Blush to Bonnets

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

blush, n. (1)

    GoW 4.288 21 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men...

blush, v. (2)

    LT 1.262 24 How [persons] make the tears start, make us blush and turn pale...
    Edc1 10.142 14 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he blush so...

blushed, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.65 2 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers:--But now the blood of twenty thousand men/ Blushed in my face./

blushes, n. (2)

    Boks 7.219 20 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women.
    Wom 11.412 24 ...who suspects, in [love's] blushes and tremors, what tragedies, heroisms and immortalities are beyond it?

blushes, v. (1)

    QO 8.204 2 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.

blushing, adj. (4)

    LT 1.262 6 They indicate,-these...blushing...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    Chr1 3.105 22 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon...every blushing emotion of young genius.
    DL 7.119 26 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    PI 8.2 12 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./

boa constrictor, n. (1)

    PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.

boar, n. (1)

    Comp 2.99 8 Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in...

board, n. (27)

    LE 1.178 24 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
    LE 1.186 22 Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
    Con 1.325 25 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society, and not that rich board and lodging he now enjoys.
    YA 1.382 7 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work, and who cannot find enough to pay their board.
    SR 2.53 3 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,-as invalids and the insane pay a high board.
    Chr1 3.94 25 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    ET1 5.16 9 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET2 5.27 18 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET2 5.31 23 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library;...
    ET17 5.296 20 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board.
    Pow 6.68 23 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet...
    Wsp 6.210 17 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.
    CbW 6.270 11 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Elo1 7.78 20 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board.
    DL 7.119 8 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
    Boks 7.189 12 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board.
    Elo2 8.109 2 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    Insp 8.287 16 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
    Plu 10.319 20 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    MMEm 10.420 21 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.
    GSt 10.506 6 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation, and the broad hospitality which brought them about his board at his own house or in New York, or in Washington, never altered...one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    EWI 11.123 27 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    EWI 11.130 12 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    War 11.172 6 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    EPro 11.325 24 It was well to delay the steamers at the wharves until this edict [the Emancipation Proclamation] could be put on board.
    FRep 11.522 17 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks.
    ACri 12.297 15 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped. You have no board interposed between you and the writer's mind...

Board of Admiralty, n. (1)

    ET15 5.269 8 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty.

Board of Education, n. (1)

    ACri 12.291 20 ...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...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

Board of Mines, n. (1)

    SwM 4.99 13 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg] was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.

Board of Quarantine, n. (1)

    Farm 7.140 19 ...[the farmer] is the Board of Quarantine.

Board of Trade, n. (2)

    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.
    FSLC 11.181 22 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs, Education in Massachusetts, Board of Trade...what bitter mockeries!

boarder, n. (4)

    MMEm 10.401 14 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister...
    MMEm 10.405 13 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    MMEm 10.432 27 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    CPL 11.499 14 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder...

boarders, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.42 15 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders.
    LLNE 10.360 9 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education. The parents of the children in some instances wished to live there, and were received as boarders.
    LLNE 10.360 12 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    LLNE 10.362 13 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...

boarding, v. (1)

    ET8 5.131 20 [The English] are good...at boarding frigates...

boarding-place, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.405 9 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts, in search of a new boarding-place, discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.

boarding-school, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.170 26 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school...or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...

boards, n. (8)

    ShP 4.192 25 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers...were in turn produced on the boards.
    ET2 5.26 16 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    Farm 7.147 8 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.
    Boks 7.215 2 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Suc 7.299 17 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    FSLC 11.197 27 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor...to dine at their boards, would now shrink from their touch, nor could they enter our humblest doors.
    SMC 11.369 25 [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...
    II 12.84 26 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...

Boards of Trade, n. (1)

    ET10 5.168 19 Chancellors [of England] and Boards of Trade...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

boards, v. (2)

    Wth 6.109 2 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
    Thor 10.463 13 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.

boast, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.129 2 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    MLit 12.323 2 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.

boast, v. (11)

    YA 1.368 20 In America we have hitherto little to boast in this kind [of beautiful gardens].
    Chr1 3.98 2 We boast our emancipation from many superstitions;...
    ET4 5.61 4 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET4 5.72 26 ...[the English] boast that they understand horses better than any other people in the world...
    ET5 5.94 24 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    Ctr 6.139 25 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    PPo 8.254 11 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    Chr2 10.109 23 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism...
    Carl 10.492 24 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    HDC 11.39 15 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that New England may boast of the element of fire, more than all the rest; for all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    Koss 11.399 26 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...that it is always slipping from those who boast it to those who fight for it...

boasted, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.287 20 These boasted arts are of very recent origin.

boasted, v. (3)

    ET1 5.20 12 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    Clbs 7.244 5 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    HDC 11.58 18 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had burned Medfield and Lancaster...

boaster, n. (2)

    GSt 10.504 15 Plainly [George Stearns] was no boaster or pretender...
    CInt 12.123 8 ...[the Understanding] is apt to be a talker, a boaster, a busy-body.

boasters, n. (1)

    F 6.5 5 Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons...

boastful, adj. (3)

    MN 1.219 25 Is a man boastful and knowing, and his own master?-we turn from him without hope...
    PC 8.212 7 ...if any one say we have had enough of these boastful recitals, then I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    HDC 11.27 8 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.

boasting, n. (2)

    SL 2.159 5 Concealment avails [a man] nothing, boasting nothing.
    MLit 12.326 9 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through, although without any boasting and with an infinite fineness.

boasting, v. (2)

    NMW 4.255 19 ...[Napoleon]...rubbed his hands with joy when he had intercepted some morsel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him, boasting that he knew every thing;...
    OA 7.328 15 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

boasts, v. (2)

    Nat 1.19 7 ...the river...boasts each month a new ornament.
    Bhr 6.170 4 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...

boat, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.262 3 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he, in his first boat expedition... accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...

boat, n. (39)

    Nat 1.13 22 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
    AmS 1.111 16 The meal in the firkin;...the news of the boat;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    Con 1.305 4 ...you cannot...put out the boat to sea without shoving from the shore...
    SR 2.86 21 Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat.
    Comp 2.110 14 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    Comp 2.110 17 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    Cir 2.313 8 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...from a boat in the pond...we possibly may.
    Art1 2.369 1 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.
    SwM 4.133 21 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...
    ET4 5.54 2 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 5.62 14 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat.
    ET5 5.80 14 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is a logic that brings...oar to boat;...
    ET5 5.85 3 [The English] put the expense in the right place, as in their sea-steamers, in the solidity of the machinery and the strength of the boat.
    ET16 5.282 13 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    Wth 6.87 6 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...
    Wth 6.87 22 Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land, in a boat to cross the sea;...
    Ctr 6.142 25 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...
    Ctr 6.144 3 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.
    CbW 6.270 8 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Art2 7.42 1 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...
    WD 7.167 15 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days... instructing the husbandman...when to gather wood, when the sailor might launch his boat in security from storms...
    WD 7.172 27 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
    WD 7.176 1 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher's hut and patches a boat.
    Cour 7.254 4 Men admire...the man who can build the boat...
    Res 8.137 11 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the boat of Columbus...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Res 8.144 19 The sailor by his boat and sail makes a ford out of deepest waters.
    Res 8.145 4 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    Res 8.145 9 The boat is full of water...
    QO 8.179 4 ...the mariner's compass, the boat, the pendulum, glass...etc., have been many times found and lost...
    PC 8.212 4 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb, to...the miner's shanty and the fisher's boat, the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    Aris 10.40 11 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Aris 10.42 3 [Ulysses] builds the boat with which he leaves Calypso's isle...
    MoL 10.251 8 Learn...to row a boat...
    LLNE 10.367 26 In every family is the father;...in a boat, the skipper;...
    Thor 10.453 5 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as building a boat or a fence...
    PLT 12.29 22 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat...
    CL 12.161 13 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 27 ...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.

boat-builders, n. (1)

    CL 12.153 18 Shores in sight of each other in a warm climate make boat-builders;...

boat-clubs, n. (1)

    CL 12.141 24 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...

boating, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.129 1 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...

boat-load, n. (1)

    ET4 5.62 11 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...

boatman, n. (3)

    Thor 10.461 27 [Thoreau] was a good swimmer, runner, skater, boatman...
    Bost 12.190 27 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    ACri 12.295 26 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words of the boatman, the farmer and the lord;...

boat-paddle, n. (1)

    Schr 10.276 12 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it? But when we can get it where we want it, and in measured portions, on a mill-wheel, or boat-paddle, we will buy it with millions.

boats, n. (12)

    Pt1 3.37 27 Our log-rolling...our boats and our repudiations...are yet unsung.
    Gts 3.162 2 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    NER 3.253 1 ...the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him.
    SwM 4.99 19 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
    ET4 5.53 27 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.
    ET4 5.64 23 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...their playthings were boats.
    ET5 5.86 13 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    ET10 5.156 8 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    Ctr 6.142 21 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses and boats.
    DL 7.109 25 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...conveyance in carriages and boats...
    PC 8.215 12 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their...boats and carved war-clubs.
    LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...

boat's, n. (1)

    Cour 7.262 15 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. From that moment I was as fearless and as forward as the oldest of the boat's crew.

boatswain's, n. (1)

    ET9 5.152 21 Amerigo Vespucci...whose highest naval rank was boatswain' s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...

bobbing, v. (1)

    MoS 4.160 7 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.

Boboli Gardens, Florence, (2)

    YA 1.367 9 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe; such as the Boboli in Florence...
    CW 12.173 15 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens,-as the Boboli at Florence...

bobolinks, n. (1)

    CW 12.171 3 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...

Boccaccio, Giovanni, n. (6)

    ShP 4.197 26 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...
    Boks 7.209 21 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
    Boks 7.210 24 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice. Boccaccio stirred in his sleep of five hundred years...
    Boks 7.210 27 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    QO 8.181 20 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
    MAng1 12.244 8 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb...of Boccaccio, and of Alfieri, stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.

Boccaccio's, Giovanni, n. (1)

    Boks 7.205 25 There is...Boccaccio's Life of Dante, a great man to describe a greater.

Bockh [Boeckh], Augustus, n (1)

    Boks 7 202 7 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery, owed first to Wolff and later to Boeckh, that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.

boded, v. (2)

    Comp 2.112 2 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.
    Pol1 3.197 5 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./

Bodies and of Souls, Of [K (1)

    ET5 5.79 12 Sir Kenelm wrote a book, Of Bodies and of Souls, in which he propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.

bodies, n. (51)

    Nat 1.7 10 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Hist 2.4 23 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    SR 2.82 11 Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
    Comp 2.119 17 A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason...
    Lov1 2.181 13 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
    Pt1 3.3 19 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...
    Pt1 3.14 18 The earth and the heavenly bodies...we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
    Exp 3.48 19 Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact?
    Nat2 3.169 4 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony...
    Nat2 3.172 1 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which call us to solitude...
    Pol1 3.201 9 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    NR 3.229 24 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
    UGM 4.12 13 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    PPh 4.41 19 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus live in several bodies...
    PPh 4.50 3 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul,--one in all bodies...
    PPh 4.50 10 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    SwM 4.97 3 ...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. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence,--a getting out of their bodies to think.
    SwM 4.124 24 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    NMW 4.249 11 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other;...
    ET4 5.45 24 [The English] have sound bodies...
    Pow 6.65 27 Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
    Wth 6.111 14 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...
    Bhr 6.169 3 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
    Bty 6.287 17 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed;...
    Bty 6.298 18 ...our bodies do not fit us...
    Bty 6.305 9 Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies;...
    Art2 7.43 23 The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies.
    DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...
    Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
    PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated.
    Res 8.145 16 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    QO 8.191 23 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies...He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
    QO 8.200 5 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
    Imtl 8.342 1 Courage comes naturally to those...who...know the power of their arms and bodies;...
    Imtl 8.352 1 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    Edc1 10.130 17 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.130 18 If Newton come and...perceive...that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.130 19 If Newton come and...perceive...that all bodies in the Universe, the universe of bodies, fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.134 27 We scarce educate [boys'] bodies.
    Edc1 10.138 13 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    MMEm 10.427 15 ...Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually present with the spirits and bodies which He has made...
    Thor 10.472 18 ...no academy made [Thoreau]...its discoverer, or even its member. Perhaps these learned bodies feared the satire of his presence.
    LS 11.20 22 Forms are as essential as bodies;...
    FSLC 11.183 1 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.
    EdAd 11.392 17 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments, as the motion of bodies rests on geometry.
    PLT 12.16 1 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.23 7 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.
    CL 12.160 11 Our microscopes are not necessary. [Nature] shows every fact in large bodies somewhere.
    Milt1 12.265 8 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations.

bodies', n. (1)

    HDC 11.33 4 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...

bodiless, adj. (1)

    Con 1.299 18 ...[reform] runs to a bodiless pretension...

bodily, adj. (13)

    Hist 2.24 6 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature...
    Prd1 2.223 23 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else, as health and bodily life, into means.
    Nat2 3.186 9 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
    ET12 5.208 27 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength...
    Pow 6.55 9 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries, the maintenance of bodily strength requiring it...
    Wth 6.125 13 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily circulations.
    Wth 6.126 14 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby...bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor.
    Bhr 6.179 13 [The communication by the glance] is the bodily symbol of identity of nature.
    Cour 7.265 12 Bodily pain is superficial...
    Comc 8.159 2 Separate any object, as a particular bodily man...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...
    Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
    HDC 11.37 3 To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble traits of character.
    AsSu 11.248 19 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...

bodily, adv. (5)

    Mrs1 3.132 26 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically.
    Nat2 3.173 5 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...
    F 6.14 3 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    Boks 7.203 15 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details, as if they had been bodily present at the Olympian feasts.
    PI 8.44 5 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...talks to them as if they were bodily there;...

boding, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.324 3 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./

boding, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.204 26 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.

Bodleian Libraries, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Bodelian... Libraries.

Bodleian Library, Oxford, (4)

    ET12 5.199 18 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...the Bodleian Library...
    ET12 5.203 8 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...
    ET12 5.204 2 No candle or fire is ever lighted in the Bodleian.
    ET12 5.204 7 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college,--the theory being that the Bodleian has all books.

body, adj. (1)

    SS 7.10 16 [A man] is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments.

body, n. (251)

    Nat 1.5 1 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is...all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Nat 1.16 18 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    Nat 1.28 16 ...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
    Nat 1.28 17 ...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
    Nat 1.28 27 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be...a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.57 10 Like a new soul, [ideas] renew the body.
    Nat 1.58 22 Plotinus was ashamed of his body.
    Nat 1.64 26 The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man.
    Nat 1.65 1 ...[the world] differs from the body in one important respect.
    Nat 1.72 20 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the repairs of the human body by the dentist and surgeon.
    AmS 1.92 19 ...the human body can be nourished on any food...
    AmS 1.96 13 We no more feel or know [our recent actions] than we feel... the brain of our body.
    AmS 1.97 2 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    AmS 1.111 18 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    LE 1.167 8 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.
    LE 1.169 2 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body...
    MN 1.192 2 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish...the very body and feature of man.
    MN 1.195 6 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    MN 1.197 4 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.
    MN 1.200 26 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.223 18 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame...have before had a natural history like that of this body you see before you;...
    MR 1.233 4 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses...
    MR 1.233 5 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses...
    MR 1.239 15 ...instead of...that supple body...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    LT 1.281 24 Every Age, like every human body, has its own distemper.
    Con 1.317 9 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.339 7 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him, in chemistry, and tree, and animal, and in the involuntary functions of his own body;...
    Tran 1.345 25 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet...
    Tran 1.352 15 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me...in some place, at some time,-whether in the body or out of the body, God knoweth...
    YA 1.365 27 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    YA 1.388 5 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    Hist 2.4 16 ...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces...
    Hist 2.24 8 The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body.
    Hist 2.24 26 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
    Hist 2.31 18 ...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
    Hist 2.33 21 Much revolving [his figures Goethe]...gives them body to his own imagination.
    SR 2.61 1 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else...
    Comp 2.96 22 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body;...
    Comp 2.104 3 The soul says, Eat; the body would feast.
    Comp 2.104 5 The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only.
    Comp 2.104 8 ...the body would have the power over things to its own ends.
    SL 2.149 17 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow. Every society protects itself. The company is perfectly safe, and he is not one of them, though his body is in the room.
    SL 2.156 20 Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body.
    Lov1 2.169 12 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and works a revolution in his mind and body;...
    Lov1 2.181 23 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...
    Lov1 2.181 24 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds out;...
    Lov1 2.182 1 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.184 22 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled...
    Lov1 2.184 25 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,/ That one might almost say her body thought./
    Lov1 2.187 1 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows...
    Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...
    Prd1 2.223 25 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants.
    Hsm1 2.247 14 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Hsm1. 2.252 11 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body.
    Int 2.339 10 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Pt1 3.13 21 ...there is no body without its spirit or genius.
    Pt1 3.14 1 The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches...
    Pt1 3.14 5 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Pt1 3.14 8 ...of the soul, the body form doth take,/ For soul is form, and doth the body make./
    Pt1 3.14 9 ...of the soul, the body form doth take,/ For soul is form, and doth the body make./
    Pt1 3.16 7 It is nature the symbol, nature certifying the supernatural, body overflowed by life which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Pt1 3.28 8 ...[these stimulants] help [a man] to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up...
    Pt1 3.28 25 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
    Exp 3.55 11 ...health of body consists in circulation...
    Exp 3.63 6 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of...the sculpture of the human body never absent.
    Exp 3.72 16 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;...
    Exp 3.84 3 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square...
    Chr1 3.110 24 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their cartilages;...
    Mrs1 3.145 26 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...whoso touched his finger, drew after it his whole body.
    NR 3.227 2 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically; which is false, for the rest of his body is small or deformed.
    NR 3.232 19 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    NER 3.269 1 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners.
    UGM 4.16 22 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
    UGM 4.17 4 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind, which respond, member for member, to the parts of the body.
    UGM 4.22 8 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.29 19 Serve the great. ... Be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth.
    PPh 4.41 4 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
    PPh 4.70 11 Body cannot teach wisdom;--God only.
    PPh 4.75 5 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of the droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    PPh 4.77 17 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PPh 4.77 18 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PNR 4.84 10 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.
    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 4.106 21 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was strictly universal...
    SwM 4.108 19 The mind is a finer body...
    SwM 4.112 2 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
    SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the body.
    SwM 4.116 3 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur, I will not say in the living body only, but throughout nature...
    SwM 4.116 23 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted. This symbolism pervades the living body.
    SwM 4.126 20 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.
    MoS 4.160 27 ...the body of man is the type after which a dwelling-house is built.
    ShP 4.192 22 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.194 1 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which [Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
    NMW 4.230 8 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    NMW 4.245 11 When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
    GoW 4.283 13 ...Goethe, the head and body of the German nation, does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    GoW 4.287 25 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can.
    ET1 5.21 27 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body.
    ET2 5.28 6 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does...
    ET3 5.36 23 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party.
    ET4 5.46 14 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET4 5.58 26 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    ET4 5.65 6 The English at the present day have great vigor of body and endurance.
    ET4 5.69 16 ...in their caricatures [the English] represent the Frenchman as a poor, starved body.
    ET4 5.72 15 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry.
    ET6 5.104 6 The Englishman speaks with all his body.
    ET8 5.139 13 ...[the Englishmen's] daily feasts argue a savage vigor of body.
    ET9 5.149 26 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.
    ET11 5.178 18 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET11 5.179 6 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
    ET12 5.202 6 I do not know whether this learned body [at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American Independence...
    ET12 5.205 26 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...fills places, as they fall vacant, from the body of students.
    ET14 5.232 11 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...coarsely true to the human body...
    ET14 5.242 3 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Spenser's creed that soul is form, and doth the body make;...
    ET16 5.290 13 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    F 6.25 2 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but for the reaction of the air within the body.
    F 6.28 19 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization, as if the whole energy of body and mind flowed in one direction.
    F 6.40 9 Events are the children of [each man's] body and mind.
    Pow 6.53 20 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Pow 6.71 21 We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and body...
    Pow 6.75 20 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.106 19 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Wth 6.115 20 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Wth 6.116 4 Long free walks...free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
    Wth 6.116 24 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Wth 6.124 27 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in the world which is not repeated in [a man's] body, his body being a sort of miniature or summary of the world;...
    Wth 6.125 2 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in [a man' s] body which is not repeated as in a celestial sphere in his mind;...
    Wth 6.125 12 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body...
    Wth 6.126 7 Will [the man] spend his income, or will he invest? His body and every organ is under the same law.
    Wth 6.126 8 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
    Ctr 6.158 11 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
    Bhr 6.169 16 What are [manners] but thought...controlling the movements of the body...
    Bhr 6.177 1 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    Bhr 6.177 8 The tell-tale body is all tongues.
    Wsp 6.231 27 ...as soon as the man is right, assurances and previsions emanate from the interior of his body and his mind;...
    Wsp 6.232 7 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    Wsp 6.232 20 The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud of its threat is [man' s] body in its duty.
    Wsp 6.232 22 A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body.
    Wsp 6.233 1 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
    Bty 6.281 24 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Ill 6.316 15 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    Ill 6.320 1 There is illusion that shall deceive even the performer of the miracle. Though he make his body, he denies that he makes it.
    DL 7.104 1 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity: the body is all animated.
    DL 7.108 24 The account of the body is to be sought in the mind.
    WD 7.157 5 The human body is the magazine of inventions...
    WD 7.157 12 The body is a meter.
    WD 7.159 27 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body...
    Boks 7.220 18 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    PI 8.14 12 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.
    PI 8.17 5 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body...
    PI 8.21 10 [The poet's] own body is a fleeing apparition...
    PI 8.21 13 In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body.
    PI 8.23 10 The world is thoroughly anthropomorphized, as if it had passed through the body and mind of man...
    PI 8.24 18 The atoms of the body were once nebulae...
    PI 8.31 12 ...[the amateur] draws the bow with his fingers and the [poet] with the strength of his body;...
    PI 8.36 16 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.49 1 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...body and mind...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    PI 8.54 17 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents, as the soul of man inspires and directs the body...
    SA 8.93 19 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she...electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
    Res 8.141 5 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...his body a chest of tools...
    QO 8.188 3 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed...from a hundred charities?
    PPo 8.242 18 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
    PPo 8.255 27 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
    PPo 8.264 2 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    PPo 8.265 1 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/...
    PPo 8.265 9 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/
    Insp 8.281 3 The perfection of writing is when mind and body are both in key;...
    Insp 8.281 5 The perfection of writing is...when the mind finds perfect obedience in the body.
    Imtl 8.324 26 ...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the soul from the body, he took great care for his body.
    Imtl 8.326 14 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body...
    Imtl 8.326 17 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.338 21 The soul does not age with the body.
    Imtl 8.340 19 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Imtl 8.351 24 Unborn, eternal, [the soul] is not slain, though the body is slain;...
    Aris 10.42 26 ...the body is the pipe through which we tap all the succors and virtues of the material world...
    Aris 10.43 1 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions;...
    Aris 10.50 1 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the health he restores to body and mind;...
    PerF 10.79 8 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power, just as a falling body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall.
    Chr2 10.94 2 The antagonist nature is the individual, formed into a finite body of exact dimensions...
    Chr2 10.99 13 Slowly the body comes to the use of its organs;...
    Edc1 10.127 22 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Supl 10.163 8 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command which respect the conservatism of the entire energies of the body, the mind, and the soul.
    SovE 10.185 4 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...
    Schr 10.269 8 We are all contemporaries and bones of one body.
    Schr 10.281 16 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity...
    Schr 10.281 17 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being happens in a greater degree.
    Plu 10.308 7 [Plutarch] wonders with Plato at that nail of pain and pleasure which fastens the body to the mind.
    Plu 10.314 3 To [Plutarch] the Epicureans are hateful, who held that the soul perishes when it is separated from the body.
    Plu 10.314 4 The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
    LLNE 10.326 18 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body...
    LLNE 10.363 6 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius, puny in body and habit as a girl...
    MMEm 10.419 13 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    MMEm 10.422 8 Dissolve the body and the night is gone...
    MMEm 10.430 4 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...unconscious of any deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal...
    Thor 10.461 4 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body...
    Thor 10.461 5 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant...
    Thor 10.461 9 ...Mr. Thoreau was equipped with a most adapted and serviceable body.
    Thor 10.461 16 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind.
    Thor 10.462 2 ...the relation of body to mind [in Thoreau] was still finer than we have indicated.
    Thor 10.472 23 ...not a particle of respect had [Thoreau] to the opinions of any man or body of men...
    LS 11.9 22 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    LS 11.10 12 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
    LS 11.10 24 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LS 11.22 20 The Jewish was a religion of forms; it was all body, it had no life...
    HDC 11.36 1 ...the pilgrims had the preparation of an armed mind, better than any hardihood of body.
    HDC 11.43 17 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    HDC 11.63 17 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
    HDC 11.71 26 This body [the Provincial Congress] was composed of the foremost patriots...
    LVB 11.90 9 In common with the great body of the American people, we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    EWI 11.103 6 For the negro...no right to the children of his body;...
    EWI 11.105 13 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased...
    EWI 11.121 3 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...
    EWI 11.131 20 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler;...the General Court is a dishonored body, if they make laws which they cannot execute.
    EWI 11.132 9 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    War 11.164 26 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...this great body of matter thus executing that one man's wild thought.
    War 11.166 27 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind.
    War 11.174 20 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    FSLC 11.187 10 ...that is the head and body of this discontent, that [the Fugitive Slave] law is immoral.
    FSLN 11.233 25 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.
    SMC 11.352 16 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    SMC 11.369 15 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
    Wom 11.417 8 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely, to charge women with termperament;...
    SHC 11.436 4 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?
    FRep 11.526 23 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.526 24 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.537 13 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial's face, or the heavenly body by whose light it is marked.
    PLT 12.3 5 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    PLT 12.9 23 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet, or with his voice, eyes, ears, or with his whole body, the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.18 22 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body...
    PLT 12.23 22 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.
    PLT 12.23 23 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.
    PLT 12.27 21 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
    Mem 12.106 27 When the body is in a quiescent state...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.
    Mem 12.107 4 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man...
    CL 12.140 14 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
    CL 12.141 18 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    CL 12.151 15 Man [in the forest] feels the blood of thousands in his body...
    Bost 12.196 16 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year, and then again shuttng up the body in flannel and leather, defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    MAng1 12.221 22 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    MAng1 12.228 1 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
    MAng1 12.240 15 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought that beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the beauty of the soul;...
    Milt1 12.256 25 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers...
    Milt1 12.257 9 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.
    Milt1 12.266 3 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    Milt1 12.272 7 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
    AgMs 12.359 18 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/ But it was worth a groom./
    Let 12.402 16 The balance of mind and body will redress itself fast enough.
    Trag 12.406 2 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.
    Trag 12.416 11 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.

Body of Divinity, n. (1)

    Cir 2.312 19 All the argument and all the wisdom is not in...the Body of Divinity...

bodyguard, n. (1)

    HCom 11.345 1 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you,-you... Liberty's and Humanity's bodyguard!

body's, n. (4)

    PPo 8.255 11 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    PPo 8.263 12 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./
    PerF 10.77 23 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is not his land or his money or body's strength, but his thoughts...
    Milt1 12.265 4 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...

Boece, Etienne de la, n. (1)

    Plu 10.300 11 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.

Boeckh [Bockh], Augustus, n (1)

    Boks 7.202 7 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery, owed first to Wolff and later to Boeckh, that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.

Boeotia, n. (1)

    PPh 4.72 11 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...

Boerhaave, Hermann, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 24 Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam...Boerhaave, had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

Boethius, n. (2)

    PPh 4.39 18 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius, Rabelais...is some reader of Plato...
    Boks 7.211 25 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...

bog, n. (1)

    CL 12.137 21 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass, and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance...

bogs, n. (1)

    CL 12.139 4 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts, stock its gardens, drain its bogs...we were better patriots and happier men.

Bohemian, adj. (1)

    Let 12.397 9 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...

Bohemians, n. (1)

    Grts 8.316 11 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.

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

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

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

    OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the aurora of Behmen...are of this kind.
    Pt1 3.34 23 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen...
    Nat2 3.187 27 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    NER 3.279 26 A religious man, like Behmen...is not irritated by wanting the sanction of the Church...
    UGM 4.8 18 Behmen and Swedenborg saw that things were representative.
    PPh 4.40 4 St. Augustine...Behmen...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    SwM 4.97 10 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Behmen...will readily come to mind.
    SwM 4.117 5 Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence] in their dark riddle-writing.
    SwM 4.135 11 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol...
    SwM 4.142 22 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's procession. How different is Jacob Behmen!...
    SwM 4.143 2 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise...
    ET14 5.241 21 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker, even to Van Helmont and Behmen...
    PI 8.27 14 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in Behmen, Swedenborg and William Blake the painter.
    QO 8.181 3 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
    Insp 8.277 17 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...

Bohn's, H. G., n. (1)

    PNR 4.80 1 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...

Bohn's Library, n. (1)

    Boks 7.203 25 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.

Bohun [Bohon], Upas, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 17 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas;...

Bohun, n. (1)

    ET11 5.177 9 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years. But the fact is otherwise. Where is Bohun? where is De Vere?

Bohuns, n. (1)

    ET11 5.175 10 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.

boil, v. (8)

    SL 2.129 10 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    SwM 4.131 25 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...he saw...the hell of robbers, who kill and boil men;...
    Bhr 6.169 19 There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg.
    CbW 6.276 24 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water...
    CbW 6.276 25 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water...
    Elo1 7.61 5 ...we boil at different degrees.
    Elo1 7.62 1 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those who prematurely boil...
    PI 8.59 6 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./

Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas, (2)

    Mem 12.95 27 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Mem 12.96 4 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.

boiled, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.92 20 ...the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass...
    Thor 10.482 12 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.

boiled, v. (3)

    Nat 1.54 11 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/ Now useless, boiled within thy skull./
    Lov1 2.176 8 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on;...
    ET11 5.176 15 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.

boiler, n. (2)

    Nat 1.13 22 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
    FSLC 11.193 18 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made or the boiler for exploding under pressure of steam?

boiling, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.71 21 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    Supl 10.163 13 There is a superlative temperament which...swiftly oscillates from the freezing to the boiling point...
    EWI 11.104 14 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    SMC 11.355 7 ...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to the boiling point.

boiling-point, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.61 6 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor.

boils, v. (1)

    Supl 10.175 8 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...

boisterous, adj. (2)

    ET9 5.151 22 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    Edc1 10.140 2 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...

bold, adj. (49)

    AmS 1.86 20 A thought too bold;...
    DSA 1.140 23 In the street, what has [the poor preacher] to say to the bold village blasphemer?
    DSA 1.148 11 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude: a bold benevolence...
    LE 1.162 3 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out with patient courage, makes me bold.
    LE 1.185 19 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
    LT 1.278 4 You have on some occasion played a bold part.
    YA 1.389 12 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    SR 2.48 21 Bashful or bold then, [the youth] will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.
    SR 2.74 8 ...the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes.
    Comp 2.107 12 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
    Hsm1 2.261 25 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    Mrs1 3.124 22 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    Mrs1 3.124 24 ...the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through;...
    Mrs1 3.154 16 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    NR 3.230 9 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not anywhere the Englishman who...did the bold and nervous deeds.
    PPh 4.58 25 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.58 26 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.58 27 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.59 1 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    SwM 4.112 4 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    SwM 4.115 20 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg] should take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    NMW 4.224 8 The second [democratic] class is selfish also, encroaching, bold, self-relying...
    ET8 5.133 15 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET15 5.264 16 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    ET15 5.268 10 [The London Times] speaks out bluff and bold...
    Pow 6.53 24 A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works...
    Pow 6.65 14 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast.
    Bhr 6.178 25 Eyes are bold as lions...
    CbW 6.257 13 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top. This is bold practice...
    Bty 6.300 23 Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it behooves that I be bold.
    Boks 7.198 15 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it...
    Cour 7.278 2 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
    Res 8.150 10 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.
    QO 8.197 24 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    PPo 8.247 22 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life, at once tender and bold... this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    PPo 8.263 2 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Supl 10.179 7 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    SovE 10.213 15 [The man of this age] must not be one who can be surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant and acute men may utter in his hearing...
    Prch 10.221 21 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird, as it hurried by him with its bold and perfect flight, would disclaim his sympathy...
    Prch 10.226 19 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    LLNE 10.353 25 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims and of such bold and generous proportion [as Fourier's];...
    HDC 11.44 3 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    HDC 11.68 1 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit, so bold from the first as hardly to admit of increase.
    JBB 11.270 3 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    ACiv 11.308 9 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken...
    PLT 12.57 3 If a man show...bold front in the forum or senate, people clap their hands without asking more.
    Bost 12.191 17 ...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...where a bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.
    MAng1 12.213 4 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block; yet it therein shall find/ Only the hand secure and bold/ Which still obeys the mind./ Michael Angelo's Sonnets.
    MAng1 12.224 19 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.

bold, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 21 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit. For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous.

bolder, adj. (5)

    LT 1.266 10 Now and then comes a bolder spirit...
    Cir 2.305 10 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    ShP 4.194 15 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall;...
    Pow 6.55 21 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Suc 7.292 16 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent, and thus throw on a bolder party the onus of an initiative.

boldest, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.231 3 ...the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult...
    WD 7.160 3 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood...

boldly, adv. (6)

    DSA 1.130 5 Boldly...[Jesus] declared [the inner law] was God.
    SwM 4.95 13 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    F 6.29 27 ...one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    Prch 10.235 27 I should say boldly that we should astonish every day by a beam out of eternity;...
    Schr 10.268 4 ...I rather wish you to experiment boldly...
    JBB 11.266 13 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...

boldness, n. (6)

    Con 1.326 5 The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former experience.
    Hsm1. 2.252 6 ...[heroism] is of an undaunted boldness...
    Chr1 3.110 25 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness and eloquence to him;...
    ET14 5.236 1 The ardor and endurance of [English] study, the boldness and facility of their mental construction...astonish...
    Pow 6.75 22 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    PI 8.10 3 The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most boldness best justifies himself;...

bole, n. (1)

    Thor 10.483 12 No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. Joh (1)

    MoS 4.154 17 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.

Bolingbrokes, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 6 There are...no Bolingbrokes, no Cardinals, no Harry, Fifth, in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].

Bolivar, Simon, n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 3 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...

Bollandi, Brothers, n. (1)

    Cour 7.274 13 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi...

Bologna, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 5 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications...

Bologna, John of, n. (1)

    ET1 5.7 26 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo;...

bolster, n. (2)

    PPo 8.263 14 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./
    FSLN 11.235 22 ...[the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.

bolster, v. (1)

    Imtl 8.344 9 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.

bolt, n. (4)

    Aris 10.42 22 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast. Richard can sever the iron bolt with his sword.
    EWI 11.136 18 Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in emancipation in the West Indies], like a bolt from a cloud...
    FRep 11.539 27 ...if we have taught...the bolt of heaven to write our letters like a Gillot pen, let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    CInt 12.119 18 I wish you to be eloquent, to grasp the bolt and to hurl it home to the mark.

bolt, v. (1)

    SA 8.97 12 ...there are...swainish, morose people...and though their odd wit may have some salt for you, your friends would not relish it. Bolt these out.

bolted, v. (1)

    ET5 5.80 18 [The English people's] mind is...locked and bolted to results.

bolts, n. (3)

    Comp 2.118 23 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions...
    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...
    Milt1 12.268 2 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily... whilst he launched from time to time his formidable bolts against the enemies of liberty.

bolts, v. (1)

    Plu 10.315 14 Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the door.

bolt-upright, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.162 27 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...

bombard, v. (1)

    ET4 5.62 2 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...

bombardment, n. (1)

    ET5 5.86 11 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.

Bombyx [bombyx], n. (1)

    F 6.8 4 Without...counting how many species of parasites hang on a bombyx...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

bon mot [bonmot], n. (2)

    Chr1 3.104 13 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
    NMW 4.252 6 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention, a romance, a bon mot, as well as a stratagem in a campaign. as a stratagem in a campaign.

bon mots [bonmots, bon-mots], (1)

    QO 8.197 15 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan. I never like my own bon-mots until he adopts them.

Bonaparte, Joseph, n. (3)

    NMW 4.254 26 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little, from habit...
    Bhr 6.194 17 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
    Grts 8.315 2 [Napoleon's] advice to his brother, King Joseph of Spain, was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.288 22 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...after the Napoleon rule, to be the strongest to-day...

Bonaparte, Napoleon, n. (135)

    Nat 1.14 3 By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the face of the world changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon!
    DSA 1.149 11 Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him;...
    LE 1.178 18 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution...
    LE 1.178 23 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    LE 1.178 27 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    LE 1.179 25 ...Napoleon...had also this crowning merit...
    MN 1.206 27 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    Hist 2.9 16 What is history, said Napoleon, but a fable agreed upon?
    Hist 2.10 21 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a victory of Napoleon...
    Hist 2.36 18 Put Napoleon in an island prison...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    Hist 2.36 24 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    Hist 2.36 26 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    SR 2.87 1 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac...
    Comp 2.116 21 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    SL 2.134 9 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon;...
    SL 2.145 19 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...
    SL 2.165 6 Bonaparte knew but one merit...
    Exp 3.79 6 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
    Exp 3.80 1 Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind' s ministers.
    Chr1 3.92 13 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Chr1 3.108 2 Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
    Mrs1 3.127 23 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    Mrs1 3.128 17 The class of power, the working heroes...the Napoleon, see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    Mrs1 3.135 18 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    Mrs1 3.135 19 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles. Napoleon remarked them, and speedily managed to rally them off...
    Mrs1 3.135 21 ...Napoleon...was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.142 18 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    Pol1 3.197 6 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    NER 3.274 10 ...Rousseau...Napoleon...they would know the worst...
    UGM 4.13 13 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
    UGM 4.23 4 I like...Bonaparte, in France.
    ShP 4.210 4 What king has [Shakespeare] not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
    NMW 4.223 2 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.223 15 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is France, if Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.224 15 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...the class of industry and skill. Napoleon is its representative.
    NMW 4.224 18 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    NMW 4.225 5 Paris and London and New York...were also to have their prophet; and Bonaparte was qualified and sent.
    NMW 4.225 8 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    NMW 4.225 10 Napoleon is thoroughly modern...
    NMW 4.227 17 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon...deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    NMW 4.227 20 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    NMW 4.227 25 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth...
    NMW 4.227 27 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means.
    NMW 4.228 22 Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections...
    NMW 4.229 12 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization...
    NMW 4.233 2 ...Napoleon understood his business.
    NMW 4.233 10 Napoleon had been the first man of the world, if his ends had been purely public.
    NMW 4.234 19 ...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.235 24 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    NMW 4.236 10 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
    NMW 4.238 12 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
    NMW 4.239 10 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
    NMW 4.239 20 Bonaparte had passed through all the degrees of military service...
    NMW 4.240 4 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    NMW 4.240 22 ...some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back. Napoleon interfered, saying Respect the burden, Madam.
    NMW 4.241 10 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire.
    NMW 4.241 18 ...there is in particulars this identity between Napoleon and the mass of the people...
    NMW 4.243 3 ...Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    NMW 4.243 7 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs. Napoleon met this natural expectation.
    NMW 4.245 14 The Revolution entitled...every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    NMW 4.245 25 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...
    NMW 4.247 25 ...it is at all times the belief of society that the world is used up. But Bonaparte knew better than society;...
    NMW 4.248 3 Bonaparte relied on his own sense...
    NMW 4.248 18 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    NMW 4.250 13 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    NMW 4.250 20 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    NMW 4.252 2 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius...
    NMW 4.252 12 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society;...
    NMW 4.253 18 Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
    NMW 4.256 11 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    NMW 4.256 22 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party...
    NMW 4.258 10 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
    NMW 4.258 20 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient as the pernicious Napoleon.
    GoW 4.270 7 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    GoW 4.289 15 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    ET5 5.85 21 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET5 5.90 25 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET7 5.119 24 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    F 6.17 8 It would not be safe to say when a captain like Bonaparte...would be born in Boston;...
    F 6.28 24 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth...
    Pow 6.54 16 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Pow 6.72 6 What a force was coiled up in the skull of Napoleon!
    Wth 6.100 23 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...
    Ctr 6.158 17 Bonaparte, like Caesar, was intellectual...
    Bhr 6.170 6 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.
    Bhr 6.194 17 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
    Bhr 6.194 21 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
    Wsp 6.224 14 The fame...of Thomas a Kempis or of Bonaparte, characterizes those who give it.
    Wsp 6.232 23 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague...
    CbW 6.250 10 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille.
    Ill 6.317 19 Bonaparte is intellectual, as well as Caesar;...
    Civ 7.31 7 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?...
    Elo1 7.77 10 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon.
    Elo1 7.98 9 Napoleon, even, must accept and use [the moral element] as he can.
    WD 7.167 26 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own. Bonaparte, who had the same appetite, endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
    WD 7.176 25 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
    Cour 7.255 18 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Napoleon...
    Cour 7.273 1 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Suc 7.284 15 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands.
    Suc 7.293 26 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    Suc 7.293 27 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    PI 8.3 13 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Franklin, Napoleon.
    SA 8.80 15 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history;...
    Res 8.145 13 Napoleon says, the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    Comc 8.171 16 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms, which Napoleon reckoned so formidable...
    PC 8.219 7 ...Archimedes or Napoleon is worth for labor a thousand thousands...
    Insp 8.278 24 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan.
    Insp 8.279 19 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
    Grts 8.302 11 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte...surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    Grts 8.314 7 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon...
    Grts 8.314 9 Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust...
    Imtl 8.333 3 When Bonaparte insisted that the heart is one of the entrails... do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Dem1 10.15 22 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    Aris 10.51 22 To a right aristocracy, to Hercules, to Theseus, Odin, the Cid, Napoleon;...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Aris 10.62 2 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
    PerF 10.80 3 Bonaparte...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    Supl 10.172 27 The arithmetic of Newton...the concentration of Bonaparte... are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    SovE 10.190 14 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    MoL 10.246 13 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
    MoL 10.253 9 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    MoL 10.253 15 Bonaparte himself deserted [the Egpytian campaign]...
    Plu 10.318 9 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    LLNE 10.339 11 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon...
    LLNE 10.347 26 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    HCom 11.343 12 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    CPL 11.504 18 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    CPL 11.504 24 ...Napoleon was an excellent writer.
    Mem 12.97 4 Nature interests [the intellectual man];...mind, being, in their own method and law. Napoleon is such, and that saves him.
    CInt 12.113 20 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue...of Washington or Napoleon...
    Bost 12.202 14 Bonaparte sighed for his republicans of 1789.
    MAng1 12.239 25 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
    WSL 12.339 5 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
    AgMs 12.358 23 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...
    Trag 12.416 12 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

Bonapartes, Napoleon, n. (2)

    NMW 4.223 17 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    F 6.13 23 ...strong natures...Napoleons...are inevitable patriots...

Bonaparte's, Napoleon, n. (14)

    LE 1.180 13 ...Bonaparte's army partook of this double strength of the captain;...
    NMW 4.226 3 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
    NMW 4.227 4 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
    NMW 4.228 4 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    NMW 4.258 11 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte. It was not Bonaparte's fault.
    GoW 4.266 7 Our people are of Bonaparte's opinion concerning ideologists.
    ET4 5.56 17 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    ET5 5.86 20 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET7 5.120 2 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
    Bhr 6.194 19 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    Elo1 7.84 24 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    PI 8.12 16 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings were such...and Bonaparte's.
    Res 8.145 19 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    CPL 11.504 22 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable...

bonbons, n. (1)

    WD 7.168 25 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of...bonbons, presents and fire-works.

bond, n. (8)

    AmS 1.113 7 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    Hist 2.22 17 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    Chr1 3.94 24 Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond?
    ET7 5.118 10 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright, and their vulgar praise, His word is as good as his bond.
    Wsp 6.208 8 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm.
    Ill 6.323 3 I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond...to all the eclat in the universe.
    Cour 7.271 12 The true temper has genial influences. It makes a bond of union between enemies.
    MAng1 12.223 15 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts...

bondage, n. (2)

    SwM 4.138 5 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our bondage;...
    Wom 11.420 11 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

bonders, n. (1)

    ET4 5.57 9 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders...

bonds, n. (5)

    SL 2.146 6 ...a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of ties,--that he has been understood; and he who has received an opinion may come to find it the most inconvenient of bonds.
    Wth 6.91 7 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals...the absence of bonds, clanship, fellow-feeling of any kind,--he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Wth 6.99 6 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.
    CbW 6.258 15 ...the Furies are the bonds of men;...
    PI 8.59 15 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds...

bondsmen, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.238 15 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.

Bonduca [John Fletcher], n. (2)

    SR 2.78 3 Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,-His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;/...
    Hsm1 2.245 13 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue,--as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage...

Bonduca, n. (1)

    SL 2.165 10 The poet uses the names...of Bonduca, of Belisarius;...

bone, n. (15)

    Nat 1.41 7 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    MN 1.197 9 [Nature] is flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone.
    SwM 4.113 26 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/...
    MoS 4.179 10 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out of snow.
    ET4 5.46 22 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    Wth 6.121 17 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    Bty 6.294 11 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
    Suc 7.283 5 We are feeling our youth and nerve and bone.
    PI 8.58 7 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    Aris 10.56 11 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against bone.
    Aris 10.56 12 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against bone.
    LLNE 10.326 17 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body...
    PLT 12.22 16 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature...we feel as if looking at our bone and flesh through coloring and distorting glasses.
    CL 12.165 22 ...[Nature] is bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh...
    CL 12.165 23 ...[Nature] is bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh...

bone-house, n. (2)

    Farm 7.145 21 Intellect is a fire: rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man.
    Clbs 7.225 9 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man...

bones, n. (25)

    Nat 1.3 14 ...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Con 1.308 3 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess;...
    Comp 2.113 2 [The borrower] may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach...
    Chr1 3.110 24 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their cartilages;...
    Mrs1 3.119 4 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off human bones;...
    PPh 4.57 18 ...the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.
    MoS 4.153 2 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
    NMW 4.235 13 [Napoleon] laid his bones to, and wrought for his crown.
    GoW 4.261 13 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the animal its bones in the stratum;...
    ET2 5.30 2 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET18 5.305 7 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage, and their companions seemed bags of bones.
    F 6.7 6 ...the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,- these are in the system...
    Wth 6.101 23 [The farmer's] bones ache with the days' work that earned [his dollar].
    Wth 6.116 9 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and robbed him of energy. He finds a catalepsy in his bones.
    Wsp 6.208 13 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
    Bty 6.290 19 It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in a peach-bloom complexion;...
    Farm 7.149 10 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. If they have an appetite for...ground bones...he will indulge them.
    PI 8.40 26 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations, the marrow of the world is in his bones...
    PI 8.55 21 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./
    Aris 10.56 10 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones.
    Schr 10.269 7 We are all contemporaries and bones of one body.
    MMEm 10.425 21 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    HDC 11.61 7 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In 1659, his bones were laid at rest in the forest.
    EWI 11.144 19 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent...
    EPro 11.323 5 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but war was in the minds and bones of the combatants...

bonfire, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.238 14 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all. Put them down, then, returned Michael, since you shall not make a bonfire at my gate.

bonfires, n. (2)

    PC 8.225 5 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies.
    Supl 10.167 27 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed...to be made bonfires of by whimsical viziers;...

bonhommie, n. (2)

    PPh 4.74 9 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    ET17 5.292 4 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.

Boniface, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 27 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.

boniform, adj. (1)

    PNR 4.83 13 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...soliform eye and his boniform soul;...

bon-mots [bonmots, bon-mots], (1)

    QO 8.181 23 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology...

bonmots, n. [bon-mots,] (4)

    SwM 4.103 13 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bonmots...
    ET6 5.114 16 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French.
    Thor 10.459 19 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
    PLT 12.7 11 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction?

bonnet, n. (2)

    Comc 8.171 4 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
    Comc 8.171 7 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...

bonnets, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.298 20 ...the girls must go without new bonnets;...

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