Caron, Pierre Augustin to Catholics

ET6 5.108 17 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].

ET8 5.129 6 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.

ET16 5.273 18 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a carriage to convey us to Amesbury.

ET16 5.276 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...

ET16 5.286 19 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who received us in his carriage...

Bhr 6.169 12 The visible carriage or action of the individual...we call manners.

Wsp 6.203 13 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the door.

CbW 6.266 26 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?

CbW 6.270 9 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.

Elo1 7.77 18 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should have known better.

SA 8.84 4 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...

Comc 8.163 10 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...

Aris 10.40 11 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

SlHr 10.438 17 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force, and the carriage was at the door, [Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.

SlHr 10.443 25 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.

Thor 10.465 27 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...

FSLN 11.221 3 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.

ACiv 11.301 15 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.

CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

Milt1 12.257 10 [Milton's] manners and his carriage did him no injustice.

carriage-maker's, n. (1)

Edc1 10.149 13 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.

carriages, n. (6)

SR 2.87 6 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our...commissaries and carriages...

ET10 5.157 25 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed...

DL 7.109 25 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...conveyance in carriages and boats...

PC 8.215 5 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...

MMEm 10.407 12 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.

CW 12.175 17 Horses and carriages are costly toys...

carried, v. (92)

SR 2.62 13 That popular fable of the sot...carried to the duke's house... symbolizes...the state of man...

SL 2.152 21 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition. The sick would be carried in litters.

Pt1 3.3 20 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...

Pt1 3.17 27 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.

Pt1 3.31 15 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...

Pt1 3.32 10 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.

Pt1 3.41 4 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.

Chr1 3.102 1 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...

Mrs1 3.149 17 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...

Pol1 3.201 10 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war...

Pol1 3.219 27 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.

NR 3.247 12 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...

NER 3.277 12 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.

SwM 4.101 14 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress, and, whenever he walked out, carried a gold-headed cane.

MoS 4.154 14 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...

MoS 4.185 14 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.

ShP 4.213 21 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute details...

ET3 5.40 27 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.

ET4 5.62 6 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...and all the equipments from the Arsenal, and carried them to England.

ET5 5.81 16 [The English] are bound to see their measure carried...

ET5 5.90 4 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons, where a measure can be carried by a speech.

ET6 5.103 5 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the engines...

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.

ET10 5.160 2 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.

ET11 5.175 2 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men over the river on his back.

ET11 5.180 11 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.

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

Wth 6.87 10 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.

Wth 6.90 6 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...

CbW 6.274 5 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck...

Civ 7.22 17 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and carried them to her mother...

Elo1 7.71 15 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?

Elo1 7.83 26 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...

Boks 7.219 27 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. ... These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already long before him. The missionary must be carried by it, and find it there, or he goes in vain.

Clbs 7.238 26 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...

Suc 7.286 3 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.

Suc 7.286 5 Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...

OA 7.331 3 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.

PI 8.14 22 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...

PI 8.54 15 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...

PI 8.65 21 Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his fierce hatreds.

SA 8.93 4 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...

Elo2 8.116 27 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are... carried off out of all recollection of their malignant considerations...

Res 8.146 5 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him, who carried them all in his heart.

Res 8.150 2 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application...

Comc 8.163 27 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...

QO 8.198 15 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...

QO 8.198 20 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism, and carried it with her own hands to the post-office!

PC 8.211 16 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...

Imtl 8.325 23 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.

Imtl 8.339 3 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,- suggesting a design still to be carried out;...

Dem1 10.7 3 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls. For these fables are our own thoughts carried out.

Dem1 10.8 18 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements...

Dem1 10.12 1 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles...

Aris 10.35 1 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...

Edc1 10.140 22 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...

Supl 10.175 23 Life could not be carried on except by fidelity and good earnest;...

MoL 10.243 18 The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.

Plu 10.318 24 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...

LLNE 10.348 13 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...

LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its correspondence in facts.

LLNE 10.353 3 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed...on all men, and carried into rigid execution.

LLNE 10.357 2 [Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a counsel in his breast.

EzRy 10.388 3 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues.

MMEm 10.400 5 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden...

MMEm 10.428 21 Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard.

SlHr 10.448 23 [Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.

Thor 10.469 21 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants;...

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 10.498 4 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...

HDC 11.60 8 [Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into the Indian country...

HDC 11.76 5 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.

HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.

HDC 11.84 14 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.

EWI 11.110 18 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...

War 11.153 20 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.

War 11.170 27 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion...

War 11.171 13 Nor...is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.

JBB 11.271 10 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...

ALin 11.337 11 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...

SMC 11.364 9 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 11.365 2 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...

SMC 11.373 10 [George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division hospital...

Wom 11.420 6 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.

FRO2 11.487 7 [Thought] is easily carried; it takes no room;...

FRep 11.518 17 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are perfunctorily carried through as secondary.

FRep 11.529 3 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.

II 12.80 5 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be carried with a certain magnificence.

Mem 12.93 19 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...

Bost 12.203 1 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which... fed the party and carried it...to victory.

MAng1 12.239 24 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.

ACri 12.288 12 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.

carrier, n. (4)

F 6.33 15 There's nothing [man] will not make his carrier.

SA 8.92 20 You are to be missionary and carrier of all that is good and noble.

Plu 10.318 20 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes, making him the carrier of civilization into the East...endeared him to Plutarch.

Trag 12.414 13 Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes, dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

carriers, n. (4)

MR 1.237 14 It is Smith himself, and his carriers...who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...

MoL 10.248 14 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...

MoL 10.248 24 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.

SMC 11.355 10 The armies mustered in the North were as much missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material force...

carries, v. (75)

Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.

Nat 1.56 1 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

Nat 1.64 22 This [spiritual] view...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...

LE 1.173 1 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the infinite Reason. It carries them away as a flood.

Con 1.317 20 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...

SR 2.58 20 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.

SR 2.66 14 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.

SR 2.81 21 [The traveller] carries ruins to ruins.

Comp 2.121 21 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.

Lov1 2.169 13 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... carries him with a new sympathy into nature...

OS 2.289 11 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...

OS 2.297 14 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it...

Cir 2.320 19 [The new position of the advancing man] carries in its bosom all the energies of the past...

Art1 2.360 3 [Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations, and these are the effects he carries home to your heart and mind.

Pt1 3.27 14 As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.

Nat2 3.177 5 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:...he carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod.

Nat2 3.183 14 Man carries the world in his head...

NER 3.284 5 ...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through the celestial spaces...

SwM 4.135 13 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment, which carries innumerable christianities, humanities, divinities, in its bosom.

SwM 4.137 2 [Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in his visits to the souls.

ShP 4.190 15 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.

ShP 4.202 15 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him...

ET1 5.9 16 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...

ET1 5.22 7 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.

ET5 5.85 4 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.

ET5 5.96 9 No man [in England] can afford to walk, when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.

ET5 5.101 6 Every man [in England] carries the English system in his brain...

ET5 5.101 9 The chancellor carries England on his mace...

ET11 5.176 23 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.

ET14 5.233 15 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.

F 6.27 23 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries with it all atoms which rise to that height...

Pow 6.65 25 In trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity.

Wth 6.86 27 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...

Wth 6.87 5 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...

Wth 6.92 14 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...

Ctr 6.138 21 When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.

Ctr 6.146 4 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Bhr 6.181 10 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...

Bhr 6.188 27 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...

Wsp 6.217 24 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.

Wsp 6.223 25 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...

CbW 6.247 26 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him...

Ill 6.319 21 The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...

Elo1 7.90 10 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries away the image and never loses it.

Farm 7.152 22 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect.

Suc 7.281 7 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./

OA 7.334 27 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion...

PI 8.4 2 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...carries a torch into a powder-mill...

SA 8.80 14 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points.

Res 8.145 2 ...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.

Res 8.149 16 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...

QO 8.195 20 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.

PC 8.218 11 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...

PC 8.223 19 Mind carries the law;...

PC 8.230 14 The Divine Nature carries on its administration by good men.

Insp 8.271 1 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope...

Grts 8.312 7 The day will come...when the eye, which carries in it planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.

Grts 8.320 24 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek...

Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...

Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...carries the bag, spends the treasure...

Chr2 10.120 2 [Character] carries a superiority to all the accidents of life.

Schr 10.277 7 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.

Schr 10.277 21 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...

MMEm 10.416 26 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.

Thor 10.483 1 The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

HDC 11.85 14 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].

EWI 11.144 3 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...

FSLC 11.213 5 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages into the South.

SMC 11.375 7 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.

RBur 11.443 10 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...

PLT 12.47 23 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.

Mem 12.106 8 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...

Mem 12.106 11 [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;...

ACri 12.304 2 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.

WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility.

carrion, adj. (1)

Comp 2.111 25 [Fear] is a carrion crow...

carrion, n. (4)

MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...

SwM 4.125 11 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man;...to the purified, a heap of carrion.

SwM 4.138 21 ...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers;...

Cour 7.276 2 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...

carry, v. (152)

Nat 1.33 20 ...'T is hard to carry a full cup even;...

Nat 1.77 3 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it the beauty it visits...

AmS 1.93 1 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.

AmS 1.106 6 I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in stating my own belief.

LE 1.178 20 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.

LE 1.183 16 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would...

Tran 1.348 23 ...the good and wise must...carry salvation to the combatants and demagogues in the dusty arena below.

YA 1.369 23 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land, and carry its quality in their manners and opinions.

SR 2.51 1 A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.

SR 2.81 17 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself...

Comp 2.123 14 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me...

Fdsp 2.194 25 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who carry out the world for me to new and noble depths...

Fdsp 2.211 23 What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.

Fdsp 2.216 8 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.

OS 2.269 26 My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense;...

Int 2.329 8 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...

Art1 2.358 22 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Art1 2.359 9 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.

Art1 2.365 22 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...

Pt1 3.12 17 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven, whirls me into mists...

Pt1 3.17 9 ...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...

Pt1 3.23 20 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far...

Exp 3.49 10 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

Exp 3.53 24 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand...

Exp 3.66 2 ...to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.

Exp 3.85 26 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.

Chr1 3.91 20 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...

Mrs1 3.132 25 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him...

Mrs1 3.133 7 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...

NER 3.253 2 ...the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him.

NER 3.276 8 If [a man's constitution] cannot carry itself as it ought...it is time to undervalue what he has valued...

UGM 4.23 11 Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on the work of the world.

PPh 4.51 24 ...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...

SwM 4.130 18 It is hard to carry a full cup;...

SwM 4.140 14 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is to carry the law of surface into the plane of substance...

SwM 4.140 16 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...

MoS 4.151 13 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...

NMW 4.223 13 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.

NMW 4.234 11 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.--Let him carry the battery.

ET4 5.60 27 [The Normans] were all alike, they took everything they could carry...

ET5 5.90 8 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart. His colleagues and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.

ET7 5.124 6 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.

ET8 5.129 25 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.

ET8 5.132 12 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...

ET9 5.149 13 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing, which a Frenchman or Belgian could not carry.

ET9 5.151 22 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.

ET11 5.176 15 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.

F 6.14 7 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.

F 6.32 7 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like its own foam...

F 6.33 20 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should...carry the house away.

Pow 6.53 5 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry nations with them...

Pow 6.56 3 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight.

Ctr 6.138 20 When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.

Ctr 6.163 20 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.

Ctr 6.165 15 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.

Bhr 6.177 10 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...

CbW 6.258 6 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.

Bty 6.304 5 ...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain grandeur...

Ill 6.315 9 We must not carry comity too far...

Ill 6.316 19 Teague and his jade...learn something, and would carry themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.

SS 7.8 1 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.

Civ 7.28 7 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message? Just as lief as not;...would carry it in no time.

Civ 7.28 10 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...not so much as a mouth, to carry a letter.

Civ 7.28 14 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...

Civ 7.31 12 Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies...

Civ 7.33 7 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

Elo1 7.65 19 Bring [the master orator] to his audience...and they shall carry and execute that which he bids them.

Elo1 7.79 27 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.

Elo1 7.90 18 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...which [the assembly] can...carry home with them,--and the cause is half won.

Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...

DL 7.104 8 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered by the light...

Farm 7.141 11 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him...

Farm 7.146 6 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry...

WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.

WD 7.168 15 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them as silently away.

WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to...carry a measure, for money;...

Boks 7.192 20 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...

Boks 7.219 22 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...

Cour 7.267 22 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.

Suc 7.292 17 ...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...

Suc 7.308 4 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?

OA 7.324 2 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent...

OA 7.329 20 We carry in memory important anecdotes...

PI 8.14 10 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.

PI 8.31 4 Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and partly where the skates carry him;...

PI 8.39 5 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis...

PI 8.54 14 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...

PI 8.67 1 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors.

Elo2 8.118 24 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.

Res 8.140 23 By his machines man...can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift;...

Comc 8.173 11 ...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a principle against all opposition?

PC 8.212 3 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.

PC 8.231 9 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.

PC 8.232 6 In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the farmers to carry the Reform Bill.

Insp 8.271 6 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.

Insp 8.282 1 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects. You may carry it all round the world, it is ready and perfect as ever for new millions.

Grts 8.309 15 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems.

Imtl 8.333 21 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Imtl 8.344 5 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality...

Aris 10.39 5 I wish catholic men...who carry the world in their thoughts;...

Aris 10.49 11 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and use.

Aris 10.50 23 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will? Can he carry his points against opposition?

Aris 10.53 7 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...

Aris 10.61 3 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...

PerF 10.74 18 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters, and they carry him where he would go.

Chr2 10.116 20 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly.

SovE 10.213 23 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...

Prch 10.236 3 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.

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.

Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.

Schr 10.281 25 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.

Plu 10.303 25 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...

Plu 10.322 11 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.

MMEm 10.420 25 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...

Thor 10.465 21 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...

Thor 10.472 11 ...[Thoreau] would carry you to the heron's haunt...

HDC 11.78 18 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...

War 11.165 10 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets; it will carry over half Spain and half England;...

War 11.167 22 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...

War 11.168 26 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.

War 11.169 7 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...

War 11.170 24 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...

War 11.174 13 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand...

FSLC 11.179 11 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation, which I carry about all day, and which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...

FSLC 11.201 18 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...

FSLN 11.218 15 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city...

FSLN 11.220 15 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with him.

AKan 11.260 24 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?

EPro 11.314 19 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./

HCom 11.342 8 The revolutions carry their own points...

SMC 11.364 12 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do so.

SMC 11.364 18 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men... and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry, so could not carry any poles.

SMC 11.369 19 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for...we had to carry him and all our wounded nearly two miles in blankets.

Shak1 11.450 12 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.

ChiE 11.473 18 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.

FRep 11.517 17 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.

FRep 11.517 21 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.

FRep 11.530 25 The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the thunderbolt when he is commanded.

FRep 11.543 12 It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and justice.

PLT 12.18 22 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body, only to carry forward the will which sent them out.

PLT 12.56 4 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point.

CW 12.175 7 ...a common spy-glass, which you carry in your pocket, will show the satellites of Jupiter...

CW 12.176 20 A man should carry Nature in his head...

CW 12.176 27 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...

CW 12.177 3 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...

Bost 12.203 15 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...

Bost 12.209 10 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...

MAng1 12.238 9 [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;...

Milt1 12.278 13 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new heights.

Milt1 12.279 9 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...

ACri 12.291 21 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

PPr 12.380 20 Every reader [of Carlyle's Past and Present] shall carry away something.

carrying, v. (31)

AmS 1.105 17 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...

MN 1.205 23 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...

Lov1 2.178 19 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...

Pol1 3.209 21 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...

Pol1 3.215 6 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.

PNR 4.81 21 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms...

SwM 4.110 16 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...and carrying up the semblance into divine forms,--delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...

NMW 4.240 19 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...

ET16 5.283 8 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.

ET18 5.303 23 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct for liberty...

F 6.28 6 Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

Pow 6.71 23 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world...

Wth 6.109 22 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...

Wth 6.120 23 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...

Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...

Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.

Suc 7.289 18 I could point to men in this country, of indispensable importance to the carrying on of American life, of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...

Grts 8.314 21 When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else.

Chr2 10.120 16 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.

Edc1 10.130 13 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...

Schr 10.273 16 Other men are...heaving and carrying...

Schr 10.277 4 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past...

EzRy 10.389 2 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy, carrying out every respectful attention to the end, which marks what is called the manners of the old school.

HDC 11.58 5 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.

FSLC 11.191 15 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.

SMC 11.355 11 The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.

SHC 11.429 3 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...

FRep 11.538 24 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.

PLT 12.15 16 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.

Bost 12.202 24 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will...never tire in carrying their point.

MAng1 12.231 10 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

carrying-on, n. (1)

PLT 12.59 25 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.

carrying-trade, n. (1)

Wth 6.109 17 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

cars, n. (4)

Pt1 3.19 9 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.

ET10 5.156 17 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England]...

Wth 6.120 13 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?

EWI 11.123 13 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we ride in cars...to market, and for the sale of goods.

cart, n. (10)

Nat 1.51 8 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.

AmS 1.83 23 [The planter] sees his bushel and his cart...

Prd1 2.235 3 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake.

NER 3.252 27 The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse from the cart...

ET8 5.135 1 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.

ET11 5.196 13 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.

Bty 6.295 18 ...the flute is heard farther than the cart...

Elo2 8.113 14 Whether he speaks in the Capitol or on a cart, [the orator] is the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...

PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...

Thor 10.466 26 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes, one of which will sometimes overfill a cart;... were all known to [Thoreau]...

carte, n. (1)

Shak1 11.452 7 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which are not only noted in the carte of the table d'hote, but which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.

carted, v. (1)

F 6.16 26 [The Germans and Irish] are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America...

Cartesian, n. (1)

UGM 4.29 26 Be another:...not a naturalist, but a Cartesian;...

cartilage, n. (2)

ET6 5.108 9 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

Boks 7.211 13 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.

cartilages, n. (1)

Chr1 3.110 24 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their cartilages;...

carting, v. (1)

PerF 10.75 5 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.

cart-load, n. (1)

Farm 7.149 15 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles...

cart-loads, n. (1)

ET12 5.201 14 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.

cartoon, n. (2)

MAng1 12.230 22 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves;...

MAng1 12.233 7 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait (a cartoon of Messer Tommaso di Cavalieri)...

cartoons, n. (2)

ET12 5.202 19 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.

MAng1 12.233 4 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...

cart-path, n. (1)

Chr2 10.114 9 The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...

cartridges, n. (1)

FRep 11.515 16 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 fowling-piece the rifle, and the women make cartridges...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.

carts, n. (1)

LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...

cart-wheel, n. (1)

Res 8.152 25 ...the cart-wheel in the road may crush [the willows];...

cart-wheels, n. (1)

ACri 12.287 5 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk, his gallipots, and cook, and trencher, and cart-wheels...

Cartwright [Wheelwright, C. (1)

Boks 7.201 26 Aristophanes is now very accessible...through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.

carve, v. (9)

Con 1.312 26 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to...carve...to the tilling of the soil.

Art1 2.354 8 We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.

Art1 2.363 22 A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy. He may paint and carve only as long as he can do that.

PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.

ET4 5.48 23 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.

Pow 6.78 20 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it...

FRep 11.531 20 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent,-to each man as large a share of the same as he can carve for himself...

CInt 12.122 21 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build, engineer, carve, paint...

MAng1 12.234 5 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.

carved, adj. (4)

Con 1.315 16 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...carved wood...about you?

ET13 5.218 2 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.

PC 8.215 12 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their...boats and carved war-clubs.

Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...

carved, v. (9)

Art1 2.354 9 We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted, as students of the mystery of Form.

ShP 4.194 14 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments...

GoW 4.269 14 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...

ET6 5.107 17 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is wainscoted, carved, curtained...

ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the wood that Gibbons carved;...are in the vast auction [in England]...

ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.

SS 7.3 6 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory...

Art2 7.56 2 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.

Imtl 8.325 26 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.

Carver, John, n. (1)

Bost 12.191 2 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands.

carves, v. (4)

Wth 6.97 14 They should own who can administer...they whose work carves out work for more...

Art2 7.47 23 Nature...carves the best part of the statue...

Art2 7.52 14 Raphael paints wisdom...Phidias carves it...

Aris 10.42 5 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...

carving, n. (2)

Hist 2.12 5 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.

Art1 2.364 7 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.

carving, v. (3)

AmS 1.97 17 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving shepherds...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.

YA 1.385 5 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...

Hist 2.12 5 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.

Cary, Lucius [Lord Falklan (3)

Mrs1 3.124 20 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...

UGM 4.14 12 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland...

DL 7.121 25 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...

Caryatides, n. (1)

Let 12.398 6 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides...

Casaubon, Isaac, n. (2)

ShP 4.203 11 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...

ET12 5.201 10 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

cascade, n. (1)

Comc 8.169 27 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...

cascades, n. (1)

MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.

case, n. (59)

Nat 1.37 6 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.

YA 1.368 15 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work. In the last case the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice his equal...

Hist 2.8 27 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case;...

Comp 2.124 25 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...

Prd1 2.232 25 Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.

OS 2.282 8 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.

Pt1 3.17 26 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.

Exp 3.79 2 ...the intellect qualifies in our own case the moral judgments.

Pol1 3.199 7 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...

Pol1 3.203 9 Gift, in one case, makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...

Pol1 3.203 11 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.

MoS 4.156 24 [The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case.

ShP 4.192 20 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of Shakspeare there is much more.

NMW 4.238 13 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...

NMW 4.238 14 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.

ET4 5.64 23 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...

ET7 5.125 3 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...

Pow 6.73 17 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.

Wth 6.92 20 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust...but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...

CbW 6.270 13 For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I recommend phlegm and truth;...

CbW 6.270 17 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation;...

Farm 7.138 5 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...

Clbs 7.235 25 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue...

Cour 7.268 27 The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.

Suc 7.292 14 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...

PI 8.32 1 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.

PI 8.32 10 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.

PI 8.54 15 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...

Elo2 8.129 18 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?

Comc 8.168 1 ...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.

Aris 10.50 5 When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on trial...

Edc1 10.152 15 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...

MMEm 10.404 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you.

MMEm 10.409 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard...

MMEm 10.413 15 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction? But that is not the case, I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe.

SlHr 10.442 9 [Samuel Hoar] had one side or the other of every important case...

SlHr 10.444 26 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.

Carl 10.489 22 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom...

EWI 11.102 20 [The negro slaves'] case was left out of the mind and out of the heart of their brothers.

EWI 11.106 10 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.

EWI 11.106 19 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again...

EWI 11.106 27 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...

EWI 11.132 5 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.

EWI 11.140 14 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...

EWI 11.140 23 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard.

EWI 11.140 25 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard. It is

FSLC 11.191 12 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.

FSLC 11.198 8 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?

AsSu 11.250 26 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case...

AKan 11.255 13 There is this peculiarity about the case of Kansas, that all the right is on one side.

AKan 11.257 18 ...I submit that, in a case like this...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years ago.

ACiv 11.310 4 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas. But in either case [natural philsophy and history], no link of the chain can drop out.

ALin 11.331 24 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent...in arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly.

ALin 11.332 18 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...

CInt 12.120 7 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...not the making a plausible case...

ACri 12.291 15 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...

AgMs 12.360 22 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it.

Trag 12.413 15 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits: he will hear the case out, and then decide.

case-hardened, adj. (1)

Carl 10.496 8 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say... we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...

Casella, Alfredo [Dante, D (1)

SwM 4.127 6 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says, Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...

cases, n. (31)

Nat 1.51 14 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...

Nat 1.55 19 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature;...

MR 1.233 17 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.

Chr1 3.93 26 In all cases [character] is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.

NER 3.253 26 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.

NER 3.265 25 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.

ET17 5.291 5 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.

Pow 6.77 5 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. There are cases where little can be said, and much must be done.

Wsp 6.233 1 It is incredible what force the will has in such cases;...

CbW 6.248 21 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities...of cases for a gun.

SS 7.5 25 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...

Elo1 7.74 14 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be, in so many cases, nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...

Elo1 7.87 7 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... supposing cases...

Elo1 7.92 18 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

DL 7.103 4 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.

PI 8.52 25 We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...

Elo2 8.129 5 Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...

Comc 8.168 14 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie...

Comc 8.170 17 Alike in all these cases...the majesty of man is violated.

QO 8.189 19 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.

MMEm 10.413 22 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.

HDC 11.30 20 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not.

EWI 11.104 12 ...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.

War 11.167 16 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...

War 11.169 20 In the second place, 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;...

War 11.169 21 ...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;...

HCom 11.344 21 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...

FRep 11.521 8 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...

PLT 12.52 3 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...

II 12.67 10 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.

Let 12.402 18 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.

cashier, n. (1)

Pow 6.58 13 The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier;...

cashmere, n. (1)

F 6.10 20 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere...

cask, n. (2)

SwM 4.145 1 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask and barrel...

Wth 6.119 17 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.

caskets, n. (2)

Boks 7.192 11 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.

Boks 7.192 12 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.

Cass, Lewis, n. (2)

Imtl 8.332 9 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he.

AKan 11.255 23 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate, Mr. Cass, Mr. Geyer, Mr. Hunter, speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

Cassandra, n. (3)

MMEm 10.432 23 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods...

MMEm 10.432 25 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.

FSLN 11.244 10 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...

Cassandras, n. (1)

Bhr 6.188 25 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration; and these Cassandras are always born.

Cassibelaunus, n. (1)

ET4 5.48 18 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.

cassock, n. (1)

Prch 10.228 24 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.

cast, adj. (1)

HCom 11.340 4 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./

cast, n. (11)

AmS 1.109 21 ...the time is...Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought./

Con 1.303 22 [The existing world] will stand until a better cast of the dice is made.

Hsm1 2.245 12 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...

Exp 3.66 18 You love the boy...gazing at a drawing or a cast;...

Pow 6.59 24 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has...in every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...

Pow 6.65 14 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast.

CbW 6.246 25 We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on the cast of an act of justice;...

SS 7.3 2 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...

QO 8.189 7 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say;...

Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.

Chr2 10.116 19 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...

cast, v. (56)

AmS 1.107 7 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...

DSA 1.146 6 ...cast behind you all conformity...

MN 1.195 10 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.

MN 1.215 6 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...

MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...

MR 1.256 18 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind...

Tran 1.329 4 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are...the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of these new times.

YA 1.372 15 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances...even of lesser mountains cast up at any time by earthquakes, from continually deranging the axis of the earth.

SR 2.44 1 Cast the bantling on the rocks.../

SR 2.66 19 Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being?

SR 2.74 27 ...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...

Comp 2.100 2 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must cast behind him their admiration...

Comp 2.116 22 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...

SL 2.145 2 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about for illustration and facts more usual in literature.

Fdsp 2.203 5 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery...

Fdsp 2.210 27 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.

Fdsp 2.211 26 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls...

Hsm1 2.247 4 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./

Cir 2.313 12 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.

Cir 2.317 2 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...

Cir 2.320 21 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge...

Int 2.341 11 ...the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every product of his wit.

Exp 3.76 9 ...every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.

Mrs1 3.132 3 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed, or the failing party must be cast out of this presence.

Mrs1 3.142 25 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.

Pol1 3.210 1 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...

NER 3.260 10 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to cast aside the superfluous...

NER 3.276 1 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him...

ET14 5.245 15 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds.

F 6.24 4 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.

CbW 6.266 20 One day we shall cast out the passion for Europe by the passion for America.

Elo1 7.87 22 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.

OA 7.330 15 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought, because it cast no light abroad, is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...

OA 7.334 10 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house...

Elo2 8.113 22 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...

PC 8.224 10 [Man] finds that the universe, as Newton said, was made at one cast;...

PPo 8.263 3 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...

SovE 10.191 18 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.

Prch 10.219 21 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief...of men cast in a higher mould.

Prch 10.220 14 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church;...

Schr 10.275 4 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.

MMEm 10.421 5 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.

MMEm 10.427 19 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan;...

EWI 11.134 22 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no strong vote to cast at the elections;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...

FSLC 11.188 1 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...cast into the sea...to get away from his driver...

FSLC 11.200 2 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare, which cast light on the whole frame of society.

FSLN 11.240 7 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale...

FSLN 11.241 12 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong.

AsSu 11.251 4 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.

CPL 11.506 12 [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 die is cast;...

CPL 11.506 23 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.

FRep 11.535 11 Let the passion for America cast out the passion for Europe.

MAng1 12.243 18 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.

Milt1 12.260 25 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to use it as well as any other; he cast it into new forms.

Milt1 12.275 27 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that those prodigious geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their individuality vanishes...

Milt1 12.277 6 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight.

Castalian, adj. (2)

ET12 5.207 6 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height, and kills all that growth of weeds which this Castalian water kills.

FSLN 11.242 18 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.

castanets, n. (1)

PPr 12.389 12 ...in all his fun of castanets...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

castaways, n. (1)

Ill 6.322 14 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such castaways...

caste, n. (17)

Mrs1 3.125 21 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...

Mrs1 3.130 2 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive, this of caste or fashion for example;...

UGM 4.30 16 ...great men:--the word is injurious. Is there caste? is there fate?

PPh 4.51 22 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...caste; the other, culture...

PPh 4.52 16 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia; and it realizes this faith in the social institution of caste.

PPh 4.52 18 ...[Europe] resists caste by culture;...

PPh 4.53 8 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste...

PPh 4.66 3 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste.

PPh 4.66 8 The Koran is explicit on this point of caste.

SwM 4.95 15 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.

ET18 5.306 14 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...

Bhr 6.186 17 Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste.

Civ 7.24 11 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge, overrunning all the old barriers of caste...

DL 7.117 1 ...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must break up caste...

PC 8.232 27 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...

Aris 10.32 26 I find the caste in the man.

Aris 10.48 16 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed. Caste in India has no good result.

Castellan, France, n. (1)

MoS 4.163 8 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau, still standing near Castellan, in Perigord...

Castelli, Benedetto, n. (1)

OA 7.322 18 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made...

castes, n. (1)

Bost 12.184 2 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.

casteth, v. (2)

Pt1 3.31 21 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit;...

MMEm 10.425 5 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down...

castigation, n. (1)

EurB 12.378 9 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid castigation...

Castile, Alphonso X, of Le (1)

NR 3.238 11 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.

Castilian, adj. (1)

LE 1.163 1 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...the Castilian etiquette?

casting, adj. (1)

FSLN 11.224 11 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict, and it lies with one man to give a casting vote,-Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...

casting, n. (1)

GoW 4.264 19 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end...prepared in the original casting of things.

casting, v. (17)

Nat 1.5 3 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...

OS 2.291 10 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but the casting aside your trappings...

Mrs1 3.146 11 ...there is still...some youth ashamed of the favors of fortune and impatiently casting them on other shoulders.

Nat2 3.186 20 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...

NER 3.260 16 I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...

SwM 4.129 7 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...

NMW 4.249 16 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty: it is as easy as casting up an addition.

Wth 6.124 23 ...we must not leave the topic [economy] without casting one glance into the interior recesses.

Wsp 6.235 26 [Benedict said] I would not degrade myself by casting about in my memory for a thought...

Bty 6.298 14 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting;...

PI 8.46 4 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...

LLNE 10.346 15 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...casting sheep's-eyes even on Fourier and his houris.

HDC 11.34 4 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.

PLT 12.64 9 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...

CInt 12.115 12 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down every idol...

MLit 12.310 16 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.

Trag 12.409 5 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side, casting the fashion of uncertain evils...

castings, n. (1)

Farm 7.142 25 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air...the castings of the worm...

cast-iron, adj. (2)

ET12 5.207 22 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...

Ill 6.317 25 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...

castle, adj. (1)

Con 1.323 7 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...

Castle, Barnard, England, n (1)

ET11 5.182 6 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

Castle, Gordon, Scotland, n (1)

ET11 5.182 18 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.

Castle, Kenilworth, England (1)

ET11 5.190 5 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

Castle, Ludlow, England, n. (1)

ET11 5.190 15 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...

castle, n. (12)

Con 1.297 27 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.

Exp 3.53 24 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand...

Mrs1 3.152 15 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...

ET5 5.75 27 ...the banker...drives the earl out of his castle.

ET10 5.162 17 ...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam];...and the mill buys out the castle.

ET10 5.163 27 This comfort and splendor [in England]...sumptuous castle and modern villa,--all consist with perfect order.

ET10 5.164 16 The [English] house is a castle which the king cannot enter.

Bhr 6.192 3 [The boy in earlier novels] was in want of a wife and a castle...

DL 7.132 9 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...

PI 8.34 20 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the feudal castle...

LLNE 10.356 1 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the enemy into the castle;...

MMEm 10.405 24 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...and stormed the castle.

Castle, Raby, England, n. (1)

ET11 5.182 9 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...towards Darlington, past Raby Castle, through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

Castle Radcliffe, n. (1)

LE 1.172 25 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter novels;...

Castle, Ravenswood [Scott, (1)

Hist 2.35 13 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...

Castle, Scone, Scotland, n. (1)

ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

Castle Teganwy, Wales, n. (1)

PI 8.58 4 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...

Castle, Warwick, England, n (1)

ET11 5.188 10 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.

Castle, Windsor, England, n (2)

ET16 5.290 19 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.

PPr 12.391 12 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...

castle-building, n. (1)

PLT 12.46 4 Wishing is castle-building;...

castled, adj. (1)

FSLC 11.178 12 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

Castlereagh, Viscount [Robe (2)

ET5 5.90 12 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.

ET7 5.123 3 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.

castle-roof, n. (1)

ET8 5.131 24 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar.

castles, n. (14)

LT 1.262 26 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to soothing dreams and castles in the air!

Con 1.315 6 ...the cabins of the peasants and the castles of the lords supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.

Pt1 3.41 7 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer.

ET3 5.37 21 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.

ET8 5.141 2 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...

ET11 5.173 24 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.

ET11 5.191 1 Castles are proud things, but 't is safest to be outside of them.

ET13 5.215 7 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.

F 6.34 12 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...with clamps and hoops of castles...

CbW 6.253 19 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles...

CbW 6.265 10 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.

Imtl 8.326 24 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./

War 11.157 17 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...

Let 12.397 10 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...

castle's, n. (1)

RBur 11.438 3 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./

cast-off, adj. (1)

ET11 5.179 19 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the country from which its emigrants came;...

castra, n. (2)

ET11 5.179 10 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar);....

ET11 5.179 12 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exeter or Excester, the castra of the Ex;...

Castriota, George [Scanderb (1)

SR 2.63 2 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?

casts, n. (1)

Wth 6.98 17 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...

casts, v. (21)

Nat 1.9 22 In the woods, too, a man casts off his years...

MR 1.256 22 ...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...

LT 1.275 4 [The spirit of Reform] casts its eye on Trade, and Day Labor...

Hist 2.13 21 [Nature] casts the same thought into troops of forms...

SL 2.165 23 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...

OS 2.280 14 ...the Maker of all things and all persons...casts his dread omniscience through us over things.

OS 2.291 20 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...

NER 3.271 24 The Iliad...the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him.

MoS 4.150 23 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object.

Civ 7.33 17 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane...

Grts 8.317 19 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...

Grts 8.317 21 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light.

Imtl 8.352 2 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.

Edc1 10.145 3 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure, and he casts about restless for means and masters to verify it;...

SovE 10.184 25 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...casts its filthy hull...

Schr 10.265 19 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees. Instantly he casts in his lot with the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant.

HDC 11.33 15 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.

JBS 11.280 22 ...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.

CPL 11.497 9 Every faculty casts itself into an art...

II 12.66 2 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.

II 12.71 7 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature;...

casual, adj. (17)

Exp 3.50 2 Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

Exp 3.61 7 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment...is a more satisfying echo to the heart than... the casual sympathy of admirable persons.

Exp 3.68 13 Our chief experiences have been casual.

Mrs1 3.121 13 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign,--cannot be any casual product, but must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.

NR 3.237 5 [Nature]...will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.

PNR 4.86 27 ...[to Plato] there is nothing casual in the action of the human mind.

ET14 5.254 10 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there...

F 6.17 5 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events...become matter of fixed calculation.

F 6.18 22 In a large city, the most casual things...are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.

F 6.19 8 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness... in what we call casual...events.

Bty 6.295 2 The fine arts have nothing casual...

Civ 7.33 6 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

Boks 7.194 1 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf; and to these it can afford only the most slight and casual additions.

PI 8.36 7 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.

Edc1 10.131 6 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of depriving them of all casual and chaotic aspect...

SovE 10.209 20 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.

Thor 10.464 14 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was in him an unsleeping insight;...

casually, adv. (1)

Elo2 8.131 4 [Eloquence] is the attitude taken, the unmistakable sign, never so casually given...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.

casualties, n. (4)

Exp 3.68 12 We thrive by casualties.

Suc 7.304 11 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.

OA 7.330 8 Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer, not subject to casualties...

Dem1 10.16 1 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.

casualty, n. (7)

MN 1.213 14 The poet must be a rhapsodist; his inspiration a sort of bright casualty;...

Tran 1.343 22 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...

F 6.18 23 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.

Pow 6.81 7 The world...has no casualty in all its vast and flowing curve.

SovE 10.198 14 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...

SovE 10.198 15 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...

SMC 11.365 17 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty;...

casuistry, n. (1)

LT 1.270 7 The Temperance-question...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.

cat, n. (10)

SR 2.74 16 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to...cat...

SR 2.76 11 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

SwM 4.121 5 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...a cat means this; and ostrich that; an artichoke this other;...

Bhr 6.184 7 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will, as the cat does the mouse;...

Bhr 6.185 13 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.

Bty 6.290 24 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly.

Cour 7.262 21 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from a cannon...

Supl 10.165 1 Every favorite is not a cherub, nor every cat a griffin...

MMEm 10.406 24 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?

PLT 12.15 26 What but thought...makes us better than cow or cat?

cataclysm, n. (1)

EurB 12.377 23 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm...

cataclysms, n. (1)

F 6.8 19 Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every day?

catacombs, n. (3)

Hist 2.11 20 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...

Hist 2.23 24 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs...

Imtl 8.325 8 The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of catacombs.

catalepsy, n. (1)

Wth 6.116 9 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and robbed him of energy. He finds a catalepsy in his bones.

Catalogue, Leipsic Fair, n. (1)

Humb 11.458 18 One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises them above the French.

catalogue, n. (16)

Nat 1.14 13 The catalogue [of useful arts] is endless...

Hist 2.38 23 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read.

Pt1 3.31 22 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...

PPh 4.57 11 The mind of Plato is not to be exhibited by a Chinese catalogue...

ET5 5.91 2 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father, who had made the catalogue of the stars of the northern hemisphere, expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...

ET12 5.204 2 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.

ET12 5.204 3 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.

ET12 5.204 5 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...

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...

Bhr 6.178 22 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances...

Boks 7.193 25 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...

PI 8.15 18 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.

PPo 8.257 6 We may open anywhere [in the poetry of Hafiz] on a floral catalogue.

LLNE 10.328 24 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.

AKan 11.256 11 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it?

PLT 12.41 8 Every new impression on the mind is...to be accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable addition to our catalogue of natural facts.

catalogue, v. (1)

AmS 1.100 22 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...

catalogues, n. (3)

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

Nat 1.55 27 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...

SS 7.3 5 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...

cataloguing, v. (2)

AmS 1.100 25 ...[the scholar]...cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind...must relinquish display and immediate fame.

PNR 4.81 27 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.

catamounts, n. (1)

Cour 7.263 26 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves...

cataract, n. (2)

MN 1.199 16 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution. Its smoothness is the smoothness of the pitch of the cataract.

Grts 8.320 10 ...the difference of level which makes Niagara a cataract, makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.

cataracts, n. (2)

YA 1.368 6 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...

SHC 11.434 26 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];-no lofty crags, no glittering cataracts;...

catastrophe, n. (1)

ET10 5.170 9 [England] too is in the stream of fate, one victim more in a common catastrophe.

Catawbas, n. (1)

II 12.84 4 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.

cat-briers, n. (1)

Res 8.145 6 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.

catch, v. (34)

LE 1.165 17 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;... All men catch the word...

LE 1.171 16 ...Truth is...as bad to catch as light.

LE 1.177 16 How can [the scholar] catch and keep the strain of upper music that peals from [human life]?

Comp 2.109 22 Harm watch, harm catch.

SL 2.144 9 [A man] is like one of those booms which are set out from the shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...

Fdsp 2.212 12 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike...you shall never catch a true glance of his eye.

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

Int 2.328 27 We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven...

Exp 3.81 23 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him...

Nat2 3.181 19 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.

UGM 4.13 12 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.

UGM 4.26 12 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy...

ET14 5.233 18 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not be baffled, or catch at clouds...

Wth 6.115 18 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Bhr 6.170 3 Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each other.

DL 7.124 14 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...

Cour 7.272 10 Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of courage]...

Suc 7.293 5 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat that shall catch the eye...

PC 8.226 18 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.

Dem1 10.6 19 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.

PerF 10.78 7 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky to catch every tint and gleam of romance;...

Edc1 10.148 26 The boy wishes to learn...to catch a fish in the brook...

Supl 10.175 1 You shall not catch [Nature] in any anomalies...

SovE 10.209 12 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are not continuous and technical...

MMEm 10.422 14 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.

FSLC 11.185 15 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.

FSLC 11.188 6 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch...

ALin 11.333 4 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed.

Wom 11.406 11 Men remark figure: women always catch the expression.

SHC 11.436 5 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?

PLT 12.14 6 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...catch sight of its splendor...

Mem 12.93 15 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold...

CL 12.134 1 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./

CL 12.156 23 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape?

catcher, n. (1)

Plu 10.309 10 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.

catches, n. (1)

PPo 8.236 11 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./

catches, v. (3)

PPh 4.61 19 [Plato] never...catches us up into poetic raptures.

Insp 8.293 22 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by the mane one of these strong coursers...

Mem 12.103 13 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.

catching, v. (7)

ET3 5.37 25 The innumerable details [in England]...all these catching the eye and never allowing it to pause, hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.

ET8 5.135 19 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...catching from their savage climate every fine hint...

Elo2 8.126 5 The polite are always catching modish innovations...

Chr2 10.91 17 ...we say in our modern politics, catching at last the language of morals, that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...

HDC 11.36 16 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...

ACri 12.284 13 The polite are always catching modish innovations [in language]...

PPr 12.389 16 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

catechetical, adj. (1)

DSA 1.131 8 Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...

catechism, n. (5)

Cir 2.313 7 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...

MoS 4.180 12 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in...essays and catechism...

EzRy 10.395 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...

HDC 11.51 4 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility, but the hunters of the tribe were found intractable at catechism.

WSL 12.345 20 A moral force, yet wholly unmindful of creed and catechism...[character] works directly and without means...

catechisms, n. (4)

SwM 4.122 7 To the withered traditional church, yielding dry catechisms, [Swedenborg] let in nature again...

PC 8.228 14 Science...sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms...

Dem1 10.26 22 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with.

Carl 10.495 25 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...but that is a truth of character, not of catechisms.

catechizing, v. (1)

Thor 10.474 5 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.

categories, n. (2)

PPh 4.40 11 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

ET14 5.250 5 The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few categories;...

categorist, n. (1)

SwM 4.140 14 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist.

category, n. (4)

ShP 4.211 24 Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd.

ET4 5.54 8 We must use the popular category...for convenience...

Comc 8.168 14 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science].

EdAd 11.390 26 Will [a journal] cope with the allied questions of Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?

catered, v. (1)

DL 7.112 16 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...the daily table [is] less catered.

catering, v. (1)

Chr2 10.94 6 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual, if it were possible, in catering for them.

caterpillar, n. (4)

Hist 2.13 14 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...

ShP 4.215 14 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic. It is a caterpillar with wings...

GoW 4.275 15 ...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and closes with the head [wrote Goethe].

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

caterpillars, n. (5)

Pt1 3.36 27 We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and caterpillars.

ET10 5.167 5 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating. A man should not be a silk-worm, nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

Wsp 6.203 3 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web.

PerF 10.75 14 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...

Schr 10.282 6 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...

caterpillars', n. (1)

Schr 10.282 5 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...

catgut, n. (1)

SL 2.143 2 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut...

cathartic, adj. (1)

Hsm1 2.248 25 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...

Cathcart, George, n. (1)

ET4 5.62 3 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...

cathedral, adj. (1)

WD 7.169 17 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.

cathedral, n. (15)

Hist 2.11 23 A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Hist 2.12 6 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.

Hist 2.21 3 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

ShP 4.190 16 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.

ET13 5.227 16 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral.

ET13 5.227 20 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...

Ctr 6.160 10 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.

Art2 7.44 19 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.

PI 8.56 4 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day, any more than a right Gothic cathedral.

Chr2 10.119 14 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky...

Prch 10.233 27 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you; new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to him.

SHC 11.428 1 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...

CInt 12.129 15 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...

MAng1 12.239 17 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.

MAng1 12.243 26 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.

Cathedral, Ripon, England, (1)

ET13 5.215 25 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and Dundee...

Cathedral, Salisbury, Engla (4)

ET4 5.66 6 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

ET16 5.285 14 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...

ET16 5.285 21 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England...

ET16 5.285 25 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle...

Cathedral, St. Paul's, Lon (1)

ET11 5.186 7 [English nobility] survey society as from the top of St. Paul' s...

Cathedral, Strasburg, Germa (1)

Hist 2.17 23 Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.

Cathedral, Winchester, Engl (2)

ET16 5.289 19 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.

ET16 5.290 19 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who build Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.

Cathedral, Worcester, Engla (1)

ET4 5.66 6 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

cathedral-bell, n. (1)

Carl 10.490 17 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell...

Cathedral, Cologne, n. (1)

II 12.70 10 Even those we call great men build substructures, and, like Cologne Cathedral, these are never finished.

cathedrals, n. (13)

Hist 2.20 20 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.

Hist 2.20 24 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...

PPh 4.78 21 A chief structure of human wit, like...the mediaeval cathedrals...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].

ET3 5.37 20 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.

ET4 5.66 6 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

ET13 5.215 7 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.

ET16 5.280 4 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God and in the immortality of the soul, as their abbeys and cathedrals testify...

Wsp 6.231 21 Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

Ill 6.309 21 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...

Art2 7.53 19 The Iliad of Homer...the Gothic cathedrals...were made...in grave earnest...

Art2 7.56 5 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.

CL 12.150 17 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night.

Milt1 12.269 18 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

Cathedrals, n. (1)

ET11 5.173 19 The Cathedrals, the Universities...conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.

catholic, adj. (25)

MN 1.201 10 There is...no detachment of an individual. Hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an exponent of the world.

YA 1.371 8 ...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.

NR 3.229 17 We are amphibious creatures...having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

NER 3.264 27 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...

UGM 4.34 22 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence.

PPh 4.45 17 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a sound, sincere and catholic man...

MoS 4.185 9 The lesson of life is practically...to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.

ShP 4.201 10 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.

ET14 5.248 22 Coleridge, a catholic mind, with a hunger for ideas;...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.

ET14 5.250 15 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...

Ctr 6.157 9 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities, that more catholic and humane relations may appear.

Bty 6.304 2 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...

Civ 7.26 27 [A highly destined society] must be catholic in aims.

Civ 7.27 2 What is moral? It is the respecting in action catholic or universal ends.

Civ 7.30 3 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Grts 8.312 5 With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add...the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.

Grts 8.318 13 ...there are always men who have a more catholic genius...

Aris 10.39 3 I wish catholic men...who carry the world in their thoughts;...

Schr 10.283 20 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal...

EPro 11.315 8 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.

EdAd 11.391 18 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.

Shak1 11.449 24 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...

FRep 11.542 18 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.

Pray 12.350 20 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive volumes which usurp that name.

Let 12.392 7 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...

Catholic, adj. (6)

Con 1.321 4 The corporation were advised to...build a Catholic chapel...

Chr1 3.98 8 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Catholic Purgatory...

ShP 4.200 7 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...

ET18 5.305 14 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic emancipation...

Chr2 10.114 4 The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends...

Prch 10.217 12 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church broke into Protestant and Catholic...

Catholic Church, n. (9)

DSA 1.142 19 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...

Hist 2.12 8 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...

ET13 5.216 23 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...

Wsp 6.227 20 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri...

PI 8.34 19 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of the Catholic Church...

Prch 10.227 17 The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and influences.

MoL 10.245 8 We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...

LS 11.3 16 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...

Wom 11.415 9 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.

Catholic, n. (2)

MR 1.231 27 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...

YA 1.390 3 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf...of the Catholic... that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.

Catholic, Roman, adj. (1)

Imtl 8.328 8 [Sixty years ago] All were under the shadow of Calvinism and of the Roman Catholic purgatory...

catholicity, n. (2)

ET17 5.297 27 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...

Ctr 6.134 27 [Our student] must have a catholicity...

Catholics, n. (1)

ET4 5.47 25 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...

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