Close to Coldness
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
close, adj. (25)
Lov1 2.171 5 ...we must leave a too close and lingering
adherence to facts...
Lov1 2.173 3 Among the throng of girls [the village
boy] runs rudely
enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors,
that
were so close just now, have learned to respect each other's
personality.
Fdsp 2.209 18 Of course [your friend] has merits...that
you cannot honor if
you must needs hold him close to your person.
Int 2.328 15 You cannot with your best deliberation and
heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Mrs1 3.142 4 Another anecdote is so close to my matter,
that I must hazard
the story.
Nat2 3.170 6 We have crept out of our close and crowded
houses into the
night and morning...
NER 3.257 2 ...I do not like the close air of saloons.
MoS 4.165 26 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that
Plato, in his purest
virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would
have heard
some jarring sound of human mixture;...
ET4 5.47 17 The hearing ear is always found close to
the speaking tongue...
ET7 5.126 3 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says
of them,--In close
intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know,
they
speak,/...
Wth 6.101 11 Success consists in close appliance to the
laws of the world...
WD 7.168 4 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific
my ocean; and the
Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.
PC 8.215 14 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese
waters struck
Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.
Grts 8.316 17 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and
men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household
life are wanting, and yet the
opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are
often
close at hand.
Prch 10.234 5 Given the insight, [the deep observer]
will find as many
beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or
Shakspeare beheld.
LLNE 10.358 17 It chanced that here in one family were
two brothers, one
a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a
man of
business...
LLNE 10.369 3 [Brook Farm] was a close union...
War 11.152 19 War...brings men into such swift and
close collision in
critical moments that man measures man.
EPro 11.319 5 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the
dreadful war...seems
now to be close before us.
RBur 11.441 2 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in
close chain with the
greatest masters...
FRO1 11.480 12 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;...
CW 12.169 2 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of
close, low pine-woods
in a river town;/...
Bost 12.202 3 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say
to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of
courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf
and famine than that anybody should give
himself airs here in the swamp.
ACri 12.294 6 ...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as
solid and close to
facts as the Banker's Gazette;...
Let 12.397 3 The loneliest man, after twenty years,
discovers that he stood
in a circle of friends, who will then show like a close fraternity held
by
some masonic tie.
close, adv. (18)
AmS 1.92 7 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our
surprise, when
this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
LT 1.289 27 The granite is curiously concealed a
thousand formations and
surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but
sure signs. So is it with the Life of our life; so close does that also
hide.
Pt1 3.13 15 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you
hold your ear close
enough, is musical in the breeze.
Pt1 3.41 23 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with
nature...
GoW 4.273 23 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe]
detected the Genius of
life...nestling close beside us...
GoW 4.290 12 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and
music close by
the darkest and deafest eras.
ET5 5.87 8 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that
the best strategem in
naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and
bring
all your guns to bear on him...
ET11 5.179 6 The names [of English towns and districts]
are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all
epics
and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the
body.
ET12 5.199 15 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh
Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford], was housed close upon that
college...
ET13 5.216 25 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system, close fitted
to the manners and genius of the country...
Wth 6.115 9 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a
purslain or a dock that is
choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last
is a
third;...
Farm 7.137 4 [The farmer] stands close to Nature;...
Cour 7.262 9 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an
officer in the
British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander
Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was
ready to faint
away. Lieutenant Ball...placed himself close beside me...and whispered,
Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
FSLC 11.183 9 However close Mr. Wolf's nails have been
pared, however
neatly he has been shaved, and tailored...he cannot be relied on at a
pinch...
FSLN 11.222 6 ...[Webster] saw through his matter,
hugged his fact so
close...
PLT 12.35 23 The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
CInt 12.129 23 Bring the insight, and [the deep
observer] will find as many
beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as
Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
CL 12.157 26 The facts disclosed by...Greenough,
Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...which we rank close
beside the disclosures
of natural history.
close, n. (7)
AmS 1.81 21 ...our long apprenticeship to the learning
of other lands, draws
to a close.
Chr1 3.96 4 An individual is an encloser. Time and
space...truth and
thought, are left at large no longer. Now, the universe is a close or
pound.
ET9 5.146 5 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public
thanks to God, at
the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to
utter a
single sentence in the French language.
Bhr 6.184 13 The theatre in which this science of
manners has a formal
importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after
the close
of the day's business, men and women meet at leisure...
MMEm 10.421 1 Hard to contend for a health which is
daily used in
petition for a final close.
HDC 11.77 24 I have found within a few days, among some
family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close
of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest
events of the
present age.
FSLN 11.239 9 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the
unjust, that at its
close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for
posterity
every-ravening calamity...
close, v. (7)
LT 1.267 1 As the solar system moves forward in the
heavens, certain stars
open before us, and certain stars close up behind us;...
Boks 7.217 7 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke;
great rainbows
seemed to span the sky...but we close the book and not a ray remains in
the
memory of evening.
Clbs 7.239 26 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress
against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If
this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of
one of
the contending parties.
Imtl 8.345 24 ...one abstains from writing or printing
on the immortality of
the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the
hungry
eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
Plu 10.320 9 I cannot close these notes without
expressing my sense of the
valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered
to his
Author and to his readers.
PLT 12.48 26 I have heard that idiot children are known
from their birth by
the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
PPr 12.388 16 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of
Mammon and of
criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
closed, adj. (3)
ET6 5.105 10 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain,
swinging his closed
umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.
ET13 5.214 16 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.
PPo 8.261 21 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The
nightingale to the
falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth
thou
utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
closed, v. (21)
DSA 1.144 13 The stationariness of religion; the
assumption...that the Bible
is closed;...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
MR 1.242 3 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and
it is requisite that
the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are
above
them perceive...
MR 1.242 5 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and
it is requisite that... when the pair above are closed, those which are
beneath should be opened.
Comp 2.126 19 The death of a dear friend, wife,
brother, lover, which
seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a
guide
or genius; for it commonly...terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth
which was waiting to be closed...
Exp 3.54 23 Into every intelligence there is a door
which is never closed, through which the creator passes.
Exp 3.64 21 Whilst the debate goes forward on the
equity of commerce, and will not be closed for a century or two, New
and Old England may keep
shop.
UGM 4.20 25 With each new mind, a new secret of nature
transpires; nor
can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born.
ET10 5.171 8 A large family is reckoned a misfortune
[in England]. And it
is a consolation in the death of the young, that a source of expense is
closed.
ET13 5.222 12 I suspect that there is in an
Englishman's brain a valve that
can be closed at pleasure...
SA 8.98 12 ...On the day of resurrection, those who
have indulged in
ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in
their faces
when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called
to
another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against
them...
PPo 8.257 19 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with
passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet
breast./
Edc1 10.152 15 Each [pupil] requires so much
consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
Prch 10.237 12 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and
it is requisite that
the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are
above
them perceive;...
Prch 10.237 14 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and
it is requisite that... when the pair above are closed, those which are
beneath are opened.
MMEm 10.409 5 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the
doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages,
so
have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the
apartments of social affections...
MMEm 10.418 1 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been
the means
of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was
honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is
closed...
LS 11.10 26 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum]
with these
explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I
speak
to you, they are spirit and they are life.
HDC 11.82 6 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its
delegate, accepted the
new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole
series of important public events in which this town played a part.
EPro 11.322 22 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what
variety of courses
lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire.
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...
EurB 12.376 12 Everything good in such a story [novel
of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.
closely, adv. (6)
Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied to
these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be
called
Table-Talks...
PPo 8.252 7 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or
shorter ode, requires that
the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of
several
hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or
less
closely with the subject of the piece.
ALin 11.329 11 ...I doubt if any death has caused so
much pain to mankind
as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;
and
this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely
together...
PLT 12.44 11 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two
parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near,
but
never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can
take up
the block as one.
MAng1 12.218 24 ...certain minds, more closely
harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from
things...
Trag 12.406 10 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind
in both
hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.
closeness, n. (7)
Hist 2.30 19 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the
history of religion, with
some closeness to the faith of later ages.
ShP 4.215 18 We say, from the truth and closeness of
[Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
ET14 5.236 15 There is a...closeness to the matter in
hand, even in the
second and third class of [English] writers;...
Wth 6.100 17 Probity and closeness to the facts are the
basis [of
commerce]...
FSLN 11.222 23 [Webster] worked with that closeness of
adhesion to the
matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
ALin 11.333 23 ...the weight and penetration of many
passages in [Lincoln'
s] letters, messages and speeches, hidden now by the very closeness of
their
application to the moment, are destined hereafter to wide fame.
WSL 12.347 6 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety
of writers, with
a closeness and extent of view which has enhanced the value of those
authors to his readers.
closer, adj. (7)
OS 2.275 7 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out
into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious
of a closer sympathy
with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
ET16 5.286 16 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the
train Clarendon
Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had
wished
to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
Wth 6.99 6 If properties of this kind [works of art]
were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of
neighborhood closer.
PI 8.6 13 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer
inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the
mind;...
MAng1 12.221 22 ...reflection discloses evermore a
closer analogy
between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
MAng1 12.223 10 There is a closer relation than is
commonly thought
between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
Milt1 12.252 17 We think we have seen and heard
criticism upon [Milton'
s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the
recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was finer
and
closer appreciation;...
closer, adv. (3)
Tran 1.351 27 ...to come a little closer to the secret
of these persons, we
must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to
answer
the objections of the man of the world...
MMEm 10.416 16 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as
the
shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth
which will link me closer to God.
FRep 11.517 7 The lodging the power in the people...has
the effect of
holding things closer to common sense;...
closes, v. (3)
GoW 4.275 16 ...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes
from knot to knot and
closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
F 6.10 27 When each comes forth from his mother's womb,
the gate of gifts
closes behind him.
F 6.35 24 Behind every individual closes
organization;...
closest, adj. (3)
Aris 10.64 23 ...I believe in the closest affinity
between moral and material
power.
SovE 10.203 12 [Our religion] visits us only on some
exceptional and
ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace.
But
that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping
providence, which lurks...in...our closest thoughts...
LLNE 10.363 1 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and
philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact
contemporaries
so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or
bird-hunting; forming the closest friendships with such...
closet, adj. (2)
SR 2.72 8 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,
charity, all knock at
once at thy closet door...
Wth 6.93 18 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a
problem for practical
navigation as well as for closet geometry...
closet, n. (19)
Nat 1.75 19 It were a wise inquiry for the closet, to
compare...our daily
history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
DSA 1.150 18 Two inestimable advantages Christianity
has given us; first
the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the
philosopher, into the garret of toil...
Con 1.309 22 ...the moon and the north star you would
quickly have
occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
OS 2.276 14 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal
sentiment we have
come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to
the
centre of the world, where, as in the closet of God, we see causes, and
anticipate the universe...
OS 2.294 21 ...if [man] would know what the great God
speaketh, he must
go into his closet and shut the door...
Cir 2.306 14 The last chamber, the last closet, [every
man] must feel was
never opened;...
Exp 3.65 15 ...stay there in thy closet and toil until
the rest are agreed what
to do about it.
ShP 4.207 6 That imagination which dilates the closet
[Shakespeare] writes
in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be
the
glimpses of the moon.
ET15 5.268 14 [The London Times] draws from any number
of learned and
skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises,
corrects, and co-ordinates. Of this closet, the secret does not
transpire.
Boks 7.219 7 ...[the sacred books] are for the
closet...
Cour 7.254 7 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his
closet, can lay out
the plans of a campaign...
Elo2 8.121 16 ...some orators go to the assembly as to
a closet where to
find their best thoughts.
Elo2 8.127 26 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...shut up in
his closet and his
theology, had lost some natural relation to men...
PPo 8.249 13 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a
groom, and heaven a
closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
Insp 8.287 14 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon,
dear to English
song, in your closet?
Imtl 8.338 8 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a
garden, a field...
Chr2 10.116 24 ...a few clergymen, with a more
theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them
quietly. In general discourse, they
are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave
them
locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
Plu 10.307 4 ...we expect this awe and reverence of the
spiritual power
from the philosopher in his closet...
Shak1 11.450 6 ...[Shakespeare] is yet to all wise men
the companion of
the closet.
closets, n. (2)
Bty 6.295 6 In a house that I know, I have noticed a
block of spermaceti
lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
Aris 10.54 9 The more familiar examples of this power
[of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh,
and weep, in their
eloquent closets...
closing, adj. (1)
FSLN 11.226 2 In the final hour, when he was forced by
the peremptory
necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the
part
of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
closing, v. (6)
Nat 1.46 21 ...when [our friend] has...become an object
of thought, and...is
converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us
that
his office is closing...
YA 1.393 3 Instead of the open future expanding here
before the eye of
every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to
a
narrow slit of sky...
SwM 4.97 8 All religious history contains traces of the
trance of saints... Myesis, the closing of the eyes...
GoW 4.275 14 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing
at last with the
flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
ET14 5.249 5 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life,
his vast attempts but
most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
ACri 12.292 10 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared
before the committee
of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing
a
debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short
and
graphic.
cloth, adj. (1)
OA 7.316 9 Wellington, in speaking of military men,
said, What masks are
these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like
deception in
the cloth shoe...of Age.
cloth, n. (12)
MR 1.238 7 Every species of property is preyed on by its
own enemies, as... cloth by moths;...
Fdsp 2.198 26 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains
[of friendship] are... not for life. They are not to be indulged. This
is to weave cobweb, and not
cloth.
ET5 5.99 20 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a
dye which is
more lasting than the cloth.
ET10 5.167 2 ...the machine unmans the user. What he
gains in making
cloth, he loses in general power.
ET10 5.167 3 There should be temperance in making
cloth, as well as in
eating.
Pow 6.82 5 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any
muslin...
Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he
consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad
tickets and newspapers.
SA 8.80 21 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb
cloth woven so
fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
LLNE 10.345 22 [The pilgrim] thought every one should
labor at some
necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for
himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should
give of the
commodity to any applicant...
Thor 10.462 12 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense,
like that which
Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The
Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which,
whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry
and
cloth of gold.
HDC 11.38 1 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw
Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to
the English, receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag,
hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
HDC 11.38 2 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem,
received a suit
of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a
greatcoat;...
Cloth of Gold, Field of the (1)
PPr 12.390 5 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has
entered the Field of
the Cloth of Gold...
clothe, v. (24)
Nat 1.21 6 Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's]
form with her
palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
Nat 1.30 17 Hundreds of writers may be found...who do
not of themselves
clothe one thought in its natural garment...
Nat 1.32 19 ...we see that [nature] always stands ready
to clothe what we
would say...
Con 1.306 12 In his first consideration how to feed,
clothe, and warm
himself, [the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing
and
that thing have owners...
SR 2.57 13 ...when the devout motions of the soul come,
yield to them
heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.
ET10 5.161 4 [Steam] can clothe shingle mountains with
ship-oaks...
ET11 5.179 5 The names [of English towns and districts]
are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all
epics
and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the
body.
F 6.41 20 In youth we clothe ourselves with rainbows...
Pow 6.73 3 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures
first in skeleton, then to clothe them with flesh...
Wth 6.83 16 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The
matted thicket low
and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to
clothe
and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
CbW 6.275 9 ...we live...not only with the young whom
we are to...clothe
with the advantages we have earned...
Ill 6.314 5 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the
charivari, comes now
and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to
clothe
the show in due glory...
Farm 7.139 13 ...[the farmer's] rule is that the earth
shall feed and clothe
him;...
PI 8.17 24 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.
SA 8.80 23 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb
cloth woven so
fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean
manners, which do really clothe a princely nature.
Elo2 8.117 13 The special ingredients of this force [of
eloquence] are... logic; imagination, or the skill to clothe your
thought in natural images;...
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...
EdAd 11.386 2 We hearken in vain for any profound
voice...intelligently
announcing duties which clothe life with joy...
RBur 11.442 26 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and
gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street,
and clothe it
with melody.
Mem 12.95 1 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe
themselves in words?
MAng1 12.234 21 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his
work [The Last
Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
Milt1 12.260 11 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave
argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou
clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
Milt1 12.260 21 The world, no doubt, contains many of
that class of men
whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets, whose minds teem with
images which they want words to clothe.
ACri 12.281 1 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple
words succeeds,/ For
still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
clothed, adj. (1)
CbW 6.250 17 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked
Indians and nations of
clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
clothed, v. (27)
MN 1.205 19 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a
leopard skin to
signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of
thee, O
rich and various Man!...
Tran 1.338 15 ...we have yet no man...who, working for
universal aims, found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew
not how...
OS 2.274 15 ...the web of events is the flowing robe in
which [the soul] is
clothed.
Chr1 3.111 18 ...when men shall meet as they ought,
each a benefactor... clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with
accomplishments, it should be a
festival of nature which all things announce.
PPh 4.43 5 Plato is clothed with the powers of a
poet...
ShP 4.212 9 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his
legend with form
and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
NMW 4.240 10 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the
millions whom he
directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
GoW 4.273 20 [Goethe] has clothed our modern existence
with poetry.
Pow 6.63 25 This power [in American politics]...is not
clothed in satin.
Bhr 6.172 18 We prize [manners] for their
rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to get [people] washed, clothed,
and set up on end;...
Wsp 6.238 16 If there ever was a good man, be certain
there was another
and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with
beauty at
our curtain by night...
Bty 6.304 19 Chaff and dust...are clothed about with
immortality.
SS 7.10 13 A man must be clothed with society...
SA 8.81 8 Though the person so clothed [in manners]
wrestle with you...he
is yet a thousand miles off...
Imtl 8.327 26 Swedenborg...announced many things true
and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian
colors.
Schr 10.286 15 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink
insult, be clothed and
shod in insult...
Schr 10.287 16 [The scholar] is still to decline how
many glittering
opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this
penury and
absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions
of wit.
MMEm 10.414 26 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out
this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I
weary
of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs
of
winter...
EWI 11.124 14 The sugar [the negroes] raised was
excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world.
EWI 11.126 9 It was very easy for manufacturers...to
see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves
would be clothed, would build
houses...
EWI 11.133 10 To what purpose have we clothed each of
those
representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they
are to
sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and
sold;...
EWI 11.145 16 ...now let [the black race] emerge,
clothed and in their own
form.
War 11.171 11 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God,
which bids the devils
that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him and let him now be
clothed and walk forth in his right mind.
JBS 11.277 21 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and
barefooted, and
clothed in buskskin.
Wom 11.414 26 When a daughter is born, says the
Shiking, the old Sacred
Book of China, she sleeps on the ground, she is clothed with a
wrapper...
MAng1 12.221 14 When Michael Angelo would begin a
statue, he made
first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same
figure
clothed with muscles.
PPr 12.388 14 If the good heaven have any good word to
impart to this
unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed
for
its occasion.
clothes, n. (39)
Con 1.316 15 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything
they give. I look
bigger, but I am less; I have more clothes, but am not so warm;...
Mrs1 3.146 1 There is still ever some admirable person
in plain clothes...
Pol1 3.202 2 One man owns his clothes, and another owns
a county.
NR 3.237 11 We...get our clothes and shoes made and
mended...
ET5 5.84 5 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to
dinner in a suit of
clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
ET7 5.119 16 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage,
plain rich finish
throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
ET10 5.153 9 A coarse logic rules throughout all
English souls;--if you
have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and
horses?
ET11 5.179 19 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red
cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country
is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came;...
Wth 6.87 19 Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes...
Wth 6.114 6 Pride can go without...fine clothes...
Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes
of some great man
passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes;...
Ctr 6.151 10 How the imagination is piqued by
anecdotes...of Goethe, who
preferred...worse rather than better clothes...
Ctr 6.152 20 The Italians are fond of red clothes...
Bhr 6.171 16 Your manners are always under examination,
and by...a
police in citizens' clothes...
Bhr 6.190 1 Under the humblest roof, the commonest
person in plain
clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
Wsp 6.226 19 ...the divine assessors who came up with
[a man] into life... like a police in citizens' clothes,--walk with
him, step for step...
Bty 6.300 8 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after
a world of pains have
been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in
sentiment
takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of
ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
SS 7.4 26 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to
London. In all the
variety of costumes...a kaleidoscope of clothes...he could never
discover a
man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
DL 7.121 13 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh for fine
clothes...
SA 8.87 22 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes
put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so
dressed;...
SA 8.99 23 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor
for food, clothes, house, tools...
Res 8.151 10 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and
grounds, and
mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the
country...wants coarse
clothes, old shoes...
Comc 8.165 2 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when
the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;
it...makes the mistake of...the
clothes for the man.
Comc 8.170 9 The same astonishment of the intellect at
the disappearance
of the man out of Nature...as if truth and virtue should be bowed out
of
creation by the clothes they wore, is the secret of all the fun that
circulates
concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
QO 8.197 24 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author,
owing his fame to
his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson,-who, again,
writes better under the domino of Christopher North than in his proper
clothes.
Insp 8.272 17 Fine clothes, equipages...cannot cover up
real poverty and
insignificance...
MoL 10.251 6 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of
Athens...is that they
made their own clothes and shoes.
LLNE 10.366 25 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on
washing-day; so
it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out
clothes;...
MMEm 10.419 23 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a
year for
clothes and charity...
EWI 11.126 12 It was very easy for manufacturers...to
see that...if the
slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be
clothed...and
negro women love fine clothes as well as white women.
AKan 11.256 22 In these calamities under which they
suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
AKan 11.263 20 When [the country] is lost it will be
time enough then for
any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes
and
depart to some land where freedom exists.
JBS 11.276 8 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair
to foul, from foul
to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's
clothes./
JBS 11.278 2 ...for [rough play] it needed that the
playmates should be
equal; not one in fine clothes and the other in buckskin;...
ACiv 11.298 18 The boys have no new clothes, no gifts,
no journeys;...
SMC 11.372 22 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the
officers
were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
CL 12.142 10 The qualifications of a professor [of
walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
Bost 12.197 1 ...the necessity, which always presses
the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against
the
long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
MAng1 12.228 10 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he
often slept in his
clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he
was too
weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go
immediately to work.
clothes, v. (7)
Nat 1.31 1 The moment our discourse...is...exalted by
thought, it clothes
itself in images.
LT 1.288 19 ...where but in that Thought through which
we communicate
with absolute nature, and are made aware that...the law which clothes
us
with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
F 6.48 2 A good intention clothes itself with sudden
power.
Suc 7.300 16 [Color] clothes the skeleton world with
space, variety and
glow.
War 11.164 8 Observe how every truth and every
error...clothes itself with
societies, houses, cities...
MAng1 12.233 17 Through [superficial beauty]
[Michelangelo] beheld the
eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and
graceful
outlines...
PPr 12.387 14 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the
poetic form of a
beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects
in the
horizon with mist and color.
clothespins, n. (1)
LLNE 10.366 27 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on
washing-day; so
it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out
clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that
when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from
their
pockets.
clothing, n. (4)
CbW 6.273 22 ...we make our roof tight, and our clothing
sufficient;...
Civ 7.19 15 A nation that has no clothing...we call
barbarous.
EzRy 10.381 23 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and
to have him labor during
the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
EurB 12.367 24 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be
a poet, and sat
down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
clothing, v. (5)
Nat2 3.181 12 ...by clothing the sides of a bird with a
few feathers [nature] gives him a petty omnipresence.
Ill 6.324 20 The intellect is stimulated by the
statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of
life in illusions.
WD 7.168 18 How the day fits itself to the
mind...clothing all its fancies!
Chr2 10.98 17 In the ever-returning hour of reflection,
[a man] says: I
stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share,
clothing myself with them as with a garment of shelter and beauty...
SMC 11.351 16 ...whatever good grows to the country out
of war, the
largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on
clothing
this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
cloths, n. (5)
MR 1.238 25 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods
he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...cloths...the son
finds his
hands full...
MR 1.244 21 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and
we have not
sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays
in the
house...
UGM 4.4 25 The student of history is like a man going
into a warehouse to
buy cloths or carpets.
Supl 10.178 17 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is
established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of
coarse and
family cloths.
EWI 11.141 3 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a
collection of
African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and
culture
of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
cloud, n. (52)
Nat 1.17 5 The long slender bars of cloud float like
fishes in the sea of
crimson light.
Nat 1.34 8 Can such things be,/ And overcome us like a
summer's cloud,/ Without our special wonder?/
AmS 1.94 24 ...the world hangs before the eye as a
cloud of beauty...
DSA 1.137 6 The faith should blend...with the flying
cloud...
LE 1.157 6 ...the mark of American merit...in
eloquence, seems...a vase of
fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with
terrible
beauty...
LT 1.282 12 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on
the brow of all
cultivated persons...
Hist 2.13 1 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this
all-creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should
we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
Hist 2.13 20 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always
and never the same.
Hist 2.16 13 What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a
morning thought, as
the horses in it are only a morning cloud?
Hist 2.18 22 ...one summer day in the fields my
companion pointed out to
me a broad cloud...
Lov1 2.185 9 Does that other [lover] see...the same
melting cloud...that
now delights me?
Fdsp 2.210 16 Should not the society of my friend be to
me...great as
nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison
with
yonder bar of cloud...
Cir 2.321 19 True conquest is the causing the calamity
to fade and
disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result...
Int 2.340 24 We talk with accomplished persons who
appear to be strangers
in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs...
Pt1 3.4 4 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to
talk of the spiritual
meaning of a ship or a cloud...
Pt1 3.12 19 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who
will carry me into the
heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to
cloud...
PPh 4.60 14 [Plato] could well afford to be
generous,--who from the
sunlike centrality and reach of his vision, had a faith without cloud.
ET1 5.7 4 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of
pictures at his Villa
Gherardesca...
F 6.48 17 There is no need for foolish amateurs to
fetch me to admire...a
sun-gilt cloud...
Pow 6.70 23 The luxury...of electricity [is], not
volleys of the charged
cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
Ctr 6.153 16 ...in cities [the gods] have betrayed you
to a cloud of
insignificant annoyances...
Bhr 6.187 20 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy
of sentiment
leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
Wsp 6.232 20 The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud
of its threat is [man'
s] body in its duty.
Bty 6.288 9 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving
word and
disenchant [beridden people], the cloud would roll up, the little rider
would
be discovered and unseated...
Ill 6.320 21 The cloud is now as big as your hand, and
now it covers a
county.
Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers
of deceptions to
baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the
cloud
lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their
thrones,--they
alone with him alone.
Farm 7.136 2 [The farmer] planted where the deluge
ploughed,/ His hired
hands were wind and cloud;/...
Farm 7.142 25 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the
Irish...but...the
quarry of the air...the lightning of the cloud...
Clbs 7.229 17 [The student] seeks intelligent
persons...who will give him
provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain:
thoughts, fancies, humors flow; the cloud lifts;...
Suc 7.303 25 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower,
and cloud, and face...
OA 7.313 16 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me
with a shining
cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by
old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the
best./
PI 8.48 4 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn
forth its silver lining
on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its
silver
lining on the night./ Comus.
PI 8.48 6 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn
forth its silver lining
on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its
silver
lining on the night./ Comus.
PI 8.51 20 History sinketh beneath [Oblivion's] cloud.
PC 8.217 1 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would
need to hunt him
in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...superior
souls...drawn to
each other and under some cloud with the rest of the world;...
Aris 10.55 25 I am acquainted with persons who go
attended with this
ambient cloud.
PerF 10.88 18 As cloud on cloud...so do nations of men
and their
institutions rest on thoughts.
Prch 10.234 2 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all
one to [the deep
observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
EzRy 10.387 3 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his
pleading, almost
reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to
spoil
his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand;
mind
your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...
EzRy 10.393 27 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud
or suspicious
circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his
way
straight to that point...
MMEm 10.422 19 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his
shadows all
around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or
pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into
the
meanest holes-but they are all alike in vanishing, like the shadow of a
cloud.
SlHr 10.446 23 ...let the cloud rest where it might,
[Samuel Hoar] dwelt in
eternal sunshine.
Thor 10.476 16 I have met one or two who have heard the
hound, and the
tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
EWI 11.136 18 Out it would come, the God's truth, out
it came [in
emancipation in the West Indies], like a bolt from a cloud...
FSLC 11.202 24 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight
statement, simple
force; the facts lay like the strata of a cloud...
PLT 12.39 24 ...the cloud of egotists drifting about
are only interested in a
success to their egotism.
CInt 12.129 18 Only bring a deep observer, and he will
make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He
will
find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the
cause...
CL 12.145 14 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky,
and every beam
of the sun, serve him.
CL 12.148 24 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They
drive
before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining
cloud.
CL 12.164 10 Every new perception of the method and
beauty of Nature
gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double
reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact, as
frost, or
cloud, or fire, or animal;...
Bost 12.200 4 America is growing like a cloud...
ACri 12.292 27 Vulgarisms to be
gazetted...considerable-it is
considerable of a compliment, under considerable of a cloud;...
cloud, v. (4)
Nat 1.66 7 Empirical science is apt to cloud the
sight...
Mrs1 3.140 22 Society loves...sleepy languishing
manners, so that they
cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and
inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the
sensitive.
Thor 10.464 17 ...whatever faults or obstructions of
temperament might
cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
PLT 12.8 22 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a
message to his
people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his
own
mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
clouded, adj. (1)
Nat 1.9 19 Crossing a bare common...under a clouded
sky...I have enjoyed
a perfect exhilaration.
clouded, v. (2)
Schr 10.283 14 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find
there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no
progress, but was wise in youth as in age. More or less clouded it yet
resides the same in all...
Bost 12.192 26 ...in that time [of the settlement of
Massachusetts]...a
certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of
the
purest.
cloudless, adj. (1)
Comp 2.112 8 The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald
of Polycrates...are
the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of
man.
cloud-rack, n. (1)
Ill 6.311 4 The cloud-rack, the sunrise and sunset
glories...are not quite so
spheral as our childhood thought them...
Clouds [Aristophanes], n. (1)
Boks 7.201 18 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more
of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of
Athens...
clouds, n. (47)
Nat 1.12 22 What angels invented...this tent of dropping
clouds...
Nat 1.16 8 ...almost all the individual forms [in
nature] are agreeable to the
eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them,
as...clouds...
Nat 1.17 22 The western clouds divided and subdivided
themselves into
pink flakes...
Nat 1.42 25 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has
been reflected to
man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds
forevermore
drive flocks of stormy clouds...
Nat 1.56 27 ...[Ideas] were there; when [the Supreme
Being] established the
clouds above...
LE 1.170 4 ...not less is there a relation of beauty
between my soul and the
dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
Tran 1.347 4 ...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and
drink wind...
Tran 1.354 4 Presently the clouds shut down again;...
Hist 2.18 18 The man who has seen the rising moon break
out of the clouds
at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of
light and
of the world.
SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume
pleasing forms, as
clouds do far off.
Lov1 2.176 19 The clouds have faces as [the lover]
looks on them.
Lov1 2.188 20 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept
over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God,
to attain their own
perfection.
Prd1 2.226 4 ...we often resolve to give up the care of
the weather, but still
we regard the clouds and the rain.
Int 2.346 23 ...what marks [Greek philosophers'
thought's] elevation and
has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these
babe-like
Jupiters sit in their clouds...
Pt1 3.12 4 ...I shall mount above these clouds and
opaque airs in which I
live...
Pt1 3.42 19 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by
clouds or sown with
stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Exp 3.71 16 When I converse with a profound mind...I am
at first apprised
of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to
read or
to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden
discoveries of its
profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at
intervals...
Nat2 3.173 12 ...I go with my friend to the shore of
our little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These
sunset
clouds...signify it and proffer it.
Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and
enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of
the
air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
Nat2 3.176 13 The uprolled clouds and the colors of
morning and evening
will transfigure maples and alders.
Nat2 3.192 12 I have seen the softness and beauty of
the summer clouds
floating feathery overhead...
NR 3.236 5 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as a rack
of clouds...
GoW 4.286 7 ...the clouds of egotists drifting about
[the intellectual man] are only interested in a low success.
ET5 5.79 8 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution
and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any
part of the world, he would
have made himself respected;...
ET14 5.233 2 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I
tramp in the mire
with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
ET14 5.234 21 The Saxon materialism and narrowness,
exalted into the
sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
When
it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the
adamant.
Pow 6.59 2 [The strong man's] eye makes estates, as
fast as the sun breeds
clouds.
CbW 6.265 17 I know those miserable fellows...who see a
black star
always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky
overhead;...
Bty 6.279 6 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In flame,
in storm, in
clouds of air./
Art2 7.46 4 [The temple] is exalted by...the play of
the clouds...
Cour 7.254 27 ...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 wind does of clouds...
Suc 7.298 3 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds
and lights to
overcome the common and mean.
OA 7.313 1 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/
Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me
with the wonted
spell./
OA 7.318 10 If, on a winter day, you should stand
within a bell-glass, the
face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it
were
June or January;...
PI 8.53 19 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every
fact:--the clouds
clapped their hands...
PPo 8.242 11 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh
the annals...of
Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean and his hands like
the
clouds when rain falls to gladden the earth.
PerF 10.71 18 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the
winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
Edc1 10.130 26 ...what is the charm which every
ore...every new fact
touching winds, clouds, ocean currents...possess for Humboldt?
MMEm 10.397 21 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/
Hearing as now
the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's
funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer
laid
in shrouds./
Thor 10.482 3 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's]
forest. Thank
God, he said, they cannot cut down the clouds!
HDC 11.29 17 Who can tell how many thousand years,
every day, the
clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
HDC 11.33 20 Much time was lost in travelling [the
pilgrims] knew not
whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
CInt 12.112 7 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when
they sing,/ And now
I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of
genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the
universe/
From God's adoring lover./
CL 12.148 17 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because
they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their
chariot;...
CL 12.153 17 ...on the shore...[the sea] is changed
into a beauty as of gems
and clouds.
Bost 12.211 7 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems
compensated for the
shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the
last
of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In
long
succession calm and beautiful./
Trag 12.417 6 ...the intellect in its purity and the
moral sense in its purity... both ravish us into a region whereunto
these passionate clouds of sorrow
cannot rise.
clouds, v. (2)
ET13 5.228 10 England accepts this ornamented national
church, and it... clouds the understanding of the receivers.
ET14 5.233 18 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a
fact. He will not
be baffled, or catch at clouds...
cloudy, adj. (1)
ET19 5.313 15 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct
that she sees a little
better in a cloudy day...
Clough, Arthur Hugh, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 26 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...the younger poets,
Clough, Arnold and Patmore;...
cloven, adj. (3)
Cir 2.310 21 ...let us enjoy the cloven flame [of
conversation] whilst it
glows on our walls.
GoW 4.276 24 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of
mythologic gear, of
horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
CbW 6.262 12 We learn geology the morning after the
earthquake, on
ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...
cloven, v. (1)
F 6.32 6 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned
it will be cloven by
it...
clover, n. (2)
DSA 1.129 24 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by
Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not
one with the blowing
clover...
Lov1 2.177 12 ...[the lover] feels the blood of the
violet, the clover and the
lily in his veins;...
Clovis, n. (1)
Con 1.317 4 ...the vigor of Clovis the Frank...sufficed
to build what you
call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a
sound
body appeared.
clown, n. (2)
Lov1 2.177 22 ...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives
the coward heart.
PI 8.40 9 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;
therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the
clown a jingle.
clownish, adj. (2)
Suc 7.291 17 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with
one's own hands...
CSC 10.375 7 The still-living merit of the oldest New
England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the
founders of families, fresh merit, emerging...and lighting a clownish
face with sacred fire.
cloy, n. (1)
MoS 4.174 18 Bad as was to me this detection by San
Carlo [that all direct
ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely
the cloy
or satiety of the saints.
cloy, v. (1)
UGM 4.27 9 We cloy of the honey of each peculiar
greatness.
cloying, adj. (1)
Boks 7.216 17 ...the novelist plucks this event here and
that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the
fancy of his readers with a
cloying success...
Club, Dr. Bentley's, Londo (1)
Clbs 7.243 26 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren,
Evelyn and Locke;...
Club, Harrington's, London, (1)
Clbs 7.243 26 Anthony Wood has many details of
Harrington's Club.
Club, Mermaid, London, Eng (1)
Clbs 7.243 20 We know well the Mermaid Club...
club, n. (27)
YA 1.376 21 ...this club of noblemen always come at last
to have a will of
their own;...
SR 2.84 22 What a contrast between the...American...and
the naked New
Zealander, whose property is a club...
SL 2.135 23 When we come out of...the Transcendental
club...[nature] says
to us, So hot? my little Sir.
Int 2.333 7 I knew, in an academical club, a person who
always deferred to
me;...
Mrs1 3.133 5 [A man] should preserve in a new company
the same attitude
of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to,
else
he...will be an orphan in the merriest club.
ET11 5.174 11 ...the terms of admission to this club
[English aristocracy] are hard and high.
F 6.47 16 ...when a man is the victim of his fate,
has...a club-foot and a club
in his wit;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Pow 6.59 5 ...when into any old club a new-comer is
domesticated,--that
happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture
where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the
best
pair of horns and the new-comer...
Ctr 6.136 10 Bring any club or company of intelligent
men together again
after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming
genius
could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would
come up!
Ctr 6.144 6 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse,
constitute, among all
who use them, secret freemasonries. They are as if they belong to one
club.
Ctr 6.148 21 In town [a man] can find...foreign
travelers, the libraries and
his club.
Boks 7.220 22 ...let each scholar associate himself to
such persons as he
can rely on, in a literary club...
Clbs 7.244 1 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the
club of Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith...
Clbs 7.245 5 ...the club must be self-protecting...
Clbs 7.245 13 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit
no man whose
presence excludes any one topic.
Clbs 7.247 14 I remember a social experiment...wherein
it appeared that
each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself
unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by,
and
could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect
which
hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject
admiration of
each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
Clbs 7.247 16 I remember a social experiment...wherein
it appeared that
each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself
unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by,
and
could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect
which
hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject
admiration of
each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
Clbs 7.247 18 The use of the hospitality of the club
hardly needs
explanation.
Clbs 7.247 25 ...to a club met for conversation a
supper is a good basis...
Clbs 7.248 27 I need only hint the value of the club
for bringing masters in
their several arts to compare and expand their views...
Clbs 7.249 21 A principal purpose also is the
hospitality of the club...
Cour 7.279 9 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against
those frightful
paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than
straws./
SA 8.90 22 Do not look sourly at the set or the club
which does not choose
you.
Res 8.152 5 When [the scholar's] task requires the
wiping out from
memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied
there,/ he must leave the house, the streets and the club...
PC 8.209 27 ...[the fop] lies at [the patriot's] mercy
in the ballot of the club.
PLT 12.7 13 Seek the literary circles...the men of
splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction? I think you
could not find a club of men
acute and liberal enough in the world.
PLT 12.8 3 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each
savant proves in
his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did
know
anything on the subject...
Club, Scriblerus, n. (1)
NER 3.273 5 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the
members of the
Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally
Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
Club, Young Men's Republic (1)
OA 7.321 6 A man of great employments and excellent
performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was
sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain
Young Men's
Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under
seventy.
club-foot, n. (1)
F 6.47 16 ...when a man is the victim of his fate,
has...a club-foot and a club
in his wit;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
club-houses, n. (4)
ET4 5.53 3 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the
public men or of the
club-houses...are distinctive English...
ET8 5.129 8 The [English] club-houses were established
to cultivate social
habits...
LLNE 10.358 14 Society in England and in America is
trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in
cooperative associations, in
cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in
cheap reading-rooms.
FRep 11.535 26 [The class of which I speak] sit in
decorated club-houses
in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
clubs, n. (14)
ET16 5.274 5 I thought it natural that [travelling
Americans] should give...a
little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment,
make
London very attractive.
Bhr 6.172 2 When we reflect on...how, in all clubs,
mannners make the
members;...we see what range the subject has...
CbW 6.252 24 [Good men] find the journals, the
clubs...to be in the interest
and the pay of the devil.
CbW 6.274 23 ...one may take a good deal of pains...to
organize clubs and
debating-societies, and yet no result come of it.
SS 7.6 14 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good
fellows, fond of
dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and
no Principia.
Clbs 7.238 14 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir]
replies...with Odin
contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the
gods
and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the
million
mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and
tete-a-tetes...
Clbs 7.243 14 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...would be an
important chapter in history.
Clbs 7.243 18 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs
and coteries in each
country, would be an important chapter in history.
Clbs 7.245 19 It is always a practical difficulty with
clubs to regulate the
laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
Clbs 7.248 6 The hospitalities of clubs are easily
exaggerated.
Edc1 10.147 25 By many steps...the hesitating
collegian, in the school
debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant
unfolding
of his thought in the popular assembly...
AsSu 11.251 16 ...this noble head [Charles
Sumner]...must be the target for
a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
ChiE 11.472 7 ...China...had codes, journals, clubs,
hackney coaches...
FRep 11.527 12 The facility with which clubs are formed
by young men
for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the
notoriety of the questions.
Clubs, Reform, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 16 The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum
and of the
Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
clue [clew], n. (1)
Comp 2.116 10 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up
the ladder, so
as to leave no inlet or clew.
clue, n. (1)
SwM 4.144 24 [Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue
to which the
soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
clump, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.210 16 Should not the society of my friend be to
me...great as
nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison
with...that
clump of waving grass that divides the brook?
Res 8.145 5 ...[the old forester] draws his boat
ashore, turns it over in a
twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the
lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the
shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
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.
ACri 12.302 20 ...when we came, in the woods, to a
clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things
consume a great deal of
time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of
our
investments.
clumsily, adv. (1)
PLT 12.19 19 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.
He must arrange
and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able
to tell
you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new
sky-language
he calls thought.
clumsy, adj. (8)
YA 1.380 2 ...Government in our times is beginning to
wear a clumsy and
cumbrous appearance.
Nat2 3.177 16 ...ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy
for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to
write on nature, they fall
into euphuism.
ShP 4.206 1 We are very clumsy writers of history.
Bhr 6.197 15 What finest hands would not be clumsy to
sketch the genial
precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
Suc 7.291 19 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with
one's own hands, as
if every man should build his own clumsy house...
Schr 10.270 10 ...such is the gulf between our
perception and our painting, the eye is so wise, and the hand so
clumsy, that all the human race have
agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
HCom 11.343 1 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to
resist. I go [to
war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if
I
decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier. I may be very clumsy.
Shak1 11.451 4 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth
and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial
abodes, are...clumsy
pupils of [Shakespeare's] instruction.
clung, v. (2)
MoL 10.249 7 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the
scholar clung to joy...
MoL 10.249 8 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the
scholar clung to joy...
cluster, v. (1)
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, and as more
traditions
cluster round it, is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding
generation.
clustering, adj. (1)
PPo 8.257 25 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded
tongue to the
smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
clustering, v. (1)
Milt1 12.274 14 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in
Eden:-His fair
large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine
locks/
Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath
his
shoulders broad./
clusters, n. (1)
Clbs 7.248 17 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt
paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not
mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic
wine./
clutch, v. (4)
Nat 1.19 18 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow
afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Con 1.297 26 [Conservatism's] fingers clutch the
fact...
Prd1 2.228 8 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch
at sensual sweetness
before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
Exp 3.49 21 I take this evanescence and lubricity of
all objects, which lets
them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the
most
unhandsome part of our condition.
clutching, v. (1)
MoS 4.159 6 ...we ought to secure those advantages which
we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
Clyde [River, Scotland], ad (1)
QO 8.186 4 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of
The Drowned
Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower
strang;/...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
coach, n. (18)
Nat 1.13 24 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and
mounting a coach
with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts
through the country...
Nat 1.21 16 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of
London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
Nat 1.50 22 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get
into a coach and
traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
YA 1.387 12 I think I see place and duties for a
nobleman in every society; but it is not to drink wine and ride in a
fine coach...
SR 2.85 5 The civilized man has built a coach, but has
lost the use of his
feet.
Comp 2.113 3 [The borrower] may soon come to see that
he had better
have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's
coach...
ET1 5.15 2 ...being intent on delivering a letter which
I had brought from
Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in
the
parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near
it...
ET10 5.153 9 A coarse logic rules throughout all
English souls;--if you
have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and
horses?
ET11 5.192 19 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let
down from a
window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a
scandal to
Europe...
ET11 5.196 12 ...advantages once confined to men of
family are now open
to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach,
toil
can travel in his cart.
ET13 5.224 20 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys
piously, the first time
that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and
praise God...
ET13 5.230 19 But the religion of England...is it the
sects? no; they...are to
the Established Church as cabs are to a coach...
ET16 5.285 14 On leaving Wilton House, we [Emerson and
Carlyle] took
the coach for Salisbury.
Bty 6.293 23 ...the circumstances may be easily
imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it
come
by degrees.
SA 8.94 20 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged
circle at Coppet, that
after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches
from
Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful
accidents to relate...
SA 8.94 23 The party in the second coach, on arriving,
heard this story with
surprise;...
WSL 12.337 9 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach,
he speaks quick
and strong;...
WSL 12.337 22 [John Bull] has never seen a good horse
in America, nor a
good coach, nor a good inn.
coach, v. (1)
CInt 12.131 4 ...the examination for admission and the
examination for
degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that, and
you
may find facilities, translations, syllabuses and tutors here or there
to coach
you through, but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder
before us...
coaches, n. (12)
MR 1.230 6 ...the scholar says, Cities and coaches shall
never impose on
me again;...
MR 1.239 21 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by...stoves
and down beds, coaches...
Nat2 3.175 15 That [the rich] have some high-fenced
grove which they call
a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant
cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet]
has
delineated estates of romance...
CbW 6.247 11 [Fine society] is...an affair of clean
linen and coaches...
SS 7.7 22 The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful
in coaches and
saloons.
OA 7.320 2 Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
SA 8.94 18 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged
circle at Coppet, that
after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches
from
Chambery to Aix...
Elo2 8.123 6 I remember, when, long after, I entered
college, hearing the
story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston
to
hear [John Quincy Adams].
Elo2 8.123 14 When, on his return from Washington,
[John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge...the coaches
from Boston did not
come...
Supl 10.169 18 The poor countryman, having no
circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head
to confuse him, is able to
look straight at you...
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 give up our coaches,
and
wine, and watches.
ChiE 11.472 8 ...China...had codes, journals, clubs,
hackney coaches...
coachman, n. (2)
Pt1 3.15 21 The writer wonders what the coachman or the
hunter values in
riding, in horses and dogs.
ET4 5.65 17 I remarked the stoutness [of the English]
on my first landing at
Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard...
coachway, n. (1)
ET10 5.165 4 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager
wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his
grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue.
coactive, adj. (1)
Exp 3.70 14 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard
Home I think noticed
that the evolution was...coactive from three or more points.
coadjutors, n. (4)
Exp 3.69 25 [The individual] designed many things, and
drew in other
persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and
something is done;...
NMW 4.244 2 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an
oblique tribute of
respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he
found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.
Pow 6.58 11 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental
advantage of personal
ascendency...then...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right
to
absorb them.
Grts 8.320 1 ...any man filled with an idea or a
purpose will find examples
and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
coal, adj. (1)
ET3 5.39 17 The only drawback on this industrial
conveniency [in
England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly
of a
color. It strains the eyes to read and to write. Add the coal smoke.
coal, n. (34)
Nat 1.38 13 Water is good to drink, coal to burn...
Nat 1.38 15 ...wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun,
nor coal eaten.
Nat 1.72 19 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over
it, is through the
understanding, as by...the economic use of...coal...
YA 1.365 13 ...the mineral riches are explored;
limestone, coal, slate, and
iron;...
Prd1 2.226 16 [The northerner] must...pile wood and
coal.
UGM 4.9 18 Justice has already been done to steam...to
coal...
ShP 4.190 20 [A great man] finds two counties groping
to bring coal, or
flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of
consumption, and
he hits on a railroad.
GoW 4.261 14 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on
the mountain;...the
fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
ET3 5.39 3 [England] has plenty...of potter's clay, of
coal...
ET3 5.40 4 It is...pretended that the enormous
consumption of coal in the
island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
ET5 5.95 20 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality
with
the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was
already
believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of
coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are
said to
disappear.
ET10 5.159 24 England already had this laborious race,
rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a measure of coal;...
F 6.37 21 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives; his
coal in the pit;...
Wth 6.84 2 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were
pressed/ Under the
tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
Wth 6.86 22 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since
the Flood...
Wth 6.86 26 ...coal is a portable climate.
Wth 6.87 5 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of
mankind their
secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
Wth 6.87 5 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat,
to make Canada as
warm as Calcutta;...
Wth 6.87 6 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat,
to make Canada as
warm as Calcutta;...
Wth 6.108 17 The price of coal shows the narrowness of
the coal-field...
Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he
consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad
tickets and newspapers.
Ill 6.321 6 We fancy we have fallen into bad company
and squalid
condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal.
WD 7.159 5 ...one franc's worth of coal does the work
of a laborer for
twenty days.
PI 8.8 19 In geology, what a useful hint was given to
the early inquirers on
seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree
which
was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
PI 8.13 20 ...if running water, if burning coal...say
what I say, it must be
true.
Res 8.140 24 By his machines man...can carry whatever
loads a ton of coal
can lift;...
Res 8.141 25 When our population, swarming west,
reached the boundary
of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was
suddenly in parts found...floored with coal.
PC 8.208 5 Who does not prefer the age...of coal...
Insp 8.276 17 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no
use that your engine
is made like a watch,-that you are a good workman, and know how to
drive it, if there is no coal.
PerF 10.71 3 The coal on your grate gives out in
decomposing to-day
exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the
sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian
tree.
MoL 10.242 21 The country was full of activity, with
its wheat, coal, iron, cotton;...
CL 12.139 26 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be
corrected by a
little anthracite coal...
CL 12.139 27 ...a little coal indoors, during much of
the year, and thick
coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
coal-field, n. (1)
Wth 6.108 18 The price of coal shows the narrowness of
the coal-field...
coal-fields, n. (1)
FRep 11.522 4 [The American] sits secure in the
possession of his vast
domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his
gold-mines, to his two oceans...
coalitions, n. (1)
ET5 5.90 23 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the
same pertinacity as
the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against
the
empire of Bonaparte...
coal-mine, n. (2)
Nat 1.40 26 ...every change of vegetation from the first
principle of
growth...to the...antediluvian coal-mine...shall hint or thunder to man
the
laws of right and wrong...
MLit 12.315 18 The great lead us...in our age to
metaphysical Nature...to
moral abstractions, which are not less Nature than is a river, or a
coal-mine...
coal-mines, n. (3)
ET8 5.142 12 ...the calm, sound and most British
Briton...respects an
economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
Supl 10.178 13 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is
established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every
skill...
FRep 11.543 3 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York
shipping and free
labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
coal-oil, n. (1)
QO 8.179 11 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood
indestructible by
means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian
method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
coals, n. (7)
SwM 4.128 20 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the
out-door
landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and
desolate
whilst you cower over the coals...
Wsp 6.205 23 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to
Christianity was
to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
DL 7.125 3 In each the circumstance signalized differs,
but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism.
Suc 7.311 3 ...to help the young soul...and blow the
coals into a useful
flame;...that is not easy...
SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first
hymn. But, that every
line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
FRep 11.526 26 ...instead of the doleful experience of
the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the
great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...tight roof and coals enough have been
attained;...
WSL 12.343 9 ...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood
and coals.
coarse, adj. (47)
Nat 1.62 1 We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were,
distant phenomena
of matter;...
Hsm1 2.263 3 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and
the gibbet, the
youth may freely bring home to his mind...
Cir 2.303 6 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a
fine cause...
Pt1 3.16 8 It is nature the symbol...which [the
coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
Chr1 3.115 3 When at last that which we have always
longed for [a fine
character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that
seems to
shut the doors of heaven.
Pol1 3.201 15 The history of the State sketches in
coarse outline the
progress of thought...
NER 3.283 20 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so
only it be honest
work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the
thought...
NER 3.285 10 ...what powers are wrapped up under the
coarse mattings of
custom...
NMW 4.255 23 [Napoleon's] manners were coarse.
ET4 5.70 3 Wood the antiquary, in describing the
poverty and maceration
of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He
says...his
fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
ET5 5.83 22 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts,
but adroit at the
coarse;...
ET8 5.130 15 [The English] are full of coarse strength,
rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
ET9 5.151 13 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in
the absence of real
ones;...
ET10 5.153 7 A coarse logic rules throughout all
English souls;...
F 6.37 25 These are coarse adjustments, but the
invisible are not less.
Pow 6.64 24 Those who have most of this coarse
[political] energy...have
their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
Pow 6.74 2 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation;
and it makes no difference
whether our dissipations are coarse or fine;...
Wth 6.107 6 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough...
Wth 6.125 21 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol
of the soul's
economy.
Ctr 6.132 22 There are dull and bright, sacred and
profane, coarse and fine
egotists.
CbW 6.248 12 The men we meet are coarse and torpid.
CbW 6.256 13 The agencies by which events so grand
as...the junction of
the two oceans, are effected, are paltry,--coarse selfishness, fraud
and
conspiracy;...
Ill 6.318 4 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to
the most subtle and
beautiful.
Art2 7.45 1 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much
pleasure
as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
Art2 7.45 3 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in
wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape...these things give
to
unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a
picture of Titian.
Elo1 7.65 14 Bring [the master orator] to his audience,
and, be they...coarse
or refined...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Elo1 7.66 10 There are many audiences in every public
assembly, each one
of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you
shall see
the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
Clbs 7.225 10 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the
bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice
in the material world.
Suc 7.287 4 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere
set a higher value
on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other
men...
PI 8.1 14 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from
lovely maids,/ And
make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
SA 8.87 4 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.
Res 8.151 9 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and
grounds, and mainly
one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants
coarse
clothes, old shoes...
Insp 8.273 8 [Most men's] house and trade and families
serve them as
ropes to give a coarse continuity.
Insp 8.281 1 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse
truth: When the belly
is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
Imtl 8.332 21 ...you shall find a good deal of
skepticism in the...places of
coarse amusement.
Aris 10.46 19 I only point in passing to the order of
the universe, which
makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten
generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
Supl 10.178 16 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is
established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of
coarse and
family cloths.
SovE 10.210 24 ...is it quite impossible to believe
that men should be
drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for
another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too
coarse and
frivolous...
MoL 10.243 12 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to
draw on the
spiritual class, not in this coarse way [of California], but in
plausible and
covert ways.
LLNE 10.337 14 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a
rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every
sacred
secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and odious to
scientific
men...
War 11.155 19 The instinct of self-help is very early
unfolded in the coarse
and merely brute form of war...
Mem 12.97 18 We can help ourselves to the modus of
mental processes
only by coarse material experiences.
CL 12.139 13 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...we
have also yellow
days, and crystal days...
Bost 12.198 16 No external advantages...can bestow that
delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation. All else is coarse and external;...
MAng1 12.215 18 The means, the materials of
[Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...
WSL 12.338 22 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone
to indulge a
sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.
EurB 12.367 24 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be
a poet, and sat
down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.
coarse, n. (2)
Lov1 2.172 20 [Love] is the dawn of civility and grace
in the coarse and
rustic.
Exp 3.61 13 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct
of superiority...
coarsely, adv. (6)
Mrs1 3.138 16 Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy
of beautiful
carriage and customs.
NMW 4.239 18 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his
contempt...for the
hereditary asses, as he coarsely styled the Bourbons.
ET14 5.232 10 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy
expression...coarsely
true to the human body...
Ctr 6.154 15 Let us learn to live coarsely...
Wsp 6.202 8 If the Divine Providence...has stated
itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice
that we cannot write these facts
down coarsely...
ACri 12.286 5 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that
giveth content to all.
coarseness, n. (3)
ET4 5.53 15 In Scotland...the poverty of the country
makes itself remarked, and a coarseness of manners;...
ACri 12.287 6 Into the exquisite refinement of his
Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple
diction by his
perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else
too
luscious.
WSL 12.339 19 In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a
certain air of
defiance...
coarser, adj. (6)
Prd1 2.221 22 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to
balance these fine
lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
Pt1 3.28 2 All men avail themselves of such means as
they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize
conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer
quasi-mechanical
substitutes for the true nectar...
NR 3.236 27 Everything must have its flower or effort
at the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff.
Cour 7.275 25 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if a
coarser shout comes up
from the street...
PI 8.41 8 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and
sentiment...know as well
as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
Chr2 10.119 19 To nations or to individuals the
progress of opinion is... simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
coarsest, adj. (14)
Tran 1.340 26 It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to
the coarsest
observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw
themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
Tran 1.349 23 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that
from the liberal
professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of
cowardly
compromise...
Chr1 3.91 6 ...in our political elections, where this
element [character], if it
appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently
understand its incomparable rate.
Mrs1 3.150 22 ...by the firmness with which she treads
her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that
another road exists than
that which their feet know.
NR 3.239 20 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine
or the coarsest
blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
Wsp 6.222 22 We cannot spare the coarsest muniment of
virtue.
Civ 7.24 14 Scraps of science, of thought, of poetry
are in the coarsest
sheet, so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we
have
looked it through.
Elo1 7.67 4 There is a tablet [in the audience] for
every line [the orator] can
inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons
are
conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...masked and muffled
in
coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first
time...
Schr 10.278 25 [The scholar] is to forge out of
coarsest ores the sharpest
weapons.
LLNE 10.332 19 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were
contented to go
punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out
that
the subject-matter was not for them.
HDC 11.35 2 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as
pleasant meal as rice.
LVB 11.92 14 The piety, the principle that is left in
the United States, if
only in its coarsest form...forbid us to entertain [the relocation of
the
Cherokees] as a fact.
MAng1 12.230 26 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most
celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this
drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
ACri 12.297 1 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a
perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy,
or descend to coarsest
sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
coast, n. (23)
YA 1.365 8 ...even on the coast, prudent men have begun
to see that every
American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
Chr1 3.94 24 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea
should take on board
a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of
Toussaint
L'Ouverture...
ET2 5.33 16 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like
some coast of plenty.
ET4 5.57 27 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are
people...living
amphibiously on a rough coast...
ET11 5.177 1 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became
the companion of
a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John]
Russell lived.
Civ 7.34 13 ...if there be...a country...where the
suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages
of soil, climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
Suc 7.285 9 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise
admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history, as the
emigration of a colony to
a new and more delightful coast; the building of a large ship;...each
of these
events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
PC 8.214 3 ...each European nation...had its romantic
era, and the
productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for
an
example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse
Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian Nights, on the
African coast.
PerF 10.71 27 When the rain exceeds on the coast, there
is drought on the
prairie.
SovE 10.196 16 ...when we have conversed with
navigators who know the
coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
EWI 11.107 27 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of
July, 1783...to
consider what step they should take...for the discouragement of the
slave-trade
on the coast of Africa.
EWI 11.124 2 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we
could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost
of whips. What if it cost a few
unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
EWI 11.126 16 ...[British merchants] saw further that
the slave-trade, by
keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them
of
countries and nations of customers...
War 11.158 19 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast
of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain...
War 11.158 24 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast
of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of
ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed
at, I
burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had
taken great quantity of treasure.
FSLC 11.195 8 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it
is piracy and
murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
FSLC 11.195 12 By law of Congress September, 1850, it
is a high crime
and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the
reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
ChiE 11.474 2 It is gratifying to know that the
advantages of the new
intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are
daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
CL 12.135 23 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for
fishing;...
CL 12.153 19 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into
bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the
industry of the people.
CL 12.153 23 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic
with the coast! What
wealth is here!
Bost 12.192 7 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and
his company
through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the
powerful
odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier,
Biorn and
Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...
Coast, Pacific, n. (1)
Ctr 6.146 24 California and the Pacific Coast is now the
university of this
class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut]...
coast, v. (2)
Edc1 10.134 14 Why always coast on the surface...
Edc1 10.148 25 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to
coast...
coasting, v. (1)
Elo2 8.128 15 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so
common a result
of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of
ball
and skates and coasting down the hills on his sled...that I wish his
guardians
to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible
part
when he is full-grown.
coasting-trade, n. (1)
ACri 12.301 24 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of
South Boston
Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the
coasting-trade
by the proposed improvements.
coat, n. (45)
Nat 1.12 22 What angels invented...this striped coat of
climates...
LE 1.169 11 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its
coat of vapor with
the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has
never been
recorded by art...
LE 1.176 21 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or
political salons... forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet
coat...
LE 1.183 11 They [whom the student's thoughts have
entertained or
inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man, in a white-seamed,
rusty
coat, like themselves...
MN 1.205 21 The great Pan of old...the firmament, his
coat of stars,-was
but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
SR 2.51 9 If malice and vanity wear the coat of
philanthropy, shall that
pass?
SR 2.57 15 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the
hand of the harlot...
Comp 2.116 5 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat
of snow fell on the
ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
SL 2.163 22 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be
any thing unless it
have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat...
Fdsp 2.192 13 ...the old coat is exchanged for the
new...
Prd1 2.226 1 ...if we go a-fishing we must expect a wet
coat.
NER 3.254 20 It is right and beautiful in any man to
say, I will take this
coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see
the
act to be original...
NER 3.256 8 Who gave me the money with which I bought
my coat?
SwM 4.101 16 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg]
in antique coat
and wig...
SwM 4.142 27 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some
sort, love is greater
than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his
leathern coat
is audible across the centuries.
MoS 4.160 19 We want some coat woven of elastic
steel...
NMW 4.243 24 I have only to put some gold-lace on the
coat of my
virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just
what I wish them.
ET5 5.84 16 The Englishman wears a sensible coat
buttoned to the chin...
ET10 5.165 21 [The Englishman] is a king in a plain
coat.
ET13 5.221 17 ...gentlemen lately testified in the
House of Commons that
in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a
church.
ET13 5.227 2 ...a bishop [in England] is only a
surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of
the shopman's coat glitter.
Pow 6.73 9 There is no way to success in our art but to
take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the
railroad, all day and every day.
Wth 6.117 20 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of
Have was never
large enough to cover.
Ctr 6.152 9 ...among a million of good coats a fine
coat comes to be no
distinction...
Ctr 6.155 5 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and
outgrown coat, that
he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some
purpose.
Bhr 6.173 25 In the hotels on the banks of the
Mississippi they print...that
No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his
coat;...
Bhr 6.186 21 ...we sometimes dream that we are in a
well-dressed company
without any coat...
Wsp 6.237 19 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will
presently manifest to the
man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether
he
belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him.
And
not in vain have they worn their clay coat...if they have truly learned
thus
much wisdom.
Boks 7.192 7 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books],
like battalions of
infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten
thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by
the arithmetical
rule of Permutation and Combination...
OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a
large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat...
PI 8.18 7 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the
large vocabulary or
many-colored coat of the indigent unity.
SA 8.87 21 When the young European emigrant, after a
summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much
more.
SA 8.88 2 ...a king or a general does not need a fine
coat...
SA 8.88 13 Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat
with my
discretion will be brave.
Comc 8.169 24 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome
one day with a
party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused
to
take off his coat...
Comc 8.169 26 ...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced
off his coat...
PPo 8.244 25 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest
after words and
thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm
until
thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the
sky.
Dem1 10.5 11 The very landscape and scenery in a dream
seem...like a coat
or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
Aris 10.53 12 ...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat
out at elbows...if he
will.
HCom 11.344 6 Scholars changed the black coat for the
blue.
RBur 11.441 13 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the
poet, too, of poor
men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.
FRep 11.526 11 ...here is the human race poured out
over the continent to
do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
PLT 12.36 9 [Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or
stars.
CL 12.152 6 The forest in its coat of many colors
reflects its varied
splendor through the softest haze.
MLit 12.330 21 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...taught to
look for great talent
and culture under a gray coat.
coat-pocket, n. (1)
ET15 5.267 2 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the
London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates
had strictly
forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with
pencil in
one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
coats, n. (13)
Exp 3.49 15 The dearest events are summer-rain, and we
the Para coats that
shed every drop.
UGM 4.16 5 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment,
with their
medals, swords and armorial coats, like the addressing to a human being
thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
GoW 4.271 13 Goethe was the philosopher of this
[modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of
coats of convention with
which life had got encrusted...
ET5 5.84 20 [The English] have diffused the taste for
plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
ET11 5.197 27 [Titles of lordship] belong, with wigs,
powder and scarlet
coats, to an earlier age...
Ctr 6.152 8 ...among a million of good coats a fine
coat comes to be no
distinction...
Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...vamp your old
coats and hats...
WD 7.160 10 What of this dapper caoutchouc and
gutta-percha, which
make...rain-proof coats for all climates...
WD 7.170 21 'T is pitiful the things by which we are
rich or poor,--a matter
of coins, coats and carpets...
MoL 10.243 5 All the world took off their coats and
worked in shirt-sleeves [in California].
HDC 11.79 18 For these men [in the Continental army]
[Concord] was
continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and
beef.
CL 12.140 1 ...thick coats and shoes must be
recommended to walkers [in
Massachusetts].
Let 12.403 17 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the
proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which,
driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go
to
work on the land;...
coat-skirt, n. (1)
Wth 6.115 18 A garden is like those pernicious
machineries we read of
every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his
hand
and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible
destruction.
coax, v. (3)
Edc1 10.139 2 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in
the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails,
and will coax the
engineer to let them ride with him...
FSLC 11.197 13 Nothing remains in this race of roguery
but to coax
Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its
constitution.
II 12.68 26 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to
bestir itself, and work its
miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
coaxed, v. (2)
WD 7.172 15 We are coaxed, flattered and duped from morn
to eve...
Wom 11.423 12 As for the unsexing and contamination [of
women in
politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of
things...to
be understood only by wink and nudge; this man to be coaxed, that man
to
be bought, and that other to be duped.
coaxes, v. (1)
Elo1 7.77 15 A man succeeds because he has more power of
eye than
another, and so coaxes or confounds him.
coaxing, n. (1)
Edc1 10.139 24 Everybody delights in the energy with
which boys deal and
talk with each other; the mixture of...reproach and coaxing...with
which the
game is played;...
coaxing, v. (1)
Elo1 7.75 6 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of
the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the
auctioneer...
cobalt, n. (1)
ET11 5.187 27 He who keeps the door of a mine, whether
of cobalt, or
mercury...securely knows that the world cannot do without him.
Cobbett, William, n. (1)
ET6 5.109 16 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity
of Perceval, prime
minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every
Sunday...
cobble, v. (1)
Comc 8.166 20 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/
They had no more
but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/
Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
cobbler, n. (2)
Con 1.320 14 [Conservatism's] social and political
action has no better
aim;...a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades whatever it touches.
Comc 8.166 2 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice
malefactors to
excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches
have
less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and
but
one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well
as
shoes./
cobbler's, adj. (1)
CInt 12.129 12 Do not gravity and polarity keep their
unerring watch...on a
cobbler's lapstone...as on the moon's orbit?
cobbler's, n. (1)
Nat 1.76 13 ...you perhaps call [your house], a
cobbler's trade;...
Cobden, Richard, n. (6)
ET15 5.264 5 [The London Times] adopted the League
against the Corn
Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
ET19 5.309 14 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian,
presided [at the
Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech. He
was followed by Mr. Cobden, Lord Brackley and others...
F 6.39 23 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a
few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Cobden...and the rest.
Pow 6.78 7 Stumping it through England for seven years
made Cobden a
consummate debater.
Wsp 6.211 2 Certain patriots in England devoted
themselves for years to
creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and
establish free trade. Well, says the man in the street, Cobden got a
stipend
out of it.
Carl 10.491 12 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they admire
Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political
economy;...
Cobham, Lord [John Oldcast (1)
ET13 5.216 20 ...Cobham, Antony Parsons, Sir Harry
Vane...are the
democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
Cobhams, n. (1)
ET13 5.220 12 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams,
Arundels, Beckets;...is
gone.
cobweb, adj. (1)
SA 8.80 20 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb
cloth woven so
fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
cobweb, n. (3)
Comp 2.101 27 ...God reappears with all his parts in
every moss and
cobweb.
Fdsp 2.198 25 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains
[of friendship] are... not for life. They are not to be indulged. This
is to weave cobweb, and not
cloth.
F 6.20 23 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable
to bind the
Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band softer
than... cobweb, and this held him;...
cobwebs, n. (3)
Bhr 6.174 11 It ought not to need to print in a
reading-room a caution...to
persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like
cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...
ACiv 11.308 6 ...the statesman who shall break through
the cobwebs of
doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will
be
greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
PLT 12.48 24 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.
All slips through
their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country
houses are
used to raise or drop the curtain, but are made to sell, and will not
hold any
curtain but cobwebs.
cochineal, n. (1)
Wom 11.412 1 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/
Art and strange
lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and
lapis lazuli./
Cock and the Fox [Geoffrey (1)
ShP 4.198 4 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious
translation from
William of Lorris and John of Meung...The Cock and the Fox, from the
Lais of Marie...
cock, n. (1)
ET6 5.102 8 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a
gentleman, in
describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord
Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
cockade, n. (1)
WD 7.168 20 We wear [a holiday's] cockade and favors in
our humor.
cockatrices, n. (1)
SwM 4.130 5 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the
difference between
knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
Philosophers are, therefore, vipers, cockatrices...
Cockayne, Mr., n. (4)
ET9 5.144 16 British citizenship is as omnipotent as
Roman was. Mr. Cockayne is very sensible of this.
Wth 6.120 1 When Mr. Cockayne takes a cottage in the
country, and will
keep his cow, he thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and
gives a
pail of milk twice a day.
Wth 6.120 11 ...how can Cockayne, who has no
pastures...be pothered with
fatting and killing oxen?
Wth 6.120 20 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with
trees, but will have
grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed;
now
what crops? Credulous Cockayne!
cockboat, n. (1)
CL 12.156 10 ...we are glad to see the world, and what
amplitudes it has, of
meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and
crevices to
the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.
cock-crowing, n. (2)
YA 1.381 13 All this drudgery, from cock-crowing to
starlight...to end in
mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...
Pol1 3.216 27 We think our civilization near its
meridian, but we are yet
only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
cocker, v. (1)
Gts 3.159 20 Nature does not cocker us;...
cockered, v. (1)
CbW 6.261 11 'T is a fatal disadvantage to be cockered
and to eat too
much cake.
cockerel, n. (1)
PLT 12.62 8 The measure of mental health is the
disposition to find good
everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of
truth, tendency to be in the right, no fighter for victory, no
cockerel.
cockering, n. (1)
ET11 5.196 1 Fuller records the observation of
foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before
they are men, cause they are so
seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology
for
primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
cock-fighting, n. (1)
ET4 5.63 10 The brutality of the manners in the
[English] lower class
appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of
executions...
cockles, n. (1)
Con 1.296 24 Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles...
cockney, adj. (2)
ET2 5.29 14 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over
[the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror,
alternating with cockney
conceit...
Imtl 8.344 9 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being
quite impossible to think
himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one
carry
in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so
soon
as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up
in
cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
cockney, n. (1)
ACri 12.287 22 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue
arguments; as, upstart, dab, cockney...
cockneyism, n. (1)
ET2 5.31 8 The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain,
the mine, only
shatter cockneyism;...
cockneys, n. (2)
ET6 5.111 3 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the
foreigner on the
reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
CL 12.146 18 I know a whole district...where the
apple-trees strive with
and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple
growing with
profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...
cock-pit, n. (1)
Cour 7.267 3 In every school there are certain fighting
boys;...in every
town, bravoes and bullies...patrons of the cock-pit and the ring.
cockpits, n. (2)
ET4 5.69 2 ...the animal ferocity of the quays and
cockpits...[the English] know how to wake up.
War 11.155 25 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's
ring are the
enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been
developed.
cocks, n. (2)
PPh 4.72 1 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and
illustrations from cocks
and quails...
Cour 7.266 24 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood,
which...does not feel
itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cocks...
cocktail, adj. (1)
ACri 12.287 23 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue
arguments; as... lubber, puppy, peacock-A cocktail House of Commons.
cocoa, n. (1)
PI 8.42 19 Anything, child, that the mind covets, from
the milk of a cocoa
to the throne of the three worlds, thou mayest obtain, by keeping the
law of
thy members and the law of thy mind.
cocoa-nut, n. (1)
PLT 12.32 2 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the
elements that form a
peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
Cod, Cape, Massachusetts, a (1)
FRep 11.520 12 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape
Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short:
No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
Cod, Cape, Massachusetts, n (3)
CbW 6.252 11 We have as good right, and the same sort of
right to be here, as Cape Cod or Sandy Hook have to be there.
EWI 11.131 8 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts
whale in the Southern
ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and
protection, as much as within the arms of Cape Ann or Cape Cod.
AKan 11.262 4 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no
government-was
an anarchy. Every man...was his own governor; and there was no breach
of
peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac.
Cod, Cape, n. (2)
FSLC 11.201 3 [John Randolph's] words resounding...from
Cape Florida
to Cape Cod, come down now like the cry of Fate...
FSLC 11.212 16 We will never intermeddle with your
slavery,-but you
can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
coddle, v. (1)
Ctr 6.154 6 What is odious but...people...who coddle
themselves...
code, n. (23)
YA 1.370 26 To men legislating for the area...somewhat
of the gravity of
nature will infuse itself into the code.
Hist 2.25 16 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is
a gang of great
boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys
have?
SR 2.74 23 ...if I can discharge [my own perfect
circle's] debts it enables
me to dispense with the popular code.
Comp 2.100 13 If you make the criminal code sanguinary,
juries will not
convict.
Prd1 2.231 5 ...the boldest lyric inspiration...should
announce and lead the
civil code and the day's work.
Exp 3.83 9 I can very confidently announce one or
another law...but I am
too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
Mrs1 3.143 6 Fashion...is often...only a ballroom code.
Nat2 3.180 18 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be
written on the
thumbnail...
Pol1 3.201 2 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to
more intelligence, the
code is seen to be brute and stammering.
Pol1 3.210 3 The philosopher, the poet, or the
religious man, will of course
wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for the abolition of legal
cruelties
in the penal code...
Pol1 3.219 7 The tendencies of the times...leave the
individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own
constitution;...
Pol1 3.220 12 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure
the code of force
they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be
answered.
ShP 4.210 27 ...the occasion which gave the saint's
meaning the form...of a
code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its
application.
NMW 4.227 10 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] makes the
code;...
ET12 5.208 10 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...
ET18 5.305 16 There is [in England] a drag of inertia
which resists reform
in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code
and
entails.
SovE 10.189 19 Savage war gives place to that of
Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
MMEm 10.433 10 ...every banker, shopkeeper and
wood-sawer has a stake
in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.
War 11.154 4 [Alexander's conquest of the
East]...united hostile nations
under one code.
AKan 11.256 2 When pressed to look at the cause of the
mischief in the
Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his
supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable
atrocity of
the code.
Wom 11.424 21 The aspiration of this century will be
the code of the next.
FRO2 11.488 6 The point of difference that still
remains between
churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive
and
historical.
FRep 11.515 18 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when
men die for
what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born,
and
the better code of laws at last records the victory.
Code Napoleon, n. (1)
ET8 5.137 12 ...[the English] administer, in different
parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...in Mauritius, the Code Napoleon;...
codes, n. (7)
Pol1 3.212 18 ...an abstract of the codes of nations
would be a transcript of
the common conscience.
GoW 4.269 9 There have been times when [the writer] was
a sacred person: he wrote...the codes...
ET4 5.64 13 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir
Samuel Romilly said, I
have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
ET8 5.137 10 ...[the English] administer, in different
parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...
ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe show
the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity
into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
ChiE 11.472 7 ...China...had codes, journals, clubs,
hackney coaches...
PLT 12.18 26 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...the codes
and heraldry of states;...
codicil, n. (1)
Supl 10.165 10 ...one would not...make a codicil to his
will whenever he
goes out to ride;...
codify, v. (1)
SA 8.106 12 Would we codify the laws that should reign
in households...we
must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
Coelestia, Arcana [Emanuel (1)
SwM 4.120 18 A man is in general and in particular an
organized... selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony
[Swedenborg: assigned in the Arcana...
Coeli [Celi], Ara, Rome, (1)
MAng1 12.225 25 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara
Celi...
co-energizing, adj. (1)
PI 8.24 20 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees
the same refining
and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily
accidents
which the senses report...
coequal, adj. (1)
SwM 4.111 8 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in
Mr. Wilkinson...a
philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of understanding and
imagination
comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
coerce, v. (1)
EPro 11.324 15 If you could add, say [foreign critics],
to your strength the
whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce
eight millions of people to come under this government against their
will.
coetaneous, adj. (1)
Exp 3.70 24 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of
the parts;...
coeuntibus, n. (1)
SwM 4.113 21 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/
Ossibus sic et de
pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/
Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...
Coeur-de-Lion [Richard I, (1)
SS 7.12 23 The recluse witnesses what others perform by
their aid, with a
kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of
Coeur-de-Lion...
coeval, adj. (2)
DSA 1.134 26 The man enamored of this excellency [of the
soul] becomes
its priest or poet. The office is coeval with the world.
CL 12.145 5 The Rosaceous tribe in botany...are coeval
with man.
coevals, n. (3)
PC 8.214 5 ...if these [romantic European] works still
survive and multiply, what shall we say of names...hidden through their
very superiority to their
coevals...
EzRy 10.383 13 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed
the rear guard of
the great camp and army of the Puritans...
MLit 12.320 18 More than any poet [Wordsworth's]
success has been not
his own but that of the idea which he shared with his coevals...
coexist, v. [co-exist,] (2)
PLT 12.60 26 These elements [mind and heart] always
coexist in every
normal individual...
Trag 12.407 25 ...this terror of contravening an
unascertained and
unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...
coexisted, v. (1)
F 6.27 15 [Thought, necessity, will] must always have
coexisted.
coexistent, adj. (1)
Exp 3.70 17 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated
from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own
tendency.
coextensive, adj. [co-extensive,] (3)
Nat 1.46 7 We are associated in adolescent and adult
life with some friends, who...are coextensive with our idea;...
LE 1.158 9 The resources of the scholar are
co-extensive with nature and
truth...
Fdsp 2.207 13 In good company the individuals merge
their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present.
coffee, n. (11)
Pt1 3.27 21 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this
instinct...the mind
flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the
metamorphosis is
possible. This is the reason why bards love...coffee...
Pt1 3.29 25 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses
with wine and French
coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of
the pine
woods.
SwM 4.101 12 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London,
as a man of a
quiet, clerical habit, not averse to tea and coffee...
ET6 5.114 6 The company [at an English dinner] sit one
or two hours
before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen...rejoin the ladies in
the
drawing-room and take coffee.
Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he
consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad
tickets and newspapers.
OA 7.319 2 Tobacco, coffee...are weak dilutions: the
surest poison is time.
LLNE 10.355 22 ...the men of science, art, intellect,
are pretty sure to
degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee,
furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.
EWI 11.102 13 These men [negro slaves], our
benefactors, as they are
producers...of coffee, of tobacco...I am heart-sick when I read how
they
came there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave
products of the
colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and coffee, at 1,500,000
pounds
per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West
Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
EWI 11.122 12 [Our] well-being consists in having a
sufficiency of coffee
and toast...
EWI 11.124 12 The sugar [the negroes] raised was
excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it. The coffee was fragrant; the tobacco was incense;...
coffee-house, n. (1)
Plu 10.321 14 [The language of the 1718 edition of
Plutarch] runs through
the whole scale of conversation in...the coffee-house, the law
courts...
coffee-houses, n. (1)
ET8 5.133 17 It was no bad description of the Briton
generically, what was
said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a
very
bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind, not only among his
companions, but in public coffee-houses...
coffers, n. (2)
NMW 4.244 20 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred
millions in my
coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
Milt1 12.260 10 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave
argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou
clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
coffin, n. (6)
ET16 5.274 20 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would
become an
architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as
you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no
ornament.
MMEm 10.428 16 For years [Mary Moody Emerson] had her
bed made in
the form of a coffin;...
MMEm 10.428 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted
herself with the
discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their
sidewalk, by
the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
ALin 11.329 18 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the
coffin which contains the
dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through
mourning states...we might well be silent...
SMC 11.369 22 Another incident [reported by George
Prescott]: A friend
of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with
respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ... There was no place
nearer than
Baltimore where we could have got a coffin...
SMC 11.369 26 [George Prescott writes] We laid
[Lieutenant Barrow] in
two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards
off a
barn to make the best coffin we could...
cogent, adj. (4)
MR 1.249 23 We use these words as if they were as
obsolete as Selah and
Amen. And yet they have...the most cogent application to Boston in this
year.
Nat2 3.192 3 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere
of an aimless
society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and
cogent as
to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
Elo2 8.130 13 ...such practical chemistry as the
conversion of a truth
written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one
of
the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of
the
Divine Artificer.
Aris 10.31 13 ...the cogent motive with the best young
men who are
revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit
of
honor...
cognitio, n. (4)
Nat 1.73 19 ...the knowledge of man is an evening
knowledge, vespertina
cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge...
Nat 1.73 20 ...the knowledge of man is an evening
knowledge...but that of
God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
Mem 12.94 23 Memory was called by the schoolmen
vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge...
Mem 12.94 26 Memory was called by the schoolmen
vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command
of the future which
we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina
cognitio, or morning knowledge.
cognizance, n. (2)
ET1 5.19 22 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of
circumstances
than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which
the
law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law
does
not take cognizance.
ET1 5.19 24 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education
of circumstances
than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which
the
law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law
does
not take cognizance.
cognizances, n. (1)
Pt1 3.16 20 Witness the cider-barrel...and all the
cognizances of party.
cognizant, adj. (4)
UGM 4.8 5 ...in strictness, we are not much cognizant of
direct serving.
SwM 4.141 20 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the
same relation to
the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already
made
us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
ET1 5.18 12 ...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile
links that bind ages
together...
ET14 5.238 8 [British] minds...were cognizant of
resemblances...
cohabitation, n. (1)
Con 1.303 21 ...[the existing world] has...a long
friendship and cohabitation
with the powers of nature.
cohere, v. (3)
AmS 1.85 23 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering
roots running under
ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from
one
stem.
Prd1 2.219 6 Grandeur of the perfect sphere/ Thanks the
atoms that cohere./
UGM 4.24 24 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being
wrong. Was it not
a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of
cements?
coherency, n. (1)
Tran 1.330 7 [The idealist]...admits the impressions of
sense, admits their
coherency...
coherent, adj. (3)
SwM 4.135 26 The more coherent and elaborate the system,
the less I like it.
PI 8.65 10 We know Nature and figure her exuberant,
tranquil, magnificent
in her fertility, coherent;...
LLNE 10.349 7 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that
it...was coherent
and comprehensive of facts to a wonderful degree.
coheres, v. (1)
Wsp 6.203 2 ...whether your community is made...of
saints or of wreckers, it coheres in a perfect ball.
cohesion, n. (3)
PPh 4.76 10 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital
authority which...the
sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and
to
cohesion, contact is necessary.
GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or
a tale, he
collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines
them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to
incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves
from their journals, and
the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place. This
the
bookbinder alone can give any cohesion to;...
Mem 12.90 10 ...[memory] is the cohesion which keeps
things from falling
into a lump...
cohol, n. (1)
PPo 8.242 25 These legends [of Persian kings],
with...the cohol, a cosmetic
by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder
in
which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the
eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
coil, n. (2)
Comp 2.110 14 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at
the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
F 6.7 6 ...the crackle of the bones of his prey in the
coil of the anaconda,- these are in the system...
coiled, v. (3)
Pow 6.72 5 What a force was coiled up in the skull of
Napoleon!
Boks 7.213 4 We must have...some swing and verge for
the creative power
lying coiled and cramped here...
Thor 10.472 5 Snakes coiled round [Thoreau's] legs;...
coiling, v. (1)
Cour 7.277 4 If you...see only an adamantine fate
coiling its folds about
Nature and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us
courage...
coils, n. (2)
SL 2.146 11 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into
coils and angles...it
will find its level in all.
CbW 6.259 11 Any absorbing passion has the effect to
deliver from the
little coils and cares of every day...
coils, v. (1)
MN 1.218 16 Here about us coils forever the ancient
enigma...
coin, n. (6)
Comp 2.122 27 ...all the good of nature is the soul's,
and may be had if
paid for in nature's lawful coin...
Wth 6.101 19 The coin is a delicate meter of civil,
social and moral
changes.
Wsp 6.234 6 [The moral] is the coin which buys all...
PPo 8.245 24 The understanding's copper coin/ Counts
not with the gold of
love./
Schr 10.272 7 We have...a real relation to markets and
brokers and
currency and coin.
LLNE 10.345 18 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple
warmth the belief
of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
coin, v. (3)
Chr1 3.98 26 The capitalist does not run every hour to
the broker to coin
his advantages into current money of the realm;...
OA 7.327 16 One by one, day after day, [man] learns to
coin his wishes
into facts.
EPro 11.314 11 O North! give [the slave] beauty for
rags,/ And honor, O
South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's
image and name./
coinage, n. (1)
Pol1 3.197 7 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon
great,--/ Nor kind nor
coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
coincide, v. (1)
SwM 4.117 19 ...[Correspondence] required such rightness
of position that
the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
coincidence, n. (14)
Prd1 2.231 9 ...when by chance we espy a coincidence
between reason and
the phenomena, we are surprised.
Pol1 3.207 27 ...our institutions, though in
coincidence with the spirit of the
age, have not any exemption from the practical defects which have
discredited other forms.
PPh 4.75 5 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one
ugly body, of the
droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
PNR 4.83 22 Plato affirms the coincidence of science
and virtue;...
ET3 5.43 18 It is a singular coincidence to this
geographic centrality [of
England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to
the people.
ET16 5.282 27 There is also some curious coincidence
[to Stukeley] in the
names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.
F 6.3 3 By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men
were each reading a
discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.
F 6.12 26 I find the coincidence of the extremes of
Eastern and Western
speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
F 6.46 12 Some people are made up of rhyme,
coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...
Pow 6.66 25 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of
sharp private and
political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.
Elo1 7.76 14 ...eloquence is attractive as an example
of the magic of
personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it
requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy,
organs
and...good fortune in the cause.
PI 8.48 23 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical
structure of man;...
PC 8.207 13 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in
time and place as
in America to-day?...
LLNE 10.331 23 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what
occasion soever, a fact
had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well
known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
coincidences, n. (8)
MoS 4.163 27 Other coincidences...concurred to make this
old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.
Wsp 6.236 12 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and
met him on the
way; but he expressed no surprise at any coincidences.
Dem1 10.3 2 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens,
coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun
rather than court
inquiry...
Dem1 10.9 17 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The
same remark may be
extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us.
Dem1 10.12 15 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved
sciences, of mesmerism, of astrology, of coincidences...need not
reproach
us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
Dem1 10.22 11 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may
fancy...that...what is to befall him, omens and coincidences
foreshow;...
Dem1 10.23 24 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism,
omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds.
LLNE 10.349 16 One could not but be struck with strange
coincidences
betwixt Fourier and Swedenborg.
coincident, adj. (5)
Nat 1.73 25 The axis of vision is not coincident with
the axis of things...
Prd1 2.231 2 Poetry and prudence should be coincident.
MoS 4.158 7 ...shall the young man aim at a leading
part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a
success in either of these kinds is
quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
Thor 10.468 3 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the
Pole, for the
coincident sunrise and sunset...
MLit 12.315 11 The great never hinder us; for their
activity is coincident
with the sun and moon...
coined, adj. (1)
MR 1.228 21 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks,
Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected
something,-church or state... coined money.
coined, v. (3)
Lov1 2.176 12 In the noon and the afternoon of life we
still throb at the
recollection of days...when...the air was coined into song;...
PLT 12.57 7 We like faculty that can rapidly be coined
into money...
ACri 12.295 25 Montaigne must have the credit of giving
to literature that
which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech,-words and phrases
that
no scholar coined;...
coins, n. (5)
ET11 5.195 13 Already...the English noble and squire
were preparing for
the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They
went
from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers
curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
Bhr 6.174 24 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in
Titian's Venetian
doges and in Roman coins and statues...
WD 7.170 21 'T is pitiful the things by which we are
rich or poor,--a matter
of coins, coats and carpets...
WD 7.171 10 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...these, not
like a glass bead, or the coins or carpets, are given immeasurably to
all.
Edc1 10.146 10 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied
ancient art to explain
his stones;...he called in the succor...of experts in coins, of
scholars and
connoisseurs;...
coins, v. (1)
ACiv 11.297 18 Labor: a man coins himself into his
labor;...
Coke, Edward, n. (6)
ET11 5.178 1 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as
Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
Ctr 6.132 7 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the
Canon Yeman's
Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists...Coke,
Blackstone...do all affirm [the
principle in law that immoral laws are void].
FSLC 11.191 6 Lord Coke held that where an Act of
Parliament is against
common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
FSLC 11.214 4 ...one, two, three occasions have just
now occurred, and
past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or
Mansfield
or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of
Massachusetts had been prevented...
FSLN 11.227 2 Cicero, Grotius, Coke...do all affirm
[that an immoral law
cannot be valid]...
Cokes, n. (1)
ET12 5.207 25 When born with good constitutions,
[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of
performance
compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;--Cokes,
Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys...
colander, n. (1)
LE 1.171 14 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had
all truth, in taking all
the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain, and
the
gold and diamonds would remain in the last colander.
cold, adj. (109)
AmS 1.112 9 In contrast with their [Goethe's,
Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of
Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
DSA 1.125 5 Thought may work cold and intransitive in
things, and find no
end or unity;...
DSA 1.143 22 Science is cold.
DSA 1.150 4 All attempts to contrive a system are as
cold as the new
worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
LE 1.169 10 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its
coat of vapor with
the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has
never been
recorded by art...
LE 1.183 24 ...let [the scholar] be cold and true...
LT 1.262 19 [Persons] are the pungent instructors
who...make all other
teaching formal and cold.
LT 1.278 22 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices
which prudence
exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which
makes the
gem.
Comp 2.98 3 The cold climate invigorates.
Lov1 2.174 2 I have been told that in some public
discourses of mine my
reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal
relations.
Fdsp 2.216 15 Let your greatness educate the crude and
cold companion.
Prd1 2.225 15 ...we are poisoned by the air that is too
cold or too hot, too
dry or too wet.
OS 2.269 27 My words do not carry [the soul's] august
sense; they fall
short and cold.
Cir 2.302 12 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as
if it had been
statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining,
as we
see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in
June
and July.
Cir 2.311 4 In common hours, society sits cold and
statuesque.
Art1 2.365 2 ...the statue will look cold and false
before that new activity
which needs to roll through all things...
Pt1 3.3 10 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is
local, as if you should rub
a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining
cold.
Exp 3.50 20 Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold
and defective nature?
Exp 3.51 4 Of what use [is genius], if the brain is too
cold or too hot...
Exp 3.62 18 We may climb into the thin and cold realm
of pure geometry
and lifeless science...
Exp 3.71 10 ...if at any time being alone I have good
thoughts, I do not at
once arrive at satisfactions, as when, being thirsty, I drink water; or
go to
the fire, being cold;...
Exp 3.81 12 The life of truth is cold and so far
mournful;...
Gts 3.161 21 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you
go to the shops to buy
me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a
goldsmith's.
Nat2 3.171 9 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock,
the ground, to our eyes
and hands and feet. It is firm water; it is cold flame; what health,
what
affinity!
Nat2 3.171 22 There is the bucket of cold water from
the spring...and there
is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
Nat2 3.179 22 A little heat...is all that differences
the bald, dazzling white
and deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
Pol1 3.218 19 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and
presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard
nature.
SwM 4.128 19 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like
the out-door
landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and
desolate...
SwM 4.133 6 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the
world] is a
gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie...cold and still.
MoS 4.155 22 The studious class are their own
victims;...their feet are
cold...
MoS 4.182 22 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the
moral design of the
universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make
believe them? Will any say, This is cold and infidel?
NMW 4.237 13 My ambition, [Napoleon] says, was great,
but was of a
cold nature.
ET3 5.38 15 The climate [in England] is warmer by many
degrees than it is
entitled to by latitude. Neither hot nor cold...
ET4 5.63 6 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars
leave nothing to be
desired in the way of cold malignity.
ET4 5.69 25 The extremes of poverty and ascetic
penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
ET5 5.83 27 [The English] apply themselves...to
resisting encroachments
of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most
fruitful, luxurious and imperial land
in the whole earth.
ET6 5.106 6 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being
introduced, is cold...
ET6 5.112 17 Cold, repressive manners prevail [in
England].
ET8 5.128 22 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and
composed, at the
end, as at the beginning of dinner.
ET8 5.135 17 Here [in England] was lately a
cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever
existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen
creations of grace and truth...
ET17 5.296 26 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the
story of Walter
Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every
day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter;...
ET18 5.302 4 ...this [English] shop-rule had one
magnificent effect. It
extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every
opinion...
ET19 5.312 14 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful
country...
F 6.29 19 Perception is cold...
Pow 6.56 1 With adults, as with children, one
class...whirl with the
whirling world; the others have cold hands and remain bystanders;...
Ctr 6.155 26 Solitude...is to genius...the cold,
obscure shelter where moult
the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
Wsp 6.241 11 There will be a new church founded on
moral science; at
first cold and naked...
Ill 6.311 20 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a
cold pond, the
switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to
their
employment, which they themselves give it.
Ill 6.315 4 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in
the community, but
whose sympathies were cold...
SS 7.12 12 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not
facts enough to the
purpose...
SS 7.12 18 The capital defect of cold, arid natures is
the want of animal
spirits.
Elo1 7.68 11 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we
can do any work
well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the
orator], like
a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.
Elo1 7.69 1 Our Southern people are almost all
speakers, and have every
advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't
is
said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
Farm 7.147 18 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but
in a basin, where it
found deep soil, cold enough and dry enough for the pine;...
Farm 7.148 15 The wall that keeps off the strong wind
keeps off the cold
wind.
Farm 7.149 17 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold
through
constant evaporation...
WD 7.182 12 The masters painted for joy, and knew not
that virtue had
gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood.
Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of
youth?--with his long
days because...brisk circulations keep him warm in cold rooms...
Suc 7.297 20 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to
his chin with a cloak
in a cold upper chamber...
Suc 7.310 19 Despondency comes readily enough to the
most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter
confirmation, and
they...go home with heavier step and premature age. They will
themselves
quickly enough give the hint he wants to the cold wretch.
PI 8.64 3 The poetic gift we want...surely not cold
spying and authorship.
Elo2 8.116 14 When a good man rises in the cold and
malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to
be silent;...
Elo2 8.120 3 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence]
sometimes finds himself
cold and slow in private company...
Res 8.154 2 ...man is more miserably fed and
conditioned there [in the
tropics] than in the cold and stingy zones.
Dem1 10.4 17 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by
spectral jokes and
waking suddenly with ghastly laughter, to be rebuked by the cold,
lonely, silent midnight...
Chr2 10.91 15 Surely it is not to prove or show the
truth of things,-that
sounds a little cold and scholastic,-no, it is for benefit, that all
subsists.
Edc1 10.133 23 It is ominous...that this word Education
has so cold, so
hopeless a sound.
Supl 10.165 25 ...there is an inverted
superlative...which...wants fan and
parasol on the cold Friday;...
Supl 10.169 24 The common people diminish: a cold snap;
it rains easy; good haying weather.
Supl 10.170 17 [The guest's] health was drunk with some
acknowledgment
of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine
cold
hurrahs.
Supl 10.170 24 ...the great official...declared that he
should remember this
honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by
officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen
sensibility to
the nine cold hurrahs...
Supl 10.179 12 ...there is no question...that the warm
sons of the Southeast
have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact
understanding of the Northwestern races.
SovE 10.198 25 ...it is...our negligence...of these
world-embracing
sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
SovE 10.205 4 To a self-denying, ardent church,
delighting in rites and
ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
Prch 10.220 23 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly
in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of
the intellect...we are
like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in
his
blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
Schr 10.259 6 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is
the wages/ For
which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf
and
dumb, blind and cold/...
Plu 10.312 14 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract
virtue...
LLNE 10.339 23 ...[Channing's] cold temperament made
him the most
unprofitable private companion;...
LLNE 10.341 22 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and
many others...from
time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious
conversation. With them was always...a man quite too cold and
contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
LLNE 10.346 3 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep,
on cold nights...on a
wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
LLNE 10.349 23 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di
Roma, the frozen
Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison
the
temperate regions, accuse man.
LLNE 10.363 16 There [at Brook Farm] too was Hawthorne,
with his cold
yet gentle genius...
EzRy 10.383 22 I am sure all who remember both will
associate [Ezra
Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold,
unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
EzRy 10.392 23 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear
of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their
wives in this cold weather.
MMEm 10.406 27 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, in
finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who lives in society
alone...
SlHr 10.448 27 With beams December planets dart,/
[Samuel Hoar's] cold
eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October
in his
liberal hand./
HDC 11.37 12 When you came over the morning waters,
said one of the
Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our best meat.
Never
went white man cold and hungry from Indian wigwam.
HDC 11.39 13 ...if...[the settlers of Concord] found
the air of America very
cold, they might say with Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to
afford
to make so great fires as New England.
HDC 11.55 15 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems
to have caused
some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet
summer blighted the corn;...
EWI 11.104 17 The blood is moral: the blood is
anti-slavery: it runs cold in
the veins...
EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery]
are instructive, as
they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended.
Everything
generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the
other part
are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
EWI 11.134 16 If the managers of our political parties
are too prudent and
too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up
[the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only
sees in their
glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and
hatred; it is
that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and
powder-houses.
AsSu 11.249 16 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore the cold
shoulder from
some of his New England colleagues...
JBS 11.281 3 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John
Brown's] side. I do
not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed
handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of
cold
water to the dying soldier who needs it more.
RBur 11.438 4 He was the music to whose tone/ The
common pulse of man
keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
CPL 11.499 16 On a very cold day, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes in her
diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...
PLT 12.14 11 The analytic process is cold and
bereaving...
CL 12.139 16 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and
days that are like
ice-blinks, we have also...days which are neither hot nor cold...
CL 12.139 25 ...among our many prognostics of the
weather, the only
trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that
it is
going to be cold.
CL 12.150 25 [The man] went forth again after the rain;
in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
CL 12.166 2 Astronomy is a cold, desert science...
Bost 12.191 9 ...the weariness of the sea, the
shrinking from cold weather
and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].
Bost 12.194 9 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of
Saint Augustine...of
Milton, of Bunyan even...without contrasting their immortal heat with
the
cold complexion of our recent wits?
Bost 12.196 13 New England lies in the cold and hostile
latitude...
WSL 12.339 13 A less pardonable eccentricity [in
Landor] is the cold and
gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images...
Let 12.400 6 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I
say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with
this cold study...
Let 12.400 25 Full of love, talent and hope spring up
the darlings of the
muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about
like
ghosts, cold and silent;...
cold, n. (40)
AmS 1.98 22 That great principle of Undulation in
nature, that shows
itself...in heat and cold;...is known to us under the name of
Polarity...
DSA 1.124 5 ...[evil] is like cold, which is the
privation of heat.
Comp 2.96 18 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet
in every part of
nature;...in heat and cold;...
Prd1 2.224 23 ...our existence...so fond of splendor
and so tender to hunger
and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Int 2.339 10 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and
apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not
itself but
falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our
nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a
time, it causes
cold, fever, and even death.
Nat2 3.187 2 The excess of fear with which the animal
frame is hedged
round, shrinking from cold...protects us...from some one real danger at
last.
UGM 4.10 9 ...heat and cold...circle us round in a
wreath of pleasures...
NMW 4.248 25 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most
unfavorable
season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and
there
is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be
apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very
fine
days in December, of a dry cold...
ET2 5.27 24 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the
sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of
hundreds of
miles every day, which have their own chances of squall, collision,
sea-stroke, piracy, cold and thunder.
ET2 5.28 27 The confinement, cold, motion, noise and
odor [at sea] are not
to be dispensed with.
F 6.6 27 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles
your blood...
F 6.32 8 The cold is inconsiderate of persons...
F 6.32 12 The cold will brace your limbs and brain to
genius...
F 6.32 13 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon
race...
F 6.37 8 The long sleep is not an effect of cold...
Bhr 6.185 9 Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming
into the world and
has always increased it since.
Bhr 6.189 11 The things of a man for which we visit him
were done in the
dark and cold.
Bhr 6.192 10 We watched sympathetically [in earlier
novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the
wedding day is fixed, and we follow
the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are
slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold...
CbW 6.261 8 A rich man was never in danger from cold...
Ill 6.323 18 ...the Indians say that they do not think
the white man...afraid
of heat and cold...has any advantage of them.
Civ 7.17 16 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood,
the fire:/ All the fierce
enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log
wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
Elo1 7.67 22 When each auditor...shudders with cold at
the thinness of the
morning audience...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then
inestimable.
SA 8.105 22 The warmer [the sentimentalists']
expressions, the colder we
feel; we shiver with cold.
Elo2 8.118 24 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry
the cold and fearful
presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
Res 8.144 14 ...the woodsman knows how to make warm
garments out of
cold and wet themselves.
Res 8.153 5 ...[the willows'] gentle
persistency...grows in the night and
snow and cold.
PPo 8.238 22 My father's empire, said Cyrus to
Xenophon, is so large that
people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated
with
heat at the other.
Insp 8.288 22 In the hotel...I command an astronomic
leisure. I forget rain, wind, cold and heat.
Imtl 8.340 9 Salt is a good preserver; cold is...
Dem1 10.4 9 They come, in dim procession led,/ The
cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as
gay,/ As if they parted
yesterday./
SovE 10.190 25 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious
elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men...
Schr 10.288 4 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's
altar] may live on a
heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold.
LLNE 10.366 23 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on
washing-day; so
it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out
clothes;...
EzRy 10.392 17 ...Save us from the extremity of cold
and these violent
sudden changes.
HDC 11.35 13 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings
of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon
following;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.37 8 Many instances of [the Indian's] humanity
were known to the
Englishmen who suffered in the woods from sickness or cold.
SMC 11.371 6 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a
few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and
run
in circles...
SMC 11.374 6 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second
Regiment] lost
seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken
prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual
suffering
from snow and hail and intense cold...
FRep 11.517 13 ...hunger, thirst, cold...are always
holding the masses hard
to the essential duties.
Bost 12.185 13 ...if the character of the people [of
Boston] has a larger
range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of
extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator
and a
touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the
temperature of the celestial spaces.
colder, adj. (4)
PPh 4.59 8 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head...
PI 8.30 16 ...colder moods are forced to respect the
ways of saying [the
poet's thought]...
SA 8.105 22 The warmer [the sentimentalists']
expressions, the colder we
feel;...
PPo 8.259 12 ...the celerity of flight and allusion
which our colder muses
forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
coldest, adj. (10)
Lov1 2.174 5 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount
the debt of the
young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
Exp 3.69 8 The ardors of piety agree at last with the
coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is
of God.
Chr1 3.110 17 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad
without
encountering inexplicable influences.
NMW 4.237 7 [Napoleon's] vigor was guarded and tempered
by the
coldest prudence and punctuality.
Ctr 6.162 16 ...let the populace bestow on you their
coldest contempts.
Aris 10.54 2 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come
among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round
him...interested the whole
village...in his facts;...the coldest had found themselves drawn to
their
neighbors by interest in the same things.
Supl 10.166 8 Among these glorifiers, the coldest
stickler for names and
dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
LLNE 10.348 20 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars,
atmospheres and
animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It...could
not
but suggest vast possibilities of reform to the coldest and least
sanguine.
MMEm 10.430 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die,
though happier
myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest
beam will purify and render me forever holy.
Bost 12.188 21 I do not speak with any fondness, but
with the language of
coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town
which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization
of
North America.
coldly, adv. (11)
Nat2 3.188 25 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a
young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to
conversation...
NR 3.247 14 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few
weeks be coldly set aside...
NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island,
coldly falsifying facts
and dates and characters...
ET5 5.101 24 ...whilst in some directions [the English]
do not represent the
modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power
they
coldly hold...
Chr2 10.115 26 ...in [the Church's] most liberal forms,
when such [best
and freest] minds enter it, they are coldly received...
LLNE 10.332 2 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily
communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning
instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
Thor 10.458 15 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his
opinion without
affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
LVB 11.93 4 ...would it not be a higher indecorum
coldly to argue a matter
like [the relocation of the Cherokees]?
ALin 11.331 2 ...when the new and comparatively unknown
name of
Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and
sadly.
EdAd 11.382 17 The injured elements say, Not in us;/
And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say,
Not in us;/ And haughtily
return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We
devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their
love./
PLT 12.23 10 Every scholar knows that he applies
himself coldly and
slowly at first to his task...
coldness, n. (12)
Hist 2.29 23 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one
day, how is it that
whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor,
whilst
now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
Mrs1 3.133 14 There will always be in society certain
persons...whose
glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the
world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their
coldness
as an omen of grace with the loftier deities...
Mrs1 3.150 2 Woman, with her instinct of behavior,
instantly detects in
man...any coldness or imbecility...
NER 3.277 10 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to
be lifted to some
higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the
transalpine
good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like
fragments of ice...
GoW 4.276 27 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in
every shade of
coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human
thought...
ET16 5.275 4 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle
complained that
they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
Ctr 6.135 7 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness,
an incuriosity, as
soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
Elo2 8.116 12 The silence and coldness after the
meeting is opened and the
purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
Aris 10.62 19 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English
palaces the London
twist, derision, coldness...
Supl 10.166 10 Among these glorifiers, the coldest
stickler for names and
dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
EWI 11.146 27 I assure myself that this coldness and
blindness [towards
the negro] will pass away.
FSLN 11.242 4 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason
tax the coldness and
indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
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