Britain, Great to Bude-light

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

Britain, Great, n. (33)

    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.36 8 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...
    ET1 5.4 13 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold...
    ET3 5.35 18 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain.
    ET3 5.42 11 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe...
    ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain...
    ET4 5.51 14 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain?
    ET4 5.55 9 [The Celts] planted Britain...
    ET5 5.76 16 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET5 5.77 3 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET5 5.96 5 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET9 5.150 17 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality
    ET10 5.159 17 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET10 5.166 12 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people. The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature.
    ET12 5.205 13 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET14 5.238 13 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in Britain.
    ET14 5.238 15 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...
    ET14 5.153 23 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has imported into Britain the German homologies...
    ET14 5.258 17 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.
    ET16 5.273 8 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET16 5.282 17 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret...
    Wth 6.110 4 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    PC 8.213 25 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    MoL 10.242 23 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...
    Thor 10.459 26 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    HDC 11.31 2 ...the town of Concord was settled by a party of non-conformists, immediately from Great Britain.
    HDC 11.70 26 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
    HDC 11.71 2 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain...
    HDC 11.84 20 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    EWI 11.109 23 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.126 25 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the dullest in Briain.
    Bost 12.197 27 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Milt1 12.270 10 At one time [Milton] meditated writing a poem on the settlement of Britain...

Britain, History of [John (1)

    Milt1 12.270 15 ...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English genius.

Britannia, n. (1)

    ET4 5.67 22 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.

Britannicum, Dictionarium [ (1)

    Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.

British, adj. (67)

    AmS 1.81 9 We do not meet...for the advancement of science, like our contemporaries in the British and European capitals.
    Pt1 3.32 2 The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
    ET2 5.33 8 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side.
    ET3 5.36 7 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET3 5.36 27 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    ET3 5.37 12 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years; and hence the impression that the British power has culminated...
    ET4 5.45 1 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... So far have the British people predominated.
    ET4 5.45 2 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock.
    ET4 5.45 11 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries.
    ET4 5.53 24 ...there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity.
    ET4 5.62 1 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...
    ET5 5.88 2 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt.
    ET5 5.92 18 [The English] have approved...their British birth, by husbandry and immense wheat harvests;...
    ET5 5.93 26 A proof of the energy of the British people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.
    ET8 5.142 10 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from public life as charlatanism...
    ET9 5.144 15 British citizenship is as omnipotent as Roman was.
    ET9 5.147 2 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law;...
    ET9 5.147 4 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law; but not a hobnail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England;--for that also is British law;...
    ET9 5.147 5 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.
    ET10 5.155 18 The British armies are solvent and pay for what they take.
    ET10 5.155 19 The British empire is solvent;...
    ET11 5.185 8 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to give the example of that decorum so dear to the British heart.
    ET11 5.188 26 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind, engaged by their pride and wealth to this function. Yet there were other works for British dukes to do.
    ET12 5.199 1 Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list.
    ET12 5.200 27 ...[Oxford] is, in British story, rich with great names...
    ET14 5.238 7 The influence of Plato tinges the British genius.
    ET14 5.253 7 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.
    ET15 5.269 2 When I see [the English] reading [the London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more British.
    ET15 5.271 22 [The London Times] is a living index of the colossal British power.
    ET15 5.272 19 [If the London Times would cleave to the right] It would be the natural leader of British reform;...
    ET16 5.275 22 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that there and not here is the seat and centre of the British race;...
    ET16 5.276 22 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.279 1 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    ET16 5.279 14 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near. We could equally well revere their old British meaning.
    ET16 5.281 12 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here...
    ET18 5.303 20 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    ET18 5.304 9 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people, to qualify them for self-government, when the British power shall be finally called home.
    ET18 5.305 18 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.
    ET19 5.312 10 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
    CbW 6.243 1 Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest tongue./
    Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Boks 7.221 6 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    OA 7.317 12 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
    Insp 8.295 16 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British mythology of Arthur...
    HDC 11.49 18 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
    HDC 11.68 18 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
    HDC 11.69 2 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...
    HDC 11.69 8 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...
    HDC 11.73 9 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    HDC 11.73 10 There [at the Concord bridge] the Americans first shed British blood.
    HDC 11.73 10 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.78 21 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    EWI 11.111 26 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation.
    EWI 11.112 24 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.113 8 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    EWI 11.120 6 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.
    EWI 11.128 23 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    EWI 11.136 27 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    FSLC 11.208 19 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves.
    EPro 11.315 21 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the British emancipation of slaves in the West Indies...
    ALin 11.335 23 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    SMC 11.349 4 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    CPL 11.501 8 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the British soldiers in 1775...
    II 12.74 1 Here is a famous Ode, which is the first performance of the British mind and lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    CInt 12.118 24 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands...
    CInt 12.118 27 The emigration into America of British...people is the eulogy of America...
    ACri 12.298 25 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch, now that we have exhausted the Greek and Roman and British biography...

British Association, n. (2)

    Boks 7.220 17 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...
    Clbs 7.249 6 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...

British Classics, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 23 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.

British Constitution, n. (1)

    Con 1.309 27 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely...that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.

British Empire, n. (2)

    ET4 5.44 20 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    War 11.163 13 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...

British Guiana, n. (1)

    EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...

British India, n. (1)

    EPro 11.324 22 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of British Ireland, and British India.

British Institution, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.232 10 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.

British, Ireland, n. (1)

    EPro 11.324 22 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of British Ireland, and British India.

British Ministry, n. (1)

    EWI 11.120 16 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].

British Museum. n. [British] (8)

    MoS 4.163 20 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    MoS 4.163 23 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph (as I was informed in the Museum), turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ET11 5.181 18 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House, now stands...
    ET16 5.274 15 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence...
    ET17 5.293 19 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    Boks 7.193 6 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
    Edc1 10.146 14 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    PLT 12.22 12 If we go through the British Museum...or any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...

British Museums, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 14 It is the interest of all men that there should be...British Museums...

British, n. (5)

    HDC 11.73 24 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    HDC 11.74 8 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
    HDC 11.74 13 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...
    HDC 11.74 27 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord]...
    HDC 11.75 8 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...

British Navy, n. (1)

    Cour 7.262 2 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy...

British Parliament, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.132 3 ...it was said that no member of either house of the British Parliament will be ranked among the orators, whom Lord North did not see, or who did not see Lord North.
    SMC 11.352 3 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted...offensive taxes of the British Parliament...

Briton, n. (6)

    ET4 5.48 17 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.
    ET4 5.52 20 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean; the Briton in the blood hugs the homestead still.
    ET8 5.133 13 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...
    ET8 5.142 10 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from public life as charlatanism...
    ET9 5.152 15 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor.
    PLT 12.26 7 The Briton, the Pict, is nothing until the Roman, the Saxon, the Norman, arrives.

Britons, n. (3)

    ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET3 5.41 23 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    EWI 11.121 19 It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.

Brittany, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 25 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...

broach, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 26 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess. It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called the subject of religion.

broached, v. (7)

    SA 8.90 2 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...
    PC 8.211 5 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    SovE 10.199 14 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    EWI 11.138 12 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    Wom 11.415 15 [The equality of the sexes] is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers, where no business is broached or counselled without the intervention of one elder and one elderess.
    SHC 11.434 4 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...
    Milt1 12.269 3 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].

broaches, v. (2)

    SwM 4.115 24 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
    War 11.156 12 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...

broaching, n. (1)

    LVB 11.94 21 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.

broad, adj. (77)

    Nat 1.17 16 ...broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding;...
    AmS 1.93 7 ...the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    DSA 1.148 6 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates before its broad noon the little shades and gradations of intelligence...
    LE 1.164 1 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    LE 1.166 24 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad.
    LE 1.169 10 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MR 1.249 6 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence.
    Con 1.309 17 Your want is a gulf which the possession of the broad earth would not fill.
    YA 1.365 20 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    Hist 2.7 27 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
    Hist 2.18 22 ...one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...
    Hist 2.24 22 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities; courage...a broad chest.
    Exp 3.60 26 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...
    Mrs1 3.126 12 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds...
    Mrs1 3.154 15 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;...
    Nat2 3.169 16 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    Pol1 3.221 4 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    PPh 4.41 6 [Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
    PPh 4.71 4 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally...
    SwM 4.119 3 To a right perception, at once broad and minute, of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    SwM 4.132 1 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the revengeful, whose faces resembled a round, broad cake...
    GoW 4.263 2 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
    ET4 5.46 27 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    ET9 5.152 18 Strange...that broad America must wear the name of a thief.
    ET11 5.183 5 These broad [English] estates find room in this narrow island.
    ET11 5.189 19 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    ET16 5.276 10 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.283 24 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk...
    F 6.6 15 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies...
    F 6.17 6 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
    Pow 6.57 2 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    Wth 6.119 14 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...
    Ctr 6.137 23 We must...meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
    Bhr 6.174 26 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...
    Bhr 6.188 27 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Wsp 6.222 20 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    Civ 7.31 11 Tobacco and opium have broad backs...
    Art2 7.53 26 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature.
    Elo1 7.72 10 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the assembled Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the other;...
    Elo1 7.76 26 You are safe...in the city, in broad daylight...
    Elo1 7.91 26 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it...
    Farm 7.135 23 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    Farm 7.140 7 ...[the farmer] has broad lands for his home...
    Boks 7.204 3 What is really best in any book is translatable,--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    Cour 7.274 16 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, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors. There is much of fable, but a broad basis of fact.
    PI 8.4 11 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.41 3 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted.
    QO 8.179 20 The stream of affection flows broad and strong;...
    PC 8.212 2 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PC 8.225 3 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
    PPo 8.261 9 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Aris 10.43 11 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
    Aris 10.65 19 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Edc1 10.134 1 Education should be as broad as man.
    SovE 10.209 21 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.
    Prch 10.227 4 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is... severe in his search for truth, he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Plu 10.311 3 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    LLNE 10.370 3 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal, and with broad foundation of culture...
    GSt 10.506 5 ...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.
    HDC 11.32 23 ...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a foot broad.
    HDC 11.64 2 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
    EWI 11.110 21 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe, being made just broad enough on the beam to keep the sea.
    EWI 11.131 17 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    War 11.175 26 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America of God and man...
    JBB 11.270 4 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].
    ALin 11.330 17 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad structure of his fame was laid.
    ALin 11.332 24 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    EdAd 11.386 6 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...
    RBur 11.443 8 Every name in broad Scotland keeps [Burns's] fame bright.
    FRep 11.529 20 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...ever on broad grounds of general justice...
    CW 12.170 4 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    Bost 12.190 18 In our beautiful [Boston] bay, with its broad and deep waters covered with sails from every port...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.204 3 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any broad generalization...
    Milt1 12.274 14 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./
    Milt1 12.275 14 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken...

broad, adv. (1)

    Int 2.323 3 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;--/ The sower scatters broad his seed;/ The wheat thou strew'st be souls./

Broad Street, Boston, Mass (1)

    Bost 12.208 5 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.

broad-axe, n. (2)

    SR 2.85 1 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    Civ 7.27 12 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.

broad-bottomed, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.134 8 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world, broad-fronted, broad-bottomed...
    ET18 5.299 6 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...

broad-chested, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.71 13 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...

broadcloth, n. (5)

    ET14 5.254 23 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
    Ctr 6.151 14 I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is paid to good broadcloth;...
    PI 8.42 8 There was as much creative force then as now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth and wine-glasses.
    PLT 12.29 3 To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the wheel and weave carpets and broadcloth.
    WSL 12.344 7 [Landor] is buttoned in English broadcloth to the chin.

broaden, v. (1)

    OS 2.270 14 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

broadens, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.229 18 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain: thoughts, fancies, humors flow;...the horizon broadens;...

broader, adj. (12)

    LT 1.264 1 ...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question represents.
    Tran 1.357 22 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    YA 1.379 23 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better...
    UGM 4.7 23 ...the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his own shoes.
    Wsp 6.229 24 ...now sciences of broader scope are starting up behind [physiognomy and phrenology].
    CbW 6.261 24 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants, and he will come out of it with broader wisdom and manly power.
    Elo1 7.71 22 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    OA 7.316 3 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    QO 8.192 13 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
    FSLN 11.226 1 ...the question which History will ask is broader. In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    Mem 12.92 7 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight...
    Mem 12.110 5 With every broader generalization which the mind makes... its retrospect is also wider.

broader, adv. (1)

    Hist 2.40 20 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...

broadest, adj. (6)

    MR 1.249 23 We use these words as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen. And yet they have the broadest meaning...
    PPh 4.40 6 ...it is fair to credit the broadest generalizer [Plato] with all the particulars deducible from his thesis.
    F 6.13 11 Now and then a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.
    Wsp 6.210 10 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Comc 8.160 26 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...
    Chr2 10.105 17 The establishment of Christianity in the world does not rest on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane doctrine.

broad-faced, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 9 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...and talk half an hour about nothing with the broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy.

broad-fronted, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.134 8 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world, broad-fronted, broad-bottomed...
    ET18 5.299 6 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...

broad-shouldered, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.76 5 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants...

broadsides, n. (2)

    ET5 5.86 22 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    Comc 8.163 2 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, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.

broadswords, n. (1)

    CbW 6.267 9 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords...

Broadway, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.177 9 The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.

Broadway, New York City, (1)

    OA 7.320 6 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...

Broadway, No. 200, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 10 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that of his particular Committee and General Office, No. 200 Broadway?

Broadways, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.180 26 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against them.

brocade, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.286 4 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

Broceliande [Malory, Morte (1)

    PI 8.60 19 [Sir Gawaine] came into the forest of Broceliande...

broil, n. (1)

    Nat 1.31 22 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether, in...the broil of politics.

broil, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.145 27 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not...broil the fish?

broke, v. (26)

    Nat 1.33 21 ...The last ounce broke the camel's back;...
    DSA 1.139 17 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...
    MR 1.229 21 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    YA 1.377 22 Trade was the strong man that broke [Feudalism] down...
    Comp 2.94 14 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon.
    NER 3.256 6 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism broke out in unexpected quarters.
    ShP 4.192 12 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
    F 6.40 18 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men are made willing to have their heads broke...the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Pow 6.77 20 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.
    Pow 6.77 23 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion?
    Bhr 6.175 26 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;...
    CbW 6.254 6 The barbarians who broke up the Roman Empire did not arrive a day too soon.
    Civ 7.27 26 We had letters to send: couriers...broke their wagons...
    Clbs 7.243 6 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
    Elo2 8.109 5 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;/ Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
    Prch 10.217 12 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church broke into Protestant and Catholic...
    Prch 10.217 13 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as...earlier, when Paganism broke into Christians and Pagans.
    LLNE 10.337 19 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which broke into the inmost shrines...
    LLNE 10.364 16 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade...broke up routine [at Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.368 17 The society at Brook Farm existed...about six or seven years, and then broke up...
    EzRy 10.384 25 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children. The beast, being frightened when we were all out of the shay, overturned and broke it.
    LS 11.12 17 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols.
    AsSu 11.250 16 ...beyond this charge...that he broke over the proprieties of debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    TPar 11.290 10 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery broke over its old banks...
    II 12.79 13 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    CInt 12.114 7 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...

broken, adj. (21)

    Hist 2.23 24 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in...the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined villas.
    Hist 2.31 17 Man is the broken giant...
    SL 2.159 19 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion, a swinish look...all blab.
    Mrs1 3.153 27 Are you...rich enough to make...the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    MoS 4.176 13 Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    ET6 5.114 22 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as broken country makes picturesque landscape;...
    ET10 5.153 22 An Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
    ET10 5.159 14 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.
    ET11 5.172 21 In spite of broken faith...we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    Pow 6.81 24 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...
    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 6.279 8 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./
    Ill 6.317 7 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is gone.
    Ill 6.321 4 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...broken glass to pay for...
    DL 7.105 12 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents, studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words--the little talker grows to a boy.
    Thor 10.484 27 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should leave in the midst his broken task...
    PLT 12.56 6 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country.
    CL 12.143 19 For walking, you must have a broken country.
    CL 12.144 3 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire...
    CL 12.144 11 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating, rocky, broken and surprising...
    Bost 12.210 1 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her mechanics repair the broken rail;...

Broken Bridge, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 17 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built, in 1557, and is still called the Broken Bridge.

broken, n. (2)

    Schr 10.273 7 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
    Trag 12.414 27 ...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken is whole again.

broken, v. (51)

    Nat 1.30 2 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.74 1 The reason why the world...lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself.
    YA 1.377 18 Feudalism...had broken the power of the kings...
    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...
    Hsm1 2.260 19 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
    OS 2.292 24 When we have broken our god of tradition...then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    Cir 2.308 21 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city...
    Pt1 3.12 3 ...now my chains are to be broken;...
    Pt1 3.19 3 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
    Chr1 3.98 3 ...if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the idolatry.
    Mrs1 3.124 25 ...the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through;...
    Nat2 3.180 5 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken...
    NER 3.277 11 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like fragments of ice...
    SwM 4.125 6 [To Swedenborg] The marriages of the world are broken up.
    ET1 5.19 10 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall...
    ET16 5.284 2 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain], which only yields one crop on being broken up...
    Ctr 6.139 11 The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken...will not deny the validity of education.
    Wsp 6.222 5 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    Ill 6.324 22 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise.
    Art2 7.54 14 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk;...
    Elo1 7.76 21 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...against whom other men being dashed are broken...
    Farm 7.142 7 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom, to tie the thread when the wheel stops to indicate that a thread is broken, is called a minder.
    Clbs 7.247 16 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    PI 8.14 6 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.
    Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
    Res 8.144 4 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Comc 8.164 6 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    Insp 8.282 16 [Herbert's] health had broken down early...
    Aris 10.37 15 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough...if parties should be broken up...
    Chr2 10.105 10 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
    SovE 10.196 9 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident, though our leg be broken.
    MoL 10.258 8 Slavery is broken...
    Schr 10.274 20 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...if [his voice] is broken, he can at least scream;...
    EzRy 10.382 17 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town. The studies were much broken up.
    EzRy 10.388 12 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    LS 11.3 12 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...whether leavened or unleavened bread should be broken;-the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    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.
    HDC 11.62 6 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken.
    War 11.168 6 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance when your strong-box is broken open...
    War 11.174 10 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham, and the peace will be base. War is better, and the peace will be broken.
    ACiv 11.306 11 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will that the Union shall not be broken...
    SMC 11.350 20 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    SMC 11.368 3 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours, and the nights were broken by frequent alarms.
    Scot 11.467 27 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was broken up.
    PLT 12.18 13 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age...
    PLT 12.54 20 ...a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will;...
    Mem 12.99 4 ...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained when he is once broken by training...
    CL 12.144 1 In Massachusetts, our land is agreeably broken...
    CL 12.153 19 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.
    MAng1 12.238 8 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
    AgMs 12.359 21 Toil has not broken [Edmund Hosmer's] spirit.

broker, n. (7)

    Nat 1.49 1 The broker, the wheelwright...are much displeased at the intimation [that nature is more short-lived than spirit].
    MR 1.230 9 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
    Cir 2.316 11 For you, O broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic.
    Chr1 3.98 25 The capitalist does not run every hour to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the realm;...
    UGM 4.12 25 Engineer, broker...inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    PI 8.41 20 ...the broker sees the stock-list;...
    MoL 10.246 17 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues...

brokers, n. (6)

    Tran 1.348 20 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    Ctr 6.136 1 Have you seen a few lawyers, merchants and brokers...
    Schr 10.269 4 ...the brokers...are idealists...
    Schr 10.272 7 We have...a real relation to markets and brokers and currency and coin.
    FSLC 11.181 11 ...saints, and brokers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    II 12.81 18 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists...

Brokers, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 16 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.

brokers', n. (1)

    EPro 11.321 22 What if the brokers' quotations show our stocks discredited...

bronchitis, n. (2)

    Bty 6.284 26 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health.
    Prch 10.229 16 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.

bronze, adj. (5)

    ET4 5.66 4 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    PC 8.208 4 Who would live in the stone age, or the bronze...
    HCom 11.339 9 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    SMC 11.375 22 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
    MAng1 12.243 17 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs, cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.

bronze, n. (5)

    SA 8.81 17 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate, hid behind its shield of bronze.
    MoL 10.254 3 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    MoL 10.254 6 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
    Thor 10.484 2 Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.
    EWI 11.101 13 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...their hue of bronze...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

bronzed, adj. (2)

    MR 1.229 26 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
    EPro 11.326 13 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...

brooches, n. (1)

    OS 2.290 10 The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings...

brood, n. (3)

    LE 1.156 24 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    ET6 5.109 21 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...followed by a long brood of children.
    Suc 7.281 5 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./

brood, v. (4)

    LE 1.162 7 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...brood on them...
    Boks 7.219 13 Friendship should give and take, solitude and time brood and ripen...[the communications of the sacred books].
    Shak1 11.446 5 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    II 12.71 18 We brood on the words or works of our companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.

brooded, v. (2)

    AmS 1.87 21 The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon;...
    PLT 12.18 12 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds...

broods, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.216 23 True love...dwells and broods on the eternal...
    OS 2.278 14 [The soul] broods over every society...
    GoW 4.282 27 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects: the student, out of the lecture-room, still broods on the lessons;...
    Suc 7.312 2 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world.

Brook Farm, Massachusetts, (2)

    NR 3.240 14 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and effete name?
    Pow 6.66 4 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook Farm...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

Brook Farm, n. (6)

    LLNE 10.362 12 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...
    LLNE 10.364 7 The Founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
    LLNE 10.367 23 In Brook Farm was this peculiarity, that there was no head.
    LLNE 10.367 26 In every family is the father;...in a boat, the skipper; but in this Farm, no authority...
    LLNE 10.368 16 The society at Brook Farm existed, I think, about six or seven years...
    LLNE 10.368 18 The society at Brook Farm existed...about six or seven years, and then broke up, the Farm was sold...

Brook Farms, n. (2)

    PLT 12.48 15 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice, for example, the failure of monasteries and Brook Farms.
    Bost 12.198 27 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the Zoars, New Harmonies and Brook Farms...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

Brook, Grassy, Massachusett (1)

    HDC 11.32 16 The green meadows of Musketaquid or Grassy Brook were far up in the woods...

brook, n. (18)

    SR 2.68 14 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook...
    Lov1 2.177 13 ...[the lover] talks with the brook that wets his foot.
    Fdsp 2.210 17 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook?
    Nat2 3.178 25 We see the foaming brook with compunction...
    Nat2 3.178 27 ...if our own life flowed with the right energy, we should shame the brook.
    Nat2 3.180 21 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
    Farm 7.142 24 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air, the water of the brook...
    Boks 7.217 5 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
    Res 8.139 17 Measure by barrels the spending of the brook that runs through your field.
    Res 8.152 7 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go...to the clearing and the brook.
    PPo 8.248 18 Let us draw the cowl through the brook of wine.
    Edc1 10.148 26 The boy wishes to learn...to catch a fish in the brook...
    Schr 10.265 9 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the dashing among the stones of a brook from the hills;...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    MMEm 10.401 19 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
    Thor 10.482 21 Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook.
    PLT 12.54 14 The tree or the brook has no duplicity...
    II 12.69 13 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light; the cow and sheep to the running brook;...
    Bost 12.202 11 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state...

brook, v. (4)

    MN 1.197 21 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    SR 2.56 13 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    Dem1 10.27 8 ...far be from me the impatience which cannot brook the supernatural...
    AgMs 12.359 26 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an erect good sense and independent spirit which can neither brook usurpation nor falsehood in any shape.

Brooke, Lord [Fulke Grevil (4)

    ET11 5.190 13 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst conversations with Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, a man of no vulgar mind...
    ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Sidney, Lord Brooke, Herbert...
    ET16 5.284 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...
    ET16 5.284 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.

Brookeby, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.178 10 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire...

Brookfield, Massachusetts, n (1)

    HDC 11.58 12 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people whose houses had been burned...

Brookfield, North, Massachu (1)

    EzRy 10.381 20 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester, then minister of North Brookfield, to fit Ezra for college...

brooks, n. (3)

    Insp 8.290 16 Certain localities, as...the shores of rivers and rapid brooks... are excitants of the muse.
    HDC 11.36 13 Of the pith elder, that still grows beside our brooks, [the Indians] made their arrow.
    RBur 11.442 1 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...ice and sleet and rain and snow-choked brooks;...

Brooks, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 17 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Jones, Brown, Buttrick, Brooks...

broom, n. (2)

    Comp 2.114 3 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
    WD 7.160 17 In Massachusetts we fight the sea successfully with beach-grass and broom...

brooms, n. (1)

    SL 2.166 8 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...all people will get mops and brooms;...

broth, n. (1)

    AmS 1.92 20 ...the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were...the broth of shoes...

brothels, n. (1)

    SwM 4.138 23 ...man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.

brother, n. (66)

    Nat 1.68 22 Each part may call the farthest, brother;/...
    AmS 1.103 6 ...the instinct is sure, that prompts [the scholar] to tell his brother what he thinks.
    MN 1.218 22 Nature is a mute, and man, her articulate, speaking brother, lo! he also is a mute.
    Con 1.316 1 Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother?
    Tran 1.346 11 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should never let his brother go...
    Hist 2.32 16 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul...
    SR 2.51 25 I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
    SR 2.72 25 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    SR 2.79 8 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother...
    Comp 2.124 5 I am my brother and my brother is me.
    Comp 2.124 9 ...my brother is my guardian...
    Comp 2.126 14 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    SL 2.150 18 ...a person of related mind, a brother or sister by nature, comes to us so softly and easily...that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    Fdsp 2.207 16 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister...are there pertinent...
    Fdsp 2.210 5 Why...know [your friend's] mother and brother and sisters?
    Fdsp 2.214 16 ...seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...
    Hsm1 2.247 6 Val. What ails my brother?/
    Hsm1 2.260 14 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    Pt1 3.11 26 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Gts 3.162 13 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
    Nat2 3.171 11 ...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    Nat2 3.177 9 The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.
    NER 3.256 24 ...is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?
    NER 3.265 18 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...
    NER 3.280 24 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    ET4 5.60 4 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...
    ET4 5.64 8 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...
    ET11 5.195 6 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET16 5.284 13 [Wilton Hall] is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and the residence of his brother, Sidney Herbert Esq....
    ET17 5.295 8 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet...
    Wth 6.113 16 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage...
    Bhr 6.194 17 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
    Bhr 6.194 22 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
    CbW 6.269 15 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
    Cour 7.275 6 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to break every yoke all over the world which hinders his brother from acting after his thought.
    OA 7.318 18 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age, and presently find it was his father and not his brother whom they knew!
    OA 7.332 10 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
    Comc 8.166 5 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    Grts 8.315 2 [Napoleon's] advice to his brother...was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.
    Prch 10.226 18 ...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./
    Plu 10.315 19 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother;...
    Plu 10.315 24 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    LLNE 10.358 17 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    LLNE 10.361 22 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother...were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.
    EzRy 10.388 22 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.
    MMEm 10.420 13 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city, where she had lived for a while with her brother [Mr. Emerson's father] and afterwards with his widow.
    Thor 10.451 14 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...
    Thor 10.457 16 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother...
    LS 11.18 14 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
    HDC 11.53 17 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived, of being elevated to equality with their civilized brother.
    HDC 11.60 23 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...
    HDC 11.63 5 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord...
    EWI 11.122 19 ...the Boston merchant rivals his brother of New York;...
    FSLN 11.232 13 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise, and the instinct to love and help his brother.
    TPar 11.292 4 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
    Wom 11.406 16 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
    Wom 11.426 14 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.
    FRO2 11.490 13 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight, as showing the riches of my brother...
    CPL 11.503 26 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    PLT 12.53 20 No man passes for that with another which he passes for with himself. The respect and the censure of his brother are alike injurious and irrelevant.
    CInt 12.115 19 ...a son, a brother, or one of our own kindred is [in college] for his training.
    Bost 12.182 15 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal friend./
    Bost 12.186 23 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland, yet...they hug an oil-cask like a brother.
    MAng1 12.244 20 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature...
    MLit 12.326 18 No man was permitted to call Goethe brother.

Brother, n. (1)

    Aris 10.61 9 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother...

Brother Patch [Butler, Hud (1)

    Comc 8.166 12 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...

brotherhood, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.261 20 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty, in sign that they feel a brotherhood with the great multitude of suffering men.
    Dem1 10.6 20 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
    Let 12.401 14 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings...love and brotherhood into towns and houses.

Brotherhood, n. (1)

    CPL 11.505 18 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.

brotherly, adj. (1)

    LVB 11.93 21 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling. It is in our hearts the simplest commandment of brotherly love.

Brothers Bollandi, 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...

Brothers, Love of [Plutarch (1)

    Plu 10.315 17 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes... on the Love of Brothers.

brothers, n. (34)

    Nat 1.10 13 ...to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
    AmS 1.115 17 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, - please God, ours shall not be so.
    DSA 1.143 27 And now, my brothers...What in these desponding days can be done by us?
    LE 1.161 25 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being...
    Con 1.315 25 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    YA 1.376 19 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
    SL 2.139 2 O my brothers, God exists.
    UGM 4.21 7 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/...
    NMW 4.254 26 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]...
    F 6.12 16 People are born...uterine brothers with this diverging destination;...
    Ctr 6.144 19 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    WD 7.175 3 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    Cour 7.256 16 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    PI 8.63 14 There is something--our brothers on this or that side of the sea do not know it or own it;...which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    Comc 8.168 6 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Comc 8.173 6 What is nobler than the expansive sentiment of patriotism, which would find brothers in a whole nation?
    PC 8.233 10 Brothers, I draw new hope from the atmosphere we breathe to-day...
    Prch 10.232 7 ...we are...allied to men around us, as really though not quite so visibly as the Siamese brothers.
    LLNE 10.358 16 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    EzRy 10.388 11 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    EzRy 10.388 13 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done.
    MMEm 10.400 12 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up, rarely seeing her brothers and sisters in Concord.
    MMEm 10.400 26 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters.
    MMEm 10.402 2 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs.
    HDC 11.60 7 The Indians stole upon [Mary Shepherd] before she was aware, and her brothers were slain.
    EWI 11.102 21 [The negro slaves'] case was left out of the mind and out of the heart of their brothers.
    AKan 11.262 20 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen, all made of hooks and eyes, and links himself naturally to his brothers...
    HCom 11.340 7 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    HCom 11.344 26 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you...
    Wom 11.426 5 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...
    Shak1 11.447 3 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    II 12.84 21 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    PPr 12.379 10 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and...offers his best counsel to his brothers.

brother's, n. (5)

    SR 2.79 10 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he...recites fables merely of his brother's...God.
    SR 2.79 11 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he...recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
    Fdsp 2.201 20 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    Chr2 10.115 8 Jesus...knew how to guard the integrity of his brother's soul from himself also;...
    EWI 11.105 18 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's...

Brougham, Henry, n. (4)

    QO 8.184 22 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
    QO 8.184 23 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
    EWI 11.113 24 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...
    EWI 11.119 17 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...

Brougham, Henry Peter, n. (2)

    ET13 5.227 4 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET15 5.264 1 When Lord Brougham was in power, [the London Times] decided against him, and pulled him down.

Brougham's, Henry, n. (2)

    Suc 7.289 2 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    MMEm 10.425 7 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.

Broughams, n. (1)

    F 6.13 23 ...strong natures...Broughams...are inevitable patriots...

brought, v. (168)

    Nat 1.52 21 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together...
    Nat 1.57 2 Then [Ideas] were by [the Supreme Being], as one brought up with him.
    Nat 1.75 10 These wonders are brought to our own door.
    LE 1.162 23 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...
    MN 1.208 22 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    MN 1.217 22 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind, and the wisdom it brought him;...
    MN 1.219 13 What brought the pilgrims here?
    LT 1.263 25 Every fact we have was brought here by some person;...
    LT 1.279 23 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would the wounds of the world heal...
    Con 1.316 3 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly with other thoughts than he brought...
    SL 2.152 6 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...
    SL 2.154 22 ...to every generation [Plato's works] come duly down...as if God brought them in his hand.
    Hsm1 2.255 6 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    Pt1 3.23 8 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
    Exp 3.61 24 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour, and what it brought me...
    Chr1 3.87 8 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
    Chr1 3.107 12 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    Chr1 3.112 23 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet.
    Nat2 3.191 6 ...wealth was good as it...brought friends together in a warm and quiet room...
    SwM 4.100 13 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII....
    SwM 4.140 24 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...
    MoS 4.164 20 The neighboring lords and gentry brought jewels and papers to [Montaigne] for safe-keeping.
    ShP 4.191 1 The world has brought [the great man] thus far on his way.
    ShP 4.200 2 ...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to perfection.
    NMW 4.236 20 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops...and he was brought off with desperate efforts.
    GoW 4.273 5 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.
    GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a book some of its ancient might and dignity.
    ET1 5.6 27 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor...
    ET1 5.13 23 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine.
    ET1 5.14 25 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock.
    ET1 5.18 15 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.
    ET4 5.61 2 ...[the Normans] burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed, until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin.
    ET4 5.73 16 The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal perfection;...
    ET5 5.91 21 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London;...
    ET8 5.131 15 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
    ET8 5.136 15 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...
    ET9 5.149 27 ...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 5.175 21 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
    ET11 5.188 8 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art...brought hither out of all the world.
    ET12 5.203 10 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt;...
    ET12 5.203 21 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase...
    ET12 5.203 27 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET13 5.222 19 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET14 5.250 14 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    ET16 5.278 8 The sacrificial stone [at Stonehenge]...must have been brought one hundred and fifty miles.
    ET16 5.280 18 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops.
    ET16 5.281 11 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland...
    F 6.18 18 ...in every barrel of cowries brought to New Bedford there shall be one orangia...
    F 6.40 20 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Wth 6.109 24 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...
    Ctr 6.149 13 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Ctr 6.150 1 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Ctr 6.165 20 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    Bhr 6.174 25 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn...in the pictures which Commodore Perry brought home of dignitaries in Japan.
    Bhr 6.195 6 Here is a lesson which I brought along with me in boyhood from the Latin School...
    CbW 6.251 6 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him.
    CbW 6.256 15 ...most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
    CbW 6.257 6 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons...
    CbW 6.259 23 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    Civ 7.19 10 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment...
    Civ 7.23 1 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Art2 7.50 9 [Good poets] found the verse, not made it. The muse brought it to them.
    Elo1 7.61 5 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor.
    DL 7.123 2 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
    DL 7.124 23 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    DL 7.131 20 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.
    WD 7.160 27 ...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
    WD 7.170 18 [The days] are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
    Boks 7.197 25 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes, which brought it with the learned into a sort of disesteem;...
    Clbs 7.235 26 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue, whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society.
    Cour 7.256 20 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion...must be brought in chariots to every mass meeting.
    Suc 7.305 16 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    Suc 7.305 20 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away.
    Suc 7.306 12 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to that top of condition...that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    PI 8.28 16 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
    PI 8.51 3 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers:--And these were the dishes in which they brought to me, being hungry, the Sun and the Moon instead of Thee.
    PI 8.59 25 The Crusades brought out the genius of France...
    SA 8.101 24 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    SA 8.104 9 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
    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;/...
    Elo2 8.132 26 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Res 8.143 20 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers...
    QO 8.191 24 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies...He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
    QO 8.199 24 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...
    QO 8.200 22 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things: wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties and experience.
    PPo 8.243 1 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.256 8 Told I thee yester-morn how the Iris of heaven/ Brought to me in my cup a gospel of joy?/
    Insp 8.277 15 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not. He thought the angels brought them to him.
    Insp 8.293 1 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right conditions...
    Grts 8.317 1 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    Grts 8.317 23 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light.
    Imtl 8.325 18 [The Greek] adorned death, brought wreaths of parsley and laurel;...
    Imtl 8.326 8 Christianity brought a new wisdom.
    Dem1 10.11 27 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water...
    PerF 10.79 21 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce, brought up the stock of his mills to par...
    Edc1 10.146 11 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    Edc1 10.157 26 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Supl 10.175 22 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
    MoL 10.257 7 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war, and brought, by ennobling us, an offset for its calamity.
    Schr 10.283 18 Whatever object is brought before [mother-wit] is already well known to it.
    Schr 10.285 25 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true, which attack and wound any who opposes them, whether he who brought them here remains here or not;...
    LLNE 10.326 1 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics;...
    LLNE 10.330 16 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results...
    LLNE 10.356 25 [Thoreau]...brought every day a new proposition, as revolutionary as that of yesterday, but different...
    LLNE 10.360 4 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    EzRy 10.385 10 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    MMEm 10.400 22 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.
    MMEm 10.412 22 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
    MMEm 10.425 15 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    SlHr 10.442 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] discriminated in the business that was brought to him...
    Thor 10.450 1 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Thor 10.462 26 If [Thoreau] brought you yesterday a new proposition, he would bring you to-day another not less revolutionary.
    Thor 10.477 14 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    GSt 10.499 4 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    GSt 10.501 10 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    GSt 10.502 2 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to slavery. This brought him into sympathy with the people of Kansas.
    GSt 10.505 8 Without such vital support as [George Stearns], and such as he, brought to the government, where would that government be?
    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.
    LS 11.6 12 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    HDC 11.31 12 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
    HDC 11.34 15 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth...brought forth bread to feed them.
    HDC 11.86 22 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither.
    LVB 11.94 2 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.105 11 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.106 9 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.109 7 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.132 21 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be.
    EWI 11.137 16 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.142 1 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    War 11.154 4 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together...
    War 11.158 16 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...
    FSLC 11.199 3 [Webster's] pacification has brought all the honesty in every house...to accuse the law.
    FSLC 11.199 6 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets...
    FSLC 11.199 20 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    FSLC 11.211 22 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it.
    FSLN 11.219 6 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.227 22 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    AsSu 11.247 17 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    JBB 11.267 2 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    JBB 11.267 5 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...
    JBB 11.268 16 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    ACiv 11.300 12 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower...
    ACiv 11.306 3 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    EPro 11.318 6 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.323 24 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
    ALin 11.329 11 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together...
    ALin 11.332 16 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else.
    ALin 11.332 19 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    SMC 11.352 16 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years...brought the alternative of extirpation of the poison or ruin to the Republic.
    SMC 11.357 3 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...young men...of excellent education and polished manners, delicately brought up;...
    Wom 11.408 27 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play...
    Wom 11.426 1 The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course.
    CPL 11.502 15 Once brought into the world, [thought] runs over the vessel which received it into all minds that love it.
    FRep 11.520 15 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.534 17 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country, combined with the impatience of arbitrary power which they brought from England, forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    CL 12.146 2 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
    CL 12.162 22 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    Bost 12.189 5 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it...brought the government with them.
    MAng1 12.236 22 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
    MAng1 12.238 4 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo].
    Milt1 12.266 8 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
    Milt1 12.278 9 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce; an essay, which, from the first, until now, has brought a degree of obloquy on his name.
    MLit 12.315 8 The more [the great] draw us to them, the farther from them or more independent of them we are, because they have brought us to the knowledge of somewhat deeper than both them and us.
    Pray 12.351 26 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
    Pray 12.355 18 I thank thee...especially for him who brought me so perfect a type of thy goodness and love to men.
    Pray 12.355 26 Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance...brought under our eye nearly at the same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    Let 12.400 22 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall and asked, Who brought the ragamuffin here?

brought'st, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 4 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./

brow, n. (25)

    Nat 1.53 9 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/ It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls/ Under the brow of thralling discontent;/...
    MN 1.194 10 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart...thine and not theirs is the hour. Smooth thy brow...
    LT 1.282 12 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...
    LT 1.284 20 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
    Hist 2.16 5 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock.
    Hist 2.34 27 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful, and fade on the brow of the inconstant.
    Chr1 3.93 11 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor...
    Mrs1 3.140 22 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.
    Pol1 3.218 4 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not smooth our own brow...
    UGM 4.34 2 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow.
    ET1 5.15 11 [Carlyle] was tall and gaunt, with a clifflike brow...
    F 6.9 11 A dome of brow denotes one thing...
    F 6.48 21 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...
    Wth 6.115 4 With brow bent...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
    Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man, with his brow of care...has any advantage of them.
    DL 7.127 17 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him...
    WD 7.170 6 There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow...
    Suc 7.292 24 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.
    Elo2 8.114 1 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son;...
    PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
    Dem1 10.4 10 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    EzRy 10.390 22 [Ezra Ripley's] brow was serene and open to his visitor...
    MAng1 12.244 16 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    AgMs 12.359 21 Innocence and justice have written their names on [Edmund Hosmer's] brow.
    Trag 12.409 15 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

browbeater, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.390 7 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.

brown, adj. (4)

    ET16 5.276 12 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge, which looked like a group of brown dwarfs in the wide expanse...
    Edc1 10.140 8 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well...
    Thor 10.482 13 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.
    SMC 11.360 26 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills, some on brown paper, or strips of newspaper;...

Brown, John [Edmund Claren (1)

    JBB 11.266 24 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

Brown, John, n. (23)

    Cour 7.270 14 Captain John Brown...said to me in conversation, that for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Cour 7.271 17 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown.
    Cour 7.272 8 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    SA 8.105 5 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity, as...John Brown for the slave.
    Elo2 8.125 19 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln...
    Thor 10.460 17 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.460 19 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    GSt 10.502 10 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
    GSt 10.502 15 Mr. [George] Stearns made himself at once necessary to Captain Brown as one who respected his inspirations...
    JBB 11.266 1 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
    JBB 11.267 18 Captain John Brown is a farmer...
    JBB 11.268 3 ...our Captain John Brown, then a boy, with his father was present and witnessed the surrender of General Hull.
    JBB 11.269 20 Nothing can resist the sympathy which all elevated minds must feel with [John] Brown...
    JBB 11.270 8 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown.
    JBB 11.270 21 I said John Brown was an idealist.
    JBB 11.271 6 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe. Why? Because the judges...do not, like John Brown, use their eyes to see the fact behind the forms.
    JBS 11.277 6 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    JBS 11.277 15 John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.
    JBS 11.280 17 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    JBS 11.281 21 ...the arch-abolitionist, older than [John] Brown, and older than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love...
    ALin 11.334 5 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
    SMC 11.360 1 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown...
    Mem 12.105 18 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.

Brown, Jonas, n. (1)

    HDC 11.74 18 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun, the ball from which wounded Luther Blanchard and Jonas Brown...

Brown, Mr., n. (1)

    ET16 5.280 23 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...

Brown, n. (1)

    HDC 11.30 17 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Jones, Brown, Buttrick, Brooks...

Brown, Old, n. (2)

    JBB 11.266 9 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./
    JBB 11.266 20 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

Brown, Osawatomie, n. (2)

    JBB 11.266 10 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./
    JBB 11.266 21 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

Brown, Peter, n. (1)

    JBB 11.267 19 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown...

Brown, Robert, n. (5)

    ET10 5.163 20 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET14 5.253 22 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... perhaps of Robert Brown, the botanist;...
    ET17 5.292 27 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science, Robert Brown, Owen, Sedgwick...
    PC 8.220 3 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are...always known to the adepts; as Robert Brown in botany, and Gauss in mathematics.
    MoL 10.246 15 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers...

Brown, Samuel, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 3 At Edinburgh, through the kindness of Dr. Samuel Brown, I made the acquaintance of DeQuincey, of Lord Jeffrey...

Brown, Tom, at Oxford [Tho (1)

    Edc1 10.143 6 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford...

Brown, Tom, at Rugby [Thom (1)

    Edc1 10.143 6 Let [the youth] read Tom Brown at Rugby...

Browne, Thomas, n. (4)

    ET14 5.234 17 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius; in these writers [Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton] and in Herbert, Henry More, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne.
    ET14 5.238 17 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Browne, Donne, Spenser...
    Boks 7.208 26 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Sir Thomas Browne;...
    MLit 12.311 20 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Beaumont and Fletcher, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne, beside its own riches?

Brownell, Henry Howard, n. (1)

    SMC 11.347 5 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.

Browne's, Thomas, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 7 It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment on Mummies the claim of poetry...

brownest, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 10 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...

Browning, Robert, n. (3)

    Insp 8.290 11 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    MoL 10.245 3 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust,-of which the Festus of Bailey and the Paracelsus of Browning are English variations.
    FSLN 11.216 10 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.

Brownists, n. (1)

    Bost 12.199 12 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...

Brown's, John, n. (1)

    JBB 11.273 5 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...

Brownson, Orestes, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.341 14 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...

brows, n. (9)

    Hist 2.14 10 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove, a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows!
    Lov1 2.174 17 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions...is a wreath of flowers on the oldest brows.
    Art1 2.366 3 The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    ET8 5.127 3 I do not know that [the English] have sadder brows than their neighbors of northern climates.
    Bhr 6.181 2 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.
    Elo1 7.67 1 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination; narrow brows expand with enlarged affections;...
    DL 7.117 23 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with...brows ever tranquil...
    DL 7.121 18 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want...
    CSC 10.375 6 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit, emerging, and expanding the brows to a new breadth...

browsing, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.285 4 See how happy, [Tisso] said, these browsing elks are!

browsing, v. (1)

    Farm 7.147 2 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise. It was only browsing and fire which had kept them down.

bruage, n. (1)

    LT 1.274 6 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after...some well spiced bruage...his religion walks abroad at eight...

Bruce, Frederic, n. (2)

    ChiE 11.474 13 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    ChiE 11.474 19 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.

Bruce, Robert, n. (2)

    OA 7.322 6 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at...Bruce, as Barbour reports him;...
    Plu 10.318 7 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Robert Bruce, Sydney...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

Bruce, Thomas [Lord Elgin] (5)

    NMW 4.226 13 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin...
    NMW 4.226 14 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin, who sat by him. Lord Elgin approved it...
    NMW 4.226 20 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.
    NMW 4.226 21 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    ET5 5.91 14 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...

Bruin, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.237 20 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.

bruise, n. (1)

    UGM 4.24 2 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise...

bruise, v. (2)

    ET1 5.18 9 ...[Carlyle] had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls...
    Schr 10.274 22 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...bruise him, mutilate him, cut off his hands and feet, he can still crawl towards his object on his stumps.

bruised, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.148 6 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.

bruisers, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.123 21 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    Pow 6.64 25 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.

bruises, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.133 6 The sufferers [from egotism]...tear the lint from their bruises...
    Elo2 8.128 24 A few bruises and scratches will do [a boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.

Brummell, George Bryan, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 4 Even Brummel, [the Englishmen's] fop, was marked by the severest simplicity in dress.

Brummel's, George Bryan, n. (1)

    Thor 10.465 26 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...

Brunel, Marc Isambard, n. (4)

    ET5 5.76 6 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?
    F 6.39 24 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Brunel, and the rest.
    Pow 6.57 25 What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
    Wth 6.121 22 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...

Brunelleschi, Filippo, n. (3)

    QO 8.185 12 Columbus's egg is claimed for Brunelleschi.
    MAng1 12.239 14 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration...of Brunelleschi.
    MAng1 12.239 18 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.

Bruno, Giordano, n. (3)

    PPh 4.39 19 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius...Bruno...is some reader of Plato...
    Cour 7.274 9 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 Giordano Bruno, Vanini...,
    QO 8.195 25 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...like Giordano Bruno...

Brunswick, New, n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 17 ...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.

Brunswicks, n. (1)

    SwM 4.98 17 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.

brunt, n. (3)

    ET11 5.184 20 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET15 5.272 16 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might now and then bear the brunt of formidable combinations, but no journal is ruined by wise courage.
    GSt 10.504 16 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a soldier to bide the brunt;...

brush, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.80 6 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good...anthracite, in our brush pasture.

brush, n. (5)

    YA 1.383 22 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    ET8 5.135 25 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    PI 8.41 1 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers, the human cheek, the living rock, the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky were painted.
    PPo 8.262 18 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    ACri 12.283 18 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Neant, exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

brush, v. (1)

    ET4 5.68 20 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito.

brushed, adj. (1)

    PI 8.49 26 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes. A small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him.

brushed, v. (1)

    AmS 1.107 1 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...

brushes, n. (1)

    Pow 6.79 14 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials, oil, ochres and brushes.

brushwood, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.145 27 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not...burn the brushwood...

brusque, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.345 3 ...[State Street] did not fancy brusque manners.

Brussels, Belgium, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 1 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day from Brussels to Vienna, from Vienna to Constantinople, it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

Brut, n. (2)

    ShP 4.193 3 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly;...
    Boks 7.221 7 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...

brutal, adj. (13)

    LT 1.274 23 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant. There shall be nothing brutal in it...
    ET4 5.63 4 The English uncultured are a brutal nation.
    ET4 5.63 16 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength...
    ET4 5.68 27 ...the brutal strength which lies at the bottom of society...[the English] know how to wake up.
    ET10 5.154 18 A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy.
    ET18 5.300 25 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...with diminished brain and brutal form.
    Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply.
    WD 7.165 22 Politics were never more corrupt and brutal;...
    Cour 7.275 26 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if...a brutal act is recorded in the journals.
    EWI 11.146 13 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    AsSu 11.251 24 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    Wom 11.422 24 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    FRep 11.536 9 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal.

brutal, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.230 11 That is the distinction of the gentleman, to defend the weak and redress the injured, as it is of the savage and the brutal to usurp and use others.

brutality, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 8 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...

brute, adj. (36)

    Nat 1.28 19 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat.
    Nat 1.45 10 Words and actions are not the attributes of brute nature.
    DSA 1.123 14 Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers...
    MN 1.213 1 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
    LT 1.268 16 ...this [conservative] class...blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
    Tran 1.343 2 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish or brute...
    YA 1.372 5 [That Genius] indicates itself by...a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
    SR 2.56 18 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Pt1 3.15 4 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    Pol1 3.201 2 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering.
    NR 3.240 1 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
    NER 3.252 24 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature;...
    PPh 4.46 23 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when, proceeding out of this brute youth, the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    ET7 5.125 22 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power;...
    F 6.20 6 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes a brute and dreadful shape.
    F 6.20 7 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes a brute and dreadful shape.
    Wth 6.85 22 ...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
    Wth 6.99 21 Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
    CbW 6.252 2 ...we are used as brute atoms until we think...
    WD 7.161 8 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were taking the brute earth itself into training...
    Suc 7.300 1 ...this brute matter is part of somewhat not brute.
    Suc 7.300 2 ...this brute matter is part of somewhat not brute.
    PI 8.17 5 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body...
    PI 8.24 9 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports...
    PI 8.24 14 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences...
    Res 8.140 27 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    PC 8.223 15 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it;...
    Dem1 10.17 11 I believed that I discovered in nature...intelligent and brute, somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    Prch 10.222 24 We are in transition...to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...its equal energy in what is called brute nature as in what is called sacred.
    EWI 11.146 6 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    War 11.154 17 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature...
    War 11.155 19 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    FRep 11.531 14 ...all advancement is by ideas, and not by brute force or mechanic force.
    PLT 12.38 5 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we are no longer brute lumps whirled by Fate...
    CInt 12.113 3 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...
    Trag 12.406 23 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...

brute, n. (5)

    ET11 5.191 8 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    Suc 7.287 15 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/...
    Dem1 10.6 24 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog] should gain one dreadful glimpse of his condition...
    SovE 10.184 4 Asthis unity exists...from lower type of man to the highest yet attained, so it does not less declare itself in the spirit or intelligence of the brute.
    SovE 10.188 7 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence...down in the kingdoms of brute or of chemical atoms.

bruteness, n. (2)

    Nat 1.76 3 The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit;...
    Hist 2.13 23 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.

brutes, n. (3)

    Nat 1.43 1 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    SR 2.48 3 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
    Civ 7.20 2 The term [Civilization] imports a mysterious progress. In the brutes is none;...

brutish, adj. (2)

    ET3 5.43 1 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    War 11.160 4 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...

Brutus, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.255 7 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    FSLN 11.226 23 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.

Brutus [Shakespeare, Julius (1)

    ET6 5.108 21 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature; and not less the Portia of Brutus...

Brutuses, n. (1)

    Tran 1.339 16 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...

Bryant, William Cullen, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.447 10 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...

bubble, n. (5)

    Exp 3.65 9 Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism...
    Nat2 3.180 20 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
    ShP 4.213 6 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air...
    Civ 7.29 25 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a bubble of air, nor a mote of dust.
    WD 7.165 25 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...

bubbles, n. (6)

    Exp 3.76 13 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    MoS 4.155 16 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river...
    ET2 5.33 13 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    ET2 5.33 14 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day, instead of bubbles, we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.
    OA 7.313 14 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./
    MMEm 10.422 16 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.

buccaneers, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 15 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life, in explorers, soldiers and buccaneers.

buccaneer's, n. (1)

    War 11.158 7 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line; and the seaman shipped on the buccaneer's bargain, No prey, no pay.

Buccleuch, Duke of [Walter (1)

    ET11 5.189 5 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

Buchanan, James, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 17 I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...

Buchanan's, James, n. (1)

    SMC 11.353 8 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican, like the governors who, in Buchanan's time, went to Kansas, and instantly took the free-state colors.

Buchara, Persia, n. (1)

    PPo 8.251 20 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/

Buchs, Von, n. (1)

    UGM 4.12 4 Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...

bucket, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.171 22 There is the bucket of cold water from the spring...and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    ET14 5.240 25 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use...

bucketful, n. (1)

    ET14 5.244 13 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.

buckets, n. (3)

    MR 1.237 7 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of...buckets... by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    CbW 6.271 23 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    EzRy 10.391 18 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.

Buckingham, Duke of [George (2)

    ET4 5.68 11 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    ET11 5.178 10 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire...

Buckinghams, n. (2)

    ShP 4.202 11 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching...the Essexes, Leicesters, Burleighs and Buckinghams;...
    ET11 5.193 8 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre...

Buckland, William, n. (1)

    ET17 5.293 1 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...Faraday, Buckland, Lyell...

buckle, v. (1)

    WD 7.183 8 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the moon that he used to buckle his shoes;...

buckle-maker, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 11 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker...

buckles, n. (1)

    ET10 5.167 15 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when the fashion of shoe-strings supersedes buckles...

buck-load, n. (1)

    PerF 10.71 8 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds?

Buckminster, Joseph Stevens (1)

    Prch 10.231 12 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...

buckra, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.103 19 The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and the negro box with hoe and bill;...

buckra, n. (1)

    EWI 11.103 16 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...

buckram, n. (1)

    Suc 7.289 13 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...

buckskin, n. (2)

    JBS 11.277 21 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and barefooted, and clothed in buskskin.
    JBS 11.278 2 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal; not one in fine clothes and the other in buckskin;...

bud, n. (6)

    Int 2.330 2 All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud.
    Int 2.330 4 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.
    Edc1 10.152 5 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
    SovE 10.187 18 The bud extrudes the old leaf...
    PLT 12.24 22 Under every leaf is the bud of a new leaf...
    PLT 12.25 8 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop. They look all summer as if they would presently burst into bud again, but they do not.

bud, v. (3)

    F 6.48 4 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will bud and shoot out winged feet...
    Res 8.152 21 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom...
    Insp 8.282 18 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...

Buddh, n. (1)

    Civ 7.33 1 The appearance of the Hebrew Moses, of the Indian Buddh...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

Buddha, n. (2)

    PI 8.14 24 ...[the Hindoos], following Buddha, have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    Grts 8.302 26 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what of Buddha?...

Buddhism, n. (4)

    Tran 1.337 20 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness. Buddhism is an expression of it.
    UGM 4.4 22 Our colossal theologies of Judaism...Buddhism...are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
    Chr2 10.103 24 The [moral] sentiment...measures...Christianity, Buddhism, or whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    SovE 10.205 21 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs...

Buddhist, n. (7)

    Tran 1.337 21 The Buddhist...is a Transcendentalist.
    Gts 3.163 27 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
    NR 3.236 7 Nature will not be Buddhist...
    Clbs 7.236 1 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    Plu 10.312 13 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue...
    II 12.88 6 The Buddhist who finds gods masked in all his friends and enemies...is calm.
    Let 12.395 16 The Buddhist is a practical Necessitarian;...

Buddhists, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.231 3 The Buddhists say, No seed will die: every seed will grow.
    Boks 7.218 19 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the books of the Buddhists;...
    PI 8.42 6 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks, and we pity the poverty of these dreaming Buddhists.

budding, adj. (3)

    LE 1.168 24 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    Lov1 2.171 17 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    Lov1 2.178 13 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary. Like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself;...

Bude-light, n. (1)

    Civ 7.33 20 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.

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