'Change [Exchange] to Charivari

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

'Change [Exchange], n. (2)

    F 6.31 13 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    Pow 6.79 1 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...

change, n. (66)

    Nat 1.9 12 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
    Nat 1.40 22 ...every chemical change...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.40 23 ...every change of vegetation...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.50 20 The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
    Nat 1.51 6 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    Nat 1.57 15 ...[man] is transported out of the district of change.
    MR 1.235 16 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    MR 1.239 11 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels. What a change!
    LT 1.267 8 The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth.
    SR 2.84 16 ...this change [in society] is not amelioration.
    Comp 2.112 6 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
    Cir 2.312 22 In my daily work I...do not believe...in the power of change and reform.
    Int 2.326 27 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought...are subject to change...
    Pt1 3.21 5 All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man, to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact.
    Pt1 3.22 16 What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change;...
    Pt1 3.25 6 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    Exp 3.55 13 We need change of objects.
    Chr1 3.97 27 No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
    Nat2 3.180 16 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    UGM 4.19 8 The soul is impatient of masters and eager for change.
    ET2 5.26 5 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England was proposed to me.
    ET2 5.29 20 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
    ET4 5.72 26 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
    ET6 5.110 19 The English power resides also in their dislike of change.
    ET10 5.167 13 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
    ET13 5.223 25 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
    ET13 5.228 25 The English, abhorring change in all things...are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET15 5.270 20 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    F 6.10 6 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion...
    Wsp 6.209 16 ...[Christ's personality] recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws. From this change...there is a feeling that religion is gone.
    Wsp 6.218 17 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you...
    Wsp 6.238 18 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night, at our table by day,--the apprehension, the assurance of a coming change.
    Civ 7.21 6 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
    Civ 7.22 8 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
    DL 7.118 5 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    Suc 7.300 23 ...every change in [the world] writes a record in the mind.
    OA 7.313 20 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    PI 8.11 23 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world...with a change of form, rendered to him all his experience.
    PI 8.26 16 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    SA 8.84 2 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    Res 8.152 16 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    Insp 8.289 4 Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
    Imtl 8.328 15 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom. A great change has occurred.
    Aris 10.58 22 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which, through all change of companions, of parties, of fortunes,-changes never...
    PerF 10.86 8 ...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    Chr2 10.108 9 ...the [religious] change is in what is superficial; the principles are immortal...
    Chr2 10.119 19 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is... simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
    SovE 10.185 6 ...presently a mystic change is wrought...and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
    MoL 10.245 10 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    LS 11.25 5 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.
    EWI 11.139 26 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...
    War 11.165 27 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...
    ACiv 11.301 17 ...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...
    SMC 11.367 8 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    SMC 11.372 21 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
    Wom 11.415 19 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...
    FRep 11.529 7 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
    FRep 11.533 6 Contrast, change, interruption, are necessary to new activity...
    PLT 12.39 26 The senses report the new fact or change;...
    PLT 12.40 1 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
    CL 12.140 21 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part...to undergo a change of state.
    CL 12.151 23 In August...we observe already...that a change has passed on the landscape.
    CL 12.152 19 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...
    Bost 12.183 8 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change...
    Milt1 12.248 10 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
    Milt1 12.248 11 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.

change, v. (32)

    Nat 1.18 17 The heavens change every moment...
    LT 1.263 27 ...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question represents.
    LT 1.267 3 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish.
    Con 1.298 6 ...conservatism...is always...pleading that to change would be to deteriorate...
    Tran 1.332 17 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again to-morrow;-but for these thoughts, I know not whence they are. They change and pass away.
    Tran 1.356 19 ...these old guardians never change their minds;...
    Lov1 2.188 13 ...the objects of the affections change...
    OS 2.296 23 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars and feel them to be the fair accidents and effects which change and pass.
    Mrs1 3.142 11 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then, said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in pieces.
    Pol1 3.209 10 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the support of many of their measures.
    SwM 4.129 12 In fact, in the spiritual world we change sexes every moment.
    ET7 5.121 7 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour.
    ET14 5.255 2 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity; they laugh you down, or they change the subject.
    Wth 6.87 19 Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes, so to change your dress when you are wet;...
    Wth 6.106 15 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the rigorous limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wth 6.119 13 A master in each art is required, because the practice is never with still or dead subjects, but they change in your hands.
    Ill 6.308 2 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.322 12 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
    Civ 7.20 22 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
    Elo1 7.64 19 The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man will not change his disposition;...
    Elo1 7.80 22 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions.
    WD 7.160 5 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen!
    WD 7.177 20 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms...
    Cour 7.277 7 ...baseness cannot change the appointed event.
    PI 8.47 6 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    PI 8.47 24 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them...
    Chr2 10.102 22 ...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
    Schr 10.282 22 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life.
    War 11.166 1 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...
    Wom 11.422 11 ...one [man] would change nothing, and the other is pleased with nothing;...
    FRep 11.513 22 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
    EurB 12.369 20 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...modifying opinions which it did not change...

changed, adj. (5)

    OS 2.290 4 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone.
    Dem1 10.10 17 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.
    Chr2 10.107 20 So of the changed position and manners of the clergy.
    Plu 10.303 11 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
    MLit 12.335 22 [The Genius of the time] will write the annals of a changed world...

changed, v. (29)

    Nat 1.14 2 By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the face of the world changed...
    Hist 2.13 27 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again.
    Hist 2.14 7 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove...
    Prd1 2.236 20 ...every fact hath its roots in the soul, and if the soul were changed would cease to be, or would become some other thing...
    Cir 2.311 15 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions.
    Art1 2.361 15 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place...
    Pt1 3.10 18 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed...
    UGM 4.24 15 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...the anger at being waked or changed?
    MoS 4.185 19 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    NMW 4.242 18 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    NMW 4.246 16 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon]. Had Acre fallen, I should have changed the face of the world.
    ET4 5.44 4 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are...easily changed or destroyed.
    ET10 5.161 16 By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are changed.
    ET11 5.174 18 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it were changed.
    ET16 5.274 12 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out, and, in his later writings, changed his tone.
    ET17 5.291 3 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET17 5.295 2 [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.
    ET19 5.313 9 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
    F 6.26 8 All things are touched and changed by [the mind].
    Wsp 6.215 23 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
    PI 8.47 24 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed...
    Supl 10.161 1 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    LLNE 10.329 6 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics;...
    AKan 11.258 23 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...and is always to be changed when it does not.
    HCom 11.344 5 Scholars changed the black coat for the blue.
    RBur 11.440 11 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in education and social order, has changed the face of the world.
    CL 12.150 15 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them;...
    CL 12.153 11 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.
    CL 12.153 16 ...on the shore...[the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems and clouds.

changeful, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.348 21 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky/...

changes, n. (37)

    Nat 1.25 12 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    Nat 1.31 19 The poet...bred in the woods, whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.40 18 All things...in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
    Nat 1.50 15 Certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    LE 1.169 26 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    LT 1.262 8 They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    Con 1.300 11 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...
    Tran 1.359 14 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions, by new seats of trade, or the geologic changes...
    Hist 2.32 26 In splendid variety these changes come...
    SR 2.84 14 [Society] undergoes continual changes;...
    Comp 2.124 19 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    SL 2.156 22 No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression.
    Int 2.341 4 [The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's] changes.
    Pt1 3.36 27 We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and caterpillars.
    Nat2 3.179 23 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence...
    NER 3.253 24 ...there were changes of employment dictated by conscience.
    MoS 4.172 11 ...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself in all changes.
    F 6.14 23 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
    F 6.20 11 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
    F 6.38 5 Of what changes then in sky and earth...does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    Wth 6.101 20 The coin is a delicate meter of civil, social and moral changes.
    Wth 6.102 12 ...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to metaphysical changes.
    Bty 6.292 23 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    Ill 6.325 22 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
    WD 7.167 11 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days, in which he marked the changes of the Greek year...
    WD 7.176 11 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
    PI 8.15 21 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...
    PI 8.50 24 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Insp 8.287 21 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...it has...at the changes, tones of triumph...
    Grts 8.305 5 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes.
    Chr2 10.108 7 The changes are inevitable;...
    EzRy 10.392 18 ...Save us from the extremity of cold and these violent sudden changes.
    War 11.166 9 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
    SHC 11.434 18 ...when I think of the mystery of life...the speed of the changes of that glittering dream we call existence,-I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insea of foot-paths;...
    PLT 12.40 2 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
    CL 12.164 4 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language...
    Trag 12.414 14 Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes, dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

changes, v. (16)

    Lov1 2.186 12 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard changes...
    Exp 3.72 12 ...there is that in us which changes not...
    NER 3.270 13 We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
    ET11 5.183 26 The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and changes his tone to a lord.
    F 6.7 17 The sea changes its bed.
    Elo1 7.78 26 ...[Caesar] changes the face of the world...
    Elo1 7.82 12 ...if there be personality in the orator, the face of things changes.
    Farm 7.153 7 ...[the farmer] changes the face of the landscape.
    PI 8.18 16 Why changes not the violet earth into musk?
    PI 8.18 19 ...I see that a devouring unity changes all into that which changes not.
    PI 8.18 20 ...I see that a devouring unity changes all into that which changes not.
    Aris 10.58 23 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
    Prch 10.236 25 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age...
    CL 12.158 5 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture! It changes the landscape from November into June.
    Milt1 12.247 19 [The fame of a great man] changes with time.
    MLit 12.330 1 ...the ideal is truer than the actual. That is ephemeral, but this changes not.

changing, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.91 5 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have./
    SMC 11.351 21 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
    Bost 12.185 16 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies;...

changing, v. (3)

    WD 7.163 17 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
    SovE 10.207 24 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    AgMs 12.361 5 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction...

Channel, English, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.102 18 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.

Channel, English, n. (1)

    ET11 5.191 26 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...

channel, n. (15)

    LE 1.181 21 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    MN 1.210 7 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
    LT 1.263 9 ...[persons] are the channel of supernatural powers.
    SL 2.134 17 [Men of extraordinary success's] success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel;...
    SL 2.141 3 ...[each man] sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
    Gts 3.162 1 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    Nat2 3.196 19 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    NR 3.242 3 ...rightly every man is a channel through which heaven floweth...
    NER 3.282 12 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...
    GoW 4.261 12 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river its channel in the soil;...
    ET2 5.33 2 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET5 5.86 14 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    CbW 6.247 23 The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
    Schr 10.273 12 We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
    PLT 12.16 25 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who has made a chart of its channel...

channels, n. (13)

    DSA 1.124 19 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...his being shrinks out of all remote channels...
    Cir 2.314 18 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart...
    Exp 3.67 20 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will; namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life.
    NER 3.281 27 There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications.
    UGM 4.7 18 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels...
    UGM 4.15 27 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
    PPh 4.69 10 The universe is perforated by a million channels for [the supreme Good's] activity.
    ShP 4.198 24 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
    Ctr 6.162 21 [The finished man of the world]...values men only as channels of power.
    DL 7.121 7 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    FRep 11.534 6 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. The tendency of this is...to extinguish individualism and choke up all the channels of inspiration from God in man.
    PLT 12.28 8 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind, careless of its channels...
    Milt1 12.276 8 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they did not appropriate...

Channing, William Ellery, n (21)

    ET1 5.10 20 [Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing.
    ET1 5.11 15 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing...should embrace such [Unitarian] views.
    ET1 5.11 19 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
    ET1 5.21 4 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing...
    Ctr 6.135 20 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
    Wsp 6.204 10 The decline of the influence...of Wesley, or Channing, need give us no uneasiness.
    Imtl 8.346 26 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other?...
    Prch 10.231 12 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...
    LLNE 10.330 13 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius and character of Dr. Channing.
    LLNE 10.339 10 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing...
    LLNE 10.339 16 Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the American Church...
    LLNE 10.340 11 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    LLNE 10.340 19 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.
    LLNE 10.341 4 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley...
    CSC 10.375 11 Dr. Channing, Edward Taylor, Bronson Alcott...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian of philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    MMEm 10.402 16 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Channing, Mackintosh, Byron.
    MMEm 10.422 24 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
    MMEm 10.423 14 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing...what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    EWI 11.115 13 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame.
    SHC 11.428 25 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
    ACri 12.302 8 Here is my friend E., the model of opinionists.

Channing, William H., n. (1)

    LLNE 10.341 15 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...

Channing, William Henry, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.363 21 Rev. William Henry Channing, now of London, was from the first a student of Socialism in France and England...

Channing's, William Ellery, (1)

    Supl 10.166 27 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.

Chanson de Roland, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 26 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...

chant, n. (3)

    AmS 1.88 24 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also.
    DSA 1.129 10 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
    SwM 4.109 13 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

chant, v. (5)

    NR 3.227 19 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
    ET13 5.227 20 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
    Suc 7.309 15 ...chant the beauty of the good.
    PI 8.57 8 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    CL 12.134 7 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/ They chant the bliss of their abodes/ To man imprisoned in his own./

chanted, v. (5)

    LE 1.167 10 Poetry has scarce chanted its first song.
    ET13 5.218 11 In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.
    F 6.1 4 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
    PPo 8.239 22 Such [amatory] verses, chanted by their self-taught poets... will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
    Thor 10.475 14 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.

chanticleer, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.389 8 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...

chanting, adj. (1)

    LE 1.167 23 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...

chanting, v. (3)

    AmS 1.88 23 The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man...
    Fdsp 2.195 3 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...Apollo and the Muses chanting still.
    ET1 5.23 6 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong...

chants, n. (1)

    ShP 4.190 16 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.

chaos, n. (23)

    MN 1.206 6 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos...
    Exp 3.78 3 Any invasion of [life's] unity would be chaos.
    NER 3.283 15 ...[men] believe...that right is done at last; or chaos would come.
    UGM 4.35 8 It is for man to tame the chaos;...
    PPh 4.69 19 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
    PPh 4.76 26 Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left...
    SwM 4.140 18 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals,--which is dislocation and chaos.
    MoS 4.170 17 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but random and chaos...dispirits us.
    ET1 5.13 1 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths...
    ET4 5.60 11 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    F 6.32 1 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
    F 6.48 21 ...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow of chaos...
    Wth 6.84 6 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and chaos, Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
    Ctr 6.166 17 ...at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna.
    WD 7.164 3 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    PI 8.41 14 ...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as chaos and darkness.
    Res 8.147 18 Against the terrors of the mob, which...is...chaos come again, good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    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 10.33 16 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man, billows of chaos...
    Schr 10.280 6 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos...
    FSLN 11.226 6 In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    PLT 12.20 16 Without identity at base, chaos must be forever.
    Trag 12.413 26 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder; chaos is come again.

Chaos, n. (9)

    Con 1.296 21 ...I hold what I have got; and so I resist Night and Chaos.
    SR 2.47 26 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
    Comp 2.122 7 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing...
    Mrs1 3.147 5 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    ShP 4.218 21 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    GoW 4.273 3 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
    PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back, and Chaos moved from beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    ACri 12.289 21 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades; ink of Erebus-night of Chaos.
    Let 12.402 13 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...

chaotic, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.86 1 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic...
    Edc1 10.131 6 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of depriving them of all casual and chaotic aspect...
    MMEm 10.425 15 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.

Chapel, Chardon Street, n. (1)

    CSC 10.373 3 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

Chapel, King's College, Ca (2)

    ET12 5.199 7 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's College Chapel [Cambridge]...
    F 6.36 25 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.

Chapel, Moravian, n. (1)

    EWI 11.116 9 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.

chapel, n. (14)

    Con 1.321 5 The corporation were advised to...build a Catholic chapel...
    Mrs1 3.125 2 My gentleman...will outpray saints in chapel...
    ET13 5.218 2 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    ET13 5.220 26 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    QO 8.184 27 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    Chr2 10.119 13 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky...
    Prch 10.229 6 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred...
    LLNE 10.334 13 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises, not a declamation attempted in the college chapel, but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    EWI 11.116 14 At Grace Bay, [the day following emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession, and walked arm in arm into the chapel.
    EWI 11.138 4 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the anti-slavery chapel.
    Shak1 11.450 15 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
    MAng1 12.234 10 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.234 23 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    MLit 12.328 10 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...

Chapel, Sistine, Rome, Ita (5)

    Pow 6.72 18 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    DL 7.131 5 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    MAng1 12.226 24 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    MAng1 12.228 2 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    MAng1 12.230 6 [Michelangelo's] paintings are in the Sistine Chapel...

Chapel, Stone, Boston, Mas (1)

    RBur 11.443 6 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].

chapels, n. (8)

    EWI 11.111 23 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters, their lives threatened, their chapels burned...
    EWI 11.114 22 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
    EWI 11.115 6 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
    EWI 11.115 22 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches and chapels.
    EWI 11.116 5 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...
    EWI 11.120 22 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    EWI 11.121 20 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    MAng1 12.236 4 When the Pope, delighted with one of his chapels, sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, n. (1)

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

chaplain, n. (4)

    ET13 5.222 3 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain...
    MMEm 10.400 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga...
    HDC 11.72 10 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
    HDC 11.78 1 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...

chaplaincy, n. (1)

    ET13 5.226 13 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...

chaplet, n. (2)

    ET19 5.312 8 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
    ACri 12.298 15 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...

chaplets, Flora's, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.177 15 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...

chaplets, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.196 25 The root of the plant is not unsightly to science, though for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short.

Chapman, George, n. (11)

    Pt1 3.31 7 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
    ShP 4.192 13 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
    ShP 4.203 22 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...Marlow, Chapman and the rest.
    ET4 5.47 11 How came such men as...William Shakspeare, George Chapman...
    ET14 5.238 17 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Chapman, Milton, Crashaw...
    ET14 5.256 8 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the secret.
    Boks 7.207 6 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Chapman...
    Boks 7.208 3 Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry Wotton write also to the times.
    Clbs 7.243 21 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Chapman...
    PI 8.50 1 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...
    MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Saint Augustine, Spinoza, Chapman...beside its own riches?

Chapman, Maria W., n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 15 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

Chapman's, George, n. (1)

    Boks 7.197 22 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation...

chapter, n. (36)

    AmS 1.82 14 Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of [the American Scholar's] biography.
    Hist 2.30 15 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Comp 2.96 11 I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
    Exp 3.69 15 ...I have set my heart on honesty in this chapter...
    SwM 4.135 2 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    ET10 5.157 15 It is a curious chapter in modern history, the growth of the machine-shop.
    ET13 5.218 23 Here in England every day a chapter of Genesis, and a leader in the Times.
    ET17 5.291 5 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except in the last chapter...
    Ctr 6.132 9 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    Bhr 6.182 7 Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he called Theorie de la demarche...
    Bty 6.286 20 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    Ill 6.313 3 The chapter of fascinations is very long.
    DL 7.120 3 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...
    Boks 7.195 13 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Boks 7.202 24 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Clbs 7.243 19 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each country, would be an important chapter in history.
    Cour 7.277 16 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
    OA 7.315 11 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
    PI 8.69 15 ...[Goethe's Faust] is a very disagreeable chapter of literature...
    Res 8.150 21 The chapter of pastimes is very long.
    Res 8.153 13 It is easy to see that there is no limit to the chapter of Resources.
    Aris 10.32 13 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Aris 10.32 18 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...
    Prch 10.229 1 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    Plu 10.299 18 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter.
    Plu 10.303 26 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
    Plu 10.305 14 [Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be read by poets, and other wise men;...
    Plu 10.305 16 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
    Plu 10.314 9 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    Plu 10.317 17 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    LLNE 10.368 23 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.
    GSt 10.504 7 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...
    LS 11.14 2 The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    EWI 11.135 23 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves. The end was noble and the means were pure. Hence the elevation and pathos of this chapter of history.
    EdAd 11.390 27 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery...
    EurB 12.378 18 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.

Chapter, n. (1)

    Aris 10.61 2 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...

chapters, n. (9)

    ET11 5.193 11 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
    Pow 6.80 14 I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and Worship.
    Wsp 6.204 20 In the last chapters we treated some particulars of the question of culture.
    DL 7.106 19 The first ride into the country...the books of the nursery, are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    Plu 10.296 26 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same journal;...
    Plu 10.300 18 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch], and this in chapters chiefly ethical...
    Plu 10.305 22 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation...
    Plu 10.309 3 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    Plu 10.318 16 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.

character, n. (464)

    Nat 1.15 13 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects, of what character soever, into a well colored and shaded globe...
    Nat 1.22 9 ...whosoever has seen a person of powerful character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.29 24 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    Nat 1.30 1 When simplicity of character...is broken up...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.38 5 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
    Nat 1.40 3 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.41 7 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    Nat 1.46 18 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.82 16 Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on [the American Scholar's] character and his hopes.
    AmS 1.91 23 It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
    AmS 1.99 6 Character is higher than intellect.
    AmS 1.113 4 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.
    AmS 1.115 12 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...not to be reckoned one character;...
    DSA 1.123 6 Character is always known.
    DSA 1.129 21 ...[Jesus] knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends.
    DSA 1.141 10 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe, to the sanctity of character.
    DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
    DSA 1.144 14 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    LE 1.157 5 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline, but empty,-which whoso sees may fill with what wit and character is in him...
    LE 1.161 6 If you would know the power of character, see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.180 11 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf...
    MN 1.201 11 There is...no detachment of an individual. Hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an exponent of the world.
    MN 1.205 6 ...[the ocean] it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
    MN 1.206 12 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a character...
    MN 1.218 12 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
    MN 1.222 21 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...
    MR 1.244 21 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the house...
    MR 1.256 10 There is a sublime prudence...which...postpones talent to genius, and special results to character.
    LT 1.274 22 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant.
    LT 1.277 27 I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me such partiality of character.
    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.
    LT 1.287 7 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.
    Con 1.303 5 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Con 1.310 17 [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.
    Con 1.313 9 The order of things is as good as the character of the population permits.
    Con 1.313 26 ...see you not how every personal character reacts on the form, and makes it new?
    Con 1.322 22 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man; to...tax the strength of his character?
    Tran 1.338 11 ...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his character...
    Tran 1.343 15 To behold the beauty of another character...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.358 15 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    YA 1.375 18 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    Hist 2.7 4 We have the same interest in condition and character.
    Hist 2.7 10 All literature writes the character of the wise man.
    Hist 2.7 19 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    Hist 2.7 21 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    Hist 2.14 16 How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character!
    Hist 2.19 24 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SR 2.46 22 Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on [a man], and another none.
    SR 2.54 8 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It...blurs the impression of your character.
    SR 2.58 10 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;...
    SR 2.58 22 Character teaches above our wills.
    SR 2.59 18 The force of character is cumulative.
    SR 2.61 3 Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else;...
    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...
    Comp 2.93 12 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the influence of character...
    Comp 2.100 22 Under all governments the influence of character remains the same...
    Comp 2.101 9 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type...
    Comp 2.103 22 ...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    Comp 2.125 7 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and no settled character...
    Comp 2.126 22 The death of a dear friend...somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
    SL 2.137 23 He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.
    SL 2.140 22 Has [a man] not a calling in his character?
    SL 2.142 13 [A man] must find in [his vocation] an outlet for his character...
    SL 2.142 15 If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character make it liberal.
    SL 2.142 22 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
    SL 2.144 2 A man's genius...determines for him the character of the universe.
    SL 2.144 23 ...a few traits of character, manners, face...have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    SL 2.152 17 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company.
    SL 2.156 1 Human character evermore publishes itself.
    SL 2.156 4 ...the intimated purpose, expresses character.
    SL 2.156 4 If you act you show character;...
    SL 2.161 27 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character...
    Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes...
    Lov1 2.178 2 [The lover] is a new man, with...a religious solemnity of character and aims.
    Lov1 2.179 20 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character...
    Lov1 2.182 2 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.188 21 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    Fdsp 2.194 21 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character...
    Fdsp 2.204 18 ...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
    Prd1 2.222 10 The world of the senses...has a symbolic character;...
    Prd1 2.228 14 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception...
    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 2.245 16 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Hsm1 2.248 2 Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Hsm1 2.251 14 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.
    Hsm1 2.260 23 A simple manly character need never make an apology...
    Hsm1 2.262 24 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    OS 2.269 2 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which...constrains every one...to speak from his character and not from his tongue...
    OS 2.274 23 The growths of genius are of a certain total character...
    OS 2.280 3 ...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
    OS 2.281 20 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual...
    OS 2.285 8 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    OS 2.285 15 In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
    OS 2.285 24 The intercourse of society...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    OS 2.286 1 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read.
    OS 2.286 16 Character teaches over our head.
    OS 2.296 1 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    Cir 2.301 10 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
    Cir 2.316 14 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;...
    Cir 2.316 19 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
    Cir 2.320 27 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Cir 2.321 3 Character makes an overpowering present;...
    Cir 2.321 7 Character dulls the impression of particular events.
    Art1 2.351 21 In a portrait [the painter] must inscribe the character and not the features...
    Art1 2.352 21 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 17 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Art1 2.358 26 The best of beauty is...a radiation from the work of art, of human character...
    Art1 2.360 6 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
    Art1 2.367 3 ...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
    Pt1 3.13 23 All form is an effect of character;...
    Exp 3.52 5 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament, which will appear in a given character...
    Exp 3.53 8 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    Chr1 3.90 9 ...character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
    Chr1 3.92 3 Our frank countrymen of the west and south have a taste for character...
    Chr1 3.95 27 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Chr1 3.96 14 [A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his character...
    Chr1 3.96 22 ...men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
    Chr1 3.97 8 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north.
    Chr1 3.97 15 Men of character like to hear of their faults;...
    Chr1 3.98 1 No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
    Chr1 3.99 11 The face which character wears to me is self-sufficingness.
    Chr1 3.99 16 Character is centrality...
    Chr1 3.105 6 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character.
    Chr1 3.105 8 Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it;...
    Chr1 3.105 9 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
    Chr1 3.105 12 Character is nature in the highest form.
    Chr1 3.108 1 Divine persons are character born...
    Chr1 3.108 10 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune;...
    Chr1 3.108 12 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice...
    Chr1 3.108 14 Character wants room;...
    Chr1 3.111 25 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    Chr1 3.113 27 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark...
    Chr1 3.114 6 The history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
    Chr1 3.114 15 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    Chr1 3.114 26 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character...
    Mrs1 3.121 14 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.
    Mrs1 3.122 13 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    Mrs1 3.132 5 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment...
    Mrs1 3.132 15 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.133 23 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Mrs1 3.139 25 [Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
    Mrs1 3.148 6 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.
    Mrs1 3.149 1 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman...whose character emanates freely in their word and gesture.
    Mrs1 3.155 9 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
    Gts 3.161 7 ...we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    Nat2 3.187 11 ...the craft with which the world is made, runs also into the mind and character of men.
    Nat2 3.191 3 Conversation, character, were the avowed ends [of wealth];...
    Pol1 3.200 10 ...the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen;...
    Pol1 3.200 18 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
    Pol1 3.207 13 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    Pol1 3.209 9 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which are identical in their moral character...
    Pol1 3.214 1 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
    Pol1 3.215 23 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character...
    Pol1 3.216 4 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
    Pol1 3.216 8 The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.
    Pol1 3.217 2 In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
    Pol1 3.217 23 We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of character...
    NR 3.225 19 The least hint sets us on the pursuit of a character which no man realizes.
    NR 3.227 5 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    NR 3.227 6 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based; but he has no private character.
    NR 3.239 23 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NR 3.240 10 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NER 3.251 5 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.254 26 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    NER 3.263 12 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    NER 3.270 1 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth...
    NER 3.270 16 I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.
    UGM 4.6 27 ...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
    UGM 4.10 26 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they...reappear in conversation, character and politics.
    PPh 4.57 6 The synthesis which makes the character of [Plato's] mind appears in all his talents.
    PPh 4.66 2 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste.
    PPh 4.75 16 The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the synthesis in the mind of Plato.
    SwM 4.124 26 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
    MoS 4.162 7 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation. These qualities meet in the character of Montaigne.
    ShP 4.208 24 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material; that which describes character and fortune...
    NMW 4.240 9 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
    NMW 4.255 1 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me...
    GoW 4.272 10 [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 4.280 2 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy]...
    GoW 4.283 12 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
    ET4 5.45 18 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that...by their character...
    ET4 5.48 3 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew, who, for two millenniums...has preserved the same character and employments.
    ET4 5.50 20 The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
    ET4 5.52 1 ...certain temperaments...by well-managed contrarieties, develop as drastic a character as the English.
    ET4 5.52 14 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    ET4 5.66 10 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by beauty of the same character...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET5 5.94 4 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions. The same character pervades the whole kingdom.
    ET5 5.101 3 ...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced in ability or in rank.
    ET6 5.106 23 ...[the English] have as much energy, as much continence of character as they ever had.
    ET7 5.121 27 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
    ET7 5.123 12 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers, whom English character does not love.
    ET8 5.129 17 ...[the English] have great range and variety of character.
    ET8 5.136 20 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
    ET8 5.137 8 The English did not calculate the conquest of the Indies. It fell to their character.
    ET9 5.145 26 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
    ET9 5.148 17 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient metre of character...
    ET10 5.156 21 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET11 5.172 1 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET12 5.208 23 A gentleman [in England] must possess a political character...
    ET13 5.230 9 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    ET14 5.256 2 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller' s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of verses [the English] print have this Birmingham character.
    ET15 5.268 19 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET17 5.294 6 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.
    ET17 5.295 15 We [Emerson and Wordsworth] talked of English national character.
    ET19 5.311 7 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character...which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    F 6.1 8 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    F 6.4 8 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the power of character.
    F 6.8 27 An expense of ends to means is fate;-organization tyrannizing over character.
    F 6.9 14 ...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.
    F 6.21 26 Thus we trace Fate...in thought and character as well.
    F 6.28 9 ...he whose thought is deepest will be the strongest character.
    F 6.40 27 Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
    F 6.41 24 A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
    F 6.42 9 A man will see his character emitted in the events that seem to meet...him.
    F 6.42 12 Events expand with the character.
    F 6.43 20 To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms, expressive of the character of the mind.
    Wth 6.97 10 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning...seems to be a compromise of their character;...
    Wth 6.112 1 ...each man's expense must proceed from his character.
    Wth 6.123 27 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in vain that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it.
    Ctr 6.145 11 I think there is a restlessness in our people which argues want of character.
    Ctr 6.150 11 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Ctr 6.156 23 We say solitude, to mark the character of the tone of thought;...
    Ctr 6.158 21 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal grounds...
    Ctr 6.162 25 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...
    Bhr 6.172 8 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.174 18 Manners...grow out of circumstance as well as out of character.
    Bhr 6.183 23 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
    Bhr 6.188 4 In persons of character we do not remark manners...
    Bhr 6.192 12 ...the victories of character are instant...
    Bhr 6.193 16 ...it is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
    Wsp 6.214 11 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training,--religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
    Wsp 6.216 2 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...character to performance;...
    Wsp 6.217 23 ...talent uniformly sinks with character.
    Wsp 6.223 17 We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character...
    Wsp 6.223 24 Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character...
    Wsp 6.224 11 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Wsp 6.227 8 In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment...
    Wsp 6.228 5 [St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her character.
    CbW 6.255 5 ...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
    CbW 6.257 20 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank. Then all talent sinks with character.
    CbW 6.271 17 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...what access to poetry, religion and the powers which constitute character,--he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    Bty 6.283 23 ...we...deprecate any romance of character;...
    Bty 6.304 2 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Bty 6.304 21 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact...
    Bty 6.306 6 ...character gives splendor to youth...
    Bty 6.306 16 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and tokens of thought and character in manners...
    Ill 6.322 27 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Elo1 7.94 11 ...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction.
    Elo1 7.94 26 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    Elo1 7.97 5 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
    DL 7.104 24 The small enchanter nothing can withstand,--no seniority of age, no gravity of character;...
    DL 7.107 24 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could reconcile your moral character and your natural history;...
    DL 7.108 5 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    DL 7.108 10 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    DL 7.109 13 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    DL 7.109 20 That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice of society.
    DL 7.111 5 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit, and his character must be seen in them.
    DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    DL 7.127 27 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character;...
    DL 7.128 2 Happy will that house be...the house in which character marries...
    DL 7.128 16 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the character which draws them.
    DL 7.129 13 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men...acquire a graver importance;...
    WD 7.166 6 What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of mankind?
    WD 7.184 14 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool: this is character, the highest name at which philosophy has arrived.
    WD 7.184 19 What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.
    WD 7.184 20 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    WD 7.185 18 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character...
    Boks 7.216 14 Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Clbs 7.236 18 Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought;...
    Clbs 7.237 3 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
    Clbs 7.245 23 We must have loyalty and character.
    Cour 7.270 18 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Cour 7.275 20 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...
    Suc 7.305 16 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    Suc 7.305 25 Character and wit have their own magnetism.
    OA 7.315 12 The character of the speaker [Josiah Quincy]...gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    PI 8.9 17 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    PI 8.22 22 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights.
    PI 8.27 5 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things...
    PI 8.49 2 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...character and history...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    SA 8.84 1 Manners are...the betrayers of any disproportion or want of symmetry in mind and character.
    SA 8.84 17 Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and character...
    SA 8.84 24 Character must be trusted;...
    SA 8.88 7 It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
    SA 8.93 4 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
    SA 8.95 18 ...there are trials enough of nerve and character...in privatest circles.
    SA 8.101 27 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories. These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and state.
    Elo2 8.111 10 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground...
    Elo2 8.117 16 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will, which, when legitimate and abiding, we call character...
    Elo2 8.121 8 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
    Elo2 8.130 19 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...
    Elo2 8.133 4 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Comc 8.160 26 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...
    Comc 8.161 24 [A perception of the Comic] appears to be an essential element in a fine character.
    Comc 8.163 8 ...no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    PC 8.228 9 The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
    PC 8.229 18 ...when we see creation we also begin to create. Depth of character...can only find nourishment in this soil.
    PC 8.232 20 It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have been often immoral. It has had the worst effect on character.
    Grts 8.304 21 Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go to California...
    Grts 8.306 26 ...every man...has a new countenance, new manner, new voice, new thoughts and new character.
    Grts 8.314 5 Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of unequal character...
    Grts 8.314 13 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king...
    Grts 8.317 23 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light.
    Grts 8.317 24 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light.
    Grts 8.318 7 The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans, when Roman character prevails over Greek genius.
    Grts 8.320 2 Wit is a magnet to find wit, and character to find character.
    Grts 8.320 3 Wit is a magnet to find wit, and character to find character.
    Imtl 8.334 13 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
    Imtl 8.348 18 Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
    Imtl 8.348 19 Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
    Dem1 10.8 16 A prophetic character in all ages has haunted [dreams].
    Dem1 10.8 21 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the elements. Thus, when awake, I know the character of Rupert, but do not think what he may do.
    Dem1 10.8 27 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character...
    Dem1 10.12 24 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Dem1 10.20 9 Dreams retain the infirmities of our character.
    Dem1 10.27 27 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his character and his fortunes...
    Aris 10.31 21 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but...the success of the manly character, they find in the idea of gentleman.
    Aris 10.34 10 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners;...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 10.34 13 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish of character,-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 24 ...instead of this impure, a pure reverence for character...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Aris 10.66 4 ...the American who would serve his country...must reinforce himself by the power of character...
    Chr2 10.102 13 This steadfastness we indicate when we praise character.
    Chr2 10.102 14 Character denotes habitual self-possession...
    Chr2 10.119 22 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.
    Chr2 10.119 25 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    Chr2 10.120 1 Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of truth.
    Chr2 10.121 26 There is no end to the sufficiency of character.
    Edc1 10.128 19 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told...
    Edc1 10.132 15 We learn nothing rightly until we learn the symbolical character of life.
    Edc1 10.133 18 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    Edc1 10.137 19 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    Edc1 10.150 25 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character?
    Edc1 10.151 24 ...you see [the young man's] want of those tastes and perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
    Edc1 10.154 16 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness;...
    Supl 10.163 10 I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's] higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
    Supl 10.167 6 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I have studied his character, and I believe him capable of virtue.
    Supl 10.167 15 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of character in speakers who use it.
    Supl 10.176 10 ...the basis of character must be simplicity...
    Supl 10.176 11 ...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter of climate.
    Supl 10.176 16 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak, and in character is a capital defect...
    SovE 10.198 2 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will. Character is the habit of this obedience...
    SovE 10.198 8 We go to famous books for our examples of character...
    SovE 10.204 10 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now men...suffer in character and intellect.
    SovE 10.205 12 ...we have punctuality for faith, and good taste for character.
    SovE 10.206 22 We in America are charged...that reverence does not belong to our character;...
    SovE 10.211 9 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world; there are rulers that will at any moment make these forgotten. Fear will. Love will. Character will.
    SovE 10.212 16 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration...
    Prch 10.218 5 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.218 14 Scorn of hypocrisy, pride of personal character...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Prch 10.218 17 ...a boundless ambition of intellect, willingness to sacrifice personal interests for the integrity of the character,-all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Prch 10.224 6 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents by the emanation of character.
    MoL 10.246 19 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    Schr 10.268 8 I should wish your energy to run in works and emergencies growing out of your personal character.
    Schr 10.279 6 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
    Schr 10.280 13 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
    Plu 10.297 9 Whatever is eminent...in opinion, in character...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    Plu 10.308 16 ...true to his practical character, [Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    Plu 10.311 2 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    LLNE 10.330 13 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius and character of Dr. Channing.
    LLNE 10.343 18 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company gave it some notoriety...
    LLNE 10.344 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
    LLNE 10.348 18 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character.
    LLNE 10.349 7 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it had not the partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...
    LLNE 10.360 26 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.361 11 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    LLNE 10.361 20 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.362 10 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.362 14 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons, for character, intellect or accomplishments.
    LLNE 10.362 17 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.364 12 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.368 27 ...what studies of character...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    CSC 10.376 5 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of character.
    CSC 10.376 6 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of character.
    EzRy 10.390 12 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic, his character was so transparent...that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
    MMEm 10.402 8 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    MMEm 10.403 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] adored [genius] when ennobled by character.
    MMEm 10.405 16 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more, and made shrewd guesses at his character and possibilities...
    MMEm 10.406 12 ...sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive...
    MMEm 10.407 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    MMEm 10.432 7 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of...
    SlHr 10.439 6 [Samuel Hoar] was a very natural, but a very high character;...
    SlHr 10.442 24 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived.
    SlHr 10.445 10 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression...
    Thor 10.451 4 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood...
    Thor 10.460 19 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.473 9 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority.
    Thor 10.483 27 How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
    Carl 10.491 16 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    Carl 10.493 14 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
    Carl 10.494 13 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    Carl 10.495 24 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...but that is a truth of character, not of catechisms.
    GSt 10.502 12 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... had a rare magnetism for men of character...
    LS 11.13 19 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
    HDC 11.37 4 To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble traits of character.
    HDC 11.83 20 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information respecting your character and customs.
    LVB 11.94 19 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.
    LVB 11.95 17 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
    EWI 11.124 25 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    FSLC 11.180 11 Boston, of whose fame for spirit and character we have all been so proud;...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLN 11.219 18 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of eloquent speech, but men...without character...
    FSLN 11.223 3 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    FSLN 11.224 24 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
    FSLN 11.238 9 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    AsSu 11.248 26 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.
    AsSu 11.249 8 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends. He was elected. It was a homage to character and talent.
    JBB 11.268 6 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father, as a man of strong character...
    JBS 11.279 12 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
    JBS 11.279 20 ...as happens usually to men of romantic character, [John Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
    HCom 11.342 16 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges!
    HCom 11.342 18 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges! What an infusion of character down to the ranks!
    SMC 11.376 12 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...
    Wom 11.410 7 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    Wom 11.414 19 This [prophetic] power, this religious character, is everywhere to be remarked in [women].
    Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...
    Wom 11.420 20 If new power is here, of a character which solves old tough questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    SHC 11.434 24 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];...
    Scot 11.463 13 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which all English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
    FRO1 11.479 20 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the power of character...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    CPL 11.500 10 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...of marked character...
    CPL 11.504 8 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
    CPL 11.507 17 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it more or less emphasis than they do. Yet the strong character does not need this sameness of culture.
    FRep 11.516 16 ...the direction of talent, of character...may well occupy us...
    FRep 11.518 22 Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of character.
    FRep 11.518 23 Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of character.
    FRep 11.519 26 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
    PLT 12.19 15 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.
    PLT 12.30 26 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.31 8 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    PLT 12.54 6 The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others.
    PLT 12.56 21 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife. One is talent, the other genius. One is skill, the other character.
    PLT 12.63 21 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    Mem 12.92 18 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion].
    Bost 12.185 6 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    Bost 12.197 6 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which...goes rather to pinch the features and degrade the character.
    Bost 12.200 15 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country, where all the professions are crowded and all character suppressed...
    Bost 12.201 1 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character...
    Bost 12.208 23 The climate [of Boston] is electric, good for wit and good for character.
    MAng1 12.215 10 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.229 12 The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental; and even his poetry partakes of that character.
    MAng1 12.240 2 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
    MAng1 12.240 21 [Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant angel, who is to refine and perfect his own character.
    Milt1 12.254 15 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.262 26 ...the foremost impression [Milton's] character makes is that of elegance.
    Milt1 12.270 14 [Milton] studied with care the character of his countrymen...
    Milt1 12.274 27 ...Milton's [imagination] ministers to the character.
    Milt1 12.278 25 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...
    ACri 12.297 10 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes hard hits all the time. There's more character than intellect in every sentence-herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.
    MLit 12.316 7 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which has no root in the character...
    MLit 12.319 20 ...[Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic traits;...
    MLit 12.321 4 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    WSL 12.344 4 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    WSL 12.344 19 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of delineating character.
    WSL 12.344 27 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
    EurB 12.365 7 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark...
    EurB 12.375 4 In this class [novel of costume or of circumstance], the hero, without any particular character, is in a very particular circumstance;...
    EurB 12.376 7 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    EurB 12.376 9 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.
    EurB 12.377 7 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry, and the only power recognized is the force of character.
    PPr 12.384 2 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...
    PPr 12.389 4 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...
    PPr 12.391 6 This grandiose character pervades [Carlyle's] wit and his imagination.
    Let 12.403 23 Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...
    Trag 12.416 11 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.

Character, n. (3)

    LT 1.261 15 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Chr1 3.89 22 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
    WSL 12.345 8 The word Character is in all mouths;...

character-destroying, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.271 10 There could always be traced...in the most character-destroying civilization, some vestiges of a faith in genius...

charactered, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.183 17 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.

characteristic, adj. (5)

    GoW 4.261 6 [The writer's] office is a reception of the facts into the mind, and then a selection of the eminent and characteristic experiences.
    GoW 4.280 15 ...what is also characteristic, Novalis soon returned to this book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    ET4 5.54 12 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    ET5 5.89 10 ...that is characteristic of all [the Englishmen's] work,--no more is attempted than is done.
    SA 8.94 4 ...[Madame de Stael] said, with characteristic nationality, Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.

characteristic, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.260 4 The characteristic of heroism is its persistency.
    ET19 5.311 13 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives...that thoroughness and solidity of work which is a national [English] characteristic.
    Dem1 10.18 12 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.

characteristically, adv. (1)

    Pol1 3.212 16 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...

characteristics, n. (1)

    Hist 2.26 14 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.

characterize, v. (5)

    Tran 1.354 7 ...we retain the belief...that the moments will characterize the days.
    Mrs1 3.121 1 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.
    ET8 5.130 1 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner...
    Wsp 6.223 11 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    EWI 11.133 7 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.

characterized, v. (5)

    Tran 1.354 16 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
    Comp 2.110 2 Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.
    GoW 4.280 7 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    CSC 10.375 8 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    MLit 12.310 19 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book...

characterizes, v. (15)

    DSA 1.141 15 ...tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
    LE 1.182 10 ...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great masters.
    LT 1.260 2 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher, and this for the obvious reason, that...it characterizes the people.
    LT 1.281 2 The exaggeration which our young people make of [the slave's] wrongs, characterizes themselves.
    OS 2.295 16 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.
    Nat2 3.183 13 This guiding identity [in nature]...characterizes every law.
    NR 3.230 1 There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
    Pow 6.54 12 ...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Wsp 6.224 15 The fame...of Thomas a Kempis or of Bonaparte, characterizes those who give it.
    DL 7.109 3 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period.
    CSC 10.375 26 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    EdAd 11.388 9 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...
    Milt1 12.248 8 ...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it...
    MLit 12.313 10 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects, which always characterizes a genius of the first order.
    MLit 12.318 16 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.

characters, n. (36)

    Nat 1.32 20 ...we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.
    Con 1.318 7 These considerations, urged by those whose characters and whose fortunes are yet to be formed, must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    SL 2.133 21 We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.
    Exp 3.80 17 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate...
    Mrs1 3.143 13 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Nat2 3.189 5 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    NR 3.227 12 Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul.
    PPh 4.71 24 [Socrates]...knew the old characters...
    ShP 4.209 4 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences...which affect their fortunes;...
    ShP 4.212 13 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    NMW 4.244 21 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals are discriminating...
    NMW 4.254 7 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
    GoW 4.261 17 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march.
    GoW 4.270 18 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in.
    GoW 4.278 6 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with so many...just insights into life and manners and characters;...
    GoW 4.278 26 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    ET17 5.293 8 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found...
    Ctr 6.145 6 For the most part, only the light characters travel.
    Boks 7.219 15 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
    Cour 7.255 27 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
    OA 7.335 5 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...and Saratoga, with praise, and named with accuracy the characters in them.
    PI 8.45 1 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... moreover, they speak after their own characters, not ours;...
    PI 8.67 5 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...
    Chr2 10.121 17 Goethe, in discussing the characters in Wilhelm Meister, maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    Edc1 10.138 10 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    Edc1 10.142 24 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
    Supl 10.175 27 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence, the simple and great characters, are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    EWI 11.147 7 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    Wom 11.414 4 ...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with whom they converse.
    Scot 11.466 5 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...
    Scot 11.466 20 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare.
    PLT 12.53 24 Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory.
    MAng1 12.234 26 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    Milt1 12.273 25 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
    MLit 12.329 15 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have given my characters [in Wilhelm Meister] a bias to error. Men have the same.
    Trag 12.409 17 ...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

charades, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.141 2 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...

charcoal, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.104 23 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal;...

Chardon Street Chapel, n. (1)

    CSC 10.373 3 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

Chardon Street Convention, (5)

    CSC 10.373 7 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
    CSC 10.373 17 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    CSC 10.373 18 This Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...
    CSC 10.376 19 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...

charge, n. (32)

    MR 1.231 14 We are all implicated of course in this charge;...
    MR 1.238 14 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    LT 1.290 18 You will absolve me from the charge of flippancy...when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    Tran 1.357 20 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge...
    Pow 6.73 26 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle, endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
    Bhr 6.193 20 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Bty 6.295 17 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    DL 7.131 1 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    Boks 7.205 5 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will take him in charge...
    Cour 7.261 7 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    Cour 7.278 26 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    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.
    Grts 8.311 1 Let the student mind his own charge;...
    PerF 10.79 13 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning...
    Schr 10.269 7 The dry-goods men, and the brokers...are idealists, and only differ from the philosopher in the intensity of the charge.
    Schr 10.269 21 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    HDC 11.42 7 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and, in respect of the greatness of their charge thereabout, and in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    HDC 11.66 13 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people. Party and mutual councils were called, but no grave charge was made good against him.
    EWI 11.118 17 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    War 11.168 11 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    AsSu 11.250 6 ...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are the faults which his enemies lay to his charge.
    AsSu 11.250 15 ...beyond this charge...that he broke over the proprieties of debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    TPar 11.289 5 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge!...
    ALin 11.328 12 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
    SMC 11.373 4 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels. In this charge, Colonel George L. Prescott was mortally wounded.
    SMC 11.373 8 After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    SMC 11.374 13 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge...
    Wom 11.418 6 ...for the general charge [that women are temperamental]: no doubt it is well founded.
    SHC 11.429 2 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    ACri 12.301 26 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.

charge, v. (4)

    MR 1.233 1 I do not charge the merchant or the manufacturer.
    NMW 4.231 17 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    TPar 11.287 20 ...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the opinions of the new generation.
    Wom 11.417 9 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely, to charge women with termperament;...

chargeable, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.193 26 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness...

charged, adj. (2)

    LE 1.157 6 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty...
    Pow 6.70 23 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.

charged, v. (36)

    Hsm1 2.255 26 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification...
    PPh 4.58 1 [Plato] has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of the death of Socrates.
    PPh 4.76 23 [Plato] is charged with having failed to make the transition from ideas to matter.
    MoS 4.182 16 [The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
    ET4 5.63 16 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength...
    ET5 5.85 14 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details, or the not driving things too finely (which is charged on the Germans), constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET7 5.116 7 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    ET7 5.122 6 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from the burdens charged on English.
    ET12 5.202 23 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
    ET14 5.236 12 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. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    F 6.16 18 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer, but charged with pungent and unforgetable truths.
    Wth 6.109 22 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
    Wsp 6.212 20 It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American society.
    Elo1 7.63 5 ...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery.
    Cour 7.260 20 Nature has charged every one with his own defence...
    OA 7.328 5 In a world so charged and sparkling with power, a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    QO 8.191 21 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    Chr2 10.107 11 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and aspiration.
    Edc1 10.142 16 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    SovE 10.206 20 We in America are charged with a great deficiency in worship;...
    MoL 10.243 13 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity...
    Plu 10.321 8 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London, charged with the duty of preparing a Critical Dictionary, will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
    LLNE 10.365 24 ...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.
    Thor 10.473 24 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...
    AsSu 11.250 23 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    TPar 11.286 1 Theodore Parker was...charged with the energy of New England...
    TPar 11.288 26 The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity in leading men.
    EPro 11.326 5 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies...
    HCom 11.342 14 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men...
    FRO2 11.490 21 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    FRep 11.518 13 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures. The men themselves are suspected and charged with lobbying and being lobbied.
    PLT 12.5 27 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king...
    CW 12.171 3 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...
    MAng1 12.226 1 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber.
    Milt1 12.263 26 When [Milton] was charged with loose habits of living, he 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 19 [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.

charger, n. (1)

    PI 8.4 3 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail.

charges, n. (8)

    Comp 2.99 21 He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
    ET15 5.265 9 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
    Wth 6.105 3 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime, one of the principal charges of every nation, is so far stopped.
    HDC 11.41 13 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges...
    HDC 11.41 16 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.65 2 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
    HDC 11.66 15 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.
    HDC 11.66 17 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.

charges, v. (1)

    Tran 1.336 15 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./

charging, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.246 2 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company, to the charging himself with too many select letters of introduction.

Charing Cross, London, Eng (1)

    ET11 5.181 25 Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross.

chariot, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.325 20 [The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and skill, and chariot races.

chariot, n. (8)

    MR 1.243 16 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
    Cir 2.315 5 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    F 6.32 21 ...the ductility of metals, the chariot of the air, the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.
    Wsp 6.215 24 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
    WD 7.173 9 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    FSLC 11.201 13 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly...harnessing himself to the chariot of the planters.
    CL 12.148 18 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot;...
    ACri 12.290 21 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was...room to turn a chariot and horses between his valid words.

charioteer, n. (3)

    MR 1.243 16 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
    PNR 4.83 7 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the charioteer and two horses;...
    PI 8.66 7 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head, as the charioteer sits with the hero in the Iliad.

charioteers, n. (1)

    PPr 12.389 13 ...in all his fun of...playing of tunes with a whiplash like some renowned charioteers...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

chariot-race, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.90 21 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might...at least guide his horses in the chariot-race;...

chariots, n. (6)

    SwM 4.135 22 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;...what with...chariots of fire...
    Civ 7.30 23 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    Boks 7.200 18 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
    Cour 7.256 21 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion...must be brought in chariots to every mass meeting.
    Imtl 8.350 20 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots...
    EWI 11.102 5 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.

charitable, adj. (11)

    LE 1.173 19 [The scholar] must be a solitary, laborious, modest, and charitable soul.
    MoS 4.181 21 Charitable souls come with their projects and ask [the spiritualist's] co-operation.
    ET19 5.310 17 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it, and, if he cannot, he finds some charitable pair of eyes that can, and hears it.
    Pow 6.66 7 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    Pow 6.66 8 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    Boks 7.192 15 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    LLNE 10.347 8 [Robert Owen's] charitable construction of men and their actions was invariable.
    EzRy 10.385 9 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion? Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
    EzRy 10.385 20 [Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man, punctual, severe, but just and charitable...
    HDC 11.80 17 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    EWI 11.105 15 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon...

charitable, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.153 26 Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul' s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...

charities, n. (20)

    Tran 1.333 24 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves;...
    Tran 1.341 9 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
    Tran 1.348 1 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share in the public charities, in the public religious rites...
    Tran 1.349 14 ...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
    SR 2.52 14 ...your miscellaneous popular charities;...though...I sometimes... give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Hsm1 2.261 9 We tell our charities...for our justification.
    Hsm1 2.261 13 We tell our charities...for our justification. It is a capital blunder; as you discover when another man recites his charities.
    Mrs1 3.146 4 ...there is still some absurd inventor of charities;...
    ET4 5.67 14 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded...for colleges, churches, charities and colonies.
    ET10 5.170 2 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    ET11 5.185 7 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to countenance charities...
    ET13 5.225 9 The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new charities...
    Farm 7.141 15 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
    Clbs 7.247 24 ...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner. I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same necessity;...
    QO 8.188 4 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed...from a hundred charities?
    PC 8.209 5 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
    EzRy 10.391 10 [Ezra Ripley] subscribed to all charities...
    CPL 11.495 5 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...caring for its schools, its charities, its highways.
    FRep 11.520 7 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    Bost 12.186 14 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.

charity, n. (50)

    Nat 1.13 16 ...thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.
    LE 1.184 6 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
    Con 1.318 9 ...beside that charity which should make all adult persons interested for the youth...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Tran 1.356 14 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or charity...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    Tran 1.358 6 ...Society...must behold [Transcendentalists] with what charity it can.
    YA 1.374 1 [That serene Power's] charity is not our charity.
    YA 1.374 16 ...it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
    YA 1.386 12 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England, and not feel that poverty as a demand on their charity to make New England rich?
    Hist 2.6 10 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the plea for education, for justice, for charity;...
    SR 2.52 25 Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine...
    SR 2.72 7 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    Exp 3.81 26 Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on the symptoms.
    Chr1 3.104 11 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Pol1 3.209 3 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.
    NR 3.244 19 ...let us...infer the genius of nature from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
    SwM 4.125 22 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived themselves of charity, wander and flee...
    ET11 5.182 2 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    F 6.45 15 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run...into his charity.
    Ctr 6.165 24 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Christianity with its charity;...can set his dull nerves throbbing... make way and sing paean!
    CbW 6.249 11 The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Clbs 7.247 22 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    SA 8.105 4 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity...
    Elo2 8.110 4 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    PC 8.209 23 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity proposed by statesmen...
    Grts 8.312 20 ...[the great man] conceals his learning, conceals his charity.
    Grts 8.316 18 We must have some charity for the sense of the people, which admires natural power...
    Chr2 10.103 17 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some reform or charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Edc1 10.151 5 What fiery soul will [the college] send out to warm a nation with his charity?
    MoL 10.258 4 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes. Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
    LLNE 10.336 27 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    MMEm 10.419 23 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity...
    SlHr 10.437 9 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star, full of...honor and charity;...
    SlHr 10.440 13 [Samuel Hoar] was open-handed to every charity...
    LS 11.21 15 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality, its boundless charity...
    HDC 11.62 4 For [the Indians] the heart of charity, of humanity, was stone.
    HDC 11.64 10 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord].
    War 11.156 10 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...none of charity...
    War 11.167 8 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and charity;...
    FSLC 11.183 26 I cannot accept the railroad and telegraph in exchange for reason and charity.
    FSLC 11.192 24 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity?
    FSLC 11.202 14 I have as much charity for Mr. Webster, I think, as any one has.
    AKan 11.257 1 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity;...
    FRep 11.538 17 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.540 4 Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God to the human race.
    PLT 12.29 12 [Man's] equipment, though new, is complete;...his courage, his charity, are his own.
    Milt1 12.262 7 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.277 9 Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    Milt1 12.278 21 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    Pray 12.356 24 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity, and it is known by charity.
    PPr 12.384 8 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.

Charity, n. (1)

    Pray 12.356 25 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...

charity-boy, n. (1)

    SR 2.61 26 Let [a man] not...skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy...

charity-concert, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.348 6 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy, from no soup-society or charity-concert, but from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.

charity-houses, n. (1)

    ET3 5.38 9 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.

charivari, n. (2)

    Ill 6.314 3 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    SA 8.80 18 ...we for the most part are all drawn into the charivari;...

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