Centuries to Chances

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

centuries, n. (80)

    Nat 1.56 1 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
    Nat 1.70 22 In the cycle of the universal man...centuries are points...
    DSA 1.145 14 ...now, for centuries...men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    MR 1.229 14 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the laws of centuries...are built on other foundations.
    Tran 1.351 13 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
    Hist 2.4 12 There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
    Hist 2.24 3 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later?
    Hist 2.28 10 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    SR 2.66 20 The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
    SR 2.69 10 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.
    SR 2.86 6 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago.
    SR 2.86 25 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    OS 2.273 11 See how the deep divine thought reduces centuries and millenniums...
    OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority.
    Pt1 3.38 11 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Mrs1 3.121 2 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NER 3.258 19 Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    SwM 4.118 14 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.143 1 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    MoS 4.185 7 The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours;...
    MoS 4.186 1 Through the years and the centuries...a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ShP 4.200 2 ...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to perfection.
    ShP 4.204 2 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
    NMW 4.241 26 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
    NMW 4.246 12 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    ET3 5.35 25 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET4 5.61 11 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries...
    ET4 5.62 26 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.
    ET4 5.66 18 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET4 5.72 18 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
    ET10 5.157 21 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced (as if looking from his lofty cell, over five centuries, into ours) that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.158 6 Two centuries ago the sawing of timber was done by hand;...
    ET13 5.216 24 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    ET13 5.220 10 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    ET14 5.235 23 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic.
    ET14 5.236 10 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.238 21 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET14 5.245 10 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    F 6.17 24 There are scores and centuries of [inventors].
    Wth 6.83 13 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Wsp 6.239 10 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
    CbW 6.247 17 I wish the days to be as centuries...
    Bty 6.295 15 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries.
    Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...
    WD 7.158 24 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    WD 7.164 1 No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    Boks 7.192 2 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    Boks 7.197 11 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of centuries, has really the true fire...
    Boks 7.202 14 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    PI 8.64 20 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and mythologies, and impart its quality to centuries;...
    SA 8.98 5 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
    PPo 8.237 6 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half centuries...
    SovE 10.191 19 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries...
    SovE 10.202 19 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.
    MoL 10.242 2 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    Plu 10.300 10 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
    LLNE 10.327 23 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
    War 11.157 14 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...
    War 11.163 23 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLC 11.211 4 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
    FSLN 11.238 23 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages...
    AsSu 11.247 4 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    SMC 11.354 17 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    Koss 11.399 15 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart.
    Shak1 11.446 5 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    Shak1 11.450 3 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    ChiE 11.472 3 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
    ChiE 11.472 8 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
    FRO1 11.479 7 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    FRO2 11.484 1 Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the breeze;/...
    CPL 11.502 21 ...every one of these [words] is the contribution of the wit of one and another sagacious man in all the centuries of time.
    CPL 11.508 20 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
    CInt 12.121 17 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
    CW 12.174 16 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
    MAng1 12.232 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    MLit 12.329 14 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
    MLit 12.332 12 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.

Century Aloes, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century Aloes...

century, n. (103)

    Nat 1.68 16 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.
    AmS 1.106 15 In a century...one or two men;...
    LE 1.168 10 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LT 1.261 7 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    LT 1.278 26 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    Con 1.300 7 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    Hist 2.28 15 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.86 4 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    SL 2.155 8 The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear.
    Exp 3.64 22 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce, and will not be closed for a century or two, New and Old England may keep shop.
    Mrs1 3.141 22 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    NER 3.255 2 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.
    UGM 4.16 11 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays; contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.
    UGM 4.32 18 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
    SwM 4.102 3 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...
    SwM 4.111 6 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...and now, after their century is complete, he has at last found a pupil in Mr Wilkinson...
    MoS 4.174 27 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.204 1 It took a century to make [Shakespeare's genius] suspected;...
    ShP 4.204 11 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    NMW 4.223 2 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.226 1 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
    NMW 4.249 18 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    GoW 4.270 9 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    GoW 4.270 10 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...
    GoW 4.273 12 [Goethe] was the soul of his century.
    GoW 4.278 2 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
    GoW 4.288 24 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world.
    ET2 5.30 1 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET5 5.75 7 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity...
    ET6 5.110 1 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET10 5.154 7 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET11 5.194 26 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
    ET12 5.202 16 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford], in the course of a century.
    ET12 5.203 11 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...a manuscript Virgil of the same century;...
    ET13 5.221 27 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET14 5.236 24 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    ET15 5.271 15 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET19 5.310 26 I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and working-days, the same in one century and in another century.
    ET19 5.310 27 I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and working-days, the same in one century and in another century.
    Wsp 6.206 18 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    CbW 6.250 21 In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in a century.
    CbW 6.254 15 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century...
    Bty 6.282 13 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
    Bty 6.295 10 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
    Bty 6.296 22 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier...
    Bty 6.297 4 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings...
    Farm 7.149 26 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country, far on now in its third century.
    WD 7.157 1 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.
    WD 7.158 13 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus.
    WD 7.159 4 ...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this century...
    WD 7.178 15 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable.
    Boks 7.195 22 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!...
    Boks 7.209 15 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
    Clbs 7.237 8 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.244 5 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    OA 7.317 24 The mind stretches an hour to a century...
    OA 7.332 21 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October);...
    PI 8.34 16 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.35 3 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity, as if the Divine creative energy had fainted in his own century.
    PI 8.60 1 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century...
    Elo2 8.122 25 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    QO 8.181 12 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...of the thirteenth century...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.181 15 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.181 18 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.
    QO 8.187 9 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...
    QO 8.194 24 The passages of Shakspeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century;...
    PC 8.211 13 Great strides have been made [in Natural Science] within the present century.
    PC 8.220 26 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    Imtl 8.335 11 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour.
    Imtl 8.335 13 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    Chr2 10.106 7 How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last century in this country!
    Chr2 10.107 22 [The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    Supl 10.168 2 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
    SovE 10.202 15 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    SovE 10.202 17 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.203 27 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...
    MoL 10.243 20 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Plu 10.294 23 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    LLNE 10.337 7 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    EzRy 10.392 27 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
    LS 11.3 18 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.
    HDC 11.29 2 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    HDC 11.54 10 Such was, for half a century, the success of the general enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.64 18 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    AKan 11.262 24 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    AKan 11.262 25 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    EPro 11.315 2 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EPro 11.319 25 [Slavery] cannot be introduced as an improvement of the nineteenth century.
    Wom 11.415 10 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.
    Wom 11.424 20 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next.
    SHC 11.430 23 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.
    SHC 11.435 11 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    Shak1 11.451 23 The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare for a century.
    Scot 11.463 11 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
    FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
    CPL 11.499 3 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    CPL 11.506 14 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader...
    FRep 11.529 1 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.
    FRep 11.534 15 In the planters of this country, in the seventeenth century, the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    Mem 12.102 19 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    Milt1 12.248 5 The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.
    WSL 12.341 3 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.

Century, n. (1)

    Aris 10.62 2 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...

century-clock, n. (1)

    OA 7.318 14 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.

Cerberus, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.201 5 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave...too many cakes to Cerberus;...

ceremonial, adj. (2)

    SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...
    Prch 10.225 24 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...

ceremonies, n. (11)

    Chr1 3.99 20 Society...shreds...its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
    Mrs1 3.138 7 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
    ET6 5.109 27 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET8 5.132 6 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... splendor in ceremonies...
    Bhr 6.187 15 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects...
    Ill 6.316 2 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
    Art2 7.55 11 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Suc 7.304 5 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
    War 11.164 9 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with...language, ceremonies, newspapers.
    Wom 11.409 18 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to be despised...
    Wom 11.409 23 [Women's] genius delights in ceremonies...

ceremony, n. (18)

    LT 1.290 17 I wish to speak of the...religion around us without ceremony or false deference.
    YA 1.393 26 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador; You have left a business of importance for a ceremony.
    YA 1.394 1 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a ceremony.
    SR 2.62 16 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke...symbolizes... the state of man...
    Mrs1 3.124 21 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    MoS 4.168 2 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
    ET13 5.219 15 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church; the liturgy, ceremony, architecture;...
    SS 7.1 10 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony/...
    Clbs 7.232 19 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly, for he can walk out without ceremony when he pleases.
    OA 7.320 3 Age is comely...in chairs of state and ceremony...
    Comc 8.164 24 In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or ceremony indifferent.
    Comc 8.164 27 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it goes through the ceremony omitting only the will...
    SlHr 10.448 23 [Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.
    LS 11.9 2 ...the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a faithful account of that ceremony [the Passover].
    LS 11.9 17 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    Wom 11.409 17 Form and ceremony are [women's] realm.
    CW 12.172 26 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    PPr 12.384 27 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...

Ceremony, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 24 Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and Hope.

Ceres, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.180 8 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
    FRep 11.512 26 As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the wheat...so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
    Milt1 12.263 21 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

certain, adj. (469)

    Nat 1.7 19 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...
    Nat 1.11 4 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature...
    Nat 1.28 19 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat.
    Nat 1.46 8 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
    Nat 1.47 11 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...
    Nat 1.50 15 Certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    Nat 1.58 18 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...
    Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    Nat 1.70 2 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect...
    Nat 1.70 13 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet sang to me;...
    DSA 1.121 13 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    DSA 1.134 13 It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    DSA 1.142 16 ...there have been periods when, from the inactivity of the intellect on certain truths, a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    DSA 1.148 18 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...
    LE 1.157 2 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    MN 1.212 6 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
    MN 1.215 10 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
    MN 1.215 11 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
    MN 1.217 4 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...
    MR 1.233 25 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes...
    MR 1.233 26 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a certain dapperness and compliance...
    MR 1.242 25 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.266 27 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us, and certain stars close up behind us;...
    LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
    LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    Con 1.297 23 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism...
    Con 1.297 24 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
    Con 1.301 24 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.
    Con 1.303 3 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Tran 1.332 10 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.341 3 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
    Tran 1.349 15 ...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
    Tran 1.352 12 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience...
    YA 1.374 27 ...one thing is certain, that we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    YA 1.378 2 [Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties.
    YA 1.382 23 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations]...
    Hist 2.16 15 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Hist 2.17 1 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    SR 2.45 24 ...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    Comp 2.97 19 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that... a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect.
    Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
    Comp 2.118 13 As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
    Comp 2.123 7 The gain [in external goods] is apparent; the tax is certain.
    SL 2.142 27 We think greatness entailed or organized...in certain offices or occasions...
    Lov1 2.169 10 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period...
    Lov1 2.171 10 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error...
    Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    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 2.215 13 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    Prd1 2.229 13 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.229 23 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity, and have a certain swimming and oscillating appearance.
    Prd1 2.230 17 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...
    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...
    Hsm1 2.247 26 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    Hsm1 2.249 13 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    OS 2.273 24 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand...
    OS 2.274 23 The growths of genius are of a certain total character...
    OS 2.276 21 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    OS 2.277 23 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    OS 2.281 18 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    OS 2.281 27 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    Int 2.332 2 A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
    Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Art1 2.352 24 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Art1 2.354 21 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
    Art1 2.364 16 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.
    Pt1 3.22 15 What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change;...
    Pt1 3.22 20 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again. I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus...
    Pt1 3.30 4 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
    Pt1 3.30 27 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    Pt1 3.36 13 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Pt1 3.39 3 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    Exp 3.56 26 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    Exp 3.69 1 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...
    Chr1 3.90 1 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
    Chr1 3.94 3 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    Chr1 3.97 18 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a certain chain of circumstances, and they will ask no more.
    Chr1 3.97 25 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Mrs1 3.121 15 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average;...
    Mrs1 3.128 13 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.129 7 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results.
    Mrs1 3.133 9 There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation...
    Mrs1 3.138 22 ...a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
    Mrs1 3.139 5 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
    Mrs1 3.141 7 The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
    Mrs1 3.150 8 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    Nat2 3.175 24 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians...
    Nat2 3.192 8 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery...
    Pol1 3.199 11 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre...
    Pol1 3.206 9 A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
    Pol1 3.218 9 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    Pol1 3.219 26 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    NR 3.225 15 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    NR 3.239 13 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick...
    NER 3.258 15 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...
    NER 3.270 3 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar certain powers of expression...
    NER 3.275 21 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    NER 3.278 26 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    NER 3.284 13 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    UGM 4.7 5 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
    UGM 4.16 7 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    UGM 4.28 6 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
    PPh 4.44 25 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.
    PPh 4.57 26 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness...
    PPh 4.65 20 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    PPh 4.71 11 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate...
    PPh 4.73 3 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing else than this conversation;...
    SwM 4.97 17 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent bias which taints his judgment.
    SwM 4.102 20 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.
    SwM 4.119 22 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
    SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    SwM 4.130 17 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    SwM 4.140 27 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul. But it is certain that it must tally with what is best in nature.
    MoS 4.150 7 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;...
    MoS 4.161 14 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    MoS 4.165 3 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted...
    MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a certain parsimony.
    ShP 4.194 21 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.195 3 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could hope to create.
    ShP 4.198 17 A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts;...
    ShP 4.212 19 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence...
    ShP 4.217 5 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    NMW 4.227 22 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics...
    NMW 4.228 14 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    GoW 4.264 25 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
    GoW 4.265 27 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    GoW 4.266 25 A certain partiality...is the tax which all action must pay.
    GoW 4.272 9 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
    GoW 4.275 24 [Goethe]...has a certain gravitation towards truth.
    GoW 4.281 7 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance...
    GoW 4.283 10 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    GoW 4.286 21 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
    GoW 4.286 23 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET1 5.14 16 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book... so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces.
    ET1 5.18 27 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had well served.
    ET4 5.47 15 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air? was it the sea? was it the parentage? For it is certain that these men are samples of their contemporaries.
    ET4 5.48 24 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective;...
    ET4 5.51 26 ...certain temperaments marry well...
    ET4 5.52 2 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
    ET4 5.52 6 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
    ET4 5.69 22 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious score and by way of penance.
    ET4 5.72 1 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET5 5.76 25 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET6 5.107 8 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET6 5.111 26 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
    ET9 5.149 11 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing...
    ET10 5.156 26 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life, since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third.
    ET10 5.171 3 ...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET12 5.206 25 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
    ET12 5.207 5 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
    ET12 5.210 25 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    ET13 5.216 5 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
    ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious...
    ET14 5.239 24 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
    ET14 5.248 4 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    ET16 5.287 17 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse...
    ET17 5.295 3 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    ET18 5.301 17 At home [the English] have a certain statute hospitality.
    ET19 5.311 18 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
    F 6.9 6 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.11 15 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    F 6.13 2 ...There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity...
    F 6.27 24 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    F 6.28 18 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...
    F 6.31 14 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a Providence.
    F 6.44 13 Certain ideas are in the air.
    Pow 6.54 24 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility...even in heroes in all but certain eminent moments;...
    Pow 6.60 22 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.66 10 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    Pow 6.73 11 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Wth 6.92 11 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Wth 6.97 22 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    Wth 6.99 9 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
    Wth 6.107 1 ...every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Wth 6.108 19 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    Wth 6.117 6 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Ctr 6.136 27 Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    Ctr 6.137 25 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    Ctr 6.138 22 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds...
    Ctr 6.147 17 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Ctr 6.151 13 I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is paid to good broadcloth;...
    Ctr 6.151 20 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
    Ctr 6.154 16 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Ctr 6.156 11 'T is very certain that Plato, Plotinus...did not live in a crowd...
    Ctr 6.160 19 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Ctr 6.160 26 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    Ctr 6.161 13 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Bhr 6.170 17 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
    Bhr 6.178 3 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.
    Bhr 6.181 10 It is very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Wsp 6.201 13 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me...
    Wsp 6.204 6 Nature has self-poise in all her works; certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine...
    Wsp 6.210 25 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Wsp 6.216 6 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.217 8 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.227 25 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    Wsp 6.229 23 Physiognomy and phrenology are...declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources of information.
    Wsp 6.238 13 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more.
    CbW 6.246 11 ...'t is certain that not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    CbW 6.274 24 ...it is certain that there is a great deal of good in us that does not know itself...
    Bty 6.288 15 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
    Bty 6.296 14 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
    Bty 6.303 18 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
    Bty 6.304 5 ...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain grandeur...
    Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Ill 6.317 11 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
    Ill 6.317 17 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    SS 7.6 13 To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is indispensable; so [nature] guards them by a certain aridity.
    SS 7.10 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty...
    SS 7.11 15 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    SS 7.15 2 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.
    Civ 7.19 1 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.19 5 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal,--a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.22 24 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy... guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
    Art2 7.41 22 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.
    Art2 7.51 14 ...a certain analogy reigns throughout the wonders of both [Nature and works of art];...
    Elo1 7.63 3 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism...
    Elo1 7.67 18 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.69 24 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...
    Elo1 7.90 1 The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
    Elo1 7.92 21 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Elo1 7.93 12 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    WD 7.172 25 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...
    WD 7.177 15 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.197 2 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic...
    Boks 7.201 10 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...
    Boks 7.208 6 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies;...
    Boks 7.213 22 The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.
    Boks 7.214 5 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.220 19 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Clbs 7.227 4 ...one thing is certain,--at some rate, intercourse we must have.
    Clbs 7.227 18 'T is certain that money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Clbs 7.228 3 A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to utter.
    Clbs 7.242 19 'T is certain there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.250 5 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
    Cour 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that action with a certain despair.
    Cour 7.265 8 'T is certain that the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
    Cour 7.266 27 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...
    Cour 7.268 17 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Cour 7.268 18 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Cour 7.272 27 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    Suc 7.285 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    Suc 7.302 22 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness...
    OA 7.319 19 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
    OA 7.320 8 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury...
    OA 7.321 5 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
    OA 7.324 14 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    OA 7.324 16 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    OA 7.324 22 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became him.
    OA 7.329 7 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.330 3 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
    PI 8.6 16 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts...
    PI 8.6 21 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.18 22 [The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature.
    PI 8.21 12 In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body.
    PI 8.55 23 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
    SA 8.83 17 Whilst certain faces are illumined with intelligence...others are marked with warnings...
    SA 8.83 20 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent;...
    SA 8.87 13 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
    SA 8.89 25 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    SA 8.91 22 It is very certain that sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
    SA 8.99 22 ...[manners and talk] require certain material conditions...
    SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
    SA 8.101 14 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...a certain external culture and good taste;...
    SA 8.102 13 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Elo2 8.112 24 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
    Elo2 8.119 15 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat...
    Elo2 8.119 18 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover a certain control of it...
    Elo2 8.121 27 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with certain frankness...in their style;...
    Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    Elo2 8.126 19 Men differ so much in control of their faculties! You can find in many, and indeed in all, a certain fundamental equality.
    QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.189 10 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    QO 8.195 5 ...another's thoughts have a certain advantage with us simply because they are another's.
    QO 8.204 11 'T is certain that thought has its own proper motion...
    PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PC 8.215 16 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
    PC 8.215 19 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    PC 8.219 1 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne... even by other eminent talents, since they too proceed from a certain deep innate perception of fit and fair.
    PC 8.233 15 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...
    PPo 8.241 19 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
    Insp 8.269 3 'T is certain that the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.
    Insp 8.274 19 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the conditions of reception.
    Insp 8.276 7 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Insp 8.279 5 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception...
    Insp 8.284 9 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds.
    Insp 8.290 4 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Insp 8.290 15 Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.
    Grts 8.301 16 It is very certain that we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached.
    Grts 8.303 1 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree.
    Grts 8.306 11 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
    Grts 8.309 12 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
    Grts 8.310 9 You are rightly fond of certain books or men...
    Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air...
    Imtl 8.329 17 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Imtl 8.330 17 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Imtl 8.331 5 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Dem1 10.5 21 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Dem1 10.7 21 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
    Dem1 10.8 22 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem preposterous...
    Dem1 10.12 20 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the agents.
    Dem1 10.15 25 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 often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Dem1 10.21 11 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...
    Aris 10.43 1 ...it is certain that a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions;...
    Aris 10.44 27 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    Aris 10.47 20 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Aris 10.64 13 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
    PerF 10.69 7 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence...
    PerF 10.71 19 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them...
    PerF 10.77 13 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    PerF 10.86 14 ...a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Chr2 10.93 12 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...
    Chr2 10.99 11 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it ceases...
    Chr2 10.100 23 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention.
    Chr2 10.110 5 There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in civil countries, reaches everybody.
    Chr2 10.116 9 It is certain that each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
    Edc1 10.127 4 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Edc1 10.130 17 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.130 18 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.133 26 A treatise on education...affects us with a slight paralysis and a certain yawning of the jaws.
    Edc1 10.136 13 It is very certain that the coming age and the departing age seldom understand each other.
    Edc1 10.147 13 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain that the lesson is mastered...
    Supl 10.163 14 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
    SovE 10.187 13 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
    SovE 10.193 26 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.207 8 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...
    Prch 10.219 7 It is certain that many dark hours...will occur.
    Prch 10.236 10 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    MoL 10.258 14 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    Schr 10.261 2 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    Schr 10.278 1 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.283 7 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does, a certain dumb life in life;...
    Schr 10.284 10 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off.
    Plu 10.311 19 There is a certain violence in [Seneca's] opinions...
    Plu 10.312 14 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue, with a certain impassibility beyond humanity.
    LLNE 10.325 2 There grew a certain tenderness on the people...
    LLNE 10.329 11 [The new age] marked itself by a certain predominance of the intellect in the balance of powers.
    LLNE 10.330 9 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...
    LLNE 10.335 17 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
    LLNE 10.336 17 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
    LLNE 10.337 7 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.337 15 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...had a certain truth in it;...
    LLNE 10.337 23 ...a certain success attended [Mesmerism], against all expectation.
    LLNE 10.342 15 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    LLNE 10.364 11 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 25 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
    LLNE 10.366 11 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    CSC 10.375 8 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    MMEm 10.403 21 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    MMEm 10.427 4 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    MMEm 10.432 19 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    SlHr 10.444 2 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    SlHr 10.447 21 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
    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;...
    Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.477 15 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.479 7 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings...
    Thor 10.479 25 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    Thor 10.481 14 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
    Carl 10.489 21 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence...
    LS 11.23 3 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.31 6 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    HDC 11.43 27 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.44 5 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers.
    HDC 11.46 12 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own...
    EWI 11.112 11 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions.
    EWI 11.137 15 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies]...
    War 11.158 16 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...
    War 11.166 25 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights...
    War 11.166 27 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive demonstration...
    FSLC 11.188 20 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...
    FSLC 11.206 13 ...one thing appears certain to me, as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.212 5 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    FSLC 11.213 24 It is very certain from the perfect guaranties in the constitution...that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    AsSu 11.248 18 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    JBB 11.271 26 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    ACiv 11.297 12 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
    ACiv 11.301 22 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    ACiv 11.308 5 It is very certain that the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    ALin 11.333 12 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...
    ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    HCom 11.342 2 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    HCom 11.343 2 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
    SMC 11.351 17 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
    EdAd 11.384 25 The aspect this country presents is a certain maniacal activity...
    Wom 11.414 2 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    Wom 11.426 4 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    FRep 11.523 26 ...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...
    FRep 11.526 2 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    FRep 11.534 19 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading.
    FRep 11.537 24 'T is certain that our civilization is yet incomplete...
    FRep 11.542 20 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    PLT 12.9 26 ...what we really want is...a certain piety toward the source of action and knowledge.
    PLT 12.10 1 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
    PLT 12.20 9 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.20 25 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    PLT 12.27 18 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
    PLT 12.27 22 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
    PLT 12.28 1 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    PLT 12.31 12 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
    PLT 12.34 23 [Instinct] is that source of thought and feeling which acts on masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
    PLT 12.43 18 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    PLT 12.43 26 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.47 8 The new sect stands for certain thoughts.
    PLT 12.47 12 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    PLT 12.51 8 ...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.
    PLT 12.55 6 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    PLT 12.62 9 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.
    II 12.65 8 We have a certain blind wisdom...
    II 12.65 11 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience;...
    II 12.65 23 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.66 14 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
    II 12.67 17 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Then we get a certain habit of the mind as the measure;...
    II 12.72 25 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.74 7 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    II 12.76 24 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.76 26 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge unaccountably into light.
    II 12.79 12 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    II 12.80 5 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be carried with a certain magnificence.
    CInt 12.121 7 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of truth.
    CInt 12.121 8 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of truth.
    CInt 12.124 11 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...
    CInt 12.124 26 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...
    CInt 12.125 3 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.131 5 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
    CL 12.138 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    CL 12.141 9 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    CL 12.146 9 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian...
    CL 12.158 20 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk, and it is certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of the few.
    Bost 12.184 20 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    Bost 12.192 26 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Bost 12.208 9 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...
    Bost 12.210 10 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.
    MAng1 12.218 24 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    MAng1 12.228 21 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    Milt1 12.257 15 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
    Milt1 12.263 27 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.264 15 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    ACri 12.288 10 ...'t is certain that some men swear with genius.
    ACri 12.293 5 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
    MLit 12.310 6 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.310 11 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...
    MLit 12.312 16 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...
    MLit 12.318 8 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit...
    MLit 12.324 15 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats;...
    WSL 12.339 20 In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of defiance...
    WSL 12.345 16 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    PPr 12.385 23 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.
    PPr 12.386 21 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
    Let 12.402 24 It is very certain that speculation is no succedaneum for life.
    Trag 12.416 1 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.
    Trag 12.416 4 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

certain, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 14 ...let us know what we know, for certain;...

certainly, adv. (85)

    DSA 1.137 1 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    DSA 1.142 15 Certainly there have been periods when...a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    LT 1.264 11 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprized him shall be;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.265 19 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
    LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
    YA 1.385 14 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at elections...
    Hist 2.22 12 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
    SL 2.139 16 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
    SL 2.151 23 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...
    SL 2.163 2 The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had need of an organ here.
    Fdsp 2.203 20 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and...what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him.
    Hsm1 2.259 13 ...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
    Mrs1 3.123 4 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune;...
    Mrs1 3.129 13 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk...
    Mrs1 3.148 13 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    Mrs1 3.150 11 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    NR 3.236 2 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    NER 3.284 15 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and will certainly succeed.
    MoS 4.163 18 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's] library.
    MoS 4.167 4 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...
    NMW 4.235 24 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    ET1 5.7 10 ...certainly on this May day [Landor's] courtesy veiled that haughty mind...
    ET2 5.27 22 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day...
    ET4 5.73 14 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    ET7 5.121 16 Certainly [the English] knew the distinction of [Guizot's] name.
    ET16 5.287 4 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    ET19 5.311 7 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into strange vagaries...but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    F 6.6 6 For certainly, our appetites here/...All this is ruled by the sight above./
    Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
    Wsp 6.235 9 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...shall certainly fight when my hour comes, and shall beat.
    CbW 6.258 7 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    Art2 7.54 22 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.
    DL 7.107 10 Domestic events are certainly our affair.
    DL 7.113 18 It...certainly ought to open our ear to every good-minded reformer, that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.116 13 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
    DL 7.117 7 Certainly, if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in despair.
    DL 7.119 7 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
    DL 7.126 1 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.
    DL 7.132 4 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    Boks 7.189 3 ...certainly there is dilettanteism enough...
    Boks 7.189 10 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board.
    Boks 7.189 15 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    PI 8.55 26 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly The Faery beam upon you...
    Elo2 8.115 15 ...certainly there is no true orator who is not a hero.
    QO 8.189 22 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    PPo 8.248 21 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...certainly not [the monks' and the dervishes'] cowls and mummeries but her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
    Grts 8.302 2 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of dulness or vice...
    Dem1 10.13 17 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know... such as humanity and astronomy. If any others are important to me they will certainly be shown to me.
    Dem1 10.24 1 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts are interesting...
    Aris 10.34 14 ...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.36 3 ...we, certainly, have not come here to describe well-dressed vulgarity.
    Aris 10.43 13 Certainly, the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
    Aris 10.46 5 Certainly I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe;...
    Aris 10.50 10 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.54 5 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    PerF 10.84 16 Things work to their ends...and will certainly defeat any adventurer who fights against this ordination.
    Chr2 10.107 14 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious; certainly not that they have less integrity or sentiment...
    SovE 10.193 17 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.193 21 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order well.
    SovE 10.200 11 Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
    Prch 10.236 4 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of liberty, of reason, of hope;...
    MoL 10.249 19 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
    LLNE 10.343 2 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism...
    LLNE 10.343 6 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    LLNE 10.351 18 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    EzRy 10.384 3 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence,-certainly, as they held it, a very particular providence......
    LS 11.14 15 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you. By this expression it is often thought that a miraculous communication is implied; but certainly without good reason, if it is remembered that St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    HDC 11.35 17 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    War 11.152 5 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    War 11.159 22 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever. The scandal which we feel in such facts certainly shows that we have got on a little.
    War 11.170 5 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly, in the first place, in the way of routine and mere forms...
    ACiv 11.301 21 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    EdAd 11.387 12 Certainly then this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...
    EdAd 11.387 26 ...we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
    SHC 11.432 23 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead;...
    ChiE 11.474 20 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.
    FRO2 11.488 11 I object, of course, to the claim of miraculous dispensation,-certainly not to the doctrine of Christianity.
    II 12.75 15 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    Milt1 12.259 24 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    Milt1 12.263 19 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.
    Milt1 12.278 6 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts.
    MLit 12.326 11 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    WSL 12.342 23 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this;...
    EurB 12.374 5 The eye and the word are certainly far subtler and stronger weapons than either money or knives.
    Let 12.399 11 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result. Certainly we are not insensible to this calamity...

certainties, n. (2)

    Nat 1.62 27 ...the world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
    NER 3.264 18 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...

certainty, n. (8)

    Tran 1.331 11 The materialist, secure in the certainty of sensation, mocks at fine-spun theories...
    Comp 2.102 20 Every secret is told...every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.
    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.
    Elo1 7.86 16 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Farm 7.141 14 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
    Elo2 8.111 12 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded.
    Imtl 8.323 6 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond, of which we have no certainty, reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.323 23 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it. Things being so, I feel that if this new faith can give us more certainty, it deserves to be received.

certamine, adj. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 5 Ab iniquo certamine indignabundus recessit.

certes, adv. (2)

    PI 8.61 14 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well...
    PI 8.62 12 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful...

certificate, n. (14)

    Nat 1.30 23 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
    Nat 1.64 22 This [spiritual] view...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    Pt1 3.32 21 All the value which attaches to...Oken...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    NR 3.247 7 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    NER 3.256 20 ...if I had not that commodity [money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
    ET5 5.92 6 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others, as certificate of equality with themselves.
    ET5 5.97 5 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions. Their property, a scrip or certificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw.
    ET10 5.153 6 ...the Englishman...esteems [wealth] a final certificate.
    ET14 5.257 19 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public,--a certificate of good sense and general power...
    Bty 6.284 26 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health.
    Civ 7.32 24 ...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
    PPo 8.248 6 The other merit of Hafiz is his intellectual liberty, which is a certificate of profound thought.
    HDC 11.50 1 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the English nation...as a certificate of the progress of the Saxon race;...
    CL 12.154 6 The seeing so excellent a spectacle [as the sea] is a certificate to the mind that all imaginable good shall yet be realized.

certificates, n. (4)

    ET13 5.217 18 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    F 6.36 3 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    Suc 7.284 1 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art; and not only we, but all men of European stock, value these certificates.
    Thor 10.451 21 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.

certified, v. (3)

    OS 2.276 23 I am certified of a common nature;...
    Bhr 6.181 16 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and universal.
    EurB 12.374 8 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were universal, not selfish;...

certifies, v. (4)

    UGM 4.22 4 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    PI 8.22 6 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
    LLNE 10.354 1 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    MLit 12.319 10 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.

certify, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.249 6 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws...
    Nat2 3.182 14 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
    PC 8.214 7 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...

certifying, v. (3)

    Comp 2.107 14 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance... certifying that the law is fatal;...
    Pt1 3.16 6 It is nature the symbol, nature certifying the supernatural...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Mem 12.98 9 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us that he is in the habit of seeing better than other people;...

certis, adj. (1)

    PC 8.225 22 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel (15)

    Int 2.332 19 Inspect what delights you...in Cervantes.
    ShP 4.218 16 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    ET9 5.151 19 Aesop and Montaigne, Cervantes and Saadi are men of the world;...
    CbW 6.261 4 The first-class minds...Cervantes, Shakspeare...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
    CbW 6.261 25 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
    Elo1 7.88 14 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Cervantes...
    Farm 7.153 21 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime--Milton, Firdusi, or Cervantes--would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    Boks 7.194 16 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians, Confucius of the Chinese, Cervantes of the Spaniards;...
    Boks 7.208 24 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Cervantes;...
    PI 8.3 13 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Shakspeare, Cervantes...
    PC 8.218 18 Some...Rabelais, Hafiz, Cervantes...is always allowed.
    Aris 10.54 13 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are Shakspeare, Cervantes...
    RBur 11.441 4 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns.
    Shak1 11.452 13 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other, and Cervantes was his exact contemporary...
    Scot 11.466 23 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...

cesspool, n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 24 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool...

Cetacea, n. (1)

    Comc 8.167 7 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea;...

Chadwick, Edwin, n. (1)

    Carl 10.496 14 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes...

Chaeronea, Greece, n. (1)

    Plu 10.294 2 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions, and then on business of the people of his native city, Chaeronea;...

chafe, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.96 18 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./

chafed, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.183 5 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us, chafed and irritable creatures with red faces...

chafed, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 13 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator. Now you find what all that excess of power which so chafed and fretted you in a tete-a-tete with him was for.

chaff, n. (4)

    Nat 1.42 5 The chaff and the wheat...[a farm] is a sacred emblem...
    Bty 6.304 18 Chaff and dust begin to sparkle...
    Ill 6.315 15 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff.
    FSLN 11.218 24 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings;...

chaffering, v. (1)

    Wth 6.107 16 There is in all our dealings a self-regulation that supersedes chaffering.

chagrin, n. (1)

    CPL 11.505 5 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, never having had a chagrin which an hour of reading has not put to flight.

chagrined, v. (1)

    DSA 1.138 3 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined.

chagrins, n. (2)

    MN 1.215 3 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    Exp 3.76 13 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...

chagrins, v. (1)

    SR 2.55 12 ...every word [conformists] say chagrins us...

chain, n. (35)

    Nat 1.1 1 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest brings;/...
    MN 1.220 2 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    LT 1.271 2 There is a perfect chain...of reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness...
    Hist 2.16 17 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Hist 2.19 4 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.36 3 [Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.
    Comp 2.109 24 If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
    Cir 2.312 27 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits...
    Exp 3.54 17 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    Chr1 3.97 18 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a certain chain of circumstances, and they will ask no more.
    Nat2 3.194 24 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    SwM 4.133 8 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg' s system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
    F 6.22 12 Man is not order of nature...link in a chain...
    F 6.33 2 ...every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect...
    Pow 6.54 7 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    Bhr 6.184 9 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain, lest he be shamed into resistance.
    Bhr 6.189 19 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    Art2 7.50 14 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being...
    WD 7.161 1 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    PI 8.59 8 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
    Res 8.137 12 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Insp 8.275 26 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...
    Insp 8.296 12 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Imtl 8.344 24 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Chr2 10.121 14 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.
    Chr2 10.122 6 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
    Thor 10.461 18 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    EWI 11.98 7 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
    FSLC 11.200 15 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled.
    AKan 11.260 9 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    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.
    RBur 11.441 2 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    Humb 11.457 12 ...Humboldt's [natural powers] were all united, one electric chain...
    CL 12.166 18 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better. Striking the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    MLit 12.331 21 Poetry is with Goethe thus external, the gilding of the chain...

chain, v. (2)

    SwM 4.121 17 Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves.
    F 6.33 27 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more reluctant...

chained, v. (7)

    SR 2.89 23 In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance...
    Comp 2.109 5 That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    ET12 5.201 26 The books in Merton Library [Oxford] are still chained to the wall.
    PI 8.55 14 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/ A sigh that piercing mortifies,/ A look that 's fastened to the ground,/ A tongue chained up without a sound;/...
    MMEm 10.429 22 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it.
    EWI 11.130 21 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
    EdAd 11.389 10 Public affairs are chained in the same law with private;...

chain-ring, n. (1)

    Wth 6.118 19 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring.

chains, n. (22)

    YA 1.368 7 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make...chains of mountains quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    Pt1 3.12 2 ...now my chains are to be broken;...
    Pt1 3.33 22 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene.
    Chr1 3.95 2 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.
    ET5 5.79 17 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains.
    Wsp 6.199 6 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold:/ Though they sealed him in a rock,/ Mountain chains he can unlock/...
    Farm 7.145 2 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    PI 8.59 16 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds, when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces...
    PC 8.231 4 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains...
    Imtl 8.334 25 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains...
    Aris 10.53 1 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use, temperament and drudgery...
    MoL 10.250 13 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords...
    EWI 11.98 1 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./
    EWI 11.134 23 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims]...may with impunity be left in their chains or to the chance of chains,-then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.134 24 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims]...may with impunity be left in their chains or to the chance of chains,-then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLC 11.199 7 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets, and chains round the court-house.
    FSLN 11.215 4 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    EdAd 11.384 9 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...
    FRep 11.542 23 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...perforates forests and stony mountain chains with roads...
    MAng1 12.233 15 ...let no man suppose...that this profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty.
    Milt1 12.261 15 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/ Untwisting all the chains that tie/ The hidden soul of harmony./

chains, v. (2)

    YA 1.390 13 We have our own affairs, our own genius, which chains each to his proper work.
    Insp 8.285 12 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./

chair, n. (36)

    Tran 1.330 24 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...
    YA 1.392 1 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    SL 2.158 12 A fop may sit in any chair of the world...
    Cir 2.311 12 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning...of chair and clock and tester, is manifest.
    Exp 3.50 23 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chair?...
    Chr1 3.109 14 ...a golden chair was placed for the Yunani sage.
    Mrs1 3.132 7 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.136 24 I like that every chair should be a throne...
    Mrs1 3.144 18 ...in these rooms every chair is waited for.
    Pol1 3.218 18 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
    UGM 4.31 18 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    MoS 4.156 26 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    ET1 5.21 5 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing, who had recently visited him (laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat).
    ET11 5.193 4 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    ET14 5.247 16 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    Ctr 6.154 8 What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded chair and a corner out of the draught.
    Bhr 6.176 3 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he...held on to his chair with both hands...
    Bhr 6.184 23 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    Bty 6.304 10 My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise...
    Boks 7.191 24 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and I think no chair is so much wanted.
    Clbs 7.244 17 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair of Age.
    Elo2 8.123 17 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams]...resigned his chair in the University.
    Res 8.148 15 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox...
    Insp 8.290 22 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber, with one chair and table and with no outlook...
    Grts 8.313 19 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    LLNE 10.333 1 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    SlHr 10.439 15 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    Thor 10.472 16 No college ever offered [Thoreau]...a professor's chair;...
    LVB 11.93 13 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    AKan 11.255 7 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present. His vacant chair speaks for him.
    ALin 11.334 9 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the good sense of mankind...
    PLT 12.10 24 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to...hinder them from turning the professor out of his chair.
    CInt 12.114 9 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...
    CL 12.161 22 What the dog knows, and how he knows it, piques us more than all we heard from the chair of metaphysics.
    WSL 12.340 25 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we feel how dignified is this perpetual Censor in his curule chair...

Chairman, Mr., n. (1)

    FRO1 11.477 1 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this morning, that I had come into the right hall.

chairman, n. (3)

    ET7 5.120 17 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    EWI 11.110 4 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    CPL 11.497 21 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library...

Chairman, n. (7)

    ET19 5.309 20 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    AsSu 11.247 1 Mr. Chairman: I sympathize heartily with the spirit of the resolutions.
    AsSu 11.251 8 Mr. Chairman, when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    JBB 11.267 1 Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together.
    JBS 11.277 1 Mr. Chairman: I have been struck with one fact, that the best orators who have added their praise to his fame...have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    HCom 11.341 1 Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen: With whatever opinion we come here, I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    HCom 11.343 19 Mr. Chairman, standing here in Harvard College...in Massachusetts...I think the little state bigger than I knew.

chairs, n. (12)

    Tran 1.348 19 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    Mrs1 3.125 12 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They sat very carelessly in their chairs...
    Nat2 3.183 10 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets of silk.
    Pol1 3.217 4 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    ET12 5.209 24 ...many chairs and many fellowships [at Oxford] are made beds of ease;...
    Bhr 6.175 23 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Bty 6.297 10 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton].
    Bty 6.297 12 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton]. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs...
    SS 7.14 6 Is it society to sit in one of your chairs?
    OA 7.320 3 Age is comely...in chairs of state and ceremony...
    QO 8.178 27 ...we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
    QO 8.198 15 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame, and come up and take place in the reserved and authentic chairs!

chaise, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.391 6 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door.
    MMEm 10.407 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear into the chaise or out of it...disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...

chalcedony, n. (1)

    SwM 4.135 18 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...

Chaldaean, adj. (1)

    PI 8.19 17 Our best definition of poetry...claims to come down to us from the Chaldaean Zoroaster...

Chaldaean, n. (1)

    WD 7.174 15 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.

Chaldean, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Chaldean oracles...

Chaldeans, n. (1)

    Con 1.304 18 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.

chalice, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 14 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers: asphodel, harbinger, chalice, flamboyant...

chalices, n. (2)

    Prch 10.229 25 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    Prch 10.229 27 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.

chalk, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.74 17 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
    SA 8.96 17 ...things said for conversation are chalk eggs.

chalk, n. (2)

    SwM 4.142 14 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who...visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
    ET9 5.145 27 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.

chalking, v. (1)

    Wth 6.91 16 ...if [a man] wishes...the chalking out his own career...he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.

challenge, n. (2)

    ET11 5.180 17 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    Milt1 12.247 14 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary challenge of universal attention to his claims.

challenge, v. (4)

    PI 8.51 27 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth which all Philistia is unable to challenge.
    Supl 10.164 15 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    MMEm 10.398 5 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    Shak1 11.447 9 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse... whom this day [Shakespeare's anniversary] seemed to elect and challenge.

challenged, v. (6)

    Con 1.306 5 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
    ET11 5.174 26 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show their right to their honors...
    ET16 5.286 26 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself neither of caucuses nor congress...
    WD 7.184 22 Phoebus challenged the gods...
    AsSu 11.247 22 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    FRep 11.516 24 The humblest [in America] is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical questions...

challenger, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.115 19 [The true orator] is challenger...

challenging, v. (1)

    ET8 5.130 27 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./

Chalmers's, George, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.38 10 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.

Chamber, French, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly, like...the French Chamber...is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.

chamber, n. (34)

    Nat 1.7 2 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
    MR 1.243 9 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must live in a chamber...
    Con 1.312 6 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores...for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    Tran 1.342 14 ...[Transcendentalists] incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house...
    Hsm1 2.257 24 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
    Cir 2.306 13 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened;...
    Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber...
    Art1 2.359 12 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    SwM 4.128 15 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize the fireside and nuptial chamber;...
    MoS 4.169 15 When [Montaigne] came to die he caused the mass to be celebrated in his chamber.
    NMW 4.238 18 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible.
    ET5 5.88 23 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    Pow 6.61 6 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    Ctr 6.156 20 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    SS 7.3 2 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...
    SS 7.10 22 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    Elo1 7.70 4 [The right eloquence] draws...the invalid from his warm chamber...
    DL 7.113 7 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    DL 7.130 12 ...every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
    Clbs 7.235 13 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science...
    Suc 7.297 21 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    OA 7.335 8 [John Adams]...is better the next day after having visitors in his chamber from morning to night.
    PI 8.64 4 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    SA 8.81 9 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber...he is yet a thousand miles off...
    Res 8.136 2 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    PPo 8.262 22 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Insp 8.290 22 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
    Dem1 10.2 1 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./
    Aris 10.60 6 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth. They are gathered in no one chamber; no chamber would hold them;...
    Edc1 10.130 3 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul...
    MoL 10.251 11 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order;...
    LLNE 10.366 21 There was a stove in every chamber [at Brook Farm], and every one might burn as much wood as he or she would saw.
    PLT 12.29 7 In [Nature's] hundred-gated Thebes every chamber is a new door.
    PLT 12.47 18 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...

chamberlains, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.133 13 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods.

Chambers, Messrs., n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 5 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of the Messrs. Chambers, and of a man of high character and genius, the short-lived painter, David Scott.

chambers, n. (22)

    Con 1.321 13 ...if priest and church-member should fail, the chambers of commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    SL 2.131 12 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    SL 2.166 3 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors...
    Hsm1 2.243 9 ...Chambers of the great are jails,/ And head-winds right for royal sails./
    OS 2.267 23 The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.
    Art1 2.361 21 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples, in the chambers of sculpture...
    Mrs1 3.149 25 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    PPh 4.59 16 ...the rich man...sits in no more chambers than the poor...
    GoW 4.273 17 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    ET1 5.3 11 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... to a house in Russell Square, whither we had been recommended to good chambers.
    ET5 5.93 16 Is it [English] luck, or is it in the chambers of their brain,--it is their commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET11 5.193 5 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    ET15 5.267 17 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London.
    Bty 6.283 26 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
    Ill 6.309 19 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;...
    SS 7.6 10 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters...in royal chambers.
    DL 7.108 3 Is it not plain that not in...chambers of commerce, but in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    QO 8.196 19 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London...
    Imtl 8.326 1 [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.
    Edc1 10.131 4 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    LLNE 10.348 12 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty chambers...
    EurB 12.375 17 Had one noble thought, opening the chambers of the intellect...been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...

Chambery, France, n. (1)

    SA 8.94 18 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...

chamois, n. (1)

    Thor 10.484 11 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where the chamois dare hardly venture...

champagne, n. (1)

    Comp 2.94 25 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?

champaign, n. (1)

    YA 1.384 22 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords...

champetre, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.142 9 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is a fete champetre...

champion, n. (9)

    Nat 1.21 11 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled, to suffer death as the champion of the English laws, one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Con 1.306 3 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    MoS 4.173 1 It turns out that [the wise skeptic] is not the champion of the operative, the pauper, the prisoner, the slave.
    NMW 4.253 14 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon]...
    ET14 5.250 13 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    FSLC 11.203 1 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years...the champion of the interests of the Northern seaboard...
    FSLN 11.243 3 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion.
    Bost 12.203 19 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some champion of first principles of humanity against the rich and luxurious;...
    PPr 12.390 8 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has...shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;- the indubitable champion of England.

champions, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.262 12 Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs...
    ET2 5.28 12 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.
    Aris 10.62 13 Justice always wants champions.
    EWI 11.146 18 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect, his own natural allies and champions...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    FSLC 11.200 4 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...

Champions..., The Seven [R (1)

    DL 7.106 21 ...the Seven Champions of Christendom...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!

champions-until-death, n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 1 The most daring innovators and the champions-until-death of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].

Champollion, Jean Francois, (2)

    Hist 2.29 5 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built, better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile.
    Bhr 6.190 5 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect [of behavior]...

Champs Elysee, Paris, Fran (1)

    FRep 11.534 4 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.

champs, v. (1)

    MoS 4.177 10 We have too little power of resistance against this ferocity which champs us up.

chance, adj. (1)

    OA 7.318 16 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...

chance, n. (41)

    Nat 1.53 5 [Shakspeare's] passion is not the fruit of chance;...
    LE 1.180 22 [Napoleon] no longer calculated the chance of the cannon ball.
    MR 1.253 27 Every child that is born must have a just chance for his bread.
    Con 1.304 27 You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    Con 1.310 18 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
    SR 2.76 16 [A sturdy lad from Vermont] has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
    Comp 2.117 27 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something;...
    SL 2.152 9 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
    Prd1 2.231 8 ...when by chance we espy a coincidence between reason and the phenomena, we are surprised.
    Pt1 3.23 4 The new agaric of this hour has a chance which the old one had not.
    Pol1 3.211 3 We are not at the mercy of any waves of chance.
    NER 3.264 17 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
    SwM 4.145 7 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense, the old usage and main chance of men...
    ET1 5.9 20 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible, meant for a soldier, by what chance converted to letters;...
    ET4 5.45 17 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that, not by chance or by mass, but by their character...
    ET12 5.206 15 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.212 17 ...we all send our sons to college, and though he be a genius, the youth must take his chance.
    Pow 6.55 25 There is no chance in results.
    Ctr 6.146 18 The boy grown up on a farm, which he has never left, is said in the country to have had no chance...
    Ctr 6.146 26 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut], as Virginia was in old times. To have some chance is their word.
    Ctr 6.164 18 ...the chance for appreciation is much increased by being the son of an appreciator...
    Wsp 6.226 8 Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. There is no chance, and no blanks.
    Ill 6.325 7 There is no chance and no anarchy in the universe.
    Elo1 7.98 17 ...in this dominion of chance we find a principle of permanence.
    WD 7.161 25 ...every chance is timed, as if Nature, who made the lock, knew where to find the key.
    Boks 7.192 8 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
    Clbs 7.246 1 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    PI 8.39 11 Do [men] think there is chance or wilfulness in what [the poet] sees and tells?
    Dem1 10.17 17 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled chance, since it showed no sequel.
    Dem1 10.26 27 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have...come into the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
    Aris 10.46 11 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like entire chance...
    LLNE 10.368 10 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of superiority.
    MMEm 10.411 2 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    LVB 11.89 17 ...the circumstance that my name will be utterly unknown to you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable construction of what I have to say.
    EWI 11.134 23 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims]...may with impunity be left in their chains or to the chance of chains,-then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    ALin 11.331 6 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable. But it turned out not to be chance.
    HCom 11.342 5 It is a rule in games of chance that the cards beat all the players...
    ACri 12.303 26 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.
    Pray 12.355 24 Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance...brought under our eye nearly at the same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    Let 12.397 14 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.
    Trag 12.410 4 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./

Chance, n. (2)

    SR 2.89 24 In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance...
    Exp 3.70 6 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity;...

chance, v. (11)

    SR 2.65 21 If I see a trait, my children will see it after me...although it may chance that no one has seen it before me.
    SR 2.68 2 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of...character they chance to see...
    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.
    Chr1 3.90 5 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men...if they chance to be social, do not need society...
    GoW 4.272 12 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    F 6.42 22 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little puzzled;...
    Bhr 6.193 13 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
    Chr2 10.113 12 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
    SovE 10.202 23 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
    Plu 10.308 27 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist. That vice of theirs shall not hinder him from citing any good word they chance to drop.
    Trag 12.406 27 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...

chanced, v. (19)

    YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do] would yield.
    PPh 4.72 15 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    ET4 5.48 7 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans, not long since...
    ET5 5.99 8 Every nation has yielded some good wit, if, as has chanced to many tribes, only one.
    ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    F 6.3 1 It chanced during one winter a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
    Wsp 6.235 5 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
    Bty 6.300 2 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced to suffer some intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Suc 7.304 12 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to look back, his friend was walking behind him.
    OA 7.325 16 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth...he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    Comc 8.167 15 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard...
    Imtl 8.331 27 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Dem1 10.7 13 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...
    MoL 10.251 9 I chanced lately to be at West Point...
    LLNE 10.358 15 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    JBS 11.278 4 ...it chanced that in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    HCom 11.344 22 ...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...
    RBur 11.439 3 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    ACri 12.301 11 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...

chancellor, n. (3)

    ET5 5.101 9 The chancellor carries England on his mace...
    ET6 5.110 25 Every Englishman is an embryonic chancellor...
    ET13 5.222 16 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far...as the chancellor of the exchequer in politics.

Chancellor, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.15 23 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;...
    PerF 10.85 10 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary.

chancellors, n. (4)

    SR 2.89 22 ...do thou...deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God.
    ET9 5.144 12 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.
    ET10 5.169 4 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    Clbs 7.241 7 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and of action...whom we now consider.

Chancellors, n. (1)

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

chancellor's, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 20 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is...the chancellor's file of accounts...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

Chancellor's, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 3 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.

chancery, n. (2)

    Gts 3.159 4 It is said...that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery and be sold.
    WD 7.159 22 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery.

Chancery, n. (1)

    ET5 5.98 3 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.

chances, n. (14)

    SR 2.76 16 [A sturdy lad from Vermont] has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
    Pol1 3.205 6 ...the farmer will not plant or hoe [corn] unless the chances are a hundred to one that he will cut and harvest it.
    ET2 5.27 23 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day, which have their own chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke, piracy, cold and thunder.
    ET14 5.233 12 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare...
    ET18 5.307 7 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    ET19 5.314 2 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    Wth 6.91 10 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Bhr 6.197 17 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
    Farm 7.151 25 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear,--chances of war,--sometimes the bear eats him.
    Cour 7.263 21 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    LLNE 10.343 5 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    TPar 11.288 18 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
    ALin 11.331 5 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable.
    EurB 12.367 20 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...

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