Budgets to Byzantium

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

budgets, n. (2)

    Comp 2.115 13 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Wth 6.106 21 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.

buds, n. (7)

    Nat 1.16 9 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...buds...
    DSA 1.119 3 ...the buds burst...
    LE 1.185 25 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...
    Fdsp 2.197 25 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
    CL 12.150 25 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
    CW 12.177 26 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds...
    Bost 12.209 6 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...sending out boughs and buds...

buds, v. (1)

    PI 8.60 8 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself, and what buds in it buds and grows outside of it.

Buena Esperanca, Cape of, n (1)

    War 11.158 15 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, entering in at the Strait of Magellan, and returning by the Cape of Buena Esperanca;...

buffalo, n. (3)

    MoS 4.179 9 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo...
    ET3 5.43 3 Let buffalo gore buffalo, and the pasture to the strongest!
    Thor 10.463 12 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.

Buffalo, New York, n. (3)

    GSt 10.503 13 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...
    FSLN 11.224 26 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
    EdAd 11.383 22 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.

buffalo-hunter, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 12 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...

buffalo-hunting, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.19 21 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer...

buffalo-robe, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.346 6 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    LLNE 10.346 8 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed,-or under the stars, when the farmer denied the shed and the buffalo-robe.

buffalo-trail, n. (1)

    Wth 6.122 12 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail...

buffets, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.237 25 The drover, the sailor, buffets it all day...

Buffon, Georges Leclerc, C (1)

    ET4 5.71 25 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.

Buffon, Georges Louis de, n (1)

    ACri 12.285 2 Le style c'est l'homme, said Buffon;...

Buffon's, Georges Leclerc d (1)

    Nat 1.28 5 ...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts;...

buffoonery, n. (1)

    Comc 8.173 24 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...

buffoons, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.243 3 ...Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;/...
    F 6.5 6 Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons...

Buford, Colonel, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 18 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.

bug, n. (2)

    Pow 6.60 12 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight, or bug...
    LLNE 10.350 9 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...

bugbears, n. (1)

    MoS 4.175 10 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.

bugle, n. (2)

    QO 8.187 1 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    Schr 10.265 8 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...

bugs, n. (4)

    AmS 1.106 14 ...men in the world of to-day, are bugs...
    Bty 6.282 20 Bugs and stamens and spores...are not finalities;...
    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.
    EWI 11.143 6 We do not wish a world of bugs or of birds;...

build, n. (2)

    OS 2.286 24 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    FRep 11.537 21 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's...

build, v. (84)

    Nat 1.20 12 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;...
    Nat 1.64 6 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us...
    Nat 1.67 21 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind, and build science upon ideas.
    Nat 1.76 17 Build therefore your own world.
    AmS 1.99 27 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new...
    LE 1.164 7 Say to the man of letters that he cannot...build a steamboat...and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    Con 1.305 18 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own;...
    Con 1.306 20 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin.
    Con 1.309 8 My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours.
    Con 1.317 7 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Con 1.321 4 The corporation were advised to...build a Catholic chapel...
    YA 1.374 25 We build railroads, we know not for what or for whom;...
    YA 1.374 27 ...we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    YA 1.375 7 ...we build stone houses...for remote generations.
    Hist 2.21 25 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    Comp 2.100 6 It is in vain to build or plot or combine against [Compensation].
    Prd1 2.223 7 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    Pt1 3.30 24 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Pol1 3.197 11 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    Pol1 3.200 12 ...they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity;...
    Pol1 3.210 20 ...[the conservative party] does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts...
    NER 3.276 23 ...[those who reject us] build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed...
    PPh 4.61 14 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.
    SwM 4.93 17 Others may build cities; [the philosopher] is to understand them...
    MoS 4.160 11 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    ShP 4.198 8 ...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.
    ET3 5.42 27 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.
    ET5 5.85 5 [The English] build roads, aqueducts;...
    ET7 5.119 11 [The English] build of stone...
    ET12 5.213 12 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould the opinions of cities, to build their houses as simply as birds their nests...
    ET16 5.274 19 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no ornament.
    F 6.36 26 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    F 6.38 12 ...If you want a fort, build a fort...
    F 6.43 4 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you... walking cities, and wherever you put them they would build one.
    F 6.44 5 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    F 6.48 6 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity...
    F 6.48 24 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity.
    F 6.49 5 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity...
    F 6.49 15 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity...
    Wth 6.83 12 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.121 3 I know not how to build or to plant;...
    Wth 6.123 1 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    Bhr 6.167 2 Grace, Beauty, and Caprice/ Build this golden portal/...
    Bty 6.302 8 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Art2 7.41 18 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must.
    Art2 7.42 16 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    Art2 7.55 17 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
    DL 7.104 15 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...
    DL 7.110 8 Do not ask [the scholar] to...join a company to build a factory or a fishing-craft.
    DL 7.126 15 ...Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.
    Cour 7.254 4 Men admire...the man who can build the boat...
    Suc 7.284 2 ...Erwin of Steinbach could build a minster;...
    Suc 7.291 19 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should build his own clumsy house...
    PI 8.3 5 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build.
    PI 8.26 22 You must...find one faculty here, one there, to build the true poet withal.
    PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...
    SA 8.81 13 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;...
    PPo 8.263 7 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
    Imtl 8.331 7 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Imtl 8.336 12 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    Imtl 8.348 11 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population! Will you build magnificently for mice?
    Dem1 10.17 5 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power to which we build churches...
    Schr 10.271 4 Will [wealth] build its fences very high...
    LLNE 10.359 9 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    Thor 10.482 15 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    Thor 10.482 17 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    HDC 11.38 15 [The Puritans] proceeded to build...their first dwellings.
    EWI 11.126 9 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    War 11.165 9 ...when a truth appears...it will build ships;...
    War 11.165 9 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets;...
    ALin 11.331 3 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    CPL 11.506 9 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    PLT 12.47 22 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    II 12.70 9 Even those we call great men build substructures...
    II 12.72 24 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
    CInt 12.122 20 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build, engineer, carve, paint...
    CL 12.141 17 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    CW 12.171 18 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    CW 12.173 23 In the orchard, we build monuments to Van Mons annually.
    MAng1 12.234 4 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, 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.
    MAng1 12.239 19 ...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.
    WSL 12.337 13 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood...

builded, adj. (2)

    Con 1.316 17 What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough...
    Hist 2.15 1 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square,--a builded geometry.

builded, v. (8)

    Nat 1.53 7 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/...
    DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded;...
    ET5 5.75 2 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England], builded, tilled, fished and traded...
    ET5 5.92 2 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded...
    ET5 5.92 22 [The English] have tilled, builded, forged, spun and woven.
    PI 8.51 21 The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]?...
    PLT 12.20 11 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    Let 12.403 12 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over...

builder, n. (9)

    Hist 2.12 1 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production. We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder.
    Hist 2.20 26 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Wsp 6.204 11 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Civ 7.21 13 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Art2 7.56 6 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
    DL 7.110 14 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    PerF 10.74 24 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Mem 12.91 1 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction...

Builder, n. (1)

    PPo 8.246 19 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./

builders, n. (4)

    DSA 1.120 5 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
    Wsp 6.221 3 ...we are the builders of our fortunes;...
    Bost 12.204 13 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...builders of mills and forges...
    Bost 12.204 14 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...builders of roads...

building, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.41 23 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.

building, n. (20)

    YA 1.363 14 This rage of road building is beneficent for America...
    Hsm1 2.253 17 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building...
    Chr1 3.108 18 [Character] needs perspective, as a great building.
    ShP 4.194 17 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building...
    ET12 5.203 26 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET13 5.223 18 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money in music and building...
    ET16 5.290 11 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation...
    F 6.45 5 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    Ctr 6.158 20 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a building...and give a just opinion.
    Bty 6.295 25 In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never repeated...
    Bty 6.295 26 In our cities...any beautiful building is copied and improved upon...
    Art2 7.45 17 ...how much is there that is not original in every particular building...
    Art2 7.53 6 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    DL 7.126 14 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building...
    Imtl 8.335 4 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...
    LLNE 10.359 6 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    MMEm 10.425 11 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    Wom 11.410 2 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;...
    CPL 11.496 3 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building...a quite new attraction...
    FRep 11.533 21 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country, in building, in dress...

building, v. (35)

    LT 1.259 15 The Times are...the quarry out of which the genius of to-day is building up the Future.
    Con 1.320 26 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    Tran 1.341 17 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.
    YA 1.365 1 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    YA 1.378 24 We complain...of [trade's] building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed.
    Hist 2.39 7 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the building of the Temple...
    SR 2.52 15 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Hsm1 2.256 17 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities...
    Cir 2.320 10 We do not guess to-day...the power, of to-morrow, when we are building up our being.
    ShP 4.189 5 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ET5 5.84 13 [The English] study use and fitness in their building...
    ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national prosperity, in the...building of ships, depots, towns;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.177 25 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    ET15 5.266 2 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour; the new machine, for which they were then building an engine, would print twelve thousand per hour.
    Wth 6.109 26 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...the building of cities and of states...
    Wth 6.123 18 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Wsp 6.223 14 If you spend for show, on building or gardening...it will so appear.
    Wsp 6.223 19 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Bty 6.291 3 ...our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts...
    Bty 6.291 10 ...the carpenter building a ship...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct, as agriculture, building, weaving, etc., but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    Art2 7.45 19 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    PI 8.23 23 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris, building a universal monarchy.
    SA 8.101 21 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    QO 8.199 23 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...
    Schr 10.273 15 Other men are planting and building...
    Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as building a boat or a fence...
    SMC 11.354 18 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    SMC 11.371 21 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road.
    Wom 11.415 21 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV,-commonly dated from the building of the Hotel de Rambouillet.
    Bost 12.199 7 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...building their empire by due degrees.
    MAng1 12.225 24 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
    MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
    PPr 12.390 11 We have been civilizing very fast, building London and Paris...and it has not appeared in literature;...

building-materials, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.8 3 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants who bring building-materials to an architect.

buildings, n. (13)

    Nat 1.67 27 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    YA 1.368 25 The land...looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
    NMW 4.224 2 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings owned by idle capitalists,--and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 5 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
    NMW 4.228 26 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in buildings...
    ET1 5.3 17 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET3 5.39 22 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
    ET7 5.119 12 [The English] build of stone: public and private buildings are massive and durable.
    ET13 5.215 13 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs;...
    ET16 5.290 13 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    Wth 6.119 14 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...
    AgMs 12.361 13 ...our [New England] people...do not wish to spend too much on their buildings.
    AgMs 12.363 10 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm, although their buildings are many of them shabby, are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

builds, v. (30)

    Nat 1.3 1 [Our age] builds the sepulchres of the fathers.
    Nat 1.76 5 Every spirit builds itself a house...
    MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    SL 2.129 4 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...
    Prd1 2.227 16 In the rainy day [the good husband] builds a work-bench...
    Cir 2.303 1 ...that which builds is better than that which is built.
    MoS 4.149 18 [A man] builds his fortunes...but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
    ShP 4.190 16 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
    NMW 4.227 11 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] builds the road.
    ET6 5.107 15 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall;...
    ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET16 5.283 3 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    F 6.30 22 ...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down that wall and builds a new and bigger.
    Ctr 6.155 14 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that sells the horse but builds the school;...
    Wsp 6.204 18 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Bty 6.281 12 ...does [the geologist] know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in [the strata]?...
    Art2 7.47 24 Nature...builds the best part of the house...
    Art2 7.52 15 Raphael paints wisdom...Wren builds it...
    Farm 7.141 8 He who...builds a durable house...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    WD 7.164 18 A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master...
    OA 7.329 12 The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells.
    PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
    PPo 8.259 5 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Imtl 8.326 24 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Aris 10.42 3 [Ulysses] builds the boat with which he leaves Calypso's isle...
    Aris 10.42 6 Epeus builds the wooden horse.
    PLT 12.5 3 ...the Intellect builds the universe and is the key to all it contains.
    II 12.81 3 ...the force of method and the force of will...builds towns.
    CL 12.154 9 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;...
    EurB 12.371 5 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity...

built, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.290 26 The dancing-master can never teach a badly built man to walk well.

built, v. (139)

    Nat 1.14 4 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    Nat 1.48 22 We are not built like a ship, to be tossed...
    AmS 1.89 6 Colleges are built on [a book].
    DSA 1.129 15 ...churches are not built on [Jesus's] principles, but on his tropes.
    DSA 1.130 23 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity, which indolence and fear have built, the friend of man is made the injurer of man.
    MN 1.222 22 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories...
    MR 1.229 16 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.250 16 Look, [the practical man] says, at the tools with which this world of yours is to be built.
    MR 1.251 22 [Caliph Omar's] palace was built of mud;...
    LT 1.288 18 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that whilst we shed the dust of which we are built...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    LT 1.290 9 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...statues, tombs, churches, built to its honor;...
    Tran 1.332 21 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    Hist 2.29 4 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built...
    SR 2.62 2 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    SR 2.80 9 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
    SR 2.82 14 Our houses are built with foreign taste;...
    SR 2.85 5 The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
    SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
    SL 2.137 1 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    Lov1 2.187 18 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...had a prospective end, like the scaffolding by which the house was built;...
    Fdsp 2.201 23 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built...to entertain him a single day.
    OS 2.284 27 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition...
    Cir 2.302 19 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    Cir 2.303 1 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
    Cir 2.303 2 ...that which builds is better than that which is built.
    Cir 2.303 3 The hand that built [the wall] can topple it down much faster.
    Chr1 3.100 20 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan of it.
    Pol1 3.219 27 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    SwM 4.123 16 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances, like the resemblance of a house to the man who built it.
    MoS 4.156 2 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    MoS 4.161 2 ...the body of man is the type after which a dwelling-house is built.
    NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...
    GoW 4.275 17 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.283 26 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
    ET1 5.18 14 ...[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.
    ET2 5.27 16 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET4 5.56 11 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET5 5.88 24 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    ET5 5.98 16 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
    ET6 5.111 15 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET8 5.128 19 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].
    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once...built galleys by lonely fiords, in England has advanced with the times...
    ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET10 5.165 11 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    ET11 5.172 10 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles...
    ET11 5.181 22 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.
    ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...
    ET13 5.215 10 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.219 23 Good churches are not built by bad men;...
    ET13 5.219 26 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
    ET14 5.233 6 ...[the Englishman] has built the engine he uses.
    ET16 5.283 20 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago. And we wonder how Stonehenge was built and forgotten.
    ET16 5.285 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...
    ET16 5.290 4 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    ET16 5.290 18 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
    ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages...
    F 6.42 25 We know in Massachusetts who built New Bedford...
    F 6.42 25 We know in Massachusetts...who built Lynn...
    Pow 6.58 27 A feeble man can see...the houses that are built.
    Wth 6.84 16 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./
    Wth 6.94 1 ...how did our factories get built?...except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Wth 6.111 14 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...
    Wth 6.113 2 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Wth 6.123 6 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    Wsp 6.205 18 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo, who had built Troy for him and demanded their price, does not hesitate to menace them...
    CbW 6.254 4 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... built seventy cities...
    CbW 6.256 24 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    Bty 6.294 10 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
    SS 7.14 25 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor.
    Civ 7.31 27 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    Art2 7.41 3 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree...
    Art2 7.41 8 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...
    Art2 7.54 6 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Art2 7.55 20 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a leaning tower was built.
    Art2 7.56 5 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
    DL 7.113 4 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
    DL 7.117 15 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    Farm 7.148 8 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...
    WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.
    Suc 7.284 13 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...writ the comedy and built the theatre.
    PI 8.4 21 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Res 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    PPo 8.241 10 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    PPo 8.242 4 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace, built by demons on Alburz, gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    Imtl 8.325 17 ...[the Greek] built no more of those doleful mountainous tombs.
    Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
    Aris 10.35 14 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are... built on a real distinction in the nature of my companion.
    PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart, so neatly built...
    PerF 10.87 19 ...the world is built by [our moral sentiment]...
    Chr2 10.94 9 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.102 23 ...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
    SovE 10.181 2 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    SovE 10.189 23 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.
    MoL 10.243 22 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...
    Schr 10.270 22 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
    LLNE 10.359 26 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged, and three new houses built.
    LLNE 10.362 4 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    EzRy 10.379 2 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...
    MMEm 10.397 15 On this altar God hath built/ I lay my vanity and guilt;/...
    Thor 10.457 25 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was of short stature, firmly built...
    HDC 11.56 18 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships...
    EWI 11.110 16 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    EWI 11.110 20 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    EWI 11.137 18 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground of interest...
    EWI 11.147 23 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the heart;...
    War 11.154 1 [Alexander's conquest of the East] built seventy cities...
    War 11.164 1 It is really a thought that built this portentous war-establishment...
    War 11.164 21 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
    FSLN 11.240 27 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...
    JBB 11.270 2 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met. Is that the kind of man the gallows is built for?
    EPro 11.320 15 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./
    SMC 11.352 19 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
    CPL 11.496 18 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them...
    FRep 11.511 21 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds. They built great works...
    FRep 11.513 13 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
    PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages;...
    PLT 12.34 10 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages; and we are sure that it can do more than ever was done. It was the same mind that built the world.
    PLT 12.57 18 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never enters it again.
    PLT 12.59 23 Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man.
    CInt 12.122 23 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages...
    CInt 12.122 26 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages, and we are sure we can do more than ever was done. It was the same mind that built the world.
    CL 12.144 4 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
    CL 12.150 16 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night.
    Bost 12.190 16 How easy it is, after the city is built, to see where it ought to stand.
    Bost 12.204 20 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator;...
    MAng1 12.225 25 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi...
    MAng1 12.226 1 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.
    MAng1 12.226 16 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built...
    MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
    MAng1 12.231 20 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.
    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.
    MAng1 12.243 22 Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.
    ACri 12.297 25 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    ACri 12.301 9 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.
    MLit 12.317 9 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.

Bukharia, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.253 16 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.

bulb, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.35 1 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of...a gardener and his bulb...

bulbul, n. (1)

    PPo 8.257 18 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./

bulk, n. (7)

    SR 2.85 26 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.
    Art1 2.352 11 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk left out...
    GoW 4.286 13 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise... the bulk of incomes.
    F 6.31 3 The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
    OA 7.335 22 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    LLNE 10.336 25 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    FRep 11.526 16 ...the bulk of the population is poor.

Bulkeley, Edward, n. (3)

    HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    HDC 11.63 4 Edward Bulkeley was the pastor [in Concord], until his death, in 1696.
    HDC 11.77 13 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.

Bulkeley, John, n. (1)

    CPL 11.498 23 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...

Bulkeley, n. (2)

    HDC 11.27 1 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 21 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not. If the name of Bulkeley is wanting, the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to his blood.

Bulkeley, Peter, n. (12)

    HDC 11.31 18 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...
    HDC 11.31 23 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.32 10 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.37 21 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians, by Mr. [Peter] Bulkeley and Major [Simon] Willard, was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.41 14 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate...
    HDC 11.51 9 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.
    HDC 11.56 2 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing...
    HDC 11.61 6 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone.
    HDC 11.77 13 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.
    CPL 11.498 3 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley...testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.
    CPL 11.498 22 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    Bost 12.192 2 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...

Bulkeley, Peter [2nd], n. (1)

    HDC 11.63 5 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord...

bulky, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.127 23 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio...) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

Bull, John, n. (3)

    Bost 12.200 9 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions...
    Bost 12.200 11 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions, come and see the Jonathanization of John.
    WSL 12.337 8 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...

bull, n. (4)

    Hist 2.35 17 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful...
    Chr1 3.98 5 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove...
    Cour 7.263 27 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves, nor the grazier by his bull...
    Dem1 10.7 15 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen, but also in other faces the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl.

Bull, n. (1)

    PI 8.46 10 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,--Thirty days hath September, etc.;--or of the Zodiac, but for The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, etc.?

Bull Run, Virginia, n. (2)

    SMC 11.357 11 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
    SMC 11.365 8 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...

bull-baiting, n. (1)

    War 11.155 25 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

bull-dog, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.371 27 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line. One day they drove us; but it has been regular bull-dog fighting.
    Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.

bull-dog, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 10 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.

bullet, n. (5)

    Tran 1.332 5 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet...
    ET6 5.115 1 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a bullet.
    Elo1 7.93 18 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    SA 8.80 13 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
    SMC 11.369 5 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand.

bulletin, n. (1)

    PNR 4.80 7 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest dates.

bulletins, n. (1)

    NMW 4.254 3 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...

bullets, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.262 15 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...
    MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.
    MoS 4.168 18 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech; it is a shower of bullets.
    Wsp 6.232 7 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    SMC 11.368 27 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded. The Colonel [George Prescott] was hit by three bullets.

bullied, v. (3)

    Hist 2.8 19 [Each man] must...not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires...
    ET8 5.132 25 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
    EWI 11.133 18 There is a scandalous rumor...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.

bullies, n. (4)

    ET4 5.69 2 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.
    Elo1 7.96 8 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies;...
    Cour 7.267 2 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies...
    AsSu 11.251 15 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.

bullies, v. (1)

    Pow 6.63 27 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal.

bullion, n. (3)

    Nat 1.30 10 ...a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
    Boks 7.199 16 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations?
    WSL 12.349 3 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.

bull's, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 13 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...

bully, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.251 23 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...

bully, n. (5)

    ET4 5.71 27 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...
    Pow 6.67 12 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
    Elo1 7.96 8 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies; he is a wit and a bully himself, and something more;...
    PerF 10.86 24 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    EdAd 11.388 16 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...

bully, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 14 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten;...

bullying, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.270 20 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.

bulrushes, n. (1)

    RBur 11.443 15 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...

bulwarks, n. (2)

    ET2 5.33 13 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    WD 7.172 24 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Geor (2)

    ET2 5.31 24 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and Sand were our sea-gods.
    ET14 5.246 21 Bulwer, an industrious writer, with occasional ability, is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, n. (2)

    EurB 12.368 3 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.
    EurB 12.373 16 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...

Bulwer-Lytton's, Edward, n. (2)

    EurB 12.373 5 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    EurB 12.374 23 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...

Buncombe, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 26 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters, and stop all manner of mischievous speaking to Buncombe, and wind-bags.

bundle, n. (4)

    Hist 2.36 12 A man is a bundle of relations...
    UGM 4.26 4 Viewed from any high point...the Western civilization, would seem a bundle of insanities.
    MoS 4.154 13 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
    MoS 4.154 15 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him; he sees nothing but the bundle of hay.

bundles, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.214 7 Souls are not saved in bundles.
    Dem1 10.12 1 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles...
    MAng1 12.238 3 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them...

bungler, n. (1)

    Aris 10.44 11 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you...whether he shall be a bungler, driveller, unlucky, heavy and tedious.

bunglers, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.77 20 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers...

Bunker Hill, Massachusetts, (3)

    Pt1 3.16 16 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
    Cour 7.256 5 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!
    CInt 12.118 19 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.

Bunker's Hill, Massachusett (1)

    FSLN 11.221 17 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill.

Bunting, Ben [Byron, The (1)

    SL 2.164 15 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.

Bunting, Jack [Byron, The (1)

    SL 2.164 15 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.

bunting, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 24 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...

Bunyan, John, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.35 15 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.

Bunyan, John, n. (9)

    SwM 4.97 10 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Bunyan...will readily come to mind.
    ET13 5.216 21 ...George Fox, Penn, Bunyan are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
    ET14 5.234 2 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne, Bunyan, Milton...wrote it.
    PI 8.28 20 Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress;...
    Aris 10.54 13 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott....
    Prch 10.227 21 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan.
    MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    Bost 12.193 17 [The Massachusetts colonists] read Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...
    Bost 12.194 5 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...

Buonarotti, Lionardo, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.242 13 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.

Buonarotti [Michelangelo], n (1)

    PC 8.216 20 Michel Angelo was the conscience of Italy.

Buonarotti, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.242 14 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.

Buonarrati, Michelangelo, n. (2)

    PC 8.218 17 Some Dante or Angelo...is always allowed.
    Imtl 8.329 23 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...

Buonarroti, Michelangelo, n. (29)

    Nat 1.43 24 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
    Nat 1.58 23 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    LE 1.175 1 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be,
    SL 2.155 3 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    Lov1 2.183 2.183 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
    Art1 2.356 7 A dog, drawn by a master...is a reality not less than the frescoes of Angelo.
    Art1 2.361 23 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of...Angelo...
    NR 3.227 15 ...there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus...nor Angelo... such as we have made.
    PNR 4.88 6 Michael Angelo is a Platonist in his sonnets...
    PNR 4.89 20 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    SwM 4.137 4 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    ET1 5.7 26 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo;...
    ET12 5.202 20 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    Pow 6.72 17 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Pow 6.73 2 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton...
    Pow 6.74 20 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
    Bhr 6.178 19 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
    Bty 6.294 14 [Beauty] is the purgation of superfluities, said Michael Angelo.
    SS 7.7 20 Michel Angelo had a sad, sour time of it.
    DL 7.131 6 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    Boks 7.206 2 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read...
    Boks 7.218 1 The Greek fables...the Sonnets of Michel Angelo...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Suc 7.290 27 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.302 21 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
    OA 7.322 16 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo...
    PI 8.13 11 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
    PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    PI 8.39 23 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men.
    PC 8.219 17 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and Raffaelle is thinking of Michel Angelo.

Buonarroti's, Michelangelo, (2)

    Suc 7.291 12 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    OA 7.326 26 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...

Buonaventura, St., n. (1)

    QO 8.181 10 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

buoyancy, n. (1)

    Pow 6.61 7 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.

buoyant, adj. (2)

    Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting, the roof and dome buoyant as the sky.
    Suc 7.310 10 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

buoys, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 21 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

burden, n. (10)

    DSA 1.134 17 If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
    Con 1.304 2 ...plainly the burden of proof must lie with the projector.
    NMW 4.240 23 ...some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back. Napoleon interfered, saying Respect the burden, Madam.
    GoW 4.281 21 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared...
    Wsp 6.225 24 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    PI 8.58 18 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    Elo2 8.123 26 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    CL 12.155 7 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden.
    MLit 12.314 1 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be delivered from some burden...
    MLit 12.332 18 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

burden, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.103 6 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you, and ere you can rise up again will burden you with blessings.

burdened, v. (1)

    PLT 12.8 21 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?

burdens, n. (6)

    Tran 1.347 27 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists] bear their part of the public and private burdens;...
    Comp 2.123 4 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...knowing that it brings with it new burdens.
    ET7 5.122 6 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from the burdens charged on English.
    PI 8.65 6 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as...St. John and Menu, with their moral burdens.
    HDC 11.78 9 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great. Its pecuniary burdens are out of all proportion to its capital.
    PPr 12.391 18 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.

burdensome, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.238 26 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    Art2 7.38 6 The more profound the thought, the more burdensome.

Bureau, Freedman's, n. (1)

    GSt 10.503 11 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...

Bureau, Freedmen's, n. (1)

    PC 8.208 24 The war gave us...the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau.

bureau, n. (3)

    MR 1.235 12 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?
    NMW 4.227 7 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
    ET5 5.92 25 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...

bureaus, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.328 18 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?

burgesses, n. (2)

    Pow 6.66 6 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward. The rest of the offices may be filled by good burgesses.
    Aris 10.42 14 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.

burglar, n. (3)

    MR 1.252 11 We make, by our distrust, the...burglar...
    F 6.24 19 Go face...the burglar in your own [house]...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    Pow 6.67 13 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.

burglars, n. (2)

    Pow 6.72 8 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Cour 7.259 15 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with burglars and ruffians in the streets...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...

burglar's, n. (1)

    EurB 12.374 21 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's false key...

Burgundies, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 2 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!

burial, n. (4)

    Imtl 8.325 3 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial.
    Plu 10.304 23 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth, marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    SMC 11.369 26 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could, and gave him burial.

Burial, New, Ground, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 11 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground, to the New Burial Ground...

burial-fees, n. (1)

    ET18 5.300 22 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.

burial-service, n. (1)

    PI 8.54 2 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have iterations and alliterations, like the marriage-service and burial-service in our liturgies.

buried, adj. (6)

    Con 1.300 27 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Comp 2.123 3 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example to find a pot of buried gold...
    SwM 4.111 10 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...
    WD 7.179 18 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...
    Plu 10.303 6 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from...buried cities...
    Mem 12.101 24 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.

buried, v. (16)

    Nat 1.27 11 ...the blue sky in which the private earth is buried...is the type of Reason.
    MN 1.223 20 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor buried in any grave;...
    PPh 4.65 22 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    NMW 4.235 5 ...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
    ET16 5.289 25 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...
    ET16 5.289 26 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried, and here Alfred the Great was crowned and buried...
    ET16 5.290 6 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
    ET16 5.290 14 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    PPo 8.241 27 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids...
    Imtl 8.325 9 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
    Imtl 8.326 3 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
    Edc1 10.145 25 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil.
    Thor 10.483 15 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam, buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river?
    HDC 11.56 25 The General Court, in 1647, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.195 14 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    MAng1 12.243 25 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce]...

buries, v. (1)

    PLT 12.19 6 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...

Burke, Edmund, n. (41)

    LE 1.163 20 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell,-the details of that nature, of that day, called Byron, or Burke;...
    LT 1.268 12 No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full justice to the side of conservatism.
    Hist 2.10 21 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before an oration of Burke...
    Comp 2.110 20 No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, said Burke.
    Art1 2.355 4 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,--so remarkable in Burke...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Mrs1 3.141 27 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    ET1 5.8 16 [Landor]...undervalued Burke...
    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Ashley, Burke, Thurlow...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET11 5.197 16 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons...
    ET14 5.244 22 Burke was addicted to generalizing...
    ET14 5.249 7 ...as Burke had striven to idealize the English State, so Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...were by this means sent to Parliament...
    Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
    Ctr 6.161 15 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    Ctr 6.163 27 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Elo1 7.95 7 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke;...
    Farm 7.140 18 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food; or, as Burke said, Man breeds at the mouth.
    Boks 7.209 1 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Burke, shedding floods of light on his times;...
    Clbs 7.244 2 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Burke...
    PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.
    PI 8.50 14 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    Elo2 8.124 15 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke...
    QO 8.178 11 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
    QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have their best fame within [this century].
    Schr 10.271 1 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for...Swift or Burke...
    Schr 10.276 25 As Burke said, it is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent.
    EWI 11.109 8 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate, Fox, Pitt, Burke... ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    FSLC 11.190 15 ...the great jurists...Vattel, Burke...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLN 11.227 2 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
    FSLN 11.228 2 Burke said he would pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
    AsSu 11.250 27 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of Burke...
    Scot 11.465 26 [Scott] saw...in the historical aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
    Mem 12.98 2 The way in which Burke or Sheridan or Webster or any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
    CInt 12.120 6 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry, and of what was best in Cicero and Burke;...
    Milt1 12.249 1 [Milton's tracts] are not effective, like similar productions of Swift and Burke;...
    Milt1 12.269 15 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    ACri 12.285 23 ...one must learn from Burke how to be severe without being unparliamentary.
    ACri 12.286 11 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...Burke, O'Connell, Patrick Henry;...
    PPr 12.379 5 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare with it.
    PPr 12.390 2 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

Burke's, Edmund, n. (3)

    Elo1 7.73 12 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.89 25 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's...
    PI 8.12 15 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings were such...and Burke's...

Burkes, n. (1)

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

Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques, n (2)

    FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists...Burlamaqui, Montesquieu...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLN 11.227 2 ...Blackstone, Burlamaqui, Vattel...do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...

Burleigh, Lord [William Ce (1)

    ET10 5.156 23 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...

Burleighs, n. (1)

    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;...

burlesque, adj. (1)

    LVB 11.95 17 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

burlesque, n. (2)

    Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory, as if its consequences were burlesque;...
    Tran 1.355 12 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.

Burley, Scotland, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 29 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.

Burlingame, Anson, n. (2)

    ChiE 11.474 14 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    ChiE 11.474 16 ...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.

Burlington House, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 12 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly, Burlington House, Devonshire House...

Burlington, Vermont ("), n. (1)

    CbW 6.268 8 The farm is near this, 't is near that; [the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is...near Burlington...

burly, adj. (8)

    MoS 4.180 11 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    ET6 5.104 16 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in his manners, in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;--all significant of burly strength.
    ET8 5.129 22 The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England]. So is the burly farmer;...
    ET8 5.134 22 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    Pow 6.66 27 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
    Carl 10.489 20 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people.
    II 12.82 4 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.
    PPr 12.391 15 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.

burn, v. (44)

    Nat 1.38 14 Water is good to drink, coal to burn...
    MN 1.221 16 [The intellect] will burn up all profane literature...as in a moment of time.
    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 1.392 19 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
    Fdsp 2.216 18 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and...dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.
    Prd1 2.227 7 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
    OS 2.295 7 ...when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Pt1 3.31 17 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Exp 3.49 13 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Nat2 3.188 24 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye. Will they not burn his eyes?
    PPh 4.39 3 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    NMW 4.258 24 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...and our wine will burn our mouth.
    ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET11 5.190 11 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels, where logs not burn, but men.
    Wth 6.87 20 Wealth begins...in dry sticks to burn...
    Ctr 6.145 27 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not...burn the brushwood...
    Bhr 6.194 11 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Wsp 6.238 2 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    Civ 7.24 15 ...in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Civ 7.25 8 The skill that pervades complex details;...the chimney taught to burn its own smoke;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has...wood to burn great fires...
    Farm 7.145 10 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
    Farm 7.145 13 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Farm 7.145 17 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection...
    Clbs 7.227 19 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Res 8.142 4 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.146 11 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if they should provoke him he would burn up their rivers and their forests;...
    PC 8.215 25 If [your public] know what is good, and require it, you will aspire and burn until you achieve it.
    PPo 8.245 5 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    Grts 8.309 6 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Aris 10.35 11 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Aris 10.52 11 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    PerF 10.70 13 ...the marble column, the brazen statue burn under the daylight...
    MoL 10.241 10 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles, and may yet burn.
    LLNE 10.366 21 There was a stove in every chamber [at Brook Farm], and every one might burn as much wood as he or she would saw.
    HDC 11.58 19 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston;...
    HDC 11.58 21 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton...
    SHC 11.428 21 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    SHC 11.436 6 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul? Here will burn for us...the sublime belief.
    FRep 11.535 26 [The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
    FRep 11.536 1 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms, and burn tobacco...
    MLit 12.333 19 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?
    WSL 12.339 7 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...
    Let 12.393 23 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

burned, adj. (6)

    Comp 2.120 5 ...every burned book or house enlightens the world;...
    NMW 4.257 9 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power, of these...burned cities...
    Wth 6.93 6 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
    PC 8.209 6 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve...burned towns...
    SlHr 10.443 13 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    ACiv 11.303 6 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.

burned, v. (26)

    NR 3.237 17 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should...have been burned or frozen long ago.
    ET1 5.17 27 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
    ET4 5.60 27 ...[the Normans] burned, harried, violated, tortured and killed...
    Wth 6.126 3 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the gas and smoke must be burned...
    PI 8.5 5 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    Elo2 8.109 16 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    Res 8.146 16 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    PC 8.210 27 People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
    PPo 8.257 21 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    Imtl 8.321 6 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/...
    Chr2 10.105 13 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches should be burned in one night.
    Prch 10.220 12 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.
    MoL 10.248 10 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over...
    MMEm 10.408 20 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    HDC 11.58 13 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
    HDC 11.58 17 Some flourishing towns were burned [by the Indians].
    HDC 11.58 18 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had burned Medfield and Lancaster...
    EWI 11.111 24 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters, their lives threatened, their chapels burned...
    War 11.158 23 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled.
    FSLC 11.187 27 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...burned alive...to get away from his driver...
    JBB 11.266 11 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./
    JBS 11.276 18 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./
    TPar 11.289 4 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame.
    PLT 12.13 16 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.
    Bost 12.191 25 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions; Monadnoc was burned over to kill them.
    MAng1 12.233 3 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...

Burnet, Gilbert, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.251 11 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.

burning, adj. (7)

    Lov1 2.167 2 I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    Nat2 3.188 13 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...
    ET5 5.88 19 [The English] cannot well read a principle, except by the light of fagots and of burning towns.
    ET11 5.188 6 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art, dragged from amidst burning cities and revolutionary countries...
    PI 8.13 20 ...if running water, if burning coal...say what I say, it must be true.
    PPo 8.236 7 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/...
    Insp 8.277 25 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...

burning, v. (8)

    ET4 5.59 24 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;...
    Supl 10.173 20 ...the luminous object...is luminous because it is burning up;...
    Prch 10.235 17 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is not so much the...burning out of our errors of practice...
    Plu 10.316 14 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
    LLNE 10.346 13 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on...burning the witch...these were gentle souls...
    HDC 11.74 9 ...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.
    ALin 11.336 1 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?

burning-glass, n. (1)

    Res 8.146 17 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.

Burns, Anthony, n. (1)

    TPar 11.290 17 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.

Burns, Robert, n. (30)

    AmS 1.112 5 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper...
    Hsm1 2.248 4 Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a [heroic] song or two.
    SwM 4.138 24 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    ET5 5.100 16 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    ET14 5.239 24 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    Ctr 6.151 3 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Burns or Scott...passing for nobody;...
    Bty 6.295 15 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    OA 7.321 19 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in...Pascal, Burns and Byron;...
    PI 8.37 12 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    PI 8.67 16 Do you think Burns has had no influence on the life of men and women in Scotland...
    Elo2 8.122 7 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like...Robert Burns...
    QO 8.186 12 Hafiz furnished Burns with the song of John Barleycorn...
    PPo 8.244 13 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
    Grts 8.318 20 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...in Scotland, Robert Burns;...
    Aris 10.54 13 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott....
    Plu 10.299 12 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due, and would have hugged Robert Burns, when he cried;-O wad ye tak' a thought and mend!/
    FSLN 11.216 6 ...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.
    RBur 11.439 15 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    RBur 11.440 4 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    RBur 11.440 26 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    RBur 11.441 4 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns.
    RBur 11.441 6 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I should add another name, I find it only in a living countryman of Burns [Carlyle].
    RBur 11.441 9 The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns.
    RBur 11.442 23 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    RBur 11.442 27 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    RBur 11.443 9 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    Shak1 11.453 10 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule;...
    II 12.72 7 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as Shakspeare's Hamlet...
    CInt 12.129 26 ...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.
    ACri 12.289 4 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.

burns, v. (16)

    OS 2.285 4 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    Cir 2.311 9 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things...
    PPh 4.43 20 As a good chimney burns its smoke, so a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    MoS 4.181 16 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the believer.
    Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.
    Farm 7.145 13 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Farm 7.145 23 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Clbs 7.225 5 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen...
    Clbs 7.225 9 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man...
    Clbs 7.227 20 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    PPo 8.258 11 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.281 7 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom. And the fire, too, as it burns in the chimney;...
    Edc1 10.149 10 One burns to tell the new fact, the other burns to hear it.
    Edc1 10.149 11 One burns to tell the new fact, the other burns to hear it.
    Schr 10.266 2 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
    SMC 11.353 26 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...burns as hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston...

Burnside, Ambrose Everett, (1)

    SMC 11.366 9 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.

Burns's, Robert, n. (2)

    Boks 7.208 12 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.
    Wom 11.409 6 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...

burnt, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.70 9 All the earths are burnt metals.

burnt, v. (4)

    ET12 5.202 5 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.
    LS 11.15 5 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire...
    War 11.158 20 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships...
    ACri 12.290 3 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images, and into which, he said, he should be afraid to fall himself, lest he should be burnt up.

burnt-out, adj. (1)

    HCom 11.340 17 ...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./

burr, n. (2)

    MN 1.203 12 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    Ctr 6.162 26 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

burrow, v. (1)

    HDC 11.34 3 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...

burrows, v. (1)

    CL 12.138 22 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it...

burst, n. (2)

    ShP 4.204 9 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    Bty 6.302 18 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...

burst, v. (19)

    DSA 1.119 3 ...the buds burst...
    SR 2.67 10 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts;...
    SL 2.154 1 ...though we should burst we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
    NR 3.235 13 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat, when presently the dream will scatter, and we shall burst into universal power.
    NR 3.242 15 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.
    ET1 5.10 23 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism...
    ET3 5.41 12 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET9 5.152 9 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched...
    F 6.34 14 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and burst the hoops...
    Pow 6.77 22 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.
    Pow 6.77 24 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? Every stroke. Which blast burst the piece? Every blast.
    Wsp 6.205 23 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder.
    Cour 7.258 12 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    PC 8.209 13 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].
    MMEm 10.409 15 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    ALin 11.330 4 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
    CPL 11.506 5 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me.
    FRep 11.524 9 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
    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.

bursting, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.223 9 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
    Int 2.335 10 [The thought] is...a form of thought now for the first time bursting into the universe...
    PLT 12.35 3 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power...breaking its silence; the spark bursting into flame.
    CL 12.151 8 In May, the bursting of the leaf...
    Milt1 12.275 1 Milton's sublimest song, bursting into heaven with its peals of melodious thunder, is the voice of Milton still.

bursts, n. (1)

    PPh 4.60 20 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only...in the perfect yes and no of the dialogue, but in bursts of light.

bursts, v. (2)

    Cir 2.304 13 ...if the soul is quick and strong it bursts over that boundary on all sides...
    Pt1 3.14 16 Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it.

Burton, Robert, n. (3)

    ET8 5.131 7 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Taylor, Burton, Bentley, Brian Walton, acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    Insp 8.297 7 Aubrey and Burton and Wood tell me incidents which I find not insignificant.

Burton's, Robert, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 2 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning.

bury, v. (7)

    SL 2.146 20 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
    ET2 5.30 2 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    Wsp 6.224 2 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast?
    QO 8.204 18 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    Plu 10.319 3 [Alexander] persuaded...the Scythians to bury and not eat their dead parents.
    Shak1 11.447 17 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    Mem 12.108 20 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.

'bus, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 26 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...

Bush, Beggar's, n. (1)

    Aris 10.56 12 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against bone. Life is thus a Beggar' s Bush.

bush, n. (4)

    Nat 1.33 18 ...A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush;...
    MoS 4.159 16 A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    Bhr 6.176 26 Take a date-tree [said the emir Abdel-Kader], leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates. Nobility is the date-tree and the Arab populace is a bush of thorns.
    Thor 10.470 23 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird...which always, when he saw it, was in the act of diving down into a tree or bush...

bushel, n. (3)

    AmS 1.83 23 [The planter] sees his bushel and his cart...
    Thor 10.461 24 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    HDC 11.47 13 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight.

bushel-basket, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.106 14 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...

bushels, n. (1)

    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...225 bushels of grain;...

bushes, n. (6)

    AmS 1.104 14 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions, hiding his head like an ostrich in the flowering bushes...
    WD 7.174 14 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.
    HDC 11.33 11 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully...
    HDC 11.33 22 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds; for their compass miscarried in crowding through the bushes...
    HDC 11.34 18 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...
    Bost 12.193 23 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.

Bushnell, Horace, n. (1)

    Prch 10.231 13 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...

bushwhacker, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.96 10 ...[the sturdy countryman] is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bushwhacker;...

busied, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.4 12 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands...
    Let 12.396 7 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better social state...

busies, v. (2)

    PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself with exceptions...
    ACri 12.283 2 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...

busiest, n. (1)

    ET2 5.32 1 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea...

business, adj. (9)

    NMW 4.224 13 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men in America...
    Wth 6.120 13 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    Ctr 6.150 3 The head of a commercial house...is brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men of each section...
    Elo1 7.75 20 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Boks 7.202 10 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes, especially from the business orations; and from the comic poets.
    Schr 10.268 24 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.
    FSLN 11.218 15 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city...
    FSLN 11.233 4 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    SMC 11.360 11 Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business arrangements this war-blast made.

business, n. (97)

    AmS 1.87 26 [Nature] came to [the scholar] business; it went from him poetry.
    AmS 1.96 8 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so...with the business which we now have in hand.
    AmS 1.114 24 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire...
    DSA 1.139 24 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are...wholly insulated from anything now extant in the life and business of the people.
    LT 1.290 16 I wish to speak of the...business...around us without ceremony or false deference.
    Con 1.325 10 It is my business to make myself revered.
    Tran 1.359 5 ...when every voice is raised...for a new house or a larger business;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.366 14 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in men supposed to be absorbed in business...
    YA 1.385 5 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    YA 1.389 11 Stealing is a suicidal business;...
    YA 1.393 26 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador; You have left a business of importance for a ceremony.
    Comp 2.115 22 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...exalt his business to his imagination.
    SL 2.140 20 What business has [a man] with an evil trade?
    Lov1 2.176 12 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when all business seemed an impertinence...
    Prd1 2.237 5 ...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing and makes their business a friendship.
    Exp 3.59 16 Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
    Exp 3.67 6 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Exp 3.67 16 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;--and yet, he who should do his business on this understanding would be quickly bankrupt.
    Mrs1 3.140 13 [One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
    Gts 3.161 21 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    Gts 3.163 24 It is a very onerous business, this of being served...
    NR 3.241 1 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own...
    NER 3.254 9 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    NER 3.256 11 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think...
    PPh 4.67 22 ...I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.
    NMW 4.233 2 ...Napoleon understood his business.
    NMW 4.239 4 [Bonaparte's] achievement of business was immense...
    NMW 4.256 12 ...Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business...
    GoW 4.281 23 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind...and it constitutes his business and calling in the world to see those facts through...
    ET4 5.49 4 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...readiness of combination among themselves for politics or for business;...
    ET4 5.56 26 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET5 5.85 15 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.87 20 The Englishman is peaceably minding his business and earning his day's wages.
    ET5 5.90 1 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate: No, said an Englishman, but...to advance the business.
    ET5 5.90 5 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons...
    ET5 5.98 2 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
    ET6 5.104 3 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
    ET6 5.110 8 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
    ET6 5.113 7 [The English] value themselves on the absence of every thing theatrical in the public business...
    ET7 5.119 23 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
    ET7 5.123 5 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET11 5.184 21 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    Pow 6.75 18 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.75 20 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.75 27 Stick to one business, young man [said Rothschild].
    Wth 6.125 16 ...Every business by itself;...
    Ctr 6.143 26 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power, which it is [the boy's] main business to learn;...
    Bhr 6.171 19 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want...
    Bhr 6.184 14 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet at leisure...
    Wsp 6.225 24 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Wsp 6.233 6 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    Elo1 7.85 26 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    DL 7.120 23 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    Boks 7.207 15 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...all the Letters (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire, explaining the Essex business)...
    Clbs 7.239 16 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?
    Clbs 7.247 27 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door.
    Cour 7.268 9 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.269 2 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and...by dealing with it as business which must be disposed of, he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Cour 7.269 6 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair. Perseverance...ranges it on the same ground as other business.
    SA 8.90 12 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was...by no means the hot and hurried business which passes in the world.
    SA 8.100 23 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have a turn for business...he can come to wealth...
    SA 8.102 6 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    Elo2 8.116 18 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but for the present business, we know all about it...
    QO 8.177 5 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction, which constitutes the main business of their life.
    Aris 10.55 14 ...the thought has...no intrigue or business...
    Aris 10.58 17 ...that is [the horseman's] business,-to ride...
    Edc1 10.129 17 ...if the higher faculties of the individual be from time to time quickened, he will gain wisdom and virtue from his business.
    Edc1 10.148 12 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Schr 10.280 25 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Plu 10.294 1 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions, and then on business of the people of his native city, Chaeronea;...
    Plu 10.312 3 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business... learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    Plu 10.321 17 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer; but it is the speech of business and conversation...
    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 10.368 14 Few people can live together on their merits. There must be kindred...or a common interest in their business...
    EzRy 10.381 13 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age...
    MMEm 10.429 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get that very humbling business of insurance.
    SlHr 10.442 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] discriminated in the business that was brought to him...
    SlHr 10.448 10 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...
    Carl 10.494 9 ...a lover...who does not care for him or for anything but his own business, [Carlyle] respects;...
    GSt 10.501 19 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    HDC 11.47 25 By the law of 1641 [in Concord], every man...might introduce any business into a public meeting.
    LVB 11.92 27 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men...does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.105 2 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes...of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
    EWI 11.116 3 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of business was still...
    EWI 11.134 20 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no valuable business to throw into any man's hands...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLC 11.197 16 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated.
    FSLC 11.197 24 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.198 20 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute, in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business...
    SMC 11.355 27 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    SMC 11.360 6 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families and their business...
    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.
    PLT 12.30 20 ...I educate not by lessons but by going about my business.
    Pray 12.352 9 ...soon...I desire to leave [my long-attached friend]...because I wished to be engaged in my business.
    AgMs 12.360 20 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey]; they have sterner teachers; their own business teaches them better.
    EurB 12.375 7 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably.
    PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
    Let 12.398 23 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe; for no business that they have in that country...

businesses, n. (1)

    ET5 5.79 15 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. They are the steps by which we walk in all our businesses.

business-tone, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.150 18 ...[the man of the world] takes a low business-tone...

busk, v. (2)

    PI 8.48 15 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
    PI 8.48 16 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.

bust, n. (6)

    MoS 4.176 1 ...a book, or a bust...shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
    ET4 5.65 13 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome; at least the whole bust is well formed...
    SlHr 10.443 21 [Samuel Hoar's] head...had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    MAng1 12.239 12 [Michelangelo] often expressed his admiration of Cellini's bust of Altoviti.
    MAng1 12.244 12 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo]...is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.
    Milt1 12.247 19 The fame of a great man is not rigid and stony like his bust.

bustle, n. (1)

    SovE 10.206 25 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...

bustling, v. (1)

    ET9 5.148 24 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock that he goes bustling up and down and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

busts, n. (1)

    ET16 5.285 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian garden and into a French pavilion garnished with French busts;...

busy, adj. (17)

    AmS 1.81 12 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more.
    Exp 3.46 10 We do not know to-day whether we are busy or idle.
    Mrs1 3.128 21 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own...
    ET17 5.291 2 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    Pow 6.81 11 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Bhr 6.187 17 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Wsp 6.228 23 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their busy, artful, Yankee understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
    Suc 7.296 25 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.
    Res 8.148 20 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
    Insp 8.285 24 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Dem1 10.3 19 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Dem1 10.22 6 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his house, and future ages will be busy with his renown;...
    SHC 11.434 21 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward, under which our busy being is whirled, is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    CL 12.165 4 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg.
    MLit 12.334 24 ...the passions are busy as ever.
    WSL 12.341 4 In these busy days of avarice and ambition...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    Pray 12.353 11 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room?

busybodies, n. [busy-bodies,] (5)

    SL 2.162 22 Why should we be busybodies and superserviceable?
    Civ 7.29 22 We are dapper little busybodies...
    Suc 7.312 6 ...Euripides says that Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
    Dem1 10.23 21 The fault of most men is that they are busybodies;...
    Schr 10.267 5 Young men, I warn you against the clamors of these self-praising frivolous activities,-against these busy-bodies;...

busybody, n. [busy-body,] (2)

    PLT 12.56 10 There are two theories of life;... One is activity, the busybody...
    CInt 12.123 9 ...[the Understanding] is apt to be a talker, a boaster, a busy-body.

busy-ness, n. (1)

    Schr 10.267 16 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action...

Busyrane [Spenser, Faerie (1)

    PPh 4.58 25 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.

butcher, n. (3)

    MR 1.237 16 ...it is...the butcher, the negro...who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    Hist 2.24 25 A sparse population and want [in the Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier...
    Dem1 10.21 17 Shun [animal magnetism, divination, second-sight] as you would the secrets of the undertaker and the butcher.

butcher, v. (1)

    War 11.168 10 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would soon butcher the good.

butchers, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.15 18 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers...
    PPh 4.55 10 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from...the shops of... butchers and fishmongers.
    OA 7.320 22 Universal convictions are not to be shaken by the whimseys of overfed butchers and firemen...
    OA 7.323 26 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    HDC 11.59 19 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    AKan 11.255 16 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.

butcher's, n. (3)

    Nat 1.51 8 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
    ET8 5.130 16 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    Ill 6.321 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.

butchery, n. (2)

    War 11.154 20 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    SMC 11.356 11 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...on witnessing the butchery done by the Missouri riders on women and babes, were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.

Butler, Joseph, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.346 27 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler?...

Butler Samuel (?), n. [Butler,] (2)

    Thor 10.472 3 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    RBur 11.441 4 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns.

Butler's, Joseph, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read Butler's Analogy;...

Butlers, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 15 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone.

butt, n. (4)

    Hsm1. 2.252 10 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    Cour 7.279 9 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./
    Comc 8.171 15 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms, which Napoleon reckoned so formidable...
    PPo 8.248 17 Hypocrisy is the perpetual butt of [Hafiz's] arrows...

butt-end, n. (1)

    Carl 10.494 1 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.

butter, n. (2)

    ET4 5.58 3 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have herds of cows, and malt, wheat, bacon, butter and cheese.
    HDC 11.63 3 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.

buttercups, n. (1)

    ET16 5.277 15 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles...

butterflies, n. (1)

    Nat 1.19 4 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies...

butterflies', n. (1)

    Bhr 6.174 11 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...

butterfly, n. (3)

    Nat 1.16 8 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the butterfly...
    LE 1.176 17 How mean to go blazing, a gaudy butterfly, in fashionable or political salons.
    ShP 4.215 14 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic. It is a caterpillar with wings, and not yet a butterfly.

button, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 18 Man [in England] is made as a Birmingham button.

buttoned, v. (2)

    ET5 5.84 16 The Englishman wears a sensible coat buttoned to the chin...
    WSL 12.344 6 [Landor] is buttoned in English broadcloth to the chin.

buttons, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.209 20 Are you the friend of your friend's buttons, or of his thought?
    ET13 5.227 1 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter.
    Wth 6.92 21 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...

buttress, v. (1)

    SovE 10.212 6 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms...

buttresses, n. (1)

    ET16 5.285 23 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.

Buttrick, Francis, n. (1)

    SMC 11.368 24 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick...and Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.

Buttrick, Humphrey H., n. (2)

    SMC 11.366 4 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
    SMC 11.366 12 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts]...suffered extraordinary losses; Captain Buttrick and one other officer being the only officers in it who were neither killed, wounded nor captured.

Buttrick, Jonas (?), n. (3)

    HDC 11.73 19 When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the militia and minute-men assembled under the command of Colonel Barrett and Major Buttrick.
    HDC 11.74 5 ...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].
    HDC 11.74 20 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire...

Buttrick, 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...

Buxton, Thomas Folwell, n. (1)

    Pow 6.76 1 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.

Buxton, Thomas, n. (1)

    EWI 11.119 17 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...

buy, v. (63)

    Nat 1.72 22 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
    MN 1.194 8 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell...
    MR 1.234 12 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    MR 1.244 19 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, and so we buy ice-creams.
    YA 1.378 12 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell;...
    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.
    Comp 2.114 6 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening;...
    Lov1 2.173 7 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops to buy a skein of silk...
    Fdsp 2.209 27 Let us buy our entrance to this guild [of friendship] by a long probation.
    Exp 3.54 5 Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation to the shape of heads? When I come to that, the doctors shall buy me for a cent.
    Gts 3.161 22 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    Pol1 3.197 2 Gold and iron are good/ To buy iron and gold;/...
    Pol1 3.202 23 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    NER 3.252 9 One apostle thought all men should go to farming, and another that no man should buy or sell...
    UGM 4.4 10 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.4 25 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets.
    ET5 5.96 12 All the houses in London buy their water.
    ET8 5.132 18 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...buy every secret;...
    ET9 5.147 3 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;...
    ET10 5.156 13 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy;...
    ET10 5.163 8 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class, who never spare in what they buy for their own consupmtion;...is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.169 23 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    ET18 5.300 14 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
    ET18 5.301 25 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs...
    Wth 6.98 3 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Wth 6.99 9 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.102 16 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy?
    Wth 6.102 17 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    Wth 6.102 19 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
    Wth 6.102 21 In Rome [the dollar] will buy beauty and magnificence.
    Wth 6.102 23 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
    Wth 6.102 23 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town...
    Wth 6.103 6 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy...
    Wth 6.103 11 The value of a dollar is, to buy just things;...
    Wth 6.120 6 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up. What to do with a dry cow? who will buy her?
    Wth 6.121 4 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with the house-lot...when bought.
    Wth 6.124 7 Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with another kind.
    CbW 6.262 25 You buy much that is not rendered in the bill.
    CbW 6.275 5 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
    Ill 6.317 8 [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 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy...
    DL 7.109 27 Let [a man] never buy anything else than what he wants...
    DL 7.110 20 We must not make believe with our money, but...buy up and not down.
    DL 7.119 4 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any price...
    SA 8.84 14 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read there?
    Res 8.143 21 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their few masters bought...
    Insp 8.269 11 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
    Aris 10.45 7 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    PerF 10.80 26 I knew a stupid young farmer...with whom the only intercourse you could have was to buy what he had to sell.
    Schr 10.276 13 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it? But when we can get it where we want it, and in measured portions... we will buy it with millions.
    EzRy 10.391 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved to buy dearer and sell cheaper than others.
    HDC 11.69 13 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...
    HDC 11.71 1 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...
    FSLC 11.196 11 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich. Vanity can buy some, ambition others, and money others.
    FSLC 11.208 19 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
    FSLC 11.208 21 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. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
    FRep 11.533 12 We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men;...
    FRep 11.534 2 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy.
    PLT 12.56 25 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...and we buy this freedom to glitter by the loss of general health.
    CInt 12.118 12 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CW 12.175 20 I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
    AgMs 12.361 15 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring.
    Let 12.403 4 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.

buying, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.234 14 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot;...
    ET13 5.223 18 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money...in buying Pugin and architectural literature.
    Thor 10.455 21 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses...
    CW 12.171 5 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...
    CW 12.171 22 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...

buys, v. (16)

    YA 1.383 19 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;...
    YA 1.383 21 One man...with [a dime]...buys corn enough to feed the world;...
    YA 1.383 24 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; and the other buys barley candy.
    SR 2.76 10 A sturdy lad...who...buys a township...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Pol1 3.197 7 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the power of talking wisely.
    ET6 5.107 14 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall;...
    ET10 5.162 17 ...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam];...and the mill buys out the castle.
    ET11 5.173 15 Every man who becomes rich [in England] buys land...
    Wth 6.112 2 As long as your genius buys, the investment is safe...
    Wth 6.119 7 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes...
    Wth 6.120 4 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up.
    Wth 6.122 15 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Wth 6.124 8 Friendship buys friendship;...
    Wsp 6.234 6 [The moral] is the coin which buys all...
    DL 7.109 23 ...some things each man buys without hesitation;...

buzz, n. (4)

    MN 1.220 14 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!
    LT 1.277 25 [The work of the reformer] is a buzz in the ear.
    Tran 1.353 24 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then...
    Exp 3.47 7 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day; a good deal of buzz, and somewhere a result slipped magically in.

by-end, n. (2)

    ET12 5.211 22 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write, or at all events for some by-end imposed on them, must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    ET14 5.258 15 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action, studious of truth without a by-end.

by-ends, n. (4)

    DSA 1.147 23 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
    GSt 10.504 1 [George Stearns's]...freedom from all by-ends...disarmed...all gainsayers.
    JBB 11.268 11 [John Brown] is...the rarest of heroes, a pure idealist, with no by-ends of his own.
    ACri 12.304 13 The classic draws its rule from the genius of that which it does, and not from by-ends.

by-laws, n. (4)

    ET9 5.146 23 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    Imtl 8.325 2 ...the polity of the Egyptians, the by-laws of towns, of streets and houses, respected burial.
    SlHr 10.447 10 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend of its parish by-laws...
    PLT 12.15 9 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature; and I add a rude list of some by-laws of the mind.

by-play, n. (1)

    OS 2.278 21 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...

byre, n. (1)

    OA 7.313 9 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./

by-road, n. (1)

    Schr 10.285 20 ...what [Genius] says and does is not in a by-road...

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (31)

    LE 1.163 20 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell,-the details of that nature, of that day, called Byron, or Burke;...
    SL 2.164 14 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.
    Art1 2.355 4 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,--so remarkable in...Byron...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    NER 3.274 11 ...Rousseau...Byron...they would know the worst...
    MoS 4.150 13 Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...Pindar and Byron, in poets.
    MoS 4.163 25 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    MoS 4.174 27 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ET1 5.7 16 ...[Landor]...talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ET10 5.165 16 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks; and Newstead Abbey became one in the hands of Lord Byron.
    ET14 5.233 22 Byron liked something craggy to break his mind upon.
    ET14 5.239 25 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    ET14 5.256 10 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic; only now and then, as in Wordsworth, conscientious; or in Byron, passional;...
    Boks 7.213 15 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to Byron, Scott...
    OA 7.321 20 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in...Pascal, Burns and Byron;...
    PI 8.27 18 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    Comc 8.156 3 And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ 't is that I may not weep./ Byron.
    QO 8.203 19 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    Grts 8.318 4 ...it is curious that Byron writes down to Scott; Scott writes up to him.
    Aris 10.62 2 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
    MMEm 10.402 17 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Channing, Mackintosh, Byron.
    MMEm 10.403 4 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none the less...
    RBur 11.441 24 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not...like Byron, in the ocean...
    Scot 11.464 6 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    Scot 11.467 6 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott], as of...Swift or Byron.
    CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.
    ACri 12.297 6 In Carlyle as in Byron one is more struck with the rhetoric than with the matter.
    MLit 12.318 25 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... appeared in England in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    MLit 12.319 2 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency; their poetry is objective. In Byron, on the other hand, it predominates;...
    MLit 12.319 3 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron it is blind...
    EurB 12.368 3 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.
    EurB 12.377 14 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian...rules longer.

Byron's, George Gordon, Lo (4)

    SA 8.80 17 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history; Byron's heroes in poetry.
    MMEm 10.403 11 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is] that a mind like Byron's would never be satisfied with modern Unitarianism...
    Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which his books and Byron's inaugurated;...
    EurB 12.377 15 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian, with no tithe of Byron's genius, rules longer.

bystander, n. [by-stander,] (3)

    Tran 1.358 17 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
    ET11 5.196 26 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    Cour 7.257 17 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.

bystanders [by-standers], n. (1)

    ET6 5.104 27 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...

bystanders, n. [by-standers,] (13)

    Nat 1.20 1 Every heroic act...causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    LE 1.175 4 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they forget the bystanders;...
    SR 2.56 2 The by-standers look askance on [the nonconformist] in the public street...
    Pow 6.56 1 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others have cold hands and remain bystanders;...
    Ctr 6.133 9 [Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from the bystanders...
    CbW 6.248 19 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...
    Cour 7.260 25 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
    Cour 7.265 19 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
    OA 7.317 18 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days...presently foretells the fate of the by-standers.
    Comc 8.169 16 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
    Edc1 10.145 6 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
    Thor 10.457 22 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...
    II 12.70 13 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we, credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.

by-way, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.142 18 ...[your boy] finds his best leading in a by-way of his own...

byways, n. (2)

    ET3 5.34 18 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities...the highways, the byways...
    Boks 7.211 7 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.

byword, n. (4)

    Comp 2.100 4 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by faithfulness to his truth and become a byword and a hissing.
    Prd1 2.228 17 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception, which is shown by the currency of the byword, No mistake.
    OS 2.294 4 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    Dem1 10.11 15 The jest and byword to an intelligent ear extends its meaning to the soul and to all time.

Byzantine, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.152 10 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    PPh 4.53 17 The Roman legion, Byzantine legislation...may all be seen in perspective;...

Byzantines, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.106 3 ...in the hands...of luxurious Byzantines...[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.

Byzantium, n. (1)

    WD 7.174 12 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.

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