Camel to Caroline, Amelia Elizabeth

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

camel, n. (3)

    MR 1.251 24 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    Mem 12.94 21 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation; as the starved camel in the desert lives on his humps.
    ACri 12.295 20 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps...

camel-drivers, n. (1)

    PPo 8.254 27 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...

Camel's Hump, Vermont, n. (1)

    Supl 10.170 7 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits, as... Camel's Hump...mountains, but only them 'ere rises...

camels, n. (1)

    Supl 10.177 26 ...the Orientals excel...in the training of slaves, elephants and camels...

camel's, n. (1)

    Nat 1.33 21 ...The last ounce broke the camel's back;...

cameos, n. (1)

    DL 7.130 14 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends...to cameos and architecture?

Camera, n. (1)

    LT 1.265 1 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let the sun paint the people.

camera obscura, n. (1)

    Nat 1.51 7 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.

camera-obscura, n. (1)

    LT 1.264 26 Whilst the Daguerreotypist, with camera-obscura and silver plate, begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...

Camidge, John, n. (1)

    ET13 5.219 1 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

Camp Andrew, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.363 27 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.

camp, n. (22)

    Nat 1.51 24 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the camp...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    Hist 2.4 4 ...camp, kingdom, empire...are merely the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    NR 3.239 2 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    NMW 4.252 1 In intervals of leisure, either in the camp or the palace, Napoleon appears as a man of genius...
    ET6 5.109 9 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties. This domesticity is carried into court and camp.
    ET11 5.179 10 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar);....
    ET11 5.189 3 Scotland was a camp until the day of Culloden.
    Pow 6.71 13 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Wsp 6.233 7 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...
    Civ 7.21 14 A man in a cave or in a camp...will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
    Res 8.145 2 ...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.
    Grts 8.304 26 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Schr 10.285 5 [Men of talent] go out into some camp of their own...
    Plu 10.298 26 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows the court, the camp and the judgment-hall...
    EzRy 10.383 14 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans...
    Carl 10.493 12 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
    HDC 11.78 3 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga, and died...of the distemper that prevailed in the camp.
    War 11.165 17 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.
    SMC 11.360 21 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp...
    SMC 11.362 4 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp.
    Koss 11.401 4 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.
    AgMs 12.360 8 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...

camp, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.183 7 ...we think we shall be as grand as [natural objects] if we camp out and eat roots;...
    MoL 10.251 8 Learn...to camp down in the woods...

Campagna di Roma, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 21 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma...accuse man.

Campagna, Italy, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.176 12 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    Comc 8.169 22 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    CL 12.158 11 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.

Campaign in Egypt, n. (1)

    NMW 4.251 26 The most agreeable portion [of Bonaparte's memoirs] is the Campaign in Egypt.

Campaign in France [Goethe] (1)

    GoW 4.287 2 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...his Campaign in France...have the same interest.

campaign, n. (10)

    Art1 2.355 15 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...the plan of a...campaign...
    NMW 4.232 14 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
    NMW 4.244 17 In the Russian campaign he was so much impressed by the courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    NMW 4.252 7 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    Cour 7.254 8 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...
    Cour 7.261 20 I knew a young soldier who died in the early campaign...
    Res 8.145 19 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    SMC 11.371 13 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.
    Koss 11.397 3 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits, in such unbroken succession as may compare with the toils of a campaign, forbid us to detain you long.
    Koss 11.400 26 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert...exile into a campaign...

campaigns, n. (3)

    SL 2.164 10 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    Prd1 2.227 15 The good husband finds method as efficient...in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns...
    MAng1 12.227 26 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].

camp-bed, n. (1)

    MoL 10.251 13 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order; the mattress on the iron camp-bed rolled up, as if ready for removal.

Campbell, John [Marquis of [Campbell,] (2)

    ET11 5.182 10 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    ET11 5.189 5 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

Campbell, Thomas, n. (3)

    ET11 5.194 4 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up.
    Pow 6.74 23 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    QO 8.203 18 ...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...

Camper, Pieter, n. (1)

    Comc 8.167 4 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.

camphor, n. (1)

    Supl 10.177 25 ...the Orientals excel...in spices, in dyes and drugs, henna, otto and camphor...

campings-out, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.140 25 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base...

camps, n. (3)

    ET5 5.74 21 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England], erected his camps and towers...
    Clbs 7.246 11 I knew a scholar, of some experience in camps, who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Thor 10.460 2 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their camps...

Canada, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.249 15 ...l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn; but there is an infallible way to draw him out, namely, by having as good as he. If you have Tuscaroora and he Canada, he may exchange kernel for kernel.
    II 12.73 10 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us...how the daily sunshine and sap may be made to feed wheat instead of moss and Canada thistle;...

Canada, n. (9)

    ET4 5.48 5 The French in Canada...have held their national traits.
    ET8 5.137 11 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race; in Canada, the old French law;...
    ET9 5.146 24 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    ET18 5.304 3 Canada and Australia have been contented with substantial independence.
    Wth 6.87 6 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...
    Civ 7.31 25 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
    ACiv 11.298 15 In every house, from Canada to the Gulf, the children ask the serious father,-what is the news of the war to-day...
    ACiv 11.306 13 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf.
    ALin 11.336 15 [Lincoln] had conquered the public opinion of Canada, England and France.

Canadian, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.153 24 Are you...rich enough to make the Canadian in his wagon... feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...

canal, n. (2)

    Nat 1.5 11 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the same things [unchanged essences], as in...a canal...
    ET10 5.162 11 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition, as stockholders in the mine, the canal, the railway...

canalling, v. (1)

    WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...canalling the American Isthmus...

canals, n. (6)

    Nat 1.14 4 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    Cir 2.302 24 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...roads and canals, by railways;...
    CbW 6.267 10 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or canals...
    Bty 6.301 5 If a man...can join oceans by canals...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    EWI 11.123 14 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we go in canals,-to market, and for the sale of goods.
    ChiE 11.472 6 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals;...

canary, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 16 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary...

cancels, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.194 21 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character...

cancerous, adj. (1)

    OA 7.323 18 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.

cancers, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain, and meditating on the contingencies of wounds, cancers, lockjaws, rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...

candelabra, n. (1)

    Art1 2.359 14 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...

candid, adj. (5)

    Con 1.298 25 Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
    MoS 4.156 19 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgment?
    ET9 5.150 7 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit, though brighter men among them make painful efforts to be candid.
    ET13 5.223 6 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
    LLNE 10.346 21 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners; the most amiable, sanguine and candid of men.

candidate, n. (15)

    Con 1.318 21 ...[the conservative party] goes for availableness in its candidate, not for worth;...
    Tran 1.346 2 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
    Fdsp 2.198 12 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Fdsp 2.201 27 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Int 2.342 11 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates] is a candidate for truth...
    NER 3.265 21 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar...
    NER 3.275 15 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    ET5 5.81 26 ...is it a boxer in the ring, is it a candidate on the hustings, the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    QO 8.195 3 In [a writer's] own [book] he waits as a candidate for your approbation;...
    TPar 11.285 18 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
    FRep 11.518 18 We do not choose our own candidate...
    FRep 11.518 19 We do not choose our own candidate...only the available candidate...
    FRep 11.524 15 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.
    FRep 11.524 18 Whilst each cabal urges its candidate...the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
    EurB 12.377 1 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...

candidates, n. (4)

    ET12 5.210 17 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    Edc1 10.151 17 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?
    LLNE 10.368 6 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed;...
    ChiE 11.473 18 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.

candidly, adv. (2)

    NMW 4.251 8 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
    Plu 10.319 24 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows; and the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them, and [Plutarch] treats it candidly...

candle, n. (9)

    Nat 1.21 22 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself...the sun as its candle.
    ET12 5.204 1 No candle or fire is ever lighted in the Bodleian.
    F 6.38 26 The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays...
    SS 7.11 3 A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
    Clbs 7.245 10 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
    Res 8.149 21 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...
    Imtl 8.335 18 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination;...
    MMEm 10.425 13 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...
    MAng1 12.237 26 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...

candle-ends, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.419 15 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends...

candle-factory, n. (1)

    CInt 12.115 6 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of a rope-walk or a candle-factory...

candle-light, n. (1)

    SwM 4.128 22 ...we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.

candles, n. (5)

    ShP 4.202 8 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...
    ET9 5.149 25 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out...
    Res 8.147 15 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes, as drunkards who see a thousand candles at once.
    MAng1 12.238 1 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles...
    MAng1 12.238 8 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...

candlestick, n. (1)

    Bty 6.304 10 My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise...

candor, n. (7)

    Wsp 6.201 7 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making, by excess of candor, the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.
    MoL 10.241 12 ...before the shadows of these times darken over your youthful sensibility and candor, let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    Plu 10.319 18 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship...and has set them down with such candor and grace as to make them good reading to-day.
    LS 11.24 1 My brethren have considered my views [on the Lord's Supper] with patience and candor...
    FSLC 11.207 25 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's. Let us hear any project with candor and respect.
    ACiv 11.302 22 The existing administration is entitled to the utmost candor.
    CInt 12.117 21 I presently know whether my companion has more candor or less...

candy, n. (2)

    YA 1.383 25 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.
    Wth 6.93 11 Power is what [men of sense] want, not candy;...

candy-braids, n. (1)

    WD 7.159 11 Why need I speak of steam...which...can twist beams of iron like candy-braids...

cane, n. (6)

    Nat 1.21 2 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; - before it the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane;... can we separate the man from the living picture?
    SwM 4.101 15 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress, and, whenever he walked out, carried a gold-headed cane.
    SwM 4.142 17 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...
    ET1 5.10 15 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man...leaning on his cane.
    Res 8.152 27 ...every passenger may strike off a twig [of willow] with his cane;...
    Chr2 10.92 11 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he dams the incoming ocean with his cane.

cane-holes, n. (1)

    EWI 11.119 10 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro women [in Jamaica]; they should not be made to dig the cane-holes...

cane-juice, n. (1)

    EWI 11.104 14 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.

canes, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.174 13 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes.

canine, adj. (1)

    NER 3.269 24 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...

canker, adj. (1)

    LT 1.284 25 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm...

canker, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.171 23 In the actual world...dwell care and canker and fear.

cankering, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.302 4 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition...

cankerworm, n. (1)

    MoL 10.247 27 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm...

canker-worms, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.106 27 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon...

cannibal, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.415 19 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold.

cannibal, n. (4)

    ET4 5.67 11 The fair Saxon man...is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
    Wsp 6.205 5 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal...
    CbW 6.263 8 ...sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of...
    Civ 7.19 4 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal...is called Civilization.

cannibals, n. (7)

    Mrs1 3.120 8 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    SwM 4.137 11 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.
    MoS 4.166 12 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    Pow 6.70 26 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    Wsp 6.205 4 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal...
    Elo1 7.77 5 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?--how...among cannibals?
    SovE 10.190 26 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men, cannibals and the depravities of civilization;...

Canning, George, n. (5)

    ET5 5.90 12 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.
    ET6 5.111 8 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;... Canning, to advance with the times;...
    PerF 10.85 7 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
    Schr 10.271 1 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for...Canning or Tennyson.
    EWI 11.137 2 All the great geniuses of the British senate...Grenville, Sheridan, Grey, Canning, ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...

Cannings, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 10 The Cannings and Jeffreys of the capital, the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

cannon, adj. (3)

    LE 1.180 22 [Napoleon] no longer calculated the chance of the cannon ball.
    Aris 10.38 13 ...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in sword and cannon style...
    SMC 11.376 4 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.

cannon, n. (23)

    Prd1 2.237 21 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    ET5 5.86 5 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers, in spite of cannon.
    ET10 5.161 1 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...
    ET19 5.313 17 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
    Pow 6.77 20 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.
    Cour 7.252 2 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    Cour 7.262 22 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from a cannon...
    Cour 7.263 8 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
    Elo2 8.111 9 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see the cannon, the musketry, the cavalry...
    Elo2 8.120 8 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers. Before, he was out of place, and unfitted as a cannon in a parlor.
    Insp 8.279 21 ...when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
    Grts 8.314 13 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king...
    Grts 8.314 23 ...one fights with cannon as with fists;...
    PerF 10.75 21 [Labor] is in dress, in pictures, in ships, in cannon;...
    PerF 10.85 16 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the world alive, guided, incorruptible; that its cannon cannot be stolen nor its virtues misapplied.
    War 11.166 12 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the cannon would become street-posts;...
    FSLC 11.202 7 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon.
    AKan 11.260 8 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    HCom 11.343 13 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    FRep 11.515 9 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.515 13 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.515 14 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    CInt 12.113 3 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...

cannonade, n. (4)

    Ctr 6.165 23 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if War with his cannonade;...can set his dull nerves throbbing... make way and sing paean!
    Carl 10.494 23 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature was made by God...
    EPro 11.323 2 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
    CL 12.150 22 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles. On the pond there is a cannonade of a hundred guns...

cannonades, n. (1)

    LE 1.162 24 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of cannonades in the Milanese...

cannon-ball, n. (2)

    ET3 5.35 1 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...
    Wsp 6.233 17 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners... In a few minutes a cannon-ball fell on the spot, and the gentleman was killed.

cannon-carriages, n. (1)

    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.

cannons, n. (6)

    ET5 5.96 19 [The English] make...telescopes for astronomers, cannons for kings.
    CbW 6.276 24 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
    Suc 7.284 19 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... If it is necessary to make cannons at the forge, I can make them.
    Suc 7.290 5 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    War 11.165 16 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or cannons or churches.
    ACiv 11.306 2 We fancy that the endless debate, emphasized by the crime and by the cannons of this war, has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...

cannon's, n. (2)

    Cour 7.255 25 ...the pure article...self-possession at the cannon's mouth...is the endowment of elevated characters.
    Cour 7.268 3 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.

canoe, n. (2)

    Hist 2.40 18 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates]...for the Kanaka in his canoe...
    Thor 10.473 20 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe...

Canon Law, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 18 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.

canon, n. (2)

    NR 3.232 27 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    Carl 10.490 27 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something.

Canon Yeman's Tale [Geoffr (1)

    Ctr 6.132 8 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.

Canonchet, n. (1)

    HDC 11.58 25 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...

canonization, n. (1)

    QO 8.195 16 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.

canonized, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.194 14 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted, and he...was canonized as a saint.

canons, n. (1)

    MLit 12.326 21 If we try Goethe by the ordinary canons of criticism, we should say that his thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...

Canope, n. (1)

    CbW 6.243 20 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./

canopy, n. (1)

    PPo 8.241 7 ...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them from the sun.

Canova, Antonio, n. (4)

    ET5 5.91 22 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.
    Art2 7.45 7 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 8 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    MAng1 12.222 20 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to...the works of Canova.

cant, n. (17)

    Tran 1.356 4 There will be cant and pretension;...
    Pt1 3.7 14 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism...
    NMW 4.227 24 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    GoW 4.289 20 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET7 5.118 6 When [the English] unmask cant, they say, The English of this is, etc.;...
    ET13 5.228 27 The English...are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET13 5.230 8 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    ET14 5.247 27 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical.
    ET14 5.249 21 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
    Wsp 6.221 4 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
    CbW 6.263 17 Drop the cant, and treat [sickness] sanely.
    Boks 7.211 9 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it...
    Cour 7.260 3 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere...
    Prch 10.218 11 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant;...
    Schr 10.266 26 The cant of the time inquires superciliously after the new ideas;...
    AKan 11.259 19 Language has lost its meaning in the universal cant.
    FRep 11.516 27 Cant is good to provoke common sense.

cant, v. (1)

    ET13 5.229 4 ...the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.

Cantabrigian, n. (1)

    ET15 5.269 24 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.

canteloupes, n. (1)

    Wth 6.108 1 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, n (2)

    ET11 5.197 15 I have no illusion left, said Sidney Smith, but the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    Plu 10.317 5 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...

Canterbury, England, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.234 11 Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses.

canting, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.185 6 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...

Canton, China, n. (2)

    DL 7.125 7 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a third, his...voyage to Canton;...
    Suc 7.283 13 We interfere...at Canton and in Japan;...

canton, n. (1)

    Humb 11.458 23 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.

cantos, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.276 27 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.

Canute, n. (1)

    ET16 5.289 24 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...

canvas, n. (14)

    DSA 1.134 20 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy, sometimes with pencil on canvas...
    LT 1.265 13 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind, in the just order which they take on this canvas of Time...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    Int 2.337 26 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is lifelike...
    Art1 2.358 27 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Art1 2.366 25 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him in canvas or in stone...
    ET1 5.14 8 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
    Art2 7.45 2 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    DL 7.130 21 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...
    PI 8.40 18 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can transfer his visions to mortal canvas...
    SMC 11.364 4 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons, but only three came. On these they loaded all the canvas of the tents, but took no tent-poles.
    PLT 12.49 8 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    MAng1 12.219 1 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
    MAng1 12.222 21 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    PPr 12.382 24 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing, so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or stone;...

canvassed, v. (1)

    PerF 10.86 17 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety, so that when canvassed we shall be found to be made up of a majority of reckless self-seekers.

caoutchouc, n. (2)

    WD 7.160 7 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha...
    EdAd 11.383 14 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from ice, ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.

cap, n. (9)

    MR 1.233 5 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses,-with cap and knee volunteers his confession...
    Con 1.312 4 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...with cap and knee to thy command;...
    YA 1.387 1 The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and his plume.
    UGM 4.20 16 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long.
    ET1 5.18 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel, then without his cap...
    Ctr 6.155 5 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
    OA 7.332 13 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair... a cotton cap covered his bald head.
    MAng1 12.237 25 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...

cap, v. (1)

    Insp 8.293 14 ...two men of good mind will excite each other's activity, each attempting still to cap the other's thought.

capabilities, n. (8)

    MN 1.193 16 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance, as the eyes of men open to their capabilities.
    ET1 5.24 10 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its natural capabilities shown, with much taste.
    ET3 5.34 17 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...
    Aris 10.44 15 ...when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    Thor 10.485 6 ...[Thoreau] had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world;...
    EPro 11.322 13 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    Milt1 12.260 4 [Milton] was a benefactor of the English tongue by showing its capabilities.
    ACri 12.301 8 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...

capability, n. (4)

    PNR 4.85 12 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds, opening power and capability in everything he touches.
    F 6.14 24 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
    Aris 10.44 23 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    Wom 11.413 20 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./

capable, adj. (49)

    Nat 1.57 6 Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into [ideas'] region.
    LE 1.180 20 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    OS 2.275 25 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    Cir 2.313 3 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Art1 2.362 20 [The work of art] was not painted for [picture dealers], it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.
    Pt1 3.26 19 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Chr1 3.98 16 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
    NER 3.272 5 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
    PPh 4.42 18 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he traveled into Italy...
    ShP 4.198 12 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    ShP 4.203 6 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
    NMW 4.230 26 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable of sitting on horseback sixteen or seventeen hours...
    NMW 4.236 1 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    ET2 5.30 4 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET5 5.88 5 Whilst they are thus instinct with a spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;...
    ET8 5.140 23 [The English] are capable of a sublime resolution...
    ET10 5.167 22 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought and of new choice...
    ET14 5.240 3 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    ET14 5.259 20 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...
    CbW 6.259 7 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    CbW 6.259 8 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude.
    SS 7.11 14 ...through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance.
    WD 7.157 24 ...there is no sense or organ which is not capable of exquisite performance.
    Clbs 7.250 4 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom...
    PI 8.64 11 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
    Res 8.149 11 ...when the mind has exhausted its energies for one employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
    Comc 8.158 16 ...man, through his access to Reason, is capable of the perception of a whole and a part.
    Comc 8.164 8 ...the religious sentiment is...capable of the most prodigious effects...
    Aris 10.43 26 ...when the well-mixed man is born...capable of impressions from all things, and not too susceptible,-then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    Aris 10.60 5 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.
    Edc1 10.126 21 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
    Edc1 10.134 5 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...
    Supl 10.167 6 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    Thor 10.478 5 A truth-speaker [Thoreau], capable of the most deep and strict conversation;...
    TPar 11.289 15 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed...
    ACiv 11.307 26 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
    Humb 11.458 24 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.
    FRep 11.524 26 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity, capable of action and of affairs...
    FRep 11.525 3 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...quite capable of any sacrifice except of their honor.
    PLT 12.27 17 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom...
    PLT 12.60 9 So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
    Mem 12.92 17 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe: the angels are set to punish you, so long as you are capable of such crime.
    CInt 12.120 25 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.
    CL 12.136 21 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    MAng1 12.222 1 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    MAng1 12.232 11 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    Milt1 12.261 3 ...soaring into unattempted strains, [Milton] made [English] capable of an unknown majesty...
    WSL 12.338 20 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...capable of the utmost delicacy of sentiment...
    Trag 12.410 24 Few are capable of love.

capable, n. (1)

    CL 12.135 11 The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the land.

Capac, Manco, n. (1)

    Civ 7.20 23 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement...

capacious, adj. (6)

    Fdsp 2.216 11 Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver [of friendship] is not capacious?
    PPh 4.75 9 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato, so capacious of these contrasts;...
    SwM 4.99 11 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and capacious brain.
    NMW 4.246 3 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
    ET14 5.235 26 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale: the memory capacious like the storehouse of the rains.
    WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.

capacities, n. (3)

    CbW 6.248 25 Franklin said...[mankind] have capacities, if they would employ them.
    Boks 7.212 20 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed. But though orator and poet be of this hunger party, the capacities remain.
    Edc1 10.152 10 Try your design on the best school. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities.

capacity, n. (28)

    AmS 1.106 26 The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity...
    Fdsp 2.198 14 ...Dear Friend, If I was sure of thee, sure of thy capacity, sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    UGM 4.25 9 We are all wise in capacity...
    SwM 4.105 10 [Swedenborg] had a capacity to entertain and vivify these volumes of thought.
    SwM 4.132 11 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
    NMW 4.249 19 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    ET5 5.89 25 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET14 5.248 27 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    Bhr 6.176 10 ...there must be capacity for culture in the blood.
    Elo1 7.61 4 Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat...
    Elo1 7.66 22 There is...something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue.
    Elo1 7.75 26 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who has no capacity for helping them at all...
    WD 7.168 11 The days] are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists.
    Comc 8.166 20 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    QO 8.201 24 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world...
    PC 8.221 26 ...the first measure of a mind is...its capacity of truth, and its adhesion to it.
    Prch 10.228 5 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    MMEm 10.431 6 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    HDC 11.49 4 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
    HDC 11.65 17 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    EWI 11.134 25 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.142 12 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...
    FSLC 11.206 24 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do? 1. What in our federal capacity is our relation to the nation? 2. And what as citizens of a state?
    FSLN 11.221 13 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity...
    EPro 11.317 15 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    MAng1 12.223 17 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts, and [Michelangelo's] skill in this is a pledge of his capacity in both kinds.
    MAng1 12.235 12 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
    MLit 12.322 17 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all.

Capdeuil [Capdueil], Pons d (1)

    PI 8.60 6 [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...

Capdueil [Capdeuil], Pons d (1)

    Suc 7.306 18 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./

Cape Ann, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    EWI 11.131 8 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection, as much as within the arms of Cape Ann or Cape Cod.

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, ad (1)

    FRep 11.520 12 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, n. (3)

    CbW 6.252 11 We have as good right, and the same sort of right to be here, as Cape Cod or Sandy Hook have to be there.
    EWI 11.131 8 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection, as much as within the arms of Cape Ann or Cape Cod.
    AKan 11.262 4 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy. Every man...was his own governor; and there was no breach of peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac.

Cape Cod, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.201 3 [John Randolph's] words resounding...from Cape Florida to Cape Cod, come down now like the cry of Fate...
    FSLC 11.212 16 We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.

Cape Florida, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.201 2 [John Randolph's] words resounding...from Cape Florida to Cape Cod, come down now like the cry of Fate...

Cape of Buena Esperanca, 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;...

Cape of Good Hope, n. (2)

    ET5 5.91 4 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
    ET8 5.137 15 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...at the Cape of Good Hope, of the old Netherlands;...

Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, n (1)

    ET2 5.26 26 [The good ship] has passed Cape Sable;...

Cape Town, South Africa, n (1)

    FRO2 11.487 11 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.

Cape Trafalgar, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.128 19 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and Trafalgar beaten out thin;...
    ET4 5.68 1 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood...

Cape Turnagain, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 5 ...here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain;...

caper, v. (1)

    DL 7.104 26 ...[the child] conforms to nobody...all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him.

Capernaum, Palestine, n. (1)

    LS 11.10 17 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...

capes, n. (5)

    AmS 1.108 18 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...
    Chr1 3.93 5 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    ET19 5.314 3 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    OA 7.323 10 [Age] has weathered the perilous capes and shoals in the sea whereon we sail...
    Bost 12.190 24 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

Capetown, South Africa, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 4 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind, though he live in Van Dieman's Land or Capetown.

capillary, adj. (2)

    Int 2.344 13 ...a capillary column of water is a balance for the sea.
    NER 3.280 10 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.

capital, adj. (30)

    DSA 1.125 14 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...
    DSA 1.138 5 The capital secret of his profession...to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
    Tran 1.345 3 ...the richly accomplished [nature] will have some capital absurdity;...
    Hsm1 2.261 12 We tell our charities...for our justification. It is a capital blunder;...
    Exp 3.52 22 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life, but must not leave it without noticing the capital exception.
    Exp 3.81 8 That need [of seeing things under private aspect] makes in morals the capital virtue of self-trust.
    Pol1 3.209 14 Parties of principle, as...the party...of abolition of capital punishment,--degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    SwM 4.103 1 Over and above the merit of [Swedenborg's] particular discoveries, is the capital merit of his self-equality.
    SwM 4.140 13 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist.
    ET5 5.81 7 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.
    ET6 5.113 10 In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.
    ET17 5.295 14 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best place in the world for a great capital city.
    F 6.18 25 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a week;...
    Wth 6.103 1 ...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston]...
    Ill 6.321 23 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes.
    SS 7.12 18 The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal spirits.
    OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
    PI 8.56 10 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists, but they cannot conceal from me their capital want.
    PC 8.208 26 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 abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt;...
    Insp 8.286 17 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Chr2 10.112 26 ...it is a capital truth that Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    Edc1 10.144 17 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill.
    Supl 10.176 17 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak, and in character is a capital defect...
    Carl 10.491 21 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    II 12.73 10 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
    Mem 12.98 17 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge.
    Bost 12.188 26 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...
    MAng1 12.230 12 [The Sistine Chapel ceiling] is [Michelangelo's] capital work painted in fresco.
    MAng1 12.236 23 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with, and this was the capital object of his wishes...
    EurB 12.367 15 ...the capital merit of Wordsworth is that he has done more for the sanity of this generation than any other writer.

capital, n. (31)

    MR 1.256 11 ...the merchant gladly takes money from his income to add to his capital...
    LT 1.264 6 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital...
    Hist 2.36 9 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...
    Cir 2.302 22 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...
    NMW 4.240 26 In the time of the empire [Napoleon] directed attention to the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.
    NMW 4.252 22 England, the centre of capital...opposed [Napoleon].
    ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET10 5.162 7 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...doubles, quadruples, centuples the duke's capital...
    ET10 5.169 20 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    ET14 5.246 8 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius. It is wise and rich, but it lives on its capital.
    Pow 6.56 27 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.
    Wth 6.93 5 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.
    Wth 6.104 3 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Wth 6.126 5 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense, but to capital again.
    Wth 6.126 19 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled;...
    Farm 7.140 20 The farmer is a hoarded capital of health...
    Farm 7.140 21 ...the farm is the capital of wealth;...
    Farm 7.145 4 [Nature] turns her capital day by day;...
    Clbs 7.244 15 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Cour 7.257 16 ...[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.
    QO 8.179 19 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle. This extreme economy argues a very small capital of invention.
    PerF 10.77 15 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    PerF 10.84 7 Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of empires as they pass to the capital.
    LLNE 10.351 7 ...know you one and all, that Constantinople is the natural capital of the globe.
    HDC 11.63 16 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital under Lieutenant Heald...
    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.
    HDC 11.80 14 ...the country towns thought it would be cheaper if [the government] were removed from the capital.
    PLT 12.51 20 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought], drop by drop... she husbands and hives...
    Mem 12.91 14 Opportunities of investment are useful only to those who have capital.
    WSL 12.340 3 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors...
    EurB 12.369 11 The Cannings and Jeffreys of the capital, the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

capitalist, n. (10)

    Tran 1.331 21 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house]...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    YA 1.388 15 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend...whatever will earn and preserve property; always the capitalist;...
    YA 1.388 17 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    YA 1.388 21 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to make a capitalist of the poor man.
    YA 1.388 22 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to make a capitalist of the poor man.
    Chr1 3.98 24 The capitalist does not run every hour to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the realm;...
    Wth 6.126 1 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest; he is to be capitalist;...
    Wth 6.126 6 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense, but to capital again. Well, the man must be capitalist.
    QO 8.189 14 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow;...
    II 12.81 1 The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical...

capitalists, n. (6)

    Pol1 3.209 8 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as...the party of capitalists and that of operatives...
    NMW 4.224 3 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...
    Ctr 6.136 2 Have you seen...two or three capitalists, two or three editors of newspapers?
    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;...
    LLNE 10.328 9 The nobles...now, in another shape, as capitalists, shall in all love and peace eat [the churls] up as before.
    EdAd 11.388 25 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... clapped on the back by comfortable capitalists from all sections, and persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

capitals, n. (12)

    AmS 1.81 9 We do not meet...for the advancement of science, like our contemporaries in the British and European capitals.
    MN 1.220 14 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!
    Hist 2.21 13 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    ET3 5.41 3 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    Pow 6.67 2 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
    Wth 6.91 6 ...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;...
    Elo1 7.95 26 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
    SA 8.102 9 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.
    QO 8.187 21 ...if we learn how old are...the capitals of our columns...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    ACiv 11.303 6 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.
    Wom 11.411 6 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    FRep 11.526 14 ...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...

capitol, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.238 15 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...the senators in the capitol...

Capitol, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.41 24 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature, and canst not be afforded to the Capitol or the Exchange.
    Art2 7.56 16 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
    Elo2 8.113 14 Whether he speaks in the Capitol or on a cart, [the orator] is the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...
    FSLC 11.206 19 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...
    AKan 11.260 11 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    AKan 11.261 24 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...

Capitol, Rome, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 1 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.

Capitolinus, Jupiter, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.225 27 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi leading to the church once the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus;...

capitulate, v. (2)

    SR 2.51 4 ...how easily we capitulate to badges and names...
    SA 8.81 16 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...

capitulated, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.225 18 ...the city [Florence] capitulated on the 9th of August.

Cappadocia, George of, n. (3)

    ET9 5.152 1 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite...
    ET9 5.152 8 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison;...
    ET9 5.152 10 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...

capped, v. (3)

    Art1 2.357 11 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...capped and based by heaven, earth, and sea.
    PPh 4.75 17 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    MoS 4.155 18 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge...you are bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions.

Caprara, Giovanni Battista, (1)

    Mrs1 3.135 17 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.

caprice, n. (12)

    Nat 1.52 18 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse...uses [the creation] to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind.
    Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
    Mrs1 3.152 25 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    PPh 4.74 18 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die...
    F 6.41 22 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...caprice...
    Art2 7.41 20 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must. There is a quick bound set to your caprice.
    Boks 7.209 4 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled, as dependent on individual caprice.
    PI 8.30 19 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...
    Imtl 8.345 1 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Prch 10.237 21 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life has no caprice or fortune...
    ACri 12.303 26 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.
    ACri 12.304 1 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.

Caprice, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.167 1 Grace, Beauty, and Caprice/ Build this golden portal/...

caprices, n. (2)

    YA 1.373 27 That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and officiousness of our wills.
    MMEm 10.414 11 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise.

capricious, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.27 20 ...there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies...
    Hist 2.35 6 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted;...I find true in Concord...
    Exp 3.61 15 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage.
    F 6.39 11 The adaptation is not capricious.
    Ctr 6.151 11 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...to appear a little more capricious than he was.
    Insp 8.276 9 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office, and all is vain until this capricious fuel is supplied.
    Imtl 8.336 24 ...there is nothing in Nature capricious...
    Aris 10.33 21 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities. It is in vain to remind them that Nature appears capricious.
    II 12.75 2 ...what we call Inspiration is coy and capricious;...
    CL 12.166 14 I know that the imagination...is a coy, capricious power...
    ACri 12.303 16 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer, an infirm, capricious, fragmentary soul, is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

capriciously, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.44 5 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily, and went thither three times, though very capriciously treated.

caps, v. (1)

    QO 8.179 16 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.

capsicum, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.111 12 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the eyes of the females;...

captain, n. (25)

    LE 1.180 14 ...Bonaparte's army partook of this double strength of the captain;...
    Hsm1 2.256 8 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    NMW 4.240 12 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    ET2 5.26 13 ...the captain affirmed that the ship would show us in time all her paces...
    ET2 5.30 8 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET2 5.30 19 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means now to come back again in the ship.
    ET2 5.30 27 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain.
    ET2 5.32 10 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen, as the captain counted...
    ET2 5.32 12 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET10 5.166 14 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong...
    ET12 5.206 23 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...
    ET19 5.310 10 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;...
    F 6.17 8 It would not be safe to say when a captain like Bonaparte...would be born in Boston;...
    Res 8.145 18 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    Thor 10.480 20 ...instead of engineering for all America, [Thoreau] was the captain of a huckleberry-party.
    HDC 11.72 16 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain...
    JBB 11.267 22 [John Brown's] grandfather...was a captain in the Revolution.
    ALin 11.330 14 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...
    SMC 11.356 1 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 11.358 4 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    SMC 11.359 9 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott] as too kind for a captain...
    SMC 11.359 13 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men had found out, first that he was captain, then that he was colonel...
    SMC 11.361 9 The letters of the captain [George Prescott] are the dearest treasures of this town [Concord].
    SMC 11.364 7 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864, a captain in the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts...

Captain, n. (2)

    HDC 11.65 12 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    FSLN 11.219 24 ...[supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] were only looking to what their great Captain did...

captains, n. (10)

    DSA 1.120 6 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
    LE 1.179 20 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    UGM 4.23 6 I applaud...an officer equal to his office; captains, ministers, senators.
    NMW 4.244 8 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    Pow 6.54 16 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Elo1 7.87 8 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... describing duties of insurers, captains, pilots and miscellaneous sea-officers that are or might be...
    DL 7.115 26 The greatest man in history was the poorest. How was it with the captains and sages of Greece and Rome...
    EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies]...
    SMC 11.360 3 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men...
    Bost 12.208 26 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what...stout captains...

captious, adj. (5)

    NER 3.262 22 I cannot afford to be irritable and captious...
    ET8 5.137 22 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press: the first querulous, captious, sensitive about English opinion;...
    Ctr 6.145 8 I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel;...
    SA 8.97 23 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some weary, captious paradox to fight you with...
    Plu 10.305 26 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay: it appeared to me captious and labored;...

captivated, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.247 13 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Elo2 8.109 14 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...
    Milt1 12.258 15 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...

captivates, v. (1)

    ET11 5.178 27 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.

captivating, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.106 16 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...

captive, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.60 8 [Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into the Indian country...
    ACiv 11.308 12 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...

captive, n. (3)

    EWI 11.98 1 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./
    FSLC 11.195 23 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    EPro 11.314 1 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/

captived, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 13 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./

captives, n. (3)

    ET4 5.66 16 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET4 5.66 20 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
    EWI 11.101 27 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...

captivity, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.247 19 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./
    Mrs1 3.149 19 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing...
    ShP 4.207 19 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    Wsp 6.199 3 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold/...

captors, n. (2)

    HDC 11.60 9 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she plucked a saddle from under the head of one of them, took a horse...and rode through the forest to her home.
    FSLN 11.229 1 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.

capture, n. (1)

    HDC 11.58 25 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...

capture, v. (2)

    Cour 7.261 8 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    ACiv 11.305 13 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then...to capture a regiment of rebels?

captured, v. (2)

    EWI 11.133 14 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    SMC 11.366 14 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.

capuchin, n. (1)

    NMW 4.225 13 [Napoleon] is no saint,--to use his own word, no capuchin...

Capuchins, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 16 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century...the first Capuchins.

car, n. (6)

    Nat 1.51 5 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    Comp 2.107 25 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    CbW 6.262 23 ...when you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
    FSLN 11.218 17 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.
    FSLN 11.231 4 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.
    CL 12.149 5 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters)...harness your car!

carabine, n. (1)

    Aris 10.57 14 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...

Caraibs, n. (1)

    EWI 11.143 8 We do not wish a world of bugs or of birds; neither afterward of Scythians, Caraibs or Feejees.

Caratach [Fletcher, Bonduca (1)

    SR 2.78 3 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;/...

caravan, n. (2)

    War 11.166 14 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants...
    ACri 12.286 14 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...

caravans, n. (1)

    YA 1.377 11 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...

Carbine, Colonel, n. (1)

    QO 8.198 9 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not Colonel Carbine...

carbon, n. (5)

    SwM 4.98 6 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    Wth 6.94 19 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    Farm 7.143 9 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    Schr 10.276 14 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup.
    Bost 12.184 17 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe...that carbon, oxygen, alum and iron, each has its origin in spiritual nature?

carbuncle, n. (1)

    SwM 4.98 6 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...

carcanet, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 15 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...opal and the rest of the precious stones, carcanet, diadem.

carcass, n. (1)

    MLit 12.310 22 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year...

card, n. (4)

    MoS 4.155 5 [The skeptic] will not go beyond his card.
    ET6 5.106 5 If [an Englishman] give you his private address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship;...
    ET6 5.113 25 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    Elo1 7.78 22 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...can never play his last card...

Cardan, Girolamo, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.32 17 All the value which attaches to...Cardan...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.

carded, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.412 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.

carders, n. (1)

    PPh 4.53 6 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of...carders...

card-houses, n. (2)

    SovE 10.213 19 Carl 10.496 27 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when all thrones fell like card-houses...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...

cardinal, adj. (14)

    Nat2 3.179 24 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence, by reason of the two cardinal conditions of boundless space and boundless time.
    NER 3.252 10 One apostle thought all men should go to farming, and another that no man should buy or sell, that the use of money was the cardinal evil;...
    PPh 4.47 25 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy];...
    PPh 4.61 20 Plato apprehended the cardinal facts.
    SwM 4.137 17 [Swedenborg's] cardinal position in morals is that evils should be shunned as sins.
    ET8 5.133 24 The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
    ET11 5.172 13 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions.
    ET16 5.282 4 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
    Ctr 6.134 11 ...egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.
    Boks 7.205 21 The cardinal facts of European history are soon learned.
    MoL 10.243 16 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination,-the cardinal human power...
    Thor 10.464 9 I must add the cardinal fact, that there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...
    ACri 12.293 17 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
    MLit 12.332 4 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease;...

cardinal, n. (1)

    SwM 4.137 5 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...

Cardinals, College of, n. (1)

    Art2 7.55 14 The College of Cardinals were originally the parish priests of Rome.

Cardinals, n. (1)

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

cards, n. (12)

    MR 1.250 9 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are...
    Hsm1. 2.252 13 What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?
    OS 2.290 11 The ambitious vulgar...preserve their cards and compliments.
    NR 3.241 18 ...gamesters say that the cards beat all the players...
    NR 3.241 22 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game, and share the power of the cards.
    SwM 4.128 22 ...we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.
    NMW 4.255 14 ...[Napoleon] cheated at cards;...
    ET15 5.265 18 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...
    Wth 6.102 10 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble; leaps out of his pocket; jumps on to cards and faro-tables...
    CbW 6.247 11 [Fine society] is...an affair...of gloves, cards and elegance in trifles.
    DL 7.104 14 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...
    HCom 11.342 5 It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the players...

card-tables, n. (1)

    CL 12.159 24 The crowd in the cities, at the hotels, theatres, card-tables... are all more or less mad...

Carduel, Wales, n. (1)

    PI 8.62 22 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales [said Merlin];...

care, n. (83)

    Nat 1.37 4 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
    Nat 1.37 5 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided, - a care pretermitted in no single case.
    LT 1.273 16 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
    LT 1.284 11 I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any population.
    Con 1.312 21 Providence takes care that you shall have a place...
    Con 1.313 20 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast...
    Comp 2.114 26 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    SL 2.139 2 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    Lov1 2.171 23 In the actual world...dwell care and canker and fear.
    Prd1 2.226 3 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    Int 2.327 7 We behold [a truth separated by the intellect] as a god upraised above care and fear.
    Int 2.327 13 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... It is eviscerated of care.
    Pt1 3.34 4 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this virtue will take care of its own immortality.
    Chr1 3.105 18 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade...
    Mrs1 3.135 14 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate, before whose eye we have no care to stand, then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    Nat2 3.186 12 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions,--an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
    NR 3.237 24 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...
    NR 3.242 12 ...care is taken that the whole tune shall be played.
    NR 3.247 1 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
    ShP 4.202 9 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 Queen Elizabeth and King James...
    ET5 5.86 6 ...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET10 5.155 13 The Englishman believes that every man must take care of himself...
    ET10 5.167 19 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy is care and culture of men;...
    ET16 5.289 11 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple who take care of the church.
    F 6.31 15 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a Providence.
    Wth 6.90 21 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man must take care of himself...
    Wsp 6.215 20 Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
    CbW 6.273 20 We take care of our health;...
    Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man, with his brow of care...has any advantage of them.
    SS 7.7 18 We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.
    Elo1 7.71 17 See with what care and pleasure the poet [Homer] brings [Ulysses] on the stage.
    DL 7.103 2 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    DL 7.130 5 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    Farm 7.137 22 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees, of poultry...all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.137 23 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...the care of hay...all men acknowledge.
    Boks 7.199 26 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself...
    Suc 7.292 24 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.
    OA 7.323 1 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France to be guarded with the utmost care for a hundred years;...
    OA 7.323 17 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    OA 7.325 22 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    SA 8.88 17 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He can then dismiss all care from his mind...
    SA 8.92 2 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either. But these ties are taken care of by Providence to each of us.
    Res 8.151 16 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself...
    Comc 8.171 14 No fashion is the best fashion for those matters which will take care of themselves.
    PPo 8.261 8 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Insp 8.291 13 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Imtl 8.324 26 ...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the soul from the body, he took great care for his body.
    Dem1 10.15 3 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew. But he replied, Wherefore? Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird?
    Dem1 10.16 6 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
    Chr2 10.99 11 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...a nurse's or a governess's care;...
    Plu 10.303 4 ...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 ruined libraries...
    LLNE 10.341 6 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen.
    EzRy 10.385 5 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience? Do I exercise the faith in the Divine care and protection which I ought to do?
    MMEm 10.401 7 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter, on some terms embracing a care of her future interests.
    MMEm 10.412 26 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not one wish of others detains her, not one care.
    MMEm 10.418 23 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars?
    HDC 11.46 22 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the care of public worship, the school and the poor;...
    HDC 11.83 17 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves.
    EWI 11.99 11 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    EWI 11.135 3 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
    FSLC 11.205 26 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself.
    SMC 11.359 5 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men;...
    SMC 11.361 23 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men...
    SMC 11.363 12 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath. So much for the care of [the men's] morals.
    Wom 11.408 11 The part [women] play...in the care of the young and the tuition of older children, is their organic office in the world.
    RBur 11.443 2 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    FRep 11.541 11 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons, and serious care of criminals...
    PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.
    PLT 12.22 2 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    CInt 12.119 4 The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty-deed recorded;...
    CInt 12.121 5 The order of the world educates with care the senses and the understanding.
    CInt 12.125 3 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CL 12.135 7 The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the people of this new country...
    CL 12.147 9 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent., without any care or thought...
    CL 12.154 23 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care.
    CW 12.178 4 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
    MAng1 12.225 4 [Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of themselves...
    MAng1 12.225 5 [Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of themselves...
    Milt1 12.259 7 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    Milt1 12.270 14 [Milton] studied with care the character of his countrymen...
    WSL 12.342 5 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
    WSL 12.347 22 [Landor] hates false words, and seeks with care, difficulty and moroseness those that fit the thing.
    Pray 12.355 23 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.

care, v. (37)

    Cir 2.308 9 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.
    Exp 3.51 5 Of what use [is genius], if...the man does not care enough for results to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it?...
    SwM 4.102 15 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries, since he was too great to care to be original;...
    MoS 4.168 7 ...[Montaigne]...has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
    NMW 4.248 4 Bonaparte relied on his own sense, and did not care a bean for other people's.
    GoW 4.268 24 Able men do not care in what kind a man is able, so only that he is able.
    GoW 4.282 4 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
    ET1 5.13 7 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said, I do not know whether you care about poetry...
    ET4 5.47 4 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to examine the pedigree...
    ET10 5.166 10 Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty mass, and made good in whatever details we care to explore.
    ET15 5.270 3 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised, or dared to confess...
    ET16 5.275 2 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.287 6 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    Wth 6.98 8 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...
    Wsp 6.215 22 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor.
    Wsp 6.229 1 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you...
    WD 7.182 22 Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep;...
    WD 7.184 3 There are people...who do not care so much for conditions as others...
    WD 7.184 11 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them...
    OA 7.313 11 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./
    SA 8.96 21 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    Insp 8.293 8 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought, or he will no longer care to impart it...
    SovE 10.193 21 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order well.
    SovE 10.201 8 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it.
    Thor 10.457 13 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about.
    Carl 10.494 8 ...a lover...who does not care for him or for anything but his own business, [Carlyle] respects;...
    HDC 11.52 15 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?
    HDC 11.53 6 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    FSLC 11.191 16 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.201 21 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...
    FSLN 11.242 1 [The single defender of the right] may well say, If my countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy...
    TPar 11.288 17 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
    TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
    SMC 11.362 20 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk. I told the colonel this morning I should [march my men away], and shall,-don't care what the consequence is.
    RBur 11.441 8 The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns.
    CPL 11.506 13 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the book is written; to be read either now or by posterity. I care not which.
    Bost 12.182 13 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal friend./

cared, v. (10)

    NER 3.258 25 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges...
    ET1 5.4 13 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold...
    ET8 5.140 2 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
    Bhr 6.175 26 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;--little cared he;...
    Imtl 8.331 24 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul and other intellectual questions, and cared for little else.
    LLNE 10.344 16 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you, so bald and detached; little cared he.
    SlHr 10.445 21 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
    LVB 11.90 22 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    EdAd 11.388 4 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs. Nor have we cared to disfranchise ourselves.
    MLit 12.329 2 All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain.

career, n. (29)

    AmS 1.115 1 ...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come round to him.
    YA 1.378 3 [Trade] is now in the midst of its career.
    UGM 4.11 24 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career;...
    UGM 4.33 20 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    NMW 4.253 15 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career...
    ET8 5.141 25 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET11 5.195 9 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.
    Wth 6.91 17 ...if [a man] wishes...the chalking out his own career...he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.112 17 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Bhr 6.189 12 A little integrity is better than any career.
    Suc 7.287 17 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...
    OA 7.326 23 The youth suffers...from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality.
    Aris 10.48 1 Every Frenchman would have a career.
    Aris 10.61 9 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother...
    PerF 10.78 20 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations flow to us...
    Edc1 10.144 1 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies...
    MoL 10.241 15 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...
    Schr 10.286 22 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    EWI 11.140 27 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    JBS 11.279 22 Walter Scott would have delighted to...trace [John Brown's] adventurous career.
    EPro 11.326 2 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career.
    ALin 11.332 7 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...each has some disqualifying fault that throws him out of the career.
    Wom 11.407 10 ...there is usually no employment or career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of society quit for a suitable marriage.
    FRep 11.522 13 In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.
    FRep 11.523 14 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from their own counting-room...
    FRep 11.535 21 I not only see a career at home for more genius than we have...
    PLT 12.18 15 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age, for them to begin, as new individuals, their career.
    Bost 12.211 6 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MAng1 12.215 6 [Michelangelo] lived one life; he pursued one career.

careers, n. (3)

    ET14 5.251 15 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers.
    Schr 10.287 1 Let those come [to scholarship]...who see that there is no choice here, no advantage and no disadvantage compared with other careers.
    Wom 11.420 23 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.

careful, adj. (21)

    Fdsp 2.189 9 ...My careful heart was free again,--/ O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
    Cir 2.317 26 I am not careful to justify myself.
    Gts 3.162 2 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    ET6 5.104 27 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion, only careful not to interfere with them or annoy them;...
    Ctr 6.164 26 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Elo2 8.121 6 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Chr2 10.111 25 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
    Edc1 10.146 13 ...[Fellowes]...brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    MoL 10.245 14 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life...greedy, careful anxious;...
    Schr 10.262 22 I think the peculiar office of scholars in a careful and gloomy generation is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...
    Plu 10.302 13 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians.
    MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
    SlHr 10.446 28 [Samuel Hoar]...spent all his energy in creating purity of manners and careful education.
    LS 11.15 21 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    War 11.169 22 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man; nor are we careful to say, or even to know, what in such crises is to be done.
    CPL 11.500 5 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory as a careful student and chronicler;...
    CPL 11.501 9 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.
    PLT 12.28 22 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar...
    CL 12.146 18 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...
    MAng1 12.241 26 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he is careful where he bends his thoughts...
    Milt1 12.259 7 [Milton's] endowments received the benefit of a careful and happy discipline.

carefully, adv. (8)

    ET11 5.194 24 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess.
    DL 7.112 16 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer; friends are less carefully bestowed...
    Suc 7.308 26 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
    Suc 7.309 6 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground...and wipes carefully out every trace by new creation.
    Aris 10.33 22 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits...
    Aris 10.60 26 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...
    Plu 10.296 20 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    SMC 11.360 12 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...

careless, adj. (11)

    MN 1.209 27 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he becomes careless of his food and of his house...
    Hsm1 2.259 24 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences, so careless of pleasing...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    PPh 4.73 22 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    ET17 5.297 20 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    Imtl 8.351 11 Believing this world exists, and not the other, the careless youth is subject to my [Death's] sway.
    Plu 10.320 14 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old book was...
    LLNE 10.345 9 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods, rude, hairy, careless of dress...
    EdAd 11.387 16 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality in the careless self-reliance of the manners...
    FRep 11.521 19 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...
    FRep 11.522 25 [Americans] are careless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
    PLT 12.28 8 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind, careless of its channels...

carelessly, adv. (4)

    Mrs1 3.125 12 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They sat very carelessly in their chairs...
    Bhr 6.187 10 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
    SA 8.88 7 If a man have manners and talent he may dress roughly and carelessly.
    Mem 12.106 12 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...

carelessness, n. (1)

    Plu 10.320 24 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...

cares, n. (11)

    Nat 1.37 21 ...debt...which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    MoS 4.178 23 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment amidst the hubbub of cares and works...
    MoS 4.179 1 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours. But what are these cares and works the better?
    Pow 6.74 2 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are...property and its cares...or music, or feasting.
    Ctr 6.153 13 Life [in the city] is dragged down to a fracas of pitiful cares and disasters.
    CbW 6.259 11 Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day...
    PI 8.35 10 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day, with its news, its cares, its fears...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.37 19 ...let others be distracted with cares, [the poet] is exempt.
    Insp 8.280 25 A man must be able to escape from his cares and fears...
    Schr 10.264 13 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered, not by the cares of life...but by the depth of his draughts of the cup of immortality.
    Schr 10.287 6 ...[the scholar]...is pelted by storms of cares, untuning cares...

cares, v. (19)

    LE 1.184 22 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    Hist 2.9 12 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it...
    Pt1 3.22 25 Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus;...
    Exp 3.50 21 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chair?...
    UGM 4.29 20 Compromise thy egotism. Who cares for that, so thou gain aught wider and nobler?
    MoS 4.168 7 ...[Montaigne]...has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
    Pow 6.70 15 ...who cares for fallings-out of assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?
    Ctr 6.138 13 If you are the victim of your doing, who cares what you do?
    Art2 7.56 14 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
    Boks 7.198 16 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it...
    Suc 7.289 26 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing, which are what a wise man mainly cares for in his companion.
    Elo2 8.120 27 A singer cares little for the words of the song;...
    Res 8.145 4 A sudden shower cannot wet [the old forester], if he cares to be dry;...
    Grts 8.312 24 Say with Antoninus, If the picture is good, who cares who made it?
    Schr 10.276 10 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it?
    Carl 10.493 9 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...
    EWI 11.143 5 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water. Who cares for these or for their wars?
    EWI 11.143 10 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
    PLT 12.8 16 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law, which is all that our student cares to hear of, are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.

caress, v. (3)

    SR 2.78 25 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man]...
    Mrs1 3.128 3 [Fashion] does not often caress the great, but the children of the great...
    Cour 7.267 22 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.

caresses, n. (3)

    SA 8.99 1 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.
    Elo2 8.122 6 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by...the caresses of his speech;...
    PerF 10.81 6 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...

careworn, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.289 11 Our success takes from all what it gives to one. 'T is a haggard, malignant, careworn running for luck.

carex, n. (1)

    SwM 4.142 13 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...

Carey, Henry [Lord Hunsdon (1)

    War 11.158 10 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...

Carey, Henry, n. (1)

    Farm 7.151 8 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters. Henry Carey of Philadelphia replied: Not so, Mr. Malthus...

Carey, William, n. (1)

    EWI 11.111 18 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...

cargo, n. (3)

    LE 1.184 22 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    GoW 4.266 11 It is believed, the ordering a cargo of goods from New York to Smyrna...is practical and commendable.
    Schr 10.276 7 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.

cargoes, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 26 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.

caricature, n. (5)

    Hist 2.27 17 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all...the caricature of institutions.
    NR 3.241 24 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you...instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.
    GoW 4.288 23 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men, and a spice of caricature.
    PI 8.9 16 Nature gives [the student], sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    LLNE 10.339 4 ...the tendency even of Punch's caricature, was all on the side of the people.

caricature, v. (1)

    Bty 6.298 18 ...our bodies...caricature and satirize us.

caricatures, n. (5)

    MoS 4.182 20 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures...
    ET4 5.69 14 ...in their caricatures [the English] represent the Frenchman as a poor, starved body.
    ET15 5.271 8 Many of [Punch's] caricatures are equal to the best pamphlets...
    Shak1 11.451 3 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    EurB 12.373 19 ...[Bulwer]...does not draw ignorant caricatures.

caring, v. (4)

    LE 1.178 4 ...out of travelling, and voting, and watching and caring;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Exp 3.60 10 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    War 11.170 20 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides, no man responsible, no man caring a pin.
    CPL 11.495 4 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...caring for its schools, its charities, its highways.

Carlini [Bertinazzi, Carlo- (3)

    Comc 8.174 5 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    Comc 8.174 12 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.

Carlisle, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.243 16 The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall/...

Carlisle, Countess of [Lucy (1)

    MMEm 10.398 20 Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle...is thus described by Sir Toby Matthews.

Carlisle, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    HDC 11.62 22 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
    HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.

Carlo, San [Charles K. Ne (3)

    MoS 4.174 6 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    MoS 4.174 11 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
    MoS 4.174 16 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.

Carlyle, Thomas, n. (48)

    AmS 1.112 6 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle.
    LE 1.170 15 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe.
    Hsm1 2.247 29 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Art1 2.355 4 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,--so remarkable in...Carlyle,--the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    ET1 5.4 6 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle;...
    ET1 5.15 5 Carlyle was a man from his youth...
    ET1 5.21 25 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely.
    ET9 5.150 10 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]... through Wordsworth, Carlyle, Mill and Sydney Smith, down to the boys of Eton.
    ET14 5.249 20 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
    ET16 5.273 2 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.275 3 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
    ET16 5.275 10 I told Carlyle that I was easily dazzled, and was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    ET16 5.277 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.
    ET16 5.279 22 The old times of England impress Carlyle much...
    ET16 5.283 22 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors...
    ET16 5.284 25 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary,--to which Carlyle, catalogue in hand, did all too much justice,--yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.286 11 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us...
    ET16 5.286 16 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had wished to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
    ET16 5.287 22 I fancied that one or two of my anecdotes made some impression on Carlyle...
    ET16 5.288 3 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
    ET16 5.288 8 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
    ET16 5.289 14 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    ET16 5.290 16 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...
    ET17 5.292 14 At the house of Mr. Carlyle, I met persons eminent in society and in letters.
    QO 8.196 8 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley, Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
    Insp 8.290 10 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    LLNE 10.342 24 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy.
    Carl 10.489 1 Thomas Carlyle is an immense talker...
    Carl 10.489 17 ...just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time, should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books that he had been bothered with, and you shall have just the tone and talk and laughter of Carlyle.
    Carl 10.490 11 ...no mortal in America could pretend to talk with Carlyle...
    Carl 10.490 17 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell...
    Carl 10.490 26 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    Carl 10.490 27 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    Carl 10.493 9 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...
    Carl 10.496 18 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    Carl 10.497 17 Carlyle has, best of all men in England, kept the manly attitude of his time.
    ACri 12.286 13 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...among the writers, Swift, De Foe, Carlyle.
    ACri 12.297 6 In Carlyle as in Byron one is more struck with the rhetoric than with the matter.
    ACri 12.297 12 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric...
    ACri 12.297 21 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
    ACri 12.298 5 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.
    MLit 12.322 5 Of Thomas Carlyle...we shall say nothing at this time...
    PPr 12.380 26 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...
    PPr 12.385 26 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.
    PPr 12.390 3 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold...
    PPr 12.390 8 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.
    PPr 12.391 8 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle.
    PPr 12.391 14 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.

Carlyle's, Thomas, n. (5)

    ET1 5.18 7 It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic [the immortality of the soul]...
    ET1 5.21 15 I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations.
    PPr 12.379 1 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present]...
    PPr 12.388 6 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
    PPr 12.390 15 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.

carnal, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding;...
    F 6.46 22 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.

Carnarvon's, Earl of [Henry (1)

    CL 12.147 11 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.

carnival, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.37 18 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    Ill 6.312 27 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height.
    SS 7.4 26 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the variety of costumes, a carnival...he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
    WD 7.170 9 There are days which are the carnival of the year.

Carnival, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 10 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Carnival at Rome;...

carnivals, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 15 Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.

Carnot, Lazare Nicolas, n. (2)

    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    Ctr 6.159 1 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of the French regicide Carnot, his sublime genius in mathematics;...

Carolina, adj. (1)

    ET2 5.28 25 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.

Carolina, n. (4)

    UGM 4.22 3 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little...of Carolina or Cuba, but who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    FSLN 11.228 21 Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was like Slavery in Africa or the Feejees, to me.
    FSLN 11.231 7 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength...
    AKan 11.260 19 Is it to be supposed that there are no men in Carolina who dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?

Carolina, South, n. (4)

    ET3 5.37 17 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. Add South Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of Scotland.
    SlHr 10.437 20 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    EWI 11.130 6 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    AsSu 11.248 7 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.

Carolina, State of, n. (1)

    EWI 11.133 3 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?

Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, (1)

    ET15 5.263 25 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.

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