam, could make any head against...
PI 8.22 25 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of
many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who
felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
PI 8.33 4 Homer has his own [important
passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/...
PI 8.33 17 There is no choice of words for him who
clearly sees the truth. That provides him with the best word.
PI 8.40 23 [The poet] has seen something which all
the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto.
PI 8.45 4 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written
any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with
this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on
the floor of the watch-house.
PI 8.56 13 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse
as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made
on it.
PI 8.62 27 Now then go in the name of God [said
Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur, and the realm of
Logres, and you also, as the best knights who are in the world.
PI 8.68 2 We must...ask...whether we shall find our
tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...and the way opened to the paradise
which ever in the best hour beckons us?
SA 8.79 5 Much ill-natured criticism has been
directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented.
Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend. Our critics will then
be our best friends...
SA 8.82 24 ...if the elegant are also intellectual,
instantly the hesitating scholar...exhibits the best style of manners.
SA 8.86 21 The attitude is the main point, assuring
your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind, which is
the best news you can possibly communicate.
SA 8.90 24 ...the best society has often been spoiled
to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
SA 8.93 2 If every one recalled his experiences, he
might find the best in the speech of superior women...
SA 8.104 6 If [a people is] occupied in its own
affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the
notice of any other people,--as... the French, the English, at their
best times have been,--they are sublime;...
Elo2 8.122 13 It is said that one of the best readers
in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
Elo2 8.125 21 ...when [the orator] rises to any
height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with
the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of
Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown, one at Gettysburg--in the two best
specimens of eloquence we have had in this country.
Elo2 8.130 25 If the cause be unfashionable, [the
eloquent man] will make it fashionable. 'T is the best man in the best
training.
Elo2 8.132 23 Here [in the United States] is room for
every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending
stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and
persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best
thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.
Res 8.147 26 ...we have noted examples among our
orators, who have... handled and controlled, and, best of all,
converted a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
Comc 8.159 24 ...the best of all jokes is the
sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the
philosopher's point of view.
QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have
their best fame within [this century].
PC 8.232 10 In the Rebellion, who were our best
allies? Always the enemy.
PPo 8.252 13 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not
quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English
poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son,- Ben Jonson his best piece of
poetry;...
Insp 8.274 16 What metaphysician has undertaken to
enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration? That is least
within control which is best in them.
Insp 8.282 10 One of the best facts I know in
metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius
for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this
divination returned to him.
Insp 8.292 6 [Another source of inspiration is]
Conversation, which, when it is best, is a series of intoxications.
Insp 8.294 15 What is best in literature is the
affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
Imtl 8.328 24 ...spend yourself on the work before
you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will
be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
Imtl 8.329 18 I think all sound minds rest on a
certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that
conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best,
then it will not;...
Imtl 8.329 19 I think all sound minds rest on a
certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that
conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best,
then it will not;...
Dem1 10.13 24 When Hector is told that the omens are
unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's
country./
Dem1 10.13 25 Euripides said, He is not the best
prophet who guesses well...
Aris 10.31 14 ...the cogent motive with the best
young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the
future, is the spirit of honor...
Aris 10.41 19 In simple communities, in the heroic
ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...and the best of the best was
the aristocrat or king.
Aris 10.49 17 I think that the community...will be
the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
Aris 10.52 23 Genius...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by
all men as their delegate. It has indeed the best right, because it
raises men above themselves...
Aris 10.53 14 The best feat of genius is to bring all
the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
PerF 10.81 23 See how rich life is; rich in private
talents, each of which charms us in turn and seems the best.
PerF 10.81 25 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club
and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of
men;...
PerF 10.82 6 ...when the soldier comes home from the
fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of
the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are
disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who
thought in turn each one of the four seasons the best...
Chr2 10.108 17 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that,
in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and
rested in morals.
Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a
system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution
that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one
word, in Hope.
Edc1 10.141 4 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs
a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest
and best friends.
Supl 10.164 26 'T is very wearisome, this straining
talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best
I ever saw;...
Supl 10.167 3 ...I remember that [William Ellery
Channing's] best friend... said...I believe him capable of virtue.
SovE 10.195 26 Truth gathers itself spotless and
unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders...
SovE 10.199 13 You may sometimes talk with the
gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is
broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
Prch 10.219 14 It looks as if there were much doubt,
much waiting, to be endured by the best.
Prch 10.223 11 ...this [movement of religious
opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive
humanity...
Prch 10.225 11 [The moral sentiment] is that, which
being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be
implanted by the Creator of Men.
Prch 10.232 26 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us
so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the
world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that
event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short
part in the best manner we can...
MoL 10.249 22 As certainly as water falls in rain on
the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so
does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
Schr 10.267 21 All the best of this [busy] class, all
who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently
disgusted...
Plu 10.299 23 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests
Montaigne, who was the best reader he has ever found...
Plu 10.300 14 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de
la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These
distant friendships...make the best example of the universal
citizenship and fraternity of the human mind.
Plu 10.317 8 In his dedication of the work
[Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells
the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had
been a Christian, one of the best too;...
Plu 10.319 5 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...
Plu 10.322 21 ...[Plutarch's] sterling values will
presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
LLNE 10.328 24 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made
the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the
mind.
LLNE 10.328 25 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made
the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the
mind.
LLNE 10.339 22 [Channing] could never be reported,
for his eye and voice could not be printed, and his discourses lose
their best in losing them.
LLNE 10.344 9 Theodore Parker was...in frank and
affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
LLNE 10.356 4 ...the men of science, art, intellect,
are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on
wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we
suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an
auction or a fire.
LLNE 10.368 3 [The members of Brook Farm]
expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of
manners and moral between the sexes.
EzRy 10.394 20 This intimate knowledge of
families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley]
incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers. He...said on the
instant the best things in the world.
MMEm 10.406 3 None but was attracted or piqued by
[Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with
books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in
these sudden intimacies, for she...resolved to have their best hours.
MMEm 10.429 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up,
the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health
nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get
that very humbling business of insurance.
SlHr 10.448 12 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel
Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which
he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved (and
this when in his best strength)...
Thor 10.451 23 After completing his experiments [on
lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in
Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to
its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home
contented.
Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the
best pines...
Thor 10.469 1 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring
everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of
his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands.
Thor 10.474 4 Occasionally, a small party of
Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few
weeks in summer on the river-bank. [Thoreau] failed not to make
acquaintance with the best of them;...
Carl 10.497 20 Holding an honored place in the best
society, [Carlyle] has stood for the people...
GSt 10.502 13 [George Stearns] was the more engaged
to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain
John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him...by
lasting ties.
GSt 10.506 15 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring
his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness
the next best measure which could secure their assent.
HDC 11.31 13 ...some of these [suspended
ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This
severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that
natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate
of every nation to their own soil.
HDC 11.33 27 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims]
consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place
for the town.
HDC 11.37 11 When you came over the morning waters,
said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our
best meat.
EWI 11.99 13 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was
the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the
attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
EWI 11.127 8 ...[British merchants] hastened to make
the best of their position, and accepted the bill [for emancipation in
the West Indies].
EWI 11.142 15 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of
Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success
of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in
employments of skill, of profit and of trust; and best of all is the
testimony to their moderation.
EWI 11.144 1 If the black man is...not on a parity
with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
War 11.162 15 All admit that [peace] would be the
best policy, if the world were all a church...
FSLC 11.181 25 The very convenience of property, the
house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
FSLC 11.189 5 I thought that every time a man goes
back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and
that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into
a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
FSLC 11.200 9 ...it is cheering to behold what
champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor
black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates
of freedom were inspired. It was one of the best compensations of this
calamity.
FSLC 11.201 9 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by
the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster], our best and
proudest...
FSLC 11.203 1 [Webster] has been by his clear
perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in
Congress...
FSLN 11.218 8 ...when I say the class of scholars or
students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours
of his life;...
FSLN 11.229 27 A barbarous tribe of good stock will,
by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
AsSu 11.248 12 The very conditions of the game must
always be,-the worst life staked against the best.
AKan 11.259 12 I do not know any story so gloomy as
the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing
ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast
crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to...put the
best people always at a disadvantage;...
AKan 11.262 6 California, a few years ago...had the
best government that ever existed.
JBB 11.273 8 I hope...that, in administering relief
to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best
way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
JBS 11.277 2 ...the best orators who have added their
praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and
that is JOHN BROWN.
JBS 11.280 3 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a
shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best
wool...
ACiv 11.304 2 ...the one [power] strong enough to
bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays
now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
ACiv 11.307 17 Now, [the Southern people's] interest
is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they
must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor...
ACiv 11.310 14 In the recent series of national
successes, this message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is
the best.
EPro 11.317 3 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant
policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public
sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all
these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation]
that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the
capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument
of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.322 16 ...this taxation, which makes the land
wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which
property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
ALin 11.337 24 There is a serene Providence which
rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the
best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws
of the world.
HCom 11.339 10 We grudge them not, our dearest,
bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is
Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with
her visor down./ Holmes.
HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's
best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for
guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
SMC 11.363 17 [George Prescott's] next point is to
keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of
baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military
discipline is sham fights. The best men heartily second him...
SMC 11.369 26 [George Prescott writes] We laid
[Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long
distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
EdAd 11.388 22 ...we have seen the best
understandings of New England... say, We are too old to stand for what
is called a New England sentiment any longer.
Wom 11.408 24 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation
is...the best result which life has to offer us...
Wom 11.411 5 ...how should we better measure the gulf
between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our
American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers
of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just
this department of taste or comeliness?
Wom 11.418 24 The answer that lies, silent or spoken,
in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for
women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be
denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
Wom 11.426 12 Woman should find in man her guardian.
Silently she looks for that, and when she finds that he is not, as she
instantly does, she betakes her to her own defences, and does the best
she can.
Shak1 11.447 11 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own
Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible
at last;...
Scot 11.466 6 In his own household and neighbors
[Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he
established the best relation...
Scot 11.467 18 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in
the best company, and still found himself the best of the best!
Scot 11.467 19 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in
the best company, and still found himself the best of the best!
ChiE 11.474 21 It appears that the ambassadors [from
the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their
magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of
China and of humanity.
CPL 11.497 4 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as
good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;-has the best of each of
those cities in itself.
CPL 11.500 1 ...in reference to her favorite authors,
[Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my
best gift from God.
CPL 11.500 14 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a
man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which
have been written in this country...
CPL 11.501 2 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts
of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and
affecting events.
FRep 11.512 8 The theatre avails itself of the best
talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the
ensemble of dramatic effect.
FRep 11.514 21 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions
begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall
be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and
lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the
simplest and best rule of political society.
FRep 11.541 12 Humanity asks...that democratic
institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and
unable persons, and serious care of criminals, than was ever any the
best government of the Old World.
FRep 11.541 24 Let [men] compete, and success to the
strongest, the wisest and the best.
PLT 12.7 14 Bring the best wits together, and they
are so impatient of each other...that you shall have no academy.
II 12.87 17 If immortality, in the sense in which you
seek it, is best, you shall be immortal.
Mem 12.95 12 This command of old facts, the clear
beholding at will of what is best in our experience, is our splendid
privilege.
Mem 12.102 10 Some days are bright with thought and
sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not
always those which memory can retain.
Mem 12.104 6 In low or bad company you...recall and
surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your
life...
Mem 12.107 11 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T
is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
CInt 12.120 5 ...I value [talent] more...when the
talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is
the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry, and of what was best
in Cicero and Burke;...
CInt 12.125 7 ...unless...the professor has a
generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges
exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
CL 12.140 7 ...we cannot overpraise the comfort and
the beauty of the [Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
CL 12.155 13 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and
performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
CL 12.159 6 Those who persist [in walking] from year
to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and
nuts, where the rare plants are; where the best botanic ground;...these
we call professors.
CL 12.160 19 ...the zones of plants...are all
thermometers which cannot be deceived, and will not lie. They are
instruments by the best maker.
CL 12.161 14 In a water-party in which many scholars
joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best
companion.
CL 12.162 2 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts
and shagbarks?
CL 12.164 14 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely
to name natural objects well.
CL 12.164 21 ...the best passages of great poets, old
and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
CL 12.166 25 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are
found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which
landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what
Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
CW 12.177 7 This is my ideal of the power of wealth.
Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry
or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with
every advantage.
CW 12.179 12 ...there is a general sense which the
best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves
unexplained.
Bost 12.191 15 ...the next colony planted itself at
Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these
men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of
a deep and islanded bay...
Bost 12.198 2 I do not look to find in England better
manners than the best manners here [in New England].
Bost 12.204 17 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want
epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn
for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;
and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law;...
MAng1 12.238 26 It has been the defect of some great
men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents
and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of
humanity.
Milt1 12.255 20 The genius of France has not, even in
her best days, yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of
all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these
lists [with Milton].
Milt1 12.256 11 [Milton] declared that he who would
aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be
a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest
things...
Milt1 12.261 27 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that
I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have
given...
ACri 12.297 22 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of
saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
ACri 12.305 11 A man of genius or a work of love or
beauty...can't be compounded by the best rules...
MLit 12.317 3 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and
privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best
expression.
MLit 12.324 5 ...a sort of conscientious feeling
[Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology
for many of [his stories].
WSL 12.347 11 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and
Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
Pray 12.352 17 When I go to visit my friends, I must
put on my best garments...
AgMs 12.360 12 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer]
said, is better than the last, as I observe the first sermon of a
minister is often his best...
EurB 12.371 13 The best songs in English poetry are
by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.
EurB 12.372 9 ...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.
EurB 12.372 21 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high
class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next
generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best
specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia...
EurB 12.376 7 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm
Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader
with more respect;...
PPr 12.379 10 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples
honestly with the facts lying before all men...and...offers his best
counsel to his brothers.
PPr 12.379 19 ...the topic of English politics
becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent
thinking...
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.
Let 12.404 16 In Cambridge orations and elsehwere
there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature. What
can have become of it? The least said is best.
Let 12.404 23 Many of the best must die of
consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life
which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent
existence.
Trag 12.408 7 ...in destiny, it is not the good of
the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular
will.
Trag 12.413 19 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society-mayhap to what is best and greatest in it...
best, adv. (67)
Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of
study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered
regions of thought...
DSA 1.137 18 We are fain to...secure, as best we can,
a solitude that hears not.
DSA 1.143 8 ...the motive that holds the best there
[in the church] is now only a hope and a waiting.
LT 1.276 24 I think that the soul of reform; the
conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are
needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man, which will work best
the more it is trusted;...
SR 2.83 11 That which each can do best, none but his
Maker can teach him.
Cir 2.312 6 We...install ourselves the best we can in
Greek...houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and
American houses and modes of living.
Exp 3.46 8 If any of us knew what we were doing, or
where we are going, then when we think we best know!
Pol1 3.199 13 Society is an illusion to the young
citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men
and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre, round which all
arrange themselves the best they can.
Pol1 3.201 20 The theory of politics...which [men]
have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their
revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for
whose protection government exists.
NR 3.228 3 The men of fine parts protect themselves
by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best
can his incapacity for useful association...
UGM 4.15 26 Shakspeare's principal merit may be
conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English
language...
SwM 4.103 6 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best
acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
MoS 4.167 21 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why
should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the
best I can, this dancing balloon?
MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we
say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
MoS 4.177 2 ...is no community of sentiment
discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power
of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law and must
reconcile it with aspiration the best I can.
ShP 4.193 19 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged
or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim
copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are
not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and
hearers. They had best lie where they are.
ShP 4.196 1 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII]
was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can
mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy,
and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of
Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune, so
that reading for the sense will best bring out the rhythm,--here the
lines are constructed on a given tune...
ShP 4.199 22 ...what is best written or done by
genius in the world, was no man's work...
NMW 4.223 2 Among the eminent persons of the
nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
ET5 5.82 13 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my
opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which
the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
ET5 5.84 21 [The English] think him the best dressed
man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or
remember to describe it.
ET5 5.88 8 ...it must be owned [the English] are
capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or
accumulations of mental power. In common, the horse works best with
blinders.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres
[in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the
language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand
the best words.
ET16 5.289 3 ...I put off my [English] friends with
very inadequate details [about America], as best I could.
Pow 6.61 20 A timid man...might easily believe that
he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself
the best he can against the coming ruin.
Ctr 6.155 22 We can ill spare the commanding social
benefits of cities; they...will yield their best values to him who best
can do without them.
Wsp 6.199 15 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/
More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
Wsp 6.215 12 I can best indicate by examples those
reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the
actor...
Art2 7.41 5 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the
model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to
resist a constant assailing force.
Art2 7.42 5 Man seems to have no option about his
tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit
best...
Farm 7.149 8 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving
turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on
the viands they like best.
WD 7.182 23 ...those only write or speak best who do
not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Boks 7.192 22 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This
would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to
time appear...
PI 8.10 3 The poet who plays with [the law of
correspondence] with most boldness best justifies himself;...
PI 8.26 8 When [nature] serves us best...we feel that
the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
Elo2 8.125 11 That something which each man was
created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
PerF 10.85 9 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of
debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause
that will pay best...
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...
Carl 10.497 17 Carlyle has, best of all men in
England, kept the manly attitude of his time.
LS 11.16 3 We ought to be cautious in taking even the
best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our
own.
HCom 11.340 13 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/
Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers,
fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her
that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine
completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to
themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
Wom 11.426 8 ...there are always a certain number of
passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their
might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy
in the way that suits best.
PLT 12.19 18 So works the poor little blockhead
manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.
Milt1 12.251 12 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is
far the best known and the most read of all...
ACri 12.291 25 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of
Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our
universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of
books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our
words;...
Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this
petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those
external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right
internal disposition of mine;...
best [best-read], adj. (1)
Nat 1.66 10 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much
to learn of his relation to the world...
Best Counsel, n. (1)
Grts 8.310 15 ...there is for each a Best Counsel
which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
best, n. (32)
Nat 1.38 21 ...what is not hateful, [the foolish]
call the best.
SL 2.134 9 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to
Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in
them.
OS 2.293 4 [God's presence] inspires in man an
infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the
best is the true...
OS 2.293 21 ...there is a power, which, as it is in
you, is in [your friend] also, and could therefore very well bring you
together, if it were for the best.
Chr1 3.112 26 Society is spoiled...if the associates
are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a
mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best.
Mrs1 3.140 19 Society loves...sleepy languishing
manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps
because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the
game...
Mrs1 3.143 23 Fashion has many classes and many rules
of probation and admission, and not the best alone.
Mrs1 3.143 26 There is not only the right of
conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his
natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for
the time;...
Gts 3.165 8 The best of hospitality and of generosity
is also not in the will, but in fate.
PNR 4.89 10 It was a high scheme, his absolute
privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on
grandeur.
ET5 5.101 8 Every man [in England]...knows what is
confided to him, and does therein the best he can.
ET18 5.299 4 ...[England] is an old pile built in
different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts; but you see the
poor best you have got.
Bhr 6.192 16 The novels are as useful as Bibles if
they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
WD 7.163 7 ...we have the newspaper, which does its
best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of
itself at your breakfast-table;...
Suc 7.282 1 But if thou do thy best,/ Without
remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign
or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior
approve;/...
PPo 8.238 8 [Life in the East's] elements are few and
simple...rapidly reaching the best and the worst.
Insp 8.269 12 Our money is only a second best. We
would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception
moving the will. That is first best.
AsSu 11.248 13 The very conditions of the game must
always be,-the worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom
they desire to kill.
TPar 11.285 14 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and
Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their
lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that
impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being
told everywhere to the best...
Wom 11.407 25 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the
life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than
she in herself could have deserved...she only reflected his own glories
upon him. All that she was, was him, while he was hers, and all that
she is now, at best, but his pale shade.
SHC 11.428 23 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the
best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery
Channing.
FRO2 11.490 26 I am glad to believe society contains
a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of
Heaven the most and the best;...
Bost 12.208 14 ...a community, as a man, is entitled
to be judged by his best.
MLit 12.326 16 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare,
saw them do their best...
Best, n. (1)
F 6.35 25 ...before [every individual] opens
liberty,-the Better, the Best.
best-bred, adj. (2)
Mrs1 3.148 23 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles
that of being the best-bred man in England and in Christendom.
SS 7.12 2 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard
the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned
himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to
himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
best-educated, adj. (1)
Let 12.398 20 ...companies of the best-educated young
men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for
Europe;...
bestir, v. (3)
II 12.68 26 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to
bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
best-known, adj. (1)
SwM 4.110 13 These grand rhymes or returns in
nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every
turn...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
best-natured, adj. (2)
Grts 8.315 21 Diderot was...unclean as the society in
which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France...
FRep 11.524 13 [The election of a rogue and a
brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible,
best-natured people.
bestow, v. (14)
Gts 3.162 9 We can receive anything from love, for
that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who
assumes to bestow.
ET8 5.137 3 More intellectual than other races, when
[the English] live with other races they do not take their language,
but bestow their own.
ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche
or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried
and carved, wherein to bestow yourelf, than attempt anything
ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
Pow 6.63 10 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping
at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions,
will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our
buffalo-hunter...
Farm 7.143 20 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties
up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...
SA 8.88 27 ...I have heard with admiring submission
the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being
perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which
religion is powerless to bestow.
HDC 11.28 12 I cause from every creature/ His proper
good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
Bost 12.197 18 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall
not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit
of society can bestow;...
Bost 12.198 13 No external advantages...can bestow
that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind
accustomed to celestial conversation.
bestowed, v. (18)
SR 2.46 17 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come
to [man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given to him to till.
Nat2 3.184 18 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for
the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the
balls rolled.
PPh 4.65 9 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the
highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented
and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the
circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those
of our own minds...
ET12 5.209 22 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues
bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty
and painfulness;...
DL 7.112 16 If the children...are...schooled and at
home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house
suffer; friends are less carefully bestowed...
Elo2 8.121 7 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten
Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices, and the
pains bestowed by some of them in training these.
QO 8.202 8 There is always in [originals] a style and
weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...
PPo 8.256 29 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause
enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of
Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
Dem1 10.23 18 ...the main ambition and genius being
bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids
within [a man's] sphere will follow.
LLNE 10.335 3 ...[works of talent] are more or less
matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed
on them...
Thor 10.454 19 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote
in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my
aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
AKan 11.257 1 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and
this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed up to
the magnitude of the want...
EdAd 11.389 17 ...we should think our pains well
bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
Milt1 12.247 24 It was very easy to remark an altered
tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen
years ago, from any that had been bestowed on the same subject before.
Milt1 12.263 18 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the
Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly
inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and
fair.
bestower, n. (1)
Plu 10.318 14 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as bestower of the crown of noble
knighthood...
bestowing, v. (3)
Gts 3.159 8 I do not think this general insolvency
[of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at
Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
Schr 10.284 23 Happy for more than yourself, a
benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of
wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic
creations...
bestows, v. (2)
SHC 11.432 9 ...how much more are [parks] needed by
us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate
bestows!
best-settled, adj. (1)
ET4 5.54 11 We must use the popular category...for
convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently
confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some
new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
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