Coleridge, Samuel Taylor to Combustion

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, n (36)

    Nat 1.43 23 A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
    OS 2.287 8 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Int 2.343 24 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...such has Coleridge... seemed to many young men in this country.
    PPh 4.39 20 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius...Coleridge,--is some reader of Plato...
    ShP 4.204 17 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...
    ET1 5.4 4 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET1 5.10 8 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
    ET1 5.10 10 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
    ET1 5.11 27 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well...
    ET1 5.21 28 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body. Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly...
    ET1 5.22 1 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood.
    ET9 5.146 4 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET14 5.248 22 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.249 9 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET14 5.249 12 But for Coleridge...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    ET17 5.295 4 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    SS 7.14 23 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched.
    Art2 7.47 9 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    DL 7.103 24 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity...
    Clbs 7.237 10 ...the Table-Talk of Coleridge is one of the best remains of his genius.
    Cour 7.262 1 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy...
    PI 8.55 24 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it.
    SA 8.93 20 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...
    QO 8.190 26 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    MoL 10.249 4 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions...
    LLNE 10.342 22 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth...with pleasure and sympathy.
    MMEm 10.402 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible. Later...Stewart, Coleridge, Cousin...
    Wom 11.405 19 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste...
    II 12.70 12 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin...
    Bost 12.197 25 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    MLit 12.318 24 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... appeared in England in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    MLit 12.319 13 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    WSL 12.338 26 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing; yet they are quite sincere and, like those of Johnson and Coleridge, are easily separable from the man.
    WSL 12.346 21 [Landor] is a man full of thoughts, but not, like Coleridge, a man of ideas.
    WSL 12.346 24 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
    EurB 12.366 27 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense;...

Coleridge's, Samuel Taylor, (1)

    Boks 7.208 20 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Coleridge's Table-Talk;...

co-life, n. (1)

    Exp 3.78 6 The soul...is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.

Coliseum, n. (1)

    Art2 7.55 6 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a wall,--and behold a Coliseum!

Coliseum, Rome, Italy, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 21 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...

collapse, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.126 27 ...we have all of us known men who lose...their fancy, at any sudden call. Some men, on such pressure, collapse...

collar, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.201 12 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...

collared, v. (1)

    EzRy 10.393 26 Was a man a sot...or had he quarrelled with his wife, or collared his father...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...

collars, n. (1)

    EWI 11.111 10 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...

collate, v. (1)

    LE 1.171 20 Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...

colleague, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.331 25 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted, his colleague remaining there;...
    EzRy 10.388 22 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.

colleagues, n. (9)

    NER 3.252 1 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare...their independence of their colleagues...
    ET5 5.90 8 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart. His colleagues and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.
    Boks 7.215 2 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    PC 8.222 2 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...
    Imtl 8.331 19 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    Aris 10.61 4 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    EWI 11.113 25 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged on his colleagues...
    AsSu 11.249 17 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore the cold shoulder from some of his New England colleagues...
    ALin 11.331 9 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln], and which they had imparted to their colleagues...was not rash...

collect, v. (13)

    MR 1.243 8 ...he who can create works of art needs not collect them.
    Con 1.311 3 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    Hist 2.38 19 [Each man] shall collect into a focus the rays of nature.
    ET4 5.58 14 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET5 5.91 17 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    Pow 6.74 22 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not.
    DL 7.116 2 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian.
    PI 8.24 8 The senses collect the surface facts of matter.
    Res 8.139 23 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    JBS 11.278 6 ...it chanced that in Pennsylvania, where he was sent by his father to collect cattle, [John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    Wom 11.411 23 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...with all advantages which the means of man collect...
    CL 12.136 25 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs.
    CL 12.159 17 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...

collected, v. (25)

    MR 1.238 23 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.238 27 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him the skill and experience which made or collected these...the son finds his hands full...
    Con 1.315 24 ...last evening our family was collected...
    OS 2.270 5 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
    NER 3.272 19 In the circle of the rankest tories that could be collected in England, Old or New, let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    UGM 4.5 8 ...our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed.
    SwM 4.124 22 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks, collected in Ovid...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    ShP 4.190 23 Every master has found his materials collected...
    ShP 4.200 8 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected, too, in long periods...
    NMW 4.233 27 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history...
    ET4 5.57 2 The Heimskringla...collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.
    ET8 5.139 22 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET9 5.152 6 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money, embraced Arianism, collected a library...
    ET12 5.202 23 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
    ET12 5.211 27 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET16 5.274 3 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in London] which they cannot find at home...
    Pow 6.55 8 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    DL 7.130 4 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    Cour 7.274 13 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
    PPo 8.255 5 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs, since his scholars collected them for the first time after his death.
    LLNE 10.351 13 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    EdAd 11.391 15 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].
    CL 12.137 7 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...with loads of natural productions collected on the way.
    ACri 12.289 22 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    Pray 12.350 20 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive volumes which usurp that name.

collecting, v. (4)

    Schr 10.273 22 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil, he will fear to go by a workshop;...
    LLNE 10.331 17 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts...
    EWI 11.127 25 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying all the facts which the London Committee had been engaged for years in collecting...) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    ACri 12.289 24 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...

collection, n. (10)

    Pt1 3.38 10 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Mrs1 3.126 8 ...every collection of men furnishes some example of the class [of gentlemen];...
    PPh 4.78 26 When we say [of Plato], Here is a fine collection of fables;... we speak as boys...
    NMW 4.251 10 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte]...
    ET12 5.202 18 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    ET12 5.203 6 I saw the whole [Thomas Lawrence art collection] collection in April, 1848.
    DL 7.131 23 A collection of this kind [a library and museum]...would dignify the town...
    Dem1 10.24 14 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...
    EWI 11.141 1 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    ACri 12.288 16 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...

collectively, adv. (4)

    NMW 4.251 12 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte], the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    ET4 5.51 11 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived.
    Elo1 7.75 11 ...we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
    Aris 10.39 15 I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...

collector, n. (4)

    Exp 3.62 23 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a landscape of Poussin...
    Exp 3.63 6 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
    ET2 5.32 5 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up, which you...seize with the joy of a collector.
    Bty 6.284 20 The collector has dried all the plants in his herbal, but he has lost weight and humor.

Collector of the Customs, n. (1)

    OA 7.333 26 [Mr. Lechmere] was Collector of the Customs for many years under the Royal Government.

collectors, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 19 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark...

collects, v. (5)

    MR 1.245 14 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them ill;-yet he has learned their lesson.
    UGM 4.28 16 ...the law of individuality collects its secret strength: you are you, and I am I, and so we remain.
    GoW 4.287 23 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    Mem 12.93 17 The memory collects and re-collects.
    EurB 12.371 8 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings.

college, adj. (25)

    LT 1.265 4 Let us paint the agitator...and the college professor...
    Int 2.330 10 A true man never acquires after college rules.
    Mrs1 3.130 10 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a college class...
    ET2 5.32 7 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man. A college examination is nothing to it.
    ET12 5.199 16 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford]...and I lived on college hospitalities.
    ET12 5.204 21 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination...lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.
    ET12 5.205 1 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    Ctr 6.144 14 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
    CbW 6.261 16 ...perhaps [the rich man] could pass a college examination, and take his degrees;...
    DL 7.124 19 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    WD 7.169 5 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    WD 7.180 19 ...you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
    Boks 7.191 7 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Elo2 8.114 15 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man whom college drill or patronage never made...
    QO 8.183 21 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
    QO 8.195 20 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
    Dem1 10.17 7 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound.
    Edc1 10.140 4 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    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...
    Edc1 10.150 24 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
    LLNE 10.327 18 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
    LLNE 10.334 13 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises, not a declamation attempted in the college chapel, but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    Milt1 12.260 7 At nineteen years, in a college exercise, [Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    ACri 12.288 24 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...
    Let 12.398 2 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...

College, adj. (1)

    OA 7.315 16 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.

College, Brasenose, Oxford, (1)

    ET12 5.207 2 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam, whether the Maud man or the Brasenose man be properly ranked or not;...

College, Christ Church, Ox (2)

    ET12 5.201 9 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with Stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
    ET12 5.201 11 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

College, Eton, England, adj (1)

    ET12 5.206 23 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...

College, Eton, England, n. (2)

    ET9 5.150 12 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]... through Wordsworth, Carlyle, Mill and Sydney Smith, down to the boys of Eton.
    ET12 5.208 5 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...

College, Harvard, n. (15)

    Elo2 8.123 1 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Elo2 8.127 20 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he prayed for Harvard College...
    Thor 10.451 9 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837...
    Thor 10.458 26 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.
    Thor 10.459 2 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the library was useless, yes, and President and College useless, on the terms of his rules...
    Thor 10.459 4 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College was its library...
    HDC 11.57 10 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.
    HCom 11.343 20 ...standing here in Harvard College...in Massachusetts...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    HCom 11.344 8 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    CPL 11.498 26 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...
    CPL 11.499 3 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    CInt 12.126 6 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
    CInt 12.126 7 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
    Bost 12.195 11 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted in 1620; in 1638 Harvard College was founded.

College, King's, Chapel, C (2)

    ET12 5.199 6 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's College Chapel [Cambridge]...
    F 6.36 25 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.

College, Magdalen [Maud], (1)

    ET12 5.207 2 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam, whether the Maud man or the Brasenose man be properly ranked or not;...

College, Medical, n. (1)

    Cour 7.275 27 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...

college, n. (76)

    AmS 1.90 12 The book, the college...stop with some past utterance of genius.
    Tran 1.349 24 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that...from the courtesies of the academy and the college to the conventions of the cotillon-room and the morning call, there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Tran 1.356 13 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation, or college...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    YA 1.388 15 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    Hist 2.17 19 There is nothing but is related to us...kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe...
    SR 2.52 14 ...the education at college of fools;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    SR 2.56 11 Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
    Comp 2.109 9 ...this law of laws [Compensation], which the pulpit, the senate and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    SL 2.156 10 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... on the college...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    NR 3.242 25 [Nature] suffers no seat to be vacant in her college.
    NER 3.265 16 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    MoS 4.151 8 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle, and all the institutions.
    MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book...
    ET12 5.199 16 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford], was housed close upon that college...
    ET12 5.202 12 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
    ET12 5.204 4 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    ET12 5.205 16 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    ET12 5.206 1 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year, with lodging and diet at the college.
    ET12 5.212 16 ...we all send our sons to college, and though he be a genius, the youth must take his chance.
    ET12 5.213 3 It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if we will wait for it, will have its own turn.
    F 6.26 13 [The mind] dates from itself; not from...college...
    Ctr 6.155 6 ...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.
    SS 7.11 2 The people, not the college, is the writer's home.
    DL 7.122 9 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air;...
    DL 7.125 6 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea; in a second, the difficulties he combated in going to college;...
    Suc 7.299 15 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    SA 8.82 20 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    Elo2 8.123 5 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].
    Insp 8.292 10 ...[conversation is] the college where you learn what thoughts are...
    Grts 8.304 24 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    PerF 10.77 20 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it a piece of industry, or the founding of a colony or a college...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    PerF 10.87 24 ...the college goes against [the moral sentiment]...
    Edc1 10.126 3 Humanly speaking, the school, the college, society, make the difference between men.
    Edc1 10.146 23 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he...had formed a college for himself;...
    Edc1 10.149 22 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher;...
    Edc1 10.150 2 The college was to be the nurse and home of genius;...
    Edc1 10.150 11 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college...
    Edc1 10.156 27 No discretion that can be lodged...with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...
    MoL 10.257 24 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
    Schr 10.261 9 ...the society of lettered men is a university which does not bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...
    Plu 10.321 15 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in...the palace, the college and the church.
    EzRy 10.381 16 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.
    EzRy 10.381 20 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
    EzRy 10.381 24 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching...
    EzRy 10.382 14 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.
    EzRy 10.382 15 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.
    EzRy 10.395 14 ...in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.
    Thor 10.452 11 At this time, a strong, healthy youth, fresh from college, whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Thor 10.472 15 No college ever offered [Thoreau] a diploma...
    HDC 11.56 22 The college had been already gathered [at Concord] in 1638.
    HDC 11.86 5 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided.
    EWI 11.125 27 ...[slavery] does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college...
    FSLC 11.182 3 The college, the churches, the schools, the very shops and factories, are discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law];...
    Koss 11.400 12 You [Kossuth] may well sit a doctor in the college of liberty.
    CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707, vice-president of the college;...
    CPL 11.499 1 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to 1804;...
    FRep 11.511 4 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops...the college and the church, have all found out this secret.
    CInt 12.113 7 ...here in the college we are in the presence of the constituency and the principle [of freedom] itself.
    CInt 12.115 3 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses...
    CInt 12.115 12 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand...
    CInt 12.115 22 ...even if we had no son or friend [in college], yet the college is part of the community...
    CInt 12.116 18 These are giddy times, and, you say, the college will be deserted.
    CInt 12.116 23 ...the college was false to its trust...
    CInt 12.117 5 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college is suicidal;...
    CInt 12.123 23 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought]...
    CInt 12.125 24 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary...
    CInt 12.126 22 ...a college should have no mean ambition...
    CInt 12.127 20 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius...
    CInt 12.127 24 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    CInt 12.128 22 If your college and your literature are not felt, it is because the truth is not in them.
    CInt 12.131 2 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    CL 12.161 8 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop...
    Bost 12.196 4 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained which prove a college for the young rustic.
    Milt1 12.257 7 Handsome to a proverb, [Milton] was called the lady of his college.
    ACri 12.291 21 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

College, n. (9)

    LE 1.155 11 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    LE 1.160 6 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the College of the Sorbonne... is to command any longer.
    LE 1.185 8 ...I thought that standing...on the threshold of this College...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    OA 7.334 5 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...
    MoL 10.241 4 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of you...to-morrow will receive the parting honors of the College.
    LLNE 10.329 8 Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law, Faculties, Medicine.
    Koss 11.400 9 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home. We [Americans] admit you ad eundem (as they say at College).
    CInt 12.127 5 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CInt 12.127 10 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone from the City...

College, New, Oxford Unive (1)

    ET16 5.290 20 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.

College of Cardinals, n. (1)

    Art2 7.55 14 The College of Cardinals were originally the parish priests of Rome.

College, Oriel, Oxford, n. (2)

    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity, as well as to a valued friend [Arthur Hugh Clough], a fellow of Oriel...
    ET12 5.199 15 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford]...

College, St. John's, Cambr (1)

    CPL 11.498 4 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley, sometime fellow of Saint John's College in Cambridge, England, testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

college-bred, adj. (1)

    NER 3.260 6 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.

college-made, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.285 5 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots, self-made or college-made, who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.

colleges, n. (47)

    AmS 1.89 6 Colleges are built on [a book].
    AmS 1.93 18 Colleges...have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    AmS 1.94 3 ...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
    AmS 1.98 13 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
    Con 1.311 4 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    YA 1.375 9 ...we found colleges and hospitals, for remote generations.
    SR 2.76 1 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    NER 3.257 13 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
    NER 3.258 25 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges...
    NER 3.259 4 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    NER 3.259 10 Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges in this country every year...
    SwM 4.103 9 ...[Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    GoW 4.270 26 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no prophet or saint, but colleges of divinity;...
    ET4 5.67 13 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded...for colleges, churches, charities and colonies.
    ET12 5.199 8 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see...the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges [at Cambridge]...
    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET12 5.209 11 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    ET12 5.211 4 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    ET12 5.213 3 It is easy to carp at colleges...
    ET13 5.226 5 The wise legislator will spend on temples, schools, libraries, colleges...
    ET14 5.235 6 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed. The Latin unmixed is abandoned to the colleges and Parliament.
    ET14 5.252 13 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
    Ill 6.315 4 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold,--presidents of colleges and governors and senators...
    Civ 7.21 27 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!...
    Boks 7.191 22 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
    Chr2 10.113 16 ...the education in the divinity colleges may well hesitate and vary.
    Edc1 10.148 15 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and universities.
    MoL 10.243 9 ...professors of colleges sold cigars, mince-pies, matches [in California]...
    LLNE 10.347 17 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    Thor 10.451 11 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...
    LVB 11.90 8 We have seen some of [the Cherokees] in our schools and colleges.
    FSLC 11.181 10 ...presidents of colleges, and professors...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.229 8 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of the men of letters, of the colleges...was the darkest passage in the history.
    HCom 11.342 17 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges!
    HCom 11.343 20 ...standing here in Harvard College, the parent of all the colleges; in Massachusetts...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    CPL 11.496 17 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals...
    CInt 12.115 16 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries...
    CInt 12.116 8 If the colleges were better...we should all rush to their gates;...
    CInt 12.122 5 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    CInt 12.124 12 ...there is a certain shyness...of a master of art in colleges...
    CInt 12.124 17 ...thought is as rare in colleges as in cities.
    CInt 12.125 8 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.128 13 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher, but colleges and teachers are no wise essential to him;...
    CInt 12.128 19 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature...which can do very well without colleges...
    CInt 12.130 26 Our colleges may differ much in the scale of requirements... but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    CL 12.157 18 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.
    Bost 12.186 19 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...

college-songs, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.140 10 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions...to college-songs, to Walter Scott;...

collegian, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.147 24 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...

collegians, n. (3)

    ET4 5.71 22 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    Boks 7.215 8 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    LLNE 10.369 4 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...

Collier, John Payne, n. (3)

    ShP 4.206 14 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil.
    ShP 4.208 12 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    Boks 7.221 11 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.

colliers, n. (3)

    PPh 4.53 7 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of...colliers;...
    ET4 5.51 7 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...
    ET5 5.83 23 [The English] are...the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.

Collignon, Auguste, n. (1)

    MoS 4.162 26 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...

Collingwood, Cuthbert, n. (4)

    ET4 5.68 2 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood...
    ET4 5.68 5 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
    ET5 5.86 21 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    ET7 5.122 26 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...

Collins, Anthony, n. (1)

    SS 7.5 18 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...

Collins, Arthur, n. (1)

    ET11 5.190 1 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the anecdotes preserved by the antiquaries Fuller and Collins;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

Collins, William, n. (1)

    Insp 8.295 15 ...read Collins and Gray;...

Collins's Peerage, n. (1)

    ET18 5.302 22 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!

Collins's, William, n. (1)

    PI 8.55 29 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Collins's Ode to Evening...

collision, n. (6)

    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.
    Ctr 6.149 10 Cities give us collision.
    Wsp 6.210 12 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    War 11.152 19 War...brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
    JBB 11.271 19 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances;...
    JBB 11.271 20 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances; but there are worse evils than collision;...

colloquially, adv. (1)

    ACri 12.298 27 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...

collyrium, n. (1)

    UGM 4.25 13 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...

Colman, Henry, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.361 27 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.

Cologne Cathedral, n. (1)

    II 12.70 10 Even those we call great men build substructures, and, like Cologne Cathedral, these are never finished.

Cologne, Germany, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 24 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square, being steeped in Cologne water...

Cologne, Germany, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 6 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the three Kings of Cologne... is to command any longer.

cologne, n. (1)

    FRep 11.533 17 We import trifles...modes, gloves and cologne...

colonel, n. (7)

    NMW 4.234 14 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
    SMC 11.359 10 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men limp on the march, and told him to ride.
    SMC 11.359 14 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men had found out, first that he was captain, then that he was colonel...
    SMC 11.362 19 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk. I told the colonel this morning I should [march my men away], and shall...
    SMC 11.364 10 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.365 16 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty;...
    SMC 11.368 26 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded. The Colonel [George Prescott] was hit by three bullets.

Colonel, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.139 24 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    SMC 11.369 9 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.

colonels, n. (1)

    SMC 11.360 3 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men...

colonial, adj. (4)

    ET8 5.143 1 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    ET18 5.304 1 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
    EWI 11.113 27 The colonial legislatures [in the West Indies] received the act of Parliament with various degrees of displeasure...
    War 11.163 12 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...

Colonies, Minister of the, n (1)

    EWI 11.112 2 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.

colonies, n. (22)

    Hist 2.30 18 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    ET4 5.67 14 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded...for colleges, churches, charities and colonies.
    ET4 5.67 23 I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.
    ET5 5.97 15 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies;...
    ET8 5.141 3 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles and find...a second millennium of power in their colonies.
    ET8 5.141 18 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?
    ET9 5.151 8 The English sway of their colonies has no root of kindness.
    ET18 5.300 4 England, Scotland and Ireland combine to check the [English] colonies.
    CbW 6.258 23 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this stuff...
    Boks 7.203 22 ...Pythagoras was...a planter of colonies...
    HDC 11.57 19 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been pressed by three of the colonies...
    HDC 11.68 17 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.
    HDC 11.68 20 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
    HDC 11.69 1 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...
    EWI 11.111 2 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
    EWI 11.113 8 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    EWI 11.113 11 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...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 11.113 18 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling, to be divided into nineteen shares for the nineteen colonies...
    RBur 11.439 17 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race, in all its kingdoms, colonies and states...to keep the festival.
    Bost 12.187 11 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
    Bost 12.189 1 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...
    Bost 12.207 16 The Massachusetts colony grew...all the while sending out colonies to every part of New England;...

Colonies, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.125 10 We have already taken, at the planting of the Colonies...the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    HDC 11.77 15 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...

Colonies, New England, n. (1)

    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...

colonists, n. (3)

    ET18 5.301 1 During the Australian emigration [from England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for useful colonists.
    HDC 11.44 1 The necessity of the colonists wrote the law.
    HDC 11.55 21 ...whilst many of the colonists at Boston thought to remove, or did remove to England, the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.

colonization, n. (3)

    ET4 5.45 26 The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the colonization of great parts of the world;...
    ET18 5.303 7 ...[Englishmen's] colonization annexes archipelagoes and continents...
    Chr2 10.118 3 The power that in other times inspired...the colonization of New England...flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...

Colonization, n. (1)

    Hist 2.9 18 This life of ours is stuck round with...War, Colonization...as with so many flowers...

Colonization Society, n. (1)

    EWI 11.110 11 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.

colonizationist, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.389 18 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether colonizationist or antipapist...who went by.

colonizations, n. (1)

    CbW 6.251 13 All the marked events of our day...all the colonizations, may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.

colonizes, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.120 18 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...colonizes every new-planted island...

colonizing, n. (1)

    Bost 12.198 23 That colonizing [of New England] was a great and generous scheme...

Colonna, Guido da, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 24 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna...

Colonna, Vittoria, n. (2)

    PC 8.216 25 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era, namely, Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna...
    MAng1 12.240 5 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...

colonnade, n. (6)

    ET16 5.276 24 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet...
    ET16 5.276 26 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade...enclosing a second and a third colonnade within.
    ET16 5.283 3 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    ET16 5.286 2 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is...
    Farm 7.147 15 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants, like a colonnade of Thebes.
    PI 8.45 21 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...

colonnades, n. (1)

    SHC 11.431 5 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;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.

colony, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.54 25 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.

Colony, adj. (1)

    CL 12.157 7 Can you bring home...the sedgy ripples of the old Colony ponds?...

Colony, Massachusetts Bay, (2)

    HDC 11.61 18 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    HDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony;...

colony, n. (27)

    Con 1.295 9 The battle...of parent state and colony...reappears in all countries and times.
    Tran 1.359 15 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day...
    SwM 4.93 6 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not led out a colony, nor invented a loom.
    ET5 5.87 25 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...
    F 6.16 21 Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.
    Pow 6.57 20 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Wth 6.110 22 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    Res 8.140 10 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;...
    PerF 10.77 20 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it a piece of industry, or the founding of a colony or a college...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    LLNE 10.362 19 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm], perhaps as long as the colony held together;...
    HDC 11.31 3 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had...was Archbishop Laud in England.
    HDC 11.43 5 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]... ordered that all fundamental laws should be enacted by the freemen of the colony.
    HDC 11.43 10 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.50 13 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;...
    HDC 11.55 4 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    HDC 11.67 19 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle.
    HDC 11.85 16 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    EWI 11.112 24 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    War 11.165 11 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    Bost 12.188 26 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...
    Bost 12.189 21 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
    Bost 12.190 10 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.191 5 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth.
    Bost 12.191 11 ...the weariness of the sea, the shrinking from cold weather and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists]. But the next colony planted itself at Salem...
    Bost 12.195 10 The [Massachusetts] colony was planted in 1620; in 1638 Harvard College was founded.
    Bost 12.201 10 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...
    Bost 12.207 13 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...

color, n. (65)

    Nat 1.15 8 ...the primary forms...give us...a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.
    Nat 1.40 20 Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.68 12 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself...in every new law of color...
    AmS 1.105 15 They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
    LT 1.265 17 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    Hist 2.12 15 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance;...
    SR 2.57 14 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.
    Hsm1 2.245 5 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population.
    OS 2.290 19 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...and so seek to throw a romantic color over their life.
    Art1 2.355 5 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Art1 2.356 26 ...painting teaches me the splendor of color...
    Art1 2.360 27 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be...some surprising combination of color and form;...
    Pt1 3.3 12 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color or form...
    Pt1 3.34 9 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning;...
    Exp 3.53 6 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    Exp 3.79 23 Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color...
    Chr1 3.91 26 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words, watches the color of their cheek...
    MoS 4.166 4 Here is an impatience and fastidiousness at color or pretence of any kind.
    GoW 4.275 21 ...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of light and darkness in new proportions.
    ET1 5.6 22 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    ET3 5.39 16 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.
    ET3 5.39 20 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...give white sheep the color of black sheep...
    ET8 5.135 16 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...
    ET12 5.211 2 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    ET14 5.257 16 Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from [Tennyson's] pencil...
    Ctr 6.154 13 To a man at work, the frost is but a color;...
    Wsp 6.221 14 Law it is, which is without name, or color, or hands, or feet;...
    Bty 6.294 17 There is a compelling reason in the uses of the plant for every novelty of color or form;...
    Bty 6.305 11 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...
    SS 7.4 23 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Elo1 7.93 23 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color...
    WD 7.168 20 Any holiday communicates to us its color.
    Suc 7.300 8 The world is not made up to the eye of figures, that is, only half; it is also made of color.
    Suc 7.300 13 ...beyond color [Nature] cannot go.
    Suc 7.300 15 If thought is form, sentiment is color.
    Suc 7.302 13 This sensibility appears...in the power which form and color exert upon the soul;...
    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 8.9 3 The laws of light and of heat translate each other;--so do the laws of sound and of color;...
    PI 8.29 11 Fancy is related to color; imagination, to form.
    PI 8.32 20 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color...
    PI 8.72 15 The problem of the poet is...to give the pleasure of color, and be not less the most powerful of sculptors.
    Elo2 8.127 4 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...
    QO 8.175 3 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.
    PPo 8.244 7 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    Insp 8.296 10 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    PerF 10.80 2 The geometer shows us the true order in figures; the painter in laws of color;...
    Supl 10.168 21 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received;...
    LLNE 10.359 7 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art, of...its site, its color, there would be no end.
    HDC 11.64 15 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow, of a black color, with a white face, unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    EWI 11.121 11 All disqualifications and distinctions of color have ceased [in Jamaica];...
    EWI 11.121 16 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries, where no difference of color exists.
    EWI 11.144 20 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent...
    FSLC 11.187 4 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used.
    Scot 11.464 22 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs, purified of all ephemeral color or material, his were vers de societe.
    PLT 12.63 20 The superiority of the man is...that he...looks straight at the pure fact, with no color of option.
    Mem 12.91 24 Once [the active mind] joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations.
    CL 12.152 14 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color...
    CL 12.158 8 My companion and I remarked from the hilltop the prevailing sobriety of color...
    CW 12.170 7 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/...
    MAng1 12.220 19 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    MAng1 12.223 8 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.
    ACri 12.300 9 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.
    ACri 12.302 13 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking... painting all things its own color.
    MLit 12.324 9 With the sharpest eye for form, color, botany...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...
    PPr 12.387 15 ...[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.

color-bags, n. (1)

    Art1 2.367 10 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of marble.

color-bearer, n. (1)

    SMC 11.369 6 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion;...

colored, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.15 14 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects...into a well colored and shaded globe...
    Nat 1.49 26 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Int 2.326 8 Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists.
    Exp 3.75 25 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are...
    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;...
    Elo1 7.68 25 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech, all warm and colored and alive...
    GSt 10.503 13 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...
    EWI 11.142 13 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...
    JBS 11.278 16 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future.
    Wom 11.412 15 [Women] emit from their pores a colored atmosphere...

colored, v. (5)

    Tran 1.340 20 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Chr1 3.94 15 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...which pervaded them with his thoughts and colored all events with the hue of his mind.
    Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.
    MMEm 10.424 14 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored by the memory of defeats in virtue...
    MLit 12.318 21 This feeling of the Infinite has deeply colored the poetry of the period.

coloring, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.22 17 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature...we feel as if looking at our bone and flesh through coloring and distorting glasses.

coloring, n. (4)

    OS 2.289 1 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Art1 2.357 13 As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
    MAng1 12.230 15 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    MLit 12.325 8 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese...

colors, n. (47)

    Nat 1.11 12 Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
    Nat 1.22 19 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things...without the colors of affection.
    Nat 1.44 1 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also;...
    Nat 1.44 3 The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors.
    MN 1.206 18 ...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.
    Hist 2.20 21 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    SR 2.66 23 Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes...
    Comp 2.116 22 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    OS 2.271 20 Language cannot paint [this pure nature] with [man's] colors.
    Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...its colors are well laid on...
    Pt1 3.33 4 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;...
    Exp 3.57 6 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.
    Nat2 3.176 13 The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.
    NR 3.233 14 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
    PNR 4.89 6 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out, sometimes in violent colors, his thought.
    MoS 4.150 25 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    ShP 4.217 7 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture.
    GoW 4.275 20 In optics again [Goethe] rejected the artificial theory of seven colors...
    ET19 5.312 27 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    Ctr 6.163 12 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Wsp 6.221 23 ...the colors are fast, because they are the native colors of the fleece;...
    Wsp 6.221 24 ...the colors are fast, because they are the native colors of the fleece;...
    Bty 6.290 1 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Ill 6.317 3 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
    Art2 7.44 8 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.
    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.
    Art2 7.53 2 The plumage of the bird...has a reaon for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.
    Farm 7.148 4 In September, when the pears hang heaviest and are taking from the sun their gay colors, comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    Suc 7.309 3 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and beautiful colors of the day over it...
    PPo 8.262 18 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    PPo 8.262 25 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Imtl 8.327 26 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors.
    Chr2 10.105 4 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Schr 10.280 20 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn; like boys by the drums and colors of the troops.
    EWI 11.121 11 ...men of all colors have equal rights in law [in Jamaica]...
    SMC 11.353 9 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican, like the governors who...went to Kansas, and instantly took the free-state colors.
    SMC 11.369 4 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn.
    Wom 11.411 19 Society...colors, forms, are [women's] homes and attendants.
    PLT 12.16 15 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures;...
    Mem 12.93 13 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by colors, tastes, smells, shapes...
    CL 12.151 9 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe.
    CL 12.152 7 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.
    Bost 12.184 2 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    MAng1 12.220 17 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    MAng1 12.227 17 ...in painting, [Michelangelo] not only mixed but ground his colors himself...
    ACri 12.283 17 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Neant, exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.
    MLit 12.332 4 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance, as we might relate of a man that he had or had not...an eye for colors...

Colors, Theory of [Goethe], (1)

    GoW 4.287 3 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest.

colors, v. (2)

    LT 1.280 16 I am not mortified by our vice;...it colors and palters...and I can see to the end of it;...
    Ill 6.312 16 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details and colors them with rosy hue.

colossal, adj. (20)

    Hist 2.19 26 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SR 2.63 11 [The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings] the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
    SR 2.83 24 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
    SL 2.148 14 As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world every man sees himself in colossal...
    Pt1 3.37 13 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher...
    Pol1 3.214 16 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
    UGM 4.4 21 Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism...are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
    SwM 4.102 17 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast abroad on his times...
    GoW 4.270 13 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away by his colossal parts the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    ET1 5.5 21 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET15 5.271 22 [The London Times] is a living index of the colossal British power.
    F 6.42 13 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...
    Farm 7.142 14 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...
    PI 8.47 20 The fact is made conspicuous, nay, colossal, by this simple rhetoric [of iterations of phrase]...
    Res 8.139 5 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...
    FSLC 11.210 12 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    EdAd 11.385 8 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities;...
    Shak1 11.452 17 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth...
    MAng1 12.229 15 [Michelangelo's Moses] is a sitting statue of colossal size...
    Let 12.404 3 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

colossal, n. (1)

    LT 1.261 22 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.

colossalized, v. (1)

    QO 8.197 21 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson...

colossally, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.71 24 [Man] sees that the structure still fits him, but fits him colossally.
    CL 12.165 10 ...Nature is only a mirror in which man is reflected colossally.

colossi, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.190 3 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable, like the Egyptian colossi.

Colossi, n. (1)

    Hist 2.20 7 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...

colossus, n. (1)

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

Colossus, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.258 25 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.

Colquhoun's, John C., n. (1)

    Dem1 10.24 10 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered...

Columbia, n. (2)

    EdAd 11.387 22 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art...
    Bost 12.200 27 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character...

Columbus, Christopher, n. (27)

    Nat 1.20 27 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    YA 1.365 15 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    Hist 2.37 7 Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon.
    SR 2.86 20 Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat.
    Hsm1 2.258 10 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of...Columbus...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Exp 3.80 1 Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind' s ministers.
    Exp 3.80 25 What imports it whether it is...Columbus and America...or puss with her tail?
    UGM 4.12 18 Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
    PNR 4.80 22 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    GoW 4.270 21 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains...
    ET9 5.152 23 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    F 6.38 7 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    F 6.39 8 Dante and Columbus were Italians, in their time;...
    Wth 6.93 16 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Ill 6.318 6 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...
    SS 7.7 23 Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
    Art2 7.52 15 Raphael paints wisdom...Columbus sails it...
    Elo1 7.82 18 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus, being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge could aid the cabinet;...
    Boks 7.206 11 Ximenes, Columbus...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    Suc 7.285 8 Columbus at Veragua found plenty of gold;...
    Res 8.137 11 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the boat of Columbus...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Edc1 10.131 25 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Columbus...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    Edc1 10.156 12 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    MoL 10.248 18 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Columbus, with America in his log-book;...
    War 11.165 6 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will build ships;...
    FSLC 11.209 9 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...and the patient Columbus for his.
    FRep 11.537 7 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab...

Columbus's, Christopher, n. (3)

    QO 8.185 11 Columbus's egg is claimed for Brunelleschi.
    EdAd 11.387 23 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art, which is the last and endless end of Columbus's adventure.
    Bost 12.201 2 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character, which is the last and endless sequel of Columbus's adventure.

column, n. (10)

    SR 2.89 8 ...thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    Prd1 2.239 16 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes, in solid column...
    Int 2.344 13 ...a capillary column of water is a balance for the sea.
    NER 3.271 22 The Iliad...the Doric column...when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    NER 3.280 10 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    SwM 4.108 6 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine...
    SwM 4.131 17 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass...
    ET5 5.85 25 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    ET14 5.237 8 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    PerF 10.70 13 ...the marble column, the brazen statue burn under the daylight...

columnar, adj. (4)

    Con 1.300 24 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Chr1 3.109 3 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    Bhr 6.185 14 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
    PLT 12.55 4 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours, this immense ground-juniper falling abroad and not gathered up into any columnar tree, is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...

columns, n. (16)

    LE 1.169 5 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Comp 2.115 12 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    NER 3.255 20 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    GoW 4.281 3 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    ET15 5.267 19 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.
    ET15 5.269 1 When I see [the English] reading [the London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more British.
    ET15 5.269 14 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns...
    ET16 5.283 14 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...
    Bty 6.291 5 ...our taste in building...refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing...
    Bty 6.294 21 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
    QO 8.187 21 ...if we learn how old are...the capitals of our columns...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    SovE 10.181 3 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    EzRy 10.389 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    FSLC 11.181 20 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...what bitter mockeries!
    ACri 12.291 6 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.

comatose, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.322 15 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures...
    ACiv 11.300 22 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live;...

comb, n. (1)

    Comc 8.171 27 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon, O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.

comb, v. (1)

    ET4 5.62 10 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...

combat, n. (5)

    Hist 2.15 7 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
    ET14 5.250 10 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory, in the unequal combat of will against fate.
    Elo1 7.99 24 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    PPo 8.239 24 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
    FRep 11.515 17 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat;...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.

combat, v. (2)

    AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make...those giant sinews combat and conquer.
    FRep 11.539 13 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

combatants, n. (5)

    Tran 1.348 23 ...the good and wise must...carry salvation to the combatants and demagogues in the dusty arena below.
    ET5 5.87 4 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.
    Elo2 8.111 15 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants?
    EPro 11.323 5 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but war was in the minds and bones of the combatants...
    FRep 11.515 1 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society. And these are distinguished not by the numbers of the combatants nor the numbers of the slain, but by the motive.

combated, v. (2)

    ET14 5.249 26 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated;...
    DL 7.125 5 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea; in a second, the difficulties he combated in going to college;...

combats, n. (1)

    LE 1.168 6 ...the fall of swarms of flies, in autumn, from combats high in the air...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

combattre, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.237 6 ...Tout est soldat pour vous combattre.

combed, v. (2)

    ET3 5.34 9 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    Insp 8.270 10 They combed [the aboriginal man's] mane, they pared his nails...before he could begin to write his sad story...

Combe's, George, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.339 1 The popularity of Combe's Constitution of Man;...was all on the side of the people.

combination, n. (31)

    Nat 1.19 25 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    Nat 1.37 1 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of combination to one end of manifold forces.
    DSA 1.149 15 ...then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke [Massena's] powers of combination...
    LE 1.180 27 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts...
    LT 1.281 9 ...by combination of that which is dead [the reformers] hope to make something alive.
    YA 1.377 27 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.
    Hist 2.15 23 Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
    Lov1 2.186 15 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Art1 2.360 27 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be...some surprising combination of color and form;...
    Pt1 3.38 7 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Chr1 3.93 18 I see [in the natural merchant], with the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    UGM 4.16 25 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as feats...of mathematical combination...
    SwM 4.130 16 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...
    ET4 5.49 3 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...readiness of combination among themselves for politics or for business;...
    ET15 5.267 14 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    Art2 7.39 4 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Cour 7.254 12 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...
    Suc 7.298 2 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    Comc 8.167 9 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.
    PerF 10.80 3 Bonaparte, with his celerity of combination...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    SovE 10.186 21 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof, nor electricity, nor gravity, but they are always in combination.
    Schr 10.277 7 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination...
    Thor 10.451 5 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood, in singular combination with a very strong Saxon genius.
    Thor 10.479 19 The tendency...to read all the laws of Nature in the one object or one combination under your eye, is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    FSLC 11.184 5 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
    ACiv 11.302 12 There never was such a combination as this of ours...
    EPro 11.325 7 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to break up the false combination of Southern society...
    FRep 11.536 26 There never was such a combination as this of ours...
    PLT 12.20 14 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry, vegetation, animation, intellection possible.
    PLT 12.23 22 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.
    PLT 12.49 23 ...I speak of [Talent] in quite another sense, namely, in the habitual speed of combination of thought.

Combination, n. (1)

    Boks 7.192 10 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

combinations, n. (13)

    Nat 1.13 17 The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
    LE 1.179 21 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    Hist 2.6 6 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    NMW 4.237 27 Every thing depended on the nicety of [Napoleon's] combinations...
    ET5 5.84 4 [The English] apply themselves...to manufacture of indispensable staples...and by their steady combinations they succeed.
    ET15 5.272 16 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might now and then bear the brunt of formidable combinations, but no journal is ruined by wise courage.
    Civ 7.23 15 The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Art2 7.43 27 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound, before yet the musician has enhanced this pleasure by concords and combinations.
    Clbs 7.247 17 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.
    Prch 10.225 3 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    MoL 10.252 7 ...the politician believes in his arts and combinations;...
    SMC 11.365 13 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    FRep 11.533 7 Contrast, change, interruption, are necessary to new activity, and new combinations.

combine, v. (27)

    Con 1.299 26 ...in a true society, in a true man both [Conservatism and Reform] must combine.
    YA 1.376 23 ...this club of noblemen...combine to brave the sovereign...
    YA 1.391 6 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
    Hist 2.26 8 [The Greeks] combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood.
    Comp 2.100 6 It is in vain to build or plot or combine against [Compensation].
    Int 2.339 1 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    PPh 4.57 9 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
    SwM 4.130 17 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    NMW 4.234 9 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot...
    ET10 5.158 24 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further. But the men would sometimes strike for wages and combine against the masters...
    ET12 5.208 1 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET18 5.300 4 England, Scotland and Ireland combine to check the [English] colonies.
    ET18 5.300 5 England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures and trade.
    Wth 6.100 19 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...
    Wsp 6.204 7 Nature has self-poise in all her works; certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine...
    SS 7.8 20 ...all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruiting of the holy fraternity [friendships] shall combine for the salvation of men.
    Civ 7.25 14 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Boks 7.216 21 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
    Cour 7.273 20 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.
    QO 8.190 2 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine?
    PerF 10.70 18 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
    PerF 10.71 12 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...
    LLNE 10.358 24 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine?
    LLNE 10.360 20 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
    FSLC 11.186 6 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.
    TPar 11.289 24 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it with sharp trading...it is a hypocrisy...
    FRep 11.534 23 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...

combined, adj. (4)

    Wsp 6.218 11 If your eye is on the eternal...your opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.
    Ill 6.309 23 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
    PPo 8.242 7 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    MAng1 12.236 11 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

combined, v. (27)

    YA 1.366 7 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    Int 2.338 6 The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Mrs1 3.121 18 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition, whilst so many gases are combined only to be decompounded.
    NR 3.230 9 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not anywhere the Englishman who...combined the accurate engines...
    NMW 4.229 14 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power...
    NMW 4.230 11 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
    NMW 4.232 4 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before combined with so much comprehension.
    ET1 5.23 22 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
    ET4 5.67 4 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
    ET11 5.180 19 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country, combined with the degree of liberty possessed by the peasant, makes the safety of the English hall.
    ET14 5.235 9 Mixture is a secret of the English island; in their dialect, the male principle is the Saxon, the female, the Latin; and they are combined in every discourse.
    F 6.43 25 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    Bhr 6.169 14 The visible carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners.
    PI 8.20 7 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    SA 8.103 4 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    Imtl 8.331 5 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    PerF 10.78 11 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem of thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...
    SlHr 10.439 20 [Samuel Hoar] combined a uniform self-respect with a natural reverence for every other man;...
    SlHr 10.443 15 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    Carl 10.495 7 Combined with this warfare on respectabilities, and indeed, pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.
    EWI 11.129 5 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    War 11.159 20 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe combined against him...
    FSLC 11.185 22 The learning of the universities...the respectability of the Whig party, are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
    TPar 11.287 26 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    FRep 11.511 23 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    FRep 11.534 16 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country, combined with the impatience of arbitrary power which they brought from England, forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    PLT 12.52 25 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work, which, though successive in the mind of the master, were primarily combined in his piece.

combines, v. (9)

    Nat 1.36 13 The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures...
    Con 1.300 2 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
    Con 1.300 15 Throughout nature the past combines in every creature with the present.
    Chr1 3.92 22 [The natural merchant's] natural probity combines with his insight into the fabric of society to put him above tricks...
    Mrs1 3.151 19 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    GoW 4.287 25 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.
    ET4 5.67 27 The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
    Chr2 10.93 25 We can only mark, one by one, the perfections which [the moral intuition] combines in every act.
    ALin 11.338 3 [Providence]...ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure.

combining, n. (1)

    Wth 6.86 1 ...the mind acts in bringing things from where they abound to where they are wanted; in wise combining;...

combining, v. (3)

    YA 1.386 5 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    NMW 4.230 17 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight...in the choice, simplification and combining of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    CbW 6.255 7 ...Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts...

combs, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.389 19 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism, who went by.

combs, v. (1)

    Trag 12.414 18 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

combustible, adj. (1)

    II 12.69 22 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile?

combustion, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.40 25 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...
    Farm 7.145 19 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection, which wastes while it works. We shall find finer combustion and finer fuel.

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