Chilblain to Christ's Jesus

MoS 4.184 7 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child...

ShP 4.211 14 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...

ET4 5.50 14 A child blends in his face the faces of both parents...

ET12 5.208 11 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...

ET12 5.208 12 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...

Wth 6.84 23 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the conscience of a child./

Wth 6.123 25 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress, servant and child...

Ctr 6.142 12 You send your child to the school-master, but 't is the schoolboys who educate him.

Ctr 6.163 25 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child...

Bhr 6.176 17 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...

Bhr 6.176 18 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger.

Bhr 6.183 3 There are people who come in ever like a child with a piece of good news.

Bty 6.285 15 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death. The monarch rejoined, Live, my child, and be wise.

Bty 6.287 21 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at the death of its ward, entered a new-born child...

Bty 6.289 23 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...

Ill 6.312 4 The child walks amid heaps of illusions...

Civ 7.22 13 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field.

Civ 7.22 20 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.

Art2 7.37 20 The child not only suffers, but cries;...

Art2 7.38 15 The sucking child is an unconscious actor.

Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

Art2 7.57 14 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.

Elo1 7.71 21 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.

Elo1 7.82 13 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor...

DL 7.103 16 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child...soften all hearts to pity...

DL 7.105 4 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance...

DL 7.107 7 The household is the home of the man, as well as of the child.

DL 7.111 20 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child;...

Farm 7.153 3 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.

WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps,--a rattle, a doll, an apple, for a child;...

WD 7.175 2 Poor child! that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...

Boks 7.212 21 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest.

Clbs 7.227 1 ...a child will long for his companions, but among them plays by himself.

Clbs 7.227 24 Thought is the child of the intellect...

Clbs 7.227 25 Thought is the child of the intellect, and this child is conceived with joy and born with joy.

Cour 7.255 1 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them...as the mother does of the child;...

Cour 7.257 12 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

Cour 7.257 13 The terrors of the child are quite reasonable...

Cour 7.262 20 The child is as much in danger from a staircase...as the soldier from a cannon...

Cour 7.278 24 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./

OA 7.327 7 The throes continue until the child is born.

OA 7.333 10 [John Adams said] [John Quincy Adams] has always been laborious, child and man, from infancy.

PI 8.3 3 [The perception of matter] was the cradle, this the go-cart, of the human child.

PI 8.42 18 Anything, child, that the mind covets...thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.

PI 8.45 10 Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...

SA 8.81 22 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young child?

SA 8.104 26 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 of the mother for her child; of the child for its mate;...

Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.

QO 8.190 9 The child quotes his father, and the man quotes his friend.

QO 8.199 1 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...

PC 8.213 10 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...

PC 8.226 15 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.

PC 8.230 21 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...by considerations of humanity to the workman and to his child;...

Insp 8.279 2 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.

Imtl 8.330 18 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said;...

Imtl 8.348 20 The youth puts off the illusions of the child...

PerF 10.84 8 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.

Chr2 10.98 27 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child. But if the child had been killed by Herod, would the element have been lost?

Chr2 10.99 9 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...

Chr2 10.119 4 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...

Edc1 10.125 23 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...

Edc1 10.137 18 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...

Edc1 10.137 20 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint.

Edc1 10.143 21 Respect the child.

Edc1 10.143 23 Respect the child.

Edc1 10.144 1 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies...

Edc1 10.144 4 ...Respect the child, respect him to the end, but also respect yourself.

Edc1 10.144 19 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child...

Edc1 10.145 13 Happy this child with a bias...

Edc1 10.147 10 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...

Edc1 10.147 20 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read...

Edc1 10.148 20 The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart.

Edc1 10.151 19 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...

Edc1 10.156 4 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity?

Edc1 10.156 10 ...he is,-every child, a new style of man;...

Edc1 10.156 12 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.

Edc1 10.158 10 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.

SovE 10.192 7 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...

MoL 10.250 23 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic; no spoiled child, no drone, no epicure...

Plu 10.295 19 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.

LLNE 10.367 15 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt?

MMEm 10.400 7 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden and told her to keep the child until he returned.

MMEm 10.401 5 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter...

MMEm 10.408 16 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary Moody Emerson] would listen like a child.

SlHr 10.441 1 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left...the strength of a chief united to the modesty of a child.

LS 11.18 15 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

HDC 11.37 5 [The Indian] was open as a child to kindness and justice.

EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.

EWI 11.119 1 The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...

JBS 11.279 19 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...quiet and gentle as a child in the house.

SHC 11.433 20 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...

Shak1 11.448 16 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!

FRO1 11.478 15 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...

PLT 12.30 21 When, moved by love, a man teaches his child...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

PLT 12.35 16 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.

PLT 12.60 6 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child...

PLT 12.64 12 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...and ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.

Bost 12.198 20 ...these [religious] thoughts are as if angels had talked with the child.

Bost 12.211 16 Let every child that is born of her and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...

MAng1 12.242 17 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.

MLit 12.318 14 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism...

Pray 12.355 13 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee, for thou didst first love me, and lovest me still. We will ever be parent and child.

AgMs 12.359 23 [Edmund Hosmer's] laugh rings with the sweetness and hilarity of a child;...

PPr 12.390 18 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.

Child, n. (1)

Prd1 2.230 1 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child.

Child of Destiny, the, n. (1)

NMW 4.231 16 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when he styled himself the Child of Destiny.

childhood, n. (41)

Nat 1.8 7 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

AmS 1.96 5 The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation.

MN 1.220 4 What a debt is ours to that old religion, which, in the childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the country of New England...

MR 1.231 8 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he must forget the prayers of his childhood...

LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...

Tran 1.344 21 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise;...

YA 1.367 17 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have...passed into second childhood.

Hist 2.26 10 [The Greeks] combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood.

Hist 2.37 13 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.

Hist 2.39 4 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood the Age of Gold...

SL 2.136 18 It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire and maturity should teach;...

Prd1 2.227 20 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes an old joy of youth and childhood...

OS 2.277 4 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons].

Int 2.334 17 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...

NR 3.238 21 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures...

UGM 4.3 2 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes...it would not surprise us.

ET4 5.64 21 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...

ET19 5.312 10 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...

CbW 6.267 14 In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon...

Ill 6.311 6 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...

Elo1 7.70 22 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?

Elo1 7.96 14 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...

DL 7.103 1 The perfection of the providence for childhood is easily acknowledged.

DL 7.105 3 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man...

DL 7.106 3 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!

OA 7.316 23 ...the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.

QO 8.178 1 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...

Dem1 10.4 6 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures. Sometimes the forgotten companions of childhood reappear...

Dem1 10.25 13 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...

Edc1 10.148 22 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.

SovE 10.201 20 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...

MMEm 10.414 3 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...

MMEm 10.414 8 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself...

MMEm 10.415 12 'T was I who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not...

MMEm 10.432 20 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...

War 11.155 20 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded...only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts...

JBB 11.269 8 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him. What magnanimity, what innocent pleading, as of childhood!

Mem 12.91 26 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...

Mem 12.98 20 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge. Where is it now? Look behind you. I cannot see that your train is any longer than it was in childhood.

MAng1 12.220 12 Michael Angelo dedicated himself, from his childhood to his death, to a toilsome observation of Nature.

Trag 12.408 1 ...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will] disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood.

childhood's, n. (2)

DL 7.101 8 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./

MMEm 10.397 7 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./

childish, adj. (18)

Nat 1.12 14 The misery of man appears like childish petulance...

Fdsp 2.200 25 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards...

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

SwM 4.103 14 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...

ET9 5.151 6 ...this childish [English] patriotism costs something...

ET11 5.192 10 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the sneer at the childish indiscretion of quarrelling with ten thousand a year;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.

Bhr 6.194 20 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.

Wsp 6.207 21 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them, but either childish and insignificant or unmanly and effeminating.

Ill 6.322 25 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.

Civ 7.20 10 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away...is made by tribes.

QO 8.185 24 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...

SovE 10.199 14 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.

SovE 10.205 11 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...

Prch 10.217 18 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.

War 11.155 23 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.

FRO1 11.479 4 There is an element of childish infatuation in [the histories of the Church] which does not exalt our respect for man.

FRO2 11.489 1 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.

Mem 12.91 25 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...

childless, adj. (2)

FSLN 11.239 10 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring and does not die childless, and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...

Bost 12.210 23 Bacon, Newton and Washington were childless.

childlike, adj. (4)

Hist 2.26 14 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek...

SR 2.47 17 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age...

SlHr 10.446 13 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence and a native temperance...

Thor 10.456 20 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved...

children, n. (215)

Nat 1.26 5 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children.

Nat 1.26 5 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things...

Nat 1.59 19 Children, it is true, believe in the external world.

Nat 1.73 11 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the wisdom of children.

AmS 1.104 9 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that like children and women his is a protected class;...

MN 1.209 14 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.

MN 1.221 1 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea, and be ourselves the children of the light.

MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections, by wives and children...

LT 1.260 18 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth...

Con 1.301 17 ...men are...very foolish children...

Con 1.312 16 Now can your children be educated...

Con 1.315 12 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love they bore their children...

Con 1.315 21 These are stories of godly children...

Tran 1.346 22 These exacting children advertise us of our wants.

Tran 1.348 25 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.

YA 1.363 6 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...

YA 1.375 17 Fathers wish to be fathers of the minds of their children...

YA 1.375 21 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling, which all their love and pride in the powers of their children cannot subdue, becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.

Hist 2.26 2 [Greek] Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children.

SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!

SR 2.65 19 If I see a trait, my children will see it after me...

SR 2.67 26 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames...

Comp 2.111 2 The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor.

SL 2.136 15 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...the children will bring flowers.

SL 2.136 22 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

SL 2.148 9 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.

SL 2.148 11 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.

Lov1 2.185 17 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers].

Prd1 2.238 13 ...the peace of society is often kept, because, as children say, one is afraid and the other dares not.

Hsm1 2.256 25 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...

OS 2.284 21 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Int 2.329 3 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children...

Art1 2.349 18 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./

Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...

Pt1 3.4 18 ...we are...children of the fire...

Pt1 3.6 19 ...the Universe has three children...

Pt1 3.9 22 Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Pt1 3.29 7 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...

Pt1 3.30 7 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.

Pt1 3.36 15 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...

Exp 3.57 25 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense.

Exp 3.59 21 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.

Exp 3.64 9 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...

Chr1 3.105 23 Two persons lately, very young children of the most high God, have given me occasion for thought.

Chr1 3.108 7 Nature never rhymes her children...

Chr1 3.109 21 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...

Mrs1 3.119 5 ...[the Feejee islanders] are said to eat their own wives and children.

Mrs1 3.128 4 [Fashion] does not often caress the great, but the children of the great...

Mrs1 3.128 9 Fashion is made up of [great men's] children;...

Mrs1 3.132 7 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new and aboriginal way;...

Mrs1 3.145 25 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...he never forgot his children;...

Mrs1 3.151 6 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.

Mrs1 3.151 7 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.

Gts 3.159 21 Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets;...

Nat2 3.182 7 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us: we have had our day; now let the children have theirs.

Nat2 3.191 8 ...wealth was good as it...kept the children and the dinner-table in a different apartment.

Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.

Pol1 3.211 7 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.

NR 3.246 2 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.

NR 3.246 17 We are as ungrateful as children.

NER 3.272 8 ...we are all the children of genius...

NER 3.272 9 ...we are all the children of genius, the children of virtue...

UGM 4.3 15 We call our children and our lands by [great men's] names.

UGM 4.29 2 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where children seem so much at the mercy of their foolish parents...

UGM 4.29 5 We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children.

UGM 4.30 9 Children think they cannot live without their parents.

PPh 4.40 12 No wife, no children had [Plato]...

PPh 4.43 18 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them.

PPh 4.45 21 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.

SwM 4.101 13 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...and kind to children.

SwM 4.124 18 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it extracts what is excellent in its children...

MoS 4.149 19 [A man] builds his fortunes...cherishes his children; but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?

MoS 4.178 2 We have been sopped and drugged...with food, with woman, with children...

NMW 4.228 3 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside. The sentiments were for women and children.

NMW 4.242 5 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates, secluded from all community with the children of the soil...

NMW 4.242 11 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own, opening of course to them and their children all places of power and trust.

GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.

ET4 5.62 16 It is a medical fact that the children of the blind see;...

ET4 5.62 17 ...the children of felons have a healthy conscience.

ET4 5.67 13 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for...civility, marriage, the nurture of children...

ET4 5.72 10 The [Tartar] children were fed on mares' milk.

ET6 5.109 21 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...followed by a long brood of children.

ET8 5.128 13 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children...

ET10 5.154 25 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...

ET10 5.162 9 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of [the duke's] children.

ET11 5.181 7 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...

ET11 5.195 26 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.

ET13 5.214 15 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and all question is closed for me.

ET13 5.226 25 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.

ET14 5.235 4 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed.

ET16 5.275 27 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children.

ET18 5.300 19 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.

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

F 6.30 18 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house...

F 6.40 8 Events are the children of [each man's] body and mind.

Pow 6.55 26 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...

Pow 6.60 27 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.

Pow 6.64 22 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

Pow 6.75 17 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.

Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...

Wth 6.113 6 We are sympathetic, and, like children, want everything we see.

Wth 6.124 10 Good husbandry finds wife, children and household.

Ctr 6.133 10 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.

Ctr 6.158 9 I must have children, I must have events...or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.

Wsp 6.229 6 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...

Wsp 6.229 12 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.

Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My children may be worsted.

CbW 6.259 4 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared...

CbW 6.259 25 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.

Bty 6.286 27 The delicious faces of children...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.

Ill 6.313 12 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.

Ill 6.315 18 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...

Ill 6.315 21 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune...

Ill 6.316 14 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...as children from old people...

Art2 7.54 9 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children...

Elo1 7.70 2 [The right eloquence] draws the children from their play...

Elo1 7.70 26 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?

DL 7.112 11 If the children...are considered, dressed...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...

DL 7.131 11 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...

DL 7.131 17 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets], where I and my children can see it from time to time...

Farm 7.138 12 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...

Farm 7.140 27 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers...

Farm 7.154 1 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...

Suc 7.311 23 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions;...

OA 7.327 14 [Man] wants...wife and children, honor and fame;...

PI 8.12 21 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...

SA 8.79 19 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.

SA 8.82 8 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...

Elo2 8.116 27 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are interested like so many children...

Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;...

Res 8.148 25 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect how much design goes to it...

QO 8.187 15 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.

QO 8.199 22 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech...

PC 8.208 1 Land without price is offered to the settler, cheap education to his children.

PC 8.228 2 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is, if they...have wives and children, he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.

PC 8.229 14 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.

PPo 8.239 15 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.

Imtl 8.330 16 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.

Imtl 8.336 15 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?

Dem1 10.3 10 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...

Dem1 10.15 27 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.

Aris 10.52 12 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...insult his children...

Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.

Chr2 10.109 10 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...

Chr2 10.111 9 Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass;...

Edc1 10.151 16 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

Edc1 10.157 24 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it, and let all the children clap their hands.

Edc1 10.158 16 Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the children...

Supl 10.174 6 Children and thoughtless people like exaggerated event and activity;...

SovE 10.205 26 We delight in children because of that religious eye which belongs to them;...

Prch 10.221 25 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted, providing for their children...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

Prch 10.233 1 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.

Prch 10.233 3 But if we have no children...there is yet a deeper fact;...

Prch 10.236 4 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of liberty, of reason, of hope;...

Schr 10.280 25 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...

Plu 10.305 11 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.

Plu 10.315 18 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother;...

LLNE 10.325 3 Children had been repressed and kept in the background;...

LLNE 10.325 9 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were nothing.

LLNE 10.360 8 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education. The parents of the children in some instances wished to live there, and were received as boarders.

LLNE 10.367 16 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt? See the mud-pies that all children will make if you will let them.

LLNE 10.367 19 The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].

EzRy 10.381 3 [Ezra Ripley] was the fifth of the nineteen children of Noah and Lydia (Kent) Ripley.

EzRy 10.381 5 Seventeen of [Noah Ripley's] nineteen children married...

EzRy 10.381 6 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...

EzRy 10.381 17 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.

EzRy 10.383 3 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson, then a widow of thirty-nine, with five children.

EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children...

EzRy 10.384 24 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.

HDC 11.32 25 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams, with their women and children and their household stuff...

HDC 11.57 2 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

HDC 11.75 23 [The minute-men] never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most.

HDC 11.86 25 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.

EWI 11.102 17 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.

EWI 11.103 6 For the negro...no right to the children of his body;...

EWI 11.113 2 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...

EWI 11.113 4 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...

EWI 11.115 27 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.

EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...

EWI 11.125 17 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.

FSLC 11.181 26 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?

FSLC 11.199 5 [Webster's] pacification has brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.

FSLC 11.209 11 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The mechanics will give, the needle-women will give; the children will have cent-societies.

AKan 11.255 15 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.

AKan 11.260 4 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him, his children's children forever.

JBB 11.268 23 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.

JBB 11.269 12 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of...the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their friends, parents, wives or children, it would all have been right.

ACiv 11.298 15 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...

HCom 11.341 9 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...

Wom 11.407 15 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.

Wom 11.408 12 The part [women] play...in the care of the young and the tuition of older children, is their organic office in the world.

SHC 11.430 22 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children...

SHC 11.435 11 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...

FRep 11.517 13 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.

FRep 11.527 5 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...disposed to give his children a better education than he received.

FRep 11.541 10 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the training of children...

PLT 12.48 25 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.

PLT 12.58 22 No wonder the children love masks and costumes...

PLT 12.58 25 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...

II 12.75 11 How shall I educate my children?

II 12.75 17 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.

II 12.86 20 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head. Nature deals with all her children so.

Mem 12.99 5 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...

Mem 12.99 9 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...

Mem 12.108 13 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.

CInt 12.128 21 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art were in the parents, it will be in the children...

CW 12.178 20 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.

Bost 12.195 17 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

ACri 12.303 21 ...whilst the world is made of youthful, helpless children of a day, literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and or moral truth.

MLit 12.334 18 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?

EurB 12.371 26 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck...with ferns and pond-lilies which the children have gathered.

EurB 12.374 11 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.

Let 12.393 17 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...

Let 12.399 8 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...educate their own children in the same courses...

Children, Training of [Plut (1)

Plu 10.315 16 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes... on the Training of Children...

children's, n. (4)

Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.

HDC 11.27 5 Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm/ Saying, 't is mine, my children's and my name's./

HDC 11.86 25 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.

AKan 11.260 4 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him, his children's children forever.

child's, n. (11)

Nat 1.39 24 From the child's successive possession of his several senses... he is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.

Nat 1.59 7 I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.

Tran 1.352 19 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...

SwM 4.128 13 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy;...

ET10 5.159 14 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.

F 6.49 1 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.

Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...

PI 8.56 25 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his, accustomed to grander harmonies;--this being a child's whistle to his ear;...

Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the child's nature?

FSLC 11.192 20 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.

EdAd 11.392 27 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.

Chili, n. (1)

War 11.158 19 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain...

chill, adj. (1)

Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

chill, n. (3)

Insp 8.290 2 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Carl 10.493 25 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.

CL 12.140 4 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

chill, v. (3)

LT 1.264 23 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which chill, benumb, and terrify them.

Suc 7.310 12 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Trag 12.409 15 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

chilled, adj. (1)

Nat2 3.171 23 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.

chilled, v. (4)

Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...

PPh 4.52 27 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.

Bhr 6.183 15 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.

SovE 10.210 18 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle], and that was an artificial element, which chilled and checked the union.

chilling, adj. (2)

Imtl 8.323 11 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...

Thor 10.456 9 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections;...

chilling, v. (1)

Lov1 2.170 2 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.

chills, n. (1)

Farm 7.151 23 ...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills;...

chills, v. (2)

Fdsp 2.191 3 Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.

Cour 7.258 23 Cowardice...chills the heart.

Chimborazo, Mount, Ecuador, (1)

Pt1 3.9 12 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...

chime, n. (1)

Bty 6.279 16 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./

chime, v. (1)

Schr 10.265 1 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.

chimera, n. (1)

Suc 7.293 21 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera;...

chimeras, n. (2)

MoS 4.159 7 Come, no chimeras!

Schr 10.266 3 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.

chimerical, adj. (1)

YA 1.387 24 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called...chimerical and fantastic.

chimes, n. (3)

Pt1 3.41 14 ...the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes...

PI 8.49 26 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes.

RBur 11.443 18 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat [Burns's songs], and the chimes of bells ring them in the spires.

chimes, v. (1)

Bhr 6.171 26 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we...wish for...those...whose social tone chimes with ours.

chimney, n. (8)

Nat2 3.191 5 ...wealth was good as it...cured the smoky chimney...

PPh 4.43 20 As a good chimney burns its smoke, so a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.

ET3 5.39 26 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.

ET9 5.149 27 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.

Civ 7.25 7 The skill that pervades complex details;...the chimney taught to burn its own smoke;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.

Insp 8.281 8 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom. And the fire, too, as it burns in the chimney;...

HDC 11.49 15 ...in the smokes of the poor-house chimney...[the people of Concord] read their own power...

FSLC 11.202 4 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney.

chimney-corner, adj. (1)

SovE 10.208 11 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner philosophy.

chimneys, n. (2)

Hist 2.23 2 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys.

Chr2 10.117 14 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use...of chimneys.

chimney-side, n. (1)

Hsm1 2.249 1 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.

chimney-tax, n. (1)

FSLC 11.209 4 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? We will have a chimney-tax.

chimney-tiles, n. (1)

ET4 5.65 22 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people.

chimney-top, n. (1)

EurB 12.371 7 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity, from foundation-stone to chimney-top and turret...

chimpanzee, n. (2)

CbW 6.251 26 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

FSLN 11.238 17 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.

chin, n. (4)

ET5 5.84 17 The Englishman wears a sensible coat buttoned to the chin...

Bty 6.292 13 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature,--a long nose, a sharp chin, a hump-back,--is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.

Suc 7.297 20 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...

WSL 12.344 7 [Landor] is buttoned in English broadcloth to the chin.

China, Emperor of, n. (1)

Grts 8.311 18 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the Emperor of China.

China, n. (18)

DSA 1.126 16 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...but...in China.

ET9 5.146 24 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...

SA 8.100 13 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...

Res 8.142 17 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...

Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...

QO 8.179 7 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost, from Egypt, China and Pompeii down;...

PPo 8.262 16 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...

PerF 10.77 16 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...

EWI 11.123 2 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay] in the last exaggeration of decorum and etiquette.

ChiE 11.471 14 We had said of China...Her strength is to sit still.

ChiE 11.471 22 China is old, not in time only, but in wisdom...

ChiE 11.472 3 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...

ChiE 11.473 14 China interests us at this moment in a point of politics.

ChiE 11.473 21 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...

ChiE 11.473 24 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...

ChiE 11.474 7 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art...

ChiE 11.474 15 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.

ChiE 11.474 22 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.

China, Sacred Book of, n. (1)

Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...

china-closet, n. (1)

FRep 11.512 5 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet.

Chinaman, n. (1)

Res 8.143 15 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...

Chinese, adj. (9)

Con 1.322 26 ...[war] breaks up the Chinese stagnation of society...

Hist 2.19 18 The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.

SL 2.137 4 [Our society] is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over.

Art1 2.353 20 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols...

Exp 3.73 4 The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization.

Mrs1 3.137 17 It is easy to push this deference to a Chinese etiquette;...

UGM 4.14 16 ...I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius: A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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

QO 8.188 2 Is...all art Chinese imitation?...

Chinese Classic, n. (1)

Boks 7.218 19 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.

Chinese, n. (11)

Chr1 3.110 5 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

ET3 5.36 3 The Turk and Chinese also are making awkward efforts to be English.

ET5 5.96 17 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...ginseng for the Chinese...

F 6.18 15 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap-year...

Civ 7.19 22 The Chinese and Japanese...is different from the man of Madrid...

WD 7.162 13 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...

Boks 7.194 15 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians, Confucius of the Chinese, Cervantes of the Spaniards;...

PI 8.17 26 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.

EPro 11.318 17 Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season, say the Chinese.

CW 12.173 8 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than...vases of the Chinese.

ACri 12.295 12 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...

chink, n. (3)

Prd1 2.223 9 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.

Cir 2.318 4 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open...

Pow 6.53 15 ...there is no chink or crevice in which [power] is not lodged...

chip, adj. (1)

Art2 7.38 25 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

chip, n. (6)

Nat2 3.186 1 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.

F 6.48 4 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.

CbW 6.264 27 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...

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

Res 8.146 18 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.

PC 8.224 13 The asteroids are the chips of an old star, and a meteoric stone is a chip of an asteroid.

chipping, n. (1)

Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...

chips, n. (4)

MoS 4.160 22 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.

ET2 5.26 16 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.

Civ 7.27 13 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.

PC 8.224 12 The asteroids are the chips of an old star...

Chirons, n. (1)

Hist 2.33 16 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.

chirp, n. (1)

LE 1.167 26 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets] contented themselves with the passing chirp of a bird...

chirp, v. (1)

SR 2.80 15 Let [unbalanced minds] chirp awhile and call [the light] their own.

chirping, n. (1)

LVB 11.94 4 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question whether justice shall be done by the race of civilized to the race of savage man...

chirrup, v. (1)

DL 7.104 27 ...[the child] conforms to nobody...all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him.

chirurgeon, n. (1)

ACri 12.286 3 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

chisel, n. (11)

DSA 1.134 21 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes with chisel on stone...

Hist 2.20 26 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns...

SR 2.83 24 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...

Prd1 2.227 19 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.

Art1 2.353 16 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...

Art1 2.366 10 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

Pt1 3.24 18 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth...

Exp 3.66 22 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.

ET16 5.278 11 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.

OA 7.327 1 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking, which make him savage until his furious chisel can render them into marble;...

MAng1 12.215 23 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...

chisel-edge, n. (1)

Comp 2.115 18 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge...do recommend to him his trade...

chisels, n. (4)

Art1 2.358 4 Away with your nonsense...of marble and chisels;...

ET10 5.160 26 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.

Thor 10.473 13 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...

MAng1 12.227 14 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the chisels and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

Chiser, n. (1)

PPo 8.242 21 These legends [of Persian kings], with Chiser, the fountain of life, Tuba, the tree of life;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

chivalries, n. (1)

Aris 10.57 10 The true aristocrat is he who is at the head of his own order, and disloyalty is to mistake other chivalries for his own.

chivalrous, adj. (1)

ACiv 11.304 16 The war is welcome to the Southerner; a chivalrous sport to him...

chivalry, n. (24)

Hist 2.18 4 The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy.

Hist 2.27 8 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...

Hist 2.27 9 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...

OS 2.290 21 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...has...no chivalry...

Mrs1 3.120 23 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman? Chivalry is that, and loyalty is that...

Mrs1 3.122 18 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.

Mrs1 3.131 14 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.

Mrs1 3.147 19 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court; the parliament of love and chivalry.

Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.

Mrs1 3.152 10 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.

Nat2 3.174 27 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.

NR 3.225 16 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners;...

ET4 5.57 25 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner, by no means for chivalry, but for their acres.

ET9 5.152 13 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England, patron of chivalry...

ET11 5.173 25 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.

ET18 5.302 21 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!

Civ 7.26 19 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes the point of honor, as in the institution of chivalry;...

Aris 10.32 27 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.

War 11.171 23 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the jousts of chivalry, the shock of hosts...

FSLN 11.244 4 ...Liberty is...the Epic Poetry, the new religion, the chivalry of all gentlemen.

Bost 12.193 26 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...

Milt1 12.265 17 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest in chivalry, in courtesy...

Milt1 12.269 16 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of royalty, of chivalry...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

PPr 12.381 26 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.

Chivalry, n. (1)

AKan 11.259 27 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...

chlorine, n. (2)

DSA 1.125 1 [The religious sentiment] is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary.

UGM 4.11 22 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine...

Choctaw Indian, n. (1)

SA 8.87 3 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.

Chodscha, n. (5)

Comc 8.172 4 One day when Chodscha was with him, Timur scratched his head...

Comc 8.172 11 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep;...

Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not...

Comc 8.172 18 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.

Comc 8.172 24 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?

choice, adj. (2)

Comc 8.165 25 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse/...

CL 12.162 4 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks? Where the white grapes? Where are the choice apple-trees?

choice, n. (73)

LE 1.186 2 The hour of that choice [between the world and intellect] is the crisis of your history...

MR 1.235 23 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...

Tran 1.342 27 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen...with some unwillingness...and as a choice of the less of two evils;...

YA 1.364 17 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the choice of water privileges...

SL 2.140 8 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.

SL 2.140 9 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice of the hands...and not a whole act of the man.

SL 2.140 12 ...that which I call right or goodness, is the choice of my constitution;...

SL 2.140 18 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.

SL 2.161 12 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling...

Hsm1 2.259 23 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.

Int 2.336 23 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...with a strenuous exercise of choice.

Int 2.341 24 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

Pt1 3.15 20 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words.

Exp 3.67 19 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...

Exp 3.84 14 Life wears to me a visionary face. Hardest roughest action is visionary also. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams.

Pol1 3.213 18 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a double choice to get the representation of the whole;...

SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.

SwM 4.145 12 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].

MoS 4.169 22 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.

ShP 4.190 1 There is no choice to genius.

NMW 4.230 16 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight...in the choice, simplification and combining of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.

GoW 4.269 14 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... He wrote without levity and without choice.

ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.

ET4 5.56 20 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.

ET5 5.83 9 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.

ET8 5.136 19 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...

ET10 5.167 22 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought and of new choice...

ET13 5.227 22 [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];...

ET14 5.234 7 Defoe has no insecurity or choice.

ET16 5.279 2 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance, so whimsical in its choice of objects, which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

ET17 5.298 2 ...[Wordsworth] had egotistic puerilities in the choice and treatment of his subjects;...

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

Wsp 6.222 2 ...there is...no margin for choice.

Wsp 6.237 27 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice of virtue which outrages the virtuous;...

Art2 7.50 20 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate: no room was there for choice...

Elo1 7.82 4 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance; and the predominance of either is indicated by the choice of topic.

DL 7.124 8 In men, it is their...choice of an employment...or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...

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

Boks 7.195 12 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 7.204 20 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.

Cour 7.280 2 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./

PI 8.33 15 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.

SA 8.90 27 [The highly organized person] of all men would keep the right of choice sacred...

QO 8.203 16 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw,-seeing what they must, and using no choice;...

Grts 8.304 27 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.

Imtl 8.345 4 ...we live by choice;...

Imtl 8.349 13 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.

Chr2 10.92 1 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...

SovE 10.196 21 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice...

SovE 10.211 25 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...

Prch 10.235 8 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...

Schr 10.286 27 Let those come [to scholarship]...who see that there is no choice here...

CSC 10.373 8 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...

MMEm 10.408 26 To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful.

MMEm 10.419 6 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.

HDC 11.46 20 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the choice of their deputy to the house of representatives;...

EWI 11.103 17 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...

EWI 11.145 27 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.

War 11.173 24 ...the man who...takes in solitude the right step uniformly, on his private choice and disdaining consequences,-does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.

JBS 11.280 2 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...

EPro 11.322 20 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.

SMC 11.348 16 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

FRep 11.518 19 We do not choose our own candidate, no, nor any other man's first choice...

FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.

PLT 12.21 1 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...

PLT 12.61 22 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...

CL 12.144 7 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back.

Milt1 12.260 9 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...

Milt1 12.268 17 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.

Milt1 12.268 18 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.

WSL 12.348 4 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...

AgMs 12.361 18 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring. But we farmers always know what our interest dictates, and do accordingly. We have no choice in this matter;...

EurB 12.367 25 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.

choices, n. (4)

PPh 4.73 26 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas...

Ill 6.324 27 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...

PI 8.67 15 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.

SA 8.95 18 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.

choicest, adj. (2)

FSLC 11.201 26 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...

ACri 12.283 12 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated...

Choir Gaur [Cor Gawr], n. (1)

ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

choir, n. (5)

ET13 5.218 11 In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.

ET16 5.286 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] loitered in the church [Salisbury Cathedral], outside the choir, while the service was said.

ET16 5.286 12 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us...

Cour 7.268 21 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.

PI 8.45 25 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...

choirs, n. (1)

Cir 2.307 14 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

choke, v. (4)

MoS 4.174 13 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!

Ctr 6.133 12 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.

Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold back and choke that word...

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.

choked, v. (1)

AKan 11.258 10 I think there never was a people so choked and stultified by forms.

choking, v. (1)

Wth 6.115 8 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...

choler, n. (2)

ET7 5.125 27 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman. His choler and conceit force every thing out.

ET8 5.133 10 There are multitudes of rude young English...who, with their disdain of the rest of mankind and with this indigestion and choler, have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.

cholera, n. (9)

Hsm1 2.249 12 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...

PNR 4.82 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature...putrefaction and cholera are only signals of a new creation;...

F 6.7 25 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets...

F 6.24 18 Go face...the cholera in your friend's house...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.

F 6.32 27 ...the depopulation by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination;...

Wth 6.117 13 When the cholera is in the potato, what is the use of planting larger crops?

Wsp 6.232 13 It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and salads.

Cour 7.270 21 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.

War 11.151 14 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...

choleric, adj. (1)

ET8 5.129 18 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].

Cholula, Mexico, n. (1)

Hist 2.29 7 [The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door...

choose, v. (74)

Nat 1.46 12 We cannot choose but love [our friends].

LT 1.264 21 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in; not what they tolerate, but what they choose;...

LT 1.276 7 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong. I cannot choose but allow and honor them.

Con 1.322 17 How will every strong and generous mind choose its ground...

Tran 1.347 3 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends, whereof poet and priest cannot choose but stand in awe;...

YA 1.367 19 We have twenty degrees of latitude wherein to choose a seat...

SR 2.65 17 [Thoughtless people] fancy that I choose to see this or that thing.

SL 2.139 13 Why need you choose so painfully your place...

SL 2.140 6 I say, do not choose;...

SL 2.164 26 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.

Fdsp 2.197 7 I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth.

Fdsp 2.204 25 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books. And yet I have one text which I cannot choose but remember.

Hsm1. 2.252 26 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense.

OS 2.279 18 We know truth when we see it, let sceptic and scoffer say what they choose.

Int 2.341 21 [The scholar] must...choose defeat and pain...

Art1 2.357 3 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Pt1 3.17 25 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.

Chr1 3.110 27 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought...

NER 3.280 8 The man whose part is taken and who does not wait for society in anything, has a power which society cannot choose but feel.

UGM 4.17 5 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks...

UGM 4.17 6 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.

SwM 4.116 7 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...

MoS 4.157 22 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...

MoS 4.157 23 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable, that whether he should choose one or not, he would repent it.

ShP 4.191 6 Choose any other thing...and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...

ET3 5.35 16 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...

ET3 5.43 1 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.

ET8 5.143 4 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth...

ET10 5.161 20 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under.

F 6.29 3 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.

F 6.48 19 How idle to choose a random sparkle here or there...

Bhr 6.172 22 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression...

Bhr 6.185 3 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him. The other is irritable, shy and on his guard. The youth looks humble and manly; I choose him.

Bty 6.306 8 An adorer of truth we cannot choose but obey...

Ill 6.314 17 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.

Civ 7.23 5 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...

Civ 7.29 18 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.

Civ 7.31 13 Tobacco and opium...will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

WD 7.169 23 I used formerly to choose my time with some nicety for each favorite book.

Suc 7.286 20 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for,--each one as it is a new direction of human power. We cannot choose but respect them.

PI 8.29 2 ...fancy [is] a play as with dolls and puppets which we choose to call men and women;...

SA 8.90 22 Do not look sourly at the set or the club which does not choose you.

QO 8.203 23 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse...

PC 8.207 18 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent; the answering facility of immigration, permitting every wanderer to choose his climate and government.

PPo 8.263 17 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds, coming together to choose their king, resolve on a pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...

Imtl 8.349 16 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama...forget his anger against me: this I choose for the first boon.

Imtl 8.349 22 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows, and says, Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!

Imtl 8.350 3 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it. Subtle is its nature. Choose another boon, O Nachiketas!

Imtl 8.350 9 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Choose sons and grandsons who may live a hundred years;...

Imtl 8.350 10 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose herds of cattle;...

Imtl 8.350 11 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose elephants and gold and horses;...

Imtl 8.350 11 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth...

Imtl 8.350 14 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.

Imtl 8.351 1 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest. The boon which I choose I have said.

Aris 10.50 17 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by acclamation.

Edc1 10.143 15 It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know, what he shall do.

LLNE 10.350 1 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.

LLNE 10.355 15 In our free institutions, where every man is at liberty to choose his home and his trade...fortunes are easily made...

MMEm 10.398 9 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition...

MMEm 10.429 26 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?

LS 11.19 25 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.

LS 11.19 27 ...I choose that my remembrances of [Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.

HDC 11.44 22 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.

LVB 11.91 11 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...

War 11.170 12 In some of our cities they choose noted duellists as presidents and officers of anti-duelling societies.

FSLC 11.201 15 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law. Mr. Webster cannot choose but regret his law.

FSLN 11.231 20 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...or however else we choose to phrase it...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.

ALin 11.328 18 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./

Koss 11.396 6 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./

FRep 11.518 17 We do not choose our own candidate...

FRep 11.519 4 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...

FRep 11.530 6 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...

II 12.86 14 The old Herschel must choose between the night and the day...

PPr 12.384 10 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.

chooses, v. (11)

DSA 1.125 21 ...when he chooses...the good and great deed; then, deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.

SwM 4.145 2 In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant myself here; all will sink before this;...

Elo1 7.65 19 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...

Suc 7.307 9 The good mind chooses what is positive...

Insp 8.291 27 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...

Imtl 8.351 4 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man.

Dem1 10.19 18 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle, which chooses favorites and works in the dark for their behoof;...

Chr2 10.92 2 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him; here is he that chooses;...

Chr2 10.92 4 [Man] chooses,-as the rest of the creation does not.

FSLN 11.242 14 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...

SHC 11.431 4 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters; every family chooses its own clump of trees, and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.

choosing, n. (1)

Ctr 6.142 19 ...[your boy]...refuses any companions but of his own choosing.

choosing, v. (14)

SL 2.151 15 Nothing is more deeply punished than...the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.

Fdsp 2.209 13 We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

Cir 2.313 3 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.

Gts 3.159 11 ...the impediment [in giving gifts] lies in the choosing.

ET10 5.163 24 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.

F 6.23 8 Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in the soul.

Pow 6.60 15 Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing.

Wsp 6.212 11 ...[even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.

Bty 6.295 1 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.

Insp 8.269 23 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...

Thor 10.452 12 ...whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...

HDC 11.80 18 ...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...

ALin 11.328 6 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./

CL 12.139 18 ...in choosing a farm, we like a southern exposure...

chop, n. (3)

ET6 5.104 10 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop and every species of convenience...

ET14 5.233 10 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...

Pow 6.67 7 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen, served them with his best chop when they supped at his house...

chop, v. (1)

Nat 1.45 2 [Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

chop-house, n. (1)

Ctr 6.153 8 The countryman finds the town a chop-house, a barber's shop.

chopped, v. (1)

Plu 10.315 24 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.

choppers, n. (1)

HDC 11.28 3 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./

chopping, v. (1)

Civ 7.27 13 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.

chops, v. (1)

Pow 6.68 3 ...the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess, and so our axe chops off our own fingers...

choral, adj. (1)

Wsp 6.240 15 ...the last lesson of life, the choral song which rises from all elements and all angels, is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.

chord, n. (4)

ET14 5.258 6 The best office of the best poets has been to show...that only once or twice they have struck the high chord.

PPo 8.253 18 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I bored./

MMEm 10.424 25 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.

SMC 11.349 20 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...

chords, n. (1)

SA 8.93 18 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...

chore, n. (1)

Civ 7.28 25 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves.

chorea, n. (1)

Ctr 6.132 24 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.

chores, n. (4)

LE 1.176 11 Let us...do chores...

Art1 2.367 13 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.

CbW 6.261 3 He [who is to be wise for many] must know...the chores which poor men do.

DL 7.119 27 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...

chorus, n. (4)

NR 3.227 20 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...

SwM 4.109 12 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...in solo, in chorus...

PI 8.70 9 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.

ACri 12.303 18 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

choruses, n. (1)

PLT 12.38 17 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs.

chose, v. (11)

Pt1 3.1 3 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with private ray/...

PPh 4.43 9 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.

ET12 5.206 6 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.

Clbs 7.246 15 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories and put himself on a good footing with the company; then he could be as silent as he chose.

MoL 10.255 24 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... nothing that he might do or not do, as he chose...

Thor 10.454 12 [Thoreau] chose, wisely no doubt for himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature.

Thor 10.455 16 [Thoreau] chose to be rich by making his wants few...

HDC 11.44 24 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen...

EWI 11.103 18 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one. The black man was greedy, and chose the largest.

EPro 11.317 2 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

SMC 11.348 15 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

chosen, adj. (14)

Fdsp 2.192 5 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.

Prd1 2.239 4 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!

ET4 5.61 21 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...

Bhr 6.167 3 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal/...

Bty 6.303 25 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...

Boks 7.190 13 Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library.

Edc1 10.149 5 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret...of chosen facts in history or in biography.

Plu 10.319 15 [Plutarch]...delighted in bringing chosen companions to the supper-table.

Plu 10.322 9 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.

LLNE 10.363 3 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...

ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...

SHC 11.432 5 I do not wonder that [parks] are the chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.

WSL 12.340 19 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

Let 12.394 18 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of chosen people.

chosen, n. (1)

MoS 4.179 23 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found no entertainment for it...

Chosen People, n. (1)

MMEm 10.423 7 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People, nay, it is said there was war in Heaven.

chosen, v. (21)

Tran 1.342 25 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen both from temperament and from principle;...

SR 2.75 22 ...our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen...

SR 2.75 22 ...our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion...society has chosen for us.

Hsm1 2.260 7 ...when you have chosen your part, abide by it...

Mrs1 3.126 3 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen...who have chosen the condition of poverty...

MoS 4.170 1 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen...

DL 7.117 4 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen by his parents or friends...

PI 8.34 1 If your subject do not appear to you the flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it.

Aris 10.41 17 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...

Edc1 10.143 16 It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained...

SlHr 10.437 4 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.

HDC 11.63 6 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.

HDC 11.64 25 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

HDC 11.64 27 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.

HDC 11.65 22 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen...

HDC 11.80 19 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...

HDC 11.82 2 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...

FSLN 11.233 15 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the judges were chosen from the wolves...

SHC 11.434 3 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...

FRep 11.538 12 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.

Milt1 12.268 20 Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.

choses, n. (2)

Ill 6.313 10 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.

Insp 8.286 12 ...Il n'y a que le matin en toutes choses.

Chosru, n. (1)

PPo 8.242 23 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the romances of the loves of Leila and Medschnun, of Chosru and Schirin...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

Christ Church College, Oxf (2)

ET12 5.201 9 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

ET12 5.201 11 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

Christ, Imitation of [Thoma (1)

Boks 7.219 2 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Imitation of Christ, of Thomas a Kempis;...

Christ, Jesus [Michelangelo (1)

MAng1 12.229 23 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ;...

Christ, Jesus, n. (129)

Nat 1.22 8 The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Nat 1.41 5 Prophet and priest, David, Isaiah, Jesus, have drawn deeply from this source [of nature].

Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with bended head...

Nat 1.73 3 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the history of Jesus Christ...

DSA 1.126 20 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].

DSA 1.128 19 Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.

DSA 1.130 17 [Christiantiy] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.

DSA 1.131 2 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship...

DSA 1.132 16 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me...to Be. And thus...Jesus serves us...

DSA 1.132 19 A true conversion, a true Christ, is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.

DSA 1.133 10 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.

DSA 1.133 23 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of the circle of this charm...

DSA 1.134 2 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...

DSA 1.136 2 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

DSA 1.136 3 any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.

DSA 1.142 19 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...

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.

Tran 1.335 14 Jesus acted so, because he thought so.

Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.

Hist 2.30 20 Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.

Hist 2.31 13 When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Socrates and Shakspeare were not.

Hist 2.39 8 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Advent of Christ...

SR 2.58 1 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and Jesus...

SR 2.61 12 Christ is born...

SR 2.69 23 This one fact the world hates: that the soul becomes; for that... shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

Comp 2.124 13 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul...

OS 2.273 13 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened"

OS 2.283 17 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to precisely these interrobatories.

OS 2.283 22 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes.

OS 2.287 20 Jesus speaks always from within...

OS 2.294 21 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door, as Jesus said.

OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.

Cir 2.309 27 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...

Int 2.343 15 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.

Art1 2.362 13 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise...

Exp 3.73 2 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Jesus and the moderns by love;...

Exp 3.76 22 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.

Nat2 3.188 3 ...James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ.

NR 3.227 14 ...there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus...such as we have made.

NR 3.239 19 Jesus would absorb the race;...

NR 3.244 10 Jesus is not dead;...

UGM 4.27 12 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.

SwM 4.94 17 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on this problem [of essence].

SwM 4.122 2 Swedenborg styles himself in the title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...

ShP 4.200 13 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...

ET1 5.11 12 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...

ET1 5.13 11 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/

ET1 5.18 14 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.

ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].

F 6.6 15 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies...

F 6.11 8 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.

Wsp 6.205 24 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.

Wsp 6.209 11 The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...

Civ 7.33 4 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

WD 7.176 5 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a barn...

Clbs 7.235 27 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.

Clbs 7.236 3 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...

Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates.

Suc 7.307 12 'T is presumed...there is but one Shakspeare, one Homer, one Jesus...

PI 8.14 8 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.

Imtl 8.347 22 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.

Imtl 8.348 1 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.

Chr2 10.97 14 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...

Chr2 10.109 7 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but the Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.

Chr2 10.110 20 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...

Chr2 10.110 23 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents, who only wear and misrepresent the name of Christ.

Chr 10.114 26 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment], of course, the history of Jesus...

Chr2 10.115 6 Jesus has immense claims on the gratitude of mankind...

SovE 10.200 20 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.

Prch 10.228 9 An era in human history is the life of Jesus;...

LLNE 10.353 16 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic, which he sees to include all men in its law, like that of Plato, and of Christ.

MMEm 10.402 27 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?

MMEm 10.427 5 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...

LS 11.4 26 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...

LS 11.5 6 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...

LS 11.5 10 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...

LS 11.5 26 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.

LS 11.6 11 I doubt not, the expressions [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus.

LS 11.7 1 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover].

LS 11.7 17 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...

LS 11.7 27 Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus, you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].

LS 11.9 2 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.

LS 11.9 20 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.

LS 11.10 16 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...

LS 11.11 6 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord!s Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...

LS 11.11 9 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples...

LS 11.11 15 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...

LS 11.12 12 These views of the original account of the Lords's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest, but never intended by Jesus to be the foundation of a perpetual institution.

LS 11.12 16 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...

LS 11.12 22 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ...

LS 11.12 25 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...

LS 11.15 2 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...

LS 11.15 9 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples, during the life and after the ascension of Christ, to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...

LS 11.15 23 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...

LS 11.16 10 We know...how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge [the primitive Church's] views.

LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it;...

LS 11.17 10 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...

LS 11.17 18 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

LS 11.17 21 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority. It is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ.

LS 11.17 22 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are addressed to God.

LS 11.17 24 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed...

LS 11.18 1 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...

LS 11.18 13 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

LS 11.18 16 ...is not Jesus called in Scripture the Mediator?

LS 11.18 21 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...

LS 11.19 11 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

LS 11.19 18 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me.

LS 11.19 20 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.

LS 11.20 25 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

LS 11.22 13 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...

HDC 11.34 7 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...

HDC 11.51 26 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language?

HDC 11.66 27 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...

HDC 11.67 4 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...

EWI 11.115 27 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.

FSLN 11.234 12 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.

FSLN 11.234 24 To interpret Christ it needs Christ in the heart.

ChiE 11.472 25 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.

FRO1 11.480 13 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...

FRO2 11.486 19 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...

FRO2 11,488 23 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.

FRO2 11.490 27 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who do not wonder that there was a Christ...

FRO2 11.491 3 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.

CPL 11.501 20 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter...

MAng1 12.221 15 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.

MAng1 12.229 2 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...

MAng1 12.229 27 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.

ACri 12.283 16 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters, the new dispensation by Jesus, or by angels;...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

Pray 12.351 1 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.

Christendom, ...Champions of (1)

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

Christendom, n. (11)

MR 1.252 14 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...

MR 1.255 4 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.

SR 2.85 23 ...in Christendom where is the Christian?

SL 2.136 17 ...why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole of Christendom?

Mrs1 3.148 24 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles that of being the best-bred man in England and in Christendom.

ET13 5.221 26 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...

Civ 7.33 5 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

Boks 7.218 15 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, which constitute the sacred books of Christendom, [the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...

LLNE 10.325 22 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...

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

War 11.157 21 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees, during which all hostilities were suspended throughout Christendom...

Christian, adj. (42)

DSA 1.128 7 These general views...find abundant illustration...especially in the history of the Christian church.

DSA 1.129 22 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...

DSA 1.131 10 ...even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins, if they did not wear the Christian name.

DSA 1.142 7 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...

DSA 1.145 8 ...each would be an easy secondary to some Christian scheme...

MN 1.215 22 Tell me not how great your project is...[the world's] conversion into a Christian church...

LT 1.269 20 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by all the Christian nations, without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?

Hsm1 2.248 11 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.

Cir 2.313 16 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...

NER 3.253 9 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy... of phrenology, and their wonderful theories of the Christian miracles!

SwM 4.135 12 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol...

ET11 5.175 15 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...

ET13 5.224 27 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as tending extremely to the dishonor of the Christian religion...

Wsp 6.206 15 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.

Wsp 6.209 9 ...the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

WD 7.176 15 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all...

PI 8.14 7 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.

QO 8.180 20 Read in Plato and you shall find Christian dogmas...

PC 8.209 23 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity proposed by statesmen...

Insp 8.275 16 The legends of Arabia, Persia and India are of the same complexion as the Christian.

Insp 8.284 15 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock itself to be deluged with Deity,-to be theist, Christian, poetic.

Imtl 8.323 3 ...when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond... reminds me of one of your winter feasts...

Chr2 10.110 24 Voltaire was an apostle of Christian ideas; only the names were hostile to him, and he never knew it otherwise.

Plu 10.293 9 It is agreed that he was born about the year 50 of the Christian era.

Plu 10.312 13 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.

MMEm 10.433 11 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.

SlHr 10.437 7 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star...

LS 11.6 17 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind, as they should come... within the influence of the Christian religion, would have been established in this slight manner...

LS 11.12 14 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...

LS 11.16 18 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands, generally accepted...by the Christian world...

LS 11.21 7 ...every practice is Christian which praises itself...

LS 11.24 9 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.

HDC 11.54 5 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town, where a Christian worship was established under an Indian ruler and teacher.

War 11.158 9 The celebrated Cavendish, who was thought in his times a good Christian man, wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...

FSLC 11.183 16 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...

FSLC 11.185 20 The learning of the universities...the eloquence of the Christian pulpit...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].

Wom 11.416 1 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects this is at this moment the most vital and aggressive.

FRO2 11.486 17 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...

FRep 11.540 11 We...shall proceed like William Penn, or whatever other Christian or humane person who treats with the Indian or the foreigner, on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.

Bost 12.193 15 ...these Englishmen [who settled Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were filled with Christian thought.

Milt1 12.266 5 To this antique heroism, Milton added the genius of the Christian sanctity.

Milt1 12.266 7 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...

Christian Church, n. (3)

FSLN 11.228 10 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do, made very low bows to the Christian Church...

FRO1 11.478 1 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...

Pray 12.350 23 Let us not have the prayers of one sect, nor of the Christian Church...

Christian Doctrine, Of the (1)

Milt1 12.247 2 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.

Christian, n. (13)

SR 2.85 24 ...in Christendom where is the Christian?

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.

NER 3.279 23 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.

UGM 4.29 25 Be another:...not a soul, but a Christian;...

Wsp 6.206 13 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./

Cour 7.277 1 ...there is no creed of an honest man, be he Christian, Turk or Gentoo, which does not equally preach it.

Plu 10.312 12 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.

Plu 10.317 8 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...

LLNE 10.347 10 [Robert Owen] was the better Christian in his controversy with Christians...

MMEm 10.432 23 It is frivolous to ask,-And was [Mary Moody Emerson] ever a Christian in practice?

War 11.158 18 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world, which were ever discovered by any Christian.

FSLN 11.234 8 ...one would have said that a Christian would not keep slaves;-but Chrisitans keep slaves.

Bost 12.184 4 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all passed under this [Hindoo] influence...

christianities, n. (1)

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

Christianity, English, n. (1)

Chr2 10.109 8 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.

Christianity, n. (54)

Nat 1.60 14 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...

AmS 1.112 26 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.

DSA 1.129 16 Christianity became a Mythus...

DSA 1.130 10 ...we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity.

DSA 1.130 11 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.

DSA 1.130 22 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity...the friend of man is made the injurer of man.

DSA 1.141 19 ...thus historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching...

DSA 1.144 19 The true Christianity...is lost.

DSA 1.150 15 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us;...

MR 1.228 23 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment,-Christianity...

Hist 2.30 25 ...where [the story of Prometheus] departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...

SR 2.85 21 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost...by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue.

Cir 2.309 14 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws...his Christianity...may at any time be superseded...

Cir 2.313 7 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...

Cir 2.313 13 Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind;...

Int 2.346 5 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...dwelling in a worship which makes the sanctities of Christianity look parvenues and popular;...

PPh 4.40 22 Calvinism is in [Plato's] Phaedo: Christianity is in it.

ShP 4.204 22 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty, which, like Christianity, qualifies the period.

ET1 5.11 21 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...

ET13 5.215 16 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe...

ET13 5.216 8 The violence of the northern savages exasperated Christianity into power.

ET14 5.235 19 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.

ET18 5.306 1 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...

Ctr 6.165 23 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Christianity with its charity;...can set his dull nerves throbbing... make way and sing paean!

Wsp 6.205 22 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...

Wsp 6.206 1 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture...

Wsp 6.208 25 In creeds never was such levity; witness the heathenisms in Christianity...

QO 8.182 18 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.

Imtl 8.326 8 Christianity brought a new wisdom.

Chr2 10.98 26 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child.

Chr2 10.103 24 The [moral] sentiment...measures...Christianity, Buddhism, or whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.

Chr2 10.105 15 The establishment of Christianity in the world does not rest on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane doctrine.

Chr2 10.105 18 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time...

Chr2 10.109 23 We boast the triumph of Christianity over Paganism...

Chr2 10.110 15 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...

SovE 10.202 11 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...

Prch 10.228 1 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity...

Prch 10.228 5 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.

MMEm 10.416 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;...

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.

LS 11.16 13 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

LS 11.20 13 The importance ascribed to this particular ordinance [the Lord' s Supper] is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity.

LS 11.20 26 If I understand the distinction of Christianity, the reason why it is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...

LS 11.21 10 I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms...

TPar 11.289 22 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...

SHC 11.430 25 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.

FRO2 11.486 21 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity.

FRO2 11.486 22 ...Christianity is as old as the Creation...

FRO2 11.486 24 ...every sentiment and precept of Christianity can be paralleled in other religious writings...

FRO2 11.488 12 I object, of course, to the claim of miraculous dispensation,-certainly not to the doctrine of Christianity.

FRO2 11.490 8 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen, as if only to enhance by their dimness the superior light of Christianity.

Milt1 12.264 14 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that though Christianity had been but slightly taught him, yet 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.

Milt1 12.266 14 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.

EurB 12.369 7 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds,-not from Platonism, not from Christianity...

Christianize, v. (1)

Chr2 10.109 6 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.

christianized, v. (2)

SR 2.84 15 ...[society] is christianized...

SL 2.158 19 Pretension never...christianized the world...

Christians, n. (15)

SwM 4.98 17 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.

ET3 5.43 22 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light.

ET13 5.224 10 [The English] are neither transcendentalists nor Christians.

CbW 6.250 17 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.

Edc1 10.146 18 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians...

Prch 10.217 13 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as...earlier, when Paganism broke into Christians and Pagans.

LLNE 10.347 11 [Robert Owen] was the better Christian in his controversy with Christians...

LS 11.12 1 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians.

LS 11.13 4 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also. In this way religious feasts grew up among the early Christians.

LS 11.15 15 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...

LS 11.20 16 ...an importance is given by Christians to [the Lord's Supper] which never can belong to any form.

LS 11.21 5 ...if miracles may be said to have been [Christianity's] evidence to the first Christians, they are not its evidence to us, but the doctrines themselves;...

LS 11.23 1 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...

FSLN 11.234 9 ...one would have said that a Christian would not keep slaves;-but Chrisitans keep slaves.

ACiv 11.309 13 An unprecedented material prosperity has not tended to make us Stoics or Christians.

Christina, of Sweden, n. (1)

OS 2.291 23 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.

Christism, n. (1)

UGM 4.4 22 Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism...are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.

Christized, adj. (1)

LLNE 10.353 17 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized...

Christmas, adj. (2)

ET11 5.190 10 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels...

Res 8.148 24 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire.

Christmas, n. (3)

Gts 3.159 7 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...

WD 7.168 23 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas.

LS 11.4 2 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year,- at Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas.

Christ's, Jesus, n. (3)

DSA 1.131 22 ...you must subordinate your nature to Christ's nature;...

DSA 1.144 19 The true Christianity, - a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man, - is lost.

Hist 2.2 4 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain./

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